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I hope somewhere in the future there will be a point where we can have discussions about things like this without having some people think they can just state "Perl is dead," "Python is the new Perl" or "Ruby is just better." It's fine if that's your opinion, more power to you. But that simply doesn't make it a fact.

The question of the value of technology is a very complicated one. And we'll never be able to work out the good and bad points of the specific dynamic languages, to cooperate and learn from each other, if all discussion gets reduced to trying to make the others look worse. A witty saying never proved anything. At least nothing valuable.

To me, in most cases the witty statements regarding languages (be it Perl 5/6, PHP, Java, or anything else) don't demonstrate insight or experience, but merely a lack of respect for other people's opinions. After all, "they" must recognize that every large enough PHP program is unmaintainable garbage, since "you" were able to recognize that. If they don't, they lack experience. If you can't even imagine that the other party might have a point, you're not trying to have a constructive discussion, but instead are in some kind of a fight for the prize of being right. The problem is, there is no prize. There is no right. Within this game, no-one wins.

To sum up: Less emotion, less absolutism, more technology.
wow this guy has really lost it. The worse part is that he has fans that cheer him on.
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I'm more concerned about does the cost of the punishment fit the crime. Using your formula if the original media costs $1 and only 1:20000 people are caught it makes the case that a $20,000 fine is perfectly reasonable. This I disagree with.
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They were acquired over a year ago. :)
The proper response here is for artists to stop producing until society decides art is worth paying for. Begging like a homeless person is not a business model.
I think that you are vastly overestimating Ruby's popularity outside of the HN crowd.
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To fix it we would have to invent a device that can scan something the plumber has done and then recreate it on demand.

It's called China, and that's why prices for units of work in most industries have been falling, in real terms, for the last 30 years.

An author's unit of work is the same unit of work as a plumber's; the difference is that, in the author's case, the client is not the real client: the work is commissioned by a reseller (the editor), and the reseller wants to enjoy all the advantages of cultural work (low costs, infinite duplication) without any of the downsides. Whenever they find a downside, they force a law to remove it artificially.
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I don't think you've got the point- an enterprise can dictate to it's users to use a capable modern browser, but they won't. Mostly because they have other legacy software which requires an old version of IE.

Or because they're lazy, but they don't like being confronted with the product of their laziness, so if you tell them to upgrade their browsers then they will go to a different company that'll use something like Flex.
Don't miss the link near the top to the repo of speaker slides. I really hope videos are made available.
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Outside of the start-up world Perl is still heavily used and Ruby is probably not quite as popular as you believe.
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Substitute COBOL for Perl in your post and read it again. Do you still agree?
Enough. Radiation badges are used routinely in hospitals. I assume that there are far more health care workers that handle radiation than there are TSA agents working backscatter machines (but perhaps it is a mistake to underestimate the extent of the TSA waste).
The plan is to release the videos as they are produced by ConFreaks.net. I suspect they will be on blip.tv. I'm unaware of a definite release schedule.
There is no universal database of copyright information. The major copyright holders (major record labels, studios, etc.) are ridiculously complex to deal with already. Throw in minor publishers, and independent copyright holders, and what you describe isn't just difficult, it's impossible.
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That's unfortunate. The last time I made a pet web application in Scala it was using the Lift framework. The greatest pain points by far came from integrating with all the Java infrastructure, including Jetty. I hope someday someone figures out a good abstraction layer for some of these Java services to simplify their use, but as I'm unfamiliar with the needs of those who are actually deploying web servers, I don't even know if this is possible or feasible.
Am I the only one who read this as "Vanessa Would Like You To Enjoy Video Massaging"?
We have a difficult time saying NO.

Right now, Adobe has not even submitted a proposal to the incubator -- just blog posts about how they intend to submit it.

I eagerly await their submission of a Flex proposal. Part of the proposal, and critical for Flex, is proving this isn't just a code dump. If it is a code dump, I will vote -1, and I hope everyone else does too.
I don't buy this line of argument at all. Some people are just inclined to stay between a rock and a hard place. They like it there.

