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Yep, this is my experience too. Forming a question that can be approached by others is pretty hard and makes you think.
excuse me for not answering your question, but I have a different suggestion (goes in a similar direction though):

"Erlang in the Real World"

From the top of my head:

- portraits of companies and products who are using erlang

- what does erlang do for them, that is not available in mainstream stacks

- discussing their infrastructure and design desiscions as detailed as possible

- what did they learn

- how are they involved in opensource projects

- numbers and figures of their running systems

This could be a win-win situation. Companies can show their cool stuff. We can learn in what cases Erlang is a good solution.

Anyway - Good luck with your book.
Close. More like 'when a machine does it it's less useful than when a human does it because blablabla', basically because it doesn't have the "feeling".
I use XeLaTeX also, it just seems better than the others and the system font support is not too shabby either.
This is dabbling on the notion of what a "fork" means but to my eyes (and those of most, apparently) they're talking about creating a separate, customized version of Firefox. Which is a fork of Firefox. Which makes the title adequate, Asa, no?
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I think Linus's pragmatism has a lot to do with Linux's success. He's out to make Linux the best it can be, and he's not worried about what MS is doing or what BSD thinks or whatever. He doesn't have the political agenda of the FSF or the commercial agenda of say Apple or Sun. Hardware companies can open, or not open, their hardware - developers can build open, or closed, source programs on Linux.

His approach to licenses is the same - he uses what works for him, and lets others decide for themselves what works for them.

It makes Linux attractive as a platform at all levels because you never feel like you're making some grand statement, or locking into someone's master plan. I have Linux servers in the office, but also Windows desktops. I program code for embedded devices (running Linux). We use the right tool for the job, and if a better tool comes along we can switch. We're not married to the computers, we just use them.

To some extent this makes the whole "Linux on the desktop" issue a non-issue. Maybe it'll be on the desktop one day. Maybe it won't be. Either way it doesn't seem like this matters much to Linus - as he said Linux competes with itself.

I like pragmatism. It gets stuff done.
The document is probably targeted at newcomers from other languages. But still…
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I think this kind of things is well covered in presentations given at any Erlang Factory. Slides and videos are available at erlang-factory.com

I know for a fact there were some really good talks on development & deployment experiences.

Hope this helps.
This short paper [1] has an excellent description of Lua's coroutines, why they're useful, how they compare to continuations, etc. (In short, they are isomorphic to one-shot continuations, but a bit more convenient for many common use cases.) It expands on the paper linked in the post.

1: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/MCC15-04.pdf
I picture Scotty from Star Trek IV:
"Hello, computer."
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I was the sole user of LaTeX in my class of M.S.E.E. students in grad school.

It was like a well-kept secret; someone years ago had written the thesis template for an older version of LaTeX. Because my thesis included a number of mathematical formulas and equations and I hated the MS Word formula editor, and because my thesis advisor used LaTeX to write exams and had a few books on it, I chose to do my thesis in LaTeX instead of Word.

This meant updating the old template to work with a modern version of LaTeX, which took me about a week. After that it was pretty smooth sailing, and when I found I could include encapsulated Postscript output directly from GnuPlot for graphs, I was very happy. The output looked much better than anything Word would have produced.

So my thesis advisor has a copy of the source code to my thesis for the next person who comes along and wants to use LaTeX. I wonder how long that will be...
But in that case, again, it's entirely up to the paying customer. You could have kept your Commodore 6502 to play those games (just like I still have my NES and Sega Genesis) - it's up to you. The actions of the company (and the existence of the company) have nothing to do with whether you can play those games in 2011.
The paper "Yield: Mainstream Delimited Continuations" (http://parametricity.net/dropbox/yield.subc.pdf) states that yield in mainstream languages is equal in power to delimited continuations.

Thus it's possible that Traceur brings delimited continuations to JavaScript, which are the tool for inverting (and abstracting) control flow.
But comes back to it at the Custom Objects part(1). And everywhere. They don't use "class" as a keyword, though, but more in a CS way which can be problematic because other keywords like "prototype", "array" or "object" mean pretty much the same thing in both contexts.

An interesting ressource, anyway.

(1) https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Introduction_to_Object-Orie...
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Because knowing the hardware is, of course, essential to make a well-functioning CRUD app.
This is such a great idea. We already know, from companies like Spotify and Netflix, that people will pay for convenience. (See the article about how Netflix is killing BitTorrent from the other day.) We also know that the paywall model is broken.

By creating a Business Class, news providers are creating a premium product that is actually better. They could also add other value-added services, by (for example) providing tailored notifications. They have a ton of data; why not charge people to make better use of it?
nice! you touched on really valid points. we had the exact same thoughts and decided to try it out at http://yum.sg. still deciding whether to launch it stateside.
Cool. I'm curious how you'll implement it? Recently I took an Agile course at work where they had a similar method -- there was a 3 hour video that everyone was supposed to watch before the course. I'd say about 10% of people watched it.
We're just starting to do this at Mozilla.

