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Well if you asked Apple I'm sure they would say they "will allow" open source apps, but that doesn't mean everyone agrees that the legal terms of their app store do in fact allow FOSS.

What are other people saying about the Windows 8 Store TOS?
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Gorgeous piece of writing!

You don't actually need the Y combinator for any of the cases presented like mod, range, etc. Church numeral iterators are more than sufficient for the task.

I'll use Haskell to illustrate, but you could easily translate this into his subset of Ruby.

-- represent n as a Church numeral
iterate 0 f x = x
iterate n f x = f (iterate (n-1) f x)

-- m modulo n can be calculated with at most m conditional subtraction steps
mod m n = iterate m (\x -> if x < n then x else x-n) m

-- build the range back to front using a (number, list) pair as state
range m n = snd (iterate (n-m) (\(x, xs) -> (x-1, x:xs)) (n-1, []))

The mod implementation is an example of a general pattern. Whenever you can bound the number of iterations in an algorithm as a computable function of the arguments, you can implement the algorithm by computing the upper bound and iterating that many times with an iterator function that acts like the identity once it reaches its base case (for mod, the case is x < n).

The range implementation displays another important method called 'tupling' or more generally 'strengthening the induction hypothesis'. It underlies the predecessor/decrement function for Church numerals which the author of the article presents but chooses not to explain; the idea is simple, if rather inspired. Rather than iteratively compute n-1 as a function of n, we will compute a more general datum, the pair (n-1, n). That might seem like a pointless change, but when formulated this way, the problem becomes surprisingly easy:

dec n = fst (iterate n (\(_, x) -> (x, x+1)) (0, 0))
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This is the beginning of the beginning for me.

I've never used AdBlock despite being aware of it from the start because I've always felt it breaks the economics of the web. If it becomes a tool to weed out the bad apples while not punishing the rest, I'll actually start using it.
no one says ALL women. but MOST women DO want to dedicate time to families. just like many good drivers suffer high insurance premiums because of statistical truths about gender, age, car color, # of doors, etc. how about custody of children during divorce? there are many biases that also favor women because of statistics.

we all have to deal with unfairness every day because we don't fit some stereotype. that's life, it's not fair.
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What does the new Supplemental Poverty Measure really measure?
merba.js would be kind of funny since @wycats was on the merb team.
I still wonder if AirBnB would have made it through the trough of sorrow following this model.

Regardless, a great framework to consider. Startups can drag on indefinitely and we should consider the opportunity cost of hanging on to a single project. It's okay to move on, and it's okay to fail.
Talent shortage? What talent shortage?
It can be construed as either way, but the face that there were tens of thousands of programs and libraries under the GPL when the App Store guidelines were released, it leans towards saying that Apple banned GPL'ed apps from the App Store.

If the FSF had modified the GPL to exclude the App Store, then you'd be more correct.
This seems fairly off. I think more likely is hiring someone you know or have heard of already, or has been referred to you, and the "interviews" wouldn't include essay questions, rather a series of drinks, coffees, meals to assess technical and personal fit. Employee #1's concern hopefully isn't ensuring that they get paid on time every month and will be willing to roll with the punches. That said paying someone late sucks.
You would be very well served by tracking down every other long-form Weingarten piece you can find as well. Amazing writer.
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It's more accurate to say that Apple's rules are mutually incompatible with the GPL. Neither explicitly calls out the other. It just happens that it's impossible to follow both sets of rules simultaneously.

If I cared to blame someone for this, it would be Apple, as the GPL predates the App Store. It really doesn't make sense to specifically blame anyone, though. You just have two sets of rules that are mutually incompatible. Just note the consequence and be done with it.
How are you getting "repetition into conformity" from the link?
I'm on Linux, so Chrome is all I've got.
It's starting to get to the point where I have so much work that I need some help, but on the other hand I'm ok with taking the risk of eating ramen and potatoes for weeks at a time if I have to (mostly if I have trouble collecting from a client).

A lot of people have suggested contracting out work, which seems good but it has its own problems. I would rather have someone completely on board.

I have half a mind to just jump in the deep end and trust that I'll be able to swim, but having someone depend on you for income is much different than just putting your own well-being and comfort at risk.
He should at least have a "lang" attribute in the markup. Or is that considered obsolete now?
GPL existed before the app store came around, and Apple did not design their terms to accomodate the GPL.
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Perhaps you're new to the platform, but fragmentation has been a very common and accepted term for the Android platform due to the variety of screens, OSes, and UIs.
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Am I the only one who finds the designation "product company" useless? To me, it's as meaningful as "wet water". Every company has a product. Now certainly some companies have more tangible products than others. And it's not always clear what a company's product is.

