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I've been using Clarion since back in the late 1980's (when it ran on DOS). Still using it to this day, and it earns me the majority of my revenues in my company.

Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarion_(programming_language)

The language itself is an amalgamation of COBOL, Pascal and C. But for me, the biggest advantage was the development environment. It was the first IDE that I came across back then that allowed a separation of the back end database from the actual front end code. I loved how easy it was to build applications using dBase, SQL, Btrieve etc. as the back end data store.

Also loved how the business logic was defined in a 'dictionary' so that validation rules etc. could be centrally controlled. Still haven't seen a modern day framework that allowed this much control and flexibility.

Clarion has had its ups and downs, but I think I will be still writing code in it until I retire...
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You might be able to just store the sectors that have been modified in localStorage, loading the unmodified ones from the original template.
I write assembly (arm and intel) almost every day, though I write glue code in C and use python for autogeneration of very regular code.
It has a dependency on the bash runtime.

And coreutils.

And often moreutils, or various others.
>Maybe 10% possess the level of talent and interest that we're looking for

I am curious how you judge "interest."
Didn't exactly call this in particular, but an old comment of mine about how many serious infosec professionals had a very low opinion of Norse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9855582

Definitely not surprised.
Swift has not abandoned this dispatch method "from the get-go", it is still very much one of the supported dispatch methods in the Swift runtime.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10725707
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...
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This is just more bullshit to waste money on. In 8 years of development, I can count on one hand the programmers who showed any interest in programming outside of work, or that have GitHub accounts, or that know what a Binary Tree is. Programming has become, for the most part, Web development and the barrier to entry is so low that anyone can enter it after studying material off the Internet and watching YouTube videos. To be even more controversial, CS is not even needed for most programming today, but only for passing interviews.
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> only web applications.

I talked about native mobile applications as well.

> Also, your glorious React didn't exist three years ago. Why should I expect it to be still developed three years from now? It doesn't sound like a very transferrable skill.

Facebook is dogfooding React in a way not seen in other libraries in use on the web. Sure, Google uses Angular here and there, but nowhere near to the extent that Facebook uses React -- both on the web and native mobile.

> Why not learn functional programming language for functional programming?

That's not really the point I was trying to make. JavaScript is already widely adopted on millions of devices. I can deploy functional JavaScript anywhere.

> And one has to go way, way out of his way to use this paradigm for real in JavaScript.

I mentioned libraries that encourage this paradigm. Including lodash-fp which makes a point of making everything in lodash auto-curried, iteratee-first, and data-last.
From my outsider's perspective, I think the Clojure crew is absolutely brilliant (probably only the Haskell crew is smarter). That being said, I find Clojure folks perhaps a little too much in love with the process and not enough in love with the results.
I know HAproxy will aggressively use kernel features to reduce the amount of actual packet handling it does. For example, it does zero-copy forwarding using the splice system call. How this compares to what seesaw does is over my head, though. I just wanted to point out that HAproxy isn't strictly Layer 7.
I had a look through New York Times on India (note: I have no connections with India, it was in response to a poster's comment about prejudice toward India and its subsequent brash dismissal that caught my attention).

Many of the articles on India are negative. However, bad news sells. So, I wouldn't have expected anything different. There were some general non-negative articles (Whales dying on shores, LGBT laws gaining momentum). There was an absence of positive articles about India from a quick search.

By contrast, I looked at Australia in the New York Times. Most of the articles were on sport and bushfires, so, there's definitely a different focus and attitude. Australia seems to be social events, India social unrest and injustices.

I consider the New York Times to be prejudiced at times though. However, the article in question was well written, despite a lack of explanation of why there are less women in the Indian workforce than there were in the past. One example of NYT prejudice I remember was about Australia's first female PM, Julia Gillard. The NYT described Australians (collectively) as misogynistic because we dared to criticise a female Prime Minister about her looks. I searched at the time and found ONE media reference to a criticism from Germaine Greer - a prominent feminist - about Gillard's fat ass (I saw 'ditch the witch' after this article). I contrasted this to other PMs: John Howard in a bondage pose with his nose up George Bush's ass among many personal attacks on him (conveniently ignored), tony Abbott in his budgie smugglers and exaggerated lips, etc. The NYT must have had very big blinkers (or my prejudice comment holds).

The reality is that India does bad things AND the media is very prejudiced. I think the dismissal of prejudice in the media is dangerous.

Maybe, a letter to NYT suggesting some positive things in India may help raise awareness.
Thank you, I was looking through it trying to find your email to thank you.

Process of getting ssl certs is not very simple and the way you laid it out for us/me really helped.

