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> I don't see the point in this being anything to do with CoffeeScript until it's an extension to the syntax itself.

The included .js files will work just fine in JavaScript. So you’re right about that.

But we are talking about convenience methods and the aesthetics of code, as opposed to some infrastructure functionality (like an async library) or domain-specific functionality (like a state machine mixin).

It’s just a feeling on my part, but it makes much more sense to me in CoffeeScript than it does in JavaScript. It’s easier to write anonymous lambdas in CoffeeScript, so it’s cleaner to use .K and .T in CoffeeScript than if I have to encumber a line of code with braces and return keywords.

I wrote jQuery Combinators in old-fashioned JavaScript, so I can’t really dispute your suggestion, just share why I wrote it to appeal to CoffeeScript users.
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Can someone explain what is "laggy" about android?

I have a Droid bionic (second Android phone) and a Kindle Fire. What lag should I be suffering?
You know you're on hacker news when a repetitious meme gets voted down to oblivion. Oh, wait...

Edit: Phew, -2 and dropping. I was worried there for a second.
I hate my home entertainment center. Really, really hate it. I mean it works fine, but I have too many remotes, way too many wires (I think R2D2 blew up back there), and doing something seemingly simple ("turn the tv on and watch something") involves operating a stereo, a DVR, and a TV.

And the UI's haven't evolved much in recent years. My TV menus (volume, change source, etc.) look like they run on the same software as an old ATM. I like Tivo, but it hasn't changed much in over a decade and is looking really dated.

The real opportunity lies in the integration options with other devices, like my computer, my iPhone, iPad, etc. But in order to realize it, Apple has to shove other TV manufacturers out of the way.
On iOS, updates to the UI happen on the main thread, but all animation, surface compositing, and rendered graphics run on the dedicated Core Animation rendering thread.
Do people actually get any feedback like this?
There's a huge leap from being able to figure it out with a book and all the equations inside of it as opposed to taking a test with only questions, no reference material, and presumably a time limit.
Wow, no way. Wow.
"Even beyond the way they rope musicians into highly unfavorable contracts, they often don't even fulfill the contracts."

VC firms do the same thing. So why are they so respected on HN?
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Not terribly fragmented but certainly not unified.

Here's even better data http://www.marco.org/2011/11/30/more-ios-device-and-os-versi...
I wouldn't expect someone to remember the definitions of things that they do not use routinely. I suspect that given a definition, you would remember the concepts. This is important and the primary reason we teach breadth of knowledge. The kids would have recently learned this material and the definition would be relatively easy for them to remember.

If we rely on the average state of mind of a population to guide education, we will quickly end up teaching nothing. We should instead strive to teach as much as possible with the understanding that some information will be forgotten. We don't want our children to be as good as us. We want them to be better than us.
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Then you might RTFA instead of posting vapid koans.
I know! Now, imagine if those same people also had good taste in music... That would be so cool!
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So, if a private school shouldn't/can't discriminate on the basis of race, should they be able to discriminate on the basis of religious affiliation/belief?

I ask this as a graduate of a Christian liberal arts college, which discriminates on the basis of religious beliefs. It's not entirely on topic but I think the "logic" still applies. Or does it?
Apple can basically drive a majority of that TV for $99. What the Apple TV really shows is a complete iOS platform available at that price point. I doubt Sony/Samsung/LG and the like are that efficient.
The artist-label relationship is similar to entrepreneur-VC relationship in more than just this one regard. Angels/incubators are like indie labels, and the relationship there is slightly less skewed, but most parallels still exist.
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I would guess they do the exact opposite.

Produce a normal quality (120 hz maybe 240 hz) HDTV with 3D capability, (Nothing special technology hardware wise)

Focus all their effort on using software to optimize the experience.

Sell for a premium which captures their target market and delivers value through experience rather than hardware.
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8th grade students are 13-14. Students generally start in Kindergarten at 5; Americans don't enjoy 0-indecies, but Kindergarten is Grade 0. You can extrapolate from there for the other years.

I don't teach in VA, but according to the implementer's guide[1], it's un-timed. From my experience, I'd say probably 2 or 3 hours for the 50 math questions, depending on the student's skill.

[1]http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/test_administration/manu...