But at the end of the day, a consultant's expertise and knowledge are just as much products as Apple's iPhone.
Is there any public data about how many people use Google Reader, Bloglines Reader, Netvibes, iGoogle, My Yahoo! and so forth, all of which are RSS-based?
So you argues he painted wheat the color you see wheat, even though he does not see it in real life the same color as you see?

Now I'm confused.
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The "given how easy they are to implement I see no reason not to" part is what bugs me the most about this. I don't think there's a modern language in existence that doesn't have at least 3 free ways to implement an RSS/Atom feed. Every framework I can think of (ASP.Net (MVC and Web Forms), Django, Rails) has it built in and it takes virtually no resources.

Unless you use an ad service that doesn't support it I can't see a reason why you wouldn't implement (I can't speak for other languages but in ASP.NET MVC I could implement a feed in the time it took him to make that post)
Indeed.

But it is properly not the labels that killed it.

I have no problem with paying reasonable prices for stuff (I have brought way too many books on kindle, plenty of music on iTunes, etc) but I see no reason to use spotify/last.fm/pandora over grooveshark.

It lets me stream what I am interested in (whether a specific song or a particular genre of music) when I want it. That is really all I want in a music service.

The irony is that it makes me a pirate (maybe, I am not quite sure if it is still called that when I don't upload) but I am a paying member of grooveshark (and has been for years). If the music guys makes a legal clone of grooveshark, I would properly be a member there instead.
As I was reading I imagined at the end Dr. Tomlin back home found the bag of jelly beans he emptied onto the table still in his pocket only he would find one jelly bean still in it.
I am going to try to push more work and make it open source.
Actually, in the district where my wife works, both gifted kids as well as children who have emotional and behavioral disorders are placed in the "Special Education" department. She does half a day doing "Pull-Out" special ed, where she'll pull the EBD children into a corner of their existing classroom to work on things, then another half day doing the same type of pull-out work with gifted kids.
On being the squeaky wheel
So what steps are you taking to learn JS?
If you can read it you may upvote it but often you, I know I often do/did, will just breeze over it and ignore it.
You simply need to set expectations according to the truth. If you have 6 months of their salary banked, tell them that. If you're uncertain you can pay them, tell them and hire people who are OK with that.
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Interesting - if that is the case, kudos to them!

This also makes me wonder whether there is are bots to search for all those "no copyright intended" videos.
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Who is an entrepreneur
Is it really true that a sustainable distribution model needs to work for all of these stakeholders? Sustainable doesn't necessarily mean that it puts food on everybody's table, but instead, that it just exists, and that the participants (musicians and users) reach mutual agreement through their activities/participation.

Wouldn't musicians continue to produce and distribute music even if they weren't able to monetize it through sales? Sure, its great to reward musicians for their work, and they'd love to sell CD's and digital downloads, but being a practicing musician seems to be one of those things that musicians are driven to do, regardless of whether there is a paycheck associated with it. If music sales disappeared tomorrow, my guess is that musicians would continue to produce quality music and find an audience.

If Spotify isn't "working" for makers of music, then either Spotify will fail, the expectations of "makers of music" will change to match the reality of Spotify.
most of the meet-ups either have people that are not coders and are looking for a technical co-founder, or are developers very interested in their own projects. it's nearly impossible to find someone with the right skills, and the right interests.

this is one of the shitiest parts of 'absolutely' needing a co-founder.

i wish there was a y-combinator just for single founders.
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I know this is just an experimental page, but it still makes me shudder to see this kind of phrase reappearing on web sites.
When has Apple restricted the right to modify and redistribute a GPL application?

Although Apple's app stores don't have provisions for distributing source, they don't do anything to stop the source of a developer's app being posted for modifications or redist.

I'd love to see some examples of your claims.
Haha yeah, that's probably the REAL hurdle. Banking 6 months salary as a solo consultant. Good excuse as any other to raise rates again :)
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You can't assess technical competence from coffees, only from writing code. You can't assess email communication skills from drinks, only from writing.

