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I agree that mutable-array covariance in a statically typed language is a Bad Idea (TM). But Dart's type checks at compile-time are so non-existent that array covariance is the least of my concerns. Take is simple example (you can run it on Dart's site [1]):

applyShippingCost(num price) {
return price + 10;
}

main() {
print(applyShippingCost(100)); // Prints 110. Ok.
var lol = "TROLOLO";
num thisIsNotANum = applyShippingCost(lol); // Nothing explodes here...
print(thisIsNotANum); // Prints TROLOLO10, Yeahh B)
}

This runs well and compiles with no warnings. Types are not checked when assigning an untyped variable to a typed one, so while one would expect that type declarations should give us some form of type safety, they don't.

As I see it, with Dart's optionally typed system you get the worst part of two worlds (if you opt to type your variables): having to declare the types of variables, as in a static type system (with no compiler type inference); and having no guarantee about those type declarations at runtime, as in a duck-typing type system.

[1]: http://www.dartlang.org/
I think he has no idea what he's talking about. Being user-friendly doesn't mean abandoning developers or locking up the platform. He's just another "power user" upset because his old tricks are no longer useful.
In the future Microsoft has won their patent war against Google and we don't have driverless cars.
Why should new users have "something to discover"? They want to use the machine, not discover how it works.
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Ops, linear energy transfer is way more complex than I thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_power_%28particle_radi... it turns out that really high energy particles are less dangerous relative to their energy. Still going to kill everyone in a mid sized building vary quickly without a lot of shielding though.
Sometimes it's a good idea. If I had a penny for every time I go to ripe org instead of net... (NSFW warning)
Asking authors to expose email addresses in order to verify content authorship is a spammer's dream.
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How do I reserve my iphone App name for which development hasn't started? I do have a developer account.
You are unlikely to get comments from people who have actually built large scale web applications with all three of those frameworks, so you'll get a lot of opinion and little fact.

As a second point, all three of those frameworks are solid choices to build a web application with. Selecting one purely for scalability reasons smells like premature optimization.

Unless you know you are going to be hitting truly massive scale, all three frameworks can be plugged into a share-nothing-architecture and made to scale horizontally.
> Show me an attack that's happened in the last 10 years.

Off the top of my head, there was that incident at LAX where some guys shot up the El Al ticket counter, another shooting rampage at Fort Hood, and a third at the DC Holocaust Museum. I believe that more can be found if one were to look, I'm just doing this from memory.

Your statement that security in the US is high is absurd. There are so many holes that it's ridiculous. We're protecting certain things, but ignoring others. If somebody wants to create terror in the US, it would be trivial to blow up an airport security line (those places get awfully crowded), pull of a Mumbai-style shooting rampage of hotels or shopping malls, or even blow up or hijack a plane by taking advantage of the many ways into the "sterile" area in airports that don't pass through the TSA.
Rational. I only have a 120GB SSD. At the moment I'm not even able to keep any music on it, it's so filled up with work stuff.
Actually there's still good amount of metadata about a project which github doesn't provide. But http://www.ohloh.net/ captured that part pretty well. Freshmeat was left in the not needed category.
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I was not blaming you at anything as I know most people are not aware of that incident.
I transferred my Go Daddy domains as soon as I heard about it and so I thought you would probably like to do the same, considering the subject of your posting.
You don't need a 1:1 teacher but I recommend starting with a community of sorts, with classes led by a teacher. Find a Buddhist prayer center. Don't worry if you don't believe in God or religious dogma; none of that's important with the communities you're trying to enter. (Buddhism is theologically agnostic, and although the religious believes in past lives, you won't be rejected by Buddhist communities if you don't believe in past lives or reincarnation.)

Once you've gained a sense of what approaches work for you, it's a good idea to get some books and study them. One great thing about zen/meditation books is that you can read them every year and they're still fresh-- there are things in them that you didn't pick up the last time because you weren't ready for them.
The first segment reminds me of the "Sophomore Uses List Context; Cops Interrogate" story.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/03/13/208259/sophomore-uses...

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col38.html
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This isn't Google.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5084900/how-can-i-reserve...
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I was reminded of this story by the first segment of http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172801

/.: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/03/13/208259/sophomore-uses-list-context-cops-interrogate
Agree with m0th87.

Right after my undergrad, I worked in the industry for 5 years and then went to Grad school. Since completing the grad school it has been 10 more years in the industry.

My industry experience has been great so far and I love what I do. I consider my Grad school experience as an enlightening and enjoyable period of my life.

