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I say the opposite. Lisp's regularity allows the qualities of the program itself to emerge visually. It's amazing how fine-tuned an intuition one develops after a while for code one's looking at when its structure isn't distorted by extraneous demands of the language. In Lisp, I find I am frequently (and often subliminally) processing visual cues to figure out what I'm looking at, prior to parsing what the text says, which is a slower thing to do.

Actually, you get the same effect in any language. You can tell a lot about, say, a Java program by printing it out, sticking the printout on a wall, and walking back 10 feet. But Lisp's regularity makes this effect richer, more powerful, and workable-with at much smaller scale.

Unfamiliarity reactions are not properties of the unfamiliar thing. When you walk into a space that is brighter or darker than what your eyes are used to, you can't see as well. This does not mean the space "lacks visual cues".
No major chain in my area has reserved seating. I really don't understand why not, either. Having huge queues in theaters (and needing to queue therein) is a bad experience for all involved.

Well, to be fair, they may now. It has literally been years since I've visited a theater outside this group's control. I will drive 15 miles or more before I'll check the Cinemark two miles away.
Around 5% of the instructions in a C program are register reordering code introduced by the register allocator (assuming x86 and an optimizing compiler). I do not know the percentage of the register spilling code, which comes on top of this. Effectively, an LLVM JIT also produces shuffle code, but the programmer can use variable names instead of stack reorder operations.
I'm on their $4.99/month plan. I hardly ever send any faxes so I never go over my quota, but it's nice to have my own number to be able to receive them. On the rare occasions I need to send a fax, their editing/signing tools are a true pleasure to use.
The problem here is that they have created a beacon for all hackers that want to create a name for themselves. Of course they are going to have security loopholes, most web assets do, but their standards now have to magnified by a magnitude to keep intruders out.
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The law, regardless of what it aspires to, is designed to accommodate the many, and deal with exceptions on a case by case basis.

The things that have happened to Su Meck are a rarity in every sense of the word. Her circumstances are so exceptional that it seems weird to carve out exceptions in the law, and really should be accommodated by the parties which she would have previously formed contracts with.

On top of that, the law is supposed to draw up distinctions and standards that can be used as yardsticks and metrics, and where there is genuine confusion and vagueness, the law may not have enough clarity from societal standards, or agreement from the medical establishment to be able to draw up reasonable measures.
Obviously it would be nice not to be rude to people who, after all, are working on something that benefits you, if you are prepared to call other people out like this:

http://rubyhitsquad.com/Ruby_Hit_Squad.html

Then I believe you should probably have a thicker skin in return.
Two factors that the government has little or no control over, yet the libs will attempt to heavily capitalise on. Oh how I wish politics focused on the real issues.

Clarification: high fuel prices is an issue, just not a direct one. Rather it is an issue of planning, technology and development. For example, build better rail infrastructure, public transport and plan away the suburban sprawl in the major cities and people will be less concerned with fuel prices as they won't need to drive as much.
Complementary skills and experience are always high on my list of what to look for in a partner or co-founder.
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Don't know why you were downvoted, it's a decent point you make. There are people who dedicated their entire life to an idea or ideal, and succeed _that_ way.

Perhaps it's useful to distinguish between "entrepreneurial" success-stories and achievements like Einstein's
Smokers have a 11-17% chance of developing lung cancer, according to this study.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7895211
"The Fourier transform is a well-known mathematical trick that can in essence extract the different colours from an input beam, based solely on the times that the different parts of the beam arrive.

The team does this optically - rather than mathematically, which at these data rates would be impossible - by splitting the incoming beam into different paths that arrive at different times, recombining them on a detector."

This is cool, and makes sense.
The sad thing is that the Boston-area AMC multiplexes included THX (and HPS-4000) certified theaters (but not all screens have the certs). Screen illumination is part of the THX TAP spec, I wonder if any of the AMC THX theaters are out of spec.
More details: http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/05/sony-bgm-greece-hack-co...
Think he was living reasonably comfortably off the site prior to its sale.
You've probably seen this already, but have you considered the Harvard Extension School? I don't know the details, but I do know the extension school offers some classes taught by the same professors that teach regular Harvard classes.

