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> Back in the day, I remember writing reddit comments and blog posts to explain the relative popularity of Rails over Catalyst. It was usually along the lines of, "people want to be told what to do. given a screw, they would rather bash it in with a hammer than to read about what a screwdriver is." Posts like this reinforce that point: people don't use Rails because they want to use Rails, people use it because they're afraid of anything else. Rails gave them everything that they thought they needed, and no easy way to back out of the defaults. It was a comfortable world where you could never do something wrong. Now that Rails is becoming a meta-framework like Catalyst, people are being driven away because they have to think before they program, and they have to customize Rails into the framework they want instead of just using the framework that dhh wants.

Just the other day I was writing a similar piece about Django on my blog. Back in the day it used to be damn-simple to start a Django project (compared to starting a Zope project, for example). Download the thing, change a line or two in settings.py, and you were done. No need to worry about what ORM was Django using or about how some people thought that the templateing system was un-pythonic. Things just worked.

Now I see that more and more people decry the fact that Django is not "modular" enough or that you cannot change its default ORM with any other one just by editing one line of code. Guess what? Your boss or the client doesn't care one bit about the virtues of SQLAlchemy compared to Django's default ORM, they only want to know how long it will take for you to implement the features they want. Now, if you, as a programmer, have enough spare time to handle all the loose bits (custom ORM, better templateing systems, custom URL dispatch mechanisms etc.) then chances are you shouldn't be using an existing web-framework (like Django, for example), and that you should build your own. But don't forget to finish your projects on time.

And, for anyone interested, here's Martijn Faassen's recent Euro DjangoCon keynote about what Django could learn from Zope: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2011/06/07/zope.html . The thing is, I'm old enough to remember about how Zope 3 was supposed to be the "best Python web-framework ever. It lets you do everything you want, you just have to understand interfaces". Six years on, and nobody cares anymore.
That is a very shallow set of arguments from a self confessed pro-life group. A better place to start understanding the complexities and impact on environment from a large population is probably Nature’s special on planetary boundaries.

http://www.nature.com/news/specials/planetaryboundaries/inde...
My opinion:

In a democracy, ideally every one should have the same amount of voting power. Independent of social status, power and wealth.

Secret of vote, is there to prevent bribery and blackmail.
Hence, even a poor and powerless person can vote, according to their heart.

In contrast, donations to politicians and parties, are an attempt to "buy" elections.
Dear Benjamin,

First, welcome to Tel Aviv.

Second, what you describe as check out places of interest, possible targets for a day off or a weekend trip is not falling into the category of secret army bases etc. which are in discussion. (unless of curse, if in your case, "the places pf interests" are actually army bases ;-) But, I assume you are a hacker at most, but not a spy.

Keep in mind the fact that Israel is a very small country, and yet major parts of whatever is left to us, is claimed by others. From Tel Aviv, which is located on the west side, by the sea, and the east border there are only 16KM (10 miles) of land in between (same range as from 14th Street to Baker Field, New York)

Therefore, we try to keep the little we have as much as possible and this is the reason, I think, for the censorship one might call it.

All in all, I wish you great and joyful stay in our city, and if you need a partner for a beer or two, drop me a mail.
1) It's difficult to know how long a method will be when it's compiled. Basically you have to compile it to find out. The 64k limit is on the generated byte-code, not on the source.

2) Why bother? I mean generating C (in my case) was so much easier, a simpler solution (not using a tree) is bound to have less bugs, be easier to maintain etc.

I mean this is a fundamentally ridiculous limitation. One can work around it with a large amount of effort, but it shouldn't be necessary.
If you are proud of your country it means that you associate value with everything that is connected to the country. This value is intrinsic (for example everything manufactured in Germany has an intrinsic value because it is of German origin and you are proud of Germany).

The problem is that this line of thought automatically devalues everything not from your own country if it can be compared to something from your own country.
Since everything from your country has an intrinsic value to you, everything not from your country lacks this value and is therefore less valuable to you. This would be OK if it was limited to manufactured products but sadly it includes people as well as whole cultures.

So being proud of your country makes you devalue everything from other countries before even considering its real value.
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Sure - there's a lot of problems that need fully debating and solving. I'd agree with that. Wonder if there's a list someplace... i.e. solve malaria, distribute food in africa etc etc
PGP-encrypted emails? It becomes a question of security vs convenience eventually with security considerations (Someone mentioned dating sites are more engagement > security).

