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It would be nice if the history UI wasn't purely linear, but that it remembered the last x pages on the current domain and the last x pages on the previous n domains.

To add more anecdotal evidence, I too had childhood asthma (was on a ventilator when very young, inhalers until ~16) and am a "natural" stomach breather.

Yeoman uses Bower for package management

    Translation: 'Fuck you, 3rd party Twitter clients.' 
    They'll still cut them off at the knees when they hit 
    at most 200,000 users.

Nitpick - it's 200% of what they're at now, so if they currently have a million users they're good for up to 2 million.

That's certainly something to be considered when outsourcing key parts of infrastructure yes.

I know the Pusher guys personally, so I'm confident they'll be around for the foreseeable future and I've integrated it into our code base in such a way that moving to someone else, or using our own server would be trivial.

It's something which needs to be evaluated on a case by case basis, I'm happy that all the components we outsource are both trivial to replace/insource and solid businesses who will be here for some time.

I was going to put a smiley after that first line as it was kind of tongue in cheek, but HN isn't the place for smilies!

People pay Heroku/AWS each month, I don't see any difference with outsourcing this part too. That said, we use Linode boxes because I'm ok with configuring nginx etc... and I don't feel comfortable using IndexTank or MongoHQ etc... for outsourcing our search or database components, so I certainly sympathise with the unease at outsourcing key infrastructure which is easy to manage.

Pusher is marginally more complicated, but means I can call the problem solved and move onto other things. I agree it's a very interesting and fun area so it's certainly something I want to play with more in the future, but there are also 100 other interesting things which I need to work on, so I'll tackle those first.

Definite kudos to daraosn, just because I use Pusher because it solves my problem doesn't mean I don't think it's an awesome thing to work on as an open source project.

I've found hanging around on StackOverflow and the #emberjs IRC channel to be very useful, if only just to try and answer every question I see as an opportunity to learn.

I didn't know about the dashboard so I've just added it to the Tumblr, thanks!

Exactly, it's not a programmer thing, it's a culture thing.

Non-development oriented conferences I've been to end up in the bar too.

It's not just conferences, plenty of non developer activities I've been to end up with most people congregating in a pub/bar afterwards, all of them with a mix of age ranges and healthy ratio of women/men. Mountain biking trips, rock climbing weekends, skiing trips, beer festivals - actually scratch that last one.

It might be more pronounced in tech companies and conferences than in some other areas because the age range is probably skewed a bit more to the lower end (baseless assumption) than in other fields?