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You kids and your new languages! While you endlessly debate over features and runtimes and whatnot, I still happily use PL/I under OS/360 on Hercules, and I don't think that I'm missing out on anything worthwhile. All of the below were built by real engineers, and have stood the test of time. It's an unfortunate waste of manpower that the industry keeps trying to reinvent things which remain perfectly usable. May the 60's never re-IPL!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/360

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(emulator)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I_programming_language
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There is not a single mention of either unit tests or "reusing components in other frameworks" in the original article. Did you read it?
I've always gotten round the whole line copy thing with C-a C-k C-w, goto where you want, C-w. It's become second nature :(
Huh? Random check on a random price comparison page gave me 2544 with <= 1366x768 and 1231 devices with a higher resolution.
Number of open bugs is a poor measurement of software quality. Anyone who has seen the bug-tracker of a large project will testify to that fact. If anything, a large number of open bugs is an indicator of a large, popular and mature product.

Mozilla's Bugzilla currently has 46951 open bugs within Firefox and Core.

(Disclaimer: I know little about Drupal. I'm only responding to the argument itself, which is a fairly common fallacy)
It seems like the calculator is true to its name in that it only evaluates the given input function. Whether or not a function is monotonic should have no bearing on the calculator because it isn't actually solving anything, only evaluating. The solution method takes place in the user's mind and so the user would need to recognize that a given equality may be untrue (that is, the problem is unsolvable) but this would manifest in the user being unable to drive two equations to a single answer.

For example, if the user had sin(x)+1=2 and x^2=4 (or, sin(x)+1=x^2-4 equivalently) then the lines would be set up as

sin(3)+1 = eval

3^2 = eval

and then the user would link the two 3s and proceed to "scrub" until a common answer for x was found. While this problem is unsolvable for x, each expression is valid and able to be evaluated.

As somebody said below, this scrubbing amounts to nothing more than brute force guess and check of equations. No additional knowledge is gained through this type of approach and I would never recommend this for anything but the most trivial of problems and even then a standard approach would probably be faster.

EDIT: Looking at the more advanced "locking" functionality, I think you are probably correct in that this functionality may be constrained to monotonic functions only.
See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9705/what-can-i-do-about-...
I just want to point out that the title uses a letter which doesn't exist in any language: t with a cedilla. It's a Unicode fuck up which plagues the romanian language to this day. Not just on computer systems, in real life too!
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Hi, nice app. Just to be a pedant, there is a syntax error in lesson 5.

if 2 + 3 = 5:
print "OK!"

Should be:

if 2 + 3 == 5:
print "OK!"
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He writes:

"I dropped MongoDB in favor of using a relational database"

I wonder what made him abandon a perfectly good datastore in favor of a SQL thing, because everybody knows that http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ ;-)
"Optimum of course would be to query the underlying platform for locale information. " - This isn't true.

Most people are not in control of that. For many many years I had to work on Swedish version of windows, because that is what the company paid for. But that doesn't mean I want my CD-burner application or whatever to talk to me in "bad" Swedish. Never mind trying to Google localized error messages, that's a another pain I'd rather be without.
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Seems like they have to do what Apple did when they changed their OS core. Backward compatibility will probably have to be an afterthought if the project is to survive.
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Interesting chart. Can someone explain 'years lived' to me? Is this the percentage of all years all people combined to live in each respective Century?

Thanks.
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I see the same problem, but I don't agree that stock price is the reason why people don't go big anymore. Sure, many join a startup hoping it'll be the next Google or Facebook, but honestly, IMHO, startups are just more enjoyable to work at. Large companies lack the same level of speed, action and innovation. All the exciting innovation is happening at startups. Startups are trying to change the game, while large companies are simply trying to defend their lead. That's just boring for young guys like me. Generation Y doesn't want boring 9-5. We want to work on projects we care about. I see the brain drain happening at these big companies and wonder who will be left to run them? What will happen to Google when they become too big and boring?
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Compensate advances in the arts and sciences? What does that even mean?

Anyway I didn't say artists should not be compensated eternally for a single piece of work. Although in fact that's quite a strange way to put it. They made the work, copyright means they have control over it. Why should YOU be 'compensated' for somebody else's hard work? ie. get it for free

The point however is that having lengthy copyright terms, eg. 100 years, means producers will finance riskier and therefore better films more willingly. If they only had say 20 years of royalties income to count on, the result would be lowest-common-denominator movies being the only ones that get made.

I don't understand why someone would care more about being able to get 20, 30 year old movies for free than they would about paying a few £s (or watching some adverts) to see an old classic. It's like complaining you have to pay to get into the Louvre.
In the dot.com era in NYC one of the main groups was the World Wide Web Artists Consortium which was known as WWWAC. The group had quite a few meetings but the main focus was their mailing list. This link has all of the emails to that list so you can read how folks were learning about 9/11 ten years ago.
> PyCloud also shows error messages when your program has a bug. It's very useful for debugging. For example, click Run to see the output of this script.