There is no 'safest' way with encryption. It's a matter of time before it's breached.
Firstly, it originates from the US, so I suspect they can make savings like that.

Secondly, US stores typically don't include Sales Tax or VAT in their listed prices. So I'm sure you'll pay 10-15% more on top of the price that's stated.

I'm from the UK where we pay an extortionate 20% on everything - however, every labelled price always includes this, which does help judge prices far better!
That discusses the effect of population growth on poverty - where does it talk about the effect of population growth on the environment?
I'd even go so far as to say a daily streak gets more newsworthy the higher it gets. Have we ever seen a group in the past that hit this many companies in so short a time?
I'm surprised that this is considered news, because it's been an observable issue for 15 years or more. As I understand it, when O-Levels were replaced by GCSEs the maths syllabus dropped some of the more challenging areas like calculus, leaving all the study of these areas to the A-Levels. As a result the standard of maths understanding for the university intake generally dropped. Universities made a number of changes to deal with this: they introduced more maths-light degrees (for example, combining some computing content with business management, finance and languages content), some courses increased the amount of maths tuition in the first year, and I believe that some even extended the course to four years to give students time to 'get up to speed'.

That said, I wouldn't class this as 'dumbing down'. They're reacting to a change in the tuition that happens prior to university entry that they have little control over. No one is saying that they're dropping the standard of the teaching that the universities are actually delivering, so the ability of a physics or computer science graduate today should be broadly similar to that from 10 or 20 years ago. What seems to be changing is the amount of work that the universities need to do to get students from a lower ability at entrance to the same level at graduation. That, and a migration by the students towards courses which are lighter in maths.

Caveat: it's 15 years since I worked at a university, so I have no inside knowledge of what's going on these days.
"prerequisite material in the University course instead"

Isn't that pretty much what Scottish Universities have always done with a 4 year degree? Entrance used to be based on Highers taken in 5th year at secondary school - with some people going straight to University after the 5th year or others staying around to get more highers or to do additional higher levels qualifications.
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I agree... I don't mind paying for a great app!

Then the article says that ads don't work as much as expected. So what's the way to monetize an app if we have to give it for free?
Thanks for all the posts, that point out, that the technology is still unreliable.

But com'on people, this is exciting! Who knows what great ideas might come out of this, now, that there is an affordable, commercial product. Ideas are made out of ideas. And so are applications made out of applications.

I wonder if playing games like "Spirit Mountain Demo Game" can change your mental awareness and maybe even concentration abilities.
That is great news! Rails 3.1 otherwise has many great features.

However, I'll be honest, I find it completely unbelievable that you don't have a problem debugging in one huge js file. I guess when using coffee script the connection between what you are debugging and what you are editing is already completely severed so maybe at that point it doesn't matter anymore.
I think one would need data to confirm that.

I mean I am lazy, but not so much that I would knowingly write insecure code for my customers; I'm can't imagine that many developers are different in that respect?
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I had not really paid attention to it before, but this plane had no windows. Instead, the walls, ceiling and floor had turned completely transparent. Or so it seemed. I reached down and touched the floor and apparently it was some kind of screen. The entire interior of the plane was covered with this screen material, and it was displaying a view that made the plane appear transparent. Overhead there was a brilliant blue sky with a few puffy clouds. Beside us in the distance were other planes. Below was a remarkable city and we were flying right over it.

http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna.htm, Chapter 6
Finally, we have a viable business for Nokia. And NOK +2% in the OMX Helsinki at the time of writing. Any not-bad news is good news for NOK.
This happened with the UK's own fascist/far-right party in 2009. Twice, actually.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/20/bnp-membershi...
> $15-$20/year

$15/$20 a YEAR ?
Ah, I see... Hmm, I imagine air travel would be quite painful in that case. Why doesn't the cabin pressure perfectly equal ground pressure? Doesn't it make sense that an airtight cabin will keep the pressure it's sealed at?
Ignore OpenOffice.org until the dust settles, and switch to LibreOffice instead
ads work great, but it depends on the app. we have free apps earning tens of thousands a month.
No doubt it was part of their deal with AT&T. U.S. telcoms (especially AT&T) are big bullies. Apple needed to play ball when they were first getting started.

