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No, I've flagged it because this 'Turing Completeness Bullshit' is not bullshit, but the article is. Turing completeness actually has a use and railing against the people that use it in a manner that it was never intended to be used in is a total waste of time.

The article author seems to agree with that assessment, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3047002
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I thought that definition looked a bit like cheating - wrapping up S & K in a form that makes it straightforward to get back to them!

There is also a U combinator referenced on this page:

http://www.ucombinator.org/

as U = λ f . f(f) - haven't had time to sit down and actually work it through though.

[Edit: I notice that page says that U enables universal computation, not that it is sufficient.]
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Yeah, I hate "my nephew can make websites". I don't doubt that a high school student could put together a full website, with a store front or whatever else.
But I'd be willing to bet it's not the most secure.

I'm sure there's something like this, but there should be a kind of Angie's list for clients to blacklist the delinquent ones. If not I'm making one.

EDIT: There's always the better business bureau, but it's not as complete.
Ecosystems are actually pretty robust. If mosquitoes are eradicated something else would come and fill the void. Humans are so flexible that while the eradication of mosquitoes will probably cause the extinction of several of their predators, we'll find a way around whatever few problems bubble up to our level.
Perhaps a better analogy is a vehicle?

Do you want a skateboard, pushbike, car, ute, truck, van, lorry, bus, juggernaut ...

If you're looking at car brands then you can get the same vehicle priced differently according to the badge on it. Then it looks like you're saying the cost of a website varies according to the pedigree of the designer more than the technical specification. This is true to some extent but not perhaps the answer one is trying to give.
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This just makes me feel like scrum isn't worthwhile. Here's how my work flow goes, as a developer: There's an issue tracker. A handful of issues are assigned to me. I know, by memory, which issue's important, because it's always the one people are yelling about the most. I write the code for the issue, test, commit, get feedback, close the issue. Done.

I could not remember all of this terminology. Stories? Sprints? Clearly this is something above and beyond what I ever do. How do people do it? Does it really deliver on its promises?
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Yes, but if what he said did happen to be true wouldn't it also be dismissed?
Yes, I agree it is a bit cheating.

They recover the S and K by applying U to itself in interesting ways, but that's like saying 'this tool is so universal, you can use it as a hammer and a chisel by banging one instance of the tool with another tool just like it'.

That's not a very mathematical way of putting it I guess but I believe that is more or less the spirit of it.
It's not as good as the title says. The journal publishers will still own the copyright, they will just have to license some rights to the university.
I agree 100%.

I have been used GNU/Linux since Red Hat 4 and I spent years using Fedora and Debian.

I'm not an Ubuntu big fan but I have to say that it's a good distro out of the box. I'm very happy using it on my i3 laptop.
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I wrote something similar with a slightly longer string in PHP a while back.

Read: http://www.tomnomnom.com/posts/methinks_it_is_like_an_incest...

Code: https://github.com/TomNomNom/PHP-Evolution-Sim
>not broke, won't fix, yet //

I'm a great believer in that. However, bugs have been fixed, memory leaks plugged, rendering times improved. Personally the promise of more effcicient memory use has me chomping at the bit - FF runs like molasses on my 768MB Athlon 1.1GHz.
Google's voice search has been at that level for a long time now, but I get the impression most people have never tried it.
For elections to be considered democratic, they must not only be fair and anonymous, but also comprehensible to all. As any electronic voting system (even an insecure one) is only comprehensible to some, electronic voting is by definition not democratic and should therefore be forbidden in any country that claims itself to be that.

Actually, in Germany the highest court declared electronic voting to be unconstitutional on the grounds of deficient comprehensibility in 2009. Maybe we can use this argument in other countries, too.
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That's really neat, a sudoku solver that fits in a tweet.

