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It's been a long time since I touched Scala — and I never used it for web stuff at the time anyway — but is this really typical?

It's mostly an absurd comparison (equivalent to Fibonacci or something), and a tangent besides, but in Clojure:

(slurp "http://somesite.com/some/url")

That gives me the response as a string. If I want a binary stream:

(clojure.java.io/input-stream "http://somesite.com/some/url")

The same functions work for URLs, URIs, Files, and strings that describe them.
> Setting location reminders requires that the address be in your Contacts for someone. So forget just adding reminders for when you need to go to the store, or the pharmacy, or whatever.

It's perfectly possible to add companies (and places, aliased to companies) to your address book. So it works, but you have to tell it what your pharmacy is beforehand.
True, hadn't verified that.
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The optimist inside me hopes that what you say is true. The pessimist inside of me thinks that perhaps an app would never have been released in this sorry state under Steve's watch...
It seems like the bigger problem may be denial. I don't think depression is unique to entrepreneurs. Just living in NYC brings an exceptional set of challenges for someone to overcome (The article tells stories from NYC). For start-ups though, constantly having to put on a pretty face for everyone (employees, investors, clients, customers, friends and family) and deny the fact that you're a total mess on the inside technology-wise, business-wise and personally is the root of the problem. It creates incredible pressure, and if you can't live up to all the beauty you say you have, it makes you feel sad, angry, frustrated, and lost. Throw in not eating properly, not exercising, and not getting enough sleep and you have a recipe for depression. If we could just talk about how messed up everything is, we might find that we aren't the only ones and feel better about it. I'm a founder in NYC, so if anyone wants to talk, hit me up!
For what its worth, this data might play a role in debate but doesn't provide proof either way:

Our app is #8 in our category in the App Store and #13 in for the category in the Android Marketplace. It is free and has no advertisements; only available in US / Canada markets for both. We only get about ~1250 downloads a day on Android and about ~3500 downloads a day on iOS.

With that skew in raw downloads combined with a variance of stereotypical buying habits on each platform it is easy to see a way where iOS revenues could outweigh Android revenues by a lot.

From our standpoint, at our scale, advertisements are almost worthless to the amount it would hurt our brand. No agency, in Google itself, has shown us revenue predictions that make our mouth water. We have also experimented with a few direct placements (heavily target to our audience, and we did the design work of the advertisements ourselves) but will likely not continue with that in the future because of how bad they perform.
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Maybe the writer is American, maybe he isn't, but it sounded to me as if he was specifically calling out Americans. Maybe I'm wrong.

> Well, the amount of traffic accidents is evidence enough,
> isn't it?

What amount? Evidence of what?

The original post I responded to claimed that in order to decrease the number of traffic accidents, we need to license fewer people to drive, because the average person can't operate a vehicle safely.

But licensing fewer people != licensing only people who will always drive a vehicle 100% safely. The set of accidents includes accidents caused by factors other than lack of training or lack of attention. Poor weather conditions, drunk drivers, falling asleep at the wheel; these aren't things that licensing fewer people to drive will solve, not to mention that simply refusing to issue a license doesn't ensure that the person won't drive.

It's an overly simplistic solution presented in a superior tone that does not solve the stated problem.
I've used knockoutjs on a few projects now and I think I could help, but the article is down, so I don't understand the context of your question.

There are several way to structure your app, but it depends on what your app does and how structured it is. On a basic level I structure every page to have a page object to handle events and setup the view model(s).

So, for default.aspx, I might have something like:

var Page = new function(){
_this = this;

$(function(){
//document ready
});

$("#dataTable").delegate(".delete",function(){
_this.viewModel.deleteItem(ko.dataFor(this));
});

this.viewModel = new function(){
var _this = this;

//set up view model
this.observableVal = ko.observable("");

this.deleteItem = function(){
//delete item from VM
};

};

};

But then you might want to have a page with multiple view models (ie UserControls that are self contained). This gets a bit tricky, especially if you want the multiple view models to interact.

Shoot me an email if you need help.
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I picked up Ruby just after I picked up Clojure (and well after I picked up lisp in general). I still dislike the ruby community's lack of maturity, but seem to be coping better with it these days. #lolbundler & rvm are still terrible compared to lein though, which often frustrates me a lot.
Well, depression in this context doesn't surprise me.

