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> I'm as qualified as any other PL researcher (or Wikipedian) to determine the validity of a source.

I request you to discontinue your actions, despite whatever high opinion you may have of yourself. Maybe you can create a separate page called "Relevant Progamming Languages" to which you add only languages that you think are relevant.
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A hyperlink.

I remember, before Wikipedia, there was a big debate on the original C2 Wiki about the usefulness of category pages. There is a fairly widespread opinion that categories are a waste of time, because no ontology can usefully classify the body of information that's out there. While it's natural to want to categorize things, people inevitably use very different systems of categorization (as seen by the dozen or so tags that many Wikipedia pages get), and so they'll never be useful to more than a small subset of people. See also Shirky - "Ontology is Overrated":

http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

At the time I left the C2 community, the debate was still raging, but there were still a number of vocal anti-category people. Evidently Wikipedia went the opposite way, but I'd argue that whether it's policy or not, categories are still useless. I always enter Wikipedia via Google; I browse around within it by hyperlinks. The value of Wikipedia is as a store of content, and not as a form of organization.
They are not "votes", and the rules are pretty clear about that. The goal of wikipedia debates is to discuss and achieve a consensus, which doesn't work at all when people turn individual debates into anti/pro-deletion flamewars, appeal to outside websites to rally the troops, who then arrive and restate the same tired old arguments (eg. lack of storage space) instead of actually reading the rules and being constructive.
Computer science is about programming the same way thermodynamics is about engines: It's possible to do it with no reference to the outside world, and no concern for what 'practical' means beyond, maybe, P and NP, but nobody cares about the people who do it like that.
Why not call the box 'search', which is what new users should be doing at first anyway? If they find nothing then offer to help them formulate a question.

The very last thing I want to do is sign up all my facebook friends and then ask a dumb question as my first action. The odds that I have a great question at the point of registration are pretty low.
I get flash, but what's wrong with AIR?
did you ever stop to think what positive impact the deletion of these articles actually makes? I cant come up with any positive contribution you're making, but I can see that if I saw one of these languages mentioned somewhere (hacker news for instance), you've now ensured I have one less place that I can go to to find out about them.

you're a drain on wikipedia, a source of negative knowledge.
> I don't understand why you are portraying concentrated education vs liberal arts education as a women's issue.

Well, when everyone around you is telling you all your problems are nails, you try to fix everything with a hammer.
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Uh, Zynga has been mostly advertising for a long time. I don't know the ratio now but I would not be surprised if it's still the majority of their revenue. Advertising is also money you know.
I think you're confusing the "reliability" of a source (in the peer-reviewed article sense) with its reliability as an indicator of the notability of some subject X.

The peer-review system basically establishes (a) the reviewers believe the result is non-trivial and (b) the reviewers believe the result is correct.

However, I'd say that the very existence of documents such as third-party tutorials/introductions/discussions, etc., can be adduced as evidence of notability. Think of determining notability more as "sociology" than some academic judgement about the intrinsic worth or originality of the topic.

For instance, "article citations as notability" is patently absurd in the case of, say, celebrity or TV show articles (the existence of both of which seems accepted on Wikipedia) or even news topics, and only somewhat less so in the case of PLs, especially those developed outside of academia. (It's arguably a bad criteria anywhere where results aren't very expensive to reproduce, such as population surveys and lab results -- surely many important results in math and physics living only on the arXiv are more notable than some minor topic which generates higher citation counts through constant re-citing by the same group of devotees).

In contrast, the three languages mentioned on the front page were all ones I'd previously heard of.

I see there is a paragraph in the Wikipedia guidelines for notability regarding refereed paper citations, but in line with my above comments I'd suggest that this not be read too literally. Perhaps it's personal preference, but I find such "long tail" articles useful, even if that means WP contains millions of articles on topics I personally find irrelevant.

Perhaps the reason you've incited such anger is that people feel you're imposing what can be seen as elitist and subjective views about how notability is defined (certainly it's not true that everyone's pet/undergrad PL project should have a page, but the three languages mentioned certainly have received wide attention). From this perspective, the question here is not about any particular property of these PLs but what the WP criteria are or should be, so it would certainly be best to err on the side of non-deletion in all cases.

