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I was hoping for something like the Dylan language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_programming_language

It was created in the 1990s and it still looks innovative, even compared to a lot of the new 'hot commodity' languages like python and ruby. I knew it wouldn't happen.

If a big corporation like Google put money into something like that, I think it would dominate the market.

But what they have delivered here isn't even interesting.

(The other option for something I would want would be standardized 'web byte-code', so that you just re-target a compiler back-end to emit it, and your language can be used as if it were javascript.

This is neither of those thing and I am sorely disappointed.
I think this is just part of the bigger story of Apple's increasing independence from upstream suppliers.
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> Yes, you can use it to expose your key features in unified way the user will understand.

Unified with who? If I'm AnnoyingSocialSites.com's competition, why do I want to unify with them?

Beyond that, what are you providing that can't already be done in a standard browser?

It seems like most of the functionality you're providing is already available in Air or Titanium.
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He stole $7-$70 million. That's depriving 7-140 people of their retirements. A life sentence for that is perfectly reasonable. We have a broken political system where money controls politics, and so many white collar crimes have minimal punishments.

People go to prison for 15 years for stealing $100. He did 70,000-700,000 times as much damage. Copyright violators face years in prison too, for doing a fraction of even that.

Whatever sentence he gets, I really don't feel like it's a miscarriage of justice. Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Hitler, Khan, and a swarm of others broke no laws because they controlled the laws of their countries. Yet punishing them for their crimes was not a miscarriage of justice. I'm not claiming his crimes are anywhere near the same order of magnitude -- stealing is much less than murder, and even 140 people is less than millions -- but the principle is the same. If a group of people creates unjust laws, and commits crimes legal under those laws, they deserve punishment proportional to the crime, not the laws.
"Microsoft hired Anders Hejlsberg for .Net which I don't think was a good idea, he is a great engineer but not a PL theory expert."

Wow. And I thought nobody in their right minds would question Hejlsberg's chops or the work he did for .Net.

He is "not a PL theory expert"? Great. We need less of them in mainstream language design and more pragmatism.
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This makes it worse. It means there wasn't an underling cause important enough to split the company. Like licencing deals or possible acquisition that couldn't be disclosed etc.
Would it be useful if most of your colleagues have a deep understanding of the programming language they are using?

Not if by "deep understanding" he means "knowing trivia about underspecified corners of the language that have nothing to do with getting the job done".
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I'm very technical, and I have no idea what that means. They are talking technology instead of benefits. Why do I care about all these "instances"? Chrome creates new instances all the time, too, but I would imagine Raven thinks it has some advantage over Chrome.
For what I know that's still a challenge for developers, they most often seem to make two distinct types of area:

-Outdoors, where there are no concavities in the landscape and elevation models are used.

-And indoors, where you use a different type of modeling, last time I checked binary space trees were pretty common.
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"It debuts with the most widely used websites including ... Quora." Wait, what?
In explaining the split, Hastings cited the need for the streaming business to stay focused. In other words, Netflix took away a convenience many customers wanted to address a need internal to Netflix's management. That's less than ideal, but I understand the need for the company to face up to reality and shortcomings in its capabilities.

More worrying is what they did to the recommendation engine after the split. Although I have yet to decide whether the recommendation engine is worth my while, the positive PR created by the Netflix Prize convinced me at least to give it a sustained try (and to encourage a friend to give it a try) which means rating a whole mess of movies I had seen.

Well, guess what? After the split, streaming-only customers cannot rate titles that are unavailable on the streaming service.

For example, when I find myself on the streaming service's page for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,
I see a message that says, "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is not available to watch instantly. Watch The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on DVD! Add unlimited DVDs for only $7.99 more a month." But I see no way to rate the movie.

Also if Netflix's negotiations with content owners means Netflix loses the right to stream a movie I already rated, I guess I will no longer be able to use Netflix's web site to see that rating.

In summary, as part of the split, Netflix management hobbled the recommendation engine for no good reason that I can see. Netflix seems to have lost sight of the fact that people use their service because of their interest in movies.
The most common way is by having 'holes' defined in the mesh (ie. maybe use 1 bit for each point to determine whether it exists or not) and then creating extra geometry to attach to that.

