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"Froth is a Objective-C web application framework that brings the power and simplicity of Cocoa development to the web."

"simplicity" = subjective
I'd like to take a little poll, if I might. The basis:

1) There was a plan in Copenhagen to give $100 billion to poor nations to "help them cope with climate change".

2) Since 1998 the temperature of the earth has fallen about 0.4 F.

3) The actions these nations need to take against global warming are very different than those they need to take against global cooling.

Questions:

1) Is the money they were to be given to be spent to protect against warming, or cooling?

2) Whichever one you picked, why aren't they more specific in their namimg? Why the ambiguity?
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There's something in the 4chan's community. For some reason 4chan survives, even if admins decide that for a week the whole site will be pink text on pink background (or was it some other colour) and will have an annoying song playing in the background -- exactly with the intent of driving some people away. Maybe it just crossed the critical mass and luck or inconvenience doesn't matter anymore?
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I mean it is not only one man who makes the company, specially after 1983.
Are there YC funded startups that are based outside the US? I know a Dutch startup that received an invitation for an interview, but don't know if they got in.
I suppose that might be true in some places, but I've lived in Europe and spent a fair amount of time in Mexico, and my observations in both were that the police carried much more serious weaponry under normal circumstances than you see in the US

Indeed. Get off the Eurostar at GdN and you will see soldiers patrolling the place with assault rifles. Same around the Tour Eiffel. And this is in France. No-one bats an eyelid. I've never seen routine patrols in any US city carrying M16s.
Sadly, it's easier said than done.
Gilad Bracha says: "For me, an object is an encapsulated self referential record."

http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/11/objects-are-not-hash-tab...
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Another thought: HTC needs to stop letting carriers rename it handsets if it wants the recognition it states in the article. Letting Verizon and T-Mobile call the hero the 'Droid Eris' or 'T-Mobile G2' removes the credit from HTC and turns them into another LG or Samsung.
AFAIK android sdk 2 doesn't support opengl es2
You are right when you say marketing is important and some very good writers are very bad at it. But there are people that could do both too. There are other books that need artists(text books of history, biology...) and other support people too.

When I say there is no need for publishers I mean the hard logistics and financial experts that today are needed. Other people will be needed, like web store experts, but you don't need to have a minimum of 20000 readers to print like today.

Today, like yesterday CD labels, publishers hold the rights because they have access to the physical market and you can't sell without then, they then get all the money and no cost in ebooks. This is going to change when writers don't need physical market because people buy digital.
Right, but there isn't a multi-billion-dollar market in reverse engineering AES, because it's published. And we all use it and it's fine - publication hasn't weakened it at all.
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Not YC funded, but the guys from YellowBird, Yunoo, and E (My Name is E) are Dutch, and might have some interesting stories to share.
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The problem is the traditional languages that one would reference as symbols of OOP, have all embraced an Anemic Domain Model anti-pattern for their standard development best practices, this kind of negates some of the higher level advantages of OOP.
I just feel like the view espoused in this article is unbelievably cliche. Most of the response are pretty cliche as well. The consensus seems to be that college is essentially pointless, a social gathering at best.Then there's also the the typical "colleges will be obsolete soon; we'll all be crowdsourcing our own learning" blah blah blah type nonsense. It's all just rather naive to me.
Human languages like Chinese or Hungarian or English have a greater volume of grammatical constructions, irregular forms, vocabulary, and semantics than any computer language, and yet toddlers learn them all the time.

Now, I wouldn't claim that humans are wired to learn Python the way they're wired to learn a human language. Nor would I claim that every child under ten should necessarily be able to navigate Python -- the majority of adults I know cannot navigate Python, or even BASIC. But:

I’d be very careful not to underestimate kids. If you don’t tell them something is supposed to be hard, they will astound you.

I'm only about four chapters in to Coders at Work, and yet I've already encountered Brad Fitzpatrick, who claims to have learned to program before he was five. When I was a high school senior I met one or two nine-year-olds who could kick my ass in mathematics competition. I myself will never know how much Python I could have learned before age ten -- I encountered my first computer, a C64, when I was about eleven -- but I do know that by age 14 I had gotten bored reading about BASIC and had taught myself assembly and Pascal (though I had to learn Pascal entirely from books, writing programs on paper, because I didn't encounter my first Pascal compiler until I was 15, several years later).
I did pixel-perfect cross browser layouts with CSS five years ago

Using just semantic markup, or with lots of divs within divs that have no justification to be there except to allow styles to be attached to them?