Like in the Matrix, you don't truly know someone until you fight them.
"Oregon law provides special legal protections against defamation lawsuits to journalists associated with traditional media outlets. Such publications are immune from defamation suits unless the defamed individual first requests a retraction. Journalists at recognized media outlets are also protected from revealing confidential sources. Cox argued that she was eligible for protection under both provisions and asked the judge to set aside the verdict."

From http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/judge-blogge...
Readability fixes this. I read most things in readability.
I agree with everything in your first paragraph and would add the following: parsing is overrated. It's interesting the way that crossword puzzles are. Nothing wrong with that, but it can be a distraction; it's just not that deep a space.

That's not to say that the people who worked out how to do it in the first place weren't brilliant. They were, and it was a hard problem. But it's a solved one.
As somebody who has tried last.fm, I found the experience lacking. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the model is flawed.
I stopped reading here:

> Microsoft has achieved platform unity across all their devices — something that Google and Apple are still a year or more away from reaching.

This alone makes it hard for me to take this article seriously, also it's highly sensationalist.
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The kids are tested every year at a state level that ensures that the student who lives in BFE, Kentucky (where I live) receives the same level of education as a student in a medium sized town and both students learn the same things that a student who lives in a 'major' area like Lexington or Louisville will learn.

If a teacher isn't making the grades at a statewide level, they will get rid of her or cut funding to the school. Sadly, this means that many lazy teachers are just teaching to the test, and nothing else.
no schedule day or week
http://dicka-berbagi.blogspot.com/2011/12/c.html
0 TeV collisions of snow particles with alphanumeric characters were recorded at max annoyance levels at 9:23AM PST.
Certainly the right meetup over coffee would digress into laptops out battling over technical ideas and implementations or reading through some samples?
But RFCs don't change every month, which is the real milestone being celebrated here.
Or maybe they have, and it has yet to reach us.
Reminds me a bit of something I wrote a few years ago: https://md401.homelinux.net/fiction/sample%20%2327.html
To expand, in the USA most (all?) of the data produced by the US Federal government is public domain (things like map data, nasa results etc.). In EU this is not the case. As a result lots of governments, say, map the country using tax payer money, then charge for access to this data. You can't make mashups or derived works.
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Yes, it's the best way to keep up to date on things that are not updated very often. I probably have 400-500 feeds subscribed to in google reader, but never use google reader directly.

On Mac: Reeder
On iPad: Reeder
On iPhone: NetNewsWire (until Reeder comes to iPhone??)

Twitter has replaced some of that news gathering, but a lot of times if I'm away for a week, I'm not going to go through thousands of tweets to see what I missed, but it's pretty easy on the lower volume feeds. I don't necessarily read everything, but at least the headlines give me an idea of what's going on.

I don't know what I'd do without them.
Your post confuses me. If a developer builds an open source application, isn't that developer implicitly inviting others to copy the code and do with it whatever they like (depending on the license, of course)? Ignoring app stores, isn't that the way open source has been all along? And including app stores, what difference does it make?

I am the sole developer of an open source Android app (pressureNET), but nobody has copied the code and re-uploaded - if they did, isn't that just "forking"? I'd be thrilled if anyone found my project worthwhile enough for that - it's never happened to me before.

I guess I'm confused why you think that forking is 'risk'. That's not only the expected behavior, but the hoped-for behavior, isn't it?
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I recently got an android phone and I've been deeply impressed by Swype, which is an interesting idea. You put down your finger and move it over they keys you want to press without lifting it until the end of the word. The system then uses a lot of machine learning techniques to figure out what word you were going for. It works far better than I think it has any right to, and when typing english text i can now get pretty impressive speeds. I don't know about wpm, but I'd say it's pretty much the same speed that i can type with one hand on a normal physical keyboard.

I think this is one important area where Android is far ahead of (non-jailbroken) iOS.
The line is thin. I would't want a situation where you can only plug rented, locked devices into the internet (aka the wet dream of the copyright lobby.) And the power to say "no" to a deal is not always sufficient to stop such crap - look at the game consoles.
Agreed he seems to just dismiss Janus randomly, instead prefering to tell people to what...assemble the plugins by hand and just copy his vimrc config? not ideal.
Yes, and as a special case of this, if what DaniFong says is true and generalizes beyond the math GRE", non-Asian women will exhibit inferior math performance in the contemporary US*. Similarly, if zasz's claims about athletic performance stereotypes are true, then non-black men will be inferior athletes.

