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First, speeding is not a crime. Not everyone violation of law is considered crime, and not all violators are considered criminals.

Second, I think most American drivers are reckless. Common driving behavior is not a good standard.

Third, ticketing for speeding may not be ideal, but the things that are really dangerous are much harder to ticket. How do you enforce a law on safe following distance? How do you publish the standard? How do people know if they're following it or not? How do you prove they were violating it?

How do you enforce a law on distracted driving? It is much harder to catch someone (provably) driving while texting than it is to catch them speeding. How do you set the standard? How long is too long to look at your phone?

How do you enforce a law on emotionally unstable driving? Driving while enraged can be as dangerous or more dangerous than driving drunk, but there's no breath test for rage.

How do you enforce a law of passing without checking your mirrors and blind spot? Or on cutting off other drivers?

The author doesn't like speeding tickets. Fine. What's his solution?

I have a solution, but most Americans don't like it. Require an expensive and hard to obtain license for driving (akin to a pilot's license, since cars are statistically more dangerous than planes anyway), and drastically increase public transportation to accommodate the increase in non-drivers. An average level of patience, skill and focus is simply insufficient to safely operate a car. Those unwilling to be unusually patient, well-trained and focused shouldn't be allowed on the roads.
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And your wrong assumption is a) that a problem has to be bug free to be useful or b) that a new effort can't produce a relatively bug free codebase?

How are either of those requirements wrong? I certainly expect my programs to be bug free. LaTeX is a tool that's older than many GNU utilities. It's been reviewed and tested numerous times over by the harshest test suite of all: the real world.

Yes, in theory, you could rewrite TeX to be cleaner, while maintaining backwards compatibility and lack of bugs and regressions. In practice, this is very very hard. It's so hard that no one, no individual or company has managed to pull it off.

But hey, who knows? You could be the first. The LaTeX codebase is open-source. If you think you can pull off what the most talented software engineers in the world haven't been able to do, go right ahead.
Teambox looks really nice! And it certainly is a "real application". Thanks!
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This was the OOP course project in my UG. Spent an entire semester on it. http://www.cse.ust.hk/~dekai/151H/
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i used scala for a few months. it sounded very promising, java without the verbosity. but in the end i decided to stop using it.

The biggest problem for me was readabilty. Scala is the first language that i've learned where at first i couldn't just read code and immediately guess what it does.

I think the prime reason for this is that scala permits operator overloading; more than that, in fact, almost every character can be an identifier. This results in often very cryptic code and libraries, because you can't guess what that function does without reading its definition. quick, what's the difference between +++ and ::: ? what's /: and /:\ ? You can't even google it!

The other big problem for me was the type system. At first it sounded really great, and in fact the amount of compile-time code verification that you can achieve is indeed impressive. But in practice, i found myself fighting with the type system a lot, for example when trying to reuse a function with generic type restrictions that I had't written: some time these can get very long and your only choice is to copy-paste them from the original definition.

Also, how do you test that your type constraints are correct? you can't, by definition, write compilable code that would invalidate them.

Finally, it turns out that a lot of the bad stuff that's in java ends up in scala also, because of runtime compatibility concerns. in particular, scala's generics are an extension of java's. so, for example, almost all generic type information is lost at runtime, except for some extra metadata that scala stores in the object. this results in pretty ugly code when you have a dynamic object and you need to use it with a generic method.
That's effectively what LaTeX Lab does. http://docs.latexlab.org
> As an employee of a big consulting firm, I'll second that. How and who you present your ideas to is much more important than the ideas themselves.

My wife actually works in procurement for a pretty big European oil company, and she had the "chance" to attend a couple of pitch presentations made by BCG, McKinsey and a few others for a "green energy" thingie. You're right, after all was said and done the company CEO was positively more impressed by the guys who looked and acted better during the presentations, and not necessarily by those who had the better ideas but had presented them more nervously. Also, having the looks (no matter if you're man or female) and height helps a lot.
I think we're going to see this as a more common problem as we move into the future of non-desktop computing systems and the want for older tools on them. Unfortunately, what LaTex has done is use much of the core unix philosophy which I generally agree with (using small programs that you can pipe text in and out of to make a larger program). When you find that you can't port 20 sub-apps due to each of them being written in various language, etc you'll hit problems.
I think the difference here is between interpreting scripts that come with the binary, and downloading new scripts from the internet (or other untrusted locations). The latter is prohibited.

