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chapter 9 is particularly useful. clojure doesn't have hygienic macros, but it does have namespaces, so it is not as likely as common lisp to silently introduce naming problems. that's explained quite well there (better than i have found anywhere else).
This isn't an article about how to choose a web designer, it's a list of designer stereotypes that business people believe in.

To "actually choose a web designer" you need to have a clear idea of what your objectives are for the project and then interview with an open mind. Find somebody intelligent with a strong portfolio. No silly checklist is going to outperform you as a thoughtful decision maker. Litmus tests are used because they are easy, not accurate.
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I didn't say he was a recluse. I said that his way of dealing with the world was remote and intellectual, that he distanced himself from the world around him, that he habitually narrativised in preference to engaging. I believe that such a strategy, while indescribably useful for a writer, is a highly maladaptive strategy if you want to live happily in the world.

"The View from Mrs Thompson's" surely reinforces that argument. Several thousand words on his experience of one of the most shocking events in American history, but hardly one of them describes an actual emotion. It's practically an anthropological study. He lavishes endless verbiage to describe what kind of a place it is, what kind of people they are, but he doesn't even come close to writing about who they are, what they felt, what he felt, how they related to each other. From what he wrote, he may as well have witnessed it all through a one-way mirror.

Go, re-read it. Tell me that's a man who is living in the present. Tell me he isn't terrified of feeling something real.
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Cool - good to see other people have thought about this aspect too. I guess the pro of locking it down to a version is that you know it's not going to change until you make an active decision to upgrade. The downside being you don't necessarily get any bug fixes or performance increases of minor version updates. Although that's less of an issue if you don't encounter the bugs.
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A lot of them do, but sometimes there are loops (Eg. Computer Science). If you make an exception, choosing the second link for example, then it will lead you to philosophy.
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This piece is dishonest in its omissions, and ends up reading like propaganda. Why yes, let's all dislike what Iran does and ignore that the U.S. (among other countries) has all the same problems.

Take this $1000 ice cream dessert covered in gold (Golden Opulence Sundae) served at a New York restaurant:

http://boingboing.net/2006/02/14/worlds-most-expensiv.html

http://www.serendipity3.com/food.htm
There is a bug in HN. When you get to about the #150 position in the main submission list in HN (fifth page), suddenly all the submissions are "AskHN".

Here are the fifth "normal" page and the firth "ask" page: http://imgur.com/a/owaXa
Maybe more. I'm certainly no Perl historian. But if I were, and I were writing a book about it, I doubt I would include a lot of biographies.
I have had a subscription to the Linux Journal for years now and this is very disappointing for me. News and articles on Linux can be found anywhere on the Internet for free. I pay for the magazine because it is a hard copy. Unfortunately, I have no reason to continue my subscription and just deciding between canceling it now or letting it run out.
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I think our incorporation, terms of service, and privacy policy cost us two or three grand in total. Money well spent. I sleep better at night not worrying that some thrice copied faulty ToS document, written for another jurisdiction, isn't a sleeping problem.
Why philosophy? If you keep clicking, you actually end up in a loop: Philosophy -> Reason -> Human nature -> Thought -> Consciousness -> Mind -> Panpsychism -> Philosophy -> ...

I'd say, of the above, "mind", "thought", and "reason" are pretty basic -- you cannot have philosophy without a mind, for one (though you can probably have a mind without philosophy).
> Microsoft isn't a behemoth it used to be.

Microsoft Windows desktop market share: 90+%

Microsoft Office market share: 90+%

Internet Explorer market share: 40-50% (still by far the most popular browser)

> I think the only thing they have to show for themselves in last decade is Xbox. I can't think of any other new market where they have been as successful.

A few obvious examples:

Client division: Windows 7

Server and Tools division: Windows Server, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Exchange Server

Business division: Office

Entertainment and Devices division: XBox 360, various games, various mice/keyboards/etc.

R&D: Seems to employ/fund just about everyone doing industrial programming language research except for the 3 Google managed to hire, and a huge proportion of the industrial HCI research too.

MS obviously aren't dominant in all of these fields (compare Oracle for DB, the other major consoles for gaming, etc.). However, no start-up is going to compete with these sorts of products any time soon.

The most obvious targets for disruption by smaller players are the browser market, except that both Chrome and Firefox have basically written off business users as clients so MS will have a base there for as long as it wants one, and programming, except that with the resources and R&D Microsoft are throwing into that field lately it seems more likely that MS will pull away from the small time competition rather than losing ground for the foreseeable future.