My small site I used as example zeljko.rocks is now https secured.
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Author here, I wrote this to consolidate a bunch of research I was doing related to strategy while at Segment. If you have any feedback on format, concepts, etc, please share. Thanks!
Create browser programs with ES2015 and using modules from NPM directly in the browser.
I think the last thing anyone wants in a school system is some kid accessing porn, or something judged to be equally offensive. I see school tech policies each year. They're never worried about, and rarely ever mention anything that could arguably be interpreted as, prohibiting running unauthorized code. That would require school administrators to know what unauthorized code is.
If you have a Mac, OpenEmu is the best console emulation experience I've ever had.

http://openemu.org
1000? That's insanely small! Especially for the amount of tools there are for it.. is it all developed by a small subset of these 1000? I've read there are about 18-19 million programmers in the world, which also seems like a pretty small number, but it seems like enough to have created everything we have that uses software.
It was Ektachrome, E-3 process. All in all 36 mp of actual detail from those photos might be a bit optimistic, considering the harsh conditions (note that modern 36mp digital cameras don't reach 36mp of actual detail either, for various reasons, first of all bayer interpolation), but on second look these new ones are crummy. The amount of chroma noise is startling.
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Wow. Anyone who thinks Barbie isn't the best role model, or that she pushes an unrealistic image on young girls, read this link I found at the bottom of the OP.

http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/10/26/the-little-barbie-t...
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IIRC there were some internal setbacks in the process towards digital Hasselblads when they changed owners a few times in the late 90's and early 00's. So it wasn't all stiff-upper-lip.

And when they did go digital, it was slightly ridiculous. I mean, the cheapest option of the H3DII which launched in 2007 had 50% more megapixels than the most expensive Canon or Nikon camera you could buy that year. With almost twice the sensor area of a full-format DSLR the pixel count wasn't for show either. One of those low-end H3DII bodies (without a lens) in OK condition goes for more than $2000 today.
Ask HN: What if we got rid of the kitchen?
Most homes have a kitchen. What if we got rid of it? What if society evolved in such a way that people no longer cook for themselves?

- Cost: Houses and appartments would be smaller and cheaper. No more kitchen and dining room. How much does a fridge, freezer, oven, microwave, stovetop, BBQ, table, chairs, granite countertop, pots and pans, plates, glasses, utensils, kitchen instruments, dishwasher and sink cost?

- Environment: No fridge and freezer running 24/7. No oven or stove that consume energy. No need for your gas tank to be refuelled. No need to use water to wash your dishes. No need to drive to and from the grocery. Much less waste, and garbage truck doesn't need to go to every house as frequently.

- Safety: Less fire hazards, burns, cuts. Less expensive insurance?

- Time: No need to spend hours cooking, cleaning, washing dishes, driving to and from the grocery to stock your fridge, take out the trash, etc.

We could get rid of most groceries (at least, the consumer-facing aspect), cashiers, parkings, etc. Things will be packaged in bulk, which will reduce production cost and pollution (no individual or family-size packages). Because cooking will be done for a large number of people at once, it should be easier to predict demand, use local ingredients, use ingredients in season, and reduce waste and cost.

Looking forward to a new city or district designed for the kitchen-less lifestyle.
> What is the competitive advantage for the web stack nowadays compared to tcl/tk after all?

Unlike TCL/TK, web stack already installed on 99% of computers, ready to use with no explicit installation steps other than loading a page.

That counts for a lot.
So is wiki not correct, or am I reading it wrong? Is the channel bandwidth larger than 6kHz?
Not to mention the fact that, for example, high frequency AC is pretty harmless at any voltage because (waves hands) the current travels over the surface of the body... Or something.
This looks good - nice and simple and self hosted, could you add support for multiple lists? That'd be awesome.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N977GA
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Here's a link to bypass the wait list: https://beta.drugwars.online/install?code=ti83
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"have about as much effect on the tempered glass surfaces as your windshield wipers do on your windshield."

And this is where you lose me. Either you've never seen a tempered glass surface, or you've never seen a road, or maybe you just have no idea why roads are built of the things they're built of.

Asphalt is a pliant surface made of viscous hydrocarbons and filler that slowly stiffens up over a period of years. You can scratch it, you can embed pebbles in it, you can heat up the center twenty degrees warmer than the edges, you can run a metal snowplow over it, you can press furrows in it until some parts of the road surface have 30 degrees of divergence from other parts of the road surface. To some extent it's self-leveling, balancing out physical distortion in one spot with physical distortion in another spot five seconds later.

