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That makes integrating clojure/compojure in to the workflow of any regular business that produces websites hell on wheels.

I can just imagine the look the average designer would give if you passed them a chunk of lisp and asked them to style this according the house style manual.
It seems like a number of people on that list are authors and artists. Those are fields where university education has never really been of any significance. It would be more interesting to see a list with those and similar professions removed.

Secondly a couple of them are very dubious,for example Chuck Yeager didn't attend college, but calling him self educated is a bit of a stretch as it ignores all the training and education he got in the military.
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These patterns were found from the 800 random ex-Woolworth locations by simply skipping over the vast majority of the sites and only choosing the few that happen to line-up.

Nice.
I'd be more interested if this blog was offering to teach sales 101 rather than just asking what should be in it. Anyone know where to find something like that online?
College access is far broader in the 20th century, though, too, especially from the 50'ies onwards; at least in the US.
coincidently, I've just hit a similar problem and looking for a solution (mine is a swear jar webapp which automagicly donates to charity when you press it)

so far things I'm thinking:

1-use the paypal api to directly donate from the user's paypal account into a charities paypal account. (easy, but requires the charity to accept paypal)

2-there are a few sites with apis
--http://www.globalgiving.org/api-contest/ looks like you can give the api a charity id and some credit card details and it'll handle the donation
--justgiving.com and missionfish.com have private/beta api's that were let loose at charityhack.org, but aren't publicly availible yet

anyone seen anything else similar or better?
That's covered by rules 1-6, which emphasize constructing the system using small, independent programs communicating over pipes.

I'd rephrase rule 17 as "Don't paint yourself into a corner.". It's easy to waste time overgeneralizing a program before you have a clear idea how it will actually be used. The emphasis on prototyping also keeps this in check, though.
I use Quod Libet, which is a great program for listening to and browsing your music collection. It also comes with Ex Falso, which is a separate program that's great for organising your music collection. If I'm ever putting music onto an iPod, I use gtkpod... it's just a pity that it's such an unstable program (gtkpod).
MPD (http://musicpd.org) is pretty good. It's a server that uses a simple network protocol for control, and thus has several clients and client libraries. (I particularly like ncmpc.)

Part of the problem is that many people who switched to Linux to get away from Windows don't understand Unix, and tend to expect (and implement!) programs that are based on the Windows GUI model. Unfortunately, it's poorly suited to designing programs in the Unix style. This leads to monolithic GUI programs that will only work if you're already using GNOME / KDE / etc., rather than programs that take advantage of existing the Unix programming infrastructure. (This seems to be less of a problem in the BSD community.)

It's possible to write a separate GUI interface wrapper for programs whose primary interface is a command line or C API, but the Windows programming culture doesn't seem to emphasize keeping them as separate layers the way that Unix does.
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Can you explain what you mean by that?

The BSD user in me completely agrees; I'd just like to know if that's what you intended.
The usual CAPTCHA is an id from a vendor support contract.
Music Player Daemon (http://musicpd.org) would be one example.

It operates as a OS daemon -- therefore without any UI per se. It is controlled it using a text-based protocol over TCP/IP.

Usually, the user controls it via UI frontend that can be graphical, text-based or what have you. And you can have as many of those as you like (for instance one for xwindow, another for command line, third that shows you what is currently being played, fourth for album art and lyrics...)
Yes, but count again in 100 years when those born after, say, 1970 have had a chance to become famous.
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That is a really nice design. I wonder why there are no stock routers that ship in such a pretty case.
Does it really handle earthquakes well? How many thousand children died in poorly built schools?
A part of me wants to say "why????", but on the other hand, making devices look good might be one of the major hurdles for open source hardware. So if good results can be achieved from generic components, it is interesting.
Is "some guy said so" enough to seize three computers and make an arrest? (Apparently it is. Deeply depressing.)
I don't think those clash; the Unix philosophy is not about single lines of code or even a single "paragraph" of code, but about overall design.
Wait. Are you saying that real terrorists don't share their plans on Twitter!?
well, their twitterer apologized for some downtime: http://twitter.com/Grooveshark/status/7893982325
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This is a great article that really gets right to the heart of the problem with enterprise IT. I started cutting and pasting great lines for my response until I realized that were just too many of them. Read the whole thing.

