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Yeah, but you still wanted to read it badly enough that you came here to comment 3 posts deep.

It's funny how someone can hate a certain type of article so badly that they will read it and comment about how badly they hate it. I mean, why go to all the effort?
Python has implicit declarations, which lead to a world of hurt because you can't directly modify variables in arbitrary scopes. Python 3 has nonlocal, but that only extends the number of function scopes you can refer to to three.

I think having implicit declarations is probably the worst mistake Python made. It just makes things so much more confusing.
Reasonable, but wrong. The Lenovo site always has sales running. Bullshit, but effective bullshit.
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Presumptuous. I, just like many HNers like me, have more than just a "clue" about what I'm ordering, and I love Apple products.

As a sidenote, I hear these types of statements a lot from those in the anti-Apple crowd, but I can't remember the last time I heard someone switch _away_ from Apple products say things like this.
My job is assembling special purpose, high performance storage servers with specially tuned OS. But I wouldn't buy any other laptop than an Apple at the moment.
Some more background: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/5071233/Giant-leap-for-Kiw...
I hope this submission doesn't signal an era of meme-worship here on Hacker News. "Fail" may just be borderline, but it sure triggers my radar.

The flood of memes slid slowly in the back-door at reddit, one innocent step at a time. Questioning this often got you the comment that you were old, stiff and lacked the funny-gene. Time passed and look at what a worthless trollhole reddit eventually became.

I hope to see fewer submissions like this on HN in the future.
I've started preferring returning early instead of if-else. So:

_getWords: ->
return @words if @words.length
# the other case of the method

this approach makes the code read almost like English.
I have a problem w/ the cell phone veto though because that involves other people. I've read studies that say that being distracted by your phone while driving can almost be as dangerous as being drunk. So what's the victim of such an accident supposed to do? Notice that someone is on their cell phone and stay away from them?
The image http://cdn2.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jetpack... is continued proof that the first thing you notice about someone is their shoes. Their marketing people know this. You should buy new shoes too.
"The good news is that due to it being in the ultralight category, should you decide to get your hands on the jetpack, you will not be required to have a license of any sort."

Why is this good news? Half an hour in the air with a max speed of 63mph is something we don't want to regulate?
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How is "Dash" any less unique than "Python", "Ruby", "Lisp", "Java", "Basic", etc? We only associate those names with languages because those languages are established; I doubt googling "Ruby" in 2000 would have resulted in anything but minerals on the front page.
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It's 2011/09/10 here 8-)

Actually, that makes me think. I lived and worked through the Y2K time, and I was involved in helping convert/examine some code to make sure it was Y2K compatible.

Many of the programmers I see today weren't programming at that time, and at least one was found to be saved dates as a 2 digit string. He honestly couldn't see what the fuss was - the code won't be running in the year 2999 - why should he care?

I wonder how much of that type of thinking will creep back into the industry, and whether it really will matter. I, for one, think that computers and programming will have evolved into something completely different by 2999.

The problem(s) that surface will be different, but probably only in detail.
"The first three security issues above were all reported to us by Paul McMillan, who -- due to his prolific work on identifying and helping to mitigate security issues in Django -- has now been added to the Django core development team. The patches for the above issues were also developed primarily by Paul."

This is one reason why Django is awesome.
the shortest I could do is 72 characters in PHP. I have no idea how they can do 56.

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I explicitly talked about minor syntactic differences between curly-brace languages, not about Lisp or Smaltalk. Switching from one curly-brace language to another generally doesn't involve any deep paradigm shift, it's essentially just memorizing a bunch of irrelevant syntax differences. If I have some procedural C style functionality implemented the same way in languages X and Y (happens pretty often), having the code 95% identical is missing out on the nice things that I could have if the code were 100% identical.

It's true that the Java runtime and the C# runtime provide different services. But the same is true for databases. Oracle's feature set is different from PostgreSQL's. Yet the database community got its act together enough to standardize the syntax for basic features at least, so you don't have to relearn inner joins when you switch, and you can mention "SQL" in job openings and be understood. (I wonder if the NoSQL community ever gets smart enough to do the same?)
Python 2.7 will magically make all code work multithreaded. Making code written single threaded run on multiple threads at once is well known to be easy. It is a solved problem that the compiler will just take care of. Just install 2.7. It will work out-of-the-box with no bugs, and it will transform your single-threaded application into a multithreaded application. You'll have a few weeks to actually install 2.7. That should be more than enough time to do that. Once you do that, it'll just work!

Oh, and during those few weeks, we'll only charge you 10 times the amount you are paying now, instead of 20! We're not evil!

o_O

What?
My concern (as something thinking about trying coffeescript) is that it takes me quite a lot of mental effort to parse that, and at the moment the compiler seem to have trouble with it. I'm wondering if it practice it becomes more natural as time progresses.
I really don't understand the story. Why can't they just call someone in China, that is smart enough to understand what needs to be done? Seems like really bad management to fly around the world, hunting bugs.
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"If you would like to claim they are "effectively" the same thing, then why would you choose a term that is different from, and exaggerates, reality?"