I think of the "Let's build a company to sell and retire" startup as an attempt, in desperation, to avoid the rat race, by working your ass and some of your best years away, with extreme pressure and slim chances of success.

We only get to here the success stories, 99% of the time, though, which makes it seem much more glamorous.

I much prefer the building of a sustainable business a la "37 Signals", or failing that a series of good paying / sensible time jobs working in interesting problems.

Come to think of it, most of the hackers I respect most weren't at all "entrepreneurial", some were in academia and others worked in companies, from Brian & Richie, to JWZ, to Knuth, to Guido, etc.

And I don't have much respect for the "successes" in the startup sense, like Zuckenberg et al, nor I think Facebook, or Groupon, or Spotify (or whatever the flavor of the day is) as "changing the world". Tim Berners Lee changed the world from a small office at CERN. Mosaic/Mozilla also changed the world. The IBM PC and the Mac changed the world.

Overhyped IPOs and social networks? Not so much. (And don't get me started on the overselling of western media of the supposed role Twitter et al played in Middle Eastern riots/revolutions).
I remember reading about some cities removing most signs and seeing traffic safety increase.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,448747,00...

I agree, almost everyone will rate themselves as an 'above average' driver. Most don't actually spend a good amount of time practicing technique though. When was the last time you were in a car with a person and they were actively practicing cornering technique? I actively work on this almost every time I go on more than quick ride to the store.
They will be. Im sure that the will pop up on HN when the are out.
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The G+ feedback system is something special, and kudos to these guys for moving so fast... but... this is nowhere near as elegant and easy to understand. Less time making chubby little controls more time making it so you can mark up the actual page!
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Always interesting to see how someone else solves a problem, and reaches into the ruby stdlib for a couple of tools as well.
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You are right. A bug reporting tool should not have bugs. We are busy sorting out all bugs on all browser. After 3 months of development and 2 weeks private beta testing with 50 JotForm users we had to release it to get more feedback. We will keep working on it and make it rock solid.
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With only three clicks, using the suggested ingredients, I removed one ingredient, added two others, and was told the proportions automatically.

Notepad neither suggested the alternatives nor updated the amounts required.
That's not really true. Per mile, car travel is 3-4 times safer today than it was in 1970. The absolute number of fatalities has decreased by about 40% while the population has increased by about 50%, so per capita rather than per mile is also substantially safer.

To put this even more in perspective, there were more motor vehicle fatalities in 1934 than there were in 2009, even though the population in 1934 was just over 1/3rd the size. Per mile, car travel was about fourteen times more dangerous in 1934 than in 2009. Of course, people drove a lot more in 2009, but even per capita, car travel was 2-3x safer in 2009.
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I'd say it's even lower than 7%, both for paid and ad supported apps, at least on my experience of having several applications for both iOS and Android. There is a small percentage of Android users willing to pay for apps, primarily due to Google not requiring a payment method when setting up your account and lots of Android users who don't use the smartphone features. This, in turn, makes the CPM lower in ad supported apps, since the ads have smaller returns and thus the advertisers pay less for them (compared to iOS).

Just to prove my point, here are yesterday's profits for a couple of apps:

- Paid app:

- iOS: $128
- Android: $6

- Ad supported app:

- iOS: $1285
- Android: $21

And that's without taking into account that Apple does most of the tax collection/invoicing for me while Google does not, despite taking the same sales percentage.
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It looks like LosTechies.com is down - maybe all the traffic from HN :) It's being worked on as fast as we can! Sorry about that!
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The issue discussed here is the implementation and signature of "map", a trivial function that anybody should be able to understand and implement without a sweat.

Sure, if you OK with your code running magnitudes
slower than the built-in stuff
...
scripting languages force you to use the built-in stuff

These 2 sentences don't compile.

You should also realize that the speed of the JVM has nothing to do with the static-ness of the language. The bytecode is in fact dynamic ... the only instances where certain assumptions where made based on Java (the language) being:

1) classes are immutable and can't be garbage collected unless you destroy the corresponding class loader

2) the method dispatching done cannot be overridden (so when calling a method on an implicit object, you also have to specify the interface where that method is defined) ... but this has nothing to do with the inner-workings of the JVM and is being addressed with the work done on InvokeDynamic

Really, if you're worrying about "scripting" specific behavior sneaking in on you, stealing away precious CPU cycles or RAM bytes, then you should stay away from the JVM.
DB003 Evaluation Board Reference for EVB001 seems to have low interconnect bandwidth.

