Good news or bad news?

Huge if true. On the scale of "Employer hires Employee".

There's only one way to get the Staff badge on your profile http://github.com/tenderlove

Correct, my bad. I updated it with a couple of tips for non-Mac users.

Yup, our EC2 instance on US-WEST-2 can't connect to our RDS server.

For the lazy: http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt

And for those who don't know the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64

Is this Whatsapp's future? Stay tuned.

Probably not... way too many users. I think fb would take a lesson from Instagram and leave WhatsApp relatively independent. Besides, only an insane person would pay $19 billion for a company just to shut it down :)

Here's an alternative that I wrote after reading about Lockitron.

http://blog.crowdint.com/2012/10/13/crowdfunding-your-projec...

Was working on something similar when this came out. https://github.com/crowdint/fundraiser

Great job by the Lockitron team.

Best Buy's policy makes sense.

I think they are trying to avoid the probably very common scenario where you forget your headphones for a trip, nothing to worry about, just buy a pair from the Express machine, return them as soon as you are back home.

Perhaps Pivotal wins by being able to get a ton of enterprise engineers from EMC, turn them into Rubyists and scale their already very successful model. If they are profitable at ~100 employees, they would be even more profitable at ~150, ~200.