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"You made more or less my point -- but my point was that Scala provides too much; and I don't want to choose a subset, as my subset will be different than yours."

Sorry, but that's the most ass-backwards point I've heard. The language provides too much power and flexibility, and you want to be locked into one specific format, syntax, and the subsequent reinventing-the-wheel nightmare that causes most projects to go horribly over time, budget, and stress levels?
I believe it may be a kind of dynamic lookup, but I'm not sure separating stack unwinding from erro signaling needs it.

Also my2c: I'm not sure dynamic scope it's completely passé these days.
In general, it is mostly the idea of "leaving control to the user instead of the used" which has been reappearing in the form of AOP and COP.

In a sense, it is also what monkey patching is about in some OO languages, being enabled by the only surviving dynamic lookup, the "self" one.
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Agreed. After getting started and familiar with the basic Erlang stuff, the LYSE site has been a great source of help w/r/t learning idomatic erlang and often used libraries.

Will read the new OTP series tonight, thanks to the author, I owe you a beer sometime!
They'd have to create a Windows version of Git first, wouldn't they? Then the GUI.
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thanks don't know how to add transparency gradient. haven't really thought about whether I should keep selling it doesn't cost me anything to keep the site up, though I may add a link on it somewhere mentioning source code being available.
To be honest, ING was one of my favorite banks. They handled security very well, and the customer service always knew what they were doing. After hearing this, well, I'll keep my account for now, but prior experience with Capital One makes me very leery.
Agreed—the concept of porting UIKit to OS X is insane to me. The Mac desktop is not an iPhone! I don’t want to interact with a desktop app as if I were on a phone—especially not an app that I’m ostensibly supposed to use for development.

That said, creating a desktop interface for GitHub is a brilliant move. Bravo!
I wonder why they've released a client for OS X and not another OS―if anything, Windows is pretty lacking in git love.

Whose is its target audience and the desired function? New users, to reel them in with a shiny UI? Or established users who don't use it much, to make the experience simpler? (And if it's established users who use it much―isn't the command-line faster for them?)

If they want more users to use GitHub, surely a GitHub for Windows makes more sense (unless this is an employee's side-project gone primetime).
One thing that seems to be missing: how many different apps can you deploy under each level? Do you count the services per-app? If I want to deploy 10 separate python apps, would I have to use the enterprise level?
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Still extremely buggy, I was only able to load one of my repos, others failed with error messages like this: http://bit.ly/iJzNmp and even the successful ones came up with errors after loading.
Am I correct in assuming that DNANexus does not bring anything new to the table in regards to full genome sequencing? It seems they are just offering better storage/analysis via cloud computing.
No, I do not use CoffeeScript.
Your CEO hasn't validated anything. Your competition has, and if you aren't giving them equity it isn't clear why this guy deserves anything. Factor in that the idea isn't original and I don't see what value is being provided here.
If they start offering reverse deals, will everything become like a turkish Bazaar, with everything basically being haggled on the fly?
$1 per MB per month for DB memory after 300. So if you wanted an 8GB db, you are looking at $7700/month. Ouch.
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It's a good first attempt, but it's not quite there yet and won't replace gitbox in my workflow.

The big problem is that it will only work with the origin remote [1]. This means no pulling in upstream changes, then pushing it to your fork - doing this on multiple branches with the command line is a pain, and something a GUI would be great for.

The interface feels a little half baked too, e.g why the multiple overlapping sidebars - one blue, one black, why not just merge them?

[1]http://mac.github.com/help
It's interesting to see such a killer web company start investing in native apps.
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I've been running Git on Windows for several months. I don't see any reason why they can't take advantage of the existing work in that area.

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?can=3
Frankly the idea of a friend of mine getting that kind of scratch for referring me to a job would put a bad taste in my mouth and poison the friendship.

Why? I'd really be happy for them. I'd require them to take me out to dinner, but I'd be happy about it.

If your friend referred someone else to this job that you didn't know, would that be better? What if you would have liked to have been referred to this job (learning about it post mortem), but your friend referred someone else instead, would that be better?
This app is great. I've been waiting for something like this.

I hope they iterate on the staging/commit UI because, as is, I'm still going to use GitX to preview and selectively stage things. Some suggestions:

* Get rid of expand/collapse and checkmark pattern. Let me see two lists of files -- changed and staged. If I click on one, show the changes.

* Staging by chunk & line.

* Squashing with the previous commit.
I have been using Tower almost daily since it was released in beta some months ago.

The feature set it comparable, with the biggest missing feature being individual file rollback. Tags and stashes, as well, do not seem to be supported in github for mac. Perhaps I have simply not found them in the interface yet.