Hyperbole compels those who might normally dismiss such actions to put on their critical thinking caps and actually consider what is being done here. If it gets just one person to do so, then it was worth it.
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Yes. Just require('coffee-script') with express.
Okay, last reply and then I leave you guys to the fate of irrational happiness paying more for worse hardware.

re 2: It takes an hour to reinstall windows. If you swap out the hard drive (so a vertex 3 in a MBP), this is something you have to do with an apple anyway. One hour is not "much more work". Don't kid yourself.

re 3: If the MBA owner does anything CPU intensive they will likely profit by upgrading to the x220. Look at the real world numbers (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3991/apples-2010-macbook-air-1...) to get a better picture here. x220 numbers are harder to show, as no reviewers saw fit to review with a good hard drive in it -- just compare with the MBP in that review and know that the x220 with a vertex 3 is between 2 and 10x the 2010 15" MBP on those benchmarks (http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6056&re...).

But really, I think you're probably right -- it sounds like a mac would be better for you
What will be the regulation and law requirements for this jetpack? Will I have to have a flying license?
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Pedro Teixeira has made a screencast about Coffeescript in Node.js on his website notetuts.com: http://nodetuts.com/tutorials/16-introduction-to-coffeescrip...
There are more differences between steel-toed boots, sandals, and stiletto heels than just how warm they are. In modern times it is also rather rare to encounter individuals wearing togas and/or powdered wigs. I'm not convinced that fashion is a complete explanation for these phenomena.
You're overlooking a few things:

- we're not all dealing with code written by people who haven't read these papers

- in the real world, other people are also dealing with your code and the better it is, the easier it is for them, which in turn makes things easier for you

- people that have read these papers are often in a position to teach others, so the future code of those taught will be better. I will definitely relay what I learn from a paper to my colleagues when applicable

- sometimes somebody that has read a paper is needed to solve the mess the others have created: a mess that is impossible to solve without reinventing what is stated in the appropriate paper. And even though it seems obvious after reading the paper, you wouldn't come up with it yourself.

- there are things to be learned from the thorough analysis of others that you wouldn't ever have dreamed up yourself.

- there are things to be learned from the thorough analysis of other that you wouldn't ever learn if all you've been doing is reading code by others that haven't read these papers. And even if you read code from people that have read the papers: understanding something from code is much harder than understanding them from a paper in which they are clearly expositioned. You wouldn't grasp the fundamentals behind Lamport's paper or the Dynamo paper nearly as fast.
I will never understand how you dislike coffeescript so much. Even if you only use it to stop having to type }); and the word function, it's worth it. Everything else is a bonus. Tried it on a real project?
10 years ago I compared the IO performance of a 450Mhz G4 running Yellowdog Linux to a PIII 700 Mhz server running RedHat, and the G4 literally blew the PC out of water IO-wise (disk, RAM and network performance), particularly running MySQL benchmarks, though slower in raw computing speed.
So it depends upon your applications I guess, and your OS.
I doubt you will be able to just fly around with it anywhere you want. They probably will give you training since you are paying $100,000 and there is no other way to get any training.
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I've read studies that say that talking to a passenger is distracting, hence dangerous.

Well... I haven't read such studies actually, yet. But I feel like it's safer to stay at home, and shut up, and let the villains rule the world. Kidding.

I believe that trading liberty for safety is the true danger. That's because there is no point in expecting a sense of responsibility in the mind of people without freedom. Freedom and responsibility go together, remove the former, you remove the latter.
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It is a location based courier service for anyone to use. It will allow people and businesses to transport items in a cheap and quick way. Users will post their delivery request on our app and specify how much they will pay for the delivery. Depending on where the delivery is coming and going to, users who are in walking distance of the pick-up point will be able to see the request on our app. If the delivery is en-route to where ever they are going initially they can choose to accept it. This will save people and small businesses time and effort and give other people an opportunity to earn a bit. Examples of this service would be when you need your lunch delivered to your office or home because you are too busy or if you want your shoes to be purchased and delivered to your home.

What do you think of this concept?

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Nice to see NEU on here, they are big Scheme fans there I know so I don't know how much Ruby it will relate to. Python is used in some classes as well I believe (I was an ME major with friends in CS).
Until recently, Apple had a 13" Macbook Air, a 13" MacBook and a 13" MacBook Pro.

As a first-time Mac buyer last year I was certainly confused about the difference between the plastic MacBook and the MacBook Pro.

I find it hard to believe that simplicity of choice is a reason people buy Apple laptops.

If you're looking at the various MacBook models, you've pretty much already made a conscious decision to consider buying from Apple for reasons that had nothing to do with how many models were on display.

