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You could write that same comment about most of the languages you listed with only a bit of modification, really. All of them are better at something than the other ones are. None of them are "post-"anything.

I didn't say there was no innovation. I said the idea of "post-functional" doesn't seem to make any sense when we already have a perfectly good word. Merely having a slightly different emphasis on which the of the multiple paradigms are dominant in which places and being arguably a better selection for some purposes for some people is hardly worth a new word.

Besides, "post" functional rather implies that functional has had its day and is now played out. Modern functional (immutable variables, very strong type systems, etc.) hasn't even had its day; at best it's currently at the "hitting snooze on the alarm" phase of penetration. It's about twelve metaphorical hours early to be babbling about "post-functional".
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Yep: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1038889
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First of all there is a bug in his first pseudocode set. As listed, the hare can easily skip past the turtle unnoticed. If the loop is a particular size, the hare can keep skipping past the turtle forever, and the algorithm will operate forever without indicating there is a loop. He needs to perform a comparison after each step of the hare.

Regarding the teleporting turtle optimisation, I am not convinced it is an actual optimisation. It will work faster in certain cases, but not in others. For example, imagine there is a big loop in the list. Lets say the hare is halfway through the loop when the turtle just enters the beginning of the loop. At this point, the hare needs to catch up to the turtle and is only half a loop behind. However, imagine that the algorithm decides to teleport the turtle to the hare precisely in this point in time. Then the hare is an entire loop behind the turtle, which means it will be twice as slow to catch up with it just because of the teleporting.

So the "optimisation" is faster than the classic algorithm for some types of lists and slower for others. So you cannot say whether it is an optimisation unless you know something about the lists you will have to handle. So it is not really an optimisation per se.

I suspect the teleporting turtle algorithm may be considered an optimisation because people assume that most lists will not have a loop and a list with a loop is a rare anomaly. In that case it is in fact an optimisation because it will verify a large non-looped list faster than the classic algorithm.
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The best way to do this is FlyingSaucer via JRuby.

https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/
Odd. The "teleporting turtle" was the first solution to this problem that I thought I had recalled after being reminded of it in this link, but when I read the tortoise / hare solution, I knew this was the original solution I had read when I first heard about this problem.

In other words, while trying to remember the details of the tortoise and hare solution, I turned it into the described teleporting turtle solution, the intuition being that doubling the length of the cycle check would amortize to constant time per link.
"Dr. Bibbins-Domingo said that for many people the decrease in blood pressure would be modest, which is why, she said, “many physicians have thrown up their hands and said, ‘I’m not going to advise my patients to reduce salt because it’s too hard for patients and the benefits for any individual are small.’"

This is consistent with what Gary Taubes has been saying. Reducing refined carbohydrates has a much bigger impact on blood pressure than salt (4-5x as much, IIRC) because of the way it affects water retention.
The OP (karzeem) inquired whether there is a distinction between public and private colleges with regard to their obligations not to inhibit free speech. The article addressed that.

You might argue that the acceptance of strings-attached public money bears on whether a private college is truly private, but this does not change the fact that a truly private college and a public one operate under different legal regimes regarding free speech.
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Google's P/E ratio is so high that almost anything that suggests non-exponential growth is going to be an excuse for a selloff.
http://pdf-render.heroku.com/ - here's hello world in Sinatra with prawn, to give you a sense of how fun it is to use :)

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require 'prawn'

get '/' do
"<h1>This is a simple pdf rendering webservice. GET <a href='/hello%20world.pdf'>/hello%20world.pdf</a> to get a pdf back!</h1>"
end

get '/*' do
content_type('application/pdf')
headers['Cache-Control'] = "public, max-age=6000000000000000000"

pdf = Prawn::Document.new
pdf.text(params[:splat][0].gsub(/.pdf\z/,''))
pdf.render

end
I'm the maintainer of Prawn, and yeah, it'd be nice to see this. Jamis Buck tried this with prawn-format, but after a while we dropped support for it because it fell behind our core library and started breaking (Jamis had since moved on to other things).

