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I think the problem is actually deeper than the observation here. The core problem is that software engineering is still very immature. We simply lack a common technical vocabulary of robust and well worn models and generalized systems and their most salient attributes. That lack of being able to describe and understand the operation of components without disclosing the mechanism of their internal operation leads to "black boxes" being blacker than they should be. And that in turn leads to people using components in ways that aren't applicable, because the abstraction was too crude. It doesn't require knowing how a flourescent lamp works to know that they're not well suited to say high intensity search lights, or strobe lights. Software uses can encompass changes of many orders of magnitude, for example, but often the scalability of components is not even part of the vocabulary. Often the naive conceptualization is that a given component is usable in every possible context. This idea is patently ridiculous, but we lack the terminology to move far beyond that. Imagine if people thought that merely because some company made A car that you could use that car for everything automobile related: commuting, cross-country rally races, lunar roving, towing tractor trailers, etc. That's the level of sophistication of abstraction models we are at today.
I don't see any reason to replace Skype.
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thank you. great idea and realization.
Sure, I wasn't commenting on you obviously, just talking about me :) Sorry if I wasn't clear.
I have been thinking of such a system for 20 years and I've finally decided to build it. I need brains bigger than mine, for conversation, collaboration, whatever works for you. My email is jamie via binaryfinery.com if you would be interested.
That doesn't exist yet, right?
I still can't shake the feeling that this review is more of a "Please Buy Us" post...

..so? I'd honestly like to see more of this sort of advertising.
And, because they're paid by those they certify, they have an economic incentive to have certification standards as low as they can without the public rejecting them completely; not a good idea.

We have much the same situation with examinations boards for school leavers in the UK. A competitive market for examinations providers and schools incentivised to maximise pass rates has unsurprisingly led to grade inflation as each board tries to 'best serve their customers'....
It takes 5+ seconds to auto-complete the city, and then 10+ seconds to reload the page after I click on the city. That's pretty slow in my opinion.

BTW, that's a great UI, much better than timeanddate.com (which I normally use)
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I've been designing such a system in my mind for 20 years and not telling anyone in case they steal the idea. What a waste of time! I've finally decided to make this happen and I need interested parties to be involved at any level: conversation, collaboration, coding, ridicule. This is jumping the gun a bit, but I really wanted to contact everyone who has posted here because you are all, clearly, thinking at an advanced level about this stuff. I'm jamie, and my domain is binaryfinery.com. Please write if you'd be willing to converse more.
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Okay, admit it: Who else thought 'Nice, but does it break down for non-integer timezone offsets'?

Added 'Adelaide, Australia'. Obviously the creator of this neat site was way ahead of me though. Really, really helpful, thanks!
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I've been trying to do Literate Programming in one project and somehow I can't stop feeling like this is a big time sink (writing down all this prose) that ultimately makes programs harder to understand (single code module can be spread across half of the file) and harder to modify (when you change one part, you have to look through half of your prose to check if there is something to be removed/rephrased).

I don't know, maybe I'm doing it wrong?
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I'm not an IP lawyer, but according to this other post the patent at issue was filed in August 1992: http://www.lodsys.com/1/post/2011/05/q-opinion-in-several-bl...

Won't that expire in August 2012?
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Also, suggest adding "ZULU" as a synonym for GMT and UTC.
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Thanks felipe,

I can repro this quire regularly now. Will look into the right way to fix.
The simple reason is that the Linux version of Skype might be axed as a result of the acquisition. This has happened before.
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It's great that there's replacements. But let's be serious, I'm not going to be able to convince my friends/family who by and large is not going to care about any changes that MS brings to Skype.

Alternative VOIP programs are not in anyway new, the same issue of getting people to actually use these programs is still prevalent.
I'd use it but wouldn't want to let my friends know I am using it.
It was smarter than that, he'd patented the practice of using genetic algorithms to automatically patent all solutions within a given problem set. Interesting book!
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Sure. We would expect more people doing it if it worked. That guy on reddit who tried it recently suddenly stopped posting after 5 days, so that doesn't help my argument either :)

I don't know though. I certainly appreciate what you're saying, I guess I want to believe you're wrong, but I have no evidence either way. Maybe I should try it myself to see if it works haha.
On the other hand do not worry too much if you do not get in MITas an undergraduate.

A friend of mine did 4 years at a state school of little note, but absolutely did excel at it. He also paid almost no tuition. He now has a full ride at the graduate school at MIT.

This "first in village" hack can save you hundreds of thousands. Obviously, you have to put in the work in any case.
Site name too long, hard to remember.

