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> Was anything "amazing" every created in Flash?

http://www.zombo.com/

Less facetiously many web based games would not have been possible with other options available at the time. I can't think of as many significant tools that it was in part responsible for and it massively outstayed its welcome (a few years before Google maps and http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/ I expect flash or java applets would have been needed to achieve the same effect both because of browser performance & compatibility issues at the time and the fact then JS was disabled in many environments too), but thre were some things it was still the least bad option for until a few years ago, video (thing youtube and similar) being the main one.

> clunky, ..., CPU hammering

Definitely, though there were some great programmers out there making efficient things in flash, it had the issue of making it easy to create a sub-optimal mess (some would say the tooling made it overly hasslesome to create something efficient, though I was never a flash programmer so I can't comment there myself).

> contentless

The same can be said of a great many things not involving flash; before, during and after flash's heyday!

> folly

One man's folly is another man's comic (or otherwise artistic) genius. There was a lot of dross, but flash allowed the creation of some great pieces in its time.
There was 386/ix from Interactive Systems Corporation too [1], I was using it on a PC in 1988.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Systems_Corporatio...
As a UK citizen, I find that when I see armed police it is inherently intimidating, because the cultural expectation is that police are unarmed and so it represents a massive escalation. (Seeing them in the UK is becoming more common these days as a counter-terrorism thing, though it is still rare, thankfully.)
> That's because english is considered universal language and they don't want to presume that you know japanese well enough for a conversation?

Yes, which is a source of white people being "forever foreigners" in Japan, which is exactly my point.
> This is a perfectly valid security guard that protects their users

No it's not. It's Google telling it's users which apps to use and not to use. For regular users Google presents itself (just like Apple does) as an authority of what's a good app. Any other apps automatically are not good in the mind of regular users.
Definitely one of the most.
You can write Javascript without knowing how to program?
No mention of Master Card. Mods please edit the title.
http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-... (Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative, Steele & Sussman 1976)

Pay attention to page 17 and subsequent pages, talking about variable binding in a closed or open context - this is the closing that closure refers to. Page 31 talks about closure in the context of a lambda.
As far as I can tell, much of the ES6 changes came from people who were using CoffeeScript before.
I had the same reaction reading their cyclist rant. Even the video made no sense. It show a couple of cyclists committing minor trafic infractions, but apparently those are "criminally irresponsible" acts.

It's their blog, so they're welcome to bitch and moan as much as they want. But this strikes me as one of those people who are frequently told to lighten up.
> She was kicked out of the sauna. She said "At this point I don't look very female", and that her drivers license reflects a male identity and she hadn't started hormone therapy.

As a non-American, I don't understand. Do you mean that any male can claim to be a trans-female at any time and therefore expect to be allowed to use women's sauna? And this is how it should be? I mean, isn't there possibility for abuse? And not agreeing with this labels you a terrible person?

While at the same time, feminists scream abuse when someone looks at them inappropriately on the street.

I am completely baffled.
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Hmm, I agree the font was annoying, but it not unreadable. Indeed it is much easier to read than the grey-on-grey text that you often find on modern sites.

And contra the parent comment, it doesn't look like a scan of a centuries old document -- it just looks a scan of a book from the mid 20th century.

I've read lots of such books, and while some have better typography than others, they are all quite easy to read. I think we have a habit of conflating "this is ugly I wish it were different" with "I can't read this".
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There are no competitive renewables. Photovoltaics can't survive at scale without massive government subsidies or screwing the environment like in China (choose one), wind power doesn't scale, and don't even get me started about biodiesel.
The NetBSD and FreeBSD projects grew out of the collection of patches that people wrote for 386BSD, they didn't start from Net2.
No it isn't. They are telling you what they want it to be.

I'm sure Uber has/had a similar manifesto. Do you think they put in the whole sexual harassment in that document.

It's like a government writing what the culture of a country should be.

You really need blind interviews to know what the culture is.
Indeed, please could the title be named properly to reflect the site?
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I never said it was surprising.

What is surprising is how every respondent thus far has misinterpreted what I said.
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Can the mill not execute instructions ahead of others? Maybe i dont understand what it means to be out of order, but the Mill can decode up to 30ops per cycle and issue many of the simultaneously.
> can't provide power where it's needed

I grew up with energy generated by a mix of hydro from 800km away and nuclear from 200km. An off-shore wind farm could be built anywhere between 100 and 250km from my city. In-shore wind, if distributed and connected, can provide a lot of reliable with little need for constant hydro or nuclear.

