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Sure, that's fine if all you want is to measure the time from the big bang until the last matter in the universe has evaporated into photon soup. But what if you want the time until those photons are evenly distributed? An article I read a while back estimated that duration as 10^10^78 years, which is absolutely mindboggling and remains the largest number I have ever seen with a real-world physical application.

(It may never happen, though; according to Wikipedia, random quantum fluctuations may be sufficient to produce another Big Bang in a mere 10^10^56 years.)
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You don't actually need a computer with my software. There's a button that you can easily load a video file and do the same classification on the video file.

Just record a video of the front doors, and load it later on. You don't freak the people out and you can quietly do the classification later on.
There are different target groups for this kind of software. People who like open source will never use anything else, even if its inferior to closed source alternatives. Other folks will gladly pay to get a system that is robust, stable, and easy to use. I think there is enough market share for Wolfram to thrive for a long time (and open source alternatives too).
As someone who started using Clojure recently, the documentation has been the hardest part. Once I've understood something in the core lib, I'm blown away how well built it is, but it's been a confusing & misleading process getting in the meantime.

The design never bothered me, the issue I have is that docs are all over the place. I would like to see documentation consolidated, with improved completeness, and better search. To get there, it needs to be easier for developers to contribute to clojure.org, instead of spinning off their own version of docs, which seems to be the case at the moment.

Just for a glimpse of the documentation landscape, and what it's like getting started, here are the resources I've touched on:

* Main reference pages (recently redesigned) are nice for getting a high level gist of something, but I found it doesn't go in depth enough to really understand atom/transient/transducers/etc. [1] I walk away with a sense of: "sure, this all sounds good in theory".

* Main API docs are helpful for reference once you understand what's going on, also useful for finding new things to research elsewhere. [2]

* I've discovered there are wikis on the libs that have really good examples, but they're not complete, and I will still have to Google for more examples by people writing blog posts. [3]

* Clojuredocs has decent search, and sometimes people comment on a function with a good example. But most of the time comment unfinished code that's really misleading. [4]

* Google is really the best resource for finding examples, explanations, and idiomatic usage. There are a lot of idiomatic things that are hard to uncover, like to zipping is done by `(map vector [1 2 3] '(a b c))`.

* The #clojure IRC channel has pretty low response rate of actually getting help with something. As compared to #node.js/#python/#postgresql. The community is smaller, so it makes sense, but it's discouraging.

* There are quite a few other websites, but I haven't found them useful, so I never check them. [5] [6]

[1] http://clojure.org/reference/agents
[2] http://clojure.github.io/core.logic/
[3] https://github.com/clojure/core.logic/wiki/A-Core.logic-Prim...
[4] http://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/keep-indexed
[5] http://clojure-doc.org/
[6] http://conj.io/
You just posted this 11 hours earlier:

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Firstly, since it is a hobby, tell a few friends about it -- see if they would get on your application, get some feedback from them and move on accordingly.
If you were merely annoyed with someone and letting that be, then you tolerate them.

Everyone is always ignorant of something, you and I included. Human rights doesn't come into this. It's people pretending to be ignorant of nothing who I'm wary of.
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Anything to get kids interested in programming is a good thing, right? My son already tells people he can "program in JSON" because of Minecraft's little command-block DSL that's comprised of instructions structured as JSON. It's really adorable and has piqued his interest in broader programming, and "stunts" like Minecraft BASIC interpreters can only help.
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Slightly unrelated, but OSS acronyms annoy me. Everything is an acronym, yet none of these acronyms ever mean anything.
No, it was never possible to get away with a heist, and it never will be.

The question of the authorities catching you is actually the least interesting part of the question. Suppose you weren't caught by the police following your heist:

How would you have any confidence in yourself in your ability to make it on your own? How could you help but wonder if you'd be able to live by way of producing or providing something of value the way honest people do?

What would happen to your curiosity about the world? There would be whole swaths of things that would be mentally off-limits, lest they remind you of anything to do with the danger of being caught for the heist you pulled. (Think all of the things that fall under forensic or other evidence!)

