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I have chosen to look further into Scheme rather than Common Lisp, in part because it appears simpler, but also that Common Lisp is said to be directed by a standard that has stood still for many years and which doesn’t address many new issues faced by programmers. Scheme appears more nimble with many different implementations for different purposes.

For historical reasons, I would call Scheme a Lisp, and I would not use the word Lisp as synonymous to Common Lisp. Common Lisp surfaced after Scheme, and Lisp was used of programming languages even before Scheme.
Should be, otherwise how would that be different from renting a room in Liechtenstein at $70 a night ?
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> Would it be possible to remove selected functionality or routines from software and implement them as hardwired circuits on the A5, going beyond selected IP blocks and designing circuits specific to the software?

Awesome, and Apple is in a position to do it. Imagine pushing down bits of the OS (or even common app functionality) to silicon! But to voice a heresy: is more performance needed?

I played with an iPad 2 last week, and it doesn't feel any faster than an iPad 1 (apart from occasional pauses disappearing). Now, this isn't a fair test, because there wasn't any new software on it that took advantage of the greater performance.

Will that software appear over time? Games will certainly find a way to use it; but it's very striking to me that the iPad 1 was so well engineered that it didn't seem to suffer from any performance problems. And the software didn't seem to be lacking. Of course it's a truism that people will always find a use for more processing power - but it doesn't seem to be true any more. Computers are now fast enough for most people. Even new game console generations are coming less slowly; the wii has less power; people are preferring laptops, netbook, iPhones, even though they have less power than desktops. That means that the extra performance isn't of absolutely crucial importance. Maybe it's nice to have - but once something is fast enough, you don't really notice if it's even faster.

Is it really possible that the iPad has already overshot the performance that the market requires? Is there an iPad app that makes you think "this thing is so slow, it's really irritating to use! If only it was a bit faster..."
Who's in with me? :D
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The worst mistake in human history was me reading this terrible article. The author doesn't think hierarchical societies are possible in hunter/gatherer societies?
Your specific example doesn't read to me like subterfuge at all. It looks to me like an informal discussion which may lead to a purchase of securities. After you say "yes" via email, we will probably construct an actual contract specifying details.

The disclaimer makes certain that both you and I realize this isn't an offer, just a conversation.

You might get into trouble if you routinely engaged in securities transactions via email with such a disclaimer. But if you handle all actual trades with a legalistic form containing no disclaimer, and informal conversations in email with a disclaimer, the disclaimer is likely to hold up in court.
Might be worth mentioning that the Google Translate app for IOS already had this feature for a while. It actually works surprisingly well in all the languages I have tried (even though I speak some of them with a horrible accent).
I suspect they just added an interface for Chrome to an existing back-end.

Update: I just noticed that this is actually an implementation of the HTML Speech Input API (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/201...), so technically this could appear on any site. This makes things actually a lot more interesting :)
Safari to join "Do Not Track" crowd, leaving Google behind
It evolves over time as the retailer (Gilt) gains more volume and hence more power. If you look at Gilt, Groupon, etc. you are looking at companies that have spent a while gaining a very large channel for selling discount goods. This means they can pick and choose between wholesalers and products.

When starting out they will typically have to guarantee a certain volume to get the pricing they need and eat the product they can't sell. So it does require a fair bit of capital to get started which is why they typically start out with clearance inventory where the wholesale price is so reduced.
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But if you make an app free temporarily, you can get a spike in the ranking that can't be sustained with a free app.

But there's a problem because people might get used to it being free every once in a while. They might try waiting for it to become free again.
One of the things I hated most about Portland was the culture around startups needing to pay for coaching, etc...

I was worried about the pay to play issues with the Portland Seed Fund and heavily encouraged them not to do that. In fact I told them I wouldn't help or speak if the pay to play stayed and they removed it.

So hopefully they'll talk about this next week because they've told me that they will NOT be charging an application fee.
why? i see one or two possible issues but nothing like experts exchange. insight would be appreciated
Honest, deep , thanks guys :)
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Nigerian activist groups use mobile technology to prevent electoral fraud
A group of young Nigerians and civic advocacy organizations are using mobile technology to monitor Nigeria's elections for fraud and other electoral irregularities.
I wonder why they're pursuing a proper extension of Scala. Odersky is working with a group in Stanford to make the language even more extensible, in order to enable parallel 'languages' to be implemented as domain specific languages (i.e. as libraries). This seems like a much easier and more fruitful way to popularize Oz (or something Oz-like).