The way you cut glass (at least, without a specialist sawblade) is by scratching it and then applying pressure. The crack propagates and it shatters into two pieces. This doesn't work with tempered glass at all; The surface is under so much tension that it tends to shatter into many pieces instead of two. Roads don't get scratched as exceptional events - it happens many times a day, with tires, steel bits hanging off, but most problematically, with quartz pebbles (harder than glass) embedded in tires. Go look at your tires; Rub your finger along the surface. Now rub your iPhone along that surface.

Melting glass and transporting it in whole sheets is energetically very expensive. Installation is extremely difficult. Wear characteristics are not only unworkable, the glass would rapidly become frosted and translucent.

If it was economical to make roads out of glass, we would be doing it. It's not even economical to make them out of concrete except in isolated circumstances.

Roadway solar panels are a laughably bad idea. Green inventors are condemnable when they waste our very limited enthusiasm for green ideas on obvious technical nonstarters. I've been watching this space for more than a decade and I'm beginning to despair at the ratio of design/architecture student renders to even back-of-the-envelope engineering effort.
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You made an entirely different point.

> These aren't better than silicon, but they probably will be close enough shortly.

If you had said:

> The point isn't to replace silicon transistors. It's to create a completely separate market at a different volume point.

We would have no disagreement. You changed your initial entire statement.
It's not a huge leap compared to a lot of mental gymnastics. But I don't find it to be a particularly compelling argument.
Do we really want to "reduce such a beautiful and meaningful art form to something so mindless and trivial[?]; no culture could be so cruel to its children as to deprive them of such a natural,satisfying means of human expression. How absurd!" - Lockhart [1]. He was talking about math, but I am sure the same results would occur with computer science "education" if done in high schools.

"One of the best ways to stifle the growth of an idea is to enshrine it in an educational curriculum." - Hal Abelson[2]

[1] https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
[2] https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch0/foreword.html
I've written a bidirectional filesystem synchronization tool, and a content management system, in (nearly) pure bash.

I keep expecting the performance to be terrible but it's surprisingly efficient.
You can get one the same way you got one here.
I am not. When you are flying to do drone attack, you still have to defend yourself against enemy aircraft and anti-aircraft units like AA, and this means you are doing both attack (destroying your target) and defending your mission and your aircraft from getting shot. I am not familiar with how air battle works, but my understanding is, there are fighter jets to protect bombers and drones. But still, you need to kind of defend yourself. Bombers have machine guns equipped for example so bomber can still defend itself.
Is there a more reliable source for this than a fringe political site?
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The issue is that, by having politicians decide where and when to build the bridge, you don't necessarily end up with the right bridges.

What you wrote is correct, the flaw is you put in the word 'useful'.

If it were just about bridges and railways, it wouldn't be so bad. But lately economic stimulus is used as the fig leaf for all types of whole scale wealth destruction like cash for clunkers, amongst countless other examples.
Well, listing all the number plates that match /L337.*9/ will also return a number of other models and colours than the one we're looking for. So you could make the list smaller by only filtering on the license plates of correct models.

But you're right that there's very little gained. The effort of reducing a list of 9 to a list of 4 is better spent on advancing the puzzle :)
Even in something like a moon landing with space and power limitations, it's 2016. We have the technology to take video and at least store it and upload it later.

There is no real reason these couldn't be an HD video instead (or in addition to).
Genetic programming using a design grammar (i.e. a hierarchical rule system, like a language grammar) is probably a much more natural fit than neural networks for generating the logos. It's been done before with other domains, including architecture. Using a neural network to learn the evaluation function (i.e. put a number on how 'good' a candidate logo is) in a GP is very possible though.
This seems to link to the original Danish source: https://boingboing.net/2016/01/30/danish-government-let-amer...
Except that, for many, eating is a social activity that is enjoyed, not just outside of the home, but especially in the home.

For many, time around the dinner table is a highlight. Inviting people into your home becomes more hospitable with the addition of food and drink. Even if it is not a full meal, taking all means of food production from the home seems like a step back.

Also, when someone is sick, should they have to go out to get food? Wouldn't it be better to be able to have something in the fridge?
I don't see the difference in your #1 between email and group chat in spreading awareness other than 1. ease of absorption (email is easier) and 2. ability to respond (again, email is easier). Imagine trying to read backscroll of a chat conversation and then trying to "redo" this in chat vs the same in email. The chances (not saying it doesn't happen, but the likelihood) is higher that you can have an effective email exchange. If you aren't right there for the chat, it's over. Some people love this, some people hate it. It's certainly not efficient for group settings. And dear god, please don't make and announce decisions this way.

It's about shelf life. Both group chats and emails have a shelf life. Emails have a longer shelf life (probably up to 48 hours in responding and staying relevant in many cases) whereas group chat's have shelf lives measured in minutes. Chat is great for quick one off's, maybe even a few key people on hand, but not for extended groups. In fact, it's rather terrible.