"Great pyramids of DIV" based layout is at most marginally better than table based layout.
I'm curious why you believe catastrophic climate change is unavoidable. Even accepting the "consensus" position, the amount of warming the world will face is not exactly life threatening.

Go read an actual IPCC report rather than breathless press releases by greenpeace.
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Yeah, you are right. But that there are bad doctors and engineers and teachers doesn't mean there are no very good ones.
So only those who are perfect are allowed in a debate? Somehow (despite my karma hit) I doubt I'm the only one who doesn't believe that. Sometimes we can discuss ideas even if we aren't fully compliant ourselves.
Indeed. Although the problems with nuclear are mostly `ethical' (or very long-term technical).
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Wow. Not a good way to interface with potentially new customers. I'm surprised. I had no idea they thought their software was worth that much. I could whip together something in much less time to interface with Google Talk or IRC or something.

In fact, their pricing is so ridiculous that I think there is a great opportunity here for someone to swoop in and start a competitor.
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I agree that the work ethic is higher here and that smarts are cool. However, I don't really agree about appreciation for the arts. I hear children practicing the piano or violin every day here in Taiwan and there's also a shop or two for classical instruments and sheet music near most elementary schools in Taipei. Children who can't draw also seem to be quite a bit more common in America than here.

Yes on the social integration, though. People don't really have the time for much socializing until college.
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I love the fact that we've gotten speed of innovation back into web browsers, and i wouldn't ever want to go back.

However, i also fondly remember a time not long ago where all i had to do was to develop in IE6 and I'd be sure it would work for most everybody ;-)
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I discovered programming ... before anyone I knew had access to the internet, or even knew what the internet was.

Let me be blunt: Our kids are smarter than we are. Or than we were, anyway. They're growing up with Google.

The reason BASIC had to be so simple is that Stack Overflow didn't exist. You had to be able to grasp the language on your own, with minimal help, because at best help was miles away, or on the other end of a one-to-one telephone connection, or -- at the very best -- on a one- or two- or maybe even eight line BBS connection.

Now I venture to say that by reading the walkthroughs on Slicehost a ten-year-old could get an entire LAMP stack configured and start serving web pages with far less intellectual effort than I spent in writing a "guess this number between 1 and 100" program on the Commodore PET. There are individual videogames that are harder than BASIC was, to say nothing of the collectible card games or the RPGs.

The network is a big deal. It changes everything. In another generation it will take intense intellectual and creative effort to imagine just how geeks lived when I was ten, just as I'm still not sure I grasp how (e.g.) the atomic bomb was invented without the benefit of any electronic computer whatsoever, even a pocket calculator. (I have, at best, an abstract and intellectual grasp of what slide rules were about. I don't know how to use one.)
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In a similar vain The Register states:

"Once upon a time, Apple laced its iTunes-purchased offerings with similar DRM restrictions that evoked major headaches when trying to do something as simple as transferring songs to a new PC."

…as if Apple came up with the the idea to begin with. I think most people reading know the parties that insisted on having DRM in the iTunes Music Store, but it is still misleading, lazy reporting.

As someone who has worked in media, I can state with authority that the majority of engineers know DRM is merely a futile speed bump. Sometimes a speed bump is just fine with the lawyers. They'll take it.
Does the non-Apple runtime support Objective-C 2.0?
You're absolutely right. Temporary, but real pain right now. Unusable in today's economy.
So why hasn't this professor just been honest with her students and told them they are wasting their money? Oh! yeah, that would mean should would be out of a job. Better to just let the students get deeper and deeper into debt.

Hint to her, she's part of the problem.
I think if you're in college, and you drop out with aspirations. You have greater motivation to meet them then your peers who stayed in.
The problem with a 2C warming is that it won't just cause everywhere to become two degrees warmer. It will mean a massive upset in weather patterns and large areas of land that are currently arable becoming barren, along with a lot of fertile or inhabited land becoming flooded.
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Title says it all. I'm just curious as to what fonts other hackers like to use.
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I don't think they have enforced a single patent and they have paid out ~1billion to patent trolls so I find it hard to believe patents are a net gain for them.
I use anonymous pro: http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html

Admittedly, I use it because it's pretty. Hence why I started a question to find out more about what makes a good programming font.
One of the assumptions here is that economic growth necessarily makes people happier. Studies on happiness indicate that up to a point, more wealth makes people happier. After that, there is no impact.

