Agreed. This is what I am doing too. Especially because I do most of my git work on command line, it really doesn't make a difference where the host is as far as it is reliable. Github IMHO offers a much better interface than bitbucket, but unlimited private repo is unbeatable for bitbucket. They have the totally opposite business model that I wonder which one has a higher margin.
Github is on it's own, Bitbucket is part of a huge Atlassian's portfolio of apps, I guess the revenue from BB is less important than attracting customers to their other services. But maybe I'm wrong. (signed: Bitbucket devoted user)
I was also sold on that "If you stumble on an issue and you don’t know what’s under the hood it is likely you’ll need much more time (possibly all the time you have saved in advance by using the tool) to find out a way to fix it or a workaround."
This is a problem with current HTML5 -> Native frameworks as well, you have to know what's under the hood so that you can make efficient designs.
I'm curious about this ... how much more is "under the hood" of a RubyMotion app than an ObjC app? In the HTML5 -> Native tools you're dealing with an extra abstraction, Javascript running on top of an interpreter that talks to native APIs, which becomes a problem if you need to use the native APIs in a way the interpreter designers didn't think of. But RubyMotion isn't a layer on top of native code, it is native code -- it's a Ruby->machine code compiler. So is there any more standing between you and the hardware than there is if you use XCode? Maybe I'm totally misunderstanding the architecture ...
Like I have said it is just a "language layer" around Cocoa API, there are no extra, built-on-top classes/things. Instead of writing Obj-c you write Ruby, but the behavior is the same.
Awesome intro! Guide looks amazing! Just a a few small things: the Install Git on Windows button on the home page should point to http://msysgit.github.com/ directly. Msysgit also comes with a GUI (that I personally appreciate that one more than tortoisegit).
All the Chinese websites are not acessible right now (weibo.com, renren.com) and when I did get on weibo a few minutes ago after trying so many times, they were talking about how none of the international websites are accessible from the U.S. The funniest thing is that Weibo.com tries to give me a error page in chinese saying that my internet connection is disrupted. [Image: https://edisonwang.sqsp.com/blog/uhp2hhr24rr3pc7ugpam3rvc9lb... ]--->it's the same message you get on Internet Explorer when you cannot access an website because of DNS issue. People on weibo were suggesting that the Chinese government is deploying a new firewall.
Yea. I have a few facebook friends confirming that it is not working on their phones but one of my friends somewhere else in NY is getting hits on weibo.
This is brilliant! I guess the next step of photo sharing is to it more FUN. I assume that when I tab on my phone, the client feels the shake and uploads the photo to Bump, and at the same time the browser gets the space keystroke from the keyboard so it would send the location and time to server, which would then match the photo that was uploaded with the best location and time. Matching/guessing the timestamp here is more important than location here I guess.
Yea, that was my first concern as well. Going around the typical models and straight to DB sounds dirty. :) Can't wait til I get home and try it out. Love the synchronous calls and how it synchronizes between screens, wonder how it scales up though.
Totally agreed. Engineers at instagram worked days and nights for years for probably the same amount of money that the inside traders make overnight, literally.
You have got to imagine that the founders [who had the largest stake] made out better with this investment. It's likely the case that a smaller slice of a bigger $ pie > larger slice of smaller $ pie
The engineers would be in the same boat as the founders.
The insider VCs likely served to make the engineers richer. Facebook is likely the one who got screwed into overpaying.
Facebook only gets screwed if their own valuation doesn't increase enough to match the amount "overpaid" in response to Instagram's acute "increased valuation" ploy.
Given current market conditions, particularly in terms of fawning over Facebook, the negative effects of this ploy seem likely to be largely externalized, with the amount of burden borne by Facebook promising to be negligible. As usual in the trading game, the bulk of the burden will fall on the unanointed schmucks lacking the information to buy low and sell high.
Did you ever stop to think that insider traders may have spent endless nights building their companies, selling them for profit and are now simply taking that money to invest?
Money is simply a medium for exchange in this case.
Spending endless nights building and selling companies is laudable, and well rewarded already. "Taking that money to invest" is an entirely unrelated task and needs to be done on the same playing field the rest of the investing public has to play on.
You're saying essentially that the ethics of how you spend money change depending on how you got it. How can that logic possibly work?
we should always have people commenting when the site goes down after HN/reddit effect (if no one has done it already) and then we can have an avg time goes down/host provider graph show up. :)
Edit: 5:01 EST ..seems to be up and down according to mass pingdom messages.