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The README on github is probably the best way to find out what this language is about:
https://github.com/dockimbel/Red
Australians would think it hilarious with the correct spelling.

"rooting" for me? Uh, thanks, mate. But keep that sort of information to yourself next time, eh?
The use of LXC containers now is quite interesting for security.

"- Full isolation of processes for security and performance"

Have there been security-related incidents before with their slugs? Is this to address safer multi-tenancy?
"temporary"

e.g. Offer people generous welfare if they elect to undergo this temporary birth control procedure.
I'm sure this was considered when BitCoin was being created. It's easy to -say-, but quite a lot harder to do.
I saw nothing about mathematics here; this was all about arithmetic.
Now if only they could invent something revolutionary for treating infertility...
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Here's a whole book on the subject:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591842948/ref=as_li_tf_tl?...
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I'm sorry, but I couldn't even get through the article.

Every time I hovered over one of those underlined ad words in the article, a popup blocked my view of the article. It was really distracting.

I got fed up with it after the 5th time and closed the tab. I expect many technically-inclined people did the same.
For me the most important part deliberate practice losing all embarrassment about making mistakes. Practice should give a chance stumble at the edge of your ability and take chances you wouldn't in a live performance.

For more detail I highly recommend "The Perfect Wrong Note" by William Westney.
This doesn't square with my experience at all. You must be much better at HTML/CSS than I am (not at all unlikely).

For my part, it takes me roughly two hours to:

* Copy all the static assets to their Rails-appropriate locations

* Take the "demo" pages and get them to display reasonably as Erb templates of a Test controller

* Convert the HTML to Haml

* Move content to layouts/application

* Break each feature in the demo out to a partial

There is no other two hours I can spend that gets me as much UI functionality, so I'm a fan.

I have done this three times, and each time found the work of integrating a Themeforest template to be easier than integrating work from graphic designers.

I am careful to work with templates that are HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and that use a grid framework. I can imagine there are many hundreds of themes there that fail one or more of these checkboxes, and that might thus be a nightmare to work with.
Nice post. I am newish to rails and have always done it the first way. This is really cool.
The author is fundamentally flawed in his approach. He thinks bitcoin mining is just mindless churning on your GPU.

But in reality, it's cryptographically checking the validity of bitcoin transactions. So the system churns for the benefit of the system itself, instead of churning for the benefit of some external goal.
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tip #1 block HNN & Redit while coding
tip #2 only check email once / hour.
tip #3 profit :-)
> more inflation than you've ever seen on a properly managed fiat money system

While this may be true, a scarce money system does produce better result than poorly managed fiat money systems. You won't see the kind of hyperinflation that we saw in Zimbabwe with the gold standard.
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The Debian situation has always seemed a bit unreasonable to me because RubyGems is designed to be a tool for Rubyists, not sysadmins. The overhead of doing operating system level integration to respect various package systems and the way they work would be way too much for the RubyGems team.

However, if changes need to be made to allow third party packagers (such as Debian) to use RubyGems in the way they want, those issues should be revisited. It's not reasonable to expect RubyGems to change its core focus or support lots of Debian specific functionality, but it is reasonable to think that if all that is needed is some extension points or something like that, the issues should be dealt with.

Please ask the Debian folks to file tickets against RubyGems, or to re-raise discussions on the rubygems-developers mailing list.
One of my clients explained this phenomenon perfectly to me once, and it's an explanation that I've yet to see anywhere else.

Programmers are accustomed to thinking in abstracts: data structures, pointers, memory addressing, program logic, pipes, files, and so on are all abstract concepts. Although you can describe them using strained metaphors for the real world, they don't really represent real-world things.

But most people don't think that way; they think in terms of the tangible. That's part of why the concept of the computer "desktop" is so confusing for novice users, or why the idea of layering in a user interface is nearly not navigable for new users.

It had never occurred to me that other people didn't think in abstracts. I grew up programming; I learned my first programming language while I was also learning my first human language.
You don't need to understand the Y Combinator to understand recursion. You don't need to understand the theory behind the Lambda Calculus to write anonymous functions. You don't need to understand Gentzen Calculi to write interesting Prolog programs. You don't need to understand the Curry-Howard isomorphism to understand static typing.

These things deepen your understanding certainly, but not understanding them does not in any way limit our ability to write incredible programs.
I would sign up for this procedure in a heartbeat, but it still doesn't get around the (albeit not perfect) STD protection condoms can provide. If this takes off, people probably won't wear condoms most of the time, and the number of people being diagnosed with STD's will skyrocket.
I wonder if there's research about mode awareness in crisis situations?
Looks very cool - I've been relying on hacky MONITOR hacks for ages. Is this the first for-profit redis service out there? - been wondering when that ecosystem would start to develop.

btw: If you're interested in extending redis in new and exciting ways check out redis-extend on github:
http://github.com/mkrecny/redis-extend
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thanks! fixed...
This is not practical. If bitcoins related to some sort of market value for computation, there would be inflation of 40% / year.