It was probably the reputation for good design, easy software, lack of shovelware, no viruses etc...
As a consumer of Apple products I can relate. Apple, has never introduced vaporware, and almost always ships on deadline. I think those little things goes a long way to establish credibility.
"at this point" refers to their advantages now, not when it became clear to Gruber. It is not intended to discount anything that happened in the past.
Dash[1] (Debian Almquist SHell) has been around since the early 2000's and is the first thing that I thought about when reading the title of this post.

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Almquist_shell
You need to be a celebrity of sorts still. If you are good but boring, your viewers will flock to likes of Destiny who is also an entertainer.
You can't stop progress. Anything that can be automated, will be automated. People will switch to more intellectual jobs, until we invent the mega-brain that will make us his slaves.
Apple isn't the best example for two reasons.

One, they're an established brand selling to a mature market. Startups are new brands selling to early adopters. Early adopters are very forgiving.

Two, Apple also iterates a ton, just like a lean startup. The difference is that they do it internally. The iPod went through circa 100 prototypes. That compares with 4-7 for the typical consumer electronics company.

If you are as well-capitalized as Apple, by all means iterate in private. Most of us aren't so lucky, though.
I do, and they require $500/year for library use by non-students/staff.

Even if some people are lucky enough to have university library access, the problems caused by a broken publishing system still pose a barrier to many independent people.
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The point is the Lenovo screen doesn't say what Premium gets you. Only that it is a $50 option. Your pic has glossy, Hi-res glossy, and hi-res matte.
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As a consumer of programming languages, I'd like the evolution of languages in the mainstream to be less incremental and more punctuated.

If you make a new language that's exactly like the old language but has a slightly tweaked syntax for one or two little things (e.g. changing the capitalization of the name of the string class), you're forcing lots of programmers everywhere to rewrite their code in the new flavor. You're forcing companies everywhere to spend more resources on hiring, retooling, etc. And you actively contribute to bitrot by weakening the incentives to keep old code running as-is on newer runtimes, because "no-one writes such code nowadays anyway". It's basically a lot of waste that could be avoided.

The jump from C++ to Java was big enough: it introduced garbage collection, proper modules, proper strings and other nice things into the mainstream. The jump from Java to Python, if it happens, might be marginally big enough to merit rewrites (we gain many nice small-scale constructs like dicts, generators and list comprehensions, but lose the IDE tooling and guaranteed-correct refactorings enabled by static types). The jump from JavaScript to Dash doesn't seem big enough to justify all the busywork. Please come back in five years with more shiny things.

...A man can dream, can't he. Obviously the big guys will keep introducing new languages where a new library or a new runtime could've done the job. They have incentives to do so. But it's not so pleasant to the rest of us.

You'll note that I have avoided using the word "innovation" so far. That is because genuine language innovation generally happens outside of the mainstream and takes decades to percolate. For example, the idea of list comprehensions is older than I am (NPL '77). For that matter, so is the idea of lazy pure functional programming (SASL '76), and the idea of parameterized types (ML '76), and any number of other ideas that people mislabel as "innovative" to justify creating new languages today. Adding 30-year old features into curly brace languages, bit by little bit, and forcing us to rewrite all our code at every step doesn't sound to me like the noble practice of innovation. It's more like a big coordination trainwreck.
Although my instincts are the same (i.e. inequality per se should not be a problem, logically), both introspection and some academic studies* suggest inequality actually is a problem. While the incremental benefits of more _absolute_ wealth seem to vanish in the limit, the psychological cost of _relative_ poverty seems to be constant. In his excellent book "Fault Lines", for example, Raghuram Rajan attributes a lot of the pressure on US politicians to funnel credit to ever wider segments of society to growing inequality in the US.

The problem is compounded by growing inequality of opportunity or decreasing social mobility (lower now than in many parts of supposedly "socialist" Europe, even!). Indeed, from my perspective -- as a European of East-Asian stock and traveling between the two regions -- the US looks more and more like a plutocracy, not unlike post-communist Russia, and not like a liberal democracy. The start-up system acts like a pressure valve in that system, but that just means there is pressure to begin with.

Which indicates another problem with high inequality: it seems to be self-reinforcing (ossification is the keyword here). You can see this on so many levels, starting with the fact that higher education in the US costs real money.

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* which I'm too lazy to locate and properly cite here and now
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Never met Aunt Tillie, but my guess would be what's 1 hour for you is days work for her, if she'd be able to complete it at all.
It might be written already, but waiting for a certain keynote before being released...

http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2011/presentation/Opening%20Keynot...

(Assuming Dart is just Dash renamed.)
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I think they're just trying to improve the browser experience, since that's where their software runs.
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"Technological progress should cause increasing economic inequality, because the bottom end of the scale is firmly anchored at zero (someone taking a vacation), while technology gives the top end ever more powerful levers." - does an increase in the range of possibilities necessarily imply a larger gap? What if technology causes the range to widen, but the average gap to lessen. Not sure if its true or not, concrete data on this would be interesting.
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