In terms of workflow, performing tasks in github for mac is more cumbersome. The gui, while nice, does not fit all that well to a fast git workflow. You must wait for panes to load separately from one another, so one code review and commit may involve loading several panes. This is much different from Tower, which tends to keep most tasks present in the main window. In a dual-monitor setup, Tower works well when occupying a screen, while github for mac would be wasting space if used in that format.

The history browser, too, is quite simplistic. Tower can render commit history in the way that github for mac has chosen to do it, but I prefer the way that gity and others have allowed a history list and commit tree. One thing I like about Tower is the ability to scroll down a commit history and instantly see the diffs of that commit. With github for mac, you must click on a commit and bring up the diff in the whole window -- which seems a symptom of its non-multitasking workflow.

At this point, I could not see myself using this over Tower in any project scope, though this is of course tinged by my experience with working with Tower. It is very nice that github for mac is free, and having more offerings in the space is going to be great for innovation, but I do wish they had taken a different approach with their interface. Perhaps more to like will come of further use.
I read these papers in grad school in 2007. Apparently he's been working on commercializing it ever since. This guy is the real deal.
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LearnBoost is nutty! (good nutty)
The last released version is whatever's on arclanguage.org. It's pretty old.
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Yes, they've been doing this closer to sixty years.
Do they trade in BitCoins?
Even "reform" has become doublespeak now. It actually means "like it is now, only moreso."
Consider me intrigued!

We're currently running on Azure. I'm very interested to see how you'll compare to them and AppHarbor.
Thanks for your feedback.

We use Jabber, Gtalk and Skype.

Also about how are we different

- Adds call functionality. Customers can call directly from browser without installing anything new

- Integrates with Skype and Google Talk. Other IMs are around the corner. Hosted in AppEngine and Amazon cloud for scalability and speed (currently is the fastest live-chat)

- Social Tabs - you can customize the widget to show Twitter, Facebook and other social communities.

Let me know if there is any feedback you can give to us.
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FWIW, USAA does fund transfer immediately, at least perceptively. When I transfer from a BoA account to USAA, funds are available within 10 minutes (close enough to "immediate" for me).

USAA also does interest on checking accounts, debit-card-as-credit points, and ATM fee kickbacks.
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> Other than the minor annoyance of downloading and installing frequent updates, I don't see a negative.

The negative is that every time you change the functionality of your software, you risk usability and integration problems. See the way Firefox 5 is repeatedly being slaughtered on Slashdot -- normally a forum that strongly advocates for successful OSS projects -- this week.
scroll to the bottom of the article.
I've also got USAA and no one has ever been able to come close to their rates, service and features. They came out with the mobile deposits before anyone else and continue to constantly improve. At this point, you couldn't pay me to leave USAA.

That being said, they've proven you don't have to have a physical presence to build an awesome bank. So I'm excited to see what happens with BS.
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Downloaded and played with the App a bit.

While it's beautiful and a great first version, I don't think it really provides anything that GitX doesn't already do better. I can see how this tool might be valuable for someone who's intimidated by git, because it's hiding a lot of what's going on. But in it's current state I wouldn't use this for more than training wheels. If / when they add pull request support and other Github specific features I might come around.
It's true that tools for compiling CoffeeScript on Windows are lacking, though the compiler runs fine in the browser as well as on Node—try it yourself at http://coffeescript.org—and also in various JS runtimes for Java, .NET, and of course Ruby.

If you're using CoffeeScript without Node, you're missing out. Fortunately, Cygwin-free Windows support is on the roadmap for Node 0.6.
In my memory, JavaScript won because it had market penetration, it did not get market penetration because it won.

It had market penetration because it was included with Netscape Navigator.

Yes, it also was good enough at that time, but almost anything would have been, in a time where a ten-line script was huge. I do not think that it would have won against say VBScript if the latter would have been available on the same set of browsers.
If they are really generous towards students and make this sexy stacks available available at lower price, it will mean a world to us. Course/research projects are done in such short time that we sacrifice kick ass features in order to do away with the mess of setting up these services. Can't imagine the possibilities a inter-school competition with such a stack ...
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I haven't read the proposed law, but from previous commentaries the big issue raised was that the invention didn't actually have to be on the market. You could patent an idea. If this is in fact the case, a new form of patent troll could emerge - think tanks that brain storm ideas and file preemptive patents.
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Ultimately, this list will include Hulu, ABC, NBC, Comedy Central, Fox, et al. We will have to wait for the content providers to decide that advertising to web viewers is just as worthwhile as advertising to cable viewers.

