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> What these antiseptic descriptions mask is "killing a patient's bone marrow" is roughly equal to poisoning that person just a tiny bit shy of killing him or her.

That's a description of most cancer treatments, especially the traditional ones.

Cancer cells are so similar to normal healthy tissue, they're difficult to target with high specificity. Most treatments (especially chemo and radiation) work by killing cancer cells marginally better than they kill (most) normal cells. The targeting is getting better for both classes of treatment, but the collateral damage is still significant.

Killing all bone marrow cells indiscriminately sidesteps the targeting issue, with the trade-off that you effectively remove an entire vital organ. This is just as drastic, but in this particular case happens to be a surmountable obstacle.
Hm. I've never seen a HyperCard project that was both maintainable and of a large-ish size. I think _that_ is where the HyperCard idea broke down - navigating through a bunch of cards is significantly more difficult than through a bunch of text files.

Granted, that _may_ be a question of the tools. But I do find it telling that in the long time since the "death" of HyperCard nobody could come up with compelling tools.

And creating software is hard because ultimately, it requires analytical thinking. Which, by itself, is hard. Yes, the choice of tool modulates the hardness of the problem - but the underlying issues are still hard. (Note: I do not claim non-programmers _can't_ reason analytically. I claim the effort/result ratio is not right for them)

It's the same reason most people buy furniture instead of building it. Acquiring the necessary skill set is simply too much effort for the result.
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Please deal with your guilt by 'annoying' 10 other people and telling them/convincing them that signing up to the donor registry is very easy.

Alternately if you 'can't tell others about the thousands of people who are also in need' then yes you are guilty and should probably figure out something else useful for humanity that your conscience/selfulness lets you do.
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I love this quote:

People work harder when you feed them.
I'm not a gay male but refuse to be part of organizations who discriminate against them.

I know they are trying to save lives but eliminating potential matches and discrimination is not the way to do that.
Consolidation also happens with vendors, think nokia-siemens, alcatel-lucent, cisco bought 100 smallish companies, big companies "innovate" and remain cimpetitive by acquiring the competition
They were the biggest threat at the time the lawsuit was filed. I think the target will be changing to Amazon and ASUS in the near future.
TL;DR: Yammer uses a number of languages and every one of them have their strengths and shortcomings. They are getting back to work, and not argue about tools. No "official" word on whether they are actually moving away from Scala.
Your grand-grandparent post quite emphatically is FUD. Being MSM is positively correlated with a pattern of behaviour that elevates risk of HIV. So is being a college student. So is serial monogamy. So is being a heterosexual male. Singling out one of these while making no attempt to break down the diverse group MSM by further detailing high-risk behaviour and black-marking it with an ominous question like "Do you really want the donation pool potentially contaminated by the HIV virus?" (who does?) is very much FUD against MSM as a whole.
This is exactly the problem that makes the Lean Startup so interesting and radical. Everything we think we know about business has ingrained in us a sense of change equating to failure. We build up inflated expectations for our non-existant products and business models to employees, to investors, to friends and family, all the while ignoring the fact that all the assumptions on which we've based our businesses are just that, guesses. Then, when one or more of the assumptions is invalidated, we're so embarrassed about being wrong that we try to persevere even when we know we're on the wrong track, and then run full speed into the wall instead of changing course.

Eric Ries has some really insightful ideas about how to turn these problems around, and if you haven't already read The Lean startup I highly recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-...
Anyone remember backify?

Yeah, I do too. I lost all of my data after all of their accounts got closed (luckily I wasn't relying on my backups here).

This sort of service cannot be sustained and I can't trust it with any important data. I know you say that you are different, but I've seen it too many times before.
Do you have any plans to release a bash client to upload files? I'd love to use crontab to backup my new files.

Thanks
The awesome thing is that for Erlang it doesn't matter. The two are the same. Here how to send a message a local process on the same node:

Pid ! Msg.

And here is how to send a message to a Pid located on some server farm in Japan:

Pid ! Msg.

In general CPUs are probably not going to get faster. Networks might, both on LANs and WAN. There is the 100Gb Ethernet, optical interconnects I think will become cheaper.

On the motherboard # of cores will be increases but at some point, while we get the hang of concurrency and restructure our codebase, we'll quickly get hungry for more cores and memory than a single server can support.

What happens then Erlang program won't have to be restructured when that happens because it provides a suitable abstraction. At the lowest level it will still be Pid ! Msg. That is the beauty of it.
Very well said.