Nothing beats meetings with all the right folks, though. Meetings are much better than both group chat or email for spreading awareness. Actually, now that I write this, this might be a use of chat; a virtual meeting via chat. Though, I argue the utility is in having all the parties present and not the protocol.
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You're right but this particular piece of software is an artifact of the old way, not the new unified way.
Sure it is not the best, but do you have a better link? Still doesn’t change that Pascal’s Wages is fundamentally flawed.
Finding a popular project where your tool finds good issues and writing a blog post analyzing them might be a good way to get attention and feedback.

(the team making PVS-Studio (a static code analyzer for C/C++) does this)
My advice here is straightforward: fuggedaboutit.

Adults curse; sometimes too much. It makes them look stupid, too. But there's no need to be both annoyed and offended. Be annoyed, sure, but then perhaps consider that you're simply a better person. Consider, too, that going to HR over something like this _will_ make you enemies.

Finally, consider just how much care and feeding that moral high-horse costs you, in emotional and mental energy.

Just let it go!
I wouldn't call it a trend for a trend sake, it's much softer on the eyes, making it easier to read. But I would have preferred 1.25 line-height :)
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That's because Erlang's GC is managed on a per-lightweight-process basis, which is possible because of the share-nothing nature of the concurrency model Erlang uses (actor/message-passing).

Garbage collection in Go can't be implemented the same way, because Go allows for shared mutable state.

That said, the work done to the GC in Go v1.5 seems quite phenomenal, but just because the two runtimes share a piece of terminology called "garbage collector", they're very, very different in terms of the semantics and effects exposed.
It's a persistent storage API, so yes. Browsers usually offer the option to clear localStorage alongside cookies, though.
Old news. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/13/cia_rendition_jet_wa...
Trademarks don't guarantee Google search results. They're supposed to protect against confusion on the part of the consumer. You don't have to be a genius to understand that an open source library isn't a commercial product.

This legal threat is solely because Jade, the trademark holder, is losing the popularity contest with Jade, the open source library. They're trying to buy their way to the top of Google search results with lawyers.
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You are unfortunately right on the money. Having spent the past few years in this space, I've been shocked at how quickly my drive and desire to work in it has eroded. None of this is really about driving kids into CS/engineering -- to your point, the only investment you'd really need for that to happen at this point is fantastic teachers. Instead, the vast, vast majority of this money will go into buying useless crap, overhead, and consulting fees, with little to nothing to show for it in terms of educational achievement. All you have to do is to go into the vast, vast majority of classrooms that are pushing these "coding" initiatives nowadays to quickly realize how little stakeholders are actually caring about what kids are getting from these classes.
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Shame there's not a carfax like service for planes that used something less mutable than a tail number. After that last flight, it was almost certainly sold to some CIA front company, given a new number, and sent back into the air.
We are without a doubt making progress, the question is, how much more progress could we be making with a better system to organize the thoughts and efforts of scientists around the world.
The Ellsberg paradox
Erlang/OTP is becoming fashionable again thanks to Elixir :-).
> Unfortunately, the amount of stuff being moved is not public record

Not true - you can get a sense of this through ATA's Truck Tonnage Index.

1. http://www.trucking.org/article.aspx?uid=5897732a-ea35-4369-...
2. http://www.trucknews.com/transportation/ata-truck-tonnage-in...
3.
> I know they are openly anti-Muslim in some times and places.

What makes 'anti-Muslim' inherently right-wing? Certainly in the US and Western Europe, there's no shortage of Islamophobia to go around in the left-wing parties.
I use almost entirely ColdFusion (well, Railo). Never studied computer science so don't know any better. Wouldn't know what to transition to if I wanted to use anything else.
Y2K was approximately when the consumer digital camera went on market.
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Prolog isn't an acronym in the same way as, say, BASIC or COBOL, and do it shouldn't be capitalised. It's a contraction of "programming in logic" (although the original came from the French name, which has the same contraction).
Have worked with COBOL on a mainframe for a large bank in NYC for the past four years. A very stable and critical application, it's nice to work with a group of established and proven people who value a work life balance. A bit bummed that a lot of the mainframe is locked down or controlled by the mainframe systems folks run by the global tech team. Overall a positive experience with all the business domain exposure, but finding it increasingly hard to remain relevant and move to new opportunities...
I'm usually using Linux, so I forget how painful this is on other systems. On Linux (and similar), you can just Alt+Middle-drag (or Alt+Right-drag, depending on Gnome vs. KDE) anywhere in the window. The closest corner will move.

Edit: I also highly recommend using mice instead of touchpads for all computer interactions. I cringe when I watch a coworker using an Apple magic touchpad, because they have to move so slowly.
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