The license is even nicer, that's a real gem, and I think it ought to be submitted for formal approval as an open source license.
As Paul Graham said at YCNYC, Jobs has been a true "cult leader" and look how that worked out for Apple.
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Thanks for your advice!! This was wxacty what I was thinking off too. Gut feels says to focus in building up the community and the world will spread online. Even if HelloWorld is already a heavily used term in programming
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For an encore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_instruction_set_computer
A fork for 139 byes: https://gist.github.com/1247640

And I had never heard of "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL)
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Why am I told 'firefox is up to date' (6.0.2) when i do this? Is this done geogprahically? (UK here)
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I once started a contract at a company where I was working with a permie on this hugely popular site running off the God-awful blogging software. Everything was a fire that had to be put out RIGHT NOW. And there were two of us.

Coworker had earned himself a reputation for being unhelpful and unproductive. This was partly because he had sociopathically bad communication skills and hated people, but he actually worked hard, and productively. But everyone thought he was lazy and didn't get shit done.

Essentially his workflow was: work on a task. Someone comes and says "DROP EVERYTHING, YOU NEED TO ADD A WIDGET TO THE BLOG NOW". So he would start on that, and 3 hours later, someone would come to him and say DROP EVERYTHING. And three weeks later, he'd struggle to explain why he hadn't done much of it.

So we (well, I) split the work in to Stories. We estimated them, and stuck them up on the wall behind us. We found someone who was meant to be the Product Owner. Whenever anyone came to ask us anything, I'd intercept them from talking to the coworker, ask them for details on the task, estimate it, and put all this on a card. I'd then call over the Product Owner, and with the Requestor, we'd put it on the Story Board.

Suddenly items weren't /that/ important any more. With the opportunity cost suddenly marked out, many things found themselves inserted far below the current task being worked on. We'd burn down time against each task. We could tell you where we'd spent our time, and also, we could tell you what we'd achieved recently.

Essentially then, with a very small amount of overhead (like learning these terms ;-)) we suddenly had a system for prioritization and accountability. I did very little programming in the six weeks I was there - the productivity gains we saw - both real and perceived - made it look like there were 5 of me working fulltime.
fair enough - sufficiently large memory is also necessary. For that reason you couldn't write a Lisp interpreter on the 12C, although you could write one in the 12C language.

The point I was trying to make is that the simplest languages are Turing equivalent (given sufficient memory), because they have the necessary tests and control flow.

The TFA goes a bit astray IMHO when it says Turing completeness is not necessary for a language to be useful. Turing completeness is a low bar and even SQL as generally implemented hurdles it.

sorry, I wasn't incredibly rigorous or clear.
Personally, I really like the fact that single-clicking on an item in the folders list doesn't permanently open a tab, but just shows you the content, and if you click on something else the buffer is replaced with that. Very nice to browse through a project without having umpteen open tabs or having to close each buffer manually.

They do have to work on the platform integration a bit. Speaking of the folders view, usually on a Mac, Option+Click expands the whole tree. I miss that functionality a lot…

(Also, I wonder how far you can get without an actual Preferences dialog, but as a veteran of dot files, I'm not sure how big of a detriment that actually is.)
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The problem with this approach is that smaller universities can't afford to do this.

I think this problem needs to be adressed at funding agency level, with funding agencies requiring that all publication be made available on the agency's website.
This is a big revelation to people?

Reminds me of when a friend of mine clicked on "Messages" and was shocked to see IM and Inbox conversations from 2007 with people she no longer knows. I had to say... What did you expect? When did Facebook ever say anything about deleting data after a certain time?
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It's worse than that. Maemo was a complete, working system, with pretty damn nice dev tools, multi-paradigm, multi-language, with several devices on the market, each iteration bringing huge improvements. It had a living, active community that kept on building cool stuff. Meego had a single half-hearted device release and hardly any support for developers, other than what the maemo community could provide. And now Tizen is all-vapor, no community, no code, and seems to restrict development into an html+js model, which, while nice for some people, alienates all other forms of development. Also, no device support (intel and samsung are muttering that they'll do something with it, but nothing to show so far) and no future perspective. The Tizen website does not mention meego (or maemo) once, signaling again it's more of a departure than a continuation.

