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He may know a thing or two about language implementations, but his complaints are predictable: he wants it to look more like perl and less like Java. Additionally, his opinions on the implications of their concurrency model are entirely based on perl's implementation and IMO not necessarily correct in another context (message passing was probably chosen specifically to avoid needing heavyweight threads). I'm not a web programmer but those complaints seem superficial to me, I'd probably spend a little time using it before coming to that conclusion.
I support legalization for ideaological reasons, but that doesn't at all sound accurate to me

Drug use will almost definitely sky rocket if drugs are legalized, at least initially. We can't really say what will happen, say, 5-10 years after, because legalization in this country is unprecedented.

But ask most users if they'd use more if it was legal, and you'll get your answer. Ask some fence sitters who are too scared to try drugs if they'd use currently illicit drugs if it was legal, and you'll get your answer
I think the "thumb reach" advantage is marginal at best. Phones these days are more like mini-tablets ( http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html ) and therefore you'll want your phone to be as big as possible to maximize your viewing experience (web, games, pictures, videos) while also still keeping its extreme portability of a smartphone (having it with your at all times). As long as they fit well in your pocket, and you don't think it's awkward having a too large phone, then bigger phones are better for most things. Some people will be comfortable with 4", others with 4.3", others with 4.7" and others with 5.3".
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I started blogging about five years ago, more or less in the manner you describe. Wrote an excited post or two or three right away, then maybe another in a week or two, and then... slowly stopped. Then a year later picked it up again, and then stopped.

I tried a variety of blog tools. I first had a blog at MIT, then when they killed that service, I tried several of the hip new services like Tumblr, Typepad, and Posterous. I stuck with Posterous the longest, but most recently moved to Wordpress running on my own virtual server. Along the way, I've kept some of my favorite posts from abandoned services, and deleted others that I no longer felt were worth sharing.

But why not write consistently? In my case, I suppose I feel like I frequently have nothing original to add to a topic. There are lots of things I could write about, but why should I, when somebody else already has?

Does it make sense, though, that a blog ought to be held to the standards of original research and contributions to a topic? It's a blog, not a doctoral thesis. So maybe that doesn't make any sense. What, then, should be the purpose of writing, if not to create brand new thoughts?

Expressing who you are and what you know may be reason enough. I would rather hire a consultant that had displayed their knowledge of their field through writing than somebody who just posted a list of skills they had, and I'm more likely to find somebody who can do a particular task if they have written about it than if they had just done the task and posted it on GitHub.

Blogging can be useful to market yourself as a consultant, to market your products you are trying to sell, to make new acquaintances on the web, to build stronger relations with people you already know, to help you improve as a writer and as a thinker... there are all sorts of benefits to blogging besides making original contributions to exposition of a topic. And even though I realize this, I still get stuck a lot on the non-originality thing.

I imagine that a lot of people do.

And then, there are people who just try blogging, realize they don't like it or have other things they'd rather do, and never delete the first post. That's a lot easier to explain, and probably accounts for way more abandoned blogs. :-)
Learning more and more about JavaScript will give you diminishing returns after a while. Once you understand prototype-based inheritance, common patterns and idioms, and how objects and integers work and have gone through the language spec, you might be better off as an individual starting to learn something completely different.

Dart and CoffeeScript are just other languages, so getting a rough handle on them should take an hour or so per. Just learning what concepts languages bring to the table (e.g. how does Dart do concurrency and how does that compare to JavaScript? How does it compare to Erlang?) can give you better insight into trends and the state of the art, and can give you new ideas about what is possible. IMHO, this is worth doing even if you're never going to use the language.

As for "breaking standards", as long as my JS still runs on Chrome, I'm more than content no matter what Dart does.
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Over the last week the home page appears to be cached longer than the arc timeout, no doubt due to the spike in traffic. As I throw away cookies when closing the browser, I need to login daily. It's been impossible to login from the HN home page because of this. Refreshing the page doesn't help; I've had to click through to a story to be able to login.

You should hard-code that one too.
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It makes more sense for VM byte-code as the bytes not only have to be loaded (probably by the page, again) but the bytes have to be run and possibly jitted, too.
Out of curiosity, are there any places where the hn codebase would be smaller if you used full continuations instead of just closures, allowing code akin to what I quoted from the PLT paper?
This article conflates "dynamic typing" with "weak typing" all over the place. First he whines that type declarations aren't mandatory (at least within the scope of what a type inferencer can resolve), claims the runtime won't be able to determine type information (which V8) can already do...

