I cannot agree more. Often it makes me wish there was some type of program/device that plays music based on concentration levels.
What happens when I start getting into something complicated, is that I notice the music. Until this point, it's just kind of in the background. It feels like my brain's saying, "Not enough CPU to play music and work on this problem. Please deactivate your player."
You can download the source files with maybe 2 clicks? (settings -> download zip).
There is no version control at the moment. I am working on how to implement this and diffs in a user friendly way soon. Basically git is not the answer for collaborative LaTeX in my option, a different more dynamic and simpler way is needed which I am working on.
It's a productivity killer. If everyone knows that John is a better developer than Bill, but Bill gets paid twice as much because he understands corporate politics, then people focus on politics, feel like life is unfair, etc. The money saved by underpaying your best employees is rarely worth the inevitable productivity hit and loss of talent.
Great concept and nice looking implementation, Henry! I'd not remembered to check it out since you mentioned it in the pub the other (last?) week, but I'll definitely kick the tyres over the weekend :-)
The title conjures images of the google-bot GETting you way more coffee than you want during a crawl, but the article is actually sane. POST a drink order, PUT in changes and GET status.
I have the strange desire to go put wifi in my coffee maker.
Excellent. Now I no longer have to cart MikeTex Portable on my keychain. Since I work on multiple computers with files from my DB, this will be great. Thanks.
As an employee, you want to take control over negotiating your own raises because that generally results in more money for you. In that sense, I agree with your posts.
As a manager, you want to move employees away from political behavior. Feelings of unfairness are a big demotivator, and if you wait for employees to ask for raises, then there will be very little correlation between competence and pay. Employees will find this out, and the result will be your employees focus on politics, feel like life is unfair, and in general will be less productive.
I wouldn't expect so much. There is ample evidence for the ineffectualness of, say, the CIA. As a simple example, at the time of the fall of the USSR (pretty much their major goal) they had admitted they had no effective agents in Russia
One of my absolute favorite short-stories. First came across it when I was on a SciFi reading rampage around the age of 8 or 9yrs old.. it completely struck me then, and still does each time I come across it again.
I owe it in part to SciFi stories and books like this for shattering any chance I had of narrow-minded thinking in life, and bringing perspective to Humans as a species and our place in the cosmos.
I don't particularly like them because I don't really care what 20 other people have been working on yesterday, and we generally unblock ourselves immediately instead of waiting for next day's meeting, so that's not helpful either.
LaTeX lab is a direct copy of google documents. I am also incorrect with www.scribtex.com who have another service. Scribex are going strong but latexlab is not being worked on anymore. sharelatex is the only service which offers the ability to work in real time which is the way I see latex collaboration working.
At the moment it is just a full installation of tex-live 2011 on ubuntu, if something is missing just do some feedback and I will install it within a few (waking) hours.
Hi creator here, just got in from a few beers to see on HN which is amazing to see! This has been my evening/weekend project for the past few months, its a very new site, only out for about 5 weeks now. There are still lots of things to improve but the feedback has been amazing.
I am aiming for a fermium model at the moment, deep down I want to offer free a service which helps people collaborate on important work. Ideally with premium accounts subsidising a free but fully functional accounts. i.e. help people work together first, make a living second.
few buzzwords for people:
- MongoDB/mongolab,
- 100% CoffeeScript,
- Node.js,
- Now.js/socket.io,
- Twitter bootstrap, stole css for menu bar from nide https://github.com/coreh/nide
- S3
- Linode
- loggy.com
For me they are two 'states'. When i am doing something 'tough/complicated/new etc' that needs 100% of my attention i need complete silence, no music, no sounds, nothing. When that's not the case (95% of time) i am fine with any kind of music, my taste goes from dubstep to classical and based on the mood i am fine to listen to anything.
Why does senior management at these companies think that programmers should be managed by people who know nothing about programming?
Because most programmers don't want to manage. The few who do and are good at it are out of most companies' price range. Remember, as Random Educational Software Shop, you're competing in the same market as Google and Facebook. 99% of the good developers are going to go there instead, because they get more money and better work. You can't just wish people will work for you; you have to actively recruit them and make it worth their while.
EventMobi is looking to add incredible talent to it's rapidly growing team (we're now 11 from the 5 we were 3 months ago!) We're looking for someone who's interested in taking on a real challenge and solving interesting technical problems.
We're in need to scale our architecture, build out our API, and continually add awesome features to our platform.
Our mobile apps are built off Backbone.js, Handlebars.js, Zepto, HAML, SASS and a few of our own internal 'frameworks' working off a Node.JS server
Our backend and app generator is built off a sturdy LAMP stack and we use Ruby for all of our testing and test automation (Cucumber based).
If this alongside work that rolls out to hundreds of thousands of users sounds interesting to you, send us an email to work@eventmobi.com or hit me up on twitter @bijanv
"files in the .ibooks format generated using iBooks Author"
That clause is ambiguous, and I wouldn't bet on it being interpreted in the sense your scheme would depend on.
You'd need "generated using iBooks Author" to denote which "files", where it's more likely to be interpreted as denoting which "format". That is, the clause disambiguates the format from any other format that may exist with the file suffix ".ibook".
