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Point taken. Design is hard, great design is harder. To contrast with 37Signals, we don't believe, and haven't believed in less is more. As Joel Spolsky has said, nothing sells software better than new features. We are working on new interfaces that will expose the feature set better.

Safari isn't supported yet. We will eventually support it, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
(1) is why browsers have a little "key" icon.

(2) is not a real problem; your browser won't let you hit a "rogue" SSL site without clicking through a scary warning.
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Unix obviously, especially the shell.

Everyone says the Lisp "UI" sucks, but masters explain how you can be even more powerful piping all these separate commands together... And the eyes of the lumpenproletariat glaze over...
I'm not so sure of that. Of the people I know who might be considered average viewers, the choice seems to be "should I get a regular laptop? or should I get a mac?"

Apple's got the advantage that it can sell features, like video chat. Microsoft has to sell an operating system (even if they include video chat software, they can't guarantee there will be a camera for it).

I think this is how they've developed the popular notion of "should I upgrade to a mac this time around?"
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This was why P. T. and many of his contemporaries were privately held.
(3) 'Active' optical camo for stryker vehicles which gives them near invisibility — SF and scout platoons can creep up to an enemy location and then just sit, waiting for maximum kill opportunity.
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Thank you for the kind words!

I don't think that Brandon Werner said that Lisp was a failure as a language. As I read it, he's saying that Lisp has failed to capture a lot of new users, get very popular, and so on.

I agree with you that a lot of the really big advantages of Lisp show up better in large systems than in small coding exercises.

There have actually been lots of successful products made with Lisp. People just don't say so, sometimes because Lisp is unpopular and sometimes because it's just not important. InspireData is a great product, but there's no need for anyone to know what language it's in: in fact, it's in the LispWorks implementation of Common Lisp.

For links to success stories, see my survey paper at http://common-lisp.net/~dlw/LispSurvey.html and see the "Success Stories" section.
I'd like to understand what you mean. Is there a way you could provide an illustrative example?
It's true that earlier Lisp dialects had trouble. But in Common Lisp, you can do currying just fine. At work (ITA Software), it's part of our standard utility library.
Wow. Doesn't this effectively cover the stock market?
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In practice, it's just not a problem, because your interactive development environment takes care of it for you. I think the idea that anyone should be expected to program by using something with the power of Microsoft Notepad is an obsolete view. GNU Emacs with Lisp mode makes it very easy to work with the parentheses.

Meanwhile, we have no "dangling else" problem. Also, we have no need to memorize C's 15 levels of operator precedence, so when you see an expression, you never have to puzzle over how the items are grouped. In simple cases of C expressions, of course, it's easy, but it can get complicated. See "Java Puzzlers" by Josh Bloch and Neal Gafter to see how C/Java-style syntax can get you into trouble and fool you. There are pros and cons to each approach (C/Java and Lisp). I've used all of them extensively, and I prefer the Lisp way.
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I disagree about that. It's very, very hard to add Lisp-style macros to something like C or Java. The best attempt to do it for Java is Jonathan Bachrach's Java Syntactic Extender, but as far as I know nobody has built any software with it. It's just too hard to use.

Until you have read a clear description (e.g. Seibel) or had some experience, it's hard to see what macros are really all about.

Lisp macros are extremely important, powerful, and beneficial. Space does not permit me to go into the full explanation; see Peter Siebel's book and the great lecture he gave at Google, available on the web.

Macros allowed us to add object-oriented programming to Common Lisp. CLOS (the Common Lisp Object System) fits in very smoothly into the Common Lisp language, with a nice, clear syntax and very powerful semantics. At work, we have built an object-relational mapping system that, similarly, would be impractical (ugly and verbose to the point of unusability) without macros.
By the way (this is a serious question), what software products have been produced that were written in Haskell?
Yes, lisp.org needs to be (and will be) vastly improved. We definitely need the equivalent of a CPAN for Lisp, and several of us are working on producing such a thing. You're quite about marketing!

As for multiple implementations: CPython, Jython, IronPython, Stackless Python, PyPy. What editor do you use? Gnu Emacs with Slime; or, some of the commercial Lisp implementations come with IDE's; and there's work being done ("curl") to make Eclipse work well with Common Lisp. Java has several IDE's, such as IntelliJ and Eclipse. For Python, what I'm told by the Python experts I know is that they just don't use any IDE.