[Run]

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>

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This just seems more reasonable to me than an $80 Billion Facebook price tag. I'm not actually a big Twitter fan, but it's already an advertising device, so to me it makes sense to have some paid ads as well -- and I like ads that are similar in look to core content (from a business perspective I like this...).

Yes, my rationale is more based on sense than on any revenue data as Twitter doesn't have much revenue, and doesn't disclose anyway.

Again I like that their ads are going to look like their core content (I think of Adwords, but based on user interest, instead of intent).
My original comment:

"Wow. Thank you for the insight, as someone who is working on getting funding for my business."

I don't see any conflict, even if it's 20 years before I need to worry about these issues, I'm just thanking the OP, and author for the heads up...
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While it loaded in Safari (and before it crashed) i clicked the bookmark icon and added bookmark to home screen. Then when i accessed it from the home screen it worked (after loading up). This was on ipad 1
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What do you expect as an answer here? Just a basic grasp of what they're for, or a deep computer-sciencey appraisal of the sorts of languages they are? (If the former, you'd really hope those people wouldn't be making it to interview...)
Hm, this doesn't mention support for lexical closures (not turned on by default, of course) which supposedly has been merged into the master branch. I sure hope this will make it into the release.
Thats the same thing some generals said when the wanted to replace the Cavalry with tanks and cars. There are always people like you but luckly there are always more people that want to push ahead.

If you trully belive that the last 50 years of PL/Compiler/VM research did do nothing, I pity you.

Luckly for you that these old PL/1 and Cobol-System will be almost imposible to replace since they are a monilitic blocks of messy code. I know of banks that teach the unimployed programming so that they can update there cobol code.
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Idea is a single word. You can neither say if it is overrated, nor analyze the market on the basis of a single word.

— But can I write bullshit articles with a flamebait title interviewing some guy no one takes seriously?
Yes, you can.

There are pure ideas that just occur on an impulse. And there are ideas that satisfy a given demand. If you skip one of the steps when implementing an idea that satisfies the demand, you bail on the demand, not on some abstract over-hyped quality that serves no purpose.

In my opinion the really worthwhile ideas go alongside with the demand, and making sure that the demand is met is no overrated practice. Why? Because the demand is just a social definition of a problem that needs a solution.

People that have ideas unrelated to the demand usually write this kind of interviews.
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Newspeak has a very cool IDE (that is written in Newspeak). Maybe this "Brightly" is just that with HTML/CSS as a presentation layer. I belive he said that its written in a way that could make it possible to replace the presentation layer.
It's not clear to me that you gain much understanding by comparing economic output across time in this way. A lot of "economic output" is not objective production, but just people trading amongst themselves. More people, more churn, so a higher number. But not necessarily more production or scientific discoveries or technological advances. A group of 500 people cutting each other's hair has more economic output than 50 people doing so!
You should look in to one of the functions listed here:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyingWholeLines

Not having to use 3 keystrokes in the place of one is the whole point of using Emacs.
I think that's where it's wrong, though; imo, "history" is better identified with the percent change, not with the nominal value. If someone improved some technology by 10% in 1850, and someone else improved it by another 10% in 1950, I'd call those historically equivalent contributions.
To get a better context read the discussion threads linked from this article, which inevitably lead back to the "small core" discussions. The Drupal project has been increasingly distracted by debating fantastic hopes and dreams, and there's a definite sense of immediate issues not being addressed because everyone is waiting for the great architecture debate to be settled first, which it never will.
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Are you implying that titanium is rare? It's the ninth most common element in the earth's crust.
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Very cool, but it eats memory like crazy. (Chrome 14, Linux.)
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Nice little timesaver for such a common task, I'd just been doing the following (with vi editing on) but yours is much easier:

esc-0-i-sudo
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From the emacs built-in help:

C-v runs the command scroll-up.

It is bound to C-v, <kp-next>, <next>.

(scroll-up &optional ARG)

Scroll text of selected window upward ARG lines.
If ARG is omitted or nil, scroll upward by a near full screen.

So C-v scrolls by a screenful; M-1 C-v (which you could bind to a single key if you wish) scrolls by a single line.
It's rare in its pure form though, as far as I'm aware. And I guess even steel has some value.

Point being that over 10.000 years (heck, let's just say over 100 years), someone is going to tear that thing apart and use the components for some thing else.
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But also: The processes required to extract titanium from its various ores are laborious and costly (WikiPedia)
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Agreed. I generally take a three to five week trip each spring (I get about 20 days of PTO). I generally try to work remotely for roughly one week of the trip (depending on overall length), and I always give my team plenty of lead time. I've never been denied my request, nor has it affected project time lines.
My opinion is based on the current state of Google products, If Google doesn't have real offline offerings on 2011 it's because this was far from their interest. They need to complement their products with offline products, but very late.
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Writing tree structures is always fun. Writing it in an optimized way is a lot of work though. And what's worse one needs to reimplement quite a few things if the problem solved by the particular tree changes.

