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I don't need to sell anything. I've already proven my point by building something that actually works. If you want to prove something about your favorite technology, you are going to have to build something that actually works using it.

Given the current state of browser technology, the simple prototype that I've created could not possibly have been done with a dumb little JS thread running in a dumb little Web Worker.

What in the world does it mean to "compile an engine I like better"? Do you really have any clue how much sophistication is going on server side with the SpeechRecognition API? Am I supposed to just magically conjure up something that can be compiled in order to recognize arbitrary words from arbitrary people?
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I think that you should be able to block their email address...
Oh well.. just a thought. Shot down in flames. :)
I wonder if there are terminal based IDEs that are specifically made to edit and work on code, perhaps aware of ASTs and working on them, instead of being text editors with language plugins.
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No, I'm saying you're just like them. You'd be happy to do the same to them, you're as tribal and brutal as they are.

> We are not the problem. They are.

Exactly the same position they claim, and the same position every group who wants to wipe out another groups claims.

No one who derives their morality from a old book has any claim on reason and Muslims aren't any more right or wrong than every other religion out there; they're all equally insane with varying levels of violence.

The problem isn't terrorists, it isn't Islam, it isn't Muslims; the problem, as it always has been, is religion and tribalism.
I find it only positive that there's a European startup scene that tries to do things differently from Silicon Valley.

If you want to do the unicorn chasing thing, it makes sense to go to San Francisco. Places like Berlin, Madrid or Helsinki each need to have something unique to offer; there's no point in being a cheap imitation of the California dream.
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I guess the point is flow of talent from outside Europe. For example, there are significantly more good engineers from Indian, Europe and East Asia moving to Silicon Valley.
Any details about his motor home?
This is why non-minorities should set limits for tolerance to avoid recursive renormalization as described in the article.

Otherwise we end up being different people without desiring that.

Of course we should let good examples transform our society, but not opinionated minorities.
> philanthropist Bill Gates pointing out there are more important problems to solve in the developing world before connectivity.

Perhaps 'connectivity' is what Mark Zuckerberg is good at solving. We all should be doing things we are good at if its not harming anyone. At this moment people just have theories that internet.org might not be a good thing. People can be wrong, only time will tell.
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The basic principle of Radical Democracy, which is different from Liberal Democracy, is relevant here:

> "Radical democracy" means "the root of democracy." Laclau and Mouffe claim that liberal democracy and deliberative democracy, in their attempts to build consensus, oppress differing opinions, races, classes, genders, and worldviews. In the world, in a country, and in a social movement there are many (a plurality of) differences which resist consensus. Radical democracy is not only accepting of difference, dissent and antagonisms, but is dependent on it.

(Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_democracy

This article can be interpreted as evidence that radical democracy actually works and the root of democracy ought to be a diversity of minorities all advocating for things we could call their essential beliefs, and a healthy, free society is one in which on any given issue the majority is flexible enough to accommodate minorities that have stronger preferences.

That is, a prosperous, cohesive society isn't one that tends to homogeneity but is instead driven by its heterogeneity. Furthermore, a prosperous, cohesive society isn't based on rigid principles, but flexibility and the ability to evolve its structures to accommodate more and more diverse groups.

Seems legit to me. Most homogeneous groups in history seem to either arise from a founder effect or maintain their homogeneity through dehumanizing tribalism and Incredible Violence.
This reminds me of something my voice teacher used to say to me in criticism of my flamboyant style of jazz improvisation, and it's my basic philosophy on interface design (of all kinds): "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."

I also apply it to improvisation. :)
Has anybody come across a list of languages that compile to Go?
Thats not the point though.

The point is that they are the leader not a European company because they take that battle.

You can't disrupt most fields only by pure technology. A lot of the disruption is legislation.
I'm pretty curious if there actually are open source projects that are in need of beginners.

> except your ability to work on a team

Whell I'm bad at playing politics. I don't see why teamwork should be important for an open source project.
I live in Denmark, I have a fairly good idea of what social-democracy looks like.

