I get the impression that VC is like playing cups and balls more than conventional investing. As long as there's someone to pay fictional money at fictional valuation, and someone else is willing to buy in down the road, then the VC world can continue.

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/...-ponzi-scheme/

Rather than individuals benefitting or getting hurt, VCs are playing their own game of ‘bubble yes’ or ‘bubble no.’ What’s happening now is that if you’re an original investor in Twitter (as an example), that was great because the next VC who came in paid a higher valuation, gave some money to the company, but gave most of it to the first investors or to management….Then the next level that came in, they gave it to the previous. It’s more like a Ponzi scheme. It’s almost like an old chain letter.

Has anyone tried Aptana's RadRails for RoR?

http://www.aptana.com/products/radrails.html

Editors are ridiculous. I re-did my dev environment the other day and gave Atom another shot for a "general editor for when I don't use pycharm/rubymine on large projects".

Opened Atom using markdown with markdown preview going and cranked out a blog post. By the time I got to about 300-400 lines of markdown the entire editor became unresponsive for ~3 seconds for each key I entered.

How can something be so inefficient. It looks pretty awesome sure, but not being able to do anything for 3 seconds in between each key press is kind of an issue when its only purpose is to let me enter in text.

This is with an SSD on an i5 too. The same machine can run modern games at 1080p at 60hz while multiple virtual machines are running in the background.

Well the article JJ posted indicates that there are technological areas where valuations are high/increasing. As I brought up in another post, declining valuations for something like DropBox is totally rational. Tech industry shake outs are standard really.

What is the editor code written in? Games are written in languages "close to the machine" no? Inefficient algorithms maybe too, hard to say.

atom is written in CoffeeScript and Less

It's based off https://www.chromium.org/ and written in Coffeescript. Sublime on the other hand is written in C++ with extensions written in Python.

It's hilarious to me that a modern computer can do so much but something as small as analyzing a relatively small markdown file will bring 4 cores to a grinding halt.

You have to figure there's a bug somewhere and that's not actually indicative of its typical performance.

nah thats pretty much the rap on Atom.

Other than the markdown preview it performs reasonably well as long as you stay away from massively large files (in which case I'd use tools like cat/less/grep anyways).

My only real complaint with it as a general editor is it doesn't start instantly. Not a big deal if you plan to work on a project for a long period of time, but it's mildly annoying if you just want to edit some config file really quick.

Doesn't chromium have a well-know memory leak that's been ongoing for 5 years now? Why would you build an editor on it, and as a web dev, why would you even use Atom at all knowing it is built on a crappy base technology?

I usually give everything a fair shake to see if it offers any improvements. I guess what sold me on trying it was the overall UI/visual continuity it has.

Sometimes little things can drastically make you more productive or make you happy which in turn makes you more productive indirectly.

Just use Sublime.

@Shoe lace

I'm surprised that you're experiencing a 3 second delay because I'm not having that issue on lot larger files with an osx laptop.

Send in a bug report I guess.
I rarely use it but didn't know people are running into sluggishness or even memory leaks. Used to be a chrome person but switched to safari a year ago for the extra battery life + performance and it was worth it.

I respect the people that attempt to stay as minimalistic as possible while programming but I feel like i'll fry out too fast in my career if I go for that.
Recently purchased SnippetsLab for trying to organize my personal notes better and kind of create self guides for things that I do have memorized. Whatever is most stress free is what I move towards.

after trying to download netbeans' ruby and rails plugin, i give up. I'm sticking with sublime. Download would never complete for some reason. :shrug:

oh, works fine for windows 10, but not el capitan...

this is why I have at least 4 different OSes around the house!

Oh while OS X was mentioned I found another "WTF is this garbage OS" item to add to the list. Apparently it's common practice to use the ALT key to change Menu entries (click on File or whatever and then hold the ALT key when the menu is showing).
That's counter to pretty much every design guideline I know...cool? Winner is Keynote where you have to press ALT to even get the "save as" entry.

Is this with a markdown file, using the built in markdown preview plugin? I am running Linux, so maybe it is an isolated bug.

Can you by any chance gist the markdown file, this way if I report a bug I have concrete proof to show them that it works on OSX but lags on Linux?

@iosys, You may also want to check out https://kapeli.com/dash.

I never used snippetlabs but dash basically does that, but also gives you a means to access them directly in your editor, along with providing documentation for nearly every technology known to man which you can lookup on the spot by pressing a hotkey over a method in your code base.

I don't think I'm ponied here: If people haven't seen, Angular 2 Beta is out now.

This is intriguing:

I have dash and are you referring to the Add annotation option in the docs?
I'm sort of looking for a tool (think i found it) that is dedicated for listing my steps that are redundant or not so redundant like initial server setup on google cloud hosting or terminal commands. I use Monodraw for architectural design of code for documentation, so not writing guide for that stuff.

Dash's add annotation was great for putting all the frequent things I type for mysql as an example off hand. Like piping commands for multiple dbs for lookup when I was taking a course on that stuff. I prefer mongodb collection approach over that stuff.

TBH I don't use any keybindings for dash and probably should get on that. I mostly just use the hud look with navigating it by search when I need to lookup.

The new utility I purchased is pretty basic but similar to dash in layout and can make folders + any type of text/code format for notes. Again mainly planning to use for long guides that are parts in the same folder. I probably could get by with apple's Notes app but I want folders with smart find and menu bar access.
So i've been using it and sort of happy with it but it needs way to add images.

I don't use dash personally, I just remember being jealous when my friend was using it. He had it all tricked out with hotkeys. There's an open source Linux variant but it's much less polished.

As for a tool to fit your needs hmm. I use the free version of Evernote. It has a native app. It's pretty good for keeping notes and searching through them later but it's not catered towards programming. I really like it for sharing screenshots with friends.

It has this nifty little tool where you can just drag a rect on your screen, click a button and and then 2 seconds later you can paste a private URL to someone and they view it without needing Evernote themselves. It's such a huge improvement over print screen -> open image editor -> paste clipboard -> crop image -> save file -> goto google drive in a browser -> upload image -> share image -> friend needs to check his email -> click link.

I'll definitely check out Evernote for the screen shot utility.
The private url functionality would be really nice and way better than shift + command + 3 from sounds of it.

thanks!

For you video learners out there, you can get a free six month subscription to pluralsight if you sign up for VS dev essentials before the end of the year:

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/p...ntials-vs.aspx

Just about all Apple provided applications use that method to access Save As.
And being a software trainer, I see the benefit of laying it out that way every other day.

Inexperienced users who stumbled upon Save As frequently use it incorrectly and are then confused why (or even oblivious to) it makes another copy every time they do that. Have seen several people having their documents folder littered with Save As offspring of one file where they did not even realize they were creating a copy every time and had no use for the older copies.
Most of them come in for training essentially saying "halp, why are there so many files in here?"

Displaying the Duplicate option makes it much clearer what is actually happening at the cost of then having to rename and/or relocate the duplicated file in one additional, separate step (which can be done by clicking on the file's name in the menu bar).
It doesn't get much clearer than that for inexperienced users.

For experienced users who know what happens when you Save As, it isn't too much of a stretch to ask them to remember pressing the alt key to do all of that in one step instead of two.

In most cases, the frequent Save-As-ers are people switching over from windows. So they do not know any other mechanics of getting previous versions of files back into existence without having made a copy and keeping the old versions archived away. Or - my personal nightmare - even litter the desktop with them.

OS X applications have that built-in already. So when I am training on Save As shenanigans I typically include a section on how to use File -> Revert To.