In order for this to happen, what we really need is a solid box model. Since we don't have that yet, it's a very hard problem. If someone wanted to pay me to work on it full time for a year, I could get it built.

But failing that, we'll have to wait a good deal of time for this, unless someone else finds a large chunk of dedicated time for it.

Until then, Flying Saucer is the way to go if you can't afford PrinceXML price tag.
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I think that our users might appreciate a magick-prawn extension that allows Prawn::Document#to_svg (or other formats).

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This is a nice article about early communications using electrical circuits, but doesn't deliver on the promise of the title. For that I recommend "The Early History of Data Networks" by Gerard Holzmann (http://spinroot.com/gerard/hist.html) or the short paper "Data Communications: The First 2500 Years" (http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/hamburg94b.pdf).
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For these reasons I am always deliberately hazy about discussing my travel plans on Twitter and Facebook. I'll announce when I'm return, but never when I leave or for how long. The criminal possibilities are too great.

It's always seemed insane to me that anyone would announce their whereabouts at greater than a square kilometre's accuracy (and even then I'd be paranoid).
Hmm,

Universities have traditionally had codes of conduct. They weren't invented by pot-smoking hippies.

Tenure is based on the idea that after working like a dog and reaching to top of your field, you should then get an unrestricted forum to express yourself - you've earned it.

The examples of someone being falsely accused and convicted of racial harassment don't prove that students should be able to shout racist and sexist slogans whenever they want. It shows that universities should correctly aply statutes against harassment in a reasonably limited fashion.

So, of course, universities should restrict some speech. They certainly go overboard in some cases but that's a different matter.
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Yuck. Seems like a step in the wrong direction as far as food goes. The genesis of our current health problems as a nation can be mostly traced to eating too much processed food. Seems like this would exacerbate the problem to the extreme. High Fructose Corn Syrup isn't healthy no matter what the shape.
I too had done diverse programming until Scala, and the language introduced me to the functional paradigms which I now hold very dear. That being said, I was completely - and unprecedentedly - blown away by Clojure, as, in the Perlis-quote tradition, it completely changed the way I think about programming in ways that Scala did not. I've since decided that if I was going to master a JVM lang, it would be Clojure, and I've had the most fun programming Clojure since my Commodore Basic days.

If you haven't seen any of the Rich Hickey videos on InfoQ, particularly "Are We There Yet," I can't recommend seeing them more. It sounds like you might be following a similar path to mine, and I can't recommend Clojure more highly.

In the meantime though, enjoy your Scala trip - I did! :)
You've really hit at what is the most unsettling thing about Fox News. It really does represent infotainment that half the country can jive with.
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I'm actually surprised that there hasn't already been more Location Based Service-crime. In addition to stalking, it seems like robbery and theft would be rampant.

There's already been cases where thefts happened after people tweeted that they were going on vacation (http://www.socialreflections.com/twitter-connection-to-home-...). I wouldn't be surprised if the number of social-media related robbery increases as these services continue to gain traction.

By using services that tell people exactly where you are, you're really telling people exactly where you aren't: your home.
I like it... an "oh shit" button to complement my "easy" button.
I much prefer this story about silly metrics:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...
-2000 Lines Of Code (metrics == bad) (1982)
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Searching for my favorite band Circulatory System brought up Atlas Sound. Sounds great, so far. I'm impressed.

Circulatory System's Joy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_jidcdzXuU

Atlas Sound's Walkabout:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_jidcdzXuU

Searching for one of my favorite composers, James Tenney, brought up Douglas Ewart Quintet. Interesting association.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqWRoi8OTCo

Douglas Ewart Quintet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH_3ALijVcY

I highly recommend listening to the James Tenney and Circulatory System. If you like what you hear with the James Tenney, try this next: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY_FAqKs6Yw .
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Michael Lewis talks about the mismatch between salary and value for offensive lineman in his book "The Blind Side", which is similar to how great hackers are underpaid according to their value. Once the NFL shifted to a free market, the salaries of offensive lineman sky-rocketed 10x in some cases.