Now of course, they don't need AT&T, so they're dropping all the restrictions as soon as they're legally able to.
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Sales tax depends on the location. It variess from nothing in states like Oregon to over 8% in some areas. It's about 7% where I am. Online puchases from companies without a presence in your state do not charge sales tax, so if Amazon starts selling these that would be a good way to get one without paying tax.
Yeah, state as functions is really nice, but it gets messy in languages that don't have tail recursion elimination (eg Javascript), as you have to have a trampoline mechanism to call the next state, I generally return the new state function and get the trampoline to call it. Which is less readable then just calling the new state as in your Lua example...
You're talking about discovery education [0]. Understandably it is applications of a bunch of memorised formulas or methods but this also occurs in specialist roles in the industry (statistics, science, stock analysts and more). For example applying web language to a need although not as pure a solution as mathematics.

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Discovery_lea...
firstly, THANK YOU for you reply.

There has always been a rush to market, unsure why but I wanted to get in on the act before others did. Justin.tv may have trialed a similar service although I am unsure what exactly they attempted to do.

I believe you are correct in saying the project WILL require further outlay. The hosting, iphone app and API's have been created, but the site will need to be re-created and additionally integration with a streaming provider will need to be setup/negotiated, which again may require some outlay and possibly long term OPEX.

On the positive front, the site API's have been built to accommodate a completely new revenue model. The model is the key to the update of this service. None of this section of the site is created, which will probably fall foul of abuse here as it is simply at the idea/design stage.

What I have decided is that creating such a start-up at this stage in my life and dedicating time to it will be very difficult due to other commitments...personal health and new child to name but a few!
If Apple makes $400 profit per phone that's 3% of all phone profits. I doubt it's remotely that high.
Maybe Amazon could ask Connecticut to build them a new road in the state which they currently reside. Connecticut would say: "Sorry, we won't service entities that are not physically inside Connecticut."

And that quote illustrates he hypocrisy. Connecticut wants to receive money from entities outside their state, but they will not service those same entities outside their state.

This is all about getting something for nothing. If a state wants to tax entities from outside the state, then it should bring on new responsibilities for that state. Connecticut should be servicing Amazon in some significant way, proportional to the amount of money extracted from it.

The best way for amazon to fight this is to insist on a fair and equitable trade of tax money for state government services.
To answer your last question, yes, east Texas is known for favoring patent holders in cases of infringement[1]. It doesn't seem to matter if neither party actually has a presence in Texas even.

1. http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/16280/page1/
https://developer.palm.com/index.php?id=2109&option=com_...
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The article (albeit the first in a series) doesn't seem to have any real evidence to support free or non-free being better. The two arguments put forth are:

1) Free apps are a "marketing expense" for future projects (to have a good project which will attract some clients)."
2) A "free app means having an opportunity to demonstrate your quality and later convert those users into paying customers for the full app"

I don't know how people will feel about the first. Personally I'm creating my own apps to get _away_ from my clients, not get more. :P

The second argument seems pretty typical and could be valid. Has anyone done some genuine research into this? I'd love to see some statistics comparing revenue from a large sample of:

1) Free, but ad supported apps
2) Apps with a free 'lite' version
3) Free apps with in-app feature upgrades
4) Non-free apps
Even so, you're essentially arguing that equivalent access should be embedded in every email the user receives from the service. Is that worth the small, one-time (session is generated, or password manager remembers the password) improvement of user experience?
Plus some flame bait, to attract links like this thread.
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I really don't understand why Sony still insists on this nonsense. For me this has been a major criteria against buying any of their cameras, despite them otherwise seeming quality products.
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Lots of people "log out" by letting their session expire; this would merely get them back in the game faster.

I'd expect this to be legal - set the cookie on login.mydomain.com and never use that domain name for anything else - but IANAL.
This is not fair - whoever has donated and whatever party he supports. For sure, we all know Germany's history and we know that we need to take care about what nationalist parties are doing. But it is not fair to publish a list of people who have donated. It is your right to stay private!
To conclude: There are more severe threats: business men insuits, people who underpay workers. In Germany, the NPD is not the most serious threat.
I am the author. I absolutely see what you're saying about the panning and zooming but do consider that the presentation was meant to be presented live and talked during. So each focal point would be on the screen for a few minutes while we talked about it. So if you're just sitting and flipping through them, I can see how it would be nauseating.

Also, I have to admit, it was an excuse to use Prezi which I think is really cool. I may have gone overboard with it, but its a lot of fun. It did seem to work pretty well live where the zooming out brought context to each topic by showing you the broader topic once in a while.

