If only someone would go to a jail with a J. Time is the one resource we all have in limited quantities and should be precious to you no matter how much money you have.
I appreciate seeing an office for a successful indie company that doesn't consist of brick facades, exposed ventilation and a big open room filled with people, computers, video game consoles and foosball tables. I just appreciate the slightly more mature look than I'm used to seeing glorified in office pictorials for tech companies.
That being said, I don't see ANY computers there, so maybe they just didn't picture their brickwork in this photo shoot.
There's such a gulf of experience between those who have children and those who don't...I regularly volunteer with elementary-age students and am always surprised at what they know, even though I faintly remembering being "smart" back then.
I just didn't think 3-year-olds would understand or even be introduced to possessive pronouns...I can't even conceive the linguistic path it takes from saying the first word and other nouns to understanding possession and "me"...Although I guess "mine" is pretty easy for them to figure out as a way to get things :)
When my brother showed photos to his young son, he'd say "...and that's me" when pointing to himself in the photo, so my nephew assumed that was his name. ("Me, Me, what's for dinner, Me?") He now understands pronouns, but seems to have also kept "Me" as his dad's name.
People don't realize that little kids talk, all the time, and especially to anyone who spends every day with them, it's clear when they are developing new concepts in their mind - they go through a cycle of linguistic scientific experimentation, testing the waters, so to speak, on their newfound grammatical mechanics or vocabulary.
I find it amusing that each time an interviewing technique post is made to HN, invariably a post by someone claiming they work for Google is made, always disparaging the manholes problem (I've never even heard of this being posed in the real world) and tossing out some algorithm problem as a throwaway. The best part is the torrent of solutions that inevitably follow, in every popular language regardless of whether their solution has already been presented in another language.
It's almost like Google has some sort of informal process for throwing away old interview questions this way, just for laughs...
This also makes me think I may spend too much time lurking on HN.
Sometimes I wonder if all the posters are people who are just going through the same patterns of behaviors like discussion memes. And then I wonder what if the majority of comments are bots programmed to social network and collect karma/reputation points for SEO and future YCombinator funding?
Thanks for bringing this distribution to my attention. I've been trying to force myself to adapt to Unity but I'm still not enjoying it. I feared switching to another distribution because I've grown accustomed to Ubuntu's ease of package management and hardware support. I don't have the time or inclination to fiddle with text file configurations any more these days.
Mint appears to address all of my concerns, providing a distro based on Ubuntu but stressing ease of use in ways Ubuntu was not willing to (including flash, full multimedia support, Oracle's java, etc in a fresh install). I am excited to give the live dvd a try!
I am especially encouraged by their plans for reconciling users' workflow patterns with Ubuntu's switch to Unity and the Gnome's new interface. Very pragmatic approach in my view.
This has been discussed to death all over the place, but I think the take home is not to be too clever rather than not to use regexes. I tend to look for 'something at something dot something':
.+@.+\..+
I believe this allows all valid addresses (as well as lots of invalid ones, obviously). But I'm sure someone will let us know if not. :)
I've been waiting for this rewrite! By the looks of this page, you've done a fine job. Excellent work team ClojureQL! I'm looking forward to giving it a test run.
