PatrickTulskie

You can hit cmd+q from the screen where it's doing the install and it will quit out and let you reboot back into your OS.

This is the most important comment in this thread here. It's not possible to start up a successful company when you're also on the brink of suicide, malnourished, and you're having deep internal conflict. Your startup is going to push those things on you by itself and adding to your personal conflicts and problems is asking for trouble.

I used Test::Unit for a long time, but I found it to be a poor tool when doing integration tests. RSpec lets me do both within the same DSL quite easily. That's probably why a lot of people flock to RSpec. I still have old Test::Unit code sitting in my RSpec suite that I haven't moved over to RSpec's DSL.

That being said, to a developer writing tests and doing TDD, Cucumber is a speed bump that doesn't need to be there. RSpec is great without lumping more crap on top of it.

Why? Facebook knew about the series B that Instagram took. They could have pulled out at any point if the acquisition didn't make any sense.

Another important point to consider is that Facebook has a pending IPO. It's very possible that they would have delayed or aborted the acquisition for some unknown reason related to the IPO. If that did happen, Instagram had the cash to keep running.

RackSpace has a fairly sane API for building new servers. If you're not adverse to using Ruby, the fog gem is pretty awesome when building servers for Amazon and Rackspace's Cloud.

I don't even use Jenkins... we have our test suite and autotest running while we code. Instantly know when you're done breaking stuff and ready to deploy.

A CI server would be nice as a pre-deploy sanity check, but that requires me to push to it in order to get feedback.

I use Roll Out or Push It as my main deploy songs as well, but it doesn't get far into the song before the deploy is done. Once in a while, I throw Muhna Muhna into the mix.

I changed my co-worker's song to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up nearly a year ago when he was AFK. He hasn't changed it because now every time he deploys code, I get to listen to that damn song.

Is that really uncommon these days? I think I personally deployed code 5 times today.

I never really had any issues with Time Machine snapshotting when I don't have my external drive attached. It's worked pretty well for me.

I had a lot of problems when I first installed Lion, but I also had a lot of crap installed on my machine. I did a fresh install of Lion and everything is great. I don't have any of the problems described in the article and I didn't really have many to begin with.

Comparing Vista with Lion is dumb and the article reads as though the author knows it but decided to stick with the idea so that they could get some traffic for their dumb article title.

People had similar complaints about Rails and now it's pretty modular and flexible with what you include/exclude. A proposal for RVM to be more modular with what it does to your shell would have probably been well received.

I love your rig. If I worked from home as much as you do, I'd probably go the same route.

You don't have to run them as root. You can run them as a regular user. I'm pretty sure Wayne recommends against RVM system-wide and the preferred method is just installing it for individual users.

More to the point, the company everyone was emailing had a limit on the number of emails in a given inbox. The IT department for the company could have temporarily raised that limit or done other things to prevent disruption in service.

So basically, if you send emails to a company that is incapable of managing their email servers, you will be found guilty of hacking.

The important thing here is that most of the Android ecosystem is like this. When you buy an iPhone, you're getting exactly what you paid for. No two Androids are sold the same though. Some have tons of crapware, some have an interface you can't change, and for someone who isn't looking to customize the crap out of their phone, hack it, uninstall things, none of that makes any sense.

The Nexus S is a great phone because Google sold it and it didn't come loaded with crap. Most of the other Android phones you buy from other carriers will be as crap filled as their average feature phones.

So the article could have been called "Why my Mom Bought an Android and Returned It." because the article is primarily about problems with the Android ecosystem.