So every "iteration" has ended up with a smaller community, less devices, less substance, less support and less perspective. I miss maemo.
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It sounds like you're in a 'bugfix' position, and we found it hard to integrate that into Scrum, so I'm not surprised it's confusing for you. In the end, we ended up just saying that bugfixes were more important and slicing off some time for how much we expected, and using the rest of the time for Scrum.

Once you get into Scrum, it isn't hard to remember the terms. A 'story' is just a feature to implement. It's called that because it's supposed to be seen from the eye of the customer, rather than the developer.

A Sprint is a timeframe for completing a bunch of stories. Usually 2 weeks, but some find shorter sprints are better, and others need longer ones.

As for the question: Yes, it was WAY better than waterfall for us. It forced everyone to get organized. Management could no longer be ignorant about what they were doing to the developers and testers on a daily basis. Instead, they were forced to actually put things on a timeline and decide what was more important, instead of just getting upset when everything didn't magically happen.

As a bonus, though, they gained the ability to estimate when things would be implemented, and changes to the system were rolled out every couple weeks, instead of going months between releases, and having a ton of bugs when it finally did launch.
You're assuming it even ships at all. We've seen this story before with Alan.

IF Textmate ships (don't hold you breath), and IF it has compelling enough new (and fixed) features that are above and beyond the various (free) plugins and other text editors on Mac (including BBedit, Coda and Sublime 2) then I'll gladly pay.
more likely, as 10^-20 is more likely than 10^-30?

when was the last time you have read python files of installed 3rd party software to find viruses and trojans?

and even if you bothered, by simple obfuscation you would need to be an expert to identify a trojan in a python file.

In addition a simple way to find or clean up such a virus would be to compile .pyc files from their sources during a virus scan.

in short that can't be the reason.
From the article: "academic staff will grant to The Trustees of Princeton University “a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all copyrights in his or her scholarly articles published in any medium, whether now known or later invented, provided the articles are not sold by the University for a profit, and to authorise others to do the same.”"

That means unless a waiver is given, it doesn't matter what the journal does or thinks, the university can publish the material anyway it likes. A compromise of sorts, but the effect is that more people potentially have access.
My experience is that if I click "Check for updates" and an update happens to be available, then there's no way to prevent that update from being installed, even if it causes add-ons to be disabled.
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Another thing I find more annoying with the recent changes is that previously visited links are not marked as such any longer. When searching for the solution to a problem, it is quite nice to easily know which pages have already been visited using a different search query.
Mine is still here.

(Just don't get me wrong, what I really miss is the "Related" link)
The site looks great, full of stuff I'm now trying not to buy...

How to plan to make money from the site? I guessed that the links would be tracked to affiliate schemes but they just look like straight links to the retailers' sites
Need to correct the following:

EU Citizens (including UK citizens) can quote Art. 12 Directive 95/46/EG

But Section 4 of the Data Protection Act only applies to UK citizens as it is a UK law, hence only UK citizens can cite that law.
The benefits are great at the USPS. However, salaries aren't great. It's difficult to witness much of the waste of deadbeat full-timers and even some incompetent staffed contractors. Outsourcing to Accenture and IBM are often just massive give-aways with no-bid contracts. It's a demoralizing environment along with finicial state of the Postal Service.

Managers have the same benefits. Plus, they get to telecommute 2-3 days a week! Since that benefit was given a year or so ago many of the managers have become even more disconnected with their job.

Managers also get bonuses which they deny. The bonuses are called "pay for performance". That's a joke because the metrics used for the PFP bonuses are ridiculous and encourage micromanaging which creates resentment towards supervisors. The entire workforce is demoralized. For most, it's difficult to leave the benefits.
This does not bode well for the employees at google. You get extra features like this (instant preview) when you have too much manpower - you look for things for your employees to do.

But if your customers don't want it, and you can't find anything else for them to do then you start reducing the workforce.
I don't agree this is necessarily bad. Arguably, "view cache" is a feature for power-users that know what they're doing.