Reference: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/150346/files/onl0000031-ch...
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When I was looking at moving to Portland about 18 months ago, companies there wanted me to take a 40+% cut in pay versus what I'm making in San Francisco. Granted, I only talked to a couple of companies, so maybe I just picked the wrong ones. Things might also have changed since then, thanks to the economy picking up and the higher competition for software engineers.
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I think your comment highlights a difference between the Android and iOS communities. Android users just want free software, while iOS users don't mind paying for quality. Guess which platform ends up with the slickest software, with the most spit and polish. Developers find paying customers on iOS, so that's where the develop.
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i was just using "city" as a placeholder since it was used in the article. most of the problems mentioned in the article are perfectly capable of surfacing at a much smaller settlement size.
Thanks, that's exactly what I'm trying to figure out, how to reduce friction while programming Lisp in vim. Will keep googling and experimenting.
It's because Chrome just added support for the Speech Input API:

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/03/talking-to-your-computer-...
I just noticed that too; that is of much broader interest :)
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Very insightful and inspiring look at the process of smaller scale design and manufacturing. Looking forward to a similar write-up for the Cosmonaut, another project they have up on kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danprovost/the-cosmonaut...
That may be part of the reason Portland is not keeping up with other tech centers. Taking a 40% pay cut just to work in Portland is kinda... dumb.

I mean, did these startups accept a 40% cut in their valuation or funding rounds because they are based in Portland? Do they pay 40% less to host with Amazon or Rackspace? It's just ridiculous and kind of insulting. I once had someone pull that on me re. a job in Florida. The dude was like "hey, there is no income tax here!" And I was like "hey, bmws cost the same all over the country." (Not that I drive a bmw, mind you. I drive a 129$/mo honda civic. It's just the principle of it all.)
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I've seen many of these "intro to algo" presentations and I have to say this is one of the best. I suppose the Web 2.0 minimalist style helps to facilitate understanding very well. Perhaps there could be sites that could provide math tutorials in the same way.
Apple are taking their 30% cut, right? I'm not sure how Amazon's terms interact with in-app purchases, but presumably they've thought of this.

If the NYT sells an app with bundled one-year subscription, Apple gets 30%; if the NYT sells (well, sold) an app and a separate one-year subscription, Apple gets nothing. If the original app is sufficiently useless, this "in-app purchase" is clearly just a way of not paying Apple.

(Apple is not free of blame in that particular fiasco, and they take quite a large cut. But taking an equal cut in either case is not necessarily unreasonable.)
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The purpose of Free Software to build hardware?

No, you got it wrong. The purpose of Free Software is to escape from the monopolies created by proprietary software (i.e. only the parent company of such software can provide support and fix it for you); which is not the same with other products, like cars, for which you can always find a local repair-shop. So even if normal people are not developers or hardware builders, they can rely on local businesses that may be cheaper, while also helping the local community.

A valid point nonetheless. Search for any of RMS's talks and he'll bring this point up.

No, because most people are not programmers

I've got dozens of non-programmers as friends. Many of them own iPhones. All of them know about jailbreaking, many of them did it -- some with net-tutorials, some by paying local smarty-pants that unlock phones for a living.
Terminal (at least as of 10.6) allows you to select-to-copy/middle click paste within the same Terminal window. Not full blown support, but at least it's something.
Awesome, I hadn't heard that news yet, that would make me much more comfortable recommending the program. The other big one that stands out to me is Portland Ten.

I've been unsure about what I've seen from the Mentoring and Knowledge networks (I'm not following the Financing network) that were started after the software summit, but I think they could prove to be very valuable.
WebEngage - a customer engagement tool for publishers
WebEngage (http://webklipper.com/webengage) is a customer engagement tool for publishers - a product by Webklipper.
WebEngage essentially does two things -

1. Let website owners get feedback from visitors on their website - an automated screen-grab of the current webpage can be optionally attached.
2. Let website owners conduct targeted short surveys from visitors on their website - the targeting can be done on the basis of several UI parameters like - referrer, URL patterns on the site, time spent, user's GEO data etc; plus a lot of custom key/value pairs chosen by the publishers.

We did a private beta 5 days ago for the product and we are being piloted by over 45 websites already. Do give it a shot on http://pluggd.in (see the feedback button on the right). That's our feedback part of the offering. We'll be rolling out the surveys in another 2/3 weeks. Publishers get instant email notifications and a dashboard to manage all their widgets and feedback.

