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I prefer HTML emails as they take me seconds to visually scan to see if anything is of interest. If the emails were a big wall of text, I would have to spend several minutes reading everything which is a huge waste of my time.

There's a reason why in the real world, brochures and flyers aren't done up on a typewriter. People are visual creatures and if you're running a startup and marketing products or services and you're not using HTML email, you're doing a disservice to your investors, shareholders, prospects, and customers because the vast majority of people would rather opt-in to receive emails that look good.
No, only for p2p streaming. You'd need a flash media server to get dynamic video quality from a server, so it's not built into flash.
I didn't say anything about penalizing.

Microsoft clearly differentiates versions of SQL Server. That's all I'm asking for.

If JRuby performance continues to match or exceed Rubinius performance, but JRuby also gives me deployment flexibility and Java OSS integration options Rubinius doesn't, why would I choose Rubinius for my next green-field project?

That's not an accusation. It's a serious question.

I think Evan's answer on the Ruby C API is a pretty compelling reason on it's own. For businesses that don't have an easy JRuby migration path because of dependencies on multiple gems with C-extensions, maybe Rubinius is a much easier way to get into the next JRuby/Rubinius/YARV Ruby performance bracket.

That can be very compelling on it's own. What are some other reasons I might consider Rubinius?

Given the down-votes I guess I'm in the minority, but I think it's a fair question.

I was an early supporter of Rubinius, and put my money where my mouth was on more than one occasion with cash donations to the project.

I get that it's very neat from an academic standpoint. No argument here. Is it something EngineYard is going to stand behind and just as importantly, start marketing so I get a good feel for the practical uses?
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You're forgetting that there is no other way to sell software or content on an iOS device. You can't circumvent the App Store unless you tell your customers to crack their devices and use Cydia.

I would be completely fine with Apple's App Store restrictions if iOS devices weren't locked down like they are. Even Microsoft never dreamed of the kind of Orwellian nightmare that Apple is spinning around the computing industry.
I kept trying to figure out what the divots in the line were supposed to indicate...
SQL injection, social engineering a password, somebody's crappy "secret question," insecure PHP, and hundreds of other ways. Closing off known avenues of attack and still mitigating against a leak with peer-reviewed math is what you have to do.
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I find the religion of capital-A Agile annoying, but agile as a process that you adapt to your practical needs can be very effective.
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I may be misunderstanding you, but:

When you remove the C bits, Objective-C and Ruby use the same type system, conceptually speaking. They are both descendant from Smalltalk; the main feature differences really come down to the syntax alone.

I really like the idea of a higher level Objective-C-based language, I just don't necessarily see the business appeal of creating and maintaining a brand new language that only brings a more familiar, to Objective-C developers at least, syntax. Especially given the amount of effort Apple has been putting into MacRuby.
I agree. He gave up way too easily with her and then places the blame on her.

If someone is seeking guidance from you, then guide them. If you can't, tell them why. If you can but aren't willing, then don't offer guidance.
Actually, I'm not sure how they could be convicted of treason in the US if they didn't cooperate.

As I recall, the formula went no one can be convicted of treason save "on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

Who is a Witness to a exploit?
And in particular, hardlinks to directories. That is why it is so fast (and also why it only works on HFS).
Where do you get the impression that they are profitable? They are not even close to profitable at $3million transaction volume per day.

They barely make much at all at the moment:
http://www.quora.com/Square-company/Can-Square-make-money-wi...
Except that isn't really true. For example, after the Rajaratnam case, SEC insider trading investigations are way up and a lot of people are getting arrested. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20031043-504083.html
Press passes all the way, I'm a huge fan of those.
This is meandering rambling from someone who doesn't know how to write unit tests. He complains about bad unit tests ("many tests tend to...") as an argument against unit testing. Yes, there are bad tests out there. But there is a way to write good valuable unit tests that protect you from future regression (thus future pain and needless effort).

Get better at writing unit tests, don't use this article as an excuse to avoid a highly valuable practice.
For my needs, jruby will never suffice as java isn't going to be installed on the servers I'm on. Nor to be honest would I want it, and JNI for c extensions is also a nonstarter. We have puppet at work for server deploys, and well, jruby may suffice for web/app server deploys that just run rails. But not all ruby users actually give a rats about rails (that's me, don't use it at all at work), nor do we have a need for java interop. Basically I'm in the exact opposite of your vantage.