Moving the cache link into that pop-up did simplify the user interface in the most common case, in which the user just wants to view the real link. It no longer has to be rendered for every result.

IMO it just takes some getting used to that the cache link has been moved. Or are you viewing pages from cache that regularly that the extra clicks/mouse moves are a problem?
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I can't say how much I like this ban. For so many times since I left school and wanted to read an article or so, and be greeted with "summary" of that article. I don't really need to pay $25, for the fact that the journal may have obtained the copyright and sold it to some journal sites.

We could use some open-source concepts for paper publishing.
I don't see a reason to write the genetic algorithm in Lisp, but for the code that's being evolved it seems like the logical choice due to its minimal syntax. I'm working on a PHP program for evolving programs, and the evolved programs are in a lisp-like dialect made for just that purpose.
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Why couldn't they band together, buy webOS, and then open source that? Spread over the number of members, the investment would be less than starting from scratch or trying to resolve incompatibilities between all these groups looking to cut their own slice of cheese.
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Somebody actually did that, in Lisp, to be able to write a hello world program in a completely fucked out language.

The problem with just generating a hello world program is that there is no guarantee that you wont end up with a bunch of endless loops.
They're using that cookie that stores the user-id post logout to figure out who's using which computer. Which means the cookie sticking around even after you log out wasn't unintended as Facebook tried to imply. The lying bastards!
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Depends on the users, for example my non-techie partner always clicks on the cache link just because it highlights the words that she searched for on the page.

For some people it may be an important move
For those of you who haven't heard of code golf, you should check out http://140byt.es/ The point is more to learn more about the language than to make something practical so come at it in a lighthearted way. In this case, the problem is actually pretty damn hard.

140 Bytes is Jed Schmidt's side project where people compete to make useful functions as small as possible. Jed is kind of a Javascript powerhouse and also happens to be a really nice guy.

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Edited to add..
As a curiosity, Jed might have the most-forked gist on github: https://gist.github.com/962807
Search is just one of those things where power users will always rule, because in an information economy whoever has best access to information becomes dominant, and the copycats follow in order to keep up. So a search engine has to cater to power users.
IIRC it's something to do with the fact that lisp can easily be represented as a tree and so crossover is very simple; just swap branches. I don't know lisp so I'm just regurgitating info I picked up at university.
Phased roll-out? AB test in progress?

This seems to have started a couple of days ago.
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If more universities support this kind of policies, the momentum could break the current problem of priced access to results of research that are not in any way, paid by the journal publishers. As indicated by the article, peer reviewers are not paid for that, and so merely the editors are paid in due course. However, charging for the price of what an article needs, is far from what the cost could really justify itself with.

Just have a thought, do we really need journal publishers these days? It was once a time we don't have any means than print publishing to exchange views, now we have the series of tubes to do so.
The OP raises a wider point:

For the longest time google made good on their promise to keep their search page simple and easy to use.
Now, bit by bit the search page is getting more filled up with cruft that you don't need and stuff that you do need gets removed.

I am getting a hunch (just a vague feeling) that we might be approaching a time where a new, simpler search experience would pick up a lot of users - maybe amongst us HN/early adopters?
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Hmm yes I can see it used for that. However, that will only work for simple passive pages. "view cache" is inherently incompatible with pages that render from javascript (or that make extra requests to get the content). These get broken, and as a growing amount of sites is affected this might be another one of the reasons for obscuring the option.
Scrum is more useful when there are a bunch of people at work producing new functionality, and therefore a need to talk to each other on a regular basis, produce code that doesn't walk all over each other, and get the functionality (or "stories") in that the users want.
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From my (limited) experience, scrum such as this is really geared towards dealing with the interface between the technical team and a bureaucratic environment in which they need to operate, although even on our small (2 - 3 man team depending on the project) we use elements of this methodology. It's just that we don't have anyone to report to, per se.

So really I think this applies to larger software teams, or small software teams (ie. 1 man technical departments) surrounded by non-technical people to whom the development process is traditionally a frustratingly black box.
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