...then he goes on to complain that there's no automatic type coercion! This is probably one of the worst misfeatures of JavaScript (and Perl and PHP), but after a short tirade about "weak typing", he's longing for automatic type coercion? Sorry dude, "3 dog night" + 2 should not equal 5
It seems kind of ironic to have such an egregious bug on a site dealing with coding and technology...
Yeah, I tried the Topaz InFocus plugin after it got a bit of buzz from the TWIP podcast. It wasn't quite as magical as the demo images on the site made it seem, and I ended up not buying it (Topaz's Denoise plugin, OTOH, is quite incredible).

I suspect people will have to manage their expectations with this Adobe plugin/feature as well.
Right, it's the opposite convention from Lisp. I'm trying to distinguish from say Perl, which doesn't have a canonical true or false value but identifies a set of things that "seem like they should be false" like 0 and "".
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That depends on whether or not there are any bugs or quirks in Android x86 that may or may not be present in Android for ARM and vice versa.
> Concluding that he wouldn't been the same successful person without doing LSD. There's no evidence of causation. That's the fallacy.

Who's making that conclusion? As far as I can tell, nobody's attributing his success entirely to LSD. I'm sure he'd have been successful without it. But a person is a product of their experiences, and he plainly states that LSD factored strongly into it. You can disbelieve him, but I don't know why one would have trouble believing that.

I tend to agree that this is only getting so much play right now because of the Jobs connection, which is getting annoying for some, but that doesn't make the points being made any less valid.
Technically, it's out there. The Google TV SDK (which is Honeycomb) runs on x86. Running it requires a Linux distro with KVM though. I'd bet the ICS SDK will come with some form of x86-based images as well (since they've promised x86 support for all future Android releases)
This is another symptom of why Android development is such a pain. You have to jump through hoop after hoop after hoop just to get to the point where you can get actual work done. If a tool ends up wasting more time than it saves, it isn't a tool, it is an obstacle.
We'll try to keep adding whatever information we can about our deployment. If you have specific questions just shoot us an email - they'll probably be good inspiration for future posts.
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Because the app economy on the Android market doesn't support it.
I often wonder what the disadvantage is of moving to an existing, established, understood and already tooled language (such as the ActionScript family) if one is seeking to migrate away from a legacy language such as JavaScript.

Now I am using ActionScript to make a point, since I have not yet programmed in it to be able to address how much Dart does or does not mimic the AS syntax.

Is ActionScript "type-optional" as with Dart?
I love the Mythbusters, but what an odd choice for this project.
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Possibly, but not many. It was surprising (in this application at least) how rarely I needed full continuations.
Interestingly www.torproject.org is currently down... I don't know if this is related.
95% of blogs are abandoned for the same reason 95% of projects never materialize, which in fact is the same reason 95% of life changes remain new year resolutions: Procrastination.

The Postary announcement states:

Postary - the simplest way to share posts with no strings attached, no obligations and no expectations. Postary reduces the Blog Lifecycle down to step four: if you are inspired to say something, then just post it and share it with the world

Similarly to suggestions for product landing pages, you do not state how Postary will help me with that, i.e. how the procrastination factor is dealt with. Is there gamification? E-mail reminders? Where is the cheese? Expand on that "simplest way" to sell the idea on me.

Additionally, I will not click-through the "Write a post" button since it requires a Twitter account. Why do I need to login to Twitter, assuming I do have a Twitter account, if you haven't convinced me that there is a reason to waste a couple of minutes of my time?

To sum things up, what differentiates you from, say, Blogspot, Tumblr, Wordpress et al? I can "just post it and share it with the world" over there too.
You'll effectively have* to post ICS; Intel is an officially supported platform now (and Google TV is currently Intel only, provided you want to be on that platform).

* Presuming you want your NDK app to run any Intel-based tablets/phones.
Indeed, except that one doesn't print "Hello world". :)
Their Web site has no e-mail address for contacting them.

The e-mail address they used to publicize died.

When calling for an e-mail address, their phone recorder is full of static.

If leave a message asking for an e-mail address, they don't respond.

Their backgrounds are not very technical.