This is, of course, a great situation for us hackers with consulting and software businesses. When people in enterprises can't get what they need from corporate IT, they turn to those who can provide it. I wonder how many web startups originally intended to serve consumers but ended up serving more people at work instead.

This is nothing new. PC's were originally targeted for the home until users in large enterprises found ways to buy them with them own budgets. The same thing is happening now with software and services.

When users have serious big dollar business problems and they're not getting what they need internally, that opens up the opportunity for someone else to step into the void, and I, for one, am happy to oblige.

OP also hints at the best news of all: this situation probably won't change much until we change it from the outside. Let's do it.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I agree enthusiastically that taking your morals from the dead scripture of an old religion is a terrible idea. I also think that we should try to make all of our decisions as rationally as we can.

But I also think that there are certain questions that I answer irrationally, but with great certainty. The best example I can think of is torture. (Sorry to be gruesome.) When I think about whether the torture is justified, my immediate answer is no. I am not certain, but I don't think a rational argument could convince me otherwise. I could probably be convinced that mild forms aren't always bad, but the more extreme stuff-- no way.

I think my position could be summarized as "There is a subset of decisions that I can't make rationally, even though I think it would be better if I could."
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(Seriously though, this is issue keeps me up at night, since I test so often. The only thing that gets me back to sleep is that I figure that even if I call a test wrongly every once and a while, the bottom line number seems to be moving in mostly the right direction, so it should come out in the wash.)
Well, I think it works in the exact opposite way because I'm sorely tempted to go and make a bunch of blog posts about all kinds of terrorist acts that I've just dreamed up to show how ridiculous this particular tactic is.
(`to change functions' should have been `to chain functions'.)
GNU does not follow the Unix Philosophy
and BSD can't talk either

'cat came back from Berkeley waving flags' - Rob Pike
One of my favorites as well. What really fascinates me about it is it's length, it can't be more than a couple of pages printed yet it introduces a very powerful concept.
Good old East German tactics then.

The Master & Malgorzata revisited.
I from Eastern Europe(Bulgaria), 20 years ago people used to go to jail for jokes, people used to get reported in by friends and family too, i see history repeating itself. Feel free to repeat our mistakes.
You're making quite a large assumption that every single player skips out on the education. This is not my experience. I graduated from a D1 school and several of the football players received engineering degrees, just like me. I don't think any of them made it to the NFL, but I can tell you one thing, they did go to college for free.
If you enable it your tweets now can be geotagged. Which is public info. That's one of many ways to have tracked him.
So maybe this can help name this scientific syndrome: This conclusion is Woolworthed.
I believe having a "basics of our philosophy" document already contradicts that rule.

Not to say it's a bad thing.
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I think the concern was probably less about foiling a terrorist attack as worry that he was a cross person who might take extreme action.

The questions about his life to me indicate that was their main worry. You know; of he just lost his job or something and life was spiralling out of control etc etc.

In a way I can see why they investigated. Arresting him was too much clearly but you can't just ignore an explicit threat entirely - ESP if it is reported.
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Mike Taber's recent writeup on enterprise software is pretty good:

http://www.miketaber.net/2009/10/29/how-to-sell-enterprise-s...
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The Sales 2.0 site has a lot of articles: http://sales2.com/index.php/articles
Easing licensing restrictions, or eliminating them, would certainly open up the field in our information age for large companies to offer services more easily to broader numbers of people at lower prices.

For example, many on this forum have undoubtedly used online incorporation services to some advantage. But such services truly are limited in what they can do precisely because they would otherwise come under fire for illegal "practice of law." Thus, such outfits cannot in any way perform legal services but can only facilitate the filing process and provide customers with canned kits that consist solely of standard paperwork suitable for the generalized case on and not for any specific situation. This makes such services helpful for the right cases but highly limited. And the same applies to any other area (contracts, trusts, etc.) where entrepreneurs try to set up enterprises whose aim is to provide easy-to-use, low-cost legal services for specific areas.

The trade-off here is that loosening restrictions would of course make it easier for unscrupulous or incompetent types to prey upon unsuspecting clients - this problem is what gives impetus to the current system.