I haven't worked enough (at all) in adult ed to comment in depth on these, but they look like they'd cover a lot of the important stuff for a basic job and your general day-to-day numeracy and literacy.
Scaling a 600 gram iPad to 55" would cause it to weigh about 12 kilograms, without taking into account any extra material needed to strengthen its case.
They probably don't expect many people to rush out and replace existing HDTVs. If they get into that market they'll probably do it for the long term. When you're shopping for an Ultra HDTV in the future there will be an Apple model for you to choose from. Also while about 65% of Americans own an HDTV the average American household has 3 TVs. Lots of room for growth there just in the US alone. In China the demand for HDTVs is growing at a crazy pace. I couldn't find any updated statistics but in 2007 year-to-year shipments of HDTVs to China rose 70% So there's a huge world-wide market for HDTVs even if not a single person replaces an existing model just to get the Apple one. (and of course we know 5-10 million people in the US alone will do just that)
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans

It's the one with this disclaimer: "New activations only. Available exclusively in-store at Walmart, on Walmart.com, and T-Mobile.com."

They also released this $200 phone to go along with the plan: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/26/samsung-exhibit-ii-4g-to-...
>of the same matter that comprises the rest of the universe, detectable by the same means.

man, that plugs nicely into the whole dark matter/energy discussion.
I don't see why buying a new TV should be different than buying a new laptop. A 47" LG LCD TV is about the same price as a Macbook Air, and nobody complains that the MBA requires them to "replace their existing laptop."

Not that I think Apple is going out with TV's. The content situation is still iffy, and I'm not really sure if Apple can do anything about the pure shit interfaces DirectTV and the cable companies put on their services.
Can anyone shed light on why Borders acquired so many IP addresses? It is just not clicking with me unless they bought a bunch up as a "me too" response to Amazon's more diverse business model.
The title made me imagine it was between Firefox and V8
I tried, sadly it limited me to 32 "words" :(
Anyone know how to denote 'log base 2'? This: "log (x)" assumes base 10.
I love Apple but I dislike the rumor industry surrounding it. I can't buy a rumor. Wake me when a real product is available. Saves time and less false expectations. Plus the real product will likely rock anyway. Anybody with me?
Try lg(x) ?
The easy zooming and panning makes this a better graphing experience than any other calculator/software I have used so far. True, you don't have the capabilities of Mathematica available, but it seems to work great for graphing a single variable function.
Thanks for the link. But I think it supports the point: "iOS 4+ adoption, now at 98.8%, is so ubiquitous that it’s very safe to require it" That's after only ~18 months. And 4.2+ should be at about 80% by the end of the year.
With this type of thread management they're required to trap into the kernel to acquire a mutex. There are obviously severe performance issues with this which partly explains some of the blocking and performance issues in Androids garbage collector

Android runs on Linux. Linux uses Futexes (Fast Userspace Mutexes) for locking abstractions like semaphores and mutexes. From Wikipedia -

"A futex consists of a kernelspace wait queue that is attached to an aligned integer in userspace. Multiple processes or threads operate on the integer entirely in user space (using atomic operations to avoid interfering with one another), and only resort to relatively expensive system calls to request operations on the wait queue (for example to wake up waiting processes, or to put the current process on the wait queue). A properly programmed futex-based lock will not use system calls except when the lock is contended; since most operations do not require arbitration between processes, this will not happen in most cases."
I believe it's just "lg(x)", though you could also use the more generic case of "log(x)/log(base)"
Most people don't learn proofs. If you're going to learn about proofs beyond mere knowledge that they exist, then you have to be forced to do proofs from scratch.

Doing a proof from scratch is akin to being given a compass and told that somewhere past the wilderness is the promised land where others have blazed trails to but otherwise given no other help.

You know you can create the proof (since its a book problem) but how to is entirely up to you.
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And in my experience, the best math teacher I ever had (Geometry!) was female. Lesson: Don't gender stereotype based on personal experience. Not only is it probably not relevant to others' experience, it's also not helpful.
I'd buy one. Where the "TV" mode is just one particular app.
lg(x) works for me.
Make it clear that you are the one making the topic clear and simple.
Pretty well reflects the quality of the Albums. Thank god for Death Magnetic.
SQL is not relational algebra but rather an attempt to bridge a relational algebra/programming gap. The null issue arises in SQL due to it being used in a relational algebra context in one case and a software development context in another. The point though is that these are treated as equivalents because of an open world assumption.
it allows to imagine that something could be a "life" in Venus like conditions as well:

"Scientists once thought that no living thing could survive the harsh combination of toxic chemicals, high temperatures, high pressures, and total darkness at these vents. "

"Vent bacteria use hydrogen sulfide as their energy source instead of sunlight. "

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No. Teaching breadth of topics involves more than just teaching obviously useful information. The problem stems from our ability to evaluate what is actually useful. Let me give a direct example you may not have considered, and an interesting hypothesis.

