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I heard this argument a lot of times, both in defense of Haskell and Lisp.

Does Haskel ability to solve "hard" problems makes it somehow unfit for solving "easy" problems?

Or, to put it the other way, why do you think it can solve "hard" problems if it can't even solve "easy" problems?
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Well, teachers seems to be left alone in this task.
Nobody check their work even just to make suggestions :(
math.floor(x / n) can be written x // n

It's worth noting that x//n returns an int and math.floor returns a float, so the statements aren't equivalent.
I think that's because Tornado is fantastically simple, and Twisted just isn't.

Tornado is the bare-bones essentials for an async web application server. Twisted is not. You can start with Tornado, then put Django or Twisted on top, but that's optional.

Besides, people are kind of scared of Twisted.
> A novice tool never makes anything but the most trivial task easy

I disagree with this statement in the strongest terms.
Imma let you finish, but the Most Aggressive Upsell Prize still goes to GoDaddy. :)

Anyway it's really interesting FB uses the number of likes as a score in a game. From this point of view the whole Facebook is a game about likes and you can pay for an ad(vantage).
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I really like that Tornado is a small, self-contained project. I can read through the whole codebase and understand it.

Twisted is quite large nowadays http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted

Compare it to Tornado source, which is ~30 Python files
https://github.com/facebook/tornado/tree/master/tornado
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"For example, he opposed the RU486 "morning after pill" on a conscience vote"

In fact, the RU486 is a abortion-inducing pill effective in the first 2 months of pregnancy [1], while "morning after pill" is a common name for emergency contraception pills effective for the first few days after intercourse [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mifepristone
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_contraception
The main article is talking about blacklist filtering, not content inspection of any kind. There already was blacklist filtering and has been for years - when I signed up to the very awesome Internode (2007?), in their t's and c's there was a statement saying that there was a very small number of websites that they were forbidden by law to provide (route? resolve? can't recall), all from a government blacklist, and "you really wouldn't want to know what's on these websites"(ie: child porn). Internode is one of the good guys and Simon Hackett (owner) is huge on net neutrality - he will only restrict where the law demands it.

But honestly, moving overseas because of introduction of internet censorship? Why not campaign against it instead? Are there other things that disturb you here, or were you perhaps not being serious when you said you were 'seriously considering'?

If freedom of speech is what interests you, the RSF places Australia as having more freedom of speech than the UK, the US, and Canada. NZ and Ireland rate higher, so you may want to emigrate to one of those, but beware that the economies of both those places might make it tough to find a job.

If you're a polyglot, you've got a bit more choice:
http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2010,1034.html
Methinks the IE team is making a jest at the miniature nature of the Firefox 5 release in the form of a miniature cake. =)
Of course it isn't an argument against powerful text editors. It's an argument against obtuse text editors.
The English went around invading a lot of places, then got really annoyed when those people followed them back.
I'm a very curious US citizen, what makes the quality of life so superb?
Swinging voters are more interested in slogans than effectiveness :)
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You should really give Firebug a try then ;-) Not that Chrome's dev tools are bad, but Firebug is terrific
Firefox extensions have exactly the same amount of power as Firefox itself.
Beautiful! I especially love the bits near the end, where they apply it to oldskool Windows 3.1 icons :D
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How about practicing self control? I have an Xbox one meter away from where I work, but don't use it unless I have friends over and we have fun. Something probably unknown to a person that sold his bike because he dislikes comfort.
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Almost like the bumblebee which can't fly and the spinach which contains lots of iron, except the story behind it is more interesting.

Do they tell the bumblebee story all around the world?
Apple prices are on an average 10% higher. Most electronic devices are more or less priced higher than, if not equivalent to the US prices.

Maybe mobile phones are less expensive here.
thanks! if you have suggestions for improvement, let me know, new features are rolling out daily now.
I think it's safe to say a lot of people inside the Python community don't care either. Twisted is incredibly complex and competition in the asynchronous networking space can only be a good thing.
There still doesn't sound like there's much balance there ... where's the good food and exercise??, it matters!
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In my opinion, this is a security issue. This method works for Google Chrome and Firefox (with Firebug) but probably with Safari and Internet Explorer 9 too (I haven’t tried). Note that it’s not only for Facebook, you can get any Gmail, Twitter, etc.. password as long as you have...
I probably live in a more socialist state than you (Quebec, Canada) and I respectfully disagree.
> under 6MP a camera is only usable for publishing on Facebook.