Look at how mining for bitcoins compares to mining for real gold. Our species spends all this energy to dig gold up out of the ground, purify it, just to stick it back into the ground in vaults and then we pay someone to stand watching over it.
some kind of basic sync and and a revamp of their notifications are good bets. better lockscreen? maybe. 3rd party lockscreen widgets? no way. Apple has resisted any kind of widgety-apps or hacks so it would be a huge reversal for them (though a very welcome one).
To me, US personal debt seems like more of a self control issue than a problem of innumeracy.
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> It makes sense. I remember an old guy I knew doing proofreading of a document. To show that a character should be deleted, draw a line starting at the character, going to the upper right, and put a little loop on the end. It looks sort of like that picture!

I'm not that old (30) and was taught all the standard proofreading marks in elementary school. Is this no longer common knowledge?
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I just created my first Node.js app. Clone ry's demo at:

https://github.com/ry/node_chat

Add a Procfile and package.json per the docs:

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/node-js

And it just works:

http://node-chat.herokuapp.com/
I am greatly enjoying my chicken with mac and cheese and mashed potatoes, thank you. (I did flinch, though.)
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To enable log forwarding from the stack with Heroku you'll need the advanced logging addon, which is $100/month. The basic version of the addon doesn't do forwarding but does allow you to tail things with the CLI, albiet with limited retention.

If you want to do logging out of your app for free and have up to a week's retention, you could use Logglier: https://github.com/freeformz/logglier and a free Loggly account: http://logg.ly/signup. You won't get the Heroku bits of the stack, like cache hits and such, but you can at least see what the app is doing.
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More to the point, Microsoft is continuously improving C#

I was at a conference back in 1997 where we came up with a wish list of features we'd like in Java for high performance computing. We all knew it was useless to ask this from Sun, but we did anyway.

The first version of C# had everything we asked for in it, and even early versions of C# had a 'delegate' mechanism that was, more or less, method pointers.

C# 3.0 introduced support for functional programming; it's certainly not like CaML, but there's a reasonably fluent syntax for real closures -- with a little work in adding syntactic sugar it's not bad.

LINQ is amazing and people have barely scratched the surface of what's possible like it. There's a system for manipulating "Expression Trees" that lets you do LISP-style metaprogramming.

C# 4.0 added covariant and contravariant inheritance for generics and, unlike JVM-based languages, it works the way it is supposed to without any lame workarounds.

Comparing C# to Java as a ~language~ is like comparing modern italian to ancient latin. Changes happen in Java at a glacial rate after a tortuous process that ensures that when JDK 7 hits the streets it's going to be four years obsolete.

That said, the Java platform has an incredible ecosystem around it; using maven gives me the feeling I'm in Manhattan and can plug into an infinite library of amazing stuff.

The .NET ecosystem, on the other hand, feels like being a crossroads town in the middle of Iowa. Occasionally you get something good like NUnit, but open source offerings are anemic or absent, and commercial libraries often come across like ads in the SkyMall catalog. (Often you can implement the 5% of the library you need yourself in the time you'd spent talking to salespeople)
In its report, the WHO team agreed that the concept of RISUG was intriguing. But they found fault with the homegrown production methods: Guha and his staff made the concoction themselves in his lab, and the WHO delegation found his facilities wanting by modern pharmaceutical manufacturing standards. Furthermore, they found that Guha’s studies did not meet “international regulatory requirements” for new drug approval—certain data was missing. The final recommendation: WHO should pass on RISUG.

Is this an example of why health care is so incredibly expensive in this country?

Do these "modern pharmaceutical manufacturing standards" actually buy us extra safety?
You're advocating shooting minor criminals?
Most of the time graphics cards aren't used for anything remotely as socially beneficial as contributing to the bitcoin network. Rather than complain about the waste, find a way to do something more useful with them and set up an equivalent reward system for people to respond to.
Don't gun toters have a saying like "If you are going to pull your weapon, you better be prepared to use it." Would you actually be willing to shoot someone over a parking pass? Or are you suggesting that this type of scam doesn't happen in the US at all because the risk of getting shot by running this racket are too high? I don't understand how guns are relevant here.
I had an HP-48GX in engineering school.

