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Well, many of us consider paying taxes a civic duty. We actually value the services that the government provides and are willing to pay for them.

Even if you don't though, I think you could make a strong argument to vote Democrat purely on how terribly the Republicans run the country.
Aren't the epistemological challenges of programming merely a reflection of the epistemological challenges of mathematics in general? For example, you can derive numbers (and number theory) from Combinatory Logic or Lambda Calculus or Set Theory. Apparently, you can derive Set Theory from Lambda Calculus and vice versa. Tarksi proved that you can't derive "truth" from inside a given formal theory. So why should we have the ability to decide "good" or "bad" code from inside a programming language?
Of couurse they had IT. IT in those days was the army of shipwrights, engineers and sailors that kept messages flowing from port to port and city to city.

And there were a lot of fat cat bureaucrats living off government largesse.

And I have a lot more respect for their modern counterparts than those ancient oppressors. (Not to say we moderns are blameless in any way.)
Because the wrong lizard might get in?

* http://wso.williams.edu/~rcarson/lizards.html
If the initial post war policy thinking is an indication (see Admiral's Rebellion), then the Army (w/Air Force) probably held sway.
I don't think this is a parallel to "Bush Derangement Syndrome". It seems to me like "ObamaCare" has actually entered the vernacular, used across the political spectrum as a shorthand for "the healthcare reform package enacted in 2010 under the leadership of Pres. Obama".
You don't need special db adapters for Tornado. Idiomatic Tornado apps only use async when blocking on an external event (fetching a page from other site, waiting for another user to do something). Db and file system blocking is handled by running more instances of the Tornado application.
The one thing I'm grateful for is that I don't get the amount of government I pay for.
There's also more book that talk about github.. or the book that I have actually read talk about github and not other services. Also, in the same idea, github has a better marketing visibility.
Many shareware developers charge one time fee for their software

Remember that most desktop software run as standalone programs, so there isn't an ongoing expense of servers and bandwidth. It is also much easier to charge these users for upgrades later on (at a discount, usually).

With web apps there is an expectation that the product will continually be upgraded even when they're free (think Gmail or Google Docs), so it's harder to justify charging for upgrades.

You also have to consider that some users might only use the app for a few months, and others for a few years. Should I pay the same if I just need your app for a short time?
"Obamacare" is based on the attempted "Hillarycare" of 1993. Both names stuck, because there isn't a better name for the plan.

BushCo is a bit different, because there is no such entity as BushCo, by that name or any other.
- The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%

- The 25% bracket rises to 28%

- The 28% bracket rises to 31%

- The 33% bracket rises to 36%

- The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%

The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011. The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011. These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.

I live in California - 10% state tax. Also 10% sales tax and 10% tip.

I am seriously thinking of dropping my US citizenship (I am dual-citizen)....have people explored this before?
Some people still think that software is a handicraft industry and you can get by all the time playing it by the ear. I hope "the author" doesn't believe that his "weird preferences" are gospel enough to make funding decisions. At the very least, some background reading into actual research done on this topic would help.

Start here: http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/distributed.pdf
You adjust. My income dropped enormously when I set out on my own, but you also just start to buy less stuff, treat going out to dinner as a rare present to yourself vs. a 3 times a week thing, drop to more economical ways of travel, etc. After awhile you don't even notice it and even look back on your old spending ways as a little ridiculous.
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But give them credit, they're all set to release this revolutionary e-book reader. They, erm, walk the walk.
I met Kresten at the Erlang Factory this year - he's an incredibly talented developer and gave a great talk on the project. My sense as a relative Erlang 'outsider' is that the Erlang folks were skeptical at first but warmed to him as the conference went on because it was clear that he was addressing a lot of the concerns that running on the JVM was impossible (tail recursion, message passing, etc)...
My thoughts exactly. If you can't write something without using 'liberal' and 'conservative' as dirty words, you lose my attention.

The 'about' page shows that they're heavily partisan, no shocker there.

Back in reality, the nearest I can see from the tax code is that a large number of previous cuts made during the Bush administration will expire as planned, and that most of these will apply only to the highest income bracket.

Anybody with greater insight care to share?
The python3 devs claim that 2.7 will be the last.

I'm betting someone will pick up the torch long after the core developers give up support. They want everyone to migrate to 3.1, but it's still highly unfeasible.

So perhaps one day 2.x will eventually pass on, but I don't foresee it happening within the next 3-5 years.
Both this submarine and the semi-submersibles they had earlier have crews. It'd be very interesting if they can develop something completely autonomous. E.g. a 10 meter tube that navigates by GPS, occasionally surfaces to get its bearings, and has enough diesel for a ~5000km ocean voyage.