2560x1600 pixels is 4.1MP. At 1:1 that will completely fill the most monstrous computer monitors one can get for under about $10k. At 300 pixels per linear inch (a very reasonable resolution for photos; about the same as the iPhone 4 "retina" display) it will give you a picture with 10" diagonal.

Unless you're making posters or big prints for photographic competitions or something, even at 4MP raw pixel count is not going to be your problem. It's completely untrue that below 6MP your pictures will be useless for anything beyond Facebook.

(Of course pixel count starts to matter more if, e.g., you're taking pictures of distant birds or distant celebrities with a not-especially-long lens and you need to crop heavily. Most photographers, most of the time, are not doing that.)
No, they simply mean that you quickly gather many whole frames and even if the signal is mostly lost in most of them, enough would remain.
+1 for how you guys handle this. Instead of turning this into a drama, you handle it pretty humoristically and make contest out of it. This is much more viral than simply railing against them, and is just as effective in showing their folly.
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It's actually not that surprising that the New York (metro area) has a larger economy than Australia; it has almost a million more people!
I think Ryanair takes that particular prize - they do great flight deals and the actual airline is, at least in my experience, perfectly OK but their website has been designed to be a nightmare and to make it extremely difficult not to by extra stuff that you don't really need.

For example, the option to not buy travel insurance is half way down a list of countries!
the GDP per person chart shows that despite the high rate of development in India, it's still very much a poor country ...
If I remember correctly a MacBook in Bangalore cost about the same as it did in Stockholm.

MRP Rs. 60,900/- Indian Rupee (about US$ 1350) http://www.priceindia.in/laptop/apple-macbook-price/

Apple Store US for the same seems to be about US$1200.
yep, but the clever IE team caught wind of it and operation get more cakes failed. Firefox 6 rescheduled to 2013.
Focusing with the center AF sensor only and recomposing will generally put the plane of focus behind the intended subject (assuming the lens does not have an extraordinary degree of field curvature). The geometry is easy to see if you remember that your focus distance is the distance from the sensor/film plane to the subject, not the distance from the lens to the subject. The problem is more noticeable with a wider lens, a larger aperture setting and a closer subject, but it's always there. That's why Hasselblad (who only offer one AF point in the H4D camera system) has incorporated positional sensors and focus correction in their latest models.

If your camera offers the option, choose a focusing composition that will put your subject as close as possible to its final position in the picture and use the focus point closest to that position.
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Well apart from "coca cola" it didn't get any of my search phrases right, a couple of words that seemed to be based on past search history though ....

"paulstretch" = balls
"poor" = p* [presumably 'porn'?]
"text to speech" = x

etc.

Just tried "pepsi" and get 'speech not recognised'. But for "pepsi cola" I get the right search ...
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Those statistics are a little misleading.
In a country where, despite having a few billionaires, by and large everyone is fairly poor - these stats will not show inequality. Because most people in India are equally poor.
The second example you give is, in fact, an example of outsourcing, as 50% of the cars are generated by American, Japanese and Chinese companies operating in India, with the other 50% being Maruti, which is also partially Japanese owned.

For India to succeed beyond the hype, it's going to take more than gradual increases in GDP. It will require a cultural revolution. That hasn't happened yet.
At least (most of us) will still have a choice.
I'm ok with it. Much in the same way I don't expect to be asked if it's ok to send data to their servers every time I do a normal text search.

In what way do you think it could be abused?
"It looks like certain accounts were compromised, how? I don't know, "

Maybe they all had Playstations?
It's interesting comparing and contrasting India to China economically. They both are wildly unequal, with a max 7x of the min. But China is vastly richer; its poorest state has a GDP per capita equal to that of the whole of India.
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When I see this - I really appreciate how good 'Watson' is with speech to text!
true, Ryanair are extremely aggressive, but I'll go with godaddy also :)
it might have to do with a lot of users having toolbars installed.., which don't exist in their natural form for Chrome
I'm not saying that's the entire reason, but it might play a part..