It was pretty badass.
I have little quantitative intuition, which typically leads me to have to work through everything rather than give an off-the-cuff answer and checking my results multiple times.
Will this cause an increase in sexually transmitted diseases? If straight men don't have to wear condoms for pregnancy-avoidance, and straight men & women don't like to pretend/boast that they've had lots of sex (unlike gay couples), then the pressure to go bareback (without a condom) increases and there might be more HIV/AIDS/STIs
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Everyone wants an application that does everything they want, but only what they want. The result is that application developers have to create software that includes features representing a cross-section of their users' requirements. This is not an easy problem to solve.

I find more recent versions of Microsoft Word far easier to use. The Ribbon has tucked away infrequently used features to UI spaces that are easy to reach, but not "in your face". My first stop is the "auto-correct" preferences. Once you've turned all that crap off, the software is perfectly usable for me.

Perhaps the author should consider some of the popular applications that are targeted specifically at authors: Scrivener, WriteRoom, Ulysses, etc.

However, anyone expecting powerful software to work exactly as you expect is setting themselves up for disappointment. I can't think of a flexible, powerful tool that doesn't involve a learning curve of some sort.
It will be interesting to see how AirBnB maintains the listing quality as it scales which I would argue is currently its main advantage over VRBO, HomeAway, Craigslist, et al. These types of sites tend to devolve into a homogeny of bland, "professional" listings, hence HomeAway's boring rollup strategy. What has made AirBnB somewhat unique and appealing has been the interesting listings and the care and personality of the property owners.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/03/17/how-could-npr-...

"NPR stations have been given an enormously valuable asset, i.e., spectrum, for free. They can and do make money from this asset by selling corners of the spectrum to digital data services. They can make money by selling commercials, as nearly all NPR stations seem to. Even with no tax dollars or donations, shouldn’t an NPR station be financially unsinkable? They might not be able to pay executives $400,000 per year, but it should be more profitable to keep the station going than to shut it down, since they get their #1 asset (the spectrum) for free. What am I missing?"
Well, really, about the only guide you need to install Plan 9 is "Hit Enter a whole bunch of times", and before you know it you'll have it installed to your hard disk. (I simplify, but pretty much every prompt either 1. Is clearly explained or 2. Has a sensible default.)
For one thing, notice that there haven't been any updates to that project since July 2010. The CoffeeScript language has undergone serious changes in that time, so output from that converter is largely unusable.
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It was a rhetorical question.

I did build it as I explained. I turned the idea into a 'spec'. A very detailed 'spec'. The point is that you do not need to be a programmer to start "building' the idea.

And yes the spec has been converted into to php at a very reasonable price. We have two paying customers and are getting ready for a launch.

The spec drastically reduced the cost of getting it 'built'. The spec is a form of implementation so the 'idea' is no longer just an idea when it is put into a detailed specification.

So all you non programmers you can start implementing your idea now, Just start 'building' it.
I side much more Conrad Wolfram on this than Stillwell [1]. Computation simply is a lot less important now as we have tools that do them with far greater speed and accuracy. And I'm from the generation that did tons of computation, but I honestly never had a great grasp of it. I just knew there were steps to be taken (leave an extra space to right as you do long multiplication) -- and I was one of the top math students in the district.

In fact I'd argue that I never really understood much of any math until grad school. I was computational sophisticated, but lacked understanding.

And oddly, I seem to find quite the opposite problem from what the blog author describes. I find students who know 3x5. But struggle to understand when the Fourier Transform is appropriate. Sure, if they're looking at problem sets at the back of the chapter about Fourier Transforms then they'll start with it, but in the real world they lack the conceptual understanding of it. I've met students who can compute the SVD, they can tell you the text book definition, but don't actually intuitively know what it means. They don't know when it should be applied, or when it is applied, what it means.

[1] http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/23/conrad-wolframs-ted-talk-...
The facts of reality that give rise to the FP approach is the recognition that computation is essentially a process of inferring quantities. Its purpose is to aid in human thinking. And the conceptual faculty is a quantitative mechanism. This is laid out eloquently in David Harriman’s book “The Logical Leap”. See also “Concept-formation as a mathematical process” in OPAR.

The computer is in essence a quantifying device. Its invention was motivated by man’s need to quantify.

Anyone else tired of verbose writing?
Since bitcoins are inherently deflationary, it's hard to argue that they make a poor investment vehicle. However, it's the inherent long-term lack of liquidity that dooms this usage. To be viable in scale, a cash-replacement like bitcoins needs to be highly liquid, but there are two effective choke points to this specific hidden economy. The first is that conventional retail businesses (as opposed to individuals) must accept the currency _in_scale_, and there are a number of reasons this won't happen, including the trackablity of bitcoin usage over the network (and inevitable IRS issues). The second is that paypal, banks, etc, will shut down conversion sites, as paypal is already beginning to do, and that will severely diminish the usefulness of the system.
I'm confused. Are you saying that using private GPL software in the SaaS vertical is NOT ok?
Are people using Plan9 for Real Work™? I've always found it inspiring in it's simplicity and orthogonality, but it's easier to be simple and orthogonal when you aren't concerned with the last 10% of performance or compatibility with existing software, and I wonder if Plan9 sacrificed real world usefulness for conceptual purity.
Indeed, if these entrepreneurs moved to the US then they could coerce the parking tickets with firearms. Efficiency would skyrocket!