You could program that to zig-zag across the ocean and land on a beach somewhere, where you could extract the cargo, refuel it, and send it back.
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If you'd like to see the price of a logo taken to the other extreme, take a look at Pepsi's last redesign effort. Hint: It involved gravitational pull.

http://bunnitude.com/misc/files/pepsi_gravitational_field.pd...

Pretty insane, but they reportedly paid hundreds of millions of dollars for the total rebranding effort, so I guess the design firm needed to come up with some sort of justification for the bill.
> That's not really a right, that's mostly convenience.

Call it what you will, it's very valuable. Of course, if I have a right to play the game because I bought it, and lose the CD key, I've now technically lost that right.

> Depends on the game.

I'm sorry, but the majority of games you can't. Yes, their are exceptions. Should I preface everything I said with a paragraph of legalese explaining that their are exceptions.

> unless you lose your Steam password that is.

That's not correct. You have to lose your steam password and choose not to recover it, which is much easier then if you lose your CD Keys.

What was the point of your response?
Indeed, but did you know it was illegal to get your mates to bid to get the ball rolling?
I don't care how Web 2.0 it is, a single tweet does not constitute an article. Flagged.
what would dropping your citizenship accomplish? you'd still have to pay income taxes in the US if you earn income in the US (generally speaking).
I agree that the product/solution will change drastically after it is launched so having a site oriented around product features is pointless.
What this article is suggesting is that you should have one for 2 main reasons - firstly to explore the problem (you can do this with a blog or other info on the site) and secondly to start gathering names for a mailing list. The product will change but you will have a sense of the broad problem domain. There are many examples of startups doing a great job on this. Mint for example launched a blog and collected thousands of email addresses well in advance of releasing their product into market. When they did launch they already had an established audience and some traffic built up, which takes time no matter when you start.
Aren't most of these 'tax increases' simply an expiration of the huge tax cuts made under the previous administration as a temporary measure?

If I recall correctly, those cuts were strongly criticized at the time as being unsustainable and likely to lead to huge budget deficits. Rather than fix the core financial problems at the time, a tax cut was used to punt unpopular measures into the next administration.

I guess those problems could continue to be ignored for the sake of popularity, but that plan hasn't worked very well so far.

Edit: For the downvote brigade; no, those cuts did not help you: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2009/01/tax_cuts...
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"Closures in particular are a very powerful tool in async/multi-threaded environments, but in the stateless/sync environment of a web application environment, they collapse down to syntactical sugar, and solve nothing that cannot be solved in other ways."

Closures allow for abstractions that are impossible to achieve without them. Yes, you can always get the same functionality, but you will be forced to deal with a weaker abstraction.

PHP has closures however.
While we're talking about <tag> origins:

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...

"I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag:

IMG"

-Marc Andreesen, 25 Feb 93
Ignoring his actions for a moment, I really admire his quotes about children needing to be raised to be more independent (which can be seen at the bottom of the article). I'm a big believer that most of the world's problems today, are caused because someone, somewhere, didn't take responsibility for themselves, and I think he hit the root cause of that on the head. Interesting to hear the opinion of someone who basically skipped 30 years of society's gradual change.
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Yes, taxes will rise to the draconian and economy-stifling levels we suffered under in the 1990s.
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There have been oceangoing robots designed to move with very little power by exploiting buoyancy and gliding on dive planes. Swarms of such small drones could be exceedingly hard to detect and could be made cheaply in large numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_glider

The practical range of these things is literally ocean-spanning. Program these on roundabout courses and land them in random places on the coast. They would be very hard to track.
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Thankfully I'm not a US citizen, but I am thinking about leaving the US. I moved here largely because I was under the impression it was a low-tax country.

What I didn't realise at the time was that you can add an extra 10% or so in state taxes onto the quoted rates (or live the desert and pay an equivalent amount in property taxes). Australia may have a 48.5% (last I checked) top tax rate, but at least once you've paid that you're basically done.
There is nothing to enjoy when given by a government. Nothing. Ever. Being at the mercy of nanny states is horrible.

"Free" health care ain't free. You pay through the nose in taxes and in lost time. And even then, I usually fly to other countries (US) and pay full price for specialized interventions.

Because with the "free" health care you ca lose your life. It's free and you get your money's worth.
If you listen to the media mantra, these were all of "Bush's tax cuts for the rich" - there are a lot of average people in the 10,15,25% tax brackets.
Where you pay taxes has nothing to do with your citizenship. It has to do with where you work, if you move to another country and work there you won't have to pay taxes in the US.
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Very interesting, although it seems odd to hear a software engineering describe Gödel's incompleteness theorems as a "cheap trick used to try to frighten mathematicians back in the thirties."