Would love to get your good/bad/ugly feedback on this product. Also, if you'd like to try it out on your site/blog, please request for an invite here - http://webklipper.com/webengage

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Easier possible-answer than the others so far: if they have the audio, they can train their engine.
is it only me that "I dont get the idea"... (I was wrong many times before)
I prefer without
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Great quote, and very much something to keep us going when we have even a small win
Asking a CL advocate whether Scheme is a Lisp is like asking a plantation owner whether his slaves are human beings.

The page's second argument for why Scheme is not a Lisp ridiculous. Basically: CL is meant to be the Lisp, therefore Scheme should just go away.

As an ardent, strident even, Schemer, it is my reasoned opinion that only a mentally disabled person would today design a LISP-2; the idea that function names occupy a namespace distinct from other objects makes less sense than Perl's syntax.

CL and Scheme occupy, by design, I am comfortable saying, two distinct roles in the Lisp world: CL is the New Jersey Lisp whereas Scheme is the MIT Lisp.

That said, there's a new New Jersey Lisp in town, and it wipes the floor with CL. It's called Clojure and it's a LISP-1 for kicking ass and taking names.
This is sweet! I'll consider using it for an upcoming project.
you remind me recent 'Oprah trolled' meme :)
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There is one serious problem with this reasoning though. A realistic scenario might be that somebody decides that they want to buy your app and then compares the price at a couple of different app stores and decides to buy it at Amazon because there's a 10% discount but would have otherwise bought it elsewhere. In this case Amazon would have gained profit from the discount while you would have lost it.

How this ultimately plays out for the developer is hard to predict because it depends on how the market develops. If the Amazon store becomes very successful and their audience shops there regardless of whether or not there is a discount then this effect will be small. The terms guarantee that users will only find discounts at Amazon and this will make them less likely to check other stores when they find an app at Amazon even if it's full price. If that's how customers behave then the optimization will stay more favorable for the developer.
Android STT isn't client side, that's why you get a "connection error" message if you turn data off and try it. STT is a problem best solved with big iron.
There were already a few false positives (http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1078239-Pirate-catching-cat...).
The term we're looking for here is "excrete"
Gah!

"Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest-lasting life style in human history."

And since then, all we've managed to do is construct the entirety of human knowledge. Atoms, DNA, trips to space.. I mean I'm sitting in air-conditioning write this over the Internet. On a mid-tier laptop that exceeds every scientific capability that hunter gatherer societies ever had.

But, the author makes a fair point that

"Gorillas have had ample free time to build their own Parthenon, had they wanted to."

And yes, hunter gathers did make scrimshaw and paint ochre on rocks.

This article is like a hookworm in my brain. I wish I could un-read it. So awful in so many ways.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/AlgoRythmics By far the best. Is it possible to implement something like this?
I look forward to giving this a shot. I have been used to the Terminal application on my iPhone, even with the gestures, and it was never any fun to work with. I saw that you implemented arrows on the keyboard, and I was in. Thank you.

I believe this is my first Tier 5 purchase, I'm such a bum.
Who do you think runs all those well-functioning institutions you expect to take up the slack? People who are literate and clued in to the prevailing culture.

You need only to know that "adding more programmers to a project makes it later" to understand that adding more people to the USA is not going to magically make things better for everyone.
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What's interesting to me about the Speech Input API is that most browser vendors don't have access to the underlying technology to make the api useful. Microsoft has the tech, and Apple has it a little bit, but certainly Mozilla and Opera do not. They might be able to afford providing it through 3rd party access, but any one smaller than that (read: community browsers) aren't going to be able to implement this.

It's the first HTML standard that I can think of where this is true.
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The initial rounds of Gilt were very limited on offerings (unlike the 6 or 12 designers they now carry daily) it was still high end though, so that initial entry point was indeed there for the early "designer" items, but as momentum gained on revenue/capital they snowballed to the current state.

To further pad this shortcoming in the early stages Gilt was invitation only, and had a lot of control of the influx of new customers to the site, which helped two-fold: promote the air of exclusivity and buffer for the smaller initial supplies/vendors from being out of stock too quickly. This also promotes traffic to the site as items, as they do today, sell out in popular sizes/prices fast, your users are logging in sooner/more frequently to grab a "deal".
As an FYI, the creator for The Big Picture now works for The Atlantic and did a very similar photo gallery several days earlier:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/japan-earthquake-...
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Yes, but the "must match" rule is what I was talking about.
I agree. I've never felt this way, but it's obvious some people do. I made this comment[0] about a rendering issue a while back and was surprised when it got 3 upvotes.