Not everyone has a bad grad school experience. No need to beat down the academic experience. A lot of people gain from it. A career in academia is not the same as being a student.

It seems to me that both are being looked down upon here.
In practice, there are a lot of artificial factors which favor large businesses, and wanting to get rid of those essentially makes one "anti-big-business" even though the desire is simply to level the playing field.
I like those things about Arch, but I would miss apt-get.
Elephants share strong emotional ties with family members. From well documented behavior it is also very likely that they have an understanding of death (and birth) as well.

You can read this report about how a herd tried to protect a baby elephant that had got stuck in the railway track. The other elephants tried to block the train, possibly aware that the would be grievously injured. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/8021988/Seven-elep...

This area has witnessed quite a few elephant deaths over the years, on an average, five elephants are killed every year here. Elephants have been run over by trains when their herds have in the process of crossing the tracks. Usually a single animal is hit. Lone elephants who have lost their mate have also been documented to attack railway engines. This is a behavior that's not been seen prior to these elephant accidents.
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The vast vast majority of people want to click on the Firefox icon and go to Facebook. People have lives that are busy, and the computer is a tool to get a job done. How many people "explore" the engine of their cars? Not many.
Perhaps true, perhaps not. Some people don't want to invest time and energy to save time and energy later. Others do. A good Linux desktop should be able to cater to both types of user.
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This is somehow reminiscent of Sun Tzu's _Art of War_.

My interpretation of the article: it would be more prudent to compete with Apple's weaknesses (developer friendliness) than to compete with their strengths (UI, zero configuration).
I guess that's the form bipartisanship and compromise is taking.
Yes I do. Like most people I do have some moral issues about it but consider it as a necessary evil. I do object to hunting as a sport, especially when endangered species are involved.
Who are "most users" here? I've only seen one or two linux distros in the wild that weren't being used by devs or other power users.
> There are a ton of animations between slides in the screens. This is a waste of time.

If you make them fast enough but still visible they help a lot in showing the context. They can add some metadata which would be worse to explain otherwise.
Of course there are also cases where they are flashy and waste time...

> those very popular mental cheetos activities

It's the first time I see this expression, but I'm afraid I have to steal and use it from now on. I love the comparison.
It was Sun who created Jar Jar.
Respectfully, eat a dick. Just... no. If you know what you're doing with Linux, Ubuntu is the wrong distro for you to start with.
I guarantee you someone would have a fit if they caught an 11 year old cleaning windows.

That's pure, baseless FUD. I did plenty of side work cleaning windows, mirrors, sweeping garages, and various other tasks that the elderly people on my paper route didn't feel comfortable doing. Contrary to the ridiculous rumors I've seen floated on this site's comments, it's not an employer/employee relationship.
You are attempting to use "tu quoque", a rather silly logical fallacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
It's not free. That's why it wasn't supplied to users of earlier iOS devices. The cost of the new device includes Siri service for the lifetime of the handset.
Better hope you kids are cute, or they won't learn they're lesson. ;-)

Another tangential point: I learned much more from manning my family's garage sale than from any other single money-making endeavor. I suppose the modern equivalent is eBay. In fact, come to think of it, what could be better than getting rid of the junk cluttering your house than telling your kid he/she can keep all the profit?
I hope OCaml will deliver on node's promise.
Oh, I'm well aware that technology has pervaded all walks of life - that's kind of my main beef with this video. It seems to wrap itself up entirely in this mythical environmental-engineering company, along with the very wealthy denizens of it, as if that will be the bulk, or even the theme of the world in the future... and in the end come off as rather sterile and soulless.

More interesting than whiz-bang animations of fictitious (and fantastical) office workflows IMO, would be electronic payments for the cab - imagine the woman stepping out of the taxi and seeing the cab cost, along with (something futuristic!) "submitted to expense account" or something. Or, say, traffic overlays on the windshield for the cab driver. Or for the bellhop, something more substantial than how much the guest's bags weigh (really?)

I'm having trouble distilling my thoughts on this - I guess I was expecting to see more problem-solving in a vision of the future rather than a whole lot of whiz-bang animations that look cool but are of dubious use... and solve previous few problems that are compelling.
If you were genuinely concerned, you could always ask them how they made it, and if anything seemed fishy

The number of cases of food poisoning in the US food service industry each year leads me to believe that it's not so easy to detect contaminated food sources.

