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Also, on Smalltalk (which influenced python) there is no switch statement as well. On the other hand, Smalltalk has no if, while, for statements as well (they are all methods).
This forces programmer to invent dummy names.
And Python doesn't support nontrivial lambdas.
I've seen the argument about why that's more "pythonic", but it's not compelling. Allowing some syntactic sugar would make the meaning a lot more obvious.
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Public figures can't win defamation cases based on truth alone. Public figures have to prove malice to win a defamation case. That is, not only was the statement untrue, but the journalist knew it was untrue, and wrote it with the purpose of defaming the public figure.

Private people don't have to prove malice.
HTC have replaced Nokia in the UK pretty much. People generally ask if you have a Samsung, HTC, iPhone or Blackberry. WP7 isn't a factor as of yet and may be the rebirth of Nokia in this country.
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I'm not the most savvy javascript developer, but I'll take a stab at it.

Variable declarations and assignments happen on multiple lines in the 2nd snippet instead of all being defined at once.

var currentLanguage = "en";
var spanish = "es";
var german = "de";
var english = "en";

vs

var currentLanguage = "en", spanish = "es", german = "de", english = "en";

Additionally, "en" is assigned twice. If you're going to take the time to assign the "en" abbreviation into the "english" variable, then you should use it when assigning to "currentLanguage", in my opinion, if only to avoid typos and redundancy.

var spanish = "es", german = "de", english = "en", currentLanguage = english;

The "disclaimer" element is accessed using the documentGetElementById DOM call twice. javascript is getting faster, but forcing multiple DOM calls when it's not necessary is bad practice. Ideally, you'd access it once and save it into a reference.

document.getElementById("disclaimer").firstChild.nodeValue = response;
var text = encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById("disclaimer").firstChild.nodeValue);

vs

var disclaimer = document.getElementById("disclaimer"), text = disclaimer.firstChild.nodeValue;
disclaimer.firstChild.nodeValue = response;

The code formatting is poor and inconsistent, notice an incorrect space after "encodeURIComponent (", but no spaces after "getElementById(" and "getElementsByTagName(". Also notice no indentation anywhere, or line-breaks after the function signatures and opening brackets "{";

The code is polluting the global namespace by not being enclosed in its own namespace or perhaps an immediately executed anonymous function.

I'm sure more seasoned JS devs can list some more things wrong with the code, but those are the ones that stood out to me.
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The fact that the OP is signed "The collections team", seems to imply they also spend a fair amount of money to raise more money.
I'm actually pretty excited about this. This will make my life less miserable any time I am forced to solve certain types of problems in Java.
Actually this is better that switch (or whatever).

Some advanced dispatch code can notice that some tuples are dispatched more often that the rest and can check for them first.

Ditto for dict lookup.

But this would unexpected for switch code.
This is an iterative improvement. Not a revolution. Microsoft has some serious catching up to do here and I would like to see a little more innovation coming from MSFT's camp. "Hey, nobody is really using our platform, but you can save fifty-bucks" isn't really going to cut it.

How about - MSFT covers all costs for the first 2 years (keep 100% of what you make)? Heck, even a contest with some real prizes would be something...
I don't get this. Someone wrote a bunch of cute Lisp functions that use Unicode and put them on a webpage?
Rumor - higgs boson (god particle) discovered.
An HSBC security device is absolutely useless unless you know all the other details needed to login. That's kinda the whole point of it...

I personally don't see the need for mint.
If one side presents a really bad case, do they have to lose even if they are right?

In most cases, the only indication the judge has as to who is right or wrong are what is presented to him.
I'm also not sure your battery analogy works. The batteries that came with Python 2 (the standard library) are still charged up in Python 3. Third-party projects not porting certainly does affect you and others, but it's not the same thing.
Do whatever it is that got the users to your site in the first place, only better.

Probably not what you wanted to hear, but I'd take this time to learn what your users like and what they don't and make improvements.

And maybe email/tweet at influential bloggers.
Neat, definitely useful. I'm wondering if it would be possible for someone (or you guys) to build something similar that would let me "take over" a user's session, so I can demonstrate my application to a potential new user.
You do realize that this is in regards to the store for Windows 8 that runs on the desktop (as well as tablets)?
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No, it was report on the TV where they sat outside their house and monitored all purchases they were making. They then ran a report off and went to the persons door with the report.