Maybe people aren't as comfortable with the chrome extensions page?
Maybe there just aren't as many add-ons for chrome?

Btw, if you upgrade to FF4, will it bring the add-ons with it from the previous version? My guess would be it does..
That's the point though I guess. Why use a different browser and install an extension when you have great tools built-in to your default browser?
I find the higher mega-pixel really helps on cropping. Especially when photographic wildlife like a dragonfly its nice to be able to crop a photo to just focus on that while still maintaining resolution. For me 10MP minimum is for this purpose rather than large prints. 2c this looks like a really cool technology, I would love to see it built into phones.
I am the founder and current CEO of a dedicated server host. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies do often contact us regarding activity emanating from or related to our network. Its the same for any host and the bigger you are, the more often it happens. Rarely, a local law enforcement officer from within or outside of the US get cranky when you tell ask them to get a subpoena (makes work for them). However, in my experience the FBI and other three letter agencies are very professional, fair, and genuinely want to do it right. Getting a subpoena is no big deal at all for them. Usually the US Attorney is right down the hall from them, in the same building.

They do officially have policies and programs designed to befriend local businesses in the area of a field office. They just want to catch the bad guys and not mess with the innocent. They want people to like them and trust them. They count on the cooperation of businesses, especially hosting and access providers. There are civilized processes for everyone to get what they want.

There are the cases of people trying to get information who are not actually law enforcement, and that is one of the many reasons you must ask for a subpoena... To protect yourself and your customers privacy. The FBI can get one in a very short time.

Where this all goes bad is when you do not respond to subpoenas for subscriber information, when you don't hand over the disks, etc. If you do not comply, then what alternative does the FBI have but to come and get it?

My guess?... The host didn't play nice with or respond promptly to the FBI.
(1). if my memory serves, they can do this by taking one pixel from each len and compose them into a total focus image.
totally agreed with you. Firefox is browser for advanced users and chrome is more friendly to average user.
How long until there will be background WebGL Bitcoin Miners on websites?
Bill Gates was apparently humbled when he went into a room to watch usability tests and saw a lady trying to use a mouse. She reached the end of the mouse pad, so she kept moving the mouse onto the rest of the desk surface, and then down the desk leg. It was humbling. Don't know if it's a true story, but can imagine it happening.

Never make assumptions about your users ability to think the way you do about your interface. That's unfortunately (and often unintentionally) arrogant and a recipe for disaster.
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The examples uses Clojure as the language for defining the HTML. I've also seen Common Lisp examples (such as in Practical Common Lisp, http://goo.gl/CuUZQ) that use CL for the same purpose. In frameworks built for other languages, it is most common to have a separate template language for defining the HTML.

It seems much easier to use the same language when using a Lisp dialect compared to for instance Java, which would be a lot more verbose, but it is also done this way to separate logic from presentation, and because it's (supposedly) easier for front-end developers. Coming from non-CL frameworks, it was natural for me to choose a template framework for my small (and now outdated) tutorial on writing a blog in CL (http://goo.gl/YHCw).

However, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience developing web applications using a Lisp-dialect for generating the HTML (as Noire and the example in Practical Common Lisp), and if this is scalable to a team where front-end developers might not be used to or familiar with Lisp.

The syntax seems easy on the eyes, so perhaps it's not such a big problem once they get over the unfamiliarity.
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But they took an entire rack enclosure (i.e., multiple servers) not just server in question.
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Oh, I think it is perfectly possible to do webprogramming in Haskell. In fact, Haskell would be my first choice if doing web development. In my opinion the reason there is not much focus on web programming in Haskell is that (based on my observations in #haskell) the average Haskell programmer would rather work on these "hard" problems then on web programming.

Not to get into the whole Blub language argument, but I daresay the average Haskell programmer is more advanced then your average web programmer. This is not to imply the latter is somehow easier or trivial (working IE support? I'm not ever gonna call that easy....) but it could explain a different focus of the community. Resulting in less webprogramming being done. That said, I've seen 5i7 Haskell webprogramming frameworks pop up in the past 2 years, so I'm not the only one who thinks it is perfectly suited for that.
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I'm wondering what tools the labels, studios, RIAA, MPAA and whoever else fights piracy uses in order to remove File Hoster links, log bittorrent protocols etc. and how successful that is. What are the metrics here? Is it worth it for them? How much do they spend on this stuff?