That means at best, start-ups are going to be competing against Microsoft's secondary portfolio, things like BizTalk and Dynamics, and it's not as if there's a huge amount of innovation going on in the start-up sector in unsexy fields like that (unless you still think a business plan featuring the word "cloud" in big enough letters is worth VC funding, I suppose, but since the likes of Google Docs haven't even made a dent I don't suppose MS will be too worried about that sort of start-up for now).
> Besides that, according to other comments, "Thick Lips" sounds like it might be a racist slur against black (African) people. Do you think "Fat Lips" will get rid of this issue

It's hard to say. You might want to look into changing the artwork, too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minstrel_PosterBillyVanWar...

I'm not sure I would have been put off by the artwork on its own, if I wasn't already aware of the name, though. So as far as that type of negative reaction, it's possible that you don't need changes there.

"Fat Lip" has no similar connotations, and a "fat lip" is used colloquially to refer to the swelling that happens when someone gets hit in the mouth, or more generally, in threats to beat someone up, so it should be apropos, actually.
Assuming you have a piece of software which is supported by bundled toolbar installation, does this mean that Download.com effectively steals your slice of the pie?

(not that I advocate toolbar bundling, but it is one way that some apps make money)
"The converse is also true - I wouldn't consider ever hiring someone who can't quote chapter and verse on Commonsense Direct Marketing."

Do you believe someone can't be a competent marketer without having read that specific book?
Remember that the lawyer in question is not your lawyer. You probably shouldn't take the above (or, in fact, the below - nothing I say is legal advice, nothing in this thread is legal advice) as legal advice.

I am definitely not a lawyer, but that lawyer's response sounds reasonable, but it sounds like it was also likely under a range of conditions -- in particular, I think if you ever get in a position where you have a bit of a "special" contract (i.e., anything unusual in the broad sense of the term) copyright could very well apply.
Pardon, I don't know Clojure inside and out: are namespace significantly better than packages for the purpose of macro hygiene?
The UI design is terrible.

Other than that, I'd suggest you pull back on the incentive scheme. No one is swayed by the opportunity to get 50% of the settling amount (whatever that means) when not a single post has reached the threshold to gain that revenue. If you can't solve your chicken/egg problem sans revenue sharing scheme, then you won't be able to do it with the scheme.
And the result of the discussion is KEEP, just as it should be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles...

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the discussion. I did my part (adding a pile of references to places where Randal had been interviewed and presented as a notable authority), and between all our effort, we have a better article than before (hopefully).

Proof that - sometimes - this Wikipedia thing works the way it should. ;-)
I wholeheartedly agree with this comment. Using "babbling like a retard" is akin to employing the n-word in terms of being considerate to a world-wide audience.
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Other countries having similar problems don't make Iran's situation any better. Problems must be fixed. It doesn't matter there they are.

And it's been a long time since an European or North American revolutionary used a (false) promise to spread a country's riches to gain command of the crowds.

Article flagged, BTW, for blatant off-topicness.
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Also note that the many factual errors in the footnotes appear to be honest mistakes by the author rather than an effort to signpost an unreliable narrator. I really tied my mind in pretzels before figuring that out.
uWSGI, nginx, pyramid, sqlalchemy, postgresql, mako, beaker and fabric to deploy

My preferred setup that works for most cases. All reliable and fast.
Yes, that is actually the main purpose of art.
Thanks, had to switch browsers eventually. Can't wait until the website is back up so I can take a look at his code.

Edit: Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to play it.
FWIW, we're in the middle of dealing with this right now in the UK, and the legal advice we have received is significantly different to that above. Caveat entrepreneur.

My answer to the poll (for these and most other legal documents) is that we produce a serious draft ourselves first, and then take it to a decent lawyer for review.

Our experience has been that asking lawyers (and accountants) to draft documentation from scratch is rarely cost-effective. If they aren't already very familiar with your business, you're just going to get whatever they can throw together in a couple of hours based on a loose understanding of what you do, partly because you're probably not paying for any more than that, and partly because they probably don't have enough detail from your preliminary discussions to produce something better anyway. Then you're effectively going to rewrite much of it yourself just to explain to them how things really work in enough detail to work with, and you're still going to go and see them again afterwards for fine-tuning.