The problem for most hackers as I see it is that you can't know someone's value until you've worked with them for awhile. Since your value isn't "public information", your salary won't get driven up through a bidding war.
Your assertion that the word suicide should carry more weight reminds me of complaints that describing a project as "stillborn" is insensitive to parents that have lost a baby, and that using the terms master/slave in technical documents is discriminatory.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
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I am not a Ruby programmer so this might be a dumb question, but how does Prawn compare to Itext(Java)?
Actually this might prove the opposite. The intention is of course that his removing of 2000 lines of code while improving behavior is a good thing. Therefore a change in number of lines of code is significant. Therefore you should track lines of code. I track lines of code to get a sense for when there's more lines of code than seem necessary so I can go chopping it away until it becomes manageable.
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Here is my thought process in trying to navigate the new site. I'm typing it up as I go through it so it's very rant-like:

This new UI is a nightmare to navigate. I was trying to listen to some songs I had saved. Where are my saved songs? I guess I'll go to my profile. Hmmm, no "Saved" link. History seems close enough. Not exactly what I'm looking for but some of the songs are there. I guess I'll remake my saved list. Maybe this "+" symbol? Nope, that's for playlists. Okay, close enough. How do I find the old songs I liked that I want to put on my playlist? Where's the search? How do I navigate by category? I guess I'll click explore. Well that took me to another page and started playing a different song. Definitely not what I wanted. At least I found the "search" link in the "explore" dropdown. Well, this search sucks. I'm trying to find The Bloody Beetroots so I search for "bloody". It brings up a list of songs with bloody in them. Fair enough. I'll just click "artist" to search for artists. Nothing happened. Does this mean it timed out? Are there no results? Screw this I just want to listen to the two songs I got into my playlist. Shit where is my playlist? I guess go back to my profile. Ah there it is. I just click on this song to play it. Good good. I'd like to skip to the next song in my playlist. How about this giant green arrow button pointing to the right? Nope, that just stopped the song. Nothing else happened. Ah, it's because I was on the last song. Well back to my profile to get to the first song. Screw this.
For generating PDFs with Ruby, Prince sure does look great, but it's a little high for my tastes!
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Point Y is in fact, not true. unsafePerformIO is not part of Haskell, the language. It is an additional feature provided by GHC. (Similarly, the typeof keyword and statement-exprs are not part of C, but extensions provided by GCC.) Interesting Haskell programs can and usually are written entirely without use of unsafePerformIO.

This is, however, a fairly minor technical point. More importantly, I feel that the division the article's author makes between two definitions of functional programming is misleading. "Functional programming", just like "object orientation" and "imperative programming" and "logic programming" and "structured programming" and every other "paradigm", is not a term with one or even two well-understood clearly separated definitions; it is a term for a grab-bag of features, tendencies, and patterns of programming languages. The world of FP isn't divided into people who think that only absolutely pure languages should be used and people who think that any language with first-class functions is okay; it's a continuum. The author just happens to be further towards the "anything goes" end of the spectrum than the authors of the articles he is replying to.
Again, a significant majority of journalists polled by Pew (annually) openly consider themselves to be liberal. It can be argued that this bias doesn't come across in their work product but are you claiming that Chris Matthews is either neutral in that he ingratiates himself to whatever power that happens to be or even tilts right?

Personally I'm not entirely convinced that NPR necessarily tilts left as there was a study conducted a number of years ago that suggested they were actually fairly close to center based on the sources they used in their reporting. Fox apparently only tilts slightly right, and WSJ's news pages actually tilted slightly left.

For Fox News, their rise has only been relatively recent. CNN's massive fall has only been in the last couple years. Further, I would also suggest that the reason WSJ has been so successful is that markets depend on accurate information - and in this, removing bias in favor of details and content is important given their audience makes money on both sides of a trade. Whereas you might say New York Times' aims to influence decision makers, WSJ would attempt to inform them. Of course their editorials tend libertarian/conservative and quite openly so. I completely disagree that most newspaper op-eds tend conservative - particularly given it's the editors themselves who declare themselves as liberal.