Or do lawyers do that for them? Then what tools do they use? I'm just generally interested in the topic from an industry perspective..
While making a simple web application in Chicken Scheme, I used SXML transformations. From the code samples, that doesn’t appear to be the convention with this web framework. Is there a good reason to use alternatives to SXML? Or is it just preferences?
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Is Spark really as fast in real use, as the graph on the site claims? I don't think I've ever seen anything beat Hadoop by that margin before.
before someone makes the argument that Apple sells extremely high-margin items and thus can afford good customer service... HTC sells the same type of product at the same price points.

HTC sells similarly capable products at lower price points and with a less deluxe finish. I know because I saved hundreds of pounds by going for an HTC desire instead of an iphone. But don't take my word for it, It's a well known fact that apple's profit margins dwarf those of other manufacturers.
You are confusing Macbook and Macbook Pro. Macbook Pro is 70k rupees or 1560 USD, which means 360 dollars more than the US. Also at this price, it is more than 1.5 months salary for me, and I earn above average for my level. So purchasing power parity wise, its much more expensive.
I've been in Sydney for just under a year, I'd say the big things in no particular order are:

the climate: Just amazing. look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney#Climate and marvel. Tons of sunlight, moderate temperatures but you still get seasons (so no San Diego syndrome of 70-degrees year round).

the people: unbelievably friendly and easy going. take small-town midwest hospitality and invert the xenophobia. common decency, they wait in lines for the buses, but if someone cuts in line (doesn't know or is just being a dick) everyone kind of just mutters and shakes their heads. In Chicago, someone would have gotten stabbed. But who am I kidding, no one would line up in the first place and they would just mob the entrance. I almost took a guy's eye out surfing, his response? "no worries mate, my fault" (it wasn't).

scenery / the outdoors: Sydney is the most naturally beautiful I've ever seen. I take a ferry ride for 30 minutes every morning through the harbor. This week there were whales breaching in the background and a couple of little penguins [1] swimming around screaming their heads off looking for their mother. It's like living in a Disney movie. I wouldn't be surprised one morning to look out and see a Koala riding a dolphin and giving me the thumbs up. It's just unreal. On the way home? sun setting behind the harbor bridge and opera house.

miscellaneous things:

-a lot less religious extremism, it's very european in regard to the general secularism.

-the mainstream brands of beer are really really good. you don't have to rely on microbrews like you do in the states.

-the proto Sydney girl is tall, fit, blonde, blue-eyed and can probably drink you under the table.

-coffee - this was the big surprise, my god they're crazy about good coffee here. in the states you had to hunt for a decent espresso and then fail-over to starbucks. here you can walk into any cafe and get an amazing espresso. I've never seen anything like it outside of Milan.

In summation I'd say, imagine an english speaking country with a mediteranean climate, lots of european influences in food and drink and midwest levels of decency but in a +4 million person city with a major economy. And then put it in the most amazing natural setting you can imagine.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Penguin
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I've noticed that. The more I get into web development and the more I learn, the better I am at recognizing the tools that apply to my needs. When you start fresh in any industry, the biggest challenge is trying to find the tools that best suit you. Sometimes those tools are not the ones that everyone is fawning over. I'm still new enough to not really know the subtle distinctions, but I agree that the more knowledgeable you become, the more critical you become of the tools you choose. I do feel that it's a difficult time for people coming into this industry with little background in programming, but at the same time I also recognize that the contributions of experienced programmers are making programming more assessable than it has ever been in the past. In some ways, that's a positive thing. At the same time it also means that so many people entering the field will never come to understand the core concepts that make programming an art.
Probably when WebCL comes around.
I don't know if that many people inside the python community care either. Twisted is very big, documentation seriously lacking, and a lot of stuff in twisted not that useful if you only care about http. If you care about http, twisted is not that useful either (there is for example no http 1.1 support client-side AFAIK).

It would also have made porting tornado to python 3 a huge effort (given twisted code size).
Why would it switch to Twisted if it has always had its own lightweight event loop that's always benchmarked significantly faster? Same goes for fapws3 and gevent.