Thanks for the comments.
> I'm not saying that there aren't low-security services where this convenience is good. It's more that the author hasn't taken into account that there is greater security in the forgot password system.

Exactly. And I think it's somewhat dangerous for the author of the article to not understand this important distinction and at the same time advise creators of web apps to implement this behavior.

Judging by the amount of upvotes for the article and the comments it has been getting, I'm afraid some of us will simply follow his advice and replace reset password emails with direct login links.
I know many people who say that when they search for an app and find two alternatives, out of which one is paid and one is free, they go for the paid app. We all have limited, crippled or badly designed apps lying unused on our smartphones. Of course you should charge for an app if you make a good one!

Besides, why does the (anonymous) author think that word of mouth is somehow stronger with free apps? Instead with paid apps, people are more likely to recommend it onwards, since they have an emotional investment (as a result of their monetary investment!) in the app, too.

That was one trolling article.
Once you do that, why not scroll horizontally? That gives better context and allows for non-page height scrolling better.
I imagine that a Flash fallback would be more practical in most situations.
So pretty much like most software ever developed?

"Opinionated" communicates the idea so much better - it means not only that yes, some choices were made, but that some of them are the result of strong opinions, and do not necessarily try and accommodate all points of view.
If all you want is region layout, try http://robinmessage.github.com/regionjs/ I didn't follow the CSS format of the Adobe proposal, but that code will layout columns nicely.
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"Even in communist Russia there was a free market. It was just that the cost [...] was incredibly high (like death penalty)."

According to your definition prisoners are also free. It's just the cost of breaking out of prison are incredibly high (like death penalty).
Putting txtfiles on pastie is not programming.
I'm German and have no love for (any really. I just don't seem to "get" it) the country. Your comment surprised me though, because it was very short (abd therefor seemed arbitrary, snarky).

Thanks a lot for explaining your reasons later on - it was only then that I actually clicked the link above and read the original german text. Your point is great. I wouldn't want to have a beer with someone writing like this guy.

But you did yourself a disfavor by replying in this terse style at first.
Deployment of PHP is the same as deployment
of static HTML

Until somebody other than you does a database schema change or data migration, and forgets to tell you about it. Or until somebody adds a new PHP dependency (for resizing images or other shit like that) and forgets to tell the rest of the team.

For rails you need to understand version control,
webservers and scripting

No shit - those things are required in PHP too, unless you're building a contact form.

you can't deny it involves lots of abstractions
which sometimes break down and then necessitate
expert knowledge

Those abstractions save you from dealing with boilerplate or with repetitive tasks that you can easily forget about. They are based on sane practices used by experts. And those same abstractions are also present in mature PHP frameworks like Symfony and not because the developers were bored to death and just wanted to complicate your life.

Rails is not for contact forms. You are better off using PHP for that - but I saw contact forms evolve into big piles of unmaintainable crap and developers doing that because they thought a mature framework was too complicated and haven't evolved since then - shouldn't have a place in this industry.
The first paragraph of the article made me laugh at my desk. The rape is not funny, though.
No doubt it was part of their deal with AT&T

Possibly. Another factor is that in some countries mobile phone networks are legally required to unlock phones after a certain date.
The article isn't so much about the company as about the network. Fair enough, some accounts have been taken over by their "official" owners in the case of trademarked names etc. But this is a far cry from turning dull & corporate -- developers are still making great fun accounts and apps on Twitter.

Twitter's real problem, like all open communications platforms, is and will be spam. Boring is a neutral. Spam is a negative, and needs to be fought against.
But but but... what about python? http://xkcd.com/353/
According to Hans Rosling on a TED talk, overpopulation is not really a problem: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...

In short: as soon as the economy of a country improves, its population growth stabilizes (and sometimes it even decreases like in Europe).
Disconnect.

As long as you don't know how your data is being stored password managers and all won't help.
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ok, I think I know what you're going for.
My response was based on the fact that many germans feel that they cannot express their patriotism because of how other countries/people/stereotypes will view them. intentions be damned. that was one of the great things about the 2006 world cup here. that all disappeared.

I think it is safe to say that what was written in the article was done so deliberately to get a rise from people who want to be a bit "ra-ra".
Not the same on the UK site.
I wonder what this means for the release schedule of the next iPhone. Why even bother releasing this so soon when the next iPhone is supposedly on a few months away? It's possible that it's an attempt to clear out stock, but I can't imagine there's that much pent up demand in the U.S. for an unlocked iPhone to warrant this now.
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