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This kid is such a stud. I had the honor of meeting him at a conference a few years ago when he was only 11 or 12. He answered questions about math like an intelligent grad student, conveying his own ideas in fully grammatical sentences without ums or ahs. It was as if he were reading from a textbook on the subject that he had written. One of the presenters called him on stage and tried to tease him a bit, but he was utterly un-phased by it, and gave intelligent, straightforward replies.
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1) It's still in preview.

If this is just a preview they should not have opened the
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3) The feature set is almost certainly not what it will be when it goes public.

How is it not public now? Anyone who wants to join can get an invite. Or am I mistaken?

I don't think these are valid excuses for google+ floundering. I think they executed well at the start, but failed to follow through.

At the start it they were all like "Facebook is anti-privacy, we're going to respect your privacy" and then their handling of the "real names" affair brought the cynic out in everyone and we all saw that it wasn't a real alternative to facebook.
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What exactly in hell is "professional" about putting on a suit, cologne, and an expensive watch?

Actually, we're all fed up with the endless shameful communication of the appearance of "value", and would prefer some actual substance for a change.
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I agree with you on many of these things, and certainly the isolation and lack of freedom for children in the US these days seems like a very bleak existence compared to how I grew up in Sweden.

But these things seem kind of orthogonal to the OP's argument. Holding all those things constant (since it's a systemic problem with American society that's not easy to change for an individual) do you really think a child whose parents work all the time is better off than one whose parents spend some time with them? (Especially when they are very young, which seems to be the case with the OP.) I don't have any hard statistics about this, but my impression is that there are far more kids in the US whose parents work all the time than have parents that neglect their jobs for their children.
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I did not mean that religious dogma can be neither true nor false, that would indeed be bullshit. What I meant is that, in this context, if the question is "Is religious dogma true?", the answer will be neither "Yes" nor "No", it will be "That's irrelevant."
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haha.. i've gotten those looks as well.

but i agree. files and folders are an elegant abstraction, that when combined with the unix toolset become extremely powerful.

The big shortcoming I see with this solution, and maybe this is what you are saying in the caveats, is that it doesn't support multiple worker boxes.

Of course you could use NFS, but this complicates it. Suddenly the consistency model is more complex and workers must partition work, and so on.. At that point, a mysql backed queue becomes an appealing and easy way to make a distributed queue.
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I especially like the textual version of the link. This will be helpful on my mobile device, where I pay for connectivity, loading only what is important is great.
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Where are you hosting your node app? Aren't most node hosting plans kind of expensive?
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I'm curious: is there any site where:

1) logged in users can vote for what they like, both up and down. A profile is built identifying other users who vote like you, and so your vote influences the post prominence for those others more than for other users who have different voting patterns

2) anonymous users get post prominence based on a smattering of different group votes

Its a bit like movie recommendations. In this way, trolls will quickly be grouped with other trolls and those who consistently vote up articles they like will see post prominence from like-minded devotees, and a single board can have a wide range of subjects that end up not needing categorization because they are self-organising.

(Would this work for, say, HN?)
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My takeaway from this is that next time I encounter a really challenging problem, I will close my eyes and imagine having a conversation with House, M.D.

That's actually a really good takeaway.
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I've been working on converting midi/virtual midi input (from a performer) to notation in real time for an iPad notation app. It really is hard - I spent a tremendous amount of time on it, an still plan on improving it indefinitely after the feature ships.
Man I'd be pissed if I wasted two days on getting my finger behind some idiot's stupid 'hey let's mask errors and hope they go away' tricks.

Also, while the story itself was sort of interesting, the format (with the chords and the House and whatnot) made it hard to follow - why not just describe the issue rather than making up schizophrenic discussions?
The point he's trying to make is that Lisp lacks typing. In Lisp, code is data and data is code. This is what makes it so powerful. At the same time, the lack of certain safeguards found in ML can make it dangerous. ML was meant to give the flexibility of a language like Lisp but with stronger guarantees for safety.