I need c bindings for a few gems I made that need c ffi bindings, I don't need/care/use any java interop, and personally, I'd rather not have the jvm running on any of my servers.

I look at rubinius as the eventual YARV for the compiled version as YARV was to MRI, not as an academic project. But I admit, I seem to be a ruby outlier ever since rails has been around.
> JRuby as a gateway drug to the Land of Ruby; _could_ end up being VM winner too.

I don't get the "could". JRuby is among the fastest, gives you access to a massive amount of OSS and infrastructure, and fixes Ruby's threading.

It's done these for years at this point.

In my mind the question is more along the lines of "why should I use anything _but_ JRuby on a new project?".

It's blasphemy I'm sure, but I just don't see the point in C-Ruby for new development at this point. It's legacy. JRuby, as the last-man-standing among the major Ruby VM implementations now that IronRuby is dead and everything else is vapor (Maglev) or niche (MacRuby) is the default modern Ruby implementation to my mind.

So let's assume Rubinius is great, and the GIL is clearly a major step forward. Is EngineYard's intent really to supplant YARV with Rubinius?

Because that sounds great to me.

I've never seen EY say that though (they might have and I just missed it). If that's the vision, I'd rather see them come out and say it. Having developers guess, and having any ambiguity at all around the future of these projects and the messaging surrounding them doesn't inspire confidence.
I do something similar, however I take a portion of the site name an intersperse it throughout the stronger password in set positions. I could modify case of the site name snippet, however I do not currently.

While this is certainly relying on obscurity, it at least makes it much more difficult to figure out what is going on. I'd think you'd need access to two of my passwords in plain text in order to really figure it out.

My lastpass password is a 29 character password comprised of 3 parts, one of which is this pattern, the other two are 'secure' passwords i've used in the past but haven't been compromised to my knowledge.

Even with all of this - if one password was compromised in plain text I would likely abandon all of my passwords and try again with something new.
When you remove the C bits, Objective-C and Ruby use the same type system, conceptually speaking. They are both descendant from Smalltalk; the main feature differences really come down to the syntax alone.

Objective-C is typed -- not just the C part, but the 'Objective' part too. You can cast around type system, but it's there.

The new compiler even uses inference of those types in order to implement ARC.

Especially given the amount of effort Apple has been putting into MacRuby.

Not Apple, just a few people that also work for Apple.
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Although I love BeOS, do look at who was running the company and what that same individual did to Apple. The amazingly bad moves made by Microsoft's competitors sure helped a lot. Much like Microsoft's bad moves are helping their competitors now.
I don't think this article has much, or at least enough, to offer to stimulate a high quality debate on the subject. It conflates anti-intellectualism with skepticism about academia and authority, these are very different things though.
I wonder if deals will be made in the future between Apple, MS, Google and large Internet providers to throttle the competition.

Or is Google planning long term by buying up dark fiber to make sure its Doc and Apps are accessible when its competitors are not?
Ah yea, missed the CPM part there. That's a ridiculous amount of money then. Husky and HD have 10+ videos a week with 150-200K views.
Very cool.

Been a long time coming, with a lot of blood sweat and tears on your part, but it looks like Rubinius2 is the project I was lusting after those years ago, back when it looked like Sydney was the fix for what ailed Ruby. ;-)

Congrats on the milestone!
I'm sure they'll need to figure out a better way to implement it.

"Hmm.. I want to load this link... but... Home > Settings > Safari > Private Browsing: On > Home > Safari > Tap the link to shop for a gift for my wife."

I am hoping to see new and weird gestures. Like, flip the phone up-side down (home button at the top of the device) to enter private browsing.
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That, not the whole Internet Explorer tangent, was the thing that ticked me off the most. The thought that any money for the Intel box I bought to run NeXTSTEP went to Microsoft was unbelievable. If the gov had put a stop to that one practice earlier, it would have been a different game.
The layout of the site is a little messed up for me (Chrome on OS X). See the bottom where the "built in a week" text is over top of the description.

