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This is not actually a dead link, but posterous is intermittently 404ing sometimes. Reload a couple times if that happens, sorry. :-/
I agree the person starting a new business won't take into account tax implication but investors surely do.
Healthcare - Health insurance is often a luxury in America. The elderly have Medicare, but there is (currently) no safety for most citizens.

I get a little tired of hearing this. Study after study after study indicates that diet and lifestyle play a major role in all major deadly diseases. I was an American military wife for a couple of decades. Even after my divorce, I was entitled to free medical care at tax-payer expense. I did nothing to try to preserve that entitlement* because I was too busy making the dietary and lifestyle changes I needed to make in order to get well when I was told by some specialist that I would never get well. Eat right, exercise, don't smoke, don't drink to excess and all that other boring advice no one wants to hear and you greatly reduce the odds that you will need expensive medical care.

* And I'm saving the American public quite a lot of money because my medical condition is one of the more expensive chronic incurable conditions out there. It annoys me that it's all coming out of my pocket to get well but other folks would happily pay through the nose to help me stay sick and keep me a lifelong legal drug addict. /Rant
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In this case he has been very explicit about the number and types of people in the study.

From the article:
"In total, 16 iPad users participated in the new study. Half were men, half were women. The age distribution was fairly even for 14 users between the ages of 21–50 years; we also had 2 users older than 50. Occupations spanned the gamut, from personal chef to realtor to vice president of human resources. "

I think the key is not to think in terms of 'statistically significant' as in a formal scientific study of a single fact, but in terms of 'useful feedback from real users.'
I think you are all missing the irony here...
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Two typos, actually. Wow.
I think for this type of project Sinatra and MongoDB would work great. I've used this setup to build web services before with great success.
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> You guys are doing it again

Comparing apples and oranges, or rather, the ecosystems that produce apple trees vs the right ecosystem for growing oranges?

These discussions just go around and around. I vote that we ban them in favor of people who want to know what it's like in Europe vs the US buying those of us who have spent significant (more than 2 years) on the other side a drink, while they listen to our anecdotes.
Call me stupid, but why do you have to disassemble the program to get the symbol pointers when you just finished compiling the thing in the first place?

Couldn't this intermediate step of pointer collection be part of the prelink process and skip all this guesswork?
Why is it one or the other? Can't they just be different views for the same model (assuming the app doesn't need access to lower-level functionality)?
The 'protestantischer Arbeitsethos' (protestant work ethic) is originally a concept developed in Germany (propagated to neighbor countries and then to the USA) and still very influential here.
I'm letting some of the people in the PMA know about your site too - we're doing a lot of legislation tracking right now.
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I at least would love to see it.
Why do they need to log into your GitHub account to generate such page? It seems that the information gathered can be directly from your public profile or did I miss something?
What a joy to be able to start a letter to a puny little man like that with the words "Dear Mr. Small"...
No. IT people tend to know more than enough english for english speakers to get along.

It also happen to be a huge lack of IT people on the market at the moment..

The flip side, of course, is that you have to survive our winters. :P
That's one way to look at it.

Another is that Visa believes that Square is a threat, thinks they may be successful and has invested to mitigate that threat, get visibility into their activities, and so on.
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He sits them in front of computer and looks what they are doing. That would be a terrible way of finding specific problems. It’s a great way of searching for problems. I suggest you look into the method Nielsen actually uses.
>Apple is undisputedly licensed to these patent and the Apple App Makers are protected by that license.

That's a very good thing to hear. And extremely definitive. I'd imagine devs are breathing a lot easier now.
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I work at a (bootstrapped) European startup. In june, one of the founders takes a month of vacation. In july, the other does the same. As an employee, I'm entitled to 5 weeks off. Sick leave does not subtract from that. Every American reader probably thinks we will never make it. European readers would consider insane if we did without that time off. That's how ingrained this vacation business is. And if you ask me, we are happier and more productive than we would be without those vacations.
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Actually there are numerous companies in the U.S. that do have maternity leave. I used to work for an agency in NY that generally had less pay but more benefits.
As far as the server portion, I am a big fan of nginx. The rest of it doesn't really matter so long as you're comfortable with it.
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Probably the old fashion way, via a javascript ad. I use adblock and saw nothing which strengthen the ad-hypothesis.
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They could just use the JSONp version of the API and trust that users aren't going to submit bad data about their own account (theyd only be cheating themselves.) This way, they wouldn't be subject to API usage limits.
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How is the processor "getting screwed" here? Again, for a great many businesses Square is the (significantly) more expensive option.