However, I think it's a bit extreme to say a Lisp programmer could never be sure that their program was going to work...that's just disingenuous. Lisp is a dynamically typed language, but it is a safe language.

To contrast this with C++. In C++, if I call some third party mystery function, I'm not sure if it'll cause some side effect and corrupt my process memory. I can arbitrarily create a pointer, cast things to whatever I want, do some memcpys and memsets and bring the whole thing down. Not to say they're bad languages, I'm a C++ guy myself...but a lot of the security vulnerabilities in operating systems and major libraries/apps is due to the fact they're written in C or C++. Languages like ML and Lisp prevent that.
Gonna play devil's advocate here:

I think making files in a folder represents the least amount of effort for making a queue. So using one of the systems you described is necessarily more work.

I think the commenter outlined the reasons: any process can access the data with simple unix commands, and everyone understands files.

Plus files could be more efficient. What if the work unit you are processing are files? If the files are the work and the folder is the queue, you don't need any extra abstractions to access the data.
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Well I'm sorry for your future/actual kids.
or you need the thousands of one task app to mitigate the lack of composability.
All I'm saying is that it worked for me.

How are you hosting it? I'm using Apache 2.2 with mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 10.04LTS. Don't use mod_python - it's terrible.
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1) By that logic, they guy giving out the soup could not in good conscience eat his own dinner.

2) The prerequisite is that "discrimination" is something bad or "evil". The soup guy doesn't like people being "evil" so he discriminates against(?) them.
How is this any better? The soup guy just has a different definition of "evil".
I can't say I expect anything less from Adobe having been through the rigmarole of getting a bug fixed in Fireworks CS2.
They don't appear to be making any value judgments, at least from what I read in the article. If you have an entity that provides a charitable purpose, and nothing else, then you get lower costs. If you have an entity that is involved in something else, then you don't get lower costs.
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There is a long continuum between charlatan and saint. A vanishingly small number of organisations are more occupied with their original reasons for being than with ensuring their leaders have a reasonable lifestyle.

A friend of mine, a priest, did some research that included how many priests still believe in a god. He wasn't allowed to release his findings.

(edit - didn't down-vote you, btw)
(2nd edit. He continues to be a priest and has enormous integrity, so you can assume that he does believe in what he's doing. But he is pretty cynical about the institution.)
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Was thinking the same thing - if some religious group wants to do common good (rather than repair the roof of their church or whatever), they could simply create a spin-off organization dedicated to the common good.
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It's a shame they're not sharing more details about what these 'innovative new features' will be though before asking people to commit to a new company. The NY times article mentions browseable “stacks” but it would be nice if Avos could elaborate a bit more on their plans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/technology/youtube-founder...
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i always wished that mysql had a skip locked rows feature, so if you do a select for update it would skip any rows that are already locked. this way if you created a queueing system you could run select for update, but then skip rows that are already being processed (the locked rows).

i actually implemented this once partially on innodb, and it worked pretty well, no waiting for locks, but abandoned my efforts due to another project.
Composability is what makes something greater than the sum of its parts. The iPad, I found, is so constrained as to be useless. I know of very few people who are still using their iPad regularly after 6 months or so precisely because of this (and the star trek wow factor has worn off).

Ironically, composability is why I still carry around a 15-year old TI92 calculator instead of an iPad, even though my peers look at me strangely. Oh and it still runs on good old fashioned AA batteries :)
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I hesitate to say that anything is "beyond question." But upon questioning the holocaust, the answer to the question immediately becomes obvious.
He claims, "ML programs can't crash the system; if it compiles, it will run, and you won't get a segmentation fault."

Does that mean there's static safeguards against out-of-memory errors? (This is not snarky; I don't know ML or how it handles this situation.)
So, that gives you your BATNA for negotiations with the dark side...

Either google is very confident that they don't have serious bugs or they are setting themselves up for a problem. Imagine the value of finding a serious bug in adsense or adwords.
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I disagree.. The app interoperability in iOS is achieved, but in a different fashion. You don't have files, but you DO have logins and APIs.