Edit: We do, however, sometimes have a preliminary call/meeting with a lawyer to find out what sorts of headings we ought to be filling out and ask about any tricky areas so we have some understanding before we try to draft anything. But we still do the drafting ourselves, even if it's just a plain English but detailed description of what we want to say that the lawyers can work on later.
You don't need to board the thing to take it ransom. Just need to have a credible threat of doing serious damage. "You have 5 minutes to wire $x into our bank account or your little country gets sunk."
I think it depends mostly on how hard the explanation is or how available paper is.

I had a friend of mine show me how to explain how to write her name in Japanese. There are even special names for the different radical forms (e.g. ninben vs. ningen).
If "author of first book about Perl" doesn't make your book, you're a pretty poor writer.
And having all your friends do so, and having a lot of friends. And all of them writing reviews.
While it is true that NewLisp isn't going to win any awards from either the Avant /or/ the Vieille Garde, I would argue that just because its philosophy is different from what you believe is most performant doesn't make it a bad language. Ruby's defenders should back me up on that...

As I understand it, scoping is handled by "contexts", which can be inconvenient if you expect every function to be a single standalone snowflake, but just fine if you`re tossing off quick scripts which don`t require hermetic degrees of encapsulation. You can also force scope by using 'let' or declaring private variables as arguments, among other things. Certainly Emacs Lisp seems to do OK with similar constraints.

As mentioned elsewhere in this post, the deep copy thing may not be as bad as you make it out to be -- certainly it's never particularly troubled me.

As for cons... It seems to me that cons is a rather obsolete construct, referring to a long obsolesced hardware feature. I can't get too unhappy about someone trying to make it more immediately useful in a modern context.

We've talked about what you don't like about it -- here's what I think NewLisp has gotten very much right:

* It's simple to use.
* It's small and self contained.
* It has a REPL and you can do introspection.
* It has conveniently and reasonably named built-in functions.
* It deals well with a UNIX-derived file system.
* It's easy to pick up and start using, but you can still do fancy stuff.
* The documentation contains worked out examples for every built in function.
* The main developer is very responsive and helpful.
* Trivially cross-platform with downloads, not compiles.

I have found NewLisp to be very convenient for many of the problems I have applied it to. I have used it for everything from dynamic web pages to image processing to ad-hoc render farms. So, I certainly feel that it may be invaluable for someone who is interested in Lisp, but has been intimidated or discouraged by the "official" compilers and needs to get some real world work done.
Worth pointing out that one of the authors, Eric Brewer, is now part of the effort to design Google's next generation infrastructure:

http://twitter.com/#!/eric_brewer/status/68051541063503872
> However, the modern system was first created in Arabic.

Actually, the modern positional system was created, in its entirety, in India. This includes the use of zero.

al-Khwarizmi gets credit largely for introducing the Indian system to the Arabic and Western world. He is the reason that the Arabs and Europeans use Indian numerals, though they've since mutated in look over time.
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Also, it just looks like a power button to me.
Easy to forget, given the past twenty years or so, but yeah - the economy can actually work.
StackOverflow, and it's family of sites, aim to answer questions that can have a single "most correct" answer. While "what's in your .vimrc"-style questions are undoubtedly helpful, they are beyond the scope of SO et al.
Have you considered using Beaker with one of these backend extensions? https://github.com/didip/beaker_extensions

I personally use Redis, but you could shove your sessions into Mongodb since you're already using it.

Otherwise my preferred stack is very similar to yours, except I use Mako for templates and PostgreSQL/Redis for backend storage.
>This is a pretty naïve argument.

Well there are certainly different degrees of ``inclusionism'' but I have read plenty argue that absolutely nothing is too trivial for Wikipedia. I don't care who's wrong or right, but given the standard the Foundation is attempting to set for themselves, it's clear to me why ``deletionism'' rules.
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is the uWSGI choice a purely based on performance? I like gunicorn for the simplicity, uWSGI has tons of options thought I wonder if they make management more difficult.
Would you care to talk about why anyone would ever want a space elevator? (as opposed to just rockets)
I think there's a pretty limited use for this, but it's definitely an interesting experiment if nothing else. I found it so cute that I decided I'd implement a really simple server endpoint for this.

https://github.com/rockstar/selassie

It's not backed by anything but memory, but that's why I said "simple".
> Speaking as a musician, I can assure you that that is not what art is about.

Speaking as an artist, I can assure you that is exactly what art is about. Additionally: all people are the same, and have always been.