I hope you reconsider your views on this topic (disclaimer: I am not associated with any of the projects mentioned).
You've pulled one sentence out of a subsection and attempted to use it as a definition of the only way for an ad hominem to not be fallacious.

You've quoted from "Conflict of Interest" under the "Circumstantial" fallacy section. Under said section, it is clearly stated, "The circumstantial fallacy only applies where the source taking a position is only making a logical argument from premises that are generally accepted."

Regardless, I rescind my earlier comment because michaelchisari's statement was simply not an ad hominem attack. He wrote:

With such a clear, ideological bias, I would hope that people here would know better than to accept their conclusions without some serious corroboration or fact-checking.

At no point does he argue that what was said is false, only that readers should be skeptical due to evidence of bias and check their facts.

> It's often useful to read more than the first paragraph of a wikipedia article.

It's never useful to be persnickety.
Hm. I don't mean to start a political argument but I'm not sure I agree with this sentiment. I completely see how starting a company can be justified as helping people by providing jobs. But I don't know how reasonable it is to say that starting a tech company will help impoverished people.
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I don't really have to make that clear, because I'm the target market ;-)

No, but seriously: it's a tool I wrote for myself (and other people can use it if they like) - I've optimized for the only case I actually know well, which is What I Want. If you want Something Different, man, there's like 430 billion domain search tools out there, most of which are more focused on pleasing other people than mine.

That's not to say you should shut up or anything - your feedback is great, and I may even act upon it, but I don't want to give anyone the illusion that this is a product intended for mass consumption. It's like I made some brownies, and other people should feel free to take one if they want, and you're even free to say "You know what? These brownies would be better without the almonds," but I'm not necessarily gonna take the almonds out. I like almonds, and you don't have to eat them, and people make brownies without 'em all the time, and I think that's swell. Or maybe it's just that it would be better if I used "real" chocolate instead of Hershey's - but meh, it was there and cheap, so I used it.

(On that subject: it's using NodeJS's built-in `dns.resolveNS`, whatever that means. Didn't see anything referencing SOA, but maybe that's the thing to check? In practice I'm not really bothered with the rate of false +/- at the moment, it seems to work ok for my purposes. If it's a matter of changing one function call, I'd do it, but I'm not going to hack my own DNS wrapper just to get a specialized query. At least, not while I'm in the middle of exams.)
HN is pretty easy to figure out and thanks to Techcrunch et al has had ample opportunity to be overrun with junk. So it can be done. In fact it should be easier because here we all share a front page, but Quora can use the social graph to massage results.
how much are you making a day from this site?
Useful and enjoyable. The idea that there has to be top-tier publications on a language for it to be on Wikipedia will leave us with a lot of boring Wikipedia topics.
I want Flash to die.

I've been a Flash developer for the last five years. I know it inside and out, and I've pushed ActionScript to its limits. It's a great environment for web-based, interaction-heavy software, and there's nothing else I'd be able to use instead of it for the sort of work I do.

But I want it to die.

I can't run a SWF without my MacBook Pro's fans kicking on after 30 seconds, and my battery life dropping to 1/4 of whatever it was.

It's a dastardly circumstance, because there are some things you can do with Flash that are prohibitively difficult to do with other tools. JS/HTML/CSS are getting close, but they're not quite ready yet.
If you are just reading it, here is a sample:

Because Django was developed in a fast-paced newsroom environment, it was designed to make common Web-development tasks fast and easy. Here’s an informal overview of how to write a database-driven Web app with Django.

After 4 translations, becomes:

Django is a reporter for the dynamic environment in the development of the purpose of developing a common task, the network quickly and easily. Here is how to write a web application using Django informal summary of the database.
Sorry, you misunderstood what I was saying. If I were you, I'd avoid lecturing anyone on HN about karma until your reading comprehension improves, particularly someone who's been around here as long as I have (your current karma is -12). You're not even in the black! Thanks for playing, grasshopper.
The blog post doesn't mention all of the aesthetic differences--which, at the current Amazon price point, could justify the price difference for some--so I thought I would mention the others here:

-the headband is leather
-cans have a Sennheiser logo on them
-cans have a chrome ring around them
-comes with a nifty headphone stand / mount

disclosure: I own some 555's, and will be trying this mod at the office on Monday.
AIR apps don't feel right. In the way that, for many, the subliminal feeling is what differentiates good iOS apps from everything else, AIR apps feel weird. All of them.