But much of what you're saying above is very much to the point. The comments on my blog posting go into these issues more.
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Soon, lisp.org will be redone to make it easy to find good free Lisp implementations. Meanwhile, check out my survey paper at http://common-lisp.net/~dlw/LispSurvey.html.
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"... He was a deadly free-throw shooter, using an odd, outdated underhand style. At the time of his retirement, Barry's .900 career free-throw percentage was the best in NBA history. In one season, 1978-79, he missed only 9 free-throw attempts ..." ~ http://www.nba.com/history/players/barry_bio.html

Rick Barry was a underhand free-throw foul shot. And he was pretty good at as well. But having spent my youth on the court I have to say I could never really get the hang of underhand shots. It's Sunday & basketball training is on my mind. The standard shooting technique relies on your lead hand:

- assume triple-threat position

- holding the ball in the finger tips, fingers extended resting the ball in the palm

- the non lead arm rests to the side of the ball, steadying it so it doesn't fall out. It remains in line with the lead arm until the lead arm reaches the chin when releasing the ball.

- angle body behind lead foot (so your whole body is aligned towards the ring... extra movement but it straitens the shot)

- bringing the ball down to shoulder height, arm crooked

- bend knees making sure arm is still rigid

- at the bottom of the knee bend, push back up

- at the top of the knee-up, push the lead arm upwards brushing the ball past the chin

- extend the lead arm pushing it straight upwards, wrist still cocked behind the ball.

- almost at the top of the lead arm extension, the wrist is quickly snapped foward releasing the ball with a backwards spin towards the ring.

- follow the wrist snap through and make sure the lead arm is pointing forward towards the ring.

This is the key to the height the article mentions. If you fail to release the ball it falls short or overshoots. Now the foul-shot is really a pressure shot. If you waiver a bit on the way up, choke and not follow through the lead wrist, you will probably miss.

"... He was a deadly free-throw shooter, using an odd, outdated underhand style. At the time of his retirement, Barry's .900 career free-throw percentage was the best in NBA history. In one season, 1978-79, he missed only 9 free-throw attempts ..." ~ http://www.nba.com/history/players/barry_bio.html

It's the touch that makes the shot here. And the touch is the hardest to master. I used to warm up standing still, pushing the ball as high as I could controlling where I pushed the lead arm so the ball went straight up. Then move to the side of the key moving away from the ring. Finally to the foul line. You still have to practice your touch to practice your outside/jump shots but at the foul line anything that can improve your percentage should probably be looked at.

Here is Barry himself demonstrating his technique ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4eJSjwlD5o

"... Of course, lobbing a ball very high so that it comes down nearly straight into the basket would be the most efficient technique, but a shot like that 'is almost impossible to aim' ..."

That is the weakness of using the standard foul shot. To get the shot up high it is difficult to aim. Not impossible but any wobble going up and lack of follow through to the rim.
you can make an 'opposite' service to break exclusivity

for example, a site that compares different insurance policies/companies, etc

in my case (not from the US), i wanted to sell mutual funds and claim 1% marketing fee :) ... i even passed mutual-fund-manager-certificate-govt exam (just in case, also out of curiosity)

to my surprise (6 months and 1 web app later), only bank is allowed to sell investment packages to individuals (for security reasons)

so not only i cannot take 1% cut (i'm not a bank), banks also do not want to deal with unproven small fry

eventually, i changed my site into site that compares various mutual funds (tables, graphics - love jquery+flot)

but alas, most of them performs below the index; so comparing them shows how bad the funds actually are

anyway i ended up making it a non-profit site ... users love it and i got various feedbacks applicable to my other web apps
"... Yeah sorry - I think I might have overreacted because I was so sick of hearing about Microsoft/Seinfeld/Apple ..."

Don't. If you see crap, call it.
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They’re not dressed as computers, they’re dressed as people. It’s postmodernism taken to a very silly and profoundly unserious commercial end.

Yeah, when that happens you know you have a problem with the person analyzing the ad, or the ad itself...
willingness to walk it has to come from knowledge that failure will result in BOTH.
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Hopefully this helps XMPP to get en mass and reach end users world-wide, not only russian geeks as it is now :-).

http://www.google.com/trends?q=jabber
Another iPhone app, MailWrangler, banned from App Store for "duplicating functionality"
This is like harrassing innocent people?