Also, hydro can be rather helpful in other aspects - it can be a store of drinking water, fisheries and agriculture. The environmental impact is, of course, huge, buy far more benign than the current fashion of fossils. Plus, if you are really clever, you can use it to host carbon-fixating algae you can bury to remove a lot of carbon from the atmosphere.

Mind you that fission's environmental impact is not restricted to those rare occasions when everything goes bad and the reactor melts down. Mining for fissiles is not exactly environment friendly.

And while local photovoltaic may have some nasty industrial processes involved, solar-thermal doesn't. It also provides a nice and smooth generation pattern that can cover for baseline generation.
Keep in mind that the US was entirely built from immigration, though, and most of us realize that the part after the hyphen is just as important as the part before it and often represents several generations of heritage. In other cultures, immigration might be more abnormal, resulting in folks uncertainly opening a hailing frequency with the strange probably-tourist Englishman they’ve encountered, whereas in America it’s quite trivial to glance past physical features and lead off in English.

(Helps that it’s English, specifically, too.)

In another light, I usually have a sense for whether my English will find purchase before speaking because American culture has subtle cues and tics even in the way one carries themselves. I don’t have the perspective of reversing the situation, but I’d totally buy a scenario where the same sense is difficult to ascertain inside other cultures. Then you have to think about which possibility is more polite/offensive between assuming their language or trying yours, especially in various cultures; we certainly look at this differently, given the first point.
I think they did today's Apple aesthetic better than Apple often does.
That's not core to me. The litigation system is highly cultural, can be a village assembly before the eldest, a full judiciary system as we have in the West, can be based on Roman law or jurisprudence. Presumption of guilt is just another way.
Having lived in Japan, there's this weird curve that people go through when they move.

Most people love Japan at first, and then, particularly if they're middle-aged and white, the frustration of being in your late thirties and living in a tiny house, not being able to progress in your career, and not having a social life begins to kick in.

At that point, little things which shouldn't bother you - like the word gaijin which although unpleasant to Western ears is purely a descriptive term and the ignorance about the rest of the world begin to bother you. You also come to understand enough Japanese to understand what people are really saying beneath the surface.

For what its worth, I found Japan incredibly safe, welcoming and unfailingly polite. I went to get my hair cut and by the end of it once the hairdresser had taken my number and offered to take me to Tsukiji fish auction!

I think it is possible to go through an extended period in Japan without being consumed by bitterness like the OP, though it is a pattern I see quite often.
Been here 11 years myself and haven't experienced anything the author has stated either. My first year here was awkward (university exchange), but one can just write that off to culture shock. You can't help but think everyone is staring at you at first, and a lot of times they are - welcome to a very homogeneous Asian population foreigner, you are rare!

I feel like the people that come here and end up hating it are exactly as you say, people with an absurd amount of weird cultural entitlement. It's like they don't understand that they are living in a completely different country from their own with completely different standards and norms. I have luckily not met such bitter folk, although I've tended to just stick to living a standard life here and not going out of my way to join any foreigner circles, which are apparently where these oddball haters tend to cluster.

I remember when Google+ first came out and I flipped to the "people near you panel" on accident. Some lady, probably American, had posted a rant about how the hotel she was in asked her to leave the fitness area because she was covered in tattoos. She went on about self image, and how it's degrading to her being a unique individual, and on and on. I was like, holy shit, does this person even realize the stigma behind tattoos here? Does she understand that she is in a culture that is incredibly not individualistic and all about the group? I mean, how can one go and spend time in a foreign country with that level of ignorance?

Sure, we all make mistakes, but I'd like to think most of us humbly accept that we did a cultural snafu and then move on.
Very cool, I've actally thought at making something like this using the OpenCASCADE CAD kernel at some point (I'm familiar with that because we are using it at work).

Does LeoCAD itself have built-in capabilities to create the Lego's, using a CAD kernel? Or are they pre-modeled in an external tool? Typical Lego bricks are simple enough to build using basic Boolean geometric operations, so with just a few simple rules the application could define a vast library of bricks to use for building.

I tried to figure this out by looking at the source code, but couldn't find it, so maybe one of the authors can comment on this? Where is the brick data coming from?
The key difference here is whether the language allows closure over the lexical environment, not whether the lexical environment contains anything used.

You can see this in Ruby where methods don't close over the environment, but blocks do, clearly Ruby methods aren't closures, not even when reïfied into a Method, whereas blocks are closures.
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I don't understand, how does that make it "forever foreigners"? Have you tried telling them you understand japanese and continue conversation? How would the other person know if you arrived yesterday or living there for 20yrs? This is a pretty bad example imo.
Thanks for that info, if it's setup like this it doesn't affect me at all instead of being really annoying to work with (since most of my apps are still in development).
That and the kernel is mach, using only the BSD userland.