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Introduction

Feedback welcome, we're only getting started.
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He's unit-testing Germanium.resistivity(intensity, temperature) like so:

fixed_i = lambda t: Germanium.resistivity(42, t)
for t in range(100, 350, step=10):
assertEqual(fixed_I(t), k*math.expr(t/tref))

Unfortunately fixed_i returns results akin to /dev/urandom because of broken hardware.
ah, ( i guess ) theres nothing substantiating why these humans would be "pets"

is this presuming that we all get Alzheimers? That theres a cap in mental capacity? ??
It was done by email last week.
I've worried about this a little at Mozilla. We have people who get in contact looking for a first bug, and the ideal would be to say "take this exact bug" (this has a very high follow-up rate). But what happens if one person starts that bug, and then another does too. Have we scared both away? Not sure the solution here.
always an instant tell that students were making shit up

Including the correlation coefficient!
Erlang recipes, not that much. Make that Erlang/OTP recipes with a strong emphasis on the OTP side of it, and a million times yes !

Or to say it slightly differently : I'm not that much interested in recipes about the Erlang language itself, but I'm very very interested in recipes/examples of architectures of actual Erlang/OTP softwares.

I'm doing mostly Python these days, but I worked on a couple of side projects in Erlang in the past (a large one ~3 years ago, and a small one ~6 months ago). And for me the hardest was (and still is) to figure out how to use the OTP behaviors in an optimal way. How to make a nice, working supervision tree.

I managed to pull working stuff out of the ground, but somehow it never fell OTPish. I couldn't tell if I did it right or wrong.
Ask HN: what makes Node.js hip?
When RoR became a big thing, I could pretty easily catch up with the events, even as an outsider. I was able to pin it down in one sentence: "RoR implements a popular pattern, MVC, in a language which makes it possible to do it with ease & dynamism at a level that was not seen before". It's a clear selling point, from that I could understand why people jump on the RoR bandwagon.

However, now Node.js seems to be the next big thing, and I'm just scratching my head. I have the respective one-sentence summary at hand -- "Node.js is an asynchronous event-based server side javascipt framework", but that does not let the bulbs go up in my head. "asynch event-based" in itself is not a novel thing, and I don't see why doing it in javascript takes it to the next level, or if not js is the big deal here, then what particular aspect makes it cooler than other similar beasts. (I have nothing against javascript, I just don't see the kind of advantage (over what?) which I could spot with Ruby vs. the
"standard" MVC language, Java.)

Can someone give a better compact summary which reveals the trick more aptly, or point out how the above cited one is a selling point, or explain it in a "What it fixes"[http://paulgraham.com/fix.html] style...

Or maybe there is no point in trying to make it into a silver bullet, it's just simply written well and marketed well?
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... or a comparable word processor from the early 1970's. Perhaps my Google-Fu is insufficient, but for the life of me I can't seem to find the answer. Perhaps there's an elder hacker here willing to take a moment to weigh in. Thanks in advance!
as soon as you can tell a girl: " you've got the option to have healthy kids at age 200 and you're probably going to live to be 1000", and the gravity of that sinks in...

Enormous cascading effects, and comparing these possibility to past events ... im sorry the scale simply pales in comparison.
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Yes, that's what happened to me. I sold my iPhone 3G to my friend ( obviously, I had wiped it before handing it over to him).

Now, I had Fruit Ninja installed, and I had signed up for openFient.. and approved the facebook connect.

Imagine my surprise when a day later - my friend installed Fruit Ninja - so not only did it log me in, it also published to my facebook wall as me. Ended up revoking permissions - something which I should have done, but forgot to do so.
In the Android Market it says:

----- SNIP -------

Phone calls

read phone state and identity

Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like.

----- SNIP -------

But those should be two separate permissions. One for checking if the user is on a call and a different one for reading the UDID, IMSI or IMEI.
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True... except for another big difference: you're not going to get all your news from one site, so in a lot of ways having a decentralized way of handling the way you view it is better since you get consistency across everything you read.
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i like it. i was thinking about the same thing just last week... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2501387 - let me know if you want a collaborator...
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...yes... cough

I agree that it's not an easy problem to solve, but I'm also not sure that you want to solve it (i.e. minimize attrition). You don't want to cripple your project by collecting the maximum number of n00bs possible.

For me it was more like "oh, right, I hate working with people. I can't believe I forgot that." I was just pointing out that the difficulty of collaboration might be a more significant barrier than the commenter I was replying to made it out to be.
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You can also set where users are redirected to.
I'm not disagreeing with you as such (SMS pricing is definitely OTT, especially cross-border given that the transmission between countries and providers is not limited by the 2G per-cell control channel bandwidth), but they currently have account for the fact that a chunk of their subscribers will be sending via the older (limited throughput) method rather than the newer one(s). My phone is capable of everything that is commonly "out there", but right now it is playing at being a 2G handset as the 3G signal is lousy out here.
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If the goal of a CS course is to teach how to make a well-functioning CRUD app, I despair!
Most C++ implementations throw their hands up at setjmp/longjmp/setcontext/makecontext.

