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I worked down the street from Apple in the late '80s, early '90s, at a place on DeAnza a little south of McClellan, and lived in the apartments that border Stelling and the 280, so biked through that area a lot.

What were the three bookstores? I only remember "A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books" being reasonably close to that area.
Someone made a judgement call that was wrong, about a potentially deadly experiment. That's a bad screw up.

Screwing up doesn't mean you did it on purpose, but that you failed in your responsibilities. Like here.
They don't want to undermine the market of Windows development tools. More choice leads to happier developers. Of course they could give them away for free and recuberate the costs somewhere else but then goodbye Borland (already happend ;) )