So forgive me if I'm cynical about the hysteria about the effects of cutting carbon emissions. A lot of people live in abject poverty, but that is a problem of distribution, not total numbers. The gap between the rich and poor has been widening so quickly that despite the growth in GDP, in real terms, the poor have been getting poorer.

Economic growth, as it stands, does little to help most people, and much to further fill the pockets of the rich.
"They know what the likely consequences are. Planetary suicide is not among them."

And you know that because...?
The goal is not to punish the most guilty party, the goal is to save the planet. So maybe Australia simply doesn't factor into it as much. I still assume that they will be asked to reduce emissions, too.
That is a very narrow definition that depends on implementation details.
I heard him speak at a media arts festival here in Vienna a few months ago.

I'm pretty sure he won't be trolling TED or throwing around in-joke references: He actually seemed pretty sick of all the mindless repetition of memes (and how could he not be?).

He's a smart and thoughtful guy, was very humble, self-deprecating and sarcastic, and had a bunch of interesting anecdotes to tell -- although it did appear that he fairly randomly stumbled into the situation and doesn't have many deep, original insights on online communities/social software/the meaning of life, the universe and everything.

Then again, I believe he same may be said of Jimmy Wales, for example...
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(drop out here too)

I definitely feel like I've managed to be "successful" without completed college (yet) I make a decent salary, and I can see that growing in the horizon. I also feel well respected and needed by my coworkers, and family. However I completely agree with the opinion above. While part of me wants to complete it for the sake of ensuring future employment. My main reason for wanting to finish is to gain that last part of self confidence i'm missing.

A second reason, one that is less mentioned is more social. I try to skirt the issue when talking to people, but (even more on the east coast) people tend to think of myself differently when I tell them the truth.
I think you might want to read Outliers by Gladwell.

What I don't get about your post is how do you explain the Chinese, Indian and all the other students not being disengaged? They apparently found it very stimulating (according to the boston.com article). Do you attribute that to just the language barrier? I came here knowing very little English about 9 years ago. I had 2 months to learn before I went to high school (freshman year). It was brutal, but I did well in school; and I am nearly completely incapable of learning another language (I tried learning Spanish for years).

So what's left? Is it that the foreign students come from a culture where hard work is emphasised more?
I wonder, is there or could there be a list of emissions, not by countries, but by companies and industries? For example, wasn't there a news item recently about cargo shipping being the worst offender?

Maybe such a list would be more efficient than certificate trading between countries. Just as for optimizing computer programs, it might make sense to eliminate the worst offenders first. Maybe a lot of bad offenders would be easy to fix. Negotiating emission rates between countries might be akin to premature optimization.

Maybe satellites could be used to spot CO2 emission hot spots? With some additional logic, hot spots could be assigned to industries (ie if it is at sea, it is likely to be a ship. If it is on land, Google Maps probably knows the name of the company). Just wondering how to compile such a list...
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"Euler proved that the problem has no solution."

What a defeatist way to see it. Obviously, the solution is to build one more bridge.
I figure the whole concept of message passing is the heart of OOP, with encapsulation being a tidy way to go about it and inheritance and polymorphism being nice, powerful add-ons.
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Like lots of modern features, it appeared in Plan 9 first.
What is your definition of "religion"?

Progressivism doesn't have any of: rituals, priests, official buildings, sacred texts, gods, other supernatural beliefs, holy places, concern with an afterlife, elevation of tradition over reason, use of altered states of consciousness, seemingly-arbitrary restrictions on speech or conduct. Of course many religions lack some of those things, but it seems to me that this it's things like these that distinguish religions from non-religions.

You can, of course, squeeze some features of progressivism until they kinda-sorta match some of those. Caring about the welfare of people in the future is just like believing in an afterlife! The peer-reviewed scientific literature is just like a body of sacred scriptures! Leading progressive politicians are just like priests! The allegedly melting polar icecaps are just like hallowed sacred places! The trouble with this (aside from the obvious fact that it's bullshit) is that applying the same principle generally would lead to classifying too many things as religions. (US-style conservatism: folks like Beck and Limbaugh are just like priests! Teabag protests are just like religious gatherings! The US Constitution is just like a religious text! (And requires interpretation by the right people to be rightly understood, of course.) Science: controlled experiments are rituals! Universities are temples! String theory is dogma handed down from on high! Software development: RFCs and ISO standards are sacred texts! Famous hackers are priests or even demigods! That mental state in which code just pours out of you is a mystical experience! Unit testing is a ritual! GOTO is a taboo word!) Bullshit, the whole lot of it.

