Launched scrubbed for today.

We chose LaTeX too for those exact reasons plus:

* macros allow us to produce integration-specific installation and user guides

* ability to generate HTML and PDF versions

Lately though I'm beginning to regret this choice. The owner of the docs isn't allowed to commit to our repo (for good reason), but this means I get changes via the wiki which need to be cut and pasted in. Also, the HTML output was never really good enough, so we've stopped doing that. Getting long tables to look good takes a lot of rebuild-and-check cycles. But my biggest issue is that having a common source for each document with minor version-specific changes sounds great until you try to adjust the page breaks. What looks good for one doc looks bad for another, it's a real nightmare.

I like Nitrous (nitrous.io/) - they have just reintroduced a free plan.

I use it to code C++. It's nowhere near the levels of VS2015, obviously, but it allows me to have a free dev box in the cloud.

I prefer ConsoleZ: https://github.com/cbucher/console

Currently maintained, works better with Windows 7, and used my old Console2 configuration.

I tried Console2 years ago. More recently I tried ConEmu. Now I use ConsoleZ, and I thinks it's great!

Sure, I'll pop right over :).

Are there any HN meetups in Sydney? The start-up world is pretty quiet here in Adelaide but there are quite a few around, and I'd like to encourage a more open/active community.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I've scanned through the various "map HNers" sites but Aussies actually in Australia seem to be few and far between.

In American Football the tackler uses his body more as a missile, typically leading with the head. In Rugby the tackler leads more with the shoulder, making sure the head is out of the way, and it's more of a "wrap-up" technique.

Also, I would think that the velocities and masses involved in American Football are higher - it is more of an anaerobic sport due to the short play duration, frequent breaks between plays, and frequent player substitutions.

After watching more youtube vids I see your point, the leading with the head especially. Must have serious neck muscles...

They will also issue a token for those of us living outside the country.

From the FAQ:

How do I submit a poll?

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

This is an experimental feature so there is currently a fairly high karma threshold for submitting new polls.

Dish Network is listed as a partner and will be releasing a STB with this technology. If that goes well it won't take long for other providers to jump on board too.

That's just not really the case.

There's almost no way this makes it into a terrestrial cable box outside of a few trial markets. Or with a few small cable providers. I say this as someone who spent 4 years working for a large cable co building software that runs on cable boxes.

There's a bunch of reasons but here's two.

1. The large cable co's aren't generally going to deploy software controlled by a 3rd party. Microsoft has spent years banging their head against the wall that is the large telco with little success.

2. Cable already has a mature cable box focused software stack standard called tru2way which is already getting more traction then Android likely ever will in cable STB space.

The cable space is not normal and they don't make what appear to be rational sw decisions to the internet crowd.

Dish is an outlier and doing everything they can to compete but I wounldn't even count on them going into wide deployment with this.

This will live on CE devices, not cable and satellite STBs.