As a secondary consideration, your relations with other people would also be terrible. Where are you going to go where you won't have to weave a web of lies about where you got your money from? How happy will you be living a life where you are constantly in fear of getting caught? What kind of life is it to know that your continued existence depends on others not knowing certain facts about the world? (Facts that they have every right to know about you...) If someone wrongs you, or does something unjust to someone or some thing you care about, how could you work up the courage to rectify that? Your own hypocrisy would likely stifle any such impulse, before you ever spoke a word of it.
I got around the tab issue by knowing Chinese. My longest tab name length is 3. Everything else is 2. Doesn't help you much I'm sure (although you could try things like TD for To Do) but I'm quite pleased with the solution!

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It sways people away because of feelings, too. I admire what the EFF does but I always have a hard time taking them seriously because of this.

Also, at some point, I think integrity demands reasonable language even if hyperbole is effective. It ends up being a variation on clickbait.
Resume: if you don't need the ports, don't mind go back to 2012 Mac book Air processing power [0], don't mind that there is no way to update it or fix it "The MacBook 2015 Repairability Score: 1 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair)" [1], and portability is top on your list; go for it.

[0] http://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks
[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+Macbook+2015+Teardown/39841
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So...Iron Man's repulsors? I always thought they might work like some ionic air thrust thing. It seemed to be the only way they COULD work, given an energy source powerful enough.
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> I would personally kill for better mouse integration in i3

I agree, it was one of the things I was missing back when I was using i3 + Ubuntu as my daily machine. Now, I'm using OS X with Amethyst[1], which while it's less powerful than i3, combined with OS X's window management features I honestly feel like I get the best of both worlds. It's quite great, to be honest.

[1] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
Hospital’s Windows XP Computers Cause Chaos After Getting Infected with Virus
"According to the article, when computers start doing the work of people, the need for people often increases."

For the Atlantic (or any given periodical), compare how many they employ now versus 10 years ago versus 20...
Thanks for the response!

I think one of my issues is that the app provides a technical service, so it's limited to programmer friends who are all mostly work acquaintances. I'm not sure why, but I was hesitant to share it in the workplace. I suppose it's as good a place as any!
Google’s Best Bet for More Moonshot Money? The Boring Old Enterprise
Wow just wow I cant even. It's the current year.
As someone who have also seen my fair share of portfolios (used to run a fairly large design agency in Denmark) I am trying to understand what part is of your critique is constructive.

It basically boils down to. You are no good enough. This is hardly constructive criticism at all thats just criticism.

I will gladly forward his portfolio to anyone looking for an intern. It should be fairly easy to assess in an interview whether this guy is the real deal or not. And if he is he got a great future in front of him.
Wow just wow I can't even. It's the current year.
Interesting. So that would explain why...no matter what time I went to sleep I still woke up at nearly the exact same time every morning.
>In effect, they are standing outside schools giving away cigarettes.

Jesus Christ...
Each of your questions require a sufficiently large sum of money and/or a sufficiently low sum of ethics/scruples to answer.
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What? I've literally never seen anyone say anything negative about Bill's charity work. Can you cite some sources for that?

Microsoft "charity" however will allways be suspicious because how ridiculosly backhanded they were during their era of monopoly. Whether its justified or not remains to be seen.
Part of the new clojure.org update is that the site content is now in github and accepts contributions. The guides area is already being built out by community contributions and that will continue. See: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-site and http://clojure.org/community/contributing_site . Over time this should improve the situation with respect to having both good reference and good tutorial content in one place on the site.

#clojure has always been up and down in terms of volume. These days, there are upwards of 5000 people on the Clojurians slack channel and pretty constant and helpful communication for chat. Join at http://clojurians.net.
When I set that site up in 2011, it was really heart-warming how many people rallied around and chipped in.

It's doubly nostalgic to see it here again, 5 years later.

Edit: and there's still room on that donors page for any companies wanting to chip in something substantial.

Edit 2: 5 years, not 4.
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I enjoyed this article. I've been thinking of getting a macbook. This article allayed my fears of not being able to charge my phone from my laptop, which I do more than I'd like. I bet the author has an iphone with better battery life than mine; if mine lasted two days I'd plug it in at night. Time to get a new iphone.