Working hard is fine, sometimes. However, if you're working hard for years and seemingly getting nowhere, then you clearly what you're doing is wrong.

It's not easy to create and build a business or startup. But that's doesn't mean it's an unachievable goal that, despite working yourself into the ground, you'll never achieve.

If you are killing yourself for years and years, you're probably never going to make it. There's not that much of a difference between those who succeed and those who fail. It's about working smart, not hard.

Yes, you might have to work both smart AND hard at times, but if you are working hard becomes never-ending then you need to assess how smart you are working.
AppleInsider are just parroting a Bloomberg story:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/chipmakers-lose-bil...
"Aren't there better and cheaper toys out there?"

I'm gonna guess you haven't spent much time around kids ;)

How much a kid wants a toy is directly proportional both to how well it is marketed, and to how much their peers want it (which, since their "peers" appear in ads for the products, is really just a proxy for how well it's marketed). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogs#Popularity and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanie_babies#Marketing_strateg...
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Obesity is a private health issue. It is not communicable and poses no danger to anyone except the people who freely choose to eat too much.

The only reason obesity becomes a public issue at all is because the non-obese are forced by the government to pay for the health care of the obese. This problem has a very simple solution - no medicare/medicaid for fatties, and make it easier for insurance to charge fatties and fitness freaks different rates.
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Ummm... am I missing something? Every video I click on is a rickroll.
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Point well taken. So the question then becomes, why only one (or a small number of) such environments? (Also, I consider spreadsheets hardly trivial. I marvel at what some people can do in Excel ;)

And my answer to my own question is still the one I previously implied: There is no market for this kind of environment.

Consider, your problem needs to be:

* Repetitive enough to benefit from automation

* Complicated enough that automating it would yield a significant gain in the long run.

* Simple enough to not require going to an actual full-blown programming environment.

* Not numerically solvable, since spreadsheets have that covered.

* Not solvable via macro-recording or workflow solutions, since that market is also well-covered.

I'd say that does leave a fairly small sector. Hence, low demand for Hypercard-like solutions.
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...and of course, the professional tone of the blog entry is ruined by the thoroughly unprofessional tone of the accompanying tweet:

"That, @jodastephen, is a fucking announcement by Yammer about Scala."
http://twitter.com/coda/status/142047850426146816

Ah, so much better than those "slapfights" we have here at HN, isn't it? Protip: backpedaling and fence-mending don't work if you go right back to the kind of public behavior that got you in trouble in the first place.
Yeh I deleted it. Had to jump through hoops to do it. Even going so far as to block all FB related traffic, plugins etc to avoid re-activating the account. They may have kept some of my data, but there's no way for me to re-activate the account.
Have a look at http://mixergy.com (and the related itunes podcast too).

Andrew Warner is great at getting people to give away their numbers :)
There is a hell of a lot more wrong with your analogy than a mere "difference in intent".
The article was quite clear. You have to donate 10c to charity (Ronald McDonald House) for the toy, instead of getting it for free. But you can only dontate if you get a happy meal.

Also, apparently you used to be able to buy the toys separately, which is no longer an option.
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I'd love to see a similar map of airplane fatalities for those that are scared of flying for a reassuring comparison...
This has been interesting to watch, from the Summer of 2007 when the Dicemelia was released (that was my first exposure to Arduino) until the 1.0 release today, its come a long way.

Perhaps one of the more interesting things for me is that the open source nature of the hardware has allowed a number of new businesses to flourish and grow and innovate. This lesson has been too often lost in the rent-seeking behavior of the 90's where 'owning the one toll booth on the road' was considered the height of success. We need to help companies see how creating an open infrastructure lifts all boats, and sure if you don't execute well you might get left behind but the whole market is grown much more quickly.

Also around 2008 I met with an executive at Plastic Logic (they were going to make an E-reader available in January of 2009). When he explained to me that they were building the screens (the thing they invented), writing the software, and designing the reader I knew that his company was already dead. I tried to explain it to him, the market was young, use your special sauce to develop expertise in the screen space selling to everyone, and once you're profitable expand into the space. But he wouldn't hear it, they had this killer tech that no one could touch and the only way to 'maximize company value' was to own everything from the reader design right up through the relationships with content providers. While I certainly could have been wrong, I knew that history was on my side. Sadly I wasn't wrong. They never produced a product (although they did take pre-orders once).