I get that they're killing it at craft fairs, but I'm the with the thread-parent...I don't see what the "disruption" is here.

*edit: Re-reading this I realize that it seems like I'm implying that Square is a bad product... which isn't what I'm saying. I think they're going to make insane amounts of money (I'd invest in them given the chance). They can be huge without being truly 'disruptive', however.
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If you're in the Montreal area we're also looking for people to participate in our beta test.
I think things like the macro system and the meta-object protocol are examples of meta-linguistic hacking you can do in CL but not Haskell.
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We want smaller updates because it narrows the window of vulnerability. If the update is a tenth of the size, we can push ten times as many per unit of bandwidth. We have enough users that this means more users will be protected earlier.

They're trying to get the vulnerability window down to minutes! If they succeed, this is going to have an impact on the economic viability of running malware.
That retirement you mention is only partly true (unless there is a misunderstanding). It all depends how many years you have paid into the fund. For a women with lots of breaks due to kids or for self employed people who have not opted in paying into the fund, this is getting lower and lower.
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The rules on obtaining a patent might be BS, but the patent its self is just as "valid" as Amazon's 1 click ordering. Neither should have been allowed in the first place, but since the courts have decided that software patents are fair, you have to take the good with the bad.
I like Scala, but I'm a bit troubled by this comment in the blurb

The talk will briefly cover the conceptual hurdles that the team experienced when changing from a purely object-oriented mindset to a more functional approach.

I think herein lies the problem with Scala, while it's great to do some functional programming, the functional element is largely idiomatic and not enforced.

You can easily rewrite a Java application in OO Scala with mutable state. Or you can do it with immutable objects and so on but I don't like the way that it's so easy to combine the two that it kinds of turns into a mess if you're not an expert in either camp.

The Java interoperability is a nice touch but again, it mixes the two paradigms for me

Unless I'm just doing it wrong? I'm not sure but for me I'm always wondering what the "right way" is in Scala and it irritates me. Don't get me wrong, it's a great language and much better than Java (a lot better) but it sometimes feels like a mix of ideas.

That's why I'm learning Haskell now, to try and embed myself in a world that's purely functional and not a half way house.
Hmm, you don't think Lodsys reckoned the same way, do you?
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Yes.

While in NY, the company I worked at encouraged people to take comp days sooner rather than later.

I usually just accumulated a bunch of hours and took extended periods of time off.
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The last I heard, Google were being sued due to the use of Courgette allegedly infringing a patent and, as a result, they had stopped using Courgette to distribute Chrome updates. Does anyone know the result of that case? Are they now using Courgette again?

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Sued-over-the-Courgett...
It's fine I guess for external links but it really bugs me when people use it for links to other pages on their own site.
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Here in Sweden the government mostly only legislated what the unions and the employer organizations already had agreed to. That went on throughout the 40's to the 70's. At that point the state legislated some things that had no prior agreement and then progress basically stopped.
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for those that don't follow uk politics, this is hopeful news. the hope being that the uk's terrible laws related to censorship will break down.

obviously, who ryan giggs has screwed is neither here nor there. but the same laws were famously used to shield a company - trafigura - that dumped toxic chemicals off the coast of africa. this doc from wikileaks http://www.wikileaks.ch/wiki/Minton_report:_Trafigura_Toxic_... describes how "The UK media has been suppressed from mention the report or its contents since a secret gag order was issued against the Guardian newspaper on September 11, 2009."

it was twitter that helped expose that, too - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/...
I think you should more carefully choose your battles: It's really no contest.