An example of these classes is Prof. Michael Mitzenmacher's algorithm's class, which is both challenging and fun. I think the class is offered online and maybe in person during the summer.
(http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2010-11/courses/21462.jsp?c... )
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What determines word length? Not frequency after all.
Anything I have tried to use Mono for has not worked. Maybe there is a subset of of .net stuff for which Mono works perfectly, but I do not think we should say that .Net or Silverlight are cross platform based on an incomplete Mono implementation.
Its just one more thing that is driving me out of the theater. The food prices, the terrible lighting, the advertisements, oh the ads! All of these things make me want to stay at home with my big plasma display. Keep this up and theaters will die. :/
If you can get introduced it's normally more effective than an e-mail.
the problem runs deeper. When version 2 of the ThirdParty class ships, suddenly your class doesn't work. If another team has subclassed your class and overridden your printResult routine, you are effectively stuck. You can't take in bug fixes that exists in version 2 and the other team effectively couldn't move forward either. Remember, this is best practice OO, and there really hasn't been any changes to the interface. So effectively this is like version 1.01.

It is namespace pollution of a very subtle and devious kind.
To be fair, the deprecation message spam is a downright failure.

Fortunately, RubyGems reverts to its previous version really easily.
...within the syntax constraints of s-expressions. Forth allows you to define your own syntax as long as it's whitespace delimited.
You should know that your account appears to be [dead].
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Causes of the current problems are bad fiscal policy and believing that economic growth is forever sustainable. If there are too many holidays in those countries, then how is the U.S. economy in the place it is now (with the least vacation days in the world)?
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My biggest problem with 3D movies is that although 3D means you're supposed to be seeing the action as real in front of you, they keep using weird camera lenses that have weird effect on the scene.

Take for example Thor 3D: most of the scenes involving wide shots are good if you take off the glasses, but if you put them on, the combination of 3D and the wide angle lens makes your brain think that you are watching small puppets, and not the intended "people next to huge rocks".

There are lots of bad 3D movies because of this, and I cant believe nobody complains about it. The only movies that seem to work in 3D are animated cartoons.
Meh, twin rooms are NOT common in the US. If you do what the girl in the article did and you are looking to share a flat in the US, the expectation would be that you would have your own bedroom at the very least.
"they're" refers to a party in third person, while it should refer to "us" which is in first person.
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they're called brackets
do you have any resources that are more rigorous?

For light bedtime reading, there's An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Kolmogorov-Complexity-App...

That is, the laws of thermodynamics concisely phrase the increasing entropy of the universe with a low Komolgorov complexity, suggesting that the mechanics of the universe operate with a low Komolgorov complexity.

I'd agree with that.
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Possibly the UK? I've never heard of a cinema here without reserved seating - I didn't realise it was anything special...
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Olark.

Anyone who doesn't use Olark on their site is at a huge disadvantage.

Happy to pay em.
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I do not see the need to constantly evolve a language and/or push for rewrites from scratch. Java as a language succeeded precisely because it was relatively simple, yet powerful enough. For example, I believe that adding generics was a mistake, especially in a crippled form (due to compatibility with previous language versions).

I favor switching the language/environment once you feel that you need more expressing power. E.g. use Scala, Jython or Clojure if you need JVM, or perhaps Erlang for server-side.
Yep, "none" is not always singular. For example: "None of them are coming today" instead of "none of them is coming today". It is generally considered unidiomatic to use the latter.
... and as long as every sequence of words is a valid program.
I think the OP's point is that Su Mecks are rare today, but they will happen more often as technology can save more people. Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death seems to have fewer edge-cases than our current criteria for declaring death.
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You are like these crazies announcing the end of the world. Yes, it will happen eventually, but if you don't know when, you're not adding anything to the debate by stating the obvious.
always enjoyed andrew's blogs in the past and judging from this outline, sure to be dynamite stuff coming out of his smart mind in the near future.
No kidding. First thought was, autoblog?
There is (was? I haven't been to SL for a couple of years) a thriving live music community.

Have you played in front of the crowd ? I did - and even if the crowd is virtual, it's a pretty cool feeling.

My employer did rather successful seminars/meetings in SL.

