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It's also worth mentioning that Python ships with a nice "batteries included" type setup, where installing the basic CPython interpreter and the bundled libraries give you a quite nice collection of tools for common computing tasks (e.g. making HTTP requests).

In contrast, JavaScript does not have a "standard" implementation and doesn't ship with any libraries. Sure, there's Node.js and probably others too.

Once you have a serious project, where you have dependencies and build systems and source control, it's not a very big issue to get install a few libs. But for small projects, Python's batteries come in handy. And some of those small projects turn into big projects.

What comes to Python 2 vs. Python 3, I feel it's a "can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" kind of issue. Unfortunately many people are running business critical applications with Python 2 and are not willing to put in the effort to migrate their code to Python 3. This "don't fix it if it ain't broken" attitude has slowed down Python 3 adoption.
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They didn't cut a release with it, yet. The work has been done and it is or will be in a branch, but it still needs to be reviewed and "accepted" in order to move on.
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Probably because it's been demonstrated that people are willing to pay the 30%. I'm a touch surprised that Microsoft is dropping to 20% for big players, considering that's where the money is. My guess is they're keeping it at 30% for small players because that's where most of the cost will be. It costs the same to put an app through the review process whether it sells one copy or one million copies.

Also, the current platforms are kind of the opposite of a commodity. Commodities are interchangeable.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but have no visibility into their Windows Store pricing.
From a tether, getting slightly better than dial-up speeds, I get a (>) play indicator, presumably as the video is buffering, but it starts automatically, as expected of any video, when it buffers sufficiently to play without breaks or pauses.

All in all, it started playing 4 seconds after the page loaded.
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"Instead the cannonball flew over the foothills surrounding Camp Parks Military Firing Reservation, before spiraling back toward Dublin like a cruise missile."

Wouldn't it be more like a ballistic missile?
I don't always reuse dead memes, but when I do, I stay on Reddit.
reddit has a higher density of news items per page, so its upvote system is more efficient. Reddit has twice the items in the same screen real estate. Digg was also overrun by children who posted low quality one-liner posts. Neither sites are very innovative or difficult to develop.
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Also: it is very col to be able to grab the source code for the community edition, and build the IDE yourself. That said, I buy the Ultimate edition because I live in IntelliJ (even to the point of doing about half of my CLojure dev in IntelliJ - don't laugh, it is pretty nice.)
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Time for my to pull out my visual studio!
This is weird, it seems they were completely removed.
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Heck, it might require less effort overall to write it once in Flex, and then rewrite it in JS four years later than it would have done to write it in JS in 2007 and then keep it up to date with a changing JS landscape over that time.

That's definitely one way to do it, but it depends on the technology and the resource constraints. Ultimately, you have to pick some technologies to rely on. Sure, in theory you can architect your multi-tier app so that you can swap out Java for .NET, or Python for Rails, or Postgres for MySQL, or even HTML/JS for Flex, but those are all difficult and costly swaps to perform. And most startups can't afford to build expensive components twice. They have to make a gamble.

Full-Flex front-end was an accepted model in 2007, with a fair few apps following it. Yes, we could have built just the explorer component in Flex, but that would have had a number of other problems (such as loading times every time you changed a tab, for example). More critically, when we started we had only a vague idea of what this explorer tab might look like. Like many startups, we were discovering our customers' actual needs as we went along, and so it wasn't possible to just declare "the explorer component will look like this and it will be built in Flex", because to be honest, though we suspected the explorer component would be important, and had some ideas about what it should look like, those were completely unchecked assumptions.

And you can't ever be sure that you picked the technology on the right side. So design your systems so that it doesn't matter which side wins, you can adjust to the new reality and keep going.

