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This is neat. I like how unobtrusive it is compared to most things like pomodoro timers that have big numbers changing every second.

Is there a way to get the full progress bar to hide (without quitting the app) once I'm done with a timer, but am not yet ready to start another?

That's the Erlang "observer". You can launch it from an iex (elixir) console as simply as: `:observer.start` and see your currently running process. It's super powerful for seeing the state and organization of your current application (though a little ugly). It can also be used to monitor remote nodes easily, kill processes, view state, see application load, etc.

Works great, thanks!

Looks interesting. I tried to find an RSS feed for the site to add it to my newsreader, but didn't see anything. Is there an RSS feed link somewhere that I can use?

Ok, yes, I agree with that clarification (and I missed that you specified in your original comment "uncommitted work", my mistake).

If you git reset --hard and you have a dirty working directory, you can absolutely blow work away. That's one of the main reasons to use git reset --hard, but I agree that it needs to be used with intention.

The easiest way to protect against it is to never use it if you have a dirty working directory, always commit first and then reset --hard after you've committed.

That's not correct, you can get back to any ref in the reflog, including those that you moved away from with git-reset --hard. Those commits are just dangling but are easy to get back to. I've got a presentation [1] that goes into how to use the reflog and how the various flags in reset work (among other things) that could explain more.

[1] http://tednaleid.github.io/showoff-git-core-concepts/

I think it's even better than this. A family doesn't need one car, it needs zero cars, it just needs to be able to use one or more cars on demand.

The average family uses their car probably less than 10% of the time. The rest of that time could be used by others.

Once self-driving cars are ubiquitous, I expect that an Uber-like service will be the norm. You either subscribe or rent per trip and schedule when and where you want to be picked up.

The service you subscribe to has a fleet of cars and knows when people want to be picked up and where they want to be dropped off, as well as whether you're willing to carpool on the way (for a discount). They can optimize the scheduling of their fleet in the same way that FedEx and UPS optimize their driving routes now.

The future is going to feel a little strange and I can't wait.

I think that there's definitely room for improvement in this space as well as a lot of money to be made because the public exchanges so far are kind of terrible in their usability and access. They will probably improve, but with the lock-in they currently have, there is only incentive to improve enough that the complaints slow down. They get no additional profit for actually making things any better than "possible".

Some previous colleagues of mine just raised 2.6M a couple of weeks ago [1] for a very similar sounding idea [2]. This is a hot space right now with all of the attention on health care because of the ACA and all of the failings of the public exchanges in the press.

[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/blog/in_private/2013/0... [2] http://www.gravie.com/

If only PayPal had joined Braintree's "Credit Card Data Portability" initiative [1]. I'm betting that's dead now with them joining PayPal, if it's even still active. If it is, get your data out quick before PayPal can lock it in!

[1] https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/open-letter-to-the-ce...

I switched methods and used GIFBrewery and was able to generate a better gif (I think). I'd be interested to hear if this one is easier to understand. Thanks!

I agree with both of you that the playback is too fast. I tried to get it slower a number of times, but the compression phase seems to take out some of the pauses...

I'll take another look to see if there's anything that I can do with the gif creation process I have.

If anyone has suggestions for gif recorders that give you control at this level, I'd love to know about it.

Thanks for the feedback danjessen. I'm struggling a little bit with fully internationalized shortcuts though. I don't have a great understanding about what non-chorded keys the keyboards of the world have available and it feels like just about any key combination won't be natively available for everyone. Hopefully the ability to remap via the config is easy and clear enough that it's not too much trouble.

Very nice! I love seeing the download stats graph showing the last couple months of downloads with OS stats and embedded github README instructions. (ex: https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/EasyMotion (disclaimer: my plugin))

I've purchased something like 20 or 30 credits on peepcode over the years and I really like the model of buying, downloading and "owning" the videos. I'm not a fan of web-only subscription models.

I've always loved PeepCode's focus on design and I hope that Geoffrey brings some of that influence to PluralSight. From the little bit of poking around on their website that I've done, I think they could really benefit from this. What they have feels very "clipart" influenced with little style.

Anyone have experience with the Humanscale Float standing desk? http://www.humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group=...

I've been thinking about getting a sit/stand desk for a while, but don't like the electric ones as they seem really slow. This seems the nicest of the manually operated ones (better looking than the steelcase one IMO).

The index isn't the information on all your files (it's not the .git directory). The index is an intermediate holding location between the file system and actually storing all of those files as a commit in the commit tree. It's the current state of the proposed next commit.

Your description misses (or conflates) an entire tree of information (the HEAD tree), and it's arguably the most important one as it holds the whole of your git repo's history.

I didn't fully understand git till I read Scott Chacon's "A Tale of 3 Trees" which explains what reset is all about and goes into the details: http://git-scm.com/blog/2011/07/11/reset.html

I love git, but I do not think it's obvious or intuitive without some explanation. It's different than any other SCM I've used in the past. I created this presentation a while ago that I think highlights some of the real concepts that people need to know to really understand git: http://tednaleid.github.io/showoff-git-core-concepts/

If he wasn't a real founder, it would be very rare for him to start with more than 1% and that wouldn't be anywhere near that after ~5 years. I doubt he has more than .25% after all the VC funding rounds and the associated dilution.

Then there are the likely VC liquidation preference multipliers where they'll get a larger piece of the pie.