No it won't, None of the large networks are moving to this model anytime soon. This is not a matter of loss of ad dollars its a matter of loss of subscription revenue. Cable Networks pay the networks to carry their content (ESPN make $4B a year in cable fees) and ad dollars on the web in no way make up for this loss in revenue. You may end up getting everything on demand some day, but you will be paying a subscription for it.
The first thing that comes to mind is uTest (http://www.utest.com/). It does the similar type of crowdsourcing, but the quality of the testers we experienced were pretty horrible (with a few exceptions).

The guaranteed video of the testing process is an interesting idea - it's a lot slower to review video testing on the developer's side, but having video really would have helped clear up some of the issues that were reported to us.

The main problems we had with uTest were 1) the inconsistent tester quality and 2) the horrible test cycle management interface. It seems you could easily beat #1, and #2 is just some coding away.
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Javascript is a really lousy language thrown together in two weeks or so.

What ideally should happen is browsers should expose the VM and an entry point for interpreters to use and configure JS on the VM. That way other languages could be used against the VM-in-browser.

I suspect Google is trying to move in this direction, but IDK.
Yes, it isn't lexical scoping, it's dynamic, but that is the same way as exception handlers are scoped currently.
The author strikes out at the "same language on the server and client" claim, which I think is a bit unfair.
one of the great things about node.js for me is that it is (mostly) js, so I can crank it open and understand what's going on - this is especially true for libraries. I know js pretty well (and most of the syntax hacks), so this is pretty straight forward.
If I try and do the same thing with django or rails, then I find myself investing serious amounts of time just understanding the syntax (the splat operator is a good example).
Using the same language (not necessarily the same environment) that you already know on the server does have genuine benefits, even if you do have to treat it differently.
it only works on github
I wonder how close they are, they have been running for a while now. Apparently it takes several hours to read 2000 bases.
Hey I really liked the syntax highlighting color scheme you used in the webpage, is there an emacs theme for that?
You said about 7 months ago a new release of arc including a bunch of changes to news.arc would happen sometime soon http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833010. I know your busy. Can we still expect that release?
Great idea, well executed - im sure you will do well!
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Are there any other online banks that you can suggest? I'll move to the US within the next few weeks and I'm currently looking for such a bank. Unfortunately I'm not eligble for an USAA acount and ING requires an existing US checking account for account creation.
No, you're missing the point. Mt. Gox is not publishing the transactions that occur inside their exchange to the blockchain; they are tracking them themselves. All the bitcoins deposited at Mt. Gox are in one big wallet. Only when a user deposits or withdraws coins does a transaction get posted to the blockchain. (I'm not 100% sure of this, admittedly, but I've seen no evidence to the contrary and lots of indirect evidence that supports it.)

So what could happen, as the result of bugs in their code, or of an attack, or (hypothetically) of deliberate fraud on their part, is that the total BTC balance of all account holders could become greater than the total BTC they have in their wallet. As the above posters noted, this would have the effect of creating BTC; no one outside the exchange would be able to tell that it had occurred until someone tried to withdraw their BTC and found it wasn't there.

Now what they could do is make a separate wallet for each user and post all trades to the blockchain. This would perhaps be more in the spirit of Bitcoin as it would prevent the totals from getting out of whack. But as I say, I'm pretty sure they're not doing that -- for one thing, if they were, rolling back trades, as they have recently done, would be impossible. (And although I was not involved in this 500k selloff, on either side, I think they have to roll it back to preserve any hope of Bitcoin being taken seriously.)
Woo, thanks for the candy :-)
I believe the Oracleness of Oracle would trigger a violent immune response.
looks great, would be awesome to have keyboard shortcuts to go back/forward
Ah, that's what I missed. So it's technically possible to have all of the niceties of GitHub without having to use GitHub?
Who is Fast Company serving with this article? So the PR firm BankSimple hired pitched an article; fine. Declaring that a product that hasn't even launched to anyone outside of family "doesn't suck" is irresponsible reporting. "Aims to not suck" is accurate. There's nothing in this article to indicate that the writer has been using the service (just perhaps seen the interface). I'm as excited about BankSimple launching as anyone else but these type of articles rub me the wrong way.
Ford Fiesta? That might be selling the web app a bit short.
Oh, hey! This is awesome!

I am going to investigate this for my GitHub project.
I know 23andMe provides genotyping for relatively cheap, but that's a long way off from full genome sequencing. We still need to develop better browsers to parse and display the data meaningfully.
Though Xcode 4 does support git, I've stuck with using git from the command line mostly, as I'd had some issues with it in Xcode 4 (betas, mind you). My guess is it's a lot more stable now.