To get around it, you'd have to make it In App Purchases, because these also come from a the App Store.
I think you are predicating your bet on Harvard relying on the SAT as a principle acceptance criterion -- which I've read several times only makes up about 30% of the acceptance scoring criteria.

Top schools often put as much more weight on extra-curriculars and other social conformance factors when selecting students, this is important in "certifying" graduates with that school's brand name.

i.e. "We certify that this student will do any possible nonsense imaginable to jockey their way into a noticeable and expected position."

For example, kids who've spent their High School in the Key Club, Model U.N., running for an student office position and had a spot in at least one sports team (benched or not), plus volunteered once a week at a retirement home and highway trash pickup once a month are more likely to get in then on raw GPA or SAT scores.

For some social segments, like East Asian students or Ashkenazi Jews, who've focused almost exclusively on GPA and SAT (I'm generalizing quite a bit I know), they're finding that top schools will exclude them in favor of a High School football team captains/student body president with lower scores. Tiger moms are finding that they are having to turn into soccer moms to get their kids into Harvard.

To the firms that make a point of selecting graduates from these schools, this kind of acceptance criteria ensures that they'll be able to get as much grindwork as possible out of recent grads when they hire them. They know that they can squeeze 80-100 hours a week out of these folks, churning out endless slide decks and grinding numbers on spreadsheets without actually having to put any sort of intelligence to work.

Or to put it another way. If the SAT were really all that important, and considering the SAT's positive correlation with IQ (I think it's around .8), wouldn't the schools just accept an IQ test instead?

(note: you are correct in not calling the measure of IQ "smartness", it reflects capacity not the current state of intelligence)
Apple wants to restrict the platform options available to preserve their user lock-in. They were sort of forced to make an exception for games because they had no alternative to offer.
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>> and am not convinced modern programs should be written in lisp any more (though that's hazy).

Can you elaborate or recommend me some reading that support this point?
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"A camera however isn't aimed at being used by children"

Many cameras are aimed at children.

http://www.target.com/p/Fishe-Price-See-Yourself-Camera-Purp...

http://www.target.com/p/Vtech-Kidizoom-Camera-Pink/-/A-13357...

etc.
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I completely agree.

I understand that tablets are a wonderfully portable device but you can't expect to get 100% desktop functionality. Sometimes you have to find the limit of your software/hardware.

I don't own an iPad, but is there git or the like? If so syncing and keeping track of changes would be simple.
I am sure many papers have been written in LaTeX on machines slower than the iPad, and on laptops with less capable batteries. I don't see a reason why this would be unreasonable to do on the client (except for reasons mentioned in the article, of course).
Has Apple started allowing non-trivial Turing complete languages into the App store now? Unless I'm mistaken LaTeX would be rejected out of hand no matter how much you clean it up because it is an interpreter.
Of course, those laws were actually first imposed by the US military after WWII:

The Information Control Division of the U.S. Army had by July 1946 taken control of 37 German newspapers, 6 radio stations, 314 theaters, 642 cinemas, 101 magazines, 237 book publishers, and 7,384 book dealers and printers. Its main mission was democratization but the agenda also included the prohibition on any criticism of the Allied occupation forces. In addition, on May 13, 1946 the Allied Control council issued a directive for the confiscation of all media that could contribute to Nazism or militarism. As a consequence a list was drawn up of over 30,000 book titles, ranging from school textbooks to poetry, which were now banned. All copies of books on the list were confiscated and destroyed; the possession of a book on the list was made a punishable offense. All the millions of copies of these books were to be confiscated and destroyed. The representative of the Military Directorate admitted that the order was in principle no different from the Nazi book burnings.