"Intensely planned" means something like the USSR's five-years plans, and generally comes with state ownership of all companies. As far as I know, that's not what's happening in the Middle-East.
What layout uses ^? for backspace? The wikipedia[w] page doesn't appear to be aware of it, and a few simple searches turned up nothing...

I suppose you mean, "I can't backspace with my backspace key" -- as you probably can backspace fine with ^h (ctrl+h)?

[w] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace
Taiwanese soldiers who served under Japan share similar faith.
JVM also doesn't have TCO, so Clojure has a special form, which transforms recursion into an ordinary loop: http://clojure.org/special_forms#Special%20Forms--%28recur%2...

Author of Kashimir could use a similar solution.
Whoosh.
> The impressive thing is that he waited until FB was over $100 to sell.

That would be impressive for a dev who had 99% of her net worth in Facebook stock, but for someone who is already cash wealthy and a paper billionaire, it's much less impressive.
Sure, makes sense. I guess it's the difference between 'fast' relative to other rendering methods and 'fast' relative to the actual work that's being done.
You tell things to your hairdresser, and you tell things to your priest, but that doesn't mean your hairdresser is bound by the conventions around the confessional, does it? So you did some maths for a guy and signed an NDA, don't make it something that it's not.
It does work in UK. I've applied to many positions in the last 5 years or so and not even once the education was brought up in any significant way. Skills/experience is what counts and smart employers know that.
I would love to read more about these characters and the AI that just spawned. Great story!
I believe London has co-opted (in the Naomi Klein sense) the US startup scene. We do all the superficial activity: incubators, pitches, hackathons, and so on, but it is driven by government initiatives and established businesses.

- There are many copies of the US startup accelerators, but the people running them do not seem to have the same level of experience and connections as in the US.

- Much of the activity is due to business students, both at bachelors level and MBA, who are somehow "trained" in "entrepreneurship". They "win" startup pitch competitions based on some slides and sales forecasts, then troll CS departments, alumni mailing lists and tech meetups looking for coders. I know this is an old stereotype (and that business skills are critical too) but it is very true here.

- The government is often heavily involved. I wouldn't call myself a libertarian, but I think we would be better off without cringeworthy gov initiatives like "tech city", state-funded startups (https://interact.innovateuk.org/) and university entrepreneurship schemes that look a lot like a way to boost new grad employment figures.

It all feels like a pale imitation of the US tech industry. Obviously there is some bias in terms of the US companies we hear about, but most people are thinking very small here.

A few years ago a friend and I coded up an idea we had over a few weekends. It was more complex than a straight CRUD app and had some nice visualisations, but nothing too crazy. We met several "startup advisors" through our contacts and at meetups. Every time we finished describing our idea, people would ask us if we were having any luck "finding programmers" to implement it.
I don't agree. (Can't down vote, too less karma)
what is this is this a bad web for
> the 2nd language is better, it can create an identical configuration in less lines.

A simple macro or syntax sugar could save you the same lines. A good language will give you a good, terse syntax for representing common configurations, and enough flexibility for clearly denoting the uncommon ones. If your configuration is particularly obscure, it should need more lines to express.

It is not worth sacrificing verifiable correctness to induce this kind of gain when there are better ways of doing it.
> 4. The EU seems to be fixing the problems that the startups could fix.

For example?
I am not in a hiring position but Mr. Peter Norvig says that being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job at Google.

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/programming-competitions-work-p...
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There are no non-minorities in the abstract. Majority and minority only arise when one names the thing that differentiates them.

What examples do you have in mind?
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Initially, I had seen people opposing on just that fact "they are misleading people by calling it internet.org", most of them.
There are a number of Lisp interpreters written in Go [0-3]. There is a Lua interpreter [4]. The only compiled language I know is Gisp [5] by jcla1. I also built on top of Gisp with Gsp [6] to provide wrappers to the Go stdlib and support more standard lisp functionality.

However, Kashimir is the first statically typed language implemented in Go that I have seen. The rest are dynamically typed.