Even if it appears to work, it's a dangerous set of routines to use in C++.
I attempted to use LaTeX when I was in college but the school required Word documents so they could load them into software that detects cheating. Now I'm a coder so I rarely write except for documentation. I'd love to use LaTeX again but don't have a reason, really. I could for a resume but Google Docs is too convenient.
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This is why the only lab I enjoyed was in Materials Science. The goal of the labs was never to try to get the data to match some pre-defined equation. Instead, the goal was to test materials and interpret the results. Plus, we got to break stuff. :)
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I agree with the sentiments expressed by many others, and send a huge thank you to the SliceHost crew for offering great service over the past few years.

I've had a SliceHost account since 2008, and a RackSpace account since 2009. I've run servers on both platforms, I've taken a look at the different features and I decided to choose SliceHost.

RackSpace might indeed be cheaper and offer more features, but I chose SliceHost because it is quick, easy to use and gets the job done.

One of the things that sold me on using SliceHost in the first place was your non-SLA SLA, http://www.slicehost.com/questions/#sla

SliceHost has a lot of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie, the RackSpace site has a lot of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
Introducing a "third state" for the SSL indicator, usability-wise, is very difficult. A lot of browser users don't understand SSL, and those that do have a binary understanding of the protocol: it can be used to either confirm or refute the identity of a website. It's very difficult to implement a UI for the regular users that says: "this might be a MITM attack since I cannot confirm the identity of the site but at least I can confirm that it's the same with the one that you connected with the first time".
It's a false sense of security, which is why they put the warning. You have no sense of security when visiting a plain http site.
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I agree completely. This is the main issue that keeps me using iTunes even though I'm a Spotify Premium subscriber.
Somebody added a ticket about this on Spotify's Get Satisfaction page: http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/more_advanced_libr... -- let's go there and vote/like! :)
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Do they have a web version, though? I'd much rather not have to download a client.
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That's how I've always felt. Coroutines are fun to play with in C++, but I'd never be caught dead using them in production code.
I haven't noticed any major slow-downs since using it, and it wasn't listed up before when Mozilla was checking for slow extensions; but yeah, it is pretty heavy-duty.
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Awesome. Added to calendar.
The browser could just not show the "secure" visuals, instead of making us click through another page.
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That was my experience when I used it (about a year ago now). I couldn't add artists to my "collection", I could only create playlists, which led to clutter and wasn't very elegant. Personally Rdio does everything I would want.
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You might end up with two patches. Pick the better one.

Or you might end up with a patch in two days that the other person who started it has left to atrophy for two months.

Not a problem really. The hardest part for a lot of new comers is literally, "Where do I start?" Not every new comer asking for a ticket is a drooling zombie hoping to trash your beautiful project with horrible undead patches.
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I once asked on #python why "?" is not allowed in names of identifiers. People responded by saying that Python prefered cleaner names. So, it was just an aesthetic preference.

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OK, I think I can die now, because, someone just called the military a socialistic culture, which is something I thought I'd never hear. This is even better than my friend, who was educated at University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, believing that the salient attribute of Nazi Germany was its socialism.

The opposite of crude, narcissistic individualism is not socialism. I suggest you consult a dictionary.

(I don't have a rooster in this cock fight—my politics are a muddle of compassion and get-off-my-lawn-ism and faith in human ingenuity[ism?] and I tend to roll my eyes at anyone either espousing or accusing people of practicing socialism.)
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I recommend 'Sophie's World' by Jostein Gaarder, a journey into philosophy.
The OpenFeint model is to use device-level accounts so you don't need to make people sign-up to the service. If they choose to create an email based account with a password, then they can tie their various devices together.
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No, not again. I hoped that the custom scroll bars idea died in 1999...
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Notice that the pattern becomes problematic when you include facebook in the picture, because that's where people give away their real data. I don't think it's an issue with UDIDs - they are an essential component with minimal privacy implications in itself. The problem is mostly with facebook's weak privacy tactics. There is no privacy setting that can hide your fb uid, and indeed, facebook has been very lax about giving it away to just about anyone.
CRUD apps are bread and butter, essential, but unhealthy foods.
By same analogy, classical coal plants use millennia-old technology and that sounds even less ideal.
I guess I wasn't clear enough. It will be very much skewed towards OTP, and not about the language as there are already good books on the language itself.
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[Update 2 : AFLwiz, the courier service is owned by FedEx. Received a call from their head-office. They apologized for the goof-up. I appreciate it. But, no response from Infibeam yet. Even if the goof-up was because of the courier service, Infibeam is responsible for it. It is Infibeam’s responsibility to track packages as well. This also comes in “Customer Satisfaction”.]

[Update 3: I received a call from Infibeam. They apologized about the goof-up. Told me that shipping issues are also their responsibility. I gave my feedback that the orders that i placed was not in my account. Some tech issue i guess. Best part, I am getting the book free. Weird part, FedEx called me to tell that the delivery boy left at 11.30 and the place is 6km from my home. I guess he is coming on foot because 6 hours have passed :P]