IMO, it's cleverer if clever hacks are in good taste, since that's an added constraint. It's pretty easy in general to just break things and violate people's trust.
V. interesting, thanks:)
So basically underhand works too well, so you get social pressure not to use it? ("odd, outdated underhand style"?)
I love the language - so many words we don't use anymore, or use differently. Like economy for example - I quite forgot it's earlier meaning (saving). Or lay up.
Same for linux: for the first time in my life, a non-geek opened the computer box, switched on, setup the wireless and connected to me via skype in a matter of minutes, while chatting on the phone about other matters. [edit: with video, and voip without headset and free of voice speaker to microphone coupling]

With the eee, desktop linux for everyone is a fact.

[And 7 hours of battery--they claim 8, but 7 is also great.]
I wish the reporter would stop interrupting so I could actually listen to the answers.
They have an exemption written in, as do insurance companies and fantasy sports. Pity the other industries that didn't have the vigilance to detect this bill in progress and the foresight to hire a lobbyist.
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I published the same link a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=88544

Anyway it's a great link so I guess it doesn't matter much.
Who needs the Office when we have: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM ; I know I don't! ;)
I like the simplicity. Perhaps more engineers should get involved in politics, or more politicians should have an education in science.
I thought they didn't know tobacco was harmful until semi-recently, but this was written in 1880!
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You mean, "Why in the world did this get even one upvote?"?
You know of course that book is better, right? :p
Good article. I think it's a great to point out these points of agreements, show who's interest they serve, how & why you should avoid them. I wouldn't be surprised if author agrees with me but...

never agree to any of the following Kiss of Death Provisions

is a bit strong. Sure it's important to understand that these are potential problems, disadvantages or lost opportunities but I imagine there are many agreements including these clauses that are better then no deal.

Take the famous Microsoft/IBM deal. Sure, young Gates made history by keeping control of everything that mattered & cutting IBM out of the game. But what if IBM had been as smart as hindsight? Depending on available OS alternatives, IBM probably had enough leverage to get pretty much all of those provisions. It still would have been a big deal (for Microsoft) to get that deal done. It still would have probably been the deal that shaped the company.

It may have in itself pushed them comfortably into the 11 digit sales, put them in a good position to develop applications & be a successful (but normal) software company. so basically still a deal worth taking.

Again with hindsight, it would have been an opportunity missed. A big one worth (if you can handle huge gambles) endangering the deal altogether.
No. Those companies don't have monopolies. Take your first example, consider this, and then extrapolate:

AT&T isn't the only cell phone network provider in the market, or even a dominant one.

Apple isn't the only smart phone vendor in the market, or even a dominant one.

Together, AT&T and Apple dominate only a market for Apple's own branded product. Apple could simply choose not tell iPhones at all. It's hard to see how anything the two companies do together restrain trade. You do not have a right to redistribute or enable Apple's own products.

Ticketmaster has been the subject of repeated antitrust inquiries, and has survived --- rightly so. Ticketmaster is under increasing threat of obsolescence by companies like Live Nation, which are vertically integrating (for instance, by signing record contracts with artists) and changing the business model.

Etc, etc, etc. You have a better chance of boiling the ocean than of reconfiguring capitalism to improve your startup's chances. Look elsewhere.
It's not there because it's not his quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_m...
"... With the eee, desktop linux for everyone is a fact. ..."

It is but with a bit of a tweak.

In Aus the eeePc and other Netbooks ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157607402416589/ are really disrupting the notebook market. The prices are dropping from $1200 to $275 for the lowest spec machine ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/2835213922/in/set-72157607... But as the new models are trickling into the market 2 things are happening:

- MS is subsidising the cost making the XP versions of the 901 upwards from AUD50 to AUD80 cheaper than the Xandros supplied machines

- Asus is not releasing many Linux powered machines and the demand is high

This is causing a lot of angst for linux users who don't want to purchase MS products. But yesterday I saw a good story at the Software Freedom day in Melbourne ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157607387630079/ where a Ausus 901 was hacked to support Ubuntu with pretty much full hardware support ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/2872451270/in/set-72157607...
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Our eee came with xandros installed and in full working order.