When you type cities, you get detailed, irrelevant city names, e.g. type london you get all sorts of london, we know I don't mean Londonderry County Borough, UK
It was a pretty standard trope in the 1980s and 1990s that kids learned to use electronic gear from VCRs to Apple computers much faster than adults did - maybe they had more free time, more curiosity, or were just less set in thier ways.

There was a lot of truth in it. You see something similar today - parents marvelling over a child who can play on an iPad before then can even talk.
In most cases there are alternatives to every social platform, and frequently better ones than the popular 'standard'... but if there is no one there you want to talk to, it's not too useful.
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Unfortunately the desktop client needs some work, and AFAIK it supports only windows.

And another thing I don't like about Google Talk is that last time I tried, it had no support for multi-user video-conferencing. Neither do the free Skype accounts, but I think on Skype you can have a video-conference with up to 4 users.

So if Google is going to put some resources into GTalk, then it will kick-ass (you'll just tell your friends / colleagues to download the client and to use their GMail account for login), or just use the GMail web interface (which currently is more capable than the stable desktop client :)).

Otherwise there is no good alternative to Skype.
I know absolutely nobody who uses Google Talk. Posting on Facebook "Does anyone here really use Google Talk?" there was a roaring silence in response.

I can't for the life of me see why you would go from a minor evil service like Skype/MSN/whatever with a variety of clients to choose from to a monsterous big-brother service like Google Talk.

Aren't we giving Google enough power and dominance as it is?

Edit: To comment on the actual article, it seems to be a mix of supposedly fashionate "Microsoft sucks" attitude, standard "Microsoft is evil" paranoia and some legitimate concerns about future support for non-Microsoft platforms.

IMO the only one worthy of discussion would be the last one.
Except that they refuted that very statement in their press release

Skype will support Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a wide array of Windows devices, and Microsoft will connect Skype users with Lync, Outlook, Xbox Live and other communities. Microsoft will continue to invest in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms.

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/may11/05-10Cor...
I wouldnt expect an order of magnitude better on the same benchmark actually, especially as the benchmark in question is for a single core. There is clearly some scope to improve over these, but I doubt it is a factor of 10. Run the benchmarks rather than making claims with no backup.
I have to take the hit for this..

Really? Think of the children? Why do discussions about censorship always lead to

a) child pornography

b) family matters (imagine your children / your wife)

I may very well be stupid, but I cannot understand how these kinds of arguments make any sense. First of all I agree with other commenters: I think your examples are not helping to convice me that this bill makes sense. There's no harm sharing/printing even the kind of links you point out.

Second I fail to understand how this artifical sample helps justifying the bill. If you think that there are ~some~ edge cases where your moral value supports this bill, then it should be restricted to these specific areas. Get a law that bans child pornography. I'm suprised you don't have one yet...

And last but not least: Reducing a discussion to this kind of dilemma ('Are you supporting the bill or supporting child pornography') is very irritating and a somewhat annoying trend.
JSONP does force you to use eval, because JSONP means "instead of returning JSON for me to parse with a JSON library, return executable JavaScript for me to point at with the src attribute of a <script> element". The string consisting of the argument to the callback is de facto evaled by the user agent (when the executable JavaScript is executed) in order for it to become a JavaScript value at all.

The user agent evals the JSONP response before anything else happens: the server might return the string 'yourCallback({"JSON":"rocks!"});', which gets evaled to a function invocation whose argument is whatever the string '{"JSON":"rocks!"}' evals to. If that string doesn't successfully eval (as per the OP), your JSONP is broken.
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The reality is that losing the Linux client for Skype isn't a tragedy, since it sucks and has since the beginning, unlike the Mac client.
I think this is a great idea for bitcoin startup, especially generating halves of encryption keys.
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I think it would be more interesting to recommend music by mood instead of genre.

Jazz doesn't mean a thing. When I'm happy I don't want to listen to down jazz although it's jazz. Maybe I would like some happy funk and metal as well.
I've been doing some GTD on and off, and to me the whole point is pick and choose. The 43 folders is one idea that I thought of as a good one, but not suitable for me.

I wonder if the 43 folders might work in an e-mail form though for putting e-mails off to a later date and then review them.
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Yes, completely.