Call me crazy. But the fact is, there's another layer between the program's code and the OS. That layer is going to introduce some of its own character into the app, when compared to native apps for the current platform. I think that AIR's particular "character" is most unwelcome.
I don't think this is true when devices are being sold throught carriers. carriers would require decent quality , and 10% price reduction for carriers is a lot of money.
I got involved with the deletion debate over the Go! programming language, and was among a handful of people who actually tried to reason out how Wikipedia's notability policies could be improved.

The fact is that Wikipedia is full of articles about people's own pet research projects which have no users and no impact.

Your arguments are solid and worth thinking about, but as you can see, nobody wants to address the wider problem of Wikipedia's poor notability guidelines directly, and have let this devolve into a flamewar.
My problem with you is you're going to be a professor, a profession devoted to the advancement of human knowledge and educating laymen in this knowledge, and you just erased one of the main mechanisms for disseminating computer science to the general public. You just made it harder to get people interested in programming. Amazing.

Instead of improving the pages (which any self-respecting graduate student could do over a cup of tea and a scone) you just erased them. Unilaterally. Imagine if someone at your university decided to do that to one of your papers because they just didn't like it or because some government thought it wasn't "notable" enough. Hell, your department would have a fit if that happened. I also bet your department publishes just about everything a Ph.D. candidate puts out, no matter how idiotic it is.

Yet, here you are, censoring the work of others in your own profession because of some arbitrary rules of "notability" that only work for dipshits like Lindsay Lohan and not for programming languages like Nemerle and Factor.

So yes, you are behaving like an asshole. You are probably a nice guy in person (any grown man who's into Pokemon has got to be fun), but right now, you're being a gigantic Nazi asshole.
Evaluate what the consequences of getting a 90% average are, and decide whether it's going to hurt you or not. If you're applying to very selective schools it likely will. If you're starting your own company it won't matter at all. I did most of my work during my lunch period (it's astonishing how much busywork you can bullshit your way through in 30 minutes--I almost never had any work to do at home except for AP classes), ended up with a mid-90s average, got into a very good college, and am very happy with how things turned out.

Don't ignore the things that don't interest you just because they don't interest you. Even the things that aren't directly relevant to your future can become very useful in unexpected ways. School might be an incredibly inefficient way of learning things for you, but if you're forced to be there, put the time to good use. (I might be very happy with how things have turned out in general, but I do wish I'd put actual effort into my foreign language classes.)

One thing to look into is graduating early. I graduated a year early from HS, and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. (I'm now a senior in college.) I had to take English classes at a local community college for one summer to satisfy requirements, but otherwise it didn't really change much for me. If you're interested, talk to your guidance counselor now. I started planning in the beginning of my sophomore year.

I should really be doing work right now, but if you have questions about anything or would like someone who's been through this before to talk to, my email's in my profile.
Pretty much that, yes.

Also, you have specific idioms for popular compilers (vc, gcc, icc, borland) and value propagation. You could even include an SMT solver to identify constraints and propagate the range to child basic blocks.
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Hey, that's really cool! Way better than mine.

I like the simplicity of the center part, but the polka dots on the edge are killing me. But if you like them, don't change it just because I don't like 'em, design by committee never goes well.
Nemerle has 209,000 results on Google, and the first few pages are stacked with relevant, well-written articles. How is this not notable?

I played with this language a few years back and thought it had great promise(when C# was much less capable). I have read the exact Wikipedia page you deleted, and it got me to write some code in Nemerle.

* Btw, this might get some publicity for Nemerle (and the other languages).
Interesting, I thought Apple didn't know they would get such a hit with the iPad? They had gotten options on production?

I assumed the problem was developing something that could compete with the software (which might have happened with Android 3?).

Edit: My problem with Samsung is abandonware -- drivers, etc -- but I don't know if they are worse than others.
There's just so much culture to unpack in this statement.