[0] GLISP - https://github.com/zhemao/glisp

[1] golisp - https://github.com/SteelSeries/golisp

[2] go-lisp - https://github.com/janne/go-lisp

[3] Kakapo - https://github.com/bytbox/kakapo

[4] Golua - https://github.com/akavel/goluago

[5] Gisp - https://github.com/jcla1/gisp

[6] Gsp - https://github.com/gsp-lang/gsp
I, on the other hand, wish PG could be as effective on his political views as he is with startups.
I don't know how accurate beacons are but I recently visited the Greenwich museum in Greenwich, the Museum of Musical Instruments in Brussels, In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, and Casa Mila in Barcelona. All of which had audio tours using numbers (punch the number on some device they hand you) and all of them were fairly crowded and dense. If they were using beacons and the beacons had a range or more than about 1 to 1.5 meters I'd imagine a lot of conflicting inputs. I suppose good UX design could mitigate that showing all the options from all nearby beacons. I guess it just has me wondering is this a solution in search of a problem.

Reading the article it also sounds like lots of poorly designed software. The author complained about pairing being a chore but it seems like with some good software you'd just put up any beacon, scan it, then pick what it corresponds to. If that beacon disappears or breaks just pick any beacon out of sack of beacons, place, scan, pick what it corresponds to. That seems like it should be a trivial 5 second operation. Am I missing something? I shouldn't care what the id is. I only care that it's unique to every other beacon (which the software can tell me the moment I scan it). I don't care about major or minor numbers. Just put any beacon anywhere, scan, pick what it corresponds to. Done.
Why down votes? At least explain why you're down voting.
Well, people often are more okay with slow growth.

If you want explosive, unaffordable worldwide risky growth, Europe might just not be the right place.
Definitely agree. Obviously a lot of people come to Julia for the performance, but even without that it's just a really nice language to work with. For me the speed is a nice bonus that gives Julia a surprisingly broad range of use – from one-shot scripts to fully-fledged C++ replacement (though obviously for quite a different class of applications than, say, the ones that Rust targets).

It's interesting that people see multiple dispatch as some esoteric computer science-y thing. In reality, it's just a way of organising code and complexity, just like object orientation is – and it has some compelling advantages over OO as well. For me, it's one of the killer features that I really miss in other languages, and it's well worth taking the time to understand it.

It would be great to see people doing more web stuff in Julia, but for the foreseeable future there will be some important caveats. The web libraries (including in Base) just aren't that fleshed out or battle-tested right now, and there's no Google-scale engineering effort making sure that the runtime is reliable over thousands of CPU hours. Whoever dives into that first will have to have a clear sense of the long-term value.
"but even then I find that a top google search for JOE is "How do you save and exit?" People can't seem to see the "Hit ^K H for help" in the top-right corner"

I would see that as a very strong hint that the time when Wordstar keybindings made sense in an editor with "no learning curve at all" has passed.

I think you should very seriously consider either having control-S for save or dropping the idea to compete with editors without a learning curve. If you want to keep aiming at the low learning curve, Google tells me that key bindings are highly configurable, so what's wrong with shipping with ones beginning users will be familiar with?

If you want to keep Wordstar bindings by default, I think your new message can be improved.

I fear that people who read "Use Ctrl-K X to save/exit" may think that Ctrl-K X will give them the option to save changes, and then exit. That can put them up for a huge disappointment the first time they want to exit without saving.

IMO, the use of "abort" for "exit without saving" doesn't help there, either. For me, "abort" signals abnormal termination, but there is nothing wrong with exiting without saving.
Google takes data from other sites/sources into account when it delivers data via google analytics, it is unquestionably tracking users from site to site.

It adds plenty of protection for the user to block it.

I have no idea how people can look at the demographic information GA delivers and then conclude it isn't tracking users around the web...
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> It’s a ton of money, and it’s not very common for executives to sell at the pace and quantity that Andreessen has been selling these past two week.