The Arduino was the exact opposite, anyone can make them, arduinio.cc providing a sort of architectural glue to keep them consistent and the message on track. Now, nearly five years later they have made Atmel the envy of every embedded processor vendor and have introduced perhaps hundreds of thousands of people to programming, computers, and technology. Way to dent the universe guys! I salute you.
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Hmm, I think "do you have unprotected sex with people you only know casually?" might be a start.
"nerd slapfights" iirc.
No, actually, SSD's are dropping in price because the flash memory chips they use have shifted from 35nm to 25nm (not 100% certain on those, but it has dropped). This means more chips from the same silicon wafer = lower cost.
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Last time I gave blood, that was in fact one of the questions, more or less... iirc it asked about unprotected sex in general, though in a tighter time-frame.

Of course your particular wording is just opening a huge can of worms with "what does 'people you only know casually' mean?".
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This story and the comments here are quite interesting and I'm really torn on this.

On one hand, I think the government does have a job to intervene when negative externalities affect society (like obesity has). On the other hand, as this story demonstrates, they clearly suck at intervening.

On a personal level, I don't care what McDonalds does because I don't take my kids there (I have 3 kids under 7). But I care about obesity being a drain on society and a healthcare issue we all have to share. McDonalds, well, they care about profits.
There's a fair number of really good Postgres tools out there, or tools that support Postgres among other platforms, They're just pricey. The free tools are passable but not that good.
Better question: Who paid for thirsty.com? Dictionary words are not cheap.
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I don't think I could leave permanently. And I can't see myself rescinding my American passport. Very circumstantial extremes.

Even travel writer Paul Theroux, having spent most of his life abroad, said that nothing will ever replace home and its familiarity.
A friend has done something similar in Australia and is doing incredibly well too.

This model works.
that's an awesome idea :D. I'll put it on our todo list ^^
I work on my own teaching robotics and programming to kids from 6 to 14 years old here in Germany (in different languages, many foreigners here), and this is very good news!! I love this platform, and having a polished product for the kids jumping into it is great.
In your example of iterating through two arrays, the proper Scala idiom is (a1,a2).zipped.map((v1,v2) => ...). This avoids doing an actual zip which would have significant overhead. It also makes it easier to write the map as the map method on Tuple2.Zipped takes a function of two arguments so you don't have to deal with pulling values out of a tuple.

I would actually find the details of where Scala performance is poor to be very interesting. Most significant IMO would be whether they are real problems or people picking improper implementations. For example I'd like to be able to answer the following, would using a view have given them the performance they needed without producing ugly code?
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I met you when Mike was an intern at justin.tv--really glad to see that ZeroCater is working out! Maybe we'll make the switch over once we move to the new office..
I'm a tad short of sleep, so forgive me for asking what is probably a really stupid question but I'm confused: Are you saying these two different women wanted you to flesh out some online profile via FB (as proof of a real relationship or something like that)?
Can't beat a quote like this from the creator: "We are planning to stay alive for 100 years this is a very long term play. We are planning to kill the OS by letting users execute any file type in the cloud"

I think not, but thanks anyway.
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Apropos nothing else: Coda Hale is pretty great writer. Most of this content was fairly predictable given the last two Yammer/Scala stories; even so, this held my attention start to finish. INTERCAL. Heh.
How does Lego do marketing? I don't think I or my parents have ever seen a Lego ad in my life, yet I played with legos as a little kid and I still play with Legos :)
"What am I doing to help any of those millions of starving children? Very little."

Feeling guilty isn't solving the problem, however. Guilt is just a pre-cursor to either resolve or apathy. If you don't do anything about it, you either get into a loop of guilt-> apathy-> guilt or you choose to ignore the problem (as you say your friends do).

Any action you take towards true progress for those in need, no matter how small, is good.

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And the same day that Makershed shipped me my first Uno, no less.
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first one maybe?
Is that a good example?

You may not need to know about the data collected in another compartment/agency but it would be useful to at least know how they are collecting data because you can then refine your own techniques.
FWIW, it's capitalized as an iPad in all circumstances.
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Well, I don't think anybody disagrees there.
Who do you think you're putting in their place with a comment like this? It's clear Coda could give a shit† what "HN" thinks about him or his messages. Do you think your comment is going to influence him in any way?