Perhaps most importantly, we live in a democracy. This means that people vote for the direction of our government. When doing so, many different issues are considered. Of these, most are probably outside the area of ones expertise. How can we expect good decisions made by people ignorant of the subjects in question? So we teach basic science, basic math, history, english, and the arts to everyone. This way our population has at least a small amount of knowledge to fall back on when needed.

On a less concrete topic, there is much speculation about the effects of learning on brain structure. Despite not remembering much mathematics, for instance, how do we know that learning mathematical concepts did not leave a lasting effect on the brain? What about the lessons we learn from history class? We might not directly associate with them when making everyday decisions, but is it not possible that learning those lessons contributed to our current thought processes?

In summary, it is very difficult to quantify exactly what you retain from education and even harder to identify specific ways in which it helps you or helped to shape your mind. Thus, it is best to err on the side of caution and teach as much as we can.
No, valley girl talking is just fillers and the abstraction article refers to is fake, unneeded use of more general words that is diluting the actual meaning. The article is wrong on acronyms, they are useful and convey meaning.
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The user complaints are with regards to delays in event processing ("sloppy" or "laggy" touch events), not general animation that does not involve user input; the specific examples in this article demonstrating how this "dedicated" UI thread with "real-time priority" exists detail touching the screen and watching the system lock up as it is now busy handling the scroll events.

Also, it is my understanding that surface compositing is done in hardware using surface-backed textures, with any software rendering of those surfaces being done on the main UI thread while responding to messages such as drawRect, using CoreGraphics (not CoreAnimation). The only thing that gets shoved to background threads are, AFAIK, animations that are specified in code but then "set free" into the CoreAnimation backend.

I thereby don't feel like these comments adequately defend the statements made in the article: the things it claims are benefits of iOS's graphics architecture either A) work the same on Android (per the post it is responding to from the Android developer regarding the myths of Android hardware surface compositing) or B) actually happen in software on the main/UI thread on iOS. I think we need to look elsewhere for the real cause of Android's horrible touch response. ;(
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Oh shit. Just yesterday I've ran into precisely same problem: I've tried to change all my passwords online into something like service_password_date. I decided to do this after googling my four favorite password md5 hashes (abc123, cba321, etc). It was there :)
So yea, only several services would allow to have password longer than 15 characters, and several even wouldn't allow to use anything else than numbers and letters. I was shocked. Skype won't even let you use their name in password, how's that fucked up...
What context do you think might explain this away, given the content?
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Nonsense. You can communicate anything at all complex faster, more clearly, and above all more reliably in print, even in an email, than by speech. Meetings and presentations are all about status and signaling.
Yeah, those are terrible letter shapes. It happens in IE8 on Windows XP for me too.
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The motivation behind this project would be that I've always wanted such an app, but all other offerings just sucked.

To be more precise, I found other apps ultimately useless because of one or more of the following:

● links inside pages fail oftenly, even when the target article does exist
● stuck in 2008, which is the only html release of the wikipedia dumps
● no in-page search
● they treat each wikipedia language as a separate app, which prevents inter-language linking. Also, that means you have to pay for each language.
● inflexible search that doesn't use wildcards
● no tables or elements other than simple text
● slow
● clunky interface designed for useless eye-candy rather than speed and functionality
● no articles from the book namespace
● no fullscreen, page-down/up buttons and other such little features without which the whole experience becomes tiresome.

WikiGear Offline addresses ALL of the above.

This app is my pride and joy, please try it and tell me what you think about it.
Congratulations.

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Curious to know, when did you start and did you have a co-founder?
> Source, please.

Common sense, Wikipedia, previous lawsuits against the company, this lawsuit in question. Feel free to Google. It's not all unlicensed, but their catalog is built upon user uploads (and from previous court cases, from their own execs uploading music they have no license to), not just a database of music they licensed like a legal music store/service.