The 12-inch MacBook has the best keyboard I’ve ever used.

I'm highlighting this sentence hoping other commenters don't pile on it. I'm typing this from an IBM Model F keyboard. This is a soft article, and if I were to criticize this author, it'd amount to "I'm from a different tribe than this author." He doesn't allay my fears of the keyboard, but that's ok. I'm glad he's happy.
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With Graal maybe.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oracle-labs/program-langua...
I just want to echo hobarrera's comment and say wow, very well done. And Thanks! I'm always ready for another reason to love GitLab.
Or just drop them completely in favour of Clojuredocs or Grimoire. New users get very confused as to which resource is the official one (since the official docs rank so low on G). Ie:

http://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloju...

http://conj.io/store/v1/org.clojure/clojure/1.6.0/clj/clojur...

https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/assoc
Where would that money come from?! Show me how any sum of money could answer the points I raise, without digging deeper and making things worse.

We're not talking about a person with an enormous ability to create wealth, and their actions would only further decimate their ability to do so.
Good tools don't do this to you.
>>Which is how most beginners learn (myself included. cobbling together myspace and wordpress templates)

That right there is the problem: too many people are after quick wins and instant gratification and aren't willing to make an effort to learn something the proper way and appreciate its complexity, even if they are not exposed to it directly.

I learned Rails via the Rails Tutorial[1], and finished it in three weeks of evening and weekend sessions. When I started, I knew a little JavaScript, but not much else. By the end of the tutorial, I had a fully functioning app (parts of it I had customized, even!) and was ready to start building my own stuff. It was very empowering and I was blown away by how incredibly smooth and easy the Rails framework was.

That said, if I had taken the approach that lazy PHP beginners take and tried to learn by copy/pasting stuff (or relied on Rails scaffolds from the get-go), I would have stumbled over and over and probably given up.

[1]https://www.railstutorial.org/book

edit: not sure why people are downvoting -- did I say something controversial?
Forbidding employees to discuss pay is not legal in the United States. Is discussing the terms of equity compensation somehow different?
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I'm a Ruby guy that has tried Python several times. My takeaway is always that Python is beautiful and wonderful, but it just has all of these tiny little annoyances that build up and make me rage quit. Exiting out of the REPL is one of these things. I guess I spend so much time working with, and get so much work done in, IRB that anything that trips me up in a REPL just gets under my skin.

I really, really want to like Python, but I just can't seem to stay with it long enough to work through all of the "weird" stuff. :/
> Perhaps they can have the concept of you always have a personal account, and you get /invited/ into an organisation?

That sucks, and causes problems. Dropbox tried it. On the organisation side, they now have to remember that user redpuppy925 is actually an org member, rather than by the organisation identity. Then the user interface would have to show their personal and org content at the same time. You really don't want that happening on their home family computer, nor would the user likely appreciate their personal content always being available at work. It ends up far easier putting the wrong items in the wrong place.

As an org admin, it should be very clear who has access to org information. And when they leave it should be very easy to revoke that access. Backups and auditing should only cover org data, not personal content.
(2013)

I know many people still use Bower quite happily these days, but this is pretty dated. If you're talking front-end, you'd have to be talking in very broad terms for something three years old to be relevant. The advice (have a good reason) is still reasonable, but the tools and services have come very far since then. What was reasonable then is not necessarily correct today.
Read this book ASAP

http://tractionbook.com/

and read https://growthhackers.com/ to get ideas

Another trick - post your URL in Ask HN posts ;)
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You need to know Haskell to complete the exercises, not to understand Monads.
That's quite clever! Yeah doesn't directly help me but I'll think about the abbreviations as that's not a bad idea.
Oh man, the memories.

For people who have grown up in a hyper-connected always-online world, it's hard to explain the pure joy of hearing the sound of your computer picking up the phone and sending those tones [0]. Because it meant going from isolated, disconnected and unitary to being part of a wider world.