I personally think that we should strike the balance in favor of easing the restrictions and trusting in clients to make good judgments about whom to hire for what purpose. But I am a working lawyer in the trenches and have not given much thought to the particular form such easing might take. An abolition of all licensing would certainly make it all more "free market" and lead to a significant lowering of prices but I can just imagine the collective gasp that would arise from all sorts of quarters were such a proposal to be floated seriously. So, I think we are stuck with the current system, with all its limitations, for some time to come.
To his defence, he did specify it was for XP only.
First step is knowing what we need to know :)
'Separating interface from engine' clashes with the shortsighted 'text is the universal interface' rule.

A great deal of Unix prefers the latter to the former - eg, hunting for a regex to identify some data rather than being provided with something which properly separates the data from the presentation.

Object pipelining shells (powershell) and higher level shells (ipython) get this right.
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If you like this (as I do), you'll love Nacirema.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema
Something I've heard come up in Clojure projects is StringTemplate. I haven't done this myself as Compojure does what I need.

http://www.stringtemplate.org/

Example of using StringTemplate with Clojure:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/ablcc/string_interp...
Maybe someone needs to create an equivalent of the emacs "Spook Mode" for twitter
Isn't this what's called a mortgage? :)
The problem here is that whilst it's long been accepted that you can't joke about having a bomb in your bags when checking in, we have novel real-time services such as Twitter, and the authorities and general population at large have to work out what the middle ground is.

Personally, I think the man's a fool, but can understand why the authorities investigated him. Otherwise, what's the alternative? Make a joke about bombing a place and so avoid being searched when you turn up there?
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I've done a little reading over the years and thought about this some. I think this argument occurs in some form in every age. But when new fields are born, there is no place to go to get educated in it. You just have to make it up. And it is in the birth of those new things that people are more likely to be seen as "making a difference". Entrepreneurship also involves making it up as you go. I've read some things that indicate that finishing your education can be an impediment to making it as an entrepreneur. The two examples I usually refer to: Bill Gates and Madonna are both college drop outs.

If you want to become a doctor, yes, you need all the credentials that society requires. But if you just want to help people get healthier, there are many paths to such a goal. I considered becoming a physical therapist when I was a teen. But I did an informational interview and concluded they didn't really do what I was imagining. A lot of people have fantasies about some career or other only to find it doesn't really do what they had imagined. Tragically, for many people this realization comes after investing a lot of time, money and effort into getting the requisite education, experience and credentials. At that point, a lot of people feel stuck: They have student loans to pay off and can't make enough money doing something else to pay them.

I was interested in this question (concerning credentials and success) in part because I homeschooled my kids. I always told them that they would have no king's stamp to make the gold good, therefore they actually had to be gold -- ie they have to be able to Bring It. They are fine with that.
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I've actually read through that site a bit before, and it's a great introduction to the different multithreading constructs in .NET (even if you're not using C#).
If you dig deeper on OpenBTS, the primary motivation of the project is altruistic, rolling basic coverage out in the developing world where there is no current economic incentive, or respect for IP.

That's not to say that it would be disruptive in developed markets as well, or course.
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The big question is, will your temptation lead to action, or will the fear of prosecution stay your hand. If enough people go with the latter then this particular tactic would seem to work.
Excellent scraping there. The figure you want is just the first number, the birth year. The number 1999 is meaningless, it's not a birth year, but the year Stanley Kubrick died. You want \((\\d+)-
Wait. Are you saying that real terrorists do share their plans on Twitter!?
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The wikipedia page on the USRP seems to explain it pretty well: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Software_Radio_Periph.... It also goes into the issue of daughterboards, although not in-depth.

The reason for daughterboards is given as "[...] designed to be flexible, allowing developers to make their own daughterboards for specific needs with regard to connectors, different frequency bands, etc."
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When I saw the title, I recalled the sounds that the old Apple floppy drives would make: when you booted them up you could hear the chunka-chunka-chunka as the stepper motor pushed the head all the way to the outer track, and then a little scraping noise when (after the rest of the driver had been read off the outer track) the head moved to the center track to read the directory. And the farting noise it made before the console beeped and said “I/O ERROR”... those were the days... kids today, they don’t know what it was like....
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jacques, never put a lisp paren on a line by itself. K&R is for cc-mode languages.