Sure, lots of things resemble religions in various ways: any status hierarchy is a little like a religious hierarchy (that's even where the term "hierarchy" comes from), any body of ideas that's been developed over time is a little like a religion's official doctrines, any activity that's done in standard ways is a little like a ritual. That isn't because science and conservatism and stamp collecting and democracy and environmentalism are religions, it's because some ways of doing things come naturally to human beings and/or are obviously sensible, and we find them in religions and in non-religions alike.
Good article. Reminds me of the advice given by this Foerster guy. http://www.careeradvicebook.com/ Almost exactly what he recommends.
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Nothing concrete, but I did some Googling:

http://www.ethicsscoreboard.com/list/trump.html

That article claims that he was in serious debt the mid nineties and needed to get 20 Million in loans from his siblings in order to bounce back (they all got 35Million each went his father passed away).

So that means after about 20 years he had actually made negative amounts from where he started, which obviously wouldn't happen with a savings account. How much he's bounced back since then is debatable, particularly as several links I find suggest that he regularly overstates his own wealth by as much as an order of magnitude, and has done since the early 80s so it's hard to keep track:

http://ddo.typepad.com/ddo/2005/12/tracking_donald.html
Interesting article on Cher Wang, the co-founder of HTC:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/technology/companies/27wan...
Crap. I live about 10 minutes walking from the location of this but won't be in the country between 25-31 Jan 2010.

Hope this goes well and I hope this leads to more meetings.
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Without encapsulation, what do you pass a message _to_?

(Honestly curious)
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True. At least that line did not contain the canned "Simple and Lightweight" dot dot dot.
Any sans-serif monospaced font with good 'eye' and 'el' / 'zero' and 'oh' distinction.

- Microsoft's Consolas is generally quite good on Windows

- Bitstream Vera Sans Mono on Linux

- Whatever OS X comes with by default (yaay, no need to change anything)

are all good.
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You know what they say, "All good planning eventually degenerates into work."
This has led to the follow theorem of mine, which describes /b/ perfectly:

Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.
Ummm - pretty sure that the rainbow parties myth pre-dates 4chan. Wiki tells me the oprah special was oct 2003 - the same mont. 4chan launched.
Winemaking is a perfectly reasonable major, unless you want to close down all the A&Ms in the country. UIUC, the University of Maryland, no doubt many other schools have excellent computer science departments within smelling distance of barns.
There's very few 'Linux-based' smartphones in the common (see linux.org) rather than technical (see kernel.org) sense. Android, while using a Linux kernel, doesn't have glibc or anything else above it. Your engine port would be to the Android NDK or to Dalvik, not to glibc, X, DRI, Mesa, etc.
Perhaps the answer is instead to eliminate any sex/race/nationality preferences. I'm assuming the reason for the lack of white males relates to every other group has been getting some preference at some point in time.
There are employment laws in the UK which mean a Mechanical Turk-like system wouldn't be able to have jobs listed for such low amounts - I think it comes under the minimum wage laws.

Because of this and similar laws in other countries, Amazon have kept job-posting MT accounts limited to the USA at the moment, which doesn't have the restriction.

I don't know enough about Dutch or Indian law to know whether a similar system could be set up within them, but there are problems with rolling something like this out globally.
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This seems really useful for statically typed languages. Use a code generator and manipulate JSON in a typesafe way.

Now if there were such a thing for Scala... (Anyone wanting to work on that?)
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Thanks for that info. Do you have any references where this was talked about?

We did a small project about future predictions for energy use and CO2 emissions in college in 1995, and we ended with a statement that essentially said "Now, this has all been about global emissions. How to divide these issues by country is a moral, not scientific, question, but it's hard to argue that anything but asymptotically (ie at 2050 or whatever) working towards the same per-capita emissions is just."

I wish all political discussions were on a per-capita basis. It would just be more transparent how different the industrialized countries want their citizens to be treated that way.