Nice pictures on flickr, thanks for sharing.
Well, the thing they didn't say in the article is that height matters. For a 7 foot guy with an additional 3 foot reach (like Shaq) the underhand shot makes a huge difference in terms of the angle the ball approaches the basket. For a 6 foot guy with a 2 foot reach, the benefit of this shooting style is much smaller.
Just a heads up anyone using this - the middleware injects the text into the body tag. So, properly formed html with a body is required for the bar to get injected.

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Why...

...is this posted? I see nothing redeeming or informative.
...are people ruining the game for others?
...in the world did this get even one upvote?

etc.
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So just recast participation in the game of skill as the purchase of an insurance policy. (Granted, this is probably easier for, say, Intrade than for something like SL.)

But they probably thought of that and were somewhat specific about the allowable types of insurance.

edit: I went and read the relevant text of the act. Especially in light of recent events, I find it amusing that Congress couldn't come up with a definition of "gambling" that inherently excluded derivatives trading - they had to do that explicitly as well.
Spectacular article! Here's a bit that could use updating for our modern age:

Encouragement to advertise when you've got something good:

"In a country like this, where nearly everybody reads, and where newspapers are issued and circulated in editions of five thousand to two hundred thousand, it would be very unwise if this channel was not taken advantage of to reach the public in advertising. A newspaper goes into the family, and is read by wife and children, as well as the head of the home; hence hundreds and thousands of people may read your advertisement, while you are attending to your routine business. Many, perhaps, read it while you are asleep."

Is there a modern equivalent? Television? Still? Is there any one thing that truly touches entire families today?
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For research, right now I'm looking for better ways to visualize the results of Chain analysis on a set of sequences. (This probably doesn't actually need a cluster.) We're looking at evolutionary relationships between protein families.

I just started a graduate program, so I'll have to do a range of things for classes -- which is why I have some leeway to pick up a new language and stagger through a few numerical programs now if it will help me get things done quickly later, when it matters.
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Agreed, but I don't envy the politician who tries to point that out while fighting for re-election.
She had to drop out of MIT and move out of Boston because of jerks spitting in her face, who think the media gave them 100% of the story that she tried to do a "bomb hoax".
A lot more than expected? I don't see how I can compute that without knowing a lot more about the design. I think it's safe to put an upper limit at 50 yrs of trying.
This is probably his only point that I wouldn't necessarily agree with. The rest of the advice I think is as valuable and timely today as it was then.
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Not quite in the scrollbar. But beside it.
The first I saw this feature was in a 1992 paper:

http://smg.media.mit.edu/classes/SocialVis03/editWear.pdf
i just hate this guy. i mean, how the fuck can you go on and on and on about apple day in and day fucking out. jesus man, develop some interests.
With the rise of marketing it's uncommon for a company to try to reach an entire family. Promotion is more effective when its highly targeted.

Although, TV is probably the best medium for reaching a broad audience.
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This reminds me of the book "The Richest Man in Babylon", it has similar parables and written in context of ancient times. Some advice is timeless.

In this book, I love how he talks about financial security as achieving independence.

"It is this go-aheaditiveness, this determination not to let the "horrors" or the "blues" take possession of you, so as to make you relax your energies in the struggle for independence, which you must cultivate. "
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I wouldn't rule out unprovable assumptions.

You can't prove them.
Just saw the new Microsoft ad on SNL...you know what? I thought it was a great ad. famous people. normal people. Interesting people. I paid attention the whole time and was surprised by some of them. How is that not a good ad?
The writing reminds me of Timecube:

"Therefore narrow minded petty European Scholastic Doctors with inflated national egos tried to make British Newton their own. The French created Laplace who wrote giant tomes with megalomaniacal titles causing serious damage to European forests. Laplace’s monumental books made British Newton’s cosmogonic speculations palatable to French Scholastic Doctors."
The video says he moved to Mexico and started collecting bottles for cash. I imagine that at first he wanted a super-simple lifestyle and then decided that this would make a great hobby.

I don't think he has much money but he has a lot of time and the skills (he was a carpenter) to make it happen.
I totally agree with this point. Putting together a coherent, musical album is largely a lost art. Just listen to any old Led Zeppelin or Rush album (particularly [Led Zeppelin IV] and A Farewell to Kings + Hemispheres) and compare it to a modern rock album by a band like Nickelback or Papa Roach and there is simply no comparison.
What I want to know is this:

What kind of internet speeds does he get on his island?
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Wow, this is a good article. I thought all of the raving was about nothing, but it is definitely worth the read.
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