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Hello Alan,

I'm curious if you've read much about Activity Theory. (in particular, Yrjö Engeström's Learning by Expanding.) I feel like it's compatible with much of what I've heard you discuss in lectures. Is it something you have an opinion on?

Irrelevant how?

Is it irrelevant that the examples fail to back up the assertion because Peter Thiel is the one making it?

The 'big idea' expressed in this blurb is that it's 'easier to copy a model than to make something new.'

And the supporting arguments show off the opposite case just to associate the book with becoming the next industry defining billionaire.

Whoever wrote this blurb is either not thinking clearly, or is banking on readers to not think clearly.

There are much better example cases for that argument, but they aren't as flashy.

Because it's not like marbles. It's not a math thing.

It's more like a canary in the coal mine. If the canary dies, you should check on the air quality. If they went through the trouble of removing the brown m&ms you have a fairly strong indicator they actually read the document in the first place. And a strong indicator they have a good attention to detail.

Wisdom is knowing which approach to take.

Intelligence is being able to apply the given approach.

edit: Unless the approach is 'hit the other one in the face', then all the intellectual posturing in the world won't do you much good.

Code is easy to read if you understand the domain.

Code is nearly impossible to read if you don't understand the domain.

Yikes this article is painfully light on analysis.

Who has a connection this reliable over geography small enough that it doesn't make more sense to meet in person?

That's CCTV quality there.

Money is influence, the source of that money is influential.

What are the perils of the other sources of money in open source?

For quite a long time the best documentation and guide for using Rails was a book.

Quite a few of the top contributors to Rails have published books about it.

Documentation is very much a weak point for open source. Should we criticize those who contribute to open source and request money for the documentation?

If not, why spread FUD around the idea of asking for direct monetary support of the code itself?

josh owens.

your domain is literally "shingle" central

what? I don't even

To heck with that noise. Push the public and media to perceive that facts are important.

Can't speak precisely to the application used in this example, but a common and important feature of programs like this is mapping the knobs and sliders of the UI to real-life knobs and sliders on a physical control station.

Some consoles even have servos so the binding can go both ways.

Would anybody be seriously interested in this? I'm currently writing code for a printshop that does fine-art reproductions of various size on paper, canvas, and stretched canvas.

We're somewhat under our print capacity and I could easily justify the time building an API on next to our shopping cart and fulfillment backend if anybody has genuine demand for on-demand high quality prints and reproductions.

Shoot me a message: [email protected] if you'd use the api.

This appears to use ShareJS for collaborative editing. Like Google Wave, ShareJS sends all operations through a server, so that part isn't WebRTC.

https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS

I lifted the run loop concept. Damn good one. I don't really spend any time pushing my work for use by others. But I agree it ought to be copied by others.

Run loops make a great partner in crime with requestAnimationFrame.

https://github.com/collin/taxi/blob/master/src/taxi.coffee#L...

The smaller these become the more the ports and jacks stick out like a sore thumb.

I'm only using ST2 because TM2 took forever to release and even the the alpha wasn't compelling.

So I'm much more worried about developer fatigue than bloat in my editor choice.

Hey don't tell everybody about the resume thing. It'll stop working ;)

Yeah, I've had zero problems doing this for over a year. I used to get into swap hell every other day and now my life is beautiful and awesome.

yeah, it's not directly attacking your 'inactive' memory. Just the disk cache, which shows up in the chart as 'inactive'. I'm not familiar with other cases that fit into the 'inactive' piece of the pie.

I have regularly seen 1-3G of ram get free'd up on a 'purge'

You can run `purge` in a terminal to free your 'inactive' ram.

I've set up a cron job to purge frequently, keeps thing humming.

I logged into your app to see what it might actually be.

I think you need to drop the whole "To-Do" thing. It seems like you're going after casual activities rather than "work".

You have three boxes.

I'm not sure what the third one has to do with the first two.

You're going to need more than an arrow to make that connection.

looks like a neat API

The readme doesn't mention anything for conflict resolution. Do you have anything planned for this?

A good way to stop being a "nobody" is to get your names on your online properties. Twitter handles on your blog posts would be a good thing.

It took way too much effort to track you guys down on angel.co, and even then I don't have twitter handles.

( ps: I'm also hanging out in Iowa, hacking on a startup. Hit me up @collintmiller, maybe we can cook up some ways to remind people this is the state that brought you the computer. )

Pleased to be educated :)

I'm not sure if the joke is Morse code on a phone, or using two buttons for Morse code.

did you watch the samples? They seemed pretty low key

Yes. We just decided to submit today, and finished our video about 7 minutes before the deadline.

What is your level of understanding of the philosophy behind either framework?