If you read further comments I admit a more feasible reason will probably be trojans.
Python doesn't need a switch or case statement because you can write a suite of ad-hoc functions, stick them in a dictionary with your values as keys, and dispatch on the values:

>>> def first():
... print "a"
...
>>> def second():
... print "beta"
...
>>> caseof = {1: first, 2: second}
>>> caseof[1]()
a
>>> caseof[2]()
beta
>>>
This building is amazing on so many levels. It's got a very Zen quality to it, the symbolism of the full circle, and to my geek mind it reminded me of the iPod click wheel (wonder if the restaurant area is where the "menu" would be? :-P) It almost feels like last Steve's last One More Thing...
Needs more jQuery.
Yeah, we're planning on that. It is even one of the current features we have added to our UserVoice widget.

We just want to be sure that the initial service is robust.
Yes I agree, I wouldn't have come to the conclusion of option a originally if I had not watched a quite in-depth report on tv about it. It was quite unreal really how easy it was, they sat on a quiet suburb area, scanned for all the wireless networks and waiting for information to come in
Actually yes, many do, as it can be a great boost to their popularity (and thus income). There are public sex industry trade fairs that feature live performances, and some porn publishers release videos featuring the stars "performing" with lucky fans - I imagine the latter is in part an anti-piracy stunt and only available to registered buyers of the product.
JetBrains RubyMine is setup for Rails 3, and it seems to be liked by the users of HN and Stack Overflow.
You're referring to their UI suite, Sense. Peep and those other apps are HTC products, and part of their own (customised) Android experience.

I think there's a difference between a manufacturer's own UI and corresponding apps, and the sort of crap that gets shovelled onto the American handsets.

Edit: Actually I've just checked and my phone does have Adobe Reader! Didn't even notice that there... Oops.
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> SICP is dated and doesn't really match what modern languages can do.

I always think SICP as math applied to CS and math never gets old :)

I am reading it after 9 years as a professional programmer and I am having so much fun! It is giving me new ways (o reminding me forgotten ways because my first language was Scheme) to think about problems and I am totally using those skills in my job. I will recommend SICP to any beginner that wants to become a serious programmer, maybe not because the language and programming style but the way it teaches how to attack problems.

Sometimes the journey is more important than the destination :)
If you can't get IntelliJ IDEA's JavaDoc formatter to do what you want there exists a plugin which lets you use Eclipse for formatting call Eclipse Code Formatter: http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?idea&id=6546
I have never used it, so I cannot comment on its quality, but it might be worth a try.

However submitting bugs and feature requests with examples would be better. Many reports are fixed quite quickly. I did not manage to find the bugs you filed though: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issues?q=%23rkalla
The snarky answer is textmate / submlime 2 / vim.

I'm no rails guru, but I have but together quite a few professional CMS's and use it almost exclusively for homebrew projects, and I've never felt like I needed a heavyweight IDE.
Maybe they'll have to actually focus on doing interesting things without explosives. My interest in Mythbusters faded as their excuses for blowing stuff up every week became increasingly absurd and pointless.
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I am in the EU and my carrier was until recently completely blocking the option of using personal hotspot - couldn't even pay for it.

Now you get it for 5 EUR...
Insecure Applications: We Are The 84 Percent
Since the page is all about translation, could it be to avoid online translators (like Google Translate) to attempt to read that code and translate it since you expect many of the visitors to the page coming from a locale different than English?

Or, does Google Translate etc. handle this and not attempt to 'translate' code?
Haha, how is my statement of it being far fetched misleading? The scenario is far fetched, but possible, didn't say it was likely. The only reason I replied to your comment was that you said "That sort of technology per se is not possible.".

That's not only misleading, but also wrong.
I'm not sure that having a singleton is such a bad idea.

However, in your second scenario I highly doubt that an AI with transhuman reasoning would be unable to reason that (bear with me here) the reason it's solving said problem only exists because humans exist, and if they were killed off, it's reason for solving the problem would be redundant.

This doesn't mean that we can't limit the AI though, give it sufficient hardware and let it solve the problem (and don't converse with it or contact it in any matter unless it has solved the problem or requires more hardware), although this is like slavery and I don't like the concept, that would be one way of limiting it.
> That makes me angry. Because I have OCD. Most programmers do.

I assume you mean fake, self-diagnosed OCD, then.
> My interest in Mythbusters faded as their excuses for blowing stuff up every week became increasingly absurd and pointless.

And the Obama episode? Really, the best they could think of was Archimedes death ray because it wasnt "tested thoroughly enough"??? Come on......
Has anybody noticed that mythubsters experiments seem to be getting more daring and un-necessarily dangerous? For me it started with the 'curving bullet' myth, that just didn't seem to have the necessary safety controls. Since then I've seen many myths that could have easily ended in disaster, had one simple thing gone wrong.