Alternatively, you can try a voxel-based approach and then use an algorithm like Marching-cubes to reconstruct a smooth mesh over the top of it.

Or, you could change the heightmap data to also include X/Z displacement as well as Y displacement. This would allow some shallow caves and small overhangs, but nothing too crazy.

There will be plenty of other methods you could use too, these are just a starting point.
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Unless I asked for more information I would have been turned off by the girl because she was pedantic. The last thing a team needs is someone who gives a never ending answer to a simple question. If I prodded for more and she delivered it and the guy didn't then she wins hands down. Otherwise I want a simple answer to a simple question and move on to the next thing.

Edit: I only went through the first twenty or so slides. After disagreeing with the initial premise I didn't think the author earned any more of my time.
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That sounds like fraud to me.

I would think that you could negotiate this with a merchant bank. For instance service companies often take deposits and kickstarter clearly charges before shipment. But in both cases they probably have agreement from their processor for their business model. I think having to post reserves is one such model for when you are doing riskier transactions.

But don't think that merchant bank won't cut you off if you violate the terms of your agreement.

However in practice merchant banks seem very lax compared to PayPal.
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Also, Finland has the best rated education system. It could be because it's really conservative, but not hard-assed (1950-style classes, but with friendly teachers). Or it could just be because of Finnish is said to be a really easy language (phonetic, consistent, and with unpretentious technical vocabulary).
"Raven is a site-specific web browser for Mac"

You're welcome.
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My (as yet unobtained) goal is to get familiar enough with org-mode[1] and figure out a personal workflow that fits with my company, so that I can manage a planning/clocking setup along the lines of http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#Clocking

It's complicated by a couple of factors:

* nobody else at work would be using the same system (but we don't use anything anyway)

* I don't use emacs for mail, and haven't yet got it to talk to google calendar in a sensible fashion

* my elisp is about as good as any of my other lisps, which is practically nothing.

On the plus side:

* Evidence based scheduling - I'm a crap planner, and being able to compare estimates with reality would be the first step towards fixing it.

* I could stop making up arbitrary numbers of hours worked on a given project, and actually provide some evidence.[2]

* Formalising a workflow would help keep me on track when I'm not sure what needs doing next.

* Having a tracker/agenda/scheduler/outliner all together makes for some interesting integration potential.

[1] http://orgmode.org/ - outliner with all sorts of extra shineys for Emacs.

[2] Less unethical than it sounds - I'm basically subtracting out the time I spend faffing around on the internet. But I suspect I'm sometimes too generous with my subtractions.
They haven't necessarily been proven wrong. Firstly, disappointing is subjective, not objective, so the people who were disappointed might not be the ones ordering it, and neither of those choices is right or wrong.

But more importantly, when the Blackberry 9000 was released I was disappointed with it, I'd hoped for more. I still got my pre-order in, because I wanted to upgrade and it was better than the phone I had at that time. And I have friends now who say they are disappointed with the 4S, but they are still upgrading from their 3/3S/4, just because it's still better and they've had their current phone for a while.
Designs are anti-modular. Types are descriptions of the design. They document the (anti-)modularity. Take the types away and you have the exact same anti-modular design as before.
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"I wouldn't be surprised if "performance" of the language meant "able to get our vast fleets of mediocre Java developers to write web apps faster" rather than "able to execute faster"."

Yes, because Google is notorious for hiring "mediocre developers".

Or are Java developers especially considered "mediocre" by definition?

Or does dabbling in Ruby/Python/Lisp/Closure/Scala/Haskell make you "non mediocre" by definition?

It's the skills, it's not the language.

I would like to see something with the scope, ecosystem and functionality of, say, Eclipse, written in one of the non-mediocre languages (no, Emacs doesn't come close).
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It's interesting that dart provides the translator at the html level, which allows dart to support direct inclusion of dart scripts in an html page, and for one dart script to require another.

However, it seems like this would actually make it harder to package up dart script files efficiently to minimize multiple http requests; it would be nice if dart had some way of emitting a single packaged up dart file as part of the html translation process.
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It seems to be very misguiding when designers of some new programming language are heavily biased with some business needs or platform selection.