Bart closes at midnight and has four stops in the heart of SF. NY has an OK metro but if you want to go cross-town, better just walk. I've spent time in NYC and lived in SF, Zurich, Berlin, Prague and London. Europe destroys on this topic. A huge percentage of people in Europe, like myself, don't own cars simply because we don't have to.
i can't believe they actually pay lodsys already. what a joke.
The amazing thing to me is that that simple little policy - which probably makes a lot of sense to executives with kids at these large companies that take the week off anyway - is enough to drive me away to another company. It is definitely more cost effective to just give people more vacation than to be replacing an engineer.
What irony? Apple licenses thousands of patents in both directions. As does Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and anyone other major player in the tech industry.
Depending on the loan, you may qualify for "Income-Based Repayment" plans, which reduce monthly payments to $0 if you are making little or no money. You still accrue interest, and the crushing psychological weight of all that debt is still there, but it's definitely an option for new grads.
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Really, I wasn't aware that that many projects used bsdiff.
If you have something to add to the conversation, could you please just say it?
That time limit is two years. After that you get "Hartz IV" unless you still have enough money to live by. Sure if that happens you may have to drastically change your lifestyle but if you are well educated getting a job in under two years should be achievable.
Hello Michael - heard in your talk that you work at SAIC - good company, I was there off and on for 20+ years.
Simplicity doesn't always make something more learnable or more readable. Scheme (R5RS) is a good example of a minimalist language that isn't necessarily easy to read when compared with Python's readability; same is said about its "learnability".

I nitpicked those features because while I would agree list comprehensions aren't as readable/learnable to a new user, they do make the language simpler in that it increases the expressiveness of the language for a common pattern. To each his own, I like both list comprehensions and map() - not sure if I really take a side on either one...

My example of xrange() in arguing for generators was a bad one because you're right, it is an iterator. I still feel like generators increase the expressivity of the language and therefore make it "simpler" - but again I will agree with you that new users will find it less readable and less learnable (to begin with though!).

Decorators I will completely agree, are new user unfriendly and are a complex language feature - I suppose I was arguing for reduced program complexity rather than language simplicity in the context of the decorator addition.
This is pretty much par for the course with 90% of the 'cloud' offerings out there. This is also true with various hosted application platforms where you can add a custom domain for your blog or whatever.

There's just no way to ever rely on a single IP and guarantee that it will be stable for consumers, without failover. Even your ISP gives you two nameservers for that reason.
Hm, I read "language as given" as that programmers use the
language to write their programs, whereas "language as medium" implies using the language to write a language (to write a language,...) to write their programs in.

Of course, one can argue that is just a gradual difference. After all, any sufficiently advanced C program will contain half of Common Lisp (or use arrays of function pointers to get half a Forth)
Well, it seems that they had to spend significant marketing dollars to acquire those numbers.
Which is my argument suggesting London isn't suitable for a youthful startup culture as many younger people will be put off from moving into the suburbs because of the costs involved.
Maybe 2.3 and 3.0; but it didn't exist before 2.2. So I guess 2.2 is when it started sucking.
How does TabbedOut actually work at a crowded bar? When I have a credit card tab, they usually need the name on the card to find the tab.
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> With coderwall, there's no way I'm going to alter my behavior in order to get badges on it.

I was thinking about creating 100 fake github accounts to fork/follow my projects to get a badge ;) j/k

I too believe this kind of "gamification" is a nice addon. It's optional - hell it's even outside of the system. If I don't want to use it I don't have to. The bad kind of gamification is the one that is forced upon you.
I can agree with that (add too many simplifications...); that's why I've really fell for data-as-code in Scheme; the simplifications in that language are so broad that you don't have to /add/ simplifications. Whereas, with Python's (or any language that isn't homoiconic) "baked" syntax, you do have to add "simplifications" or "features".
When you're at Apple's scale, license costs for things like these are a rounding error compared to the cost of a legal defense, even if you win. It's cheaper to pay them off.
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And there goes Apple using the word App/Apps generically again. Not exactly helping their case against Amazon.
They didn't, they licensed the patents from Intellectual Ventures years ago. Lodsys acquired the patents after the fact.
If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd say some of this looks awfully convenient, and maybe even well timed, for Apple.

"See, the 30% we charge you isn't so bad after all, is it?"
> The elderly have Medicare, but there is (currently) no safety for most citizens.

Actually, there is, it's called medicaid.

What? You make too much to be eligible for medicaid? That tells us that you don't need the safety net that it provides.

And, even without medicaid, it's possible to get free health care for fundamentals in the US. No, "free" doesn't cover everything, but no healthcare system does.
I doubt it. State schools are still pretty cheap. After a minimal scholarship, UIC cost me something like $1300 a semester. That ends up being a not-that-crippling debt.
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I think this is a way to trick/force people into twittering about it. If you twitter/follow, your acc will be processed within 2hours they say. I did and my acc was ready within 5 minutes.
Ahh, I see, so languages "as given" are those with poor support for metaprogramming?