The censorship in the U.S. zone was regulated by the occupation directive JCS 1067 (valid until July 1947) and in the May 1946 order valid for all zones (rescinded in 1950), Allied Control Authority Order No. 4, "No. 4 - Confiscation of Literature and Material of a Nazi and Militarist Nature". All confiscated literature was reduced to pulp instead of burning. It was also directed by Directive No. 30, "Liquidation of German Military and Nazi Memorials and Museums." An exception was made for tombstones "erected at the places where members of regular formations died on the field of battle."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Federal_Repu...
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Does anyone know of a good hosted alternative to Postfix Admin (http://postfixadmin.sourceforge.net/)?

We pretty much only use the aliases support to specify email aliases for lots of client domains.

I've looked at Dyn's Email Fowarding (http://dyn.com/email/dyn-email-forward/), but I'm not convinced since their site is so vague on how exactly it works and on what the basis for the pricing is (per domain or what).
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Haskell has no subtyping as far as I know Haskell.
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I'm in the same boat; different circumstances but I've only got one functioning eye and the other one isn't fantastic. (-14 contact lens.)

I often wonder if there isn't more I could be doing -- hanging out near research hospitals that have good retina teams, following research, anything -- to keep abreast of new developments or maybe even get in on some trials for new procedures.
> any benefits from 3D movies

Ha, there are some benefits?

For me, it is the latest snake powder intended to boost sells in movie and high-end electronic devices industry. I tried just once but, as far as I can tell, it has no benefit, except being able to say I have seen a part of a 3D movie.

I hear someone saying "improved immersion".

Well, immersion is not a function of some "more realistic" rendering. I never played Minecraft but apparently many people get deeply immersed in this low-fi world. I personally get easily immersed in any B&W Hitchcock movie. Our ancestors got so immersed at theater that the actor playing the bad guy had to be protected after the play. In Chinese opera, the full "ride a horse" movement is a very slight move of the right leg, and if done well all the spectators will stand up and shout 好！好！

So no, immersion is not improved with 3D, it is improved with good actors and story.
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This rewrite has already been done. See http://www.texmacs.org/
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My arms lit up with flames, that's how bad my RSI got. The ergonomic keyboard helped, but only psychologically: I got attention for my problem.

So I moved on with my life. Gave up, did no longer insist on my genius. My problems are gone ever since. RSI isn't in the movement, it is the stress that motivates them.

I'm still a genius, but a much more deliberate and respected one.

So get a life? Accept that society is wrong about just about everything. But it exists nevertheless. It is an exploit of your human nature: you were born as its loyal child.

You thought you could win society, but you can't fight, and win, something that does not care about you. Society disposes of you.

So meet the rest of us that didn't have the chance you have to begin with. We have common sense but we are denied and oppressed by folks like you, that try to escape our fate, get your glory, by bringing that fate upon us.

From our point of view, you are really stupid, to the sad point of being a criminal. But hey don't worry, God doesn't exist, now does he?

Of course you may have missed the point, that society promises to make you a God, but only if you accept it as God and abandon our humanity. This choice is what you are trying to avoid, thus pushing yourself into RSI.

Recognise the dragon. The flames are your own. You can type that on any keyboard you want.
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TeX wasn't born in a night and suddenly appear in binary form. Knuth worked a hell lot to make it clean, make it work and make it fast. At least, for when he wrote it. Go and read The TeXbook
I was deliberately excluding the constructor situation. I should have made that clearer in my previous comment. I think the way out of the constructor mess is not to require them at all.

I do think the Object.getPrototypeOf approach is feasible for methods.
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It's a loophole in the consumer protection system. Basically you can return any item for any reason in the first 30 days, including failure, and the store can't refuse it (some exceptions apply). If you're dealing with the manufacturer your purchase can be out for repair for weeks if not months. So from a customer view it makes sense to return it to the store.
That's similar to drug possession laws. Recently more than 50% of people in a Gallup survey said they support the end of marijuana prohibition, however it's so easy to get away with in most places that there isn't a big enough outcry to overturn the law.
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TeXTouch offers somewhat close to this.
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Bullshit. You just followed somebody else's public explanation. Not a problem per se, but this doesn't strike me as beginner friendly ... Dr. Brian Beckman also has a great description of monads on Channel9 that doesn't involve category theory. Does that mean that monad comprehensions are also beginner friendly?

if you map a collection over a function
that returns a list of integers, but you
actually wanted a set of strings

Here's some Ruby code for you:

[1,2,3].map{|x| x * 2}.map{|x| x.to_s}.to_set

Ironically I find this code written in a dynamic language to be much more readable. Also, give me first-class functions and recursion in a dynamic language and I can implement all of the above by my own (lists, sets and map).
The author is forgetting the massive size of the search engine market. If Duck Duck Go can get even 0.5% of the market, that's millions of users.