Why does your organization need IE6? I'm guessing because you've got old apps that were pushing the browser envelope by dipping their toes into MS or other vendor-locked APIs. Fix that, and move on. If you're a decision-maker, just do it. If not, you can't really complain about your fate as a modern, paycheck-collecting Sisyphus.
Aren't the multiple files still on the server side? Why can't the server side just zip them?
I've put about 2-4 hours a week into the ML class. However, I know that math (basic linear algebra and calculus so far) and have done scientific computing before so I can churn the exercises out pretty quick. The exercises are the best part. It's nice having a set of problems to work on instead of just watching an hours worth of videos each week.
She actually did disclose it to the OP. So I don't see the problem. He just doesn't like the idea of people with Hep B having sex, I suspect. But as per the facts we have, it sounds to me like she's doing the right thing.
I'm super excited about this, thanks so much for taking the time, it's appreciated by those who missed the opportunity to get a CS degree.
Not to mention that the best torrent sites tend not to advertise at all, and are able to stay afloat solely on user donations. This could be a key point on this whole issue. If regular people are able to organize to create, share, and distribute content between each other more efficiently and, most of all, cheaper than corporations can do it, is this really a viable business strategy anymore?

EDIT: I don't think it will be very long (less than 15 years) before the content industries are dwindling, and regular people band together to replace it. It's already happening at a small scale.
Ask HN: Which MVC JS Framework is Best?
About to start a new heavy client-side interaction project, and I want to start it with the right structure so I can move fast and easily maintain it.

I've been looking at the following libraries :

Spine.js : http://spinejs.com

Backbone.js : http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone

Knockout.js : http://knockoutjs.com

Batman.js : http://batmanjs.org

So far, I'm leaning towards Batman, though I've used Backbone in the past and enjoyed it.

Has anyone worked with these? What are your thoughts? Why do you like one over the other?

Thanks!
Yes. I don't follow COBOL and can't judge it. If there is a modern COBOL, I certainly won't judge it by the COBOL that existed in the 90s.

To throw the question back: Do you think Lisp is useless because it's old, or do you think the Lisp of the 80s doesn't have that much to do with the Lisp of 2011, even if the syntax didn't change that much?
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Nice. You're so sensitive about perl you've actually preemptively trolled your own thread.
Down-vote? By who? Flex fanboys??? It's not like my response is like flame-bait of anything.
> At the time it was a good choice. It isn't now.

Isn't a good choice for _what_?
Would that be more or less compelling than the actual title? ;)
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I got some use from the slides by reading the speaker notes.
This doesn't seem to crash in IE10, but I can't right-click on the page to view source, so perhaps the child process is frozen or otherwise isolated from causing harm.
I agree with a lot of what you say, but it's worth thinking about whether or not there are many enterprise applications that really need a UI that is richer than can be provided with basic HTML.

I make web apps for my large company and IE6 is a target platform. My apps have to work even with JavaScript disabled. This means that there are some fairly severe limitations on what I can and cannot do.

However, it turns out that this is probably a good thing (apart from IE's horrible CSS support) because it turns out that users struggle to use applications with complicated interfaces. So I wonder if it's really such a big problem to "dumb down".the UI for enterprise apps...
I dinked around with Play a while ago and was impressed all around. However, am I the only one who thinks it would benefit immensely from a better name?
"Play" just makes it sound so... unrobust. It needs a name that conveys that it's industrial-strength. How about Chupacabra or Lugwrench or Nailgun or ...
Signs of what exactly? That people like to argue about languages? Or are you saying that choice of language / stack should be dictated by popular trends?
I think Lisp is still mostly the same as it was in the 80's and even before. But Lisp was always incredibly powerful and still has ideas that haven't reach mainstream yet. Unlike Lisp and COBOL, Lisp still has a few more things to teach us.
You automate an amnesty into the system for certain types of vehicles (emergency services, military, diplomatic) but instead put a protection on publicly owned computers, libraries, schools and charities (which, IMO, should not have to pay for copyrighted works anyway and it is already too much effort to enforce).

Simple workaround: set up an automated, anonymous service that pays all college students to run Tor endpoints in their dorms and libraries. Or, set up a charity that provides free Internet access to the poor, and use its spare bandwidth.

Create an independent arbiter to handle false-positives and exceptional circumstances without any direct connection to financial interests (a government, funded by the fines or industry funded).

You're talking about creating a huge bureaucracy with this system. That's not the kind of make-work job creation we need. Besides, we already have independent arbiters in the courts.

Having an efficient system is better than having an inefficient system.

Having an efficient system with false positives is far worse than an inefficient system with false negatives. I'm opposed to speed cameras for the same reason I'm opposed to automated punishment or automated surveillance of any kind: enforcement of laws should be person vs. person, as a matter of principle. Without the direct human connection, it is too easy for those with the power of enforcement to go significantly overboard.
Think of it like this: maybe 10 years ago you thought "hey, why are we writing software for Windows when we could be writing it for Mac / Linux where it's so much nicer and easier?" And then you remember that most everyone else uses Windows and you know that if you want to make an impact, you have to use those platforms, until the balance slowly shifts.

