I volunteer as the backend rails dev at http://balloonchallenge.org/ and ended up doing our ops, using Dokku to handle our main site's pushes. I'm terrible at devops and Dokku has been bulletproof so far. It's been flexible enough that when I needed to do things like edit some nginx config, it wasn't an issue.
I've hit some issues with docker and server restarts, but that's mostly due to my own incompetence with docker.
Overall it's a great tool that I recommend to a lot of friends. Paying the ridiculous Heroku prices just to be able to do a code push via git is silly, and Dokku largely solves that need among others.
>I click checkout and it tells me to just go pick up the item from Radio Shack on 6th and Weidler.
I'd much prefer it showing up at my door in two days and would view this as a major UX detriment. It may not be a common feeling, but the opportunity cost of spending an hour or so running errands to various brick and mortar locations around town multiple times a week is a major reason I'm a prime member and do a huge amount of my shopping through Amazon.
> you simply have to put the effort into practicing new things even if you don't enjoy the practice. That's where you get into willpower, commitment, etc. My experience of the world is that you simply cannot expect to be successful by only doing things that don't feel like work; sometimes, you have to actually do the work.
This is 100% spot on. I came to programming in middle school with not much more than average knowledge of using a computer. I could fix the family's wifi, but had never touched a command line. So I had to learn all the underpinnings of a computer at the same time. I enjoyed both immensely, but at times it was tedious, and I had to push through that to get to the parts that I now really enjoy.
I know a lot of people that have quit, deciding coding wasn't for them, when they hit those tedious bits of understanding a file system and command line.
It's just like getting through the phase of learning an instrument where you have to struggle to remember chords and where notes are and build muscle memory. I don't think most musicians enjoy that part, they enjoy the creativity that comes after it.
Some of the websites you access also run on non-free closed source code, too! This means the HTML they send to you is made by the smut that is closed-source software. The horror!
I'm all for open source as much as possible and whenever it's practical, but this blog post is akin to saying you shouldn't use C code on your system because there's non-free software written in C.
This isn't advocating that users avoid using javascript (although it suggests that users who avoid non-free software avoid non-free javascript as well, which should go without saying). It's just advocating that client-side javascript code be released as free software and gives guidelines for doing so.
2012 rMBP (they completely reengineered the heat distribution in the retinas). I've had all CPU cores at maximum load and the GPU churning for extended periods doing heavy video encoding on multiple occasions, it gets pretty hot, and the fans scream, but it's never had actual running issues due to the heat.
Apple addressed these issues, very publicly, giving an anecdote from 7 year old hardware is still not a great data point for the current state of their hardware.
I have no issues with anything except Word. Video encoding and other fairly intensive things run just fine, Word bring the computer to its knees to the point where I can tell if it has been open. A restart is always required.
If you're still using Google Code for any projects I'd really recommend moving it to another service at this point unless you have a compelling reason to stay. There's some good evidence at this point that's leading me to believe Google Code is next on the chopping block for dead Google services.
He wasn't saying google code was bad, just that it's likely the next service to be cut by our friends over at Google. Given that v8's moving, this is pretty reasonable prediction.
Google code also makes it really hard to subscribe to projects mailing lists with a non-gmail e-mail. It is possible, you just have to know how to construct the subscribe message or get the maintainer to invite you.
> I don't know why any broadcaster doesn't make the same move, becoming the "Internet Superstation".
I'd argue Netflix beat them to the punch when it started creating original, acclaimed content. How many < 30 year olds don't regularly watch TV, but pay monthly for Netflix? I'm one.
I'm the same, no cable subscription, but I have both Netflix and Amazon Prime. However, I do miss slumping down after work and seeing some real-time, curated content like Adult Swim or Stewart / Colbert. It would also be nice to catch some morning news while I'm getting ready, or the occasional baseball game. All those things require real TV, not Netflix, and although I'm happy living without them, people like those kinds of content experiences and they are admittedly nice sometimes when vegging out is the purpose, and you don't want to even make a choice about what you watch.
You can get Stewart and Colbert on Hulu for free if you don't mind the ads, and TPB if don't care about IP rights. I'd pay for Adult Swim though, and I'm 32 (I grew up on Adult Swim late nights; still remember their hilarious bumps).
A lot. Its a fairly common topic of conversation with the <30 demo when you move calling comcast/time warner and requesting "Internet without TV or phone".
Most sales people get kinda bent hearing this. Hearing some of the deals they throw at you is hilarious, "We'll throw in channel package XYZ for only an extra $15 a month more then your internet." "Why would I pay more for something I'm not going to use?" "Well you own a TV don't you?" "Yes and its connected to a computer."
Invention is the creation of a new product or category. Innovation is improving upon that and making it better and more accessible. Internet forums or instant messaging were inventions. Reddit and whatsapp were innovations.
The technology may have been there 10 years ago, but it was nowhere near as robust, user friendly, scalable, well designed, or good. Thus, the majority of Americans didn't use the technology. Sam isn't arguing that those are new inventions, he's arguing that they're innovations that have spread the technology to the average consumer.
> but with the exception of the Tesla, everything he talks about existed ten years ago in some form
Electric cars have existed since the late 1800s. Everything is innovation.
I've hit some issues with docker and server restarts, but that's mostly due to my own incompetence with docker.
Overall it's a great tool that I recommend to a lot of friends. Paying the ridiculous Heroku prices just to be able to do a code push via git is silly, and Dokku largely solves that need among others.