Even when you do not actively try to play for an audience which has exclusivist tendencies, your art (music) will invariably end up used in a very specific way. There are invisible relations of power behind most of the things that people do, art and music being no exception. In school, we were taught that it is not nice to be exclusivist, however that is not how the world works. Similarly, in school we were taught that desiring power is a bad thing, while it isn't in fact (as long as this desire is productive).

Take a simple example: a guy meets a girl (or the other way around) and asks her what music she listens to. Music taste is a way in which connections are established between individuals (connections between people have a lot to do with power so stay with me...). Now this connection will mean relatively little if the music that both the girl and the guy like can be commonly heard on the radio. The connection will mean a lot if the music they both like is relatively obscure. And it's not just music. Anything, really, that is rare and is shared between two individuals becomes special -- i.e. becomes a nearly fetishistic object signifying the commonality between the two individuals. It's very beautiful actually. And it's all based on exclusivity. Side-note: the "commonality" I am talking about probably has a lot to do with Shannon's entropy and information transferred between the two individuals.
(1) I really appreciate this post & discussion. It has been clear for a long time that lots of website owners pay little or no attention to the experiences customers have with fulfillment providers (and Download.com is fulfillment, in the larger sense). It's time to hold people accountable for this kind of thing.

(2) Microsoft has been associated with sleazy stuff for years. I'm thinking of the installation of all kinds of nonsense software when you buy "Microsoft Windows" pre-installed. I doubt this issue is the kind of thing they consider a problem. Sad, but true.
I use it for the performance. It takes a little time to learn but it's fairly easy to use.
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I recently read the article with interest. Before this HN thread. Is that sufficient?
"Meanwhile, before anyone suggests that they've done the world a favor by directing attention to the AfD: canvassing support for a "keep" vote actually makes the admin's job harder."

I think that's all we can really hope for. In reality, you should say it makes it easier.
That does sound lovely. Have you played with any of the evented/thread options of uWSGI?
I saw Firesheep in active use at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon earlier this year. Yikes. No solution is perfect, but VPNs seem like the way to go for now.

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I have a problem with you calling people a "troll" when they are merely wrong in the particulars of WP policy. The fact of the matter is that your changes to that page have not been restricted to ISBNs and your repeated photo changes... and that's just the stuff that's in the history of the page with your name on it; it does't account for the advocacy you've made on the Talk page for the removal of the coverage of your felony conviction.
It's amazing how many people can be scandalized by the concept of someone touching the Wikipedia article about him... Marvin Minsky once entered Wikipedia and put a couple of things there. The reaction was like he had stormed naked in the middle of a funeral on a pogo stick.

And while I'm here... I am tired of all this the "trust" thing. Stuff is either verifiable or not, and if you haven't verified, you should remain suspicious of it for ever. Hoping to make Wikipedia safe for gullible people to read is a bit like trying to create languages like Java, with all sorts of mechanisms to try to prevent bad programmers from making bad code. It doesn't really work.
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To achieve inexpensive space access. (as per the GP)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator_economics
It's also pretty great as a pre-commit hook (invoked on the CLI). I've only had 2-3 false positives in about a year of using it as such.
Not really. I haven't had a need to yet, but it is on my list to check out.
Notch's game appears to be a reinterpretation of "Chip's Challenge".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chips_Challenge
All you really need, at least at the beginning, is you using the service with a voiceover explaining what you are doing.
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Plant bioinformatician here. Long story cut short, not much until we get the whole genome built, and a bucketload of plants grown. There's a lot more work on the wet lab side to be done. I'm guessing there aren't the genomic tools in place for this plant to do any funky analysis too. And plant work takes a lot longer to do than other molecular biology. Give it 5 years or so.
I believe horrible pre-installed software is the responsibility of the hardware manufacturers. If it were Microsoft doing it, they'd also do it for purchased copies.
Sounds pretty low-level. How does the technology, or database architecture help achieve the long-term vision of the company? Were you there as an engineering intern, or business?
I think the toolbar war is one of the most significant yet under reported stories involving the battle for search engine market share.

Where as Google has let third parties distribute their own toolbars and funnel the traffic back via paid search feeds, Microsoft has taken the approach to just changing the default search provider to Bing. When someone downloads an ugly toolbar, its Microsoft's brand that takes a hit, where as no one is associating IAC's toolbars with Google (even though Google is paying them somewhere around $1 billion a year, maybe 70% of that is from toolbars.)

I doubt Microsoft is ecstatic about this, partnerships with other major players such as conduit most likely blow download.com's measly traffic numbers out of the water. Heck I would expect conduit is sending more installs per day than download.com will send a month.
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