Both of these predictions seem to concur with reality, so I'd suggest maybe Danifong's theory has something going for it.
I think if you look at it every company renders service. Now, when you talk about a product, maybe its safe to say that its a tool that a company sells to provide a set of services in an automated manner. Hence, increasing the number of customers the company can serve
If you view my assertion as "disparagement," you've inferred malice where there was none. There's nothing disparaging about what I said. Yes, the assertion points out differences between sexes, so it is "sexist." So is pointing out that women tend to breast feed more than men.

In my opinion, pointing out my own lack of a citation is a better practice than making uncited claims of fact. It's an invitation to prove me wrong, but the lack of a citation in itself doesn't make me wrong.
If I did that, I would be out of job and liable for loss related to loss of company secrets.

You don't need copyright law for that.
I apologize if I gave that impression; it was not my intention.

I'm merely suggesting that the amount of money in the US for technical research and development is vastly larger than in any other country (as evidenced both by its research universities and its venture-backed economy). This is why, despite its failings in other ways, it still manages to pull talent from all over the world for graduate programs and employment.

To be clear: there are great institutions, companies, and people all over the world. I never meant to suggest otherwise. I was merely making a claim about the economics of R&D, and the resulting distribution of talent.
Have you actually had any luck with that? I did $100 of reddit ads a few times with a super high CPC and a very, very low click through rate.
How are the two any different? The first isn't stereotyping at all, it's just stating a causal fact. The second is a solution to that fact.

Generalizing isn't stereotyping, if it's a largely correct generalization.
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Of course. Apple could have made the rules to accommodate GPL'ed apps, but they didn't. I am very curious as to what the exact terms will be in order to allow GPL'ed apps on the MS store.
> If you don't watch TV and don't listen to the radio you are not the majority of people.

You could have said the same thing in 2000 about social networking - if you don't share your photos and broadcast your thoughts over the internet, then you're not the majority of the people. But look at how things are now.

My point regarding how I discover and listen to music was to show that it's possible to do all that over the internet. That it's not outside the realm of possibility with respect to logistics and technology.

Don't look at what people are doing now, but what they could be doing in 5 or 10 years if you give them a valid reason for doing so. It's already been proven that people are willing to root their social interactions in websites and computers. There's no reason the same couldn't be done for music. It's just a fervent belief that the status quo is unalterable that stops these shifts from occurring.

Without a doubt, the degree to which the big music labels are entrenched will make such a shift damn near impossible. But as they say, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Whoever is successful in cracking this egg will reap unimaginable rewards. Hopefully this will spur the kind of innovation that will lead to some breakthroughs in the near future.
+1 for emacs mention
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I think the more interesting part of this is why Google has allowed this woman to manipulate the SERP's in order to bash this guy for so long. They usually have an itchy trigger finger when it comes to burying sites like hers for using keyword stuffing and other questionable SEO techniques.

Likewise, I'm surprised Mr. Padrick never contacted Google to have these pages removed either.

Had either Google or Mr. Padrick done their due diligence, I hardly think this case would have gotten as far as it did.
I didn't see the problem with arrow keys either. They really do break flow though. I only recently discovered how much better the home key navigation is over arrow keys. Every time you move you hands away from the home row you incur a small mental task of making sure that you move your hand over there and that the hand is correctly positioned. It sounds trivial but it really adds up to one less thing to think about.

Couple this with inoremap jj <Esc> and it eliminates the majority of large movements away from the home row.

Say you are in the middle of a word that you want to change compare:
Arrow key right until at end of word, i, backspace until at start of word, type new word, Esc three excursions from home row.

Ciw, type new word, jj. No excursions from home row and less of a mental load.
I would love a way to hide all submissions of extremetech.
What resources are missing? The companies she mentioned all found enough to be successful. The author just claims that we need "more engagement" from government without saying what problem that would solve.
True, however the stated goal here was to replicate the Ruby example more-or-less as-is. Which means building something elegant and then greenspunning cruft on top of it :-)

Your comment highlights how simple things we take for granted as basic ideas (like if statements) may not be as axiomatic as we assume.
I work exclusively in split windows, vertical and horizontal both, and I don't work without NERD Tree anymore.

nnoremap <Leader>n :NERDTreeToggle<CR>

I suggest remapping NERDTree's help function from ? to H so it doesn't interfere with search-up.
Homeschooling can be a great option but it's not feasible for everyone, esp. those without the time and/or resources to be able to do homeschooling. It's still important to look at public education critically to look for ways of improvement since there are many that rely on public education as one of the, if not the only, available source of group education in their communities.