Any company -- startup or otherwise -- which treated its employees' personal lives as something other than an expendable resources would treat "a drop-everything-it-needs-fixing-now bug got into production" as an anomalous emergency. There would be investigations after the fact and steps taken to prevent it from ever happening again.

The thing about anomalous emergencies? They don't happen every single freaking day if you are competent.

A company I previously worked for, which was by no means a paragon of work-life balance, had a fairly simple guideline with regards to bugs that were that severe: if there is an engineer four levels down the org chart in the office at 2 AM because of a bug, there had better be three levels of org chart also in the office at 2 AM preparing for an investigation into how they screwed up to let that bug get into a customer's system.
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I agree not all engineers have long-term contracts, but the water is not that deep at software corporations.
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I'd say that when someone 'earns the qualification' is much less important than whether they 'have what it takes'. It's a bit arbitrary to suggest someone only has what it takes after a bit of paperwork has been completed. Failing a dissertation defense is rare and after having published the first work of minor notability, you're as good as set. By that standard, he is probably right that he is qualified.
Many simple, common SVO sentences ("I love you," "he ate a hamburger," "she killed her husband") along those lines will be translated with high fidelity. Those are the easiest case.
You're absolutely right.

It's a lot easier (nay, possible) to do it with the actual Google Translate website, which is where I do all my chained translations. It may seem like extra work, but it lets you get a sense of the qualities of each translation.

Obviously, haha, I've spent more time doing this than most would bother to.
Why are you so angry at them?

If the cigarettes don't cause cancer and aren't dangerous, what reason is there to ban them?
If you could then update the jump addresses (which are relative to IP) -- definitely possible programmatically, then yes. However, I don't believe you had the permission to alter the system software on an AS400.

Not to mention, if you have engineers capable of doing systems programming and re-imaging the system, you're not a target customer for an AS400 or the AS400 is used in such a function where it makes no business sense for you to allocate "real" engineering resources (who are working on your core product, not your accounting system) for this.

The AS400 was/is meant to be a turn key solution: IBM profesional services sets it up for you, after which you run SAP (or the like) on it. It also already came with DB2 and is fairly interesting by making the database the file system (decades before WinFS failed, Hans Reiser went to pursue other interests and btrfs is promising but still unstable).
And the point of this is????
My own annoyance tonight: I forgot my password and it wasn't in 1Password. I go to the login page…and there's no "forgot password" link. Anywhere.

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This was in 2009. What happened since then?

Suzanne summers has a book about some possible cures and doctors btw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQicB_7KNL8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-aYxu4Uys0

By the way, I have a question about free markets or whatever... should there be anything preventing big pharma companies to spend millions of dollars on suppressing a potential cure with FUD campaigns or some sort of leverage (like threatening a partnership), I mean a law preventing that kind of behavior, or no? I am honestly asking, because I think the drug industry in this country is making about $500B a year and any cure will be detrimental to the size of their market and the demand for their products, so it would seem that if they can kill off a cure it would make more $ for their shareholders...
I doubt. Works as well in IE9 as well.
One suggestion I'd make (following up on my directing you to WP:POINT on your talk page) would be to research the history of Improv's famous spree, wherein he speedy-deleted a bunch of articles on different brands of cookies. You may learn some useful things about when to be strict on policy and when not to.
35 citations according to Google Scholar.

So to count for notability:

- An article can't be from a workshop?

- It must solely be about a topic?

- It must be peer reviewed?

At this point you must acknowledge that your own complicated rules for notability have diverged a long way from those stated anywhere else.
I always search SO by Google -> some key words site:stackoverflow.com
In high school US history, there was a daily homework assignment where we had to turn in a 1 page paper on some historical topic (for example, the battle of antietam in the civil war). Teacher never really read the homework- just scanned it for some keywords and made sure no one was copying off of anyone else.

I made a deal with the girl that sat next to me that we would do each others homework on alternating weeks. On her weeks, she'd write two different versions of something similar, paraphrased from the textbook.

On my weeks, I'd copy /paste some blurb from online for her version. Then I'd take that blurb, and run it through babelfish a couple times for mine. Worked great.

One time I got sloppy, and didn't even run mine through the translator. I just handed in identical things in different fonts. She got a check +, and i got a check. I can't describe how furious I was.