He's been gone since 2010 so I'm guessing any options he had were exercised so it should be long term capital gains. Figure in taxes and take away any previous exercise costs and I bet it's around 1-1.5 million that he's cleared. A nice sum, but definitely not "yacht-and-helicopter money".

Are the health insurance benefits group or individual? If it's group, are you aggregating everyone into a pool that's >50 people in size, or is each startup it's own group?

If it's individual, what are you doing with the people in a startup that are considered uninsurable (it's not 2014 yet so no guaranteed insurance). Some states, like MN with it's MCHA program, have guaranteed-issue pools for people who are denied, but that's only about 25% of states. Are you limiting your exposure to those states till 2014?

I've spent a lot of time in the health insurance/health care space, so I can appreciate the complexity in the benefits market. My last startup, Bloom Health, was in a similar space (defined contribution health plans for small employers) and we sold to Wellpoint, HCSC, and BCBS of MI in 2011. We started with individual plans, but eventually switched to group plans because the individual space was just too hard without PPACA in place. Lots of opportunities here now that it's almost 2014 and Obama has been re-elected. Good luck!

Thanks, glad you like it!

When I switched from Vim to Sublime Text 2 (with Vintage vim mode), I missed EasyMotion so much that I created a ST2 plugin for it: https://github.com/tednaleid/sublime-EasyMotion

Sublime Text 2 plugin writing is surprisingly easy via python. I recently wrote a plugin (SublimeJump https://github.com/tednaleid/SublimeJump) to let you jump to any visible character with a couple of keystrokes. It's similar to AceJump (emacs) or EasyMotion (vim) if you're familiar with those.

This is the web version of the talk I saw him give at StrangeLoop yesterday (https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/taking-off-the-blindfold). I'd highly recommend the video presentation when it's released (later this year?) on InfoQ.

I think this is a smart move on Amazon's part (even if they feel slightly forced into it). I currently own a 3rd gen kindle touch with ads and preordered a "paperwhite" kindle with ads earlier this week.

It's quite likely that I would have never bought either kindle if I didn't know that I'd have the option, after purchase, to pay the difference and get rid of the ads. This way, I can see how bad they are and judge for myself if I'd rather go ad free.

Having this option on the latest Kindle fire would make me more likely to purchase the version with ads initially, as it's a lower price and I know I've got an "out".

In the ~9 months that I've owned the kindle, the ads haven't been offensive or obtrusive so I've never bothered to get rid of them (and I refuse to watch cable TV because the ads bother me too much).

It's a lot easier than the original post says (and it's mentioned in the comments). Just rename your shell script to end in `.command` and you can have it execute via a double click (or launch it with launchbar/quicksilver). I have this in my .zshrc to automatically create a new .command file for the current directory so I can easily open it up in MacVim:

https://gist.github.com/3474341

Probably because the main kickstarter page was submitted yesterday and didn't hit the front page. For whatever reason, it caught on this time.

Agree with your basic point, but they won't raise more than ~650k because they've set maximums on all of the (normal) tiers. I think this is actually a great thing as there have been a number of kickstarters that have been victims of their own success because they've been oversubscribed beyond what can actually be delivered in a realistic timeframe. IMO most kickstarters that aren't pure digital distribution should have a limit of ~3x their funding level.

In Minneapolis, we've had grocery delivery for quite a while now through Coborn's Delivers (http://www.cobornsdelivers.com/). It used to be Simon Delivers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimonDelivers), a startup that went under and then was taken over by an existing local grocery chain.

We pay $5 for next-day delivery or $10 for same-day (for orders of at least $50, otherwise add another $5 to delivery).

It's a huge time saver, we have groceries delivered every Sunday and they have good selection and produce. The prices are a little more expensive, but it's totally worth it for us.

The startup I'm working at also uses it periodically to have soda and snacks delivered. Much easier and more reliable than having to send someone out every few weeks.

Ah, I didn't realize they'd rebranded it, because of course they did. I'm somewhat familiar with sharepoint, but have never used SharePoint Workspace, so I don't know if that's a marginalized utility within the Sharepoint infrastructure or if it's a big piece that really is getting a lot of use.

I wouldn't be surprised if in a year or two, yammer is also rebranded under the SharePoint name as something like SharePoint TeamChat 2013 Enterprise. If that happens, it'll likely drop off my radar as quickly as Groove did.

Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks 7 years ago (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2005/mar05/03-1...) in a very similar space failed to ignite anything. I also rarely ever hear about groove anymore and haven't seen it used in the wild in about 5 years. I like yammer and have used it at the past couple of startups I've been at, but there's a good chance that yammer will be on the same downward path post-acquisition.

There are lots of advantages for us. What if the full build and test suite takes longer to run than you want to occupy your computer?

Unit tests are quick, but the full set of unit/integration/functional tests? Plus ensuring that artifacts like .war files can be successfully created, and that it runs fine on the target system rather than just on your dev laptop (which for most devs is not the same platform as they deploy to).

What if you want to show off your work-in-progress by having a job auto-deploy it to a test server so that your customers or QA can play with it before you're ready to merge to master? Sometimes a day is too long to wait to show something off. Commit and publish as a branch and you can keep working while someone else looks at it.

We have another dev code review every pull request to master to ensure code quality as well as spreading knowledge of what's happening across the team. The overhead is surprisingly low. Branches literally take about 15 seconds to make, and pull requests are no more than a minute or two unless you really go into testing instructions.