To avoid that issue Tarjan and Werneck designed self-adjusting trees so the user doesn't have to understand implementation details while still having access to an
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First, jashkenas isn't held up by standards committees -- he's able to experiment with cool new client-side web tech on whatever schedule he wants. And building on this, even more new stuff is happening, like Tim Disney's contracts.coffee [1].

Second, your ability to ship the coolest new client-side technology isn't being held up by TC39, or by the HTMLWG -- nothing we or they could do would make MS ship IE 9 for XP (or make people upgrade from Debian Stable :).

Third, the reason that design takes a while is because it's hard. I'm really glad that Dave Herman and I haven't iterated the ES6 module design in shipping versions of a browser -- that's not the right thing for anyone.

Finally, you mention Scheme. If you want to see a truly disastrous example of language progress held up by politics, check out the last 5 years of Scheme standardization.

[1] http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/
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China has more history than any other country

No. That would be Iraq or Egypt. Writing was invented much earlier in the Fertile Crescent and in the Nile Valley than in China.

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/writing.html

It always jars me (I was a Chinese major as an undergraduate) when people refer to "5,000 years of Chinese history," because that is wrong by 2,000 years. China only has 3,000 years of history, and the actual history of China, as for most countries, includes accounts of pre-historical legends that go back before accurate, recorded history.

It is correct (other comments in this thread) that Chinese political philosophers mostly came up with rationales for strong central authority rather than rationales for individual liberty like the Greek and Roman political philosophers, but that was a bug rather than a feature.
Yup, it ought to be the population integrated over time, and then normalized to add up to 100%.
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That was the lesson, to see that the IDE does not compile errors and has syntax highlighting for it.
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Do you deliberately misspell words?

If you truly believe what you say, then you should tell IBM to stop providing PL/I certification (http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/pl_index.shtml), and stop updating their PL/I compilers (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/pli).

Apparently, the last 50 years of PL/Compiler/VM research did do something: It turned you into a sourpuss. I pity you.

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excellent, thanks - another one to add to my (ever growing) .emacs.d
I wasn't, unfortunately. This was self-funded. The idea was to give it away for a period of time ("3 months free! Buy today, pay later!!!!1! OMG!!") in order to crack the chicken-and-egg problem of content vs visitors.
I like Perl's other version:

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As I understood it, the goal is not to simply allow Guile alongside Elisp, with the intent to confuse users, but to eventually replace Elisp completely. Guile devs are claiming that their Elisp implementation running on top of guile provides several substantial benefits over Emacs own C-implementation of elisp:

* higher speed

* native threads

* lexical scope

* ffi

* module system

* goops, guiles object system

Emacs is a key GNU project, but to the detriment of the overall project philosophy, it uses an extension language no other GNU project uses and never will use. Elisp may be working for emacs, but it is isolating it from all other apps, since nobody else uses Elisp. The long term goal of GNU is to "emacsify" the whole system, i.e. to enable emacs and other apps to talk to each other over guile es their universal scripting interface.
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> The only thing extra here is the file sharing - I can just hook up an external drive or sync using dropbox.

I'm not Microsoft fanboy, but you don't just dismiss a new feature because there exist clunky workarounds.

I mean, you can use a manual switch to workaround the mouse/keyboard/monitor sharing as well. You can also work around it by having a monitor, keyboard, and mouse for every machine.
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It may not be less keystrokes, but for what it's worth, I find using shift+i is easier than 0-i
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You're saying, because the typical end user doesn't know what tests are, it shouldn't be a high priority to have the core platform testable?
Maybe a bit of competition will help synergy gain momentum again:
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me too! any place where people can list themselves beforehand to see who else is coming? would love to find some people to meet there
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If I have a URL in my clipboard and want to prefix it I use:

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Much simpler and no customization needed.
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Running both PCs practically without reboot, Synergy needs restarting about once a month. I do not need more than one keyboard and mouse. I can't log in to both at once, but then a) one is not Windows, as is this case for most people in my office; b) I type my login enough times per day that once or twice for each system makes no difference.
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The most common methods are using web proxies and VPNs. Web proxies usually get blocked fairly quickly, whereas VPNs normally cost money. I don't know what you mean by "tech-savvy" but both are widely used by ordinary citizens.
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That's really odd. I used to work under Windows Live org, and all the Ops we know have more than one machine (at minimum, a laptop and a desktop). Even the orange badge has more than one machine...

Honestly, the only blue badge that doesn't really need more than one machine is PM. Both SDE and SDET definitely need more than one to develop and test. Ops can manage a cloud with just one, but in theory, we all know that Ops has access to a ton of VMs, so I consider them as more than one machine.
Thankfully since the chart also shows years-lived per century, it is quite easy to grasp the change in economic output per year-lived as well. The 20th century was the first to surpass a 1:1 ratio and did it quite impressively with almost 2:1. While so far this century it is around 4:1 already.
OK, so why don't they say that to their customers instead of closing bugs without comment?