Where would this sort of distinction place Template Haskell, MetaOcaml, or even C++ templates?
Also, many many many billable hours converting trivial flash sites to javascript/svg/css3.

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This isn't a client that could, for example, take the source and compile and sign it themselves, although I will be giving them the source at the time of completion.

Is there an easier way to do this?
Here in Sweden we are allowed to do it, but it generally isn't done.

Though we have a guy at work that have managed to convince our employer to give hime an extra day off every week (without pay though, but he doesn't need the cash)
Why? As a user I love the context of a URL. As someone inspecting logs it gives me a quick hint.
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Graduate students live on that amount. We are particularly prevalent in high cost of living areas. It can be done, but it might be unpleasant.
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The letter itself doesn't do much for the legal defense of app developers vs Lodsys, it is only Apple's opinion and Apple wasn't the one being threatened, but it does show that Apple plans on throwing its weight around to defend the app makers. And that is all we really need, becuase I sincerly doubt Lodsys really wants a full on legal battle with one of the most cash rich companies in the world.
For FICA (SS/Medicare) the employer pays as much as the employee. The FICA rate is 15.3% of your base pay(there is an upper limit), you pay half and the employer pays half (except for 2011, stimulus package and all, the employee part of the SS part of FICA is reduced). Typically with most large employers the employer pays 70-80% of the medical insurance premiums, varies by company. Same for Dental, long term disability, etc. Typically the employers overall cost is 20-30% of your salary.
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I was working for SAIC at the time of the talk, but I've since moved on to another company. I suspect SAIC now has at least one opening for a Scala programmer. ;-)
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>"Lodsys’s threatened claims are barred by the doctrines of patent exhaustion and first sale. As the Supreme Court has made clear, “[t]he authorized sale of an article that substantially embodies a patent exhausts the patent holder’s rights and prevents the patent holder from invoking patent law to control postsale use of the article."

I find it interesting to see Apple invoke the First Sale Doctrine given the restrictions which it places upon its hardware (e.g. iPhone).
A lot of schools including my alma mater has this free for students/staff. They also allow alumni if you bought the lifetime alumni pack when you graduated which was $300 and included a bunch of other university services.

I have use the safari books extensively, but their book viewer sucks. I wished it was a much better UI.
Without the user's consent (and their share of the royalties)? Regardless of their TOS, how would that stand in a court of law?
Interesting article!

I have one nit-pick: Multiple dispatch doesn't, in and of its self, imply something isn't object oriented. You can certainly argue that multiple dispatch, as it exists in CLOS is not object oriented, but it is possible to have "object-oriented" multiple dispatch.

VB.NET is a good example.

The "late bound" dispatcher in VB.NET will:

1) Dynamically construct a "method-group" using the runtime type of a receiver of a method call. This collects all appropriately named instance methods in the receiver type and any of it's base types.

2) Dynamically perform overload resolution using the runtime type of each method argument. This behaves like the static overload resolution done in the compiler except that it
uses dynamic types, rather than static types, and happens at runtime. It also doesn't consider extension methods.

In any case, this yields method dispatch that varies dynamically based on the runtime type of multiple arguments. It is very similar to multi-methods in CLOS, except that preference is given to the receiver over other parameter types, and that you can't override a "multi-method" without modifying the definition of at least one type.
Allow me to air a dissenting opinion, since everyone here seems to make fun of those poor US workaholics.

I think the low number of vacation days is just a side effect of Americans not having such a strict compartmentalization between "work" and "life". I worked on both sides of the Atlantic and although I settled in Europe now I actually like the US work ethic, the low number of vacation days notwithstanding.

For many Europeans work is something they do to have bread on the table and the "real" life is that part you're not working. For many Americans their work is their life and the free time they have gets intermingled with work (they take the kids to the company barbecue! never heard of that happening in Europe).

But if most of your waking moments are spent doing something which is not your primary objective than you could say the Europeans are the sad ones.

(Side note: I am now in the happy position that I enjoy running my own company, I might feel different if I had a lousy job)
Then thank you!

I'd love to get some of the link love when they choose the winners. :-)