He was probably surprised because they were trying to make a better C++, not a better Python.

I didn't actually realise this until it was pointed out; if nothing else, mandatory automatic memory management really hurts its usefulness for a lot of the things that people still use C++ for.

I use GOPATH only inside of a wrapper script that sets GOPATH to the directory for the current project. All libraries are stored alongside my project code in source control. I use go get when adding/changing libraries, but remove the .git folder when doing so.

In the recent past, even with a premier paid account on GAE, getting a specific quota raised took a few days and was apparently a non-trivial operation.

I've been working on raising one of my quotas for the past 10 months. Filled with regular meetings with Google reps about it.

Yeah, what's amazing is that they didn't charge us to increase the limit. It's also pretty awesome that their android push notification service has no quota and is free.

Using Google's search results takes a lot of computing power and could be abused by competitors.

Having robust messaging increases the value of Google's Android platform.

I suspect that the limit is to prevent abuse, and as it's early in it's roll out, rather than a mechanism to charge developers.

Does librsync speak the rsync protocol or just create deltas?

librsync is a library for building rsync workalikes. It is not compatible with rsync itself.

librsync and the rdiff binary that wraps it can create a signature from a destination file, create a patch from a signature and a source file, and can apply a patch to a destination file. And that's about it. librsync doesn't concern itself with the networking. That's up to you.

rdiff is a thin wrapper around librsync. librsync can easily do anything rdiff can do, without having to fork a new process. You might wish the rsync executable were built this way, but it is not.

I would take that one step further and never rebase any branch ever.

What I'd like to see is mobile displays that actually look good in sunlight. I think that could be the next major area of display progress.

You should definitely check out Gone Home then.

Awesome to hear!

Sketch is on it's way to being what Illustrator should be. It's still a little buggy at times, for instance, you can't export things at high resolution and the workaround, resizing a group of objects, rarely works correctly.

Yep, there are lots of bugs, but they release fixes for them and its always been getting better.

I've completely ditched the entire Adobe Suite for Sketch and Pixelmator.

I went for Pixelmator instead of Sketch, but I'm with you with ditching Adobes suit. Not necessary these days for interface design.

Pixelmator lacks the full layer styles, but it's slowly getting some of them.

Though I can appreciate what Sketch is trying to do, I feel like Pixelmators performance and layout is better suited for me.