Programming language is not just a technology. It's a way of communicating my thoughts. I don't want to think and write (and read!) in just an _efficient_ language.
I like the idea too! You should add some awesome portfolios though. By the way, the arrows on the carousel are hard to click - either superimpose them onto the edge of the slides or don't hide them when the mouse is not hovering over.
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Isn't this what coffeescript is, just that cs does it 100 times better
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Why would this move cause you to cancel your service?
A question for coderdude: how well did the traffic from StumbleUpon perform? Did it almost entirely bounce straight away, or was there a lot of clicking through to other pages?
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"Well, whatever. Lousy compilers." I feel ya bro.
While knowing the standards makes you a better programmer, it's still bad programming practice to write non-excplicit, cryptic code.

I think the boy's initial "I would never write code like this" response is spot on. I also agree with the boy's implied annoyance and "who cares what this badly written program actually does" stance.

These are fairly terrible interview questions. They test knowledge of standards and various obscure behaviour, but it's far more important what kind of code (readable, explicit, maintainable, simple, architected, commented, performant, bug-free, etc.) the person writes. In real life, the boy may actually be a better programmer than the girl. It's just not a good, comprehensive test.

Nevertheless the examples are fun, but I would never ask them in an interview. Interview time is precious and not to be wasted on stuff like this, unless you're interviewing for a compiler job...

EDIT: Most of the above applies to the first, C part of the interview. In the second, C++ part, the stuff the girl says is mostly basic knowledge that is useful on a daily basis.
First thing I noticed is that the links at the top of the page don't work (in IE9). ...so, basically, they are looking for developers who "think in algorithms, dream in code, and eat control structures" so they can fix those pesky main navigation links. :-)

I think there is something poetic going on here. Sometimes we try so hard to hire people like ourselves we fail to hire the people we need most - those that can fill our blind spots. In this case by doing some boring site maintenance work.
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It just means that the 16 GB iPhone 4S is worth $100 more to people than the 8 GB iPhone. Since I assume most people buying one are coming from the 3GS after their 2 year contract is up. The 4S is certainly not going to get iPhone 4 users to upgrade early for an extra couple hundred bucks.
I think we can't judge if this product is disappointing or not by the sales number. I am not saying that the 4S is not a good phone, but the sales are obviously heavily influenced by the Steve Jobs death. Many of my friends who weren't considering a new phone are now going to buy it because it is the last iPhone launched with Jobs alive.
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Well there is more to an ebook reader than just reading. The more popular ones have stores for buying books, for example.

Of course the UI can be designed for hardware buttons but at a certain point you're going to have to strike a balance between device size and user friendliness. For example, you could either: not allow text input, have a hardware keyboard, have a software keyboard navigated with minimal hardware buttons, or have a software keyboard with a touch screen. Of those I prefer a touch screen - the device will be smaller and/or have a larger screen and still be user friendly.
Kids.

If you have them, it's worth it. If not, it's harder to justify.
I don't speak for the team but I believe I can add some perspective.

Think of it this way: what is GWT? GWT os compiling Java, a statically typed language, into Javascript. If you've used GWT you'll know that particularly early on there was a lot of friction. What's simple in Javascript with anonymous objects and duck typing doesn't quite gel with Java so you've had to do things like use JSNI for edge cases.

Google has some incredibly large and ocmplex JS apps (eg GMail). While GMail isn't written in GWT, GWT is aimed at that kind of application with deferred binding and the benefits of static type analysis.

What if you took that expertise (of GWT and static type analysis in producing Javascript) to produce a language that could run on the server, run in the browser (for browsers that support that) and compile to Javascript (for browsers that don't)?

The last point is particular is key to driving adoption as no one is going to develop only for Chrome.

I see it as no surprise the syntax is Java-like. I fully expect sometime soon to see a JVM implementation that will then leverage all the existing Java libraries.