Say, Twitter - you want to tweet something from another app? No problem, you implement the right API to do that. Or perhaps you'd like to export a text file, so it can be received by another app? No problem - you use the clipboard & store the file there, or publish the file at a secret URL, and import that url through another app.

Is it as easy as save+drag&drop? Not yet. But filesystems also took some time before they were perfected. Give Apple one or two years, and iCloud will offer you as much as the desktop filesystem. And more.

Files are not the only way to go. If I want to share a text document with my friend, I don't attach it. I put it into Google Docs, and send my friend a url. Much more convinient - avoids a plenty of mess with versioning etc.
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If you make "cow food", you probably want CattleFeed.com instead of CowFood.com or CowFoodOnline.com. A cow is a female bovine while cattle is one or more bovines of any gender.

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Had the same thought. Nice, but Y?

Why not simply make one HTML page and a couple of anchors for navigation. That would yield a simple site without the need to code anything.

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How is this news?

First, the Adobe developer explicitly said they're tracking the bug internally and that they've only closed it in their external bug tracker. They said they could reproduce it, so your job as a bug reporter is done.

Second, Adobe has limited resources like any organization and so they have to set priorities. Flash runs on 99% of internet enabled PCs [1], which could very well be hundreds of millions of Windows and Mac OS X desktops. I don't see how _any_ Linux bug could be anything other than low priority in the face of that.

Maybe 5 years ago, when Linux appeared to be gaining significant momentum on the desktop because Ubuntu, priorities could have been different. However, it's now clear that Mac OS X is and will be the alternative OS of choice for most people who don't use Windows for the foreseeable future.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/

*edit: spelling
Actually, I think that's exactly what they do. I don't know, but I guess deciding if something is nonprofit must be quite easy. Deciding who's charitable and who's not must be hard.

Saying that someone is not charitable because they give out food AND preach is a huge value judgement.
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How many of those people you know with iPads are what we would call normal people?

I only ask because it seems to me that most of them wouldn't mind at all that one couldn't be productive on the iPad since surfing and a few games are mostly what they use it for.
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Tried that with the iPhone version that came out in March last year. In practice it was silly and people liked the iPad version better.
Thanks for the feedback!

Indeed, the chosen design is a compromise between simplicity and practicality (I just couldn't imagine having a file/document browser taking up much space). Nevertheless, I'm thinking on having 0-9 shortcut keys to select documents.

Regarding dimming the word/char count, you're right. Will be fixed on the next iteration!
The capacity to compose is giving way to the possibility for almost anyone to express his/her creativity in a concrete way. So maybe what you're saying is true, but then iOS is pro-artist and pro-creation. See that 10-yr old Taiwanese "programmer" for example.

And what are computers if not tools for creation? "Unix" and "programming" are means, not ends.
You're engaging in a textbook No True Scotsman fallacy.

Please note that we are talking about religious organisations here, not religions (the latter of which we can argue about until the cows come home)
It's not anti-Unix or anti-programmer...it's all about being anti-freedom.

All these companies want to do is turn your computing experience into a locked down, controlled, monitored experience. They want to turn your limitless and powerful computer into a home appliance...like a blender or electric razer. No way to customize, no way to modify, no way to organize thoughts your way. No hacking or "jailbreaking" into your own device to give yourself features like "tethering". That would violate the ALL HOLY EULA (unless you paid $5.99)!!!

Also no need to understand how the technology works -- technology is now magic. And when technology becomes magic, they have control over you. Google manages all your e-mail, Facebook and iPhone manage your social life. Google and FB make their money through selling your information to marketing companies. Apple makes it by selling you hardware. Both of them make money by exploiting the lack of will by the masses to understand their technology and how it affects their rights and privacy. They make money when they are in control of you and your data. They make money by making you think you need a new computer when all you need is a better operating system.