You can't ever be sure that you did pick the right technology to "stand the test of time", but sometimes you can be relatively sure that you didn't. Even in 2007, for anyone with good knowledge of Open Source, it was clear that eventually, Flex would be losing to open technologies. It wasn't clear how long that would take, and whether Adobe might counter that by opening up Flex, but certainly there were strong concerns about Flex (which we were aware of, but didn't really factor in as strongly as we should have). Similarly, anyone building a startup that critically relies on Java (or, more controversially, PHP) today is picking a technology that's waning and will certainly be largely irrelevant in 1, 3-5 (most likely), or 7 years at most.
"It's like Microsoft 3389 RDP without fullscreen but each individual window"

Sounds more like plain old X forwarding.
I wonder how much Paypal has stolen from their former customers this way over the years. It might even account for a sizable portion of their total revenue.
Not getting into the visual studio thing, what's the logic behind charging someone to develop apps that you get a 70% (for the first 25k at least) cut from?
It's hard to believe they charge any fee for devs when they're attempting to compete against Android, which charges $0/year for tools.
I'm not sure your comparison with Photoshop is great - Adobe aren't trying to get people to produce images specifically for sale in the "Adobe Photoshop Store", where Adobe would get a 20% cut of the sale price.

In this case, if an app developed by these tools and sold by Microsoft is a hit, Microsoft will be taking money from both sides.

Microsoft are free to do what they want, but if developers choose to use alternative platforms, then Microsoft lose out on the real profit centre of marketplace sales.
A school that has only profitability as it's goal will be outed as such in a free market,

A non-government school does not have to be for-profit, and can be very good.

Example: the schools run by the Roman Catholic Church.

Also: the small private school in Dallas my wife taught at for three years.
Meh, they've tested Newton's laws numerous times. If everybody knew them, both intellectually and in their bones, they wouldn't have the myths to test, but alas, I don't think you can claim with a straight face that we live in a society with universal knowledge and deep understanding of Newton's laws.

... and if you think you do, spend some time on the much-referenced "fan site".

And furthermore, there is nothing unscientific or wrong about testing our most well-tested theories. The entire point of science is that even then, the theories will still work, not that you should never test them again.

I'd also further observe that for all the drama happening here, those swinging gun sequences aren't that unsafe. It may look unsafe but the actual set of things that can plausibly go wrong was less than your intuition may be claiming. It's not like there was a way they were going to shoot themselves with a particularly higher probability than usual. (And remember that if you start constructing far-out implausible scenarios under which that might happen you must be willing to worry about equally improbably things all the time; one rapidly gets to the point where things like simply driving to work must be considered too unsafe to do if one starts spending too much improbability on the constructed scenario.)
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I wonder how the workspaces will be arranged; it seems like it might be tricky to mitigate glare on a glossy display with natural light coming in on all sides.
Someone please explain how this isn't a Reddit-esque tempest in a teapot?

Sure, it's silly, but getting angry over it? Ridiculous.
Funny how people claim Py3k was DOA. I don't know anyone who uses Perl 6 for anything serious. I'd bet that there are 100 times as many Python 3 programmers as there are Perl 6 programmers.

I think Perl 6 still has a chance, though. No reason to dismiss it just because it's developing slowly.

The compatibility mode doesn't do Perl 6 much good, if you ask me. There are already too many ways to write Perl, if you ask a Python programmer. It's like writing C in C++.
"a function that has multiple versions, distinguished by the type of the arguments"

Ooh, C# style overloading.
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Yes. It was called BASIC and it came with my IBM PC XT in 1985.
Too many custom scrollbar projects (including this one) make the mistake of overriding everything helpful the browser does for you and then imperfectly reimplementing it.

The best technical approach is to make the scrollable element naturally scrollable with overflow: auto, and then put it inside a viewport element (overflow: hidden) narrow enough to cut off the scrollbar (there are plugins that can help you figure out exactly how wide the host's OS's scrollbars are).

Then, you're free to listen for scroll events and overlay your own custom scroller UI.
At its current run rate, 10 years would be $2.5 mil. Except it's growing. I expect it to be earning $500k/yr run rate within 24 mos.

And like I said, we could leave it alone and it would still continue to grow. There have been times, while we were still consulting, where we completely abandoned it for months (didn't even answer support emails) and it just chugged along.

These days when we're not adding features, we spend maybe 1 day a week on it, max. And we're adding features because I have big ambitions. We could just let it be and it would still earn very nicely.

When you get to the point of looking at $500k/yr of gross revenue forever, when would it make sense to give that up?

We could hire a full-time support person and let them handle it and still have about $400k net (taxable) left over after other expenses, basically forever. Doing nothing.

We could take $5 million but there's pretty much no way we'd get $400k of interest off it each year.