Because really the only parties that your comment is going to influence are the subset of HN readers that are actually interested in Yammer's use of Scala, who instead have to watch a pretend trial play out on HN about Coda's "professionalism".

(I'm happy to delete this comment if you delete yours, just for whatever that's worth.)

† Really. I'm not trying to be snippy; I'm just saying it frankly.
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I'm interested in why you think that. I wrote the comment in good faith. I'm asking you to clarify also in good faith.
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Actually the line we were moving some components from Scala to Java suggests that they are not completely moving away from Scala. Which is pretty reasonable.
>And data centers can make use of tons of RAM--the main constraint is its price.

price through several aspects. Among the main constraints is the number of memory slots (as we have mainly 4Gb and 8Gb RAM modules to work with). And 8Gb ECC (ECC/registered memory is the only way to utilize more than 4 slots per CPU) is only recently became reasonably priced (ie. close to 2x4GB). Once the slots are filled with 4GB modules - throw and replace with 8GB. Painful. Once filled with 8Gb modules - replace the motherboard+CPUs. With what? There is of course monsters around - http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-mbd-x8qb6-f~ASUPM3AU.ht...
which require monster priced CPUs :)

So, thanks to manufacturers for the cheap 4Gb and 8Gb, yet if they built the large overcapacities for these modules instead of gearing up to 16Gb - that would explain their financial problems.
It's not communicable from person to person, but it's certainly communicable from your environment to you.

edit: Is this such a controversial statement? Does it bear explanation?

What we eat is not solely a matter of willpower. It is influenced by what sort of food is available. It is influenced by what sort of food is easier or harder to obtain. It is influenced by how hungry we are. How hungry we are can be changed by how stressed out we are, or by what we ate yesterday, or last week, or how active we have been lately. It is even influenced by what we see others eat, what is culturally acceptable to eat.

So yeah - obesity isn't communicable from person to person like the flu is, but it is something that your environment has a huge influence on.
Here's a start:

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http://www.a3mhope.org/

http://www.a3mhope.org/index.php/donor/list-of-drives
We worked on it for around 1 year, but unfortunately this didn't take off. I am looking at ideas about how to go ahead from here. I am also looking at option of open sourcing the code base. More ideas are welcome.
No, it wouldn't be terribly hard. The source code is all annotated to make it easier for folks to get started trying out their own flavors:

http://coffeescript.org/documentation/docs/grammar.html

You'd probably want to start by altering the lexer to stop considering ...

a
.b
.c
.d

... as effectively a single line, and turn it into some sort of "chain" node. Then, the value of the expression "a" can be cached at the beginning, and all further operations in the chain can be performed against the original value.
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A Question : There is a some local Turkish website called yemeksepeti.com ( = food basket/cart. They have english version of their web site if you want to check ) which in service since 2001. One can see the menu and order any meal from the member resaturans and get his food in 10 to 40 minutes without paying extra fee.

If one implements the same system, he can kill the middle man. What prevents other start-ups to do that and how can zerocater protect it's business ?
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How is it different than Seamless?
Your last paragraph sums up my feeling toward FB nicely. There may have been the odd bit of genuine conversation. But it was mostly "Check out me/my stuff/my spouse/my party, aren't I awesome?"
We were using a different catering company before moving to ZeroCater (don't remember who off the top of my head). ZeroCater has better food and more variety than that catering company did. I'm not sure if that's indicative of catering companies, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

That said, ZeroCater still has its own problems. The biggest one we've had is ZeroCater simply not listening to our requests. It took us a while to get a gluten-free option, for instance, and even longer to get it removed when we no longer needed it. We've also requested no fish several times, and yet we still end up getting fish on occasion.

Overall, though, I'd recommend ZeroCater if you're planning regular team lunches in a city where they offer it and you don't want to deal with the minutiae of it.
An app for Chrome OS/iOS etc would be avery good idea. Their users don't have a filesystem(or are kept unaware of it) and so they might take to it much quicker. Just a thought.
Yes, it is important in syntax. You're still entering the same information twice (this time in two different ways, rather than two different places), which allows the possibility that the two conflict (the main problem that DRY prevents), resulting in something bad.
Just curious: Is there any information about how an email from one executive to two others is 'leaked'? That seems like a bigger concern.
Wait, so you reconstruct the end delimiter using pass? That's one of the least-pythonic things I've ever seen. I really don't see how this could end up being a problem - doing a block indent shouldn't be this difficult.