I don't see anything like hypertransport.
I agree, over the years we've seen this type of thing again and again. I tried to explain to my mom once about the concept of a browser and that the IE icon on her desktop was not the Internet. After a while I gave up after realizing she was perfectly happy with her misconceptions about what the Internet is.

It's only a matter of time when something else will replace Facebook as "the Internet". These things work in cycles.
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When she asks "when" say "never" and it skips the date.
Talking about mental health problems is important. Some of them commonly start around the early twenties; stress[1] can be a trigger; having "rainy day action plans" can be immensely helpful making any times of illness much less disruptive to the sufferer.

Knowledge helps people around the person too -- knowing that pulling someone aside and just talking to them about their feelings is a good, helpful, thing could save lives. Knowing that this person has a disorder that makes them incredibly effective for a few months but that comes with a risk of "crashing" allows them to put support in and encourage taking of meds or contct with professionals.

In the UK employers are not allowed[2] to discriminate against people with mental health problems, so knowledge is again really useful.

[1] "Stress" means slightly different things to different people. I tend to use it for unhealthy harmful stress, and "pressure" for the stuff that people enjoy and thrive on. Pressure for one person could be stress for another.

[2] I guess there's some exceptions.
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How about a service to render the LaTeX files? i.e. an app where users just write in LaTeX, there's a render button which sends the file to some server which renders it and sends it back.
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I really want to see income levels as well. There's no denying that the article didn't retort with actual data, a huge flaw. I even went to the end of the article expecting to see a data-driven response, and was disappointed that there wasn't one.

If you are interested in my honest opinion, I don't feel like you've refuted anything. May I remind you, the article pointed out the skewed nature of the charts and claimed that was misleading. I think that in order to refute that, you would have to supply reasoning as to why it was not misleading or skewed. Don't you agree?

I will concede that if you feel like this is a faulty stance and you don't think you need to refute it, that is fine. Why refute something you believe to be patently false?

It feels like you're attempting to champion something here, and you expect me to do the same. That seems to be the central theme with a lot of the responses I'm seeing here.

Why so defensive? What's wrong with someone pointing out bad data? Isn't that something worth looking into?
Note that https://github.com/joodie/clojure-refactoring is an active fork of clojure-refactoring. Nice to see the project actually going somewhere.
Look at it from an officer's perspective: They're going to watch the one where people are more likely to go over the speed limit (i.e. the straightaway). The winding road is self-policing; the majority of drivers will stay under the limit out of self-preservation.

I'm not sure about your neck of the woods, but the police generally don't set the speed limits, they merely enforce them. You're conflating the two ideas.
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I know that was in jest (if not, you may be turning into a supervillian), but the actual implications of having facial recognition built into contacts is immense. It will be a Minority Report type world, where anonymity would be completely gone.

I guess it would mean no criminal outlaws or parole violators walking around, but for a common man to not be able to walk anywhere without everyone around him knowing everything there is to know about him....that's scary
At least on ipad, you can switch the view from List to Date-based. You then have a scrollable calendar view on the left. When you tap a day, you can then type in a reminder on the right and it automatically gets added to remind you that day at 9am. Pretty nice, albeit a bit "hidden".
I'm genuinely surprised that you make only two typing bugs per year. I make about 2 per minute, and I consider myself a good programmer. My higher frequency may be in part because my style of coding relies heavily on the typing system: I recompile after about every line of code I type, and make sure my code always type-checks, so maybe I'm not as carefully planning my programming as somebody who's accustomed to dynamically typed languages. Nevertheless, I find it hard to believe that you don't trip up when you create deeply nested loops/recursion. If you don't, what's the trick?
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Looks more like "Check that one developer at the company you're using hasn't angered another and decided that the most professional way to deal with this problem is to wax-childlike in your publicly available code" to me...

Whatever jimbob did wrong pales in comparison to that, IMHO.

Jimbob needs a lesson in the way he is expected to decide upon specifications before coding; Whoever wrote that in client's code needs to take a bruised arse down to the back of the queue at the local unemployment office.
And honestly to expect it to know you're at a pharmacy or a store, is silly. This is very early in the game and you're already expecting it to perform as if it'd been in the market for years.
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Exactly. My guess (no data) is that if you lump in ad revenues and in-app sales, then iOS will maintain its lead.