[0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1852048
I use vim for developing in Lisp, using Nekthuth to connect to SBCL's REPL:

http://nekthuth.com

Nekthuth doesn't have anywhere near the number of features or intimate integration with Lisp that SLIME has, but it's good enough for me.

I had tried Emacs with vimpulse and viper mode. Although it did make using Emacs less painful, it still required way too much knowledge of Emacs to use effectively and configure than I had time to dedicate to learning it.

Emacs+SLIME+vimpulse+viper might be good enough for someone who already knows Emacs or who hasn't invested a lot of time in learning vim. But for someone fluent in vim, I just don't think huge time investment in learning Emacs well is worth it.
> Android users just want free software, while iOS users don't mind paying for quality.

that seems like a gross generalization. Having had and used both android and iOS I never saw that behavior in myself or others.

I have to agree with OP, i don't understand the excitement over this SSH client, interface included. A shell prompt is one of the oldest interfaces. iOS can support 3D graphics rendering and gaming and panic is selling a $5 SSH prompt. Seems bizarre.
What exactly is your question? I admit I can't imagine spending $70k/night on entertaining my guests, but Googling for "airbnb liechtenstein" or variations shows that this has already got them a good amount of press, including e.g. TechCrunch. If they're lucky, and good, they may even get mentioned in the trivia section of a big newspaper.
IE9 not supporting XP at least had some sort of justification, regardless of whether it was a good decision. Vista was a large platform upgrade/rewrite, and they mentioned particular features IE9 was using that they didn't want to bother re-implementing for XP (graphics stack, security). But Win7 is not such a drastic upgrade over Vista (architecturally, anyways). So what's the explanation for this?
IANAL: You can write whatever you want in your legal agreements and it will probably work for almost all scenarios. At the very end of the day ownership can be a trump card though. A majority owner is in a position to argue that the legal agreements are invalid, etc.
That's nice. Although I really like using git-emacs. https://github.com/tsgates/git-emacs
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Oh man, Repast. I love the simulator but I had a heck of a time initially trying to get anything done.
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I was just looking for a simple SSH client for the iPhone today, and was disappointed that all the apps cost a few pretty pennies. Any recommendations on the SSH client(s) that will get me the best bang for my buck?

EDIT: I caved and just bought Prompt. It is indeed pretty slick, though I don't have other iOS SSH clients to compare it to. There does appear to be some bugs: I can't seem to "disconnect" from a session, even though it's already hung. The little "eject" icon in the servers list doesn't seem to work.
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> They are a medium level of SOL if I just walk and don't give them work/help

The business is not your friend. The business is not your lover. The business does not love you, the business is a business.

Yeah, they're SOL if you just walk. But they'd be just as SOL if you died / were fired. Don't 'do them a favor' if they wouldn't do the same favor for you.

> I don't want to leverage that at all, or at least minimize them feeling like I am squeezing them for all they are worth.

The company doesn't love you. It's a business relationship, not making a website for your dad's war buddy. This is a job to put food on your table, not a quick project for a buddy.

They don't love you. You are doing them no ill by 'squeezing' them for all you're worth.

>Does anyone have some pointers here on how to go about this? Both keeping things as amiable as possible and maximizing my rate.

Let's break this down. You want to keep things amiable as possible, but remember that this is business, not a relationship. This isn't negotiating who gets the kitten with your ex, this is negotiating how much food you get to put on your table with a company. Again, they don't love you.

> Maximizing my rate

Well, how much do you need to earn, eof? That figure sets the baseline for whatever you ask for, so figure out that baseline.

How much would you need to take in each month to cover all of your expenses (food, rent, insurance, development, savings, taxes)? That's the minimum you need to ask for.

How much do they pay employees in the industry? You were earning $70k after 6-moths, so we're looking at a per-hour / per-project equivalent to that.

How much would they pay the freelancer that will fill your shoes if you just walked?

That's a lot of questions from me to you - sorry! - but it's questions that need to be answered for you to figure this thing out.

You're quitting so you have free time and have a lot of work on the side. If one of your other clients came to you with this exact same project, how much would you charge them?

Charge your current employer no less than that. You're quitting so you have the time and mental space to focus on what you want to do. Don't put yourself at a lower rate because you 'owe' the company something. You owe them nothing. The company doesn't love you. If it ever was more cost effective for them to replace you with a bobble head, they would do it in an instant.

tl;dr:

• Figure out how much you need to live the life you want to live

• How much would you charge Joe X for this same work?

• Don't settle for less than that and don't be afraid to walk away if they won't pay what you'd earn elsewhere. The company doesn't love you.