There was also a research that the virtual worlds are a sort of therapy for the autistic folks (http://goo.gl/iaOH7)

Finally, a small story I heard from someone.

A couple walks into the "club" in secondlife. They ask the DJ to put on a particular song and start dancing. When the music finishes, they thank the DJ and the woman explains - "It's the first time in 20 years that we're dancing. My husband can only move in the wheelchair".

That story alone is a sign that SL has served and is serving its purpose. And that everyone can find the different things.

As for your points:
- "...even when they can create anything themselves." - Much the same way as everyone can make a painting, or a poem, or a song. They can, but to be good you need to devote the time to it.

- "Lame commercial "theme parks"..." - these are companies that did not get the potential of the secondlife, and treated it like a video game - hired the consultants to build what they thought would look good - which they did. But they did not put a life behind those constructs. Ergo, lame theme parks.

- "vice". Participating in the pyramid scheme in SL and learning about it in a painful way by losing a few hunderd dollars is way better than putting all your life savings into the banking scam in real life. And if a kinky sex with a virtual stranger averts even one occasion of the aggression in real life - that'd be great, isn't it ?

As for attacks - lots of it is the same /b/chan crowd that plays the pranks in real life - it's all for lulz of disturbing others. So I do not see a whole lot of interesting there.

As for the "interesting" technical part - opensim (opensimulator.org) was (is?) a pretty fun project, it recreated to a larger extent the server side of the second life.

So, to summarize - I think there's more to it than it seems. :)
Sounds obvious now, but don't obsess over abstracting everything in the application ("Oh, I need to create my own authentication system with redundancy and openid support!") where it's not necessary.

I've spent countless hours fumbling over parts of code which weren't really integral to the prototype at all... such as a custom javascript library...
GNU Source Highlight is an amazing thing.

Last time I tried, it mishandled xml elements containing hyphen. Only the part before the first hyphen was highlighted, the rest was just left as it was.
I truly believe 3D can be a massive plus for the theater experience. But there hasn't been a match of "good movie" and "good 3D" yet. Not outside of animation. DRIVE ANGRY had good 3D. PRIEST has good 3D. But they aren't good movies. THOR was a decent film with awful 3D.

A big part of it is experience, too. DRIVE ANGRY was the second 3D film for its director. PRIEST is like the millionth 3D film for its cinematographer.

The time will come. I'm sure of it. I just hope it comes while people still see 3D films.
MacRuby was version 0.1 about 3 years ago. A lot happened since, and we expect the next release to be our 1.0 RC. For Cocoa development, it's very stable, we haven't received any critical bug report since at least 3 releases.
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Guess what, syntax sometimes actually helps readability. For example Python's "something[2:-2]" to remove the first and last to elements of a list or maybe characters of a string.

Lisp is the language, where you have to write the AST yourself instead of having a language-defined parser.
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Haha, great comment. Upvoted, and thanks for the link! :)
In L.A. there's one local chain with reserved seating, Arclight. They check the sound and image for each screening too. It's a quality experience at a premium price, but I dislike the reserved seating. People cluster, which I don't like, so I often get up and move once the show has started.
Same in Norway and Sweden. The only place that I know of that doesn't have reserved seating is the smaller indie cinema.
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Pirates 4 is terrible 3D from a director that barely knows how to use 2D effectively. His idea of 3D was all gimmicks, and quite cheesy ones at that.
I was being unclear. I meant that it's unclear whether or not he had 'industrial grade' stuff. And with reference to 98% hydrogen peroxide, I'm not sure it's needed in that high of a concentration for the kind of rockets that he was attempting to make. I just recall John Carmack complaining that it was difficult to get 98% H2O2 in the large quantities needed for his X-Prize attempt.
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Since people don't typically act irrationally, ...

No? I see it all the time. Not with everything, but at least a few things, especially when something is near and dear to the heart.

People often believe the things they really want to be true, and rational calculation doesn't figure into it.

Not to say that the Earbits wave is or is not based on some measured plan, just that repetition of behavior is no indication that someone has made a rational judgement.