Getting rid of files is like Newspeak from Orwell's 1984. They want you to be dumber. They'll take care of savin that file for ya, you just worry about eating nachos and 'batin. Besides, they need to take a looksie at it first to infer information about your shopping habits...
In the specific case of Mono, you are right and I would advise you to always plan to stay within its limits to ensure you have a runtime that you can maintain yourself if you really need to. As for future compatibility, remember, companies come and go and Microsoft won't be around forever. What did you do with your dBase II code and your Lotus 123 spreadsheets? In 100 years, Mono may be all that's left from Microsoft.

OTOH, I still find Mono a bit risky: I think Microsoft is capable of finding a way to kill it if it becomes too popular. They can't avoid it. It's their competitive nature.
"The more I use graphical interfaces (or anything that does not operate on text streams - commandline curses programs included), the more I am struck by how profound the loss of composability is".

Exactly this!

You've hit on the nail on the head here. Computing devices are inherently non-composable. Mostly because we, as software developers, have failed to create frameworks that are fully composable. The real problem is we still need to program.
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Stuff like that is quite awesome - children showing that they know how to manipulate others from a young age on. At a very young age it seems to be an instinct (e.g., crying for attention); but throughout their child years most of western society tries to 'educate' that out of them; and then those who do have to re-learn it (albeit in other terms) in their student or early career years to get ahead.
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Most comments in this thread strike me as being anti-"normal users". This is the elite, talking about how they can maintain their elite position.
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80% I'd say.

It seems to go like this:

1) They bought it with a purpose in mind but it didn't work quite as well as they were hoping (khan academy, mapping, general use, recipes in kitchen, streaming video).

2) The games last a while but they are mainly novelty rather than immersive or lasting so it's back to the XBox.

3) then the web browsing gets frustrating as streaming video is choppy over WiFi and impossible over 3G and "what do you mean flash or java doesn't work" - I can't play facebook pool.

4) then the keyboard becomes frustrating when they try and do real work because it's not tactile.

5) then they switch back to their laptop when they have to do something like mail merge.

6) then the ipad goes in a drawer, followed by ebay about 2 months after they find it again.

I've seen this so many times across about 12 ipad owners now. 20% "software dev". 40% "tech enthusiasts". 40% "joe average".

Bear in mind this is just my observation.
OS X command line user here, after testing various other 'nix distros in the past few years. You're a bit harsh on the topic. Sure, composability is awesome for the reasons you mentioned, but look at who's using iOS devices. Do they need more? There are days when after being bombarded with information, an app that does one thing is a breath of fresh air.

"But it’s not a computer, it’s just a glorified palm pilot with a few bells and whistles". You can SSH into it if you want to be hardcore ;)

When I'm using an app to track expensese while at the supermarket or taking notes while on the train, I really don't care about "composability". Why should I?
Most people don't manipulate numbers in their daily lives much, but are taught basic maths. Most people are taught to write an essay, though they probably won't do it at all in their daily lives. In the same vein, most people should be taught how programming works and do some very basic stuff, simply to get what it's about, not to practice it daily.
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don't worry! my daughter is getting a healthy dose of neglect from me during the 21 hours in the day i'm not with her.

I agree with many of your sentiments about rude kids, or kids with no manners and that's part of what drove my choice. I don't take the time with her so that I can be her best friend. I take the time so that i can be the best parent I can be. I love to play with her, but if she misbehaves or isn't listening to us then she is punished. Timeouts work pretty well with our daughter as a punishment so there's no need for the smacking.

I think I would have been a lot more of a helicopter parent if it weren't for my wife (who by trade is a special education teacher.) She is the one who can take most of the credit for the fact that my daughter is well mannered, well adjusted, and has lots of friends.

Also -- to be fair, i never said that i spend those hours alone in the house every night. Sometimes we go to the park with other dad's, and at least once a week I try to go out with her to do a class where she mostly interacts with other kids (my wife stays home with her and does a lot more of this with playgroups etc. She won't start school until next year.)

Thanks for your comment, its always nice to see the other side of the coin.