Is a member of the board of directors an "executive"? I didn't think that was the case.
Could this be part of the language? How do actual users get around this issue?
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I understand and agree with that.
You might check out stuff from John Haugeland, who coined "GOFAI" back in the 80s. Here's a nice essay I quickly found online (that's sort of indirectly about AI) for example:
http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/files/haugeland/Mind+...
This is what the Dynamic Range Compression setting is for on Dolby Digital decoders. Do the new Blu-Ray formats have a similar option? If you aren't in a quiet home theater with no neighbors to bother, you want DRC on maximum compression.
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Used them for a hackathon last year, but had some issues. Thinking about creating our own software instead this year - what do you like / dislike about them? Are you looking for a solid alternative?
For the lazy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRACTRAN
How would you propose to protect the millions of passengers who fly every day from terrorists?

I am not challenging you. I simply want to know what you are thinking because it sounds like you may have thought this through to some depth. You obviously think politicians made the wrong decision (which isn't hard to believe) and might have a better solution than the crap we've had to deal with since 9/11.

What alternatives did these politicians have and ignored? What else could they have done?

I don't think anyone, including myself, likes what air travel has become. Yet, I am not sure I could have come up with a better solution. If terrorism disappeared for ten years perhaps we could go back to the kind of hassle free experience air travel used to be.

What's your idea?
Well, disruption is just not necessary. Uber competitors existed in Europe before Uber even did.

AirBnB is literally doing what people in Europe had done for decades, just with a neat web listing.
that's meerly a technical detail. It fundamentally represents cross site tracking harvested by google.
It is an expensive container, that is all. Attackers can escape or even steal data from another running VM.
Please keep in mind I'm just trying to give you advice on how other employers might view you.

Your github/bitbucket just looks like bunch purposeless code. I presume it's your game?

If I were to make a judgement from looking at that. My impression would be that you might have a hard time being motivated for the work I would give you. You were not motivated enough to finish school. In your spare time you're working on a game, which is something beginners tend to start with.

There are a bunch of projects that are highly active and welcoming to contributors. Projects like servo or atom.io

Also try to keep your reddit and similar profiles private. You can give an employer too much of an intimate view.
This is a laughably stupid idea. Trying to stay ahead of geometric growth is always a losing battle. Instead of turning humans to Smurfs, why don't we try to control the birth-rate instead.
My understanding is that the bulk of Walmart's compute is run on a private openstack setup, after migrating it off of Rackspace.

https://gigaom.com/2015/02/17/openstack-comes-up-huge-for-wa...
C2Wiki has some discussion of a related phenomenon of asymmetrical decision-making: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LeastFlexibleProtocolWins

The surrounding cluster of pages there may also be useful for people curious about this topic.
> The director or executive officer may amend or terminate the plan in specified circumstances.

Under this system, would it be possible to contract with two brokers, telling one to sell shares and the other to buy the same amount? If so, should you learn useful information later, you could terminate one plan, putting the information to use immediately.
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Juan Cole disagrees.

http://www.juancole.com/2015/05/strategic-against-assad.html

Short summary: the text of the actual DIA memo is much more complicated than the interview lets on, but the memo itself was uncovered by conservative media sites who then spun it into "Obama sponsored ISIS".
The 1st language isn't just simpler to verify for correctness, the 1st language is possible to verify, while the 2nd is not verifiable. Turing complete languages are a singularity beyond which we cannot reason about behavior for arbitrary programs. For many tasks- installation scripts, serialized data, etc- it is extremely undesirable from a security standpoint and for the purposes of writing tooling to permit arbitrary computation.
I use browser plugins to block ads and third-party trackers on all of my devices. I'm also a web developer, and I regularly set up Google Analytics accounts for my clients.

I agree that the proliferation of tracker blocking could be an issue for smaller publishers and businesses in the near future. But as a privacy-conscious internet user, I'm excited about the vacuum this might leave for better self-hosted options.
There's also http://gpsdoodles.com/
But how am I going to convey the fact that I'm an evil person planning on destroying your community to replace it with McMansions and Big Box stores?