In that context (IMHO) it makes a lot more sense. It might not be solving the problems you're interested in but it is definitely solving a particular set of problems.
Thanks. I was hoping since you had an Xbox, you were ripping on Windows. I've used HandBrake on OSX before, and it worked great. I just wish the Windows version would handle DVDs the same.
Editorialised title - actual title is "The Search for a More Perfect Kilogram". Wired should use your title though ("Everything is Getting Heavier") - it's a catchy title for an interesting article. Also the picture half-way down is totally a TARDIS.
Absolutely. Each time I see it, i laugh a lot. :) In fact, I have a startup company and basicly i follow agile practices mainly beacuse of resource constraints and productivity. I'll write SRS document for my project course in Phd. So, I needed to revise it. I generally emphasis on product rather than documentation. When I'm writing documentation, I make it as simple as possible.
I was delighted to see how people automagically give others a chance to try other instruments and switch with some kind of intuition.

Also the most pleasure gave me an idea of playing a bass for a while and watching others improvise.
Wow, indistinguishable from java. Statically typed and uses generics. Are you kidding me.

Dear Google: seriously? :(
It's a joke. :) I should try to dig up a country that does have year-round school.
What Brendan is missing is that the contest is not closed between JavaScript and Dart. The elephant in the room is the huge and growing mobile space where ObjectiveC and Java rule. It's not about "Works only in Chrome", it's about "Works only on iOS/Android".
Yeah, exactly. This "hello world" uses a "print" function. What would such a print function do in a normal web app? Write to the console or something?
And what, technically, is an "instance"? Do they mean "instance" as a process or "instance" from a UX perspective, meaning that the browser functions as though each site were in a unique container (autocomplete, etc., isolated)?
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Out of 132,000 Stumblers the average pages viewed was 1.42 and the average time on the site was 46 seconds. The bounce rate was 80.93% but it's hard to tell how GA is calculating that since I have so many off-site links. All in all I wouldn't call SU traffic very "sticky" but some of it did convert well (became subscribers or shared the site in other channels).
Yes, I widely use Quora. ;)
Same here. When it doesn't crash it freezes.
I am actually an employee of my startup, and what you described in 1) is exactly what is happening. We use dotproject which is probably one of the worst piece of software ever shipped, and the data is used but nowhere near a goal that is worth the pain.
Wow. How can this get any worse. Netflix management has gone crazy.

They took a brand that (in my eyes) was almost as venerable as Amazon and just thrashed it. They lost a ton of good will (and market capital).

People (including me) used to love Netflix. They, like Amazon, always seemed to do the right thing for the customer.

I'm sad. They are too few good companies in the world.
Best post ever.
> what? Honeycomb's source (and only the ONE revision of Android) was not released and I can spout off the three most popular theories, but it doesn't really matter. We've been round and round this many times. If Google chooses to skip releasing 3.0 source, why is that particularly different than me choosing to develop on my own private Git repo and jump from version 1.0 to 3.0 while only releasing 2.0 in binary form. Is it "less" open source?

Is it less open source? Yes, as far as Honeycomb is concerned the source wasn't opened so it's not open source at all. If you don't share the source, it's not open source, period.

Whether it's "enough" very much depends on what you want from an open source project. You think it is, that's fine but for me, given how committed Google are meant to be to open source, I don't think they should be picking and choosing. At the very least I'd have liked a commitment that they'd make it open at the same point ICS was made open so people could buy a Honeycomb tablet confident that they could get access to the code in the future if they wanted or needed it.

>> is tightening the licensing agreements to exert control (and doing so in such a way that anyone who isn't a proper licensee will struggle to compete).
> Um, no they're not.

"Over the past few months, according to several people familiar with the matter, Google has been demanding that Android licensees abide by "non-fragmentation clauses" that give Google the final say on how they can tweak the Android code—to make new interfaces and add services—and in some cases whom they can partner with."

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_15/b42230412...

Looks like tightening the licensing terms to me.

Don't get me wrong, I don't dispute Google's right to do this and I don't necessarily think that it's a bad thing for Android, I just don't think it's a very "open" thing to be doing.

Google can do what they like with Android but if they want to get the credit and kudos that rightly goes with an open source project, they need to accept that there is going to be criticism when they start moving the goal posts.