There's a lot to be said for teaching experimentation and the scientific method, but I'm worried they're teaching a whole generation of kids that science is inherently dangerous.
I don't believe it. If only there was a group of people that could test the plausibility of this story...
I'd be happy with Microsoft's Windows Store if it wasn't the only way to get Metro apps onto a user's PC. Being locked in to one provider, who will make sure that each app is family friendly, fills me with horror.
I would like to see how long it stays that way ... people make mistakes, but if you are on the front page of HN for a wrong reason, you leave everything aside and fix it.
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Scala is a pile of shit, its worse than C++.

It allows too much and has a too complicated syntax. Scala is what C++ was for C with a bit of Perl mixed in.
I wrote a GUI system using FRP in OCaml. I found events + behaviors (and their Cartesian product) to work very well (with the notable exception that syntactic sugar for defining state machines would be a desirable addition), so I'm very curious to see what improvements you suggest.

By "post my thesis" presumably you mean on your website and not HN? (I'll never find it if it's just on HN.)

Who's your thesis advisor?
Factor's REPL can handle images, colours and fonts:

http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/09/visual-repl.html

I've been meaning to write something like Factor's REPL for Clojure, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Are all houses in the US build from paper walls? No wonder they can not withstand tornados or other desasters ...

Hmm ... now i want to the see the actual episode ;-)
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The thing about Prey is that it only works based on the assumption that the thief has no knowledge of its presence or that the concept of 'software that phones home' is even possible. As Prey becomes more popular eventually thieves will catch on and will just then it will become less and less effective. Sad, really, because it's a great idea and superbly executed.
Actually, the problem I had with that episode was that they were mythbusting Newton's first law of motion.
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Ugh. That's what I get for skimming. Sorry.
I agree. The earlier, lower-budget seasons of the show lead to some really clever solutions for testing things that would be unfeasible to try at full-scale. Now if they want to melt a semi truck with thermite they just buy one and do it. The target audience has really shifted.
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tsavo:~ mcd$ host meteo-rs.com NS14.IXWEBHOSTING.COM
Using domain server:
Name: NS14.IXWEBHOSTING.COM
Address: 98.130.1.26#53
Aliases:

meteo-rs.com has address 98.130.144.79
meteo-rs.com mail is handled by 10 mail407.ixwebhosting.com.
tsavo:~ mcd$ host meteo-rs.com NS13.IXWEBHOSTING.COM
Using domain server:
Name: NS13.IXWEBHOSTING.COM
Address: 98.130.253.162#53
Aliases:

meteo-rs.com has address 98.130.144.79
meteo-rs.com mail is handled by 10 mail407.ixwebhosting.com.
tsavo:~ mcd$ host -t ns meteo-rs.com 8.8.8.8
Host meteo-rs.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
tsavo:~ mcd$

Your registrar appears to have suspended your domain name or is having problems as there are no NS records published for your domain that are publicly viewable. IX's webservers are responding, though, the IP address that ixwebhosting is publishing is also not responding. Since they are a tucows reseller, and the name isn't visible in their root either, I would assume the domain was suspended by the registrar.

Getting that fixed will probably require sending verification that your name is First Name Last Name and that you can receive mail at mail@mail.com.
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It would be hard to find matches for an image if you didn’t start with an image to match, eh?
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Sure, it was a pretty dumb myth that they were testing and it didn't make for a great episode, i just still can't believe they didn't end up shooting someone.
Not in the long run. Unless they have some other leverage like a monopoly or something.
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WebGL is not a replacement for DirectX, it's just a replacement for Direct3D. What's the rest of the stack?
I agree with you 100%. Great content is the best way of attracting links and traffic, but sometimes we also need something extra to push that.

Eugen
english translation: http://translate.google.fr/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcontest....
Mint wouldn't be very useful if your finances are simple. I have accounts with three banks, two credit card companies, and three investment brokerages, so having a service that aggregates all of that activity together makes it much easier to keep track of what's going on.
Hmm.. Would have liked to see more details about the accident itself. The cannonball was cast iron? Any estimation about speed and weight?

Actually the biggest surprise were the walls of the house shown (mostly the exterior wall): Is this a brick and mortar house/wall? Or is this wood/insulation mostly?

Edit: In fullscreen that looks to be a wall made of concrete, with a network of iron/steel to support it? Even if it's a ~thin~ wall by some standards, this is a lot stronger than I initially guessed.
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Wow, lawsuit city. Hell, possibly criminal charges. This may spell the end of the show.
Is Tomcat integration still left out of the community edition? I paid for a full IDEA 10 license, basically for this feature. I don't mind paying for software, but I think leaving Tomcat integration out of the community edition makes it hard to compete with Netbeans and Eclipse.

On the other hand, the Maven integration in either edition of IDEA is much nicer than either Eclipse or Netbeans.
It is preserving the sum of knowledge being generated on the internet, which is orders of magnitude faster than any other information and data generation system ever in history. It is extremely important to keep records of everything we do online. Saving a life now is great and all, but documenting history like the archive does is essential for history to be preserved.