Still, I chuckled when I read it.
I really think the answer has to do with Github's take on what a "public" view looks like. They focus on the actual files (which is the primary use case of a repo host) and then they focus on the README file (the WHAT), and finally focuses on the contributors (the WHO). It's not as pretty as Gitorious, but it is functional and clear and it gives me a clear indication of what I'm getting out of the site and why I should care.

The ability to link to the Github 'public page' also helps make it go viral -- I never actually ended up in Github's homepage until today, I always ended up there because of a link I followed for an open source project, and then was upsold to sign up and set up a private repository.

On the other hand, Gitorious doesn't make it obviously easy to find the public repositories, makes their front page look like yet another project management site and even when you click on one of the obscure links for a public repo, you're shown a bunch of Activity feeds which doesn't mean anything to the typical visitor.

I think the hardest thing to do with WebApps is to show the user what a "humming" version of the app looks like, how a productive user of the site can use the WebApp. Github does this excellently while Gitorious does not.
On a related note, does anyone know how Groupon handles the situations where a deal sells so well that it could kill off the business offering it?

I've seen several cases where a photographer, for example, offers a dramatically reduced rate for a photo session, and proceeds to sell 800 of them on Groupon, booking themselves solid for the next year at loss-leader prices.

What happens in those cases?
Also the arrow indicates the flow of the river Amazon (I think).
US income taxes are based on your worldwide income.
First, the example I've chosen was on purpose ... like if you enroll in WebSpark, that's useless if you need the IIS Media Services. Also, you can't have more than 4 processors serving your app.

It also doesn't spare your costumer (in the case of consultancy services) to buy licenses.

Second ... not everybody can enroll. The company I'm working for has 12 members ... some of them are field engineers that aren't doing programming (I mentioned we do consulting). WebSpark at least is out of the picture.

Third ... these programs are ticking time-bombs. I've worked on and off on several personal projects for the last 5 years (I'm doing it part time). 3 years is not enough, unless you have a good idea that you're sure it's going to work (and this doesn't happen that often).

> MySQL enterprise licensing is only marginally cheaper than SQL Server

A startup-founder would be too dumb to pay for MySql support.

HINT: you get all the support you need from its community, especially if you attend conferences and buy a round of beer to its core devs ;)
Actually the US is one of the extremely few countries which taxes its citizens on their foreign earnings (above, I believe, about $US80K). This means US citizens living abroad are double taxed, which is part of the reason you see so few US citizens working abroad.
I love "mdfind" for near-instant file searching.

"mdfind -name AppName" is a good start for a poor man's uninstaller on OS X.
"Besides, there is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd doctrines, as to guard them around about with legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefined words : wich yet make these retreats more like the dens of robbers, or holes of foxes, than the fortresses of fair warriors"

-- John Locke
I hadn't realised until now that these tax increases hit anyone under $250K. Shows how poorly the media have been doing their job.
I think for a web framework to be successful (all other things, like features, being equal) it needs a few essential ingredients:

- plugin ecosystem. Not necessarily at the beginning, but tha architecture should make it easy enough to add plugins (or apps, or extensions or whatever they are called by the framework) that developers feel encouraged to do so.

- high profile sites or projects, or at least a high volume of sites, so developers can answer manager's question, "Well, who uses it ?". Again, no framework will have this at the beginning but it will need this to get big (bit of a chicken and egg situation).

- good documentation, preferably but not exclusively online. Good == well written, up to date, well organized and consistent.

- good marketing: maintainers who can blow their own trumpet in the blogosphere, conferences, books, Twitter etc etc.

Now the code may be crap, and it may not have this feature or that feature, or it may or may not be easy to extend or customize. But the above points are required if it is to stand a chance.

Django, despite the flaws you mention (and I agree with some of them, and could add a few of my own) meets these criteria. It has the sites, the documentation, a healthy ecosystem of apps (though of varying quality), and is marketed by people who work, or used to work, in the newspaper business.

Flask, as an up-and-coming framework, is just a couple months old, so obviously doesn't have the ecosystem or the high profile/high volume yet. But it is well-positioned to take off : the documentation is excellent, and it has a good plugin architecture, with about a dozen or so "official" extensions already. Whether or not it does take off depends on many other factors, but I'd say it's future looks quite promising. It may need some aggressive marketing, or at least one or two high profile sites.

Pylons, OTOH, doesn't look so healthy. Documentation, last I looked, was out of date, poorly organized, and contradictory (AuthKit is recommended in the docs, newbies use AuthKit, get confused by its crapiness, go on IRC, and get told "don't use Authkit" - why is it still in the docs at all ?).