They seem to believe that they can make good money with 'spray and pray' with simple projects with routine software for simple purposes for Web sites close to old media. Maybe.
Or they simply knew they were going to lose from the fact that they have already gone through this with similar cases.

The law is the law, and they must comply.
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The apple logo itself could be taken as a symbol of accepting psychedelic insight. A bite of the forbidden apple.

When talking about Steve Jobs and LSD, we should consider the work of Myron Stolaroff and his associates. LSD can be used in anything from satanic orgies to mystical new age woo to CIA mind control experiments to creative technical problem solving. The branch of the psychedelic family tree SJ plucked his apple from is related to Myron Stolaroff's work on creative and technical problem solving.

Article by Myron Stolaroff on using psychedelics wisely: http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/writings/stolaroff_using...

Podcast featuring early psychedelic researcher James Fadiman "Using Psychedelics to solve technical and scientific problems" http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=3226003&song=042-Fad...

Article mostly about Al Hubbard (fascinating reading in it's own right), which connects Steve Jobs to Myron Stolaroff's advocacy of LSD among engineers and technologists: http://kikoshouse.blogspot.com/2009/10/alfred-captain-al-hub...

And finally, a 1960s study about LSD and creative problem solving (by Stolaroff, Fadiman, et al) "Psychedelic Agents in Creative Problem Solving: A pilot study" http://www.erowid.org/references/texts/show/7609docid6734
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It's good to do things you enjoy. Best use of his time? I don't think anyone can definitively answer that.
I think Android 4.0 will be optimized for Intel Atom at least.
There's no central database of ISRCs, so even if you have an ISRC in your hand there's no way to find out what artist and song title that ISRC represents.
One can also argue that VBScript is not tooling-friendly. I am talking a little out of school, since I have never had to use VB.net; it could be wholly different. But I have had my fair share of VBScript interactions and those were not fun (Microsoft-isms aside).
>> basically lying, which typically means "in channel == sold".

That's exactly what they're doing -- and have been doing this entire time. Apple is the only one that reports # of tables sold.
I recommend students to take OS development course at university. Many concepts of C are discussed and viewed in practice in this class: the relation of the static storage class in C and the .bss section of the object/executable file, the stack and calling conventions of different processor architectures, and so on.
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Best explanation of Occupy Wall Street.
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These are great! A few more of my own:

What does my reptilian brain "sense" in .5 seconds?
What can be removed to improve it?
What is confusing?
What is offensive?
What could make it simpler?
What could make it clearer?
Which entities are dead weight?
What is too small to easily read?
What is too dark/light/unfocused to easily read?
What questions does it raise?
How do I quickly and easily find answers to those questions?
What about it excites me?
What would it take to excite me more?
What is it supposed to do?
Does it do that?
Who is it supposed to me for?
Is it for them?
How do I get out?
How do I get back?
On an integer scale from 0 to 10, what is it?
On an integer scale from 0 to 1, what is it?
How fast is it?
What slows it down?
What should be removed to speed it up?
When I do something, how do I know it knows I did it?
Is everything about it intuitive?
What needs to be made more intuitive?
How comfortable am I staying here for a while?
How comfortable am I staying here all day?
What else should it do without getting too complicated?
What could be better about it?
Would my boss understand it?
Would my customers understand it?
Would my parents understand it?
Do I want the past 5 minutes of my life back?
That is an overstatement. This was true in the beginning for the honeycomb sdk, but as you can easily develop against hardware this isn't an issue anymore.

The Android 2.2 and 2.3 Emulators are atleast on my machine fast enough for development, but i still prefer to develop against hardware just because it feels faster and more real. Multi-Touch is easier...

Even on iOS it's better to develop against actual hardware than the simulator, therefor it's not really that much of an issue.
I think his point is that it's easy to ignore serious usability problems when you're using better hardware than your customers. For example, developers with big screens are more prone to create GUIs that do not work well on small screens. Similarly, some Xbox games are unplayable in 480i or 480p mode because nobody ever bothered to check whether the interface elements were readable at low resolutions.
That's basically the same excuse scientific journals put up.
GWT? Either there's going to be some transition to/support for Dart in the near future, or I'm very confused...
Honeycomb emulator is slower because of the 1280x800 resolution. Google mentioned at I/O that it seems the emulator lags from the lack of hardware acceleration, and they said it would come by end of the year I think. I wonder if it's ready for 4.0. It should be.
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Not true. Apple reports in channel, it is just that Apple is selling nearly every one they make.
Though it may seem cruel to say this in his death, looking at Steve Jobs' behavior when he was younger really makes me wonder whether he was a psychopath

Anyone else see the commonalities?
Are you saying it is worth it for the NY Times to advertise on the search term "NY Times"? I see examples like this all the time but it makes no sense to me. In fact, the only ad-links I click on are these.