Take the internet tough guy act somewhere else...
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dangerously low birth rate will be the biggest impact in long-long term - i wont be surprised if every other men uses this technique secretively to NOT to have a child ... as someone mentioned here "A SEXUAL REVOLUTION" is underway ...
I'm sure it's not as black and white as that. There's a certain level of safety requirements, and we could probably relax them with only a small percentage of people suffering or dying as a result. We could also raise them, and decrease that number. Etc, etc., it's all a numbers game, and I'm already boring myself with this argument.
Bruce Schneier has written that quantum computers only halve the effective number of bits for symmetric encryption algorithms, which seem more closely analogous to hashing than factoring. That would be a giant leap in mining capability, but perhaps not so much as to cause collapse. Switching to 512-bit hashes would bring us back to where we are now.
Is there any chance to have the free email account?
What kinds of things would you like to see in an iBooks overhaul?
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Thanks for laying it out like that. Yes, its a detail but I think its a very important detail don't you think?
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There has been advertising on PBS for a long time.

I have a four year old at home. Chucky Cheese is on constantly at the end of each show. We don't turn away b/c usually we are waiting for the next show to come on.

PBS streams a lot of their content. There is zero advertising on the (pbs kids) web site (that I have seen).
Okay, that wasn't clear to me, but it's a good point.

You could write up some advice to other non-programmers / "business guys" unsure of how to start: "writing a spec" is indeed a good way to start building.
Great advice! Some people can be a bit shy about asking for things, so I suggest you practice.

For example, I was recently at a reception which included a fixed menu dinner. For the non-native speakers, a fixed menu means that you don't order your meal, they just bring it to you. A waiter was walking around to each of the many tables, quietly filling glasses of red wine. Red wine makes me sleepy, so I asked for a beer.

A few minutes later, someone at my table asked me "How did you get a beer?"

I said "Um, I ordered it..."

"Oh? We can do that?"

"We're at a restaurant, he's a waiter. I asked and he didn't say no. So, ugh, yeah. We can do that."

That tiny unfamiliarity of a fixed menu and an automatically filled wine glass undid a lifetime of training on how to order things at restaurants.

You've got to ask for things, even if it feels unnatural or uncomfortable!
Or - to extend your metaphor - if Loren was applying to work at a physical security firm, he'd be better off saying, "I'm a security nut, so much so that I installed an amazing security system at my house, with lasers and a shark-pit and whatnot," than if he just said, "I regularly lock the door at my house."

Sure, the lasers and shark-pit might be overkill for any normal home's security needs, but if they're being used as evidence of talent in the field where you're looking for work, their purpose isn't to be practical for your everyday needs, but to demonstrate applicable skills.
yeah, I just learned about the meaning of that in Australia.
That web site had the pop-up blocker in my browser clucking away (mine makes a "cluck" moise for every pop up it blocks).
Exactly - this takes away the one of the biggest fear a man has while having sex ...
The worst part is, how old is all this stuff, and how was it able to be passed along for generations until now?
It's unlikely that Square will compete with Google Wallet at all. Competition is more likely to come from PayPal, American Express, and startups such as my own.
I see that as a fairly elegant solution to the chicken-and-egg problem. Seems to be working, too.
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Question: Does the franky example make use of both of your cores? Express and Sinatra are probably just using a single core out of the box.
You're assuming the owner has to be willing to draw. They don't-- it's the diffused cultural knowledge that someone might be carrying concealed. "An armed society is a polite society." Also the reason why happy slapping never caught on at all in the US, but was big in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Australia. But not the States!
do you have a blog? you should post projects and also comments there
Sign me up!

I have 3 kids and the existing methods available for ensuring we don't have a 4th are, at best, inconvenient. (Condoms are annoying; the pill messes with my wife's emotions; and either of us getting snipped seems scarily irreversible.)

I'll be keeping an eye open for trials here in the US and on any more news about this procedure trickling out from India.

hooray for science!
The original blog poster left more details in the comments, which let me get to the bottom of this. If you want to know what really happened, here's my comment with the explanation: http://goo.gl/6A8f9
I receive emails, and I know what kind of emails I like to receive. However, I am not particularly representative (find me a mathematician who is), so there is little value in extrapolate my desires to others.