It's not so easy to add plugins, except at the WSGI level, which is often the wrong level of abstraction, plus there is the confusion of "entry points" and how to make it all work with Paster. As a result (and also because of the pisspoor docs) despite being around almost as long as Django, Pylons doesn't have a good plugin ecosystem. It has one high profile site - Reddit - but otherwise for the time it's been around I can't think of many others.
Newspeak looks really fascinating. Relavent paper:

http://bracha.org/newspeak.pdf
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We have values - code is good if (in no particular order):

+ It's clear from its text what it is doing

+ It's easy to modify to enhance it, without damaging its clarity

+ It's concise without being opaque

+ It's corrrect

The problem is creating an objective means of assessing code against these values.
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I love ALA. And, at the end of it all, was pleasantly surprised to see it was Eric Meyer who wrote this (didn't bother to read the byline).

Of course, I did suddenly feel old when he was talking about the Box Model hack as if it was something old... and then I thought back.
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The fact remains that somebody can explain Perelman's proof of the Poincare Conjecture to Paul McCartney, if McCartney was so interested.

Whereas you aren't likely to find people who're able to so explain deconstruction of something or the like in a manner that's clean and simple and easy to understand. This either suggest that a) the person doesn't understand it, fully, himself; or b) deconstruction/humanities is so difficult no human mind can fully understand it.
It sucks to be told as someone who hasn't had an exit yet that you have to not only build something but also get real users before angel investors will help you. But it's a message that needs to be beaten into entrepreneurs looking for external funding. (I know I could have used it first time around.)
I sincerely apologize for not getting back to you sooner, my week was a bit crazy towards the end of last week and I took a four day weekend this past week.

My very, very initial impression is that it's an app I'm initially interested in, but some of your UI choices are rather odd - a few that stood out to me:

* Unlike every other app on the iPhone, your app does a card flip whenever you tap on a tab. For something I'd like to be able to flip through quickly, it just bogs things down.

* Same thing with your slides - why are they half the speed of everything else?

* You have a button for projects at the bottom. You also have a button for projects on the front page. They initially appear to go to the same place. Why is this duplicated?

* Why are you using ISO dates instead of my locale's preferred date format? As a programmer it doesn't bug me that much, but it is different than every other app on the iPhone.

* On the locations screen, why do you have plus and minus buttons? There are universally recognized gestures already used on the iPhone for zooming in a Google map area.

I agree with a lot of what DeusExMachina wrote, too.

To sum up: As somebody that's tried to use Omnifocus I could try to use something a bit simpler, but your app's interface is too non-standard and weird feeling - and the constant slow transitions would drive me batty. Please don't take personal offense (you've done far more than I have on the iPhone), but I think you need to rethink your UI a bit to make it faster to get around and take more advantage of standard iPhone UI elements.
One clue is the large percentage of people that live there instead of opting for suicide. The other clue is the fact that it is a situation they can, at least potentially, get out of.

I'm not saying it is a pleasant situation. It sounds miserable to me. But people still tend to have friendships, laughter, enough food to survive on (if barely). The human psyche is more adaptable than it is frequently given credit for being. Personally, I'd rather wake up and have to adapt to a shanty town for a few hundred years and then die, than simply die. Better yet would be to escape and live for thousands of years as part of an enlightened civilization that does not make their fellow humans live like pigs.

The assumption that people brought out of cryostasis would be immediately herded into shanty towns strikes me as ridiculous to begin with, i.e. inconsistent with a society being able to revive me. It assumes resource scarcity. To get resource scarcity, you either need technological stagnation or high birthrates. Birthrates are dropping, technology is not. And if technology does, I won't be brought out of cryostasis to begin with.

As far as birthrates go, that is one reason I am so much in favor of everyone (as opposed to a tiny group of geeks) getting cryopreserved. Cryonics is a belief system that lowers conception rates, because a person can (in theory) always have their children later. Resource consumption while in the fridge is minimal -- extremely minimal when done in large quantities. Suspended animation (the no-damage kind) is a necessary prerequisite for revival of cryonauts, and it provides an excellent safety valve for overpopulation (even assuming (!) that space travel is never made economical). Any time populations grow too dense, if you don't have the money to live comfortably you can rent out your stuff and go into suspension for a few decades or until the job market improves. All your cash builds interest in the meantime, and there's laws to protect you because the first few people who get swindled during stasis got mad.

It's interesting to imagine what this will do to the term "human resources". You can always recruit someone fresh off their last job. Their specific skills (like a specific programming language) might be obsolete, but general skills (programming in general) would still be fresh. This would help prevent useful aspects of older paradigms from getting forgotten -- you'd have live experts preserving the knowledge rather than just what happened to get recorded in books.