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The top players make quite decent salaries, over 200k USD/yr:

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=142342

Although you literally have to be in the top 2.
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OpenSky is celebrity curated daily deals. I'm looking for a frontend hacker / designer to replace me in my current role working on marketing projects. Particularly someone with talent in CSS and jQuery.

OpenSky is on a serious hockey stick growth curve at the moment. To the point where the company has pretty much doubled in size in the 3 months I've been here...

I've posted the details here: http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Front_End_Web_Developer_Design...
The trouble is that the very same visual cue makes it easy to filter out comments as background noise, so people fail to read them (or even see them) when updating the associated code. As a result, comments don't get maintained and become inaccurate over time. It takes only a small amount of such semantic decay before the comments are a net negative.

Programmers take code seriously. Most don't take comments seriously, even when they believe they ought to. You might say they're bad programmers, but I don't think it's that simple. I think the attention goes straight to code for a reason.
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I don't use Rails. I see the JVM as a tool that gives me access to code I might find useful, and web-servers that are (IMO) 1000X superior to anything available to MRI. That and much better performance than REE anyways.

If you need C-extensions, well, there you go. Rubinius as a better MRI I totally get/agree with.

I think we agree on that as a good reason for the season for Rubinius.

It'd just be nice for EY to put up a "Why Rubinius?" page. And further, a "Which VM best targets my project? JRuby or Rubinius?" page would make me very happy. I can't imagine it could hurt the adoption of either.
You have to draw a distinction between what IBM did as a response to competition in our actual history and what IBM would have done had Microsoft never existed. IBM would have almost certainly continued what it had done before and what virtually every other company was doing at the time: offering bundled hardware/software solutions, using customer lock-in and FUD like weapons, and pushing incredibly high profit markups on everything. It's certainly the same thing Apple did. And it's the same road that smartphones have for the most part taken up until very recently. It's easy to skip past the fact that Microsoft had a pretty significant impact on the structure of the entire computing industry and some of that impact was very positive. Granted, they certainly have their fair share of sins to atone for but in my judgment any of their likely replacements from the early era of personal computing would have had as many or more.
Other people have already said most of what I wanted to say – that self-explanatory code, and sometimes tests, is almost always better than comments. I just want to point out a good reference on this topic: the book Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship [1], specifically Chapter 4, “Comments”. That chapter gives examples showing which comments should be turned into code and which are acceptable to leave as comments, and it explains the reasoning behind the choices. (And the rest of the book teaches you how to make your code self-explanatory and easy-to-read.)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsman...
Flares and CMEs can certainly cause damage to electronics or to astronauts.

It is believed that the CPU outage that caused the loss-of-pointing of the Galaxy IV satellite that in turn caused the giant pager outage in 1998 (about 80% of US pagers failed) was due to solar flares and CMEs.

It's also conjectured that flares cause many other satellite electronics failures:

http://books.google.com/books?id=nmdfazhEWzsC&pg=PA122&#...

The general phenomenon is called "Space Weather".

There is a monitoring center in Boulder, CO, run by NOAA, called the Space Weather Prediction Center (http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/), that tries to predict and assess space weather. They use physical models and observational data, but it's not nearly as evolved a science as numerical weather prediction.
Except that web apps are still awful user experiences compared to native mobile apps.

The work to do a web app even barely comparable to a native app, in terms of responsiveness, is outrageously larger than just firing up Xcode.

I've only ever used two web apps that don't suck- Asana and Flowdock.
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It's blasphemy in that your use of JRuby is inconsequential to rubinius. Not everyone uses JRuby, and the non JRuby using world would like the GIL thread locking abilities in their interpreters without java+JRuby.

Native c/c++ ruby isn't legacy in everyone's environments, just perhaps yours. Why does EngineYard need to justify both implementations? I don't use JRuby at all outside of occasional curiosity. But I'm also not calling it useless in the same way you're basically attacking any non JRuby ruby implementation, which apparently includes MRI. Which is arguably the "default" implementation. Language implementations aren't a zero sum game. Work on one doesn't mean we can't have another. I don't see the Python people complaining about PyPy and vice-versa, they both serve their purposes.

Anyway off to bed.
Initially this is what Apple was pushing early on with the IPhone. So many people wanted to go native and the beast known as the App Store was born.
Did you even read the article? It contradicts your first sentence. Also, your initial premise that you are somehow more aware of my memory system than I am... is... deeply flawed.