And yes, you can buy a cup and throw it out, but we're really back to asking what lesson you're teaching. I maintain you're teaching "be cute, get handouts, ignore costs" early with a lemonade stand.
Http://canadaseopro.ca/seo-blog/2011/10/30/315/
Automattic. Two 't's, after the creator, Matt Mullenweg.
Google is way more than just google-search and has been for a long, long time. Those are the google applications I am talking about; all the different ways google gets data from you through allegedly free services. And they track you as best as they can and you cannot change that. You can use them but of course you don't have to. Same with apple. Don't like it, don't use it.

And yea, I get it, you like google search, alright... no ned to repeat it all the time. There are better search engines out there. And other people like their macs, iphones, ipads. You think you are smarter than other people to show them what they like is wrong? Preposterous.

iTunes works just fine and it is free. Apple software overall is generally considered very intuitive and I know a lot of total computer beginners who can use OS X and especially the ipad just fine. This is an absolutely ridiculous statement.

> about how they have been screwing us over

Do you have a single app in the iTunes app store? No? Then what are you complaining about? Or do you see yourself as some sort of vigilante and defender of all those "helpless" devs?

Do you really think devs who built iOS apps need _YOU_ of all people to "help" them understand how the appstore works? Do you really think they are not as smart as you and have nooooo idea what they got themselves into? This is outrageous.

You can develop for droid, win 7 or webos or plain old java programs for pre-smartphone mobiles or chrome apps or just some regular software. The possibilities are almost unlimited. If you don't like how apple conducts business and distributes software through the appstore, just don't develop any iOS apps and don't buy any. You won't miss out...

Again, in your own little black-and-white world you are making up Apple to be some sort of super-evil that is practically mind-controlling you and raping you for your money and freedom when they neither have a monopoly in any of the markets they are in nor are you stuck for choices and alternatives. End of story. You have absolutely no grounds for your ridiculous and completely empty claims. It all comes down to: don't like it then dont use it. That's it.

You are in absolutely NO position to tell any software or hardware company how to do business as long as what they are doing is legal. If you don't like what they are doing, don't buy their products and make your own alternatives or buy shit from their competitors.
Worth staying in Austin?
I started Physics grad school this Fall, but I have recently considered dropping out in order to find a job in industry (I'd like to work at a startup). I know this could look really bad to employers, but I just have no motivation to continue my studies

Recently I've been working on a programming project on my own (a sort of video game), as a way to improve my programming skills, and I've been working on it with alot more motivation than studying for my Physics classes. I'm still fairly new to programming so I can't say I'm committed to programming over Physics yet

Anyways, the semester is almost over and I have to make a decision soon as to whether to move back home (Los Angeles) or stay in Austin to find a job. Ideally, I would like to work as a programmer for a computer software startup. That is because after reading Paul Graham's essays, I think I'm willing to take the risks involved in running my own business or joining someone else's startup.

But my programming skills aren't that great and my statistical analysis software skills aren't either (I've only used SPSS minimally). Also, I have no idea as to what kind of startup I'd like to work for. I'm not interested in Iphone apps, social networking, etc. But analytics seems pretty interesting.

Would I really be missing out on alot of opportunities if I moved back to LA instead of staying here in Austin?
Rural America operates this way. People want to know who your last name is and you can get a lot of social capital as a newcomer by working at the "right" places and being introduced by the stakeholders. No big shock here. I learned very quickly pitching that this was a relationship-based business and if you lack those critical relationships or a network that can fuel what you're trying to do, then there's no point in wasting time if you have access to other things.

In other words, why look for a lottery ticket when there are a bevy of other ways to make money conventionally? I get the arguments lodged here, but it just comes off as whining because the people involved don't give a shit and the people watching on TV will perceive it as whining. The problems go back to education, there is pervasive and systemic bias that gets demonstrated throughout our society for a bevy of reasons. Problem is, the tide has turned and people aren't as sympathetic to these causes when you compare them with state sponsored discrimination. In the absence of that, there's just not a whole lot people can expect other than to look for their wormhorm towards what they want.

Math and science are a good place to start.
I think the point was that it should not be a 4GB download to get a C-compiler.

Your point makes sense if you accept a 4GB download just for a compiler.

There are many Linux distro's that come with a C-compiler which are less than 4GB in total size.
I happen to be re-reading Aldous Huxley's Island now. It's a utopia, and it isn't creepy at all: it's warm, tropical, physical, intentionally low-tech, productivity isn't a priority and technology (where it's accepted) actually serves to increase the time people spend living their lives. And it's very sexual, not "post-sexual".