In any event, the user 'earbitscom' is clearly interested in one thing: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=earbitscom
I quit my job few months back. How much money you have in the bank has no bearing on how you feel about not having constant income. (fyi, I saved up lot more than your number).
On a day without much progress, I stress myself that had I been at my job and goofed off, I would still make the money.

Here are a few tips:
1. Have a project that you are ready to launch.
2. validated from users/customers that they are interested in it.
3. Figured out how to market your project/product.

I had 1) but not 2 and 3. It is a long process to learn what customers care about and what channels you need leverage to market it.

I read everything about startups over the years , worked at one and still wish someone told me specific things like
1. How to validate a project idea before you spend too much time on it.
2. How to effectively market it.

Goodluck.
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What i am saying is that as long you try to "improve" your project with marginal "improvements" you will fail at anything. For the majority, things like message pack is micromanagement. It will cause a lot of work and noise with minor improvements. The tradeoff is too high, for the majority. The minority are people who already have shit done. That are people who are actually saving alot of money with squezing the last bits of performance out of something. my viewpoint is probably out of scope because its wholistic, but thats where to start.
I found that comment sort of odd. Usually people are pissed off at rich folks because they use their money to insulate themselves from the world at large. Here is someone that was rich and trying to affect social change. And we complain that he was not spending more time using money to isolate himself from the 'mendicants?' Huh?
I live in a houseshare with a bunch of strangers at £675 a month.

Where I used to live I had my own place, but ever since moving down here I've had to 'downgrade' to living with people you don't really like or don't really speak to.

The fact that us young folk have to bunk up with others to make living down here affordable is an indictment of the property market in London and the UK.
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Most people have a passion for something, even if that something is doing nothing. I'll bet that most of the people that agree with that comment wouldn't agree with it if it were advocating that he should have given up watching sports/playing video games/playing sports/reading books/etc.
Their validity has nothing to do with complexity though
I went to Maker Faire for the first time this weekend. I definitely wish I had more exposure to stuff like that growing up.
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Sorry, I should have specified that I was using the word rational in this way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory namely, "that an individual acts as if balancing costs against benefits to arrive at action that maximizes personal advantage"
I'll bet they wanted it in Downtown TO just because there was better access to higher-quality hotels to house the leaders and their aides. They would rather spend billions in tax payer money to try and bring the downtown core of Toronto under martial law for a few days than to host the conference somewhere where the attendees might have to be in a hotel room that doesn't qualify as a presidential suite.
When reading Scheme code for Chicken Scheme packages I find myself thinking – “So this is why Lisp is unpopular, it really is the parentheses!”

I am not experienced reading Lisp code, but I find the many levels of indentation and the abundance of parentheses overwhelming. I don’t know if this is the case with Common Lisp code.

In Chicken Scheme however, parentheses are interchangable with other brackets – so you can add visual cues through your style if you don’t care much about portability.
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s/reducing/increasing. My bad
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Yes, but the title is enough for people to agree before clicking. Good choice, I guess.

Myself I was also expecting a more detailed article about the economy, the communities... And it's just a basic rant about the time it takes to load items.
Or it may never happen. Security is a culture and a way-of-life. It's not a couple of technologies, a new CTO, and a couple policy emails and training sessions.
I didn't learn anything from this, but I've been using d3.js most of the weekend to help me build dynamic SVGs for a project. With d3 handy, I say SVG. :)
I'm sure a lot of people won't like this, but hey, fight fire with fire. Send him an email - use formal language - stating how he's not entitled to a refund due to the nature of your work, and making slanderous threats about damaging your reputation. Make sure to point out the legal implications of the threats he's making.

Here's the fun part: end it with "P.S. I've CCed in my lawyer". Find a local lawyer firm and just make up anybodysname@lawyerfirm.com, paste that in the CC field.

Worked for me once before. They get scared, look up the actual lawyers online - they're real - stop with their threats. This is cheaper than getting an actual lawyer but equally as effective at scaring them out of it.
Just be civil and nice when you have a problem. I think most maintainers actually don't mind people but when you get a constant barrage of demands for functionality or people telling you that you suck because your project don't quite measure up to their standards I can see how people can get to the point where they lash out. Most open source project are after all a hobby or pastime for people and it's important to remember that before ragging on someone.

Civility is key in all human interaction.