Remember OSX's direct ancestor was NeXT, which ran on higher end Motorola 68K.
>I drive a 4Runner because it has lots of steel and is very safe

I can't believe I'm seeing this kind of ignorance on HN...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aht7Sc_J4OU
No _true_ scotsman would gatekeep this much.
That's my problem, the business logic is in JS. I hate JS to begin with but I would have tolerated it if the only place it's used is for UI - but come on there are much better languages to write business logic in.
Really informative
I guess I'll add an anecdata point to your anecdata point, I had multiple random Japanese persons initiate conversation with me in Japanese when I visited Japan for a couple of weeks.

I'm a white, blond man and went together with my white blond girlfriend.
> Chicken Alfredo Pasta with Sweet Potato Noodles (480 Calories per Serving)

You probably mean 480 kilo calories.
> Remember, loneliness is not being alone. It's feeling bad about it.

I agree with the first part, but not with the second.

IMO, loneliness is not feeling bad about being alone, it is suffering from being alone. All four combinations of alone/lonely are more or less common.

Personally, I find the "not alone/lonely" combination hardest to take: feeling alone among people. Realizing that made me spend more time on my own and being less lonely as a consequence. Still, nothing helps when really feeling lonely, except meeting someone who does not make you feel even more lonely.
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> 100x more generation than today, 10x cheaper

Or we can rethink our use of cars. I drive one about once per week. The rest of my transportation needs are neatly provided by electric light rail.

We can also tax fossil-burning cars and their fuels according to their environment impact (like "we'll be all dead in a century"). That alone would make electric cars a lot more attractive.

About that, for most of my adult life my cars ran on sugarcane ethanol, which has a pretty close to zero carbon footptint. Plus, if the refining ops were more efficient and didn't burn the refuge to power the operation, it'd have a substantial negative carbon footprint.
Sometimes you can't.

More than anything else I wish I could just get on a plane and move to America but I can't because I'm not eligible for any visas. My company tried to relocate me and the immigration lawyer we hired basically said "can't happen, sorry". I did lots of research and I'm nowhere close to ticking enough boxes to do it. I'm currently trying to apply to University, with no idea how I'll afford it, to do a degree so I'll be more eligible for a visa and will tick more boxes in a few years.

It's why "just leave" or "just vote with your wallet" is terrible advice.
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I went for a pretty ambitious test recipe (Heston Blumenthal's Egg in Verjus, Verjus in Egg), unfortunately I'm not able to save it - it's complaining that one of my ingredients is an invalid weight - 3.3 grams Gellan F. If I remove it then it complains about the ingredient before it, so I'm wondering if there's an ingredient limit? It's at about the 40th listed ingredient. It took me ages to input everything so I do hope I'm able to save it!

The recipe entry experience was great though, some small details that I think would improve things even further:

- Esc should clear the 'text entry' modal, I kept clicking this by accident when wanting to add a new section heading and it was a nuisance having to click the 'close' link

- '+ Ingredient section' should replace last ingredient row if blank

- Would be nice to have section headings (similar to 'ingredient sections' for recipe methods) to break up recipes with multiple discrete sections
- Hard to find errors in long recipe. Could be more prominant, or add a 'jump to next error' button?
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I'm trying to avoid commenting on this thread because I think it is impossible for me to write a nuanced enough response that will give people a closer understanding of what it's like to live here (I moved here 10 years ago, though I spent 2 years in the UK, so 8 years total).

However, I can comment on the "Japanese only" signs. I've never actually seen one myself, but I know they exist in some places. An acquaintance of mine is well connected with a particular sumo heya (a "heya" is essentially a group of sumo wrestlers who live and train together along with their trainers and staff). It is popular (and fun) to go and watch the wrestlers train in their heya, but one is sometimes confronted with the "Japanese Only" sign at the entrance.

My acquaintance is not Japanese (he isn't even a resident), but like I said, he is well acquainted with the heya. One time, he asked some visiting foreigners if they wanted to watch the training and they were delighted to accept. When they got to the entrance they saw the sign. "Is it really OK?", they asked.

"It's fine. I've made arrangements. As far as the heya is concerned, if you know how to make arrangements to visit the heya, then you are Japanese".