I don't know how something imagined by a major corporation like Microsoft could ever be seen as a utopia. Yes, the streets are clean, but who the hell wants to live in a Microsoft future. Plastic generic people, a world so standardized that it doesn't matter where you are, human relations reduced to business transactions all under the watchful eye of omnipresent computers... it's classical dystopia, a world gone even worse than the "Blade Runner" world.
Pause Spotify, watch a streaming video. Spotify continues to serve P2P connections even if it's not actively playing music.
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Boy, the iPad sure feels new to _me_. Maybe its various capabilities predate it, but their combination into a package of that fluidity provides capabilities that _I_ didn't have. (Feedler + Instapaper + GoodReader | Kindle ) + Tablet Form Factor == recovery of 10+ hours / week lost to various dead fragments.

Complaining that the iPad is "unethical" is like offering to replace my "unethical" Subaru with an "ethical" Model T. At the foot of the Rockies. In a snowstorm. While grizzly bears close in. I'm gonna worry about the unhackability of my transmission with the sun shining. Yeah, the Model T might be fundamentally the same, but the differences in execution make for entirely different tools.

Now, I would rather deal with the grizzlies than belong to the guys making the Subarus. I don't want to belong to anyone. But the open source stacks and market competition will catch up. Free enterprise and free people won't let Apple keep those margins and powers for itself. I don't see why I shouldn't leave the grizzlies behind today, while starting work on building my FOSS Four Wheeler. Why not use the closed capabilities today while extending open to meet them tomorrow?

I do respect RMS, and I'm grateful for and dependent on free software. But the RMS posting lacked generosity. He and his would be much better off recognizing the enormous utility gains provided by a great many closed systems. I find it hard to imagine that Jobs' focus on the user's needs and perspective isn't a crucial contribution to the development of technology. It wouldn't kill people to recognize that some of this stuff has shown the way to new visions. And it wouldn't kill RMS to notice that Jobs had a passion and vision for technology as _human_ tools.

So if RMS is showing us the moon, he should probably notice that Jobs et al have put a couple of satellites into orbit.
For me I think it was watching too many episodes of That 70s show. He was too good at being Kelso.
Why do you prefer it to git or hg for this use case?
That may be true, but isn't that what Ubuntu is trying to change?

Sure, as a dev/power user I might be annoyed with some of the changes they make here and there, but as a linux supporter, I'd be much more annoyed if they weren't actively trying to expand to a broader audience. Regardless of how they're going about it, I'm just glad they're actually doing something in that area.
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The OP article is as good exposition of Buddhist thought and practice as you will find.
Shunryu Suzuki mentioned in it was an exponent of the Soto school of Zen which emphasizes 'just sitting'. Just that, sit with straight back. Look up 'seiza' for more information if you wish, but no need to get too technical. Also, I believe there are online meditation support groups if none are available near you.
Unbelievable. Why couldn't the school contact the student first before going to the police?
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I assume he was referring to the poachers.
Must have been a policy change, it used to be IE only..

http://garry.posterous.com/matt-mullenweg-and-toni-schnei
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Exactly. If they get close to apple quality, they easily win on price.
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The way I understood it is that if I have a section of Javascript that takes, say, 1/2 a second to run, and does not yield control back to the event loop, by definition blocks the event loop from firing.

In a preemptive multithreaded environment it's different, but here you have one single thread and - at least to my understanding - any code that takes time to process blocks the event loop from being able to respond to incoming requests.

Unless I'm missing something and node can (say) preempt your process at certain defined conditions. ("Call a function? Ok, let's check the event loop first and come right back"). I didn't see that anywhere (but I also didn't want to dig into libenv.

I understand that IO is expensive, but so is performing string interpolation on a string in memory 50 times (for whatever reason).
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There is no question that there will be any genuine consumer confusion in this case. Apple are trying to extend the trademark beyond the bounds of propriety.

However, the limited contact I've had with German trademark law suggests that Apple may win in their efforts to ruin this small delightfully styled business. German trademark law appears to be extremely broken.
Epiphany (web browser bundled with the Gnome desktop environment) has supported a reduced version of this functionality for a number of years now. It's fairly easy to implement with the dnotify functionality of the Linux kernel.
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The Carl Fischer from his talk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_G._Fisher
"Some people don't want to invest time and energy to save time and energy later."

I believe the phrasing you were looking for is "the vast majority".

Apple concentrates on providing a good experience for that vast majority. Everyone else can use OS X's CLI or tools like Automator, AppleScript, Xcode, Dashcode and MacRuby (all for free, albeit not all of it is 'free software').
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"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html