As for the employment offer being really sweet… there couldn't possibly be a job sweeter than what I've already got.
I have similar battery life on my Desire Z.

The shortcuts thing is kinda fixable, you need to disable each keyboard shortcut.
1 - You shouldn't re-use a name that already exists. Elm is a long existing mail client. Pick a different name.

Doesn't matter. Elm is a unique name for a programming language. That something completely different exists with the same name doesn't make any difference to either project.

Besides, if Google can name a language Go, even though a programming language was already named Go!, then naming a programming language Elm, even though an email client is already called Elm, isn't nearly as confusing.
In a way that's still true. I'm thinking of `nonlocal` and attribute lookup which is all too complicated.
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yeah, for the extremely heavyweight enterprise stuff in a comsci course at a small uni, one definitely needs a commercial IDE. I cannot imagine what would it have been like if I had to use a mere text editor for that back in the days...
I'm not saying that there are no costs, there clearly are, the most significant of which is brand dilution.

What I'm saying is that $1.6bn is clearly not nothing, not to Apple, not to anyone.
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Are there any plans for India?

The current pricing is too expensive. Thanks for free $10 for trial though.
It would have been nice if they did not have the "minimum $10" clause. I am sure there should be a lot of students and third world people willing to help within their means.
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I could be wrong on this, but aren't a lot of houses in America made from softer material than stone bricks? Something like gyproc comes to mind.

I have to admit, the only reason I think this is because of seeing an episode of that awful house makeover show[1]. I believe the walls they used there were all wood/something similar.

1: Extreme makeover, house edition
I think you're confusing "bias" with "sensationalism." TV journalists (especially of the local variety) look to sensationalize every piece of news that they can. This is due to a whole host of factors--not the least being plummeting local news ratings.

But most importantly, I want to touch on the following point: "Reporters aren't experts in the subject matter they report." Of course they're not! Journalism itself is not something that everybody can do. The problem you're citing is not because journalists aren't experts in whatever they're reporting (which is a ludicrous notion--news spans so many different subject areas that it would be nigh impossible to house an expert reporter on every subject). The problem is driven by falling ratings and a need for more gripping and sensational stories. Years ago, Ellen DeGeneres even had the joke that she was eating dinner and the local news came on to say, "What you're eating right now can kill you. Film at eleven."
Building a house in the firing line of a military shooting range seems exactly reckless to me.
They may be a desperate company approaching bankruptcy, but they did own the trademark for the name long before Apple wanted to use it.
Supposedly they were "trying to figure out how fast a cannonball would travel". Presumably they knew the mass, density and shape... and the force of the explosives being used. Perhaps someone should tell them about physics, it would save some trouble.
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>Don't waste your time reading books

I strongly disagree. A lot of algorithms have to be introduced in order to be properly learnt. For instance, I don't think you would understand properly a neural network just by reading an implementation of it. And if you haven't read SICP you should at least to see an example of what a good book can give you than just code can't.

At some extend, I agree that you would learn good habits by reading clever code and that would replace a lot of "teach yourself" books.
You know how many lawyers you can buy for $1.6B? Here's a hint: LOTS OF LAWYERS.
Just go ahead and assume there's an unwritten "within reason" on any assertion I make. I really don't want to have to type it every time.

Of course a developer refusing to switch to Cobol or Brainfuck is completely justified.

But switching from PHP to Ruby, Node.js, Python, etc. is a completely reasonable transition to expect a competent developer to be capable of. I'm not saying you should be able to be an expert in the new language overnight, but IMHO any developer worth her salt jumps at the chance to learn a new language on the company dime.
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When are they going to get SMS enabled numbers in Canada?

I know it's a drop in the bucket, but I will immediately switch over $10k/month in business to them as soon as they do that. The other providers are disastrously bad (yes, that includes Tropo.)
Google naming a language Go was also a terrible idea.
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Similarly, Apple charges $100/year for the iOS Developer Program. At least Xcode is only $5.
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> In conclusion, TV news should be ended in all forms.

Wow. I agree there's a lot of misinformation and poor reporting on TV news, but that's like saying the Internet should be ended because of the poor quality of slashdot comments.
Cruise missile sounds more sensational to the average Joe.

Now they could have said "like a nuclear warhead" or a "dirty bomb" to invoke that easily accessible pre-programmed fear of terrorism as well.