Essentially the same story as why Opera is still very much in business.
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I digress. I write in my iPad, mostly for my blog or free-form, with a bluetooth keyboard. Not perfect for TeX, but using iSSH against the cloud works quite well.
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Like I said, I'm hazy on that point, and don't want to say anything further in public right now.
This is nothing more than an unsourced fanboy response to a poorly created article.

This guy seems to be endlessly harping on Android market share as if having the most users will trick Android developers into forgetting that a much smaller slice of a soon-to-be-larger pie actually is willing to pay for your apps...

I get his argument that a more fair comparison would include Google Ad revenue / iAd revenue, instead of just app sales.

But the only party stopping that comparison here is really Google. They're super tight lipped about the performance of their app store.

And it doesn't take a wild guess to wonder why.
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I wholeheartedly support the idea of increasing the standards for driving skill, training and ability. I've heard in Norway/Sweden that you have to spend a large amount of time and money training specifically for night driving, snow driving, standard driving, etc.

I know in most European countries getting a motorcycle license is far more difficult, expensive and restricting than in the US. Consequently, I bet they are more skilled drivers.

I've been in the car with so many people in the US that say they know how to (and are licensed to) drive, but yet clearly don't know how to drive. They are unaware of the most basic mechanics of how the car actually moves. The terms oversteer and understeer are completely foreign to them. They probably don't even know if their vehicle is front or rear wheel drive. And of course most couldn't parallel park if the street was empty.

Yet with the way we've architected America (huge and sprawling), everyone feels entitled and required to have a car. I moved to Ohio about a year ago, and apparently there's laws here that allow even 13 and 14 year olds to drive if no one else in the family can. I'm guessing in most countries the response wouldn't be to give a kid a license, but to say, "move to a city" or "here's some public transit". On the flip side, there are clearly many elderly that shouldn't be driving. Driving should be something you have to test for every few years, and that you're expected to always get better results on the test.
My pet peeve. Considering "Freedom of speech" the most valuable freedom of all, because a particular piece of paper created a culture/country that is based on that idea.

Thing is - people here tend to disagree. Yes, you cannot say whatever you want. No, you're not easily allowed to have a gun at home. But look - that's a freedom that is debatable in itself and even if we'd discuss it for hours over a couple of beers: We'd probably end up having to agree to disagree on the merits of both approaches. Or philosophies. Or ideologies.

Look, I don't particularly like Germany. I think patriotism is as good an idea as being a fanatic football follower, regardless of your home country. Someone put it better than me here: [1]. There's a lot wrong in DE as well, but if someone from the US calls the US a police state and you're invoking that difference in belief and laws as kind of an example how bad it is over in DE, then I think you're lacking perspective.

1: http://www.futilitycloset.com/2011/09/22/one-world/
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I'd love to meet up with some of you folks and talk about the business of software.

If enough people are interested, we can plan something for early next month.

You can email me.
There's also a documentary made a few years ago about Turing and 4 other brilliant people.

It's free on Google Video and called "Dangerous Knowledge". It's short but super interesting and thought-provoking.

Check it out if you're interested http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5122859998068380459
It's not only the content. I'm sure a large proportion of Google's engineers wouldn't be happy with their jobs if they became beholden to Hollywood.
If you've been in the industry long enough (in my case, since 1975) you realized a long time ago that Esther Dyson doesn't have even the vaguest of clues when it comes to the computer industry. The smart bet is to do the exact opposite of whatever she predicts.
Unless there are some very recent experimental extensions that I have not heard about, Scala does not have support for linear or substructural typing.

I suspect you are thinking of structural subtyping, which is a completely different concept.
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Actually the cameras are much better. If nothing else, it removes the need for about 80% of the police force in most places.
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