If you want to reframe the debate in terms of Apple is evil, therefore everything they do, say or think is evil, by all means go and do that. (And they say the fanboys are the ones suffering from a reality distortion field...) But this isn't really the place. I'm sure you can find large numbers of people willing to agree with you though.

On the off chance that you can't find any thread on Hacker News or elsewhere on the Internet that fit that theme... perhaps you should start your own? You could write a blog post about how it is all part of some conspiracy. Or if you're really lazy you could write a top ten list... just pick any ten random Apple news items, there's bound to be someone slagging them off for each of them.

Then you just post that link to Hacker News, you'll get guaranteed upvotes, it will make the front page... and Ta Da!!! "Apple = evil conspiracy" comments will be on topic in that thread! Hooray!
The type system exists, but when working with the Objective half of the language, it is mostly meaningless, at least from a developer's point of view. With the C parts removed, you could replace every type definition with id and your program would run just fine.

The article says that MacRuby is bundled with Lion as a private framework. Surely they wouldn't bundle it if they weren't using it? And being a private framework, it is not there for the benefit of third-party developers.
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'cyber attack' also has a specific meaning, and the Law of War dictates a like for like retaliation.

The Pentagon can't nuke somebody for a cyber attack that causes some emails to be leaked, or some secrets to be stolen.

They can use physical response force in the event that a cyber attack can/will cause actual physical harm, such as disabling a power grid, etc. There is actually a very heated debate about what specifics actions will evoke a physical retaliation to a 'cyber' attack.
You're right. But I would rather know what it is a candidate knows what he can accomplish plus the things he wants to. I could vote knowing that some things will get fixed (from my POV, of course) and some might get fixed.
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lol! I saw the same at another recent meetup. Damn, Katz really doesn't like Backbone...
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Yes, I was wondering all day what Twitter's pubic stock would be doing if Twitter had public stock.

That said, due to Representative Weiner's Twitter Faux Pax, expect Twitter to change soon to make direct messages very different in how they are sent from regular tweets. That they are not could mean that Apple's integration of tweets is that much more dicey.
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Cloudflare is amazing and I pay for it. I'm sure enough people feel the same way that they can at least continue to get funding rounds while the business model develops.

Oh, don't forget that they can also probably make a good amount of money selling aggregate data and statistics (like Mint).
I have a class called Tag with static methods for all relevant tag names which merely wraps $('<' + tagname + '/>') and thus allow for stuff like:

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I prefer this as it keeps my view code "in language" and makes it easy to apply any sort of jquery methods which I need to the different elements.
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In 1989 the Quebec province power grid was brought down for some hours following important solar activity. Like you said for consumers it was simply a black out. As for the power infrastructure I think they made important changes to make it more resistant (in Quebec), but I don't have more details.
I think it should be either $60 upfront or a monthly subscription fee.

I never tried WoW because it pissed me off that you paid $60 for a game you essentially couldn't play.
sounds pretty good

i like that it's based around 'karma' in some sense

not sure where it goes or the best way to get adoption, but generally feel that internet denizens are pretty 'thankful' people (at least here in NYC) and it could be worthwhile regardless of biz opps. my $.02
At some of the more orderly places I've worked, we put dates on comments.

Also, whenever we made a change, we put a comment (at the top of the class, function, method or whatever is changed), also timestamped, with a reference to the change request ticket (or equivalent), and a summary of the change.

Old comments were deleted if necessary (you could always look them up with a diff on the source control)

Said ticket also had a reference to the code file :) so you had 100% traceability.

The downside being of course it was all very bureaucratic, but there were legal requirements to fill and it was a sensitive, finance sector company. That setup probably wouldn't work for a fast-paced startup :)
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regarding "limited to sites under 'x' amount of traffic", I just inquired to CloudFlare on that exact question yesterday and received this response:

"Some of the biggest sites on CloudFlare do well over 10M page views per day."

Given the current plans are FREE and $20/mo, it would see that there is not a limit at this point.

I also inquired regarding the Enterprise services and was told it is strictly a matter of additional features being made available, not related to traffic or usage.
He is someone who works full time in researching alternative energy solutions for those fishing villages.

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Thus he has been researching supercapacitors.
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