I would go so far as to speculate that ads sold on iOS might convert better, since iPhone users are already spending more money on the platform.
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A few bugs:

* The links for the very first project on the page are obscured by the ad

* Every single project's network and watchers page link to linux

* If somebody doesn't have a blog (eg torvalds) their "blog" link goes to "null"

* If you go to your own GitHire profile the "Add Info" link goes to http://www.githire.com/user/edit, which is an actual user

* http://www.githire.com/user/torvalds/edit <-- probably shouldn't be publicly editable
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It particularly hits Obama hard; the majority of spending during his first couple years in office were due to commitments from before his inauguration: a couple wars plus TARP, the Bush stimulus (which was bigger than the Obama stimulus, mind you), and suchlike.

It might not even be a terrible idea to count the Bush tax cuts in there. It isn't officially counted as government spending for obvious reasons, but realistically we might as well think of it as the fiscal policy equivalent of deciding to take your paycheck straight to the bar even though you're up to your eyeballs in credit card debt.
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I don't think most server systems are doing much in the way of MP3 or H.264 encoding.

Rendering is more or less equivalent to HPC. Different markets, but similar problem sets (lots of computation, minimal communication or dependencies between threads).

None of those are particularly relevant to typical server workloads; servers are doing things like querying databases, spitting out Web pages, running Java VMs, running virtualization software, that kind of thing.
The worst is that even though you set the date & time for a reminder and hit "Done" you still haven't saved it; you have to hit "Done" a second time.

I learned that when I missed a few reminders because I didn't hit save a second time.
Stuck in Edinburgh (Scotland) got a list of hireable: false people. Went onto page 2 and there was Linus Torvald listed as hireable: false.

Hmmm...
I live by these five rules and agree, but I agree succinctly, that is with the letter of what you wrote: these things work to counter the signals, they do not necessarily work to remove depression.

As I understand it, depression can be caused by external issues (a loved one dying, losing a job) or internal issues (chemical imbalances). Again, as I understand it this list of ways to counter can help run-of-the-mill ennui, but it is not going to forestall the abyss for someone suffering from real depression.

That individual needs professional guidance.
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Another interesting feature: there are plenty of 'funding advisors' that can help connecting you to a right VC[1] for a fee

Same in the US. I think Massachusetts might have a law against it?

But as another Eastern European currently in the US, I agree with you and know what you are trying to say.
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For the record, I didn't write this library because I thought I could do it better.

I wrote it because I didn't know about these other utilities / tools.
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As an antidote to defensive programming read up on Programming By Contract. Here for example: https://github.com/andresteingress/gcontracts/wiki/an-introd...
Can't load article but I'd give angularjs a look as well. It has great databinding features that imitate Adobe Flex in a clean way leading to terse code.
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Lets see the solution he puts up.
But you're using the app as a hook to get them to purchase something else right or why bother? Or are you saying that loseit has no monetization strategy?

Because I would have thought that making money out of a weight loss app should be easy. You're talking about a market that will pay silly amounts just for the idea of being thin. That you see people advertising all the time for products to solve the problem because there's so much money in it.
Mmmm I thought I'd tried that, I'll check as soon as I've got something to note. Thanks.

edit: and sure enough it worked, I guess I'm retarded.
which apps are that? Thanks for sharing.
> .... widely known ..

Yeah right.

Might I suggest you read more about

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_(fallacy)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...

Rather pointing out that humanity is flawed. Why don't you try to practice living by virtue and show others the right way ?

It's more honorable than finger pointing from a high horse.
Mebbies you don't mean hireable but available for hire. 'cos you have John Resig down as hireable: false, but no, you have Tom Preston-Warner down as hireable: true...

Hmm...

And I searched for myself (well I know if I'm hireable right?)
http://www.githire.com/user/gordonguthrie

That ain't me...
Do you think the code is hard to read?

BlueEyes is a framework for writing high performance web services. For it's use cases you care whether you're getting or putting. Thus it is explicit. Similarly, you care about performance, and so don't want to parse strings if you can help it -- thus you set the host once rather than parsing a URL.

For a pure ease-of-use library Dispatch is probably the best, if you can figure out the syntax (see earlier discussion). In Dispatch you can write something like

url("http://somesite.com/some/url") >>> System.out

I forget how you read into a string. Probably change >>> to >>@!#$$T%^@#$% or similar.