The same goes for medical research: if you want others to be able to use and build on your result, it needs to be comparable and reproducible. That is, others have to be able to run your methods (read: software) on their animal models (read: OS).

So when he says:

Perhaps the researchers have come to resemble their favored species: So complacent and sedentary in their methods, so well-fed on government grants, that any flaws in the model have gone unnoticed, sliding by like wonky widgets on a conveyor belt.

It's kind of grating. It's not just "easier" and "cheaper" -- it's fundamentally more useful to other scientists and that's worth acknowledging.
Oh, is there a button in Photoshop that helps you "draw inspiration"? Or can that happen without Photoshop or any design tool whatsoever?

It is the exact same thing.
FYI: anyone wanting to use Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer with a "naked" domain (zone apex, no subdomain) like I do with bumb.ly is pretty much forced to use Route 53 for their DNS, which offers unique "A Alias" records tied to the ELB address (since you can't use CNAMEs for the zone apex).

This release of a management console for Route 53 has been a LONG time coming.
“RIAA members are excited about the potential of the internet and other communication technologies to provide an efficient means of distribution to music lovers globally. Regrettably, this potential remains largely unrealized—mired in a morass of piracy,” the letter addressed to the USTR reads.

Wow, these guys are lying through their teeth. You can now legally listen to music using an ever-increasing number of services services like iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, and Amazon. The large majority of the people I know use these services, along with CDs and FM radio, to listen to music. Only my most technically adept friends care to pirate music.
Are there any good SaaS apps for inventory/stock management?
I don't need anything fancy, like barcode readers or anything like that just yet.

All I want to be able to do is keep track of the stock I get from my vendors and the necessary info - quantity, price, etc.

The same for sales, I want to see what each customer orders, and be able to generate a nice invoice. I should also be able to plot these things over time...to see how my prices fluctuate along with my costs.

I would also like to be able to see my margins on cost of goods, etc. - and be able to change them easily.

Anybody know of something like this?
Never got the love for Helvetica, but that's some nice design and colors.
Using Heroku, for example, you don't get any local file storage space and there are temp file limits.
If we catch 1% of parking meter cheaters, they should pay at least a hundred times their overrun

That's almost true, but you haven't accounted for marginal utility.
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No, saying somebody can use Photoshop is not like saying they're a Ruby whiz.

Here's how you can tell:

"Oh, Bob! He's an Eclipse wiz!"

How much does that actually tell you about Bob's programming skill?
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See also http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2011/11/11/eduasyn... for COMEFROM in C#
Big Macs barely qualify as food and are not a staple, or even remotely desirable to have your people eating.

Fast food and restaurant food is relatively expensive in Austria. Good, healthy, whole food ingredients are subsidized.
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Chrome (last time I checked) will crash if the data URL is over 2MB. Luckily there are the Blob and BlobBuilder APIs now. Using Stuart's code as a starting point I've successfully built >700MB zip files on flixtractr.com. The main downside is that when you request the blob URL not all browser/platform combinations give it an extension that matches the mime-type, so you have to tell your users they may need to rename the file.

The platform is getting there. Slowly.
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Fantastic. I already have at least 3 use cases in mind!

I'm interested to look into ways of feature-detection for this that could cause the zip to be generated client-side for supporting browsers and server-side for older..
I am just starting to learn Web Design and these are good for me too.
If that's your opinion then I hope you're happy with it. I can only tell you that I, my colleagues and many others find great use in Perl, find that it is also very powerful, and continue to further the community, the ecosystem and the core language in anyway we can or enjoy. It solves our problems and it solves them better and better each year.

As I said above, it's about the value of the technology for you, your project and your team. I can't judge what's of value to you, or why something is of value to you. But you can't judge either why or what is valuable to me. We have reasons to use Perl that aren't pure stubbornness.

Edit: Forgot about the Lisp part. I actually believe that in the world of Lisp/Scheme there were many things that changed for the better, and it was driven by developments such as Arc, Clojure, Racket, Guile and so on. There are people that think every Lisp is unmaintainable, slow, outdated, has no libraries, has no community, has an unsupporting community, and so on. And my point is that the answer is always more complicated than just "they are right" or "they are wrong."
Anyone else notice the air bubble coming out of the iPhone speaker hole at ~ 1:38 in the second video?

A neat demo, but I suspect that phone is no longer working.
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Box announced it is putting money into developers that build on it's APIs in their launch of the /bin program (Box Innovation Network)
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"mobile phones: it took years after the introduction of mobile phones"

Mobile phones (and before that "car phones") solved a problem that benefited practically everyone. It was a matter of price dropping not a matter of benefit.