Also, to generate revenue they would have to privatize some of their data or start selling ads, which for the same reasons wikipedia is funded by donations, doesn't work with public services.
Awesome! I'll be sure to give it a try.
They had a recent Locations clip-show which was surprisingly good and mentioned some more close calls. For instance, the one where they set off so much ANFO that it broke windows in the nearby town. Or where they set off a fuel-air bomb with coffee creamer that almost blew up the build team because they didn't treat it like a serious explosion with them in the bunker and such.
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I think it's all about style. The user-run subreddits, the spartan UI, the information density packed into a seemingly-simple thread view. Love it.
The two things he mentions as his biggest mistakes are both symptoms of the same thing: hiring outside your comparative advantage. He hired too many developers for a product that's comparative advantage is in what content is (and is not) shown, and what people say about the content, instead of hiring enough community managers (hence the unruly community problem). Digg and HN aren't differentiated by the features of the website, they're differentiated by the content and community.

Hire inside your comparative advantage. Contract/vendor everything else.
I never stated a belief about whether or not education is a public good. The person I responded to stated that law enforcement is a public good but not education. I wanted to know why he/she thought this. I don't see how one can be considered a public good and not the other.
Who said anything about innovation? For all I care a company can be making grey widgets...if they do that better than anybody else then it is of interest (for me).
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No words can describe how freaking awesome this is.

This could be one of the most influential and inspiring buildings in the world.

Up there with the Burj.
as the windows desktop store is going to be metro only, i dont see it being a roaring success
You can disable DTD checking and then use XHTML (unless of course you're going for strict SGML compliance as opposed to something that can be parsed by a browser).
Genius link bait.
As I was reading that story, the sequence at the beginning of each episode was flashing through my mind, in Adam's voice: "do not try this at home. We are, what you call, professionals"...

// yeah, I know, mistakes happen.
i still think they have to make the conditions much nicer for win developers, recognizing the gap between apple store, android market and the baby win store.
I was going to fork it on github and fix it but then I found this: http://www.nikolaydyankov.com/lionbars/

Seems to do the same job whilst respecting lion scroll direction (Haven't tested with standard scrolling so there's a chance they could have just imitated reverse scrolling)
I love the show, but I felt very uneasy about the curving the bullet thing. I cringe every time they show those clips during the beginning montage. But other than that, nothing stood out to me.
i hope that they don't get judged too harshly for this unfortunate incident. it is a nice and fun program to watch, and would be a real shame if it got canned...
Yeah, all those dumb people watching, am I right?
The course did really good in terms of conversion rates, but I rushed it a little bit and I didn't manage to get a high amount of traffic, so I can benefit of those high conversion rates.

20% of those who saw the intro video subscribed to get the free series of video tutorials

15% of those who subscribed got on the webcast

5% of those who subscribed purchased the course

But teaching through video and video in general works really well in almost any niche.

I hope this helps, but do let me know if you have any other questions.
Which scrollbar do you mean? Imo thats just css overflow settings
Yup. I'm in. Been waiting since Kickstarter announcement.
Yes, website copy, UX need work.
Tweeted you for an invitation.
Thinking of putting OP+S3 under the tree for family gifts.
Go get 'em!
Past observing tadpole behavior, science takes a strongly dangerous bent.
Funny how the developers get blamed for when the company fails, but never credited for companywide success. Frankly, im sick and tired of it and im going to do absolutely nothing about it.
Just wood and insulation.
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You want to keep the expertise on your product IN-THE-COMPANY, not outside.

You want to be able to build a company engineering culture, to be able to adapt.

You want people which have a stake in the actual outcome of the company.

You don't want your programmers only be a contract away from working for your competitor.

Also: you don't want all the contracting engineering, communicating and legal overhead.
Also they had a hacker cofounder. AFAIK Digg was built in PHP on a contract from its TV personality founder.
https://github.com/whalliburton/academy

Since there's no link to the actual repo in that document.
As someone who has worked as a community manager frequently, I will say that startups always underfund and underhire in this area. They always want to hire the best engineers, but when it comes to community managers they generally don't want to hire more than 1-2, and aren't willing to pay for the best.

In an engineering heavy culture, community management is sometimes incorrectly viewed as something 'anyone could do'.
My favorite part about the early mythbusters wasn't the science - it was the thrill of the build. To watch them having to build some weird thing, working through the possibilities, dealing with problems etc. Like the one where they tested if you could get electrocuted through an appliance in a lightning storm... they actually spent time troubleshooting the wiring in the house, and explained the problem. Now all you get is a 30 second montage before they start blowing crap up.
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