Suddenly, everything was at your fingertips and it was intoxicating to me as a teenager. Fire up Trumpet Winsock and dial into the local mom and pop ISP. Suddenly you're surfing the early web using Netscape. Or open up WinVN and read some newsgroups. Or spend way, way too many hours playing MUDs (seriously, I think I spent almost every night MUDding during my teenage years).

Or learning cool HTML tricks by looking at the source of a page (back when pages were simple and you could tell things by looking at the source). Some of my earliest exposure to "programming" was because I wanted to make cool web things on my 1mb of ISP provided web space.

So yes, thank you Trumpet Winsock. Without you my formative years would have been very different and I likely wouldn't be in the career I'm in now.

[0] http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...
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None of these factors would matter to a high-functioning sociopath, or for that matter a sufficiently desperate individual.

But the game is not really to make theft impossible.

It's to make theft so difficult that all the people intelligent enough to pull it off go into other occupations.
Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Depending on your network, a casual post here and there can be noticed by a few dozen people or more.
I would estimate (guess) that half the money ended up in contractors' pockets, and the other half never existed outside the accounting of the USG.
That would take ages to compute. Printing one is faster. And might produce the smallest file size if it's done in assembly.
I believe there will always be a demand for problem solving, especially in the technical industry.

- A: Large scale businesses would benefit greatly on this idea. An idea where a company can save money is always a good idea.

- B: This idea could work, but I can't see it going far.

-C: This is actually something that could hit the world. One thing people like is winning and if they can get some type of physical reward out of it, they would definitely use it.
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What weak bulkshitty criticism.

The US government tortures innocents, bombs hospitals, and engages in genocide, and here you're nitpicking over some choice words. Get some perspective.
As an aside, I own the Phillips linked and it is absolutely fantastic for SWD. My windows dev environment is essentially a poor clone of a tiled window manager as I have zero overlap between my windows due to the insane amount of real estate.
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It doesn't, but I think that's the point - you can do stuff that doesn't scale when you're small and not worry about how to do it at scale until it becomes a problem.

Another way of looking at it: giant existing corporations can't do things that don't scale. If you're small, you can, and that's the competitive edge you stick into the market to carve out a chunk of your own.
> So it would destroy SO if, in the context of programming, there was a best of question? Are they really that tight-assed?

While I doubt it would destroy the site, it's extremely hard to moderate and clean up giant debate answers. StackOverflow was never advertised as a "programming/coding catchall" site, it's a very specific platform tuned to very specific needs, much like an equation, giving a tuned answer for the question. Open-ended questions are beyond the original scope of the site, and StackOverflow has grown to become the largest coding question platform as a result of it.
Has anyone wrote up a Chakra vs V8 comparison?
Suspect? That means you don't have customers or know where to find them. Prove that first. Otherwise you're just another business guy offering nothing in exchange for 100k+ worth of technical skill.
Managing to execute that heist is pretty amazing, but it's debatable whether they "got away" with it.

One alleged mastermind was kidnapped and murdered, even though his family paid the ransom. Another was arrested. Many other suspects were eventually kidnapped or arrested.

Also, I'm very skeptical about the reported figures for the recovered money, especially since part of it was found by the Military Police (which has a bad reputation for corruption in Brazil) instead of the Federal Police (which is relatively reliable).
I have fond memories of the transition from local BBSes (my parents were annoyed enough by my constant phoning of the local BBS to download commander keen and the like), to IP connectivity via Trumpet. The reach of the internet (esp IRC!) was mind-blowing for someone living in a relatively isolated community in Alaska at the time.

I feel like I don't fully appreciate the gradual transition from dial-up and Trumpet to LTE and a supercomputer in my pocket :) I wonder what people born today will experience that has as great of an impact.
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Doesn't really matter it's like saying that donations are worth less because you can get tax credit for them.

If you donate a milion dollars for disaster relief do you think people should care if you are going to deduct it from your taxable revenue or not?
Depressing yet seemingly true.

Having really good access to things you have found out in the past but haven't used in the past could help a bit (or just any ways of quickly getting back up to speed with things you haven done in a while).
I think you're confused. It's not a bug, try/catch executes just fine.

try/catch just isn't supported by V8's Crankshaft so some people avoid putting it in potentially hot code.