There are people that care about this issue but not enough to ever hit a tipping point.
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I don't give a crap if Flash dies, but why lie? Seriously. Just say, Flash is a piece of shit and we don't want it. At least, you could structure an argument around that.

Thoughts on Flash does hit a few worthy points, but many of them are flawed. Others have outlined them in previous mentions of this post, but I'll summarize a few of them again:

- They play perfectly in browsers like Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome - left out a few other relevant browsers here.

- For example, many Flash websites rely on “rollovers” ... why not use modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript - pretty sure many JS menus rely on rollover states. There are other examples beyond menus, of course.

- New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices - except where you don't allow developers to select/take photos or files from the user's device (most useful apps have this functionality), giving the developer no choice but to develop a native app. I think a full implementation of HTML5 would include <input type="file">, call me crazy.

- By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system. - except when you can develop your own IDE, compile and package Flash code without any intervention from Adobe.

The anti-Flash mob like to bring YouTube into the conversation, as if YouTube is also anti-Flash. Make no mistake, without Flash, YouTube would not exist. Remember that YouTube was founded on the principal that one could record from webcam (not available on any browser currently) and upload it for others to view. How is this being done on a mobile device natively within the browser?

Down vote = willfully blind.
Oh yeah, if they ever shut down vkontakte.ru (aka "Russia’s Facebook") that's will be amazing and funny, can't wait for this great even which will throw so much rage and butthurt over there.
Am I secure? At the strategic level, this is among the most important questions to be answered by each of us.

A tactical guide to reach confidence in processes to which we entrust our businesses can certainly help people to improve their security posture.

I like the idea. Thanks.
The reason I asked is because I've had knowingly had unprotected sex with a Heb B positive person. I had had a successful vaccination (meaning the antibodies were detectable in my blood) and consequently never got infected from him.

He disclosed this to me before we had sex. I told him "no big deal" because I had the antibodies. So just because the girl is having unprotected sex and hep B positive doesn't mean she's irresponsible, as long as her partners have had a successful vaccination.

(It is important to verify that your vaccination "took" however, before having sex with a hep B pos person.)
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Is there a cost? Of course. But arguably it's in the noise on these chips. Knights Ferry and Corner are using a scalar x86 core derived from the P54C. How many transistors was that? About 3.3 million. By contrast, Nvidia's 16-core Fermi is a 3 billion transistor design. (No, Fermi doesn't have 512 cores, that's a marketing number based on declaring that a SIMD lane is a "cuda core", if we do the same trick with MIC we start doing 50+ cores * 16 wide and claiming 800 cores).

How can we resolve this dissonance? Easy -- ignoring the fixed function and graphics only parts of Fermi, most of the transistors are going to be in the caches, the floating point units and the interconnect. These are places MIC will also spend billions of transistors but they're not carrying legacy dead weight from x86 history -- the FPU is 16 wide by definition must have a new ISA. The cost of the scalar cores will not be remotely dominant.

I'm not sure why you are concerned about the pin count on the processor, except perhaps if you are complaining about changing socket designs which is a different argument. The i7 2600 would fit in a LGA 1155 (i.e. 1155 pins) whereas Fermi was using a 1981 pin design on the compute SKUs. The sandy bridge CPU design is a fine one. The GPU is rapidly improving (e.g. ivy bridge should be significantly better, and will be a 1.4 billion transistor design in the same 22nm as Knights Corner).
I downvoted you, even though I hate Flex.

Your first argument is not true. There are things that you can build on top of Flash that you cannot do with HTML5. That list may be shrinking, but this has more to do with Adobe's laziness, rather than the awesome powers of the HTML5 standard that took years to reach a reasonable consensus and even now browsers are struggling to support all of it, with the biggest offender being still IExplorer (surprise).

Your second argument ignores the policy of real-life enterprises. These environments suck, but they are a real problem for developers that want to sell software to them.

Your third argument also ignores why many people like Flex.

Also, this very complaint about being downvoted by Flex fanboys ignores the possibility that you might be wrong in any assertions you've made.
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As a consultant/freelancer, the relationship is often very different then employer-to-employee. If you're billing hourly then long hours directly relate to large invoices. You're in the driver's seat for how much you want to work.

You can get a lot of the great benefits of startup work (cool people, small teams, fast pace) and avoid a lot of the pitfalls (low salary, worthless equity, guilt trips).
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Does anyone know when Tim Roughgarden's class will be available? Data structures and algorithms?
To be clear - I work for a software company that sells to enterprise (government) customers. So we can't fix their IE6 problem. We have one product that requires IE7 and have had some major push back with that in some places (for example, the entire Scottish NHS is IE6 and say they will remain so for a couple of years)