P.S. I see clojure uses // for a comment, a la C++; See if it accepts semi-colons as well. That's quicker to type and easier on the eye.
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There is a actually a fair amount to learn. We went through an incubator program at William and Mary and learned a ton about identifying FABs (Features, Advantages, Benefits), crafting language to appeal to decision makers (i.e., showing them how your product solves their specific problems), segmenting markets, using your resources narrowly -- rather than trying to do too much, b2b sales etc.

We are going to roll out www.nixty.com in beta mode in couple of weeks. I'll try to populate the system w/a course on sales from MITs Sloan School of Business. You can go there directly too. Our version will just be a bit more accessible.
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"Primarily, I asked him why he didn't transition from building web apps to instead creating a solution using cloud technology and true mobile devices like BlackBerrys, iPods, and emerging tablets. He could offer a better solution, at about a quarter of the cost. "

That quote made me chuckle since it just seems to be so out of context with what the article is trying to say.

Why not new buzzword instead of old buzzword?! At only a quarter of the cost!
Seriously, if the development organisation is having problems creating CRUD-webapps maybe switching to "emerging tablets" is not the answer..
Better solution: Stop printing things.

If we stop printing things, we won't need to scan them either.
Are you basing this opinion on experience of working in NYC?
Ben Fry (of Processing fame)'s PhD thesis: "Computational Information Design".

Abstract:

The ability to collect, store, and manage data is increasing quickly, but
our ability to understand it remains constant. In an attempt to gain
better understanding of data, fields such as information visualization,
data mining and graphic design are employed, each solving an isolated
part of the specifi c problem, but failing in a broader sense: there are
too many unsolved problems in the visualization of complex data. As a
solution, this dissertation proposes that the individual fi elds be brought
together as part of a singular process titled Computational Information
Design.

This dissertation first examines the individual pedagogies of design,
information, and computation with a focus on how they support one
another as parts of a combined methodology for the exploration,
analysis, and representation of complex data. Next, in order to make the
process accessible to a wider audience, a tool is introduced to simplify
the computational process for beginners, and can be used as a sketching
platform by more advanced users. Finally, a series of examples show
how the methodology and tool can be used to address a range of data
problems, in particular, the human genome.

http://benfry.com/phd/
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And we have the obligatory global warming statement at the end. Ugh.

Is it possible to write a science story nowadays without somehow taking a stand on global warming? Seems like no matter what the subject, somehow the author gets back to GW.
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From whence came the phrase "16 of the 23 patterns in Design Patterns were 'invisible or simpler' in Lisp."

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[...] if a voltage is applied to a seemingly unused pin, another pin suddenly begins broadcasting the internal state of the chip after every stage of the algorithm.

That sounds like a JTAG ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Test_Action_Group ) scan for test purposes. Basic idea is that registers on logic block boundaries are turned into a shift register that pumps out the internal state.
> That quote made me chuckle since it just seems to be so out > of context with what the article is trying to say.

I too read and reread that. If you are trying to sell a new way to run IT, maybe you shouldn't make buzzword sausage.
Yes, but reading from paper is much nicer.

Of course, printing every little e-mail is nonsense; but I'd rather correct my thesis on paper than on screen, for instance.
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Widely known as the best masters thesis ever, yeah, but I still put his Info Theo paper as my favorite. Maybe he just had a little time to age, the theoretical ground he covers in that one paper is incredible and yet the text remains conversational and approachable.
Pretty neat website. The book _More Effective C#_ also has a great chapter on multithreading in C#.
Copenhagen airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!

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It makes sense in the background of a clockwork universe that the video was going on about - it was a kick in the pants to a whole lot of rigid thinking. A bit of hyperbole, but it apparently rocked the scientific boat.
Clojure doesn't accept //, ; or (comment ) are used for comments.
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I think the point he is trying to make is that we have 'n' reasons why we are better than nation X and we are very proud of those reasons. But despite those n reasons, we aren't prioritizing life, while the countries that we put down constantly for various reasons are still doing better than us in some areas.

Anyway, one can always find specific sentences to nitpick about. I think his overall message is correct.