The key will be how they actually enforce this. Siting servers is the wrong thing to tack on to. Because there are perfectly legitimate personal servers as outlined in comments above for personal use that wouldn't eat up excessive bandwidth. That being said I think the "no professional" or "no business" uses are terrible too depending on how they choose to interpret and apply. A loosely enforced version of the latter would be better in my opinion.
This is great. Glad to see this happening in the medical community. Wish it would happen with Congress and government as well like so many have suggested. I will say the web UI Github has provided on top of Git gives me hope for these initiatives.
Decent article. Correlates with the stagflation we have seen and the fact that hedge investments like gold have been correlating to growth investments the past few years. The fact that we have a global recession / stagflation makes it even more interesting. Thankfully technology and software specifically as an industry seems more immune than most to the slow growth.
meh, I don't know if accountants and lawyers gave that any use but never even looked or thought about that for questions or research. Linkedin is a good way for non-technical people to see a non-technical profile for you. They should just be focus on being good at that, job postings (which aren't that great/overpriced) and a company directory.
Decent post on his workflow. Asana looks nice enough but I would always prefer to use open source or pay for a product rather than using a product that is just free. Just doesn't make sense unless they are selling your info to advertisers.
My goal was simply to relay some of the facts that came out of sitting through a round of court proceedings. One of the main things being that a lot of what was put in the complaint seemed to be just plain wrong. That being said my intent was not to defend the industry or the business model. I got out of recruiting early in my career because I couldn't tolerate all the shady practices and lack of ethics in that industry. I simply ask that everyone give them the courtesy of due process and not condemn the hardworking employees of Hashrocket for something they had nothing to do with. We are a separate company in a totally different industry. We are self sufficient financially and have been for some time now. We have always and will continue to pursue the highest level craftsmanship in our development and complete transparency in working with our clients.
The prosecution was asked to provide evidence that people received an invoice that had not signed up for the service. They were asked to provide a list of the businesses that complained and/or claimed fraud. They did not produce either. They just kept throwing out the same few numbers but never provided anything of substance to back up the numbers they claimed.
Just to clarify per what was presented by both the prosecution and the defense in the case the walking fingers logo and yellow pages name are public domain. The various local phone companies engaged in the exact same business model have no more claim to them than anyone else. The only difference being that most of them were given the advantage of government subsidies and a bureaucratic pseudo monopoly blessing.
Mark's brother Charles has been estranged from the family for 20 years or more. I have known the family which is very close knit and court was the first time I ever heard of the existence of Charles.
The facts of the case are being skewed far from reality. It is sad that innocent until proven guilty seems to have been lost in the rumor mill. Even in a court room at times today that seemed to be the case. Mark and Marian provided seed money for Hashrocket and founded the company with Obie. They also own a separate company called United Directories that provides a paper and online business listing service. The companies are completely separate entities. None of this has anything to do with or any impact on Hashrocket. Hashrocket is a stand alone, profitable consultancy. That being said, I have always known Marian and Mark to do everything they engage in with the utmost integrity.
Hashrocket and United Directories are in the same office building. I was in the conference room next to the United Directories space when the police came to serve their warrants to United Directories. The police officers proceeded to tell the United Directories employees, "You no longer have a job. This company does not exist anymore. You will not be receiving a paycheck." Again, what happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Then came the bail hearing today. It lasted 5 hours. I was shocked and disheartened at how few actual facts were presented by the prosecution in order for them to drag someone into court. I was further disturbed when there was almost no basis provided or facts provided to how they were making the jump from what information they did have to trying to accuse Mark, Marian and their employee Chris of the allegations against them. The prosecution then further showed a total lack of ability to understand a basic business banking account or simple math. The judge made the decision at the end of the day to release Mark, Marian and Chris on bond but the prosecution forced his hand with a legal technicality to delay the decision.
At the end of a very long and tiring day I have no reason to doubt my friends' character. I am saddened at what I saw transpire in our law enforcement and legal system over this past week. Hashrocket is self-sufficient and will continue to build awesome web applications for our clients. We would appreciate everyone's support in promoting facts over rumors.
The reason MacVim and GVim were both mentioned was b/c the setup mentioned would work with either. Never messed with setting up Vim on Windows and wanted to be explicit as to not lead people down a painful path or to get troubleshooting requests.
The other intent was to show people how they could easily set up Vim as a robust Rails editor without needing to learn a ton about how to install Vim plugins which normally assume a strong understanding of Vim to install and get started with.
The main reason for the post was that at Hashrocket we benefit from real-time streaming Vim plugins courtesy of Tim Pope and wanted to share how awesome it can be as a Rails editor. I plan to follow up with more on the individual plugins themselves. It would've been a small novel to try and cover each of the plugins themselves in any detail. Most have a solid README on the project page for starters.