ryan_brunner

Cool, thanks!

We usually host a hack night every second thursday in Toronto, and we're going to move it to Sunday for this. If you're interested in attending (or could host people on Saturday), you're more than welcome - http://www.meetup.com/torontoruby/events/25743841/

To lend some credence to the "it's easy to tell who's writing what", we recently used Rypple as a team review aid for team members to anonymously ask for feedback from the rest of the team.

It was immediately obvious who was writing what. Granted, we had a relatively low population of people writing feedback (5), but I'd imagine it wouldn't change much until you had at least twice as many people.

You could apply the same argument to webpages. I think HTML e-mail is a complete mess right now, but allowing some degree of e-mail styling does go a long way in helping users understand what the e-mail is trying to convey.

Something as simple as laying out tabluar data in a table is extremely hard to pull off effectively with a plain-text e-mail.

A few bad apples were? Image based e-mail tracking is de rigeur to this day for nearly any marketing e-mail you receive, and has been since e-mail marketing has been a thing.

Any e-mail marketing provider worth their salt will include these without even asking the person sending the batch.

I don't know what awesomeness could possibly be contained within parts 2, 3 or 4 to make this seem any better. Heroku is doing some incredible things.

I'd go for the green eyeshade:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Visorlayout.jpg

Anachronistic, looks absolutely silly if worn today, and was probably only worn by uptight number crunchers even back in the 60's.

The thing is, these complaints usually come from people who WANT linux to succeed on the desktop. I'm certainly one of those people - one of those poor unfortunate souls doing RoR development on a PC.

Windows isn't a great option for me because the development ecosystem around Ruby on Windows is still fairly immature. Linux would be a perfect solution, if I could get more than a hour of battery life out of my laptop, my touchpad worked even remotely as well as it does in Windows, and selecting the wrong update didn't completely trash my system.

Is location really the key piece of data differentiating "pictures from Bob's wedding" from "the universe of pictures", though? I would think some concept of tagging that went beyond mere location would be far more useful.

80% of the time (walking down the street, sitting in my office, etc.), I don't care about pictures that were taken around me. For the 1% of the time that I DO care, I can probably easily name the thing that I want to see pictures of. Location is perhaps a handy filter for "tags that might be important to me", but it's hardly the sole determiner, or even a major factor, in whether any given picture will be one that's interesting to me.