Having said that, I still use it from the command line just fine. And you're right, it's often the case where a version control tool like git requires something more visual (especially when dealing with out-of-sync branch merging). For that I've typically used GitX, but GitHub for Mac so far looks like a really nice alternative.
I've been noticing comment posting and comment updates are REALLY slow for a few weeks - standard browsing seems normal.

I was suspecting it was jsut due to the way its architected.
Before that ('94) there was Sharon Apple in Macross Plus: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Macross_plus

The Japanese culture at large is quite in phase with virtual stuff and robots.
There is so much about Eclipse that I don't like, but there are still some interesting and useful tools that keep me on-board.

ATL and Xtext have a lot of potential, for instance. Not to mention externally developed projects like Bioclipse and Knime.

It is probably time for a serious fork to illustrate how nice the core platform could be.
When I was in graduate school, my department's website maintained a list of students who signed up as "tutors", willing to tutor undergraduates in exchange for cash.

Maybe this is less common outside of math (as there were a ton of low-level math courses), but this was surely a reliable way of finding grad students looking for paying work.

But warning: if the projects are ongoing, I feel like you might need to pay well, at least $30/hour. My suspicion is that anyone who would accept less is liable to not be very busy (never a good sign in a grad student).
Which raises the question - is this a bad thing?

http://xkcd.com/810/
Your video is ridiculously long and pointless. The product itself is simple and core concepts can be explained in under 25 seconds (not 2 FULL MINUTES). It should be a quick narrated video that explains the differentiations between pegby and flow/basecamp/things/asana/rtm

With regard to the navigation.. look at what getflow.com does with the link at the bottom of the page or look at tumblr.com's "vertical" layout
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This is the biggest advancement in photography I've ever seen. All radical new technologies have some caveats like this initially like how LCD displays were worse than plasma for a long time. Wait a few generations for the tech to mature and I bet there will be no going back.
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Awesome, congrats. My first language was Perl too around 13 an now I'm 25.
I work as a professional dev now, but I look at some of my code from back then and sometimes it's better than my code now!
How does this compare with Git Tower?
Capital One just bought ING Direct (USA only)
Why a*a*a*a*a*a cannot be optimized to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)?
This is huge, because for many people, the current interface to git is the command line, which is too much for people who want GUIs. Yes, there are other GUIs out there, but those are not controlled by GitHub. In this case, they did something very similar to what Google did with Chrome; they wanted to provide a consistent and predictable end-to-end solution for users so they built their own desktop app.

It also does not hurt that the app defaults to use GitHub, though it does seem like you can use remotes that are not GitHub (see repository -> Settings).
Who does Fast Company ever serve with an article? The charter of Fast Company is to identify what the cool kids are talking about, digest it, and regurgitate it for the kinds of people who use magazines like Fast Company to keep up with trends.

With a few notable exceptions this is how all print tech journalism works.

I think you're looking for a semiotic value to Fast Company stories that doesn't really exist. They aren't getting written up because something important is happening. They're getting written up because people have been talking about them. That is probably literally the only element of newsworthiness underpinning the story.
I've always thought that Meego would be a much better 3rd platform than WP7. Meego is a much better competitor to Android than WP7 is. Meego can go in the same places Android can go because of its opensource and free nature. It can be on everything and built by "anyone" just like Android. WP7 on the other hand can only be used on mobile phones, and even then only by manufacturers that either want to pay the license fee, or are "allowed" by Microsoft to use it (see the case of Microsoft allowing only certain manufacturers to use Windows 8).

It's a shame that Nokia won't give their best to make Meego succeed, because that would mean it could hurt WP7's adoption. Also, I'd rather see 2 of the top 3 platforms being open source, than 2 proprietary ones. I think it would be for the best for all of us.
Delays in fund transfers are due to ACH network rules and processes, not float.

Some institutions only process ACH files once or twice a day.
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It still a shame to have gone and killed Color, if that is indeed the case. Horrible UI, amazing results though.
this better be better than the upgrade to Helios.
Just a minor addition to the parent post. What was sold to Capital One appears to be ING Direct USA. Other branches of ING Direct in other countries were not affected by this operation. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ing_direct#IN...

Edit: kirpekar was faster than me a few comments below.
Great design, Maybe you could change the "How it works" for a catchy line, like "get things done fast", or "get things done easily"
There are windows on macs, but it appears Macs are going away from them with the full screen apps. Look at all of Apple's apps - they're all going single window. Document based apps can still have multiple windows, but everything is self contained.
Wow, this is going to be big news if true.

However, I lost a little faith in the article once Epoch Times was mentioned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times#Criticism