However, getting away from bias from a moment, whatever you may think, unabashedly conservative talk radio has found success specifically because it found a rather large underserviced niche. If to you, this means that these people are extremist right wingers is irrelevant. Both the quickly growing audience base of Fox and conservative talk radio (and the failure of Air America) reflect the reality that there was a market that was largely underserviced - and that Air America did not meet that need - despite their medium. It was their underlying message/content that did not resonate.
Itext is certainly more feature complete, but Prawn is pretty capable. It probably is more pleasant syntax-wise than iText, so for simple needs, Prawn might be better.

iText is almost certainly significantly faster, but I haven't benchmarked. If there are very cool low level features in iText that you'd like to see in Prawn, let us know on our mailing list.
Try Princely (blog post: http://jimneath.org/2009/02/16/creating-pdf-documents-in-rub...) http://github.com/mbleigh/princely
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This is amazing. I love music, I love finding new music, and I use youtube a lot for it. Now there's an actual tool!
The history definitely needs some work, since foursquare's API was down for a few hours yesterday and it doesn't reflect that.

Every time it checks, it should keep track if anything is down, and if something was ever down that day, it should reflect that.

Either they're not doing that, or they're not checking anywhere near enough (looks from twitter like foursquare API was down at least 4 hours).
Its a long speech, but for me, it was worth reading. Hillary Clinton doesn't get into many specifics, not as many as I'd like, but she does describe a substantial outline, and I'm happy to find myself optimistically curious about how the US Government deals with these issues that are so important in the continued development of the internet.

There were a few things that I didn't like as much. The argument to do with religion wasn't directed at me, and so it felt out of place. She was also, understandably, a bit 'politically correct' in her speech and answers. But all in all, pretty good. I'd be interested to hear some other perspectives.
Perhaps re-wording it will help?

1. In Haskell, the IO monad is a pure way to represent IO. It does not violate purity.

2. "unsafePerformIO" violates purity, type safety, and half a dozen other semantics as well. It is not part of the language standard, and requires special compiler flags and pragmas to use. Its use (except in FFI) is heavily discouraged, and often involves a proof of correctness to prevent its "unsafe-ness" from leaking.
In my history it is the history of hearted songs not my saved songs which before I stopped using thesixtyone I used as a playlist on shuffle (I never really liked tagging songs).
Is this summary of the Google/China incident useful? How could it be more so?
I'd be happy to make you one, but it is literally one line of code after you generate the PDF. I think my commit message for that feature was "PDF -> GIF. I get paid for this!?"
Text driven apps are an interesting idea. It doesn't exactly put the Kindle in competition with Apple's products which is probably a smart move. It's building on the Kindle's strength. Anyone who is choosing e-ink over a more general purpose LCD/OLED tablet is definitely in it for the text. For developers it seems like potentially a very easy platform to work with if your primary concern is simply formatting & displaying text. As a result I bet we'll see an entirely different set of applications making the Kindle a unique platform. It's a very smart move by Amazon. Sell books on paper, sell them on the iPhone, sell them on PCs, sell them on tablets -- but keep the e-ink market of serious readers locked up for themselves.
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There are many other multi-paradigm languages around... even ones that combine the OO and functional paradigm: OCaml and Mozart/Oz spring to mind.

I think the recent popularity of Scala and Clojure, vs other languages that mix the OO and functional paradigms, really come from one thing and one thing only: Scala and Clojure run on the JVM. Everything else is really secondary.

Well, there's that and some kind of successful marketing effort going on. Unfortunately, it's not easy to study exactly why "buzz" builds up around certain languages. Clearly Java and C# had whole corporations' marketing departments behind them, so that probably didn't hurt. Ruby and Python made "Perl sucks so you should program in us instead" in to a successful mantra (you know what they say about repeating a lie often enough..).

Clojure and Scala don't really have the same things going for them, but they are buzzword compliant, mixing OO, functional programming, and the JVM together. Programmers hear that and it sounds sexy, so they jump on board.

Now the question becomes more of whether that initial buzz can be converted in to long-term success for the language, which depends less on language features than on the language's community and on further marketing (which, of course, may depend on having "killer apps" and what companies, projects, and personalities they can get on board).
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