You just gave me my first data point from the web site owners perspective ... that your traffic goes up enough for it to be worth it. Why do you think this is the case? I would really appreciate any insight on this!
It'd probably be faster to upload the image to a cloud processor and have it unblur it for you.

It might be more efficient to just teach people how to use their cameras so that they can minimize unwanted blurring.
After coming back to this after a couple hours, I realize that I may have misinterpreted what appears to be a vocal minority based on comments that I'm seeing (rather annoyingly actually) buried.
Nginx is one of those rare products where I felt no need to upgrade from the now-ancient 0.7.6 version because it just does everything I need well. Truly an amazing little piece of code, on par (in my books) with venerable oldies like qmail.
Correct me if I'm wrong but you are essentially offering what Google+ and TwitLonger.com offer already. When a person is inspired, they can post and share with their friends a longer post, with no strings attached.

This will undoubtably work for some, and if you market it properly, you may create a spot for your service; but I'm not sure this is the cure to the 95% of blogs are abandoned problem.

A traditional blog is a lot more work, but it can provide you with an unbelievable degree of rewards and benefits. I think many of these benefits will be lost for those who opt to use your service, at least in its current incarnation.

In my book on technical blogging (http://pragprog.com/book/actb/technical-blogging) I provide a different antidote to abandonment syndrome. I suggest a careful plan and road map that can lead virtually anyone who follows the steps to succeed early on.

Careful planning, knowing what to write and when, learning how to deal with writer's block, and achieving a degree of success early on, all contribute to eliminating the abandonment problem.

Who would abandon a blog that is read by thousands, it's making them money, and helping them further their career? Not many, I suspect, despite the weekly effort required to achieve such goals.
I tried to get their email addresses as well, but never found it... Hmm. I'll mention this to them. I know a couple of them have personal blogs with personal email addresses -- not necessarily connected to the firm.
> Do they think that Javascript is not thousands of lines of C/C++ lurking in your browser?

C/C++ compiles to native code. Besides, how is that justification to add even more layers?
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There are many dimensions of freedom. I'll note that Sen. Feingold's name shares a place in "McCain-Feingold", which is a limitation on free speech (some may argue that it's a warranted limitation, but the fact that it is a limitation on freedom is objectively true)
I don't think those compromises are fair. Again, devices on the market NOW (aside from battery life) just aren't plagued with the issues that everyone's acting they are. Also, I don't know, but my 3G feels incredibly slow after playing with some 4G phones, hell VZW's 4G coverage is shockingly wide already. (Of course, the definition of 4G and broadband are jokes here in the States. VZW and AT&T's 4G isn't even legally 4G, but they lobbied the international consortium to allow them to use the label until they actually get it up to snuff).
> The dominance of the iPad has always been about the walled garden and iTunes.

I really can't agree. I believe the dominance of the iPad stems from an operating system designed for touch input instead of having it shoehorned in like Windows did for years.

Android tablets will do just fine for the same reason. They've been struggling thus far because it's currently hard to match Apple on price - they've done a hell of a job in supply chain management.
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I completely disagree on status reports. I've only worked at one company where we sent them weekly. I found them invaluable for looking back over what I'd accomplished. I viewed it more as a weekly journal than a tool of oppression.

That said, the rest of the management system was in shambles, and they'd have failed nearly every other question. I don't believe that inherently makes status reports a bad thing, though.
It could be an interesting venture, but I think very capital intensive, and extremely risky. Not only do you have widely varying government bureaucracies to navigate in each country, but you also have the credit card companies and banks trying to kill you at every turn. You could build a very promising business and then by killed by legislation at the stroke of a pen because you were out-lobbied by the powers that be.

That's not to say it couldn't be done, but I think you'd want to start with deep connections in at least one country and build a viable business there first before attempting to move to multiple countries.
We have done a minor pivot to launch a really cool service. Would love to hear what you guys think of it.

Would you like to see it be easier to use, any particular features, more projects online, or supporting more languages (currently only Java)?