Also I think they should emphasize the word "blasted" more times. I feel 4 times wasn't enough. Maybe another 12 times would really demonstrate how dangerous science can be.
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Well it's 89 cents saving x 100 apps which is about 90 dollars worth of possible savings to tempt you. And there's every possibility that you'll miss out on some of them because they only last for a short period so they don't even have to deliver on their promise in traditional money-back voucher/coupon tradition.
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Next week they are going to test the myth that the show can't jump over an exploding shark.
> Surely the right thing to do is to write your systems in such a way that you can pull out (say) a file-system explorer written in flex and replace it with one written in JS in as easy a manner as possible.

Especially if it was indeed as clear at the time that Flex was doomed as the author claims. Hindsight is 20/20 - "the history test" is BS without the benefit of it.
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So don't buy Visual Studio. You don't have to spend $479 to develop for Windows 7, and you won't have to spend $479 to develop Metro apps for Windows 8, either. You can use the express edition for free, and until that's available, you can use the developer preview for free. (That's $4 less than Xcode!)

This is kind of like saying "I'll never edit a picture because Photoshop costs $600!" Yeah, you can edit a picture in Photoshop, or you can do the same thing with a free tool.
Perhaps there is an other way to come at this?

I am working on side project of my own. I am evaluating some of the various Smalltalk implementations for writing this. Smalltalk has been around for some form for almost 30 years. This makes me comfortable choosing Smalltalk.

So apart from using good separation of concerns, maybe you can avoid the "wrong side of history" by choosing older, more mature technologies? Ones that have been round a while?

Probably won't work for everybody, but it might be worth considering.
That quote made it seem like the ball changed course. "Spiraling back toward Dublin". I'm not a cannonball expert, but wouldn't it just be "heading toward Dublin"? "Spiraling back" makes it sound like it turned around and went the other way.
Probably because not everyone will sell the apps they developed using Visual Studio in "the store". Visual Studio is used by tons of enterprises for developing software that will not be sold directly to consumers.
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> Journalism itself is not something that everybody can do.

I think the Internet has shown otherwise
To be fair, reddit also has its share of low quality one-liner posts.
So why bother taking pictures at all, when you can just find better ones online?
According to this article, in 2009 they had around 75 employees. I wonder what they were all doing?

http://allthingsd.com/20090122/digg-to-cut-10-percent-of-emp...
> 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 guarantee any teenager with a legitimate interest in science would consider some amount of danger the most exciting part.

Inherently dangerous can be inherently awesome.
I wish these articles offered more in the way of "how you would do this with standard JS, and how this improves that". Then we can see what we really gain from it.
It's an intentional barrier to entry. Reviewing apps costs money. Charging a nominal fee limits the number of people who submit completed-broken or pointless apps.
I get about 4 kg.

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Solely taking paypal is a business risk, I'll give you that.

But damn, as a consumer, it's far far easier than getting my credit card out every time.
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Gpyroc is drywall, and that is used for interior walls, not exterior walls.

Most (non-mobile) homes in the US & Canada are either brick veneer over wooden frame, or double-brick construction where the bricks bear the structural weight to the foundation.
If you still maintain your college .edu email account, you could join Dreamspark and get a legit copy of Visual Studio Pro for free. If you're interested in XNA, while the regular XNA game studio is free, the student version lets you join App Hub for free (instead of the $99/year fee).

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These days, that is generally done through an intermediary firm. I don't think many charities hire their own clipboard-wielding youths, so they wouldn't be counted as employees.

By the way, I had some trouble figuring out the right term to put into a search engine. Turns out the industry term for this is "face-to-face street fundraising". And in the UK it's sometimes called "charity mugging" or even "chugging", which you have to admit is more amusing than going straight to Godwin...
This breaks Vimium, it would be nice if it didn't do that.
> Why shouldn't hobbyists pay for tool?

Developers are less likely (significantly so in my view) to invest their time in a platform that treats tinkerers and hobbyists as second class citizens by providing hamstrung free tools.

I've always firmly believed that the MS development stack is both impressive technically and wonderful to work in. It seems to me they could have a much more vibrant open source and free application community if they gave away full copies of Visual Studio to individuals and continued to charge businesses.