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they have an iphone app with offline mode

They do have different tracks, and you can skip to the next one.

That is absolutely false.

I've worked with large and small organizations whose whole business ecosystem is built on Rails.

Including some very large publicly traded companies.

Looks great! How do I get the code?

Not sure it's fair for you to compare a small SaaS business to Netflix in terms of pricing. People have bills to pay.

I used the free plan for a while but having a reserved subdomain is pretty sweet. And the cost for a whole year of it is fairly small in my opinion.

Have you worked with any recruiting agencies? I'm a big fan of Mondo - the folks there are great and have been incredibly helpful and responsive. Feel free to drop me a line if you want an intro. (I mainly work in Rails but I'm sure they can help you find something in Python.)

(There are a lot of great technical recruiters, but I've personally only used Mondo. I'm sure others have some they love as well.)

That's so interesting re: the number of startups and shutdowns. Makes perfect sense given the mission of "generating power" vs. getting somewhere or "poking holes in the ocean".

This stuff just scratches the surface. They wouldn't post official training materials that went in depth on how ship specific systems work (even for older systems that may no longer be in use).

ex Navy Submariner here. I know quite a few folks that got out (in the 2005-2010 range) and took jobs in the nuclear field. Some had degrees, some didn't.

The Navy uses Pressurized Water reactors which seem to be a fairly common design in commercial use as well (according to Wikipedia, anyway). Which means a lot of how things work would be similar, and you'd just have to learn the specific systems for how that plant operated (i.e. the designs and how the cooling, electronics, power generation, etc. worked)

I would imagine there would be a lot of overall similarities in core principles and operations, but some specific systems would work differently being on land and likely generating a lot more power + having other requirements for discharges and cooling etc, vs. a seagoing vessel.

Same here. I upgraded to Charge HR right when it came out. Am still using the original unit I bought 2 years ago.

I'm using a MacBook Pro from late 2011.

Most of the actual machine specs (i.e. processor and max RAM) have barely changed in 5 years. I put 16 Gb in my laptop 5 years ago and it's still the most you can squeeze into a 13" MacBook Pro.

It's sad (and somewhat telling) that Apple has not packed more power into this form factor over the past 5 years.

Bubbles don't happen when everyone says "we're in a bubble".

Bubbles happen when everyone is excited, they all want in to the next pets.com no matter what, and the general consensus is "this time is different".

I've been using Moniker since 2006 and the change has been pretty frustrating.

I also noticed that they changed the pricing for privacy from the $1 I've been paying for years to $4. All the reps that got me the pricing are long gone and no one from support has responded to my request to fix the pricing.

I'm nervous to transfer a few hundred domains to a new registrar but given what I'm seeing I don't know how much longer I can tolerate what Moniker is doing.

The memory is what's holding me back from going with the Air.

The new Macbook Pro can actually take up to 16 GB RAM (though it's not a cheap upgrade). I've personally found that memory is the single best performance enhancer for the Mac - I've got a 4 GB Macbook with SSD now, but I'd love to have 16 GB RAM in a new Macbook Pro.

I think $250 for a decent domain AND a decent logo is a steal given the quality of both and the time savings they present.

>> Rails is very hard for the beginner to learn, much harder than before.

I think that Rails is hard to learn for several reasons:

* unless you've used it before, you have to learn Ruby too

* Rails is fast moving and has a lot of pieces

* the error messages can be cryptic and hard to decipher

I've been developing with Ruby and Rails for several years now and I still encounter cryptic error messages.

As a newbie I found it incredibly frustrating when Google did not bring up an immediate answer, it basically built a brick wall around me. I don't think this is Rails' fault per se, it's just the nature of the beast.

>> Something as major as the asset pipelining feature (where you move assets out of the public folder and into the app folder), for example, seems big enough that it should be a 3.2 release not the next release after an already major change in 3.0.

What's the difference between putting it in 3.1 vs. 3.2? Is the 3.2 version number somehow more substantial than 3.1?

Also there have been quite a few releases after 3.0 - I believe the 3.0 branch is up to 3.0.8 now.

There are plenty of opportunities in NYC - from startups, to big brands, to finance. All of them are competing for the same talent.

When you are ready to start looking, change your LinkedIn profile to say you're a <whatever> consultant located in NYC. You will start getting contacted by headhunters within a few days.

I'm pretty sure you can get that same data via Groupons own RSS feed, no?

Such as: http://feeds.feedburner.com/grouponnew-york

I asked about this on Quora a while back and the general consensus was that such an acquisition was a bad idea. (Though I think it could be a great opportunity for Amazon to expand into brick and mortar shops at a discounted price.)

http://www.quora.com/Would-it-make-sense-for-Amazon-to-buy-B...

I think asking them to say "I am Real" is a waste of time. You could get much more useful information by asking them to do something else that would also show that they read your instructions.

I prefer to ask them to demonstrate their knowledge or skills in some way. Either:

a) researching something very minor that will only take 5-10 minutes

b) including samples of something very specific they did that is relevant to the task you posted

And then if they don't include what you requested, you can delete them because they obviously didn't read it.

I haven't played CounterStrike in ages.. didn't know they even had a Mac version..

Not sure if I could say Amazon should be doing that - but I'd love it if other value added providers (such as Heroku) could implement this.

Another nail in the coffin for client app developers!

Talk about beating a dead horse..

At first I thought this was a joke - I mean, it's April fools, right?

And then I thought: those guys are so smart, I bet they really did it.

So I tried it, and it works! http://rbcranes.heroku.com/

I heart Heroku :-)

Stammy, please fire up Parallels and test it in Opera on Windows XP before I lose all of my karma points!!

you've got to be kidding me

We just did a test transaction on our account with Payflow Pro and everything seemed to work fine. Wondering if it is fixed and we just missed some transactions earlier in the day.

Or maybe we are just lucky and did not get affected?