The UMG lawsuit alone alleges Grooveshark employees uploaded over 100,000 files they had no license to. There was no contract then, they just expected to have enough listening data to make a profitable licensing deal on that music... which might've worked if it didn't come out in discovery of a year old lawsuit that it was Grooveshark employees and not users that uploaded so much of the music. No DMCA protection for that.
Because sometimes when you're programming you can rely on your language or framework to abstract away the details of the hardware and operating system. This allows you to solve easy problems that language/framework designers have anticipated.

Other times, you'll be faced with hard problems that require you to roll up your sleeves and mess with the stuff under the hood. Before you can do this, you need to understand what operating systems do and how they work. If you can write this kind of code, there will be far more problems that you can solve.
The motivation behind this project would be that I've always wanted such an app, but all other offerings just sucked.

To be more precise, I found other apps ultimately useless because of one or more of the following:

● links inside pages fail oftenly, even when the target article does exist
● stuck in 2008, which is the only html release of the wikipedia dumps
● no in-page search
● they treat each wikipedia language as a separate app, which prevents inter-language linking. Also, that means you have to pay for each language.
● inflexible search that doesn't use wildcards
● no tables or elements other than simple text
● slow
● clunky interface designed for useless eye-candy rather than speed and functionality
● no articles from the book namespace
● no fullscreen, page-down/up buttons and other such little features without which the whole experience becomes tiresome.

WikiGear Offline addresses ALL of the above.

This app is my pride and joy, please try it and tell me what you think about it.
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I'm hoping that Apple do this -- the TV industry is screaming out for someone like them to come along and shake up the market. My only concern is to do with obsolescence. Apple could put the key electronics into a replaceable cartridge, so that it can be upgraded every year or so.

In fact, the way I imagined Apple could get into the TV business would be to partner with an existing manufacturer to make TVs that are basically glorified iPod docks, and Apple would make an Apple TV "3.0" that fits into that dock. The TV supplies it power and an infra-red signal, and the Apple TV supplies the picture. Sony, LG or Panasonic could be a launch partner, but the aim would be to have every manufacturer clamouring to make compatible sets (as happens now with iPod speaker docks).

For the TV manufacturers, the advantage is they have another feature bullet-point to promote their hardware (TV manufacturers love their bullet-points and overly hyped feature names).

For Apple, it means they can stay in the business of selling $100 enabling devices for the iTunes store, rather than selling heavy, bulky TVs with razor thin margins.
The Newton was supposedly profitable for Apple. It was killed not because it lost money, but because it was overall not a good use of resources for Apple despite making a modest amount of money.
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i'm the same way, but i'm guessing most people don't think like you and i.
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I did, but it was long time ago, and not that good. I don't think have it anymore either...
Or rather, not from a monopolistic company bent on calling users criminals for accessing their own devices.

But yeah, if you agree that that describes Apple to a T, or maybe a P, then "Not Apple, (or Microsoft, or ...)".
Well if we assume 5M tablets made, and Kindle cost is estimated at $205 then selling out Playbooks in a firesale at $99 (known price point where even pets will buy an Android tablet) you get 5M (total) - (7. sold) = 4.3 * $106 per tablet loss = $455M (solving for X would give you $113 loss per tablet or $485M.

I've talked with Quanta before and I don't think they would have taken on the project without a 5M commitment, hence my guess at the number of playbooks made.
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Usually, though, you don't know. And most people don't follow it, so you kind of have to assume any random person doesn't until you have better information. Hopefully this is before he beats you.
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No, I agree -- they definitely won't launch with 4K. But they could launch with something better than 1080p (yes, I meant iPhone 4 resolution). My point is just that they probably view the TV market just the way they viewed the PC, phone and tablet markets: people think they are commoditized, but Apple can qualitatively improve the experience through both UI and manufacturing improvements. Then the margin in what was previously a race-to-the-bottom industry comes back -- and to Apple first.

Another obvious course for them to follow is to allow iOS apps to run directly on the TV. They just need a new input device so users can "touch" the screen while sitting in their sofa.

But I disagree with the end of your point #1. I can absolutely believe that there's a panel manufacturer out there who would collaborate with Apple exclusively for some finite period to deliver some new tech.
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I wonder if they had a minimum commitment to the manufacturer.