The story was fundamentally predicated on the assumption that the precognitive telepaths worked as advertised, but that the director's knowledge of their data combined with a data error causing them to take each others' output as input created an artifical scenario that could only really affect that one person. The film, on the other hand, turned them into a fundamentally flawed system that didn't and couldn't actually work; the minority report was removed, the concept of them feeding off each others' data was removed and we were left with nothing more than a motiveless, random crime being incorrectly predicted. Which, to me, completely undermined the point of the exercise.
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Ouch. The Skype Mac client sucks hard. It is pretty feature-complete, though.
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Slate magazine uses a nice way of presenting footnotes, especially in the series of long-form articles it published in the last few months. They use a small grey circle with a + sign in it; when you hover over the circle, a popup appears with the footnote. Some of the long-form articles have entire paragraphs in each footnote, which seem like they've been removed to make the article flow better but preserved for the interested reader who would like more detail. Others are simply corrections or clarifications added after the fact. I'd love it if more sites picked up this convention.

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Really? "Evil" just because it's closed-source? Regardless, I'd imagine most Linux Skype users have at least a few Windows users on their contact lists -- and good luck getting them to switch operating systems.
I'm in no way an expert in this area, but I believe GMT != UTC, so it seems strange to add a synonym for both of them.
Google Talk runs in the browser. I tried it on Windows and Mac without problems. Actually, we found it to be more reliable than Skype at low bandwidths.
So let's say this takes off and becomes really popular. What is the monetization strategy for something like this? Or is there one?
A childrens book is not a regular kind of book. The book is filled with full-page images that support the texts and these are better appreciated in hardcopy form.

Also, you're not going to sit down with your baby and read them a bedtime story from your laptop.
Hm, 3 Options, of which one only supports Linux (Empathy) and one only supports Windows & Linux (Ekiga). Only Linphone seems to have platform support that comes close to Skype. So, cut it down to one.

Personally, I think Linphone looks kind of dated and their site is full of google adwords. I would hesitate to send a link out to anyone.
Doesn't common lisp already give you most, if not all of those things?
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Hi Chapel - you suggest I could have been more objective, perhaps using other people's music collections and getting their own personal opinions. That, of course, would still be a subjective evaluation. It would be better, of course, more opinions means more data. In fact, I welcome people to make the same evaluation with their own collections. Enroll them in all 3 systems, create some playlists and evaluate them. Since most people don't have access to Google Music yet, this is hard to do. Still, you can look at the playlists that I generated and make your own WTF opinions about them. Or better yet, count the WTFs in the playlist Google created during the Google I/O keynote. You can see it at 28:29 of this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxzucwjFEEs Here's a screencap. https://skitch.com/plamere/r9x2k/youtube-google-i-o-2011-key...

There's no objective evaluation of playlists. I've proposed a simple, subjective one that I think gets the job done. I'm happy to try other ones if you have something to suggest.
I see quite a lot of good reasons for it - but the site fails to list any decent alternatives. I don't think there are any at this point.

To give you an impression of things that might speak against using Skype (not that I want to imply that these should matter to you. I merely want to speak for the 'I'd like to leave (but cannot)' side):

1) It's proprietary. We cannot validate the protocol without reverse engineering (and even then they'd be free to break/change it). The security of Skype calls, one of the loudest arguments for using it, is dubious and it seems to be a fact by now that governments are allowed to/capable of recoding your calls.

2) Resource heavy: If you ever compared a Skype conference (audio only) with any other system, the resource usage is ridiculous. Mostly CPU, but also network wise.

3) In your face advertisements: The (unacceptable) UI constantly pops up with 'subscribe here'/'buy credits there'/'did you know all the other ways you can hand over your money'. You can turn off most of these, but an update usually leads to the very same thing.

4) Maybe related to the P2P architecture: The behavior is unpredictable at times. I often see people online, they don't see me. Or vice versa. I can talk to someone on Skype, but messages (say, a link) fail to be delivered. Sometimes messages queue up for hours and completely lose their meaning when they arrive at 1am, asking about having lunch.
For a minute there I thought I'd be able to paste in some text and automagically get a TL;DR. Pretty neat nonetheless.
You are mixing eval() with other stuff.
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Awesome.

I'd love to know if the guy used it for real and if so, how did he reacts when his/her prof asked for explaination about how the code works :-D.
1) Each gmail user is also a GTalk user. It's very convenient to be able to reach people not using any other IMs through the GTalk's web interface.

2) In corporate environment it's sometimes the only option, due to inability to install 3rd party software.

3) There's a huge advantage of GTalk over Skype - Skype is a P2P protocol. If you send a message to an offline contact and disconnect, he will never receive it unless at some point you are both online. It makes sense for VOIP obviously, but for IM that's just ridiculous.

For the same reason there's no server-side history - no way to reach lot of important information after you reinstall the system, break computer etc.