Living in Japan can be very difficult for people who are not culturally Japanese. There is a weird inside/outside culture where either your are inside with a bunch of strange rules that you have to follow (and know to follow, somehow) or you are outside (where you don't really need to know or follow any rules). What "Japanese Only" means is that they only want people who know what the rules are, know how to follow the rules, and most importantly, are willing to follow the rules to the letter even if they think the rules are stupid. If you can do that, then you are "Japanese enough".

Generally speaking, there are few cultures in the world with the same kind of byzantine rule following culture that Japan has. Many cultures are literally morally opposed to blindly following rules. People from those cultures often have great difficulty in certain circumstances in Japan. However, if you show that you are willing and able to surmount those hurdles, my experience has been that most people have no trouble accepting you as Japanese.
yeah, I actually cover that one in passing. Digital Asset Holdings (Blythe Masters/Hyperledger) sold the previous CEO a pile of blockchain bafflegab that wasn't realisable with any extant blockchain (and certainly not Hyperledger). Said previous CEO had to resign after a bribery allegation, and the new guy isn't very keen on the plan. The main thing driving it is that their old system is creaky as hell.

The thing is, though, that blockchains promise replacement by magic, and there's no magic there - it's just as much work as any major system replacement. Also, other stakeholders are already unhappy this doesn't interface a lot like the old system did.

If this pilot works out at all, I suspect the first thing they'll do is rip out the blockchain and replace it with a conventional centralised database. Because this is for dealing with the ASX, and centralisation is obviously the correct thing and "permissioned blockchain" is another word for "the world's most inefficient centrally-administered clustered database".
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Which platform did he used? And which payment method? Paypal for instance is super insecure, that's why we did not support it.
> FWIW, someone (disjoint from the Mill team!) has actually made a model of the Mill's phasing and found that it fails to deliver.

Citation is definitely needed, here.
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This is a very interesting question, and one that's being asked all over the world at the moment.

To use the example of Brexit - I sometimes feel like the 'Remain' side, in accusing 'Leave' of xenophobia & racism, painted themselves into a corner where any discussion of reducing migration was taboo.

I voted 'Remain' and am generally fine with current levels of immigration, but would I continue to be ok if these levels doubled, tripled, quadrupled? To be honest, I'm not sure.

In that sense, perhaps I'm not really much different from a 'Leave' voter, we just have different levels of sensitivity to opening our culture to foreigners.

(Or course, the referendum was about much more than immigration, but there's no doubting that it was a huge factor for many people.)
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> The level of English in Japan is shockingly low, despite everyone studying it for 6 years at school. I honestly think it is kept deliberately low, people have access to the web but they can’t understand the English 90% of it is written in so there is no need for Chinese style censorship.

The Chinese style censorship has nothing to do with understanding of English.
I find these oddly comforting. Yes, fate can still strike at any time, but many of these injuries are now so much more preventable and treatable.

Especially fascinating are the cases where modern life is significantly more or less dangerous. You might be more likely to be killed by a house fire or stairwell fall now, but less by animals (simply due to reduced contact) or drowning (because so many more people can swim, or even perform CPR).
If one is inside the bank he can rob the bank itself. I doubt that in Switzerland that is so easy. Do you have any sources for that claim?
So let's assume that for a particular app the costs between a "one time purchase" and "subscription" would be exactly the same:
for example, a subscription of $1/month vs purchasing a new app exactly every year for $12.

Here's the difference:

- People who no longer use the app, will forget about it and the subscription will keep going for some time, which means free $ for company.

- People who don't really need the new features of the app and normally would not re-buy it (perhaps the Developer neglected renewing the app and it only has minor changes) still get it and pay for it through the subscription.

I honestly can't think of a single advantage of subscriptions for customers.
That's definitely seems to be the attitude of the author

I interpret his words ("The level of English in Japan is shockingly low, despite everyone studying it for 6 years at school") not to mean that he expects fluency.

It's clear that the author is not talking about this level of fluency.

I disagree. I think the author simply says that the level of English is shockingly low. I don't think that we can infer from those words that he's expecting a high level of fluency.
At the point that Jobs wrote his lie filled "Thoughts on Flash" Flash Player was vastly more performant at HTML5y things like animations, video and music playing than doing it in the browser.

I'm not going to defend the quality of the flashplayer architecture and implementation (due to it's crapness) but it was perfectly fine performance wise - it was a 'resource hog' because of the terrible, terrible code that people wrote for punch the monkey flash apps.
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"forever" because it's based on the color of my skin, which I can't change, and "foreigner" because they're assuming I don't speak the language of the land. It's quite simple.

You seem to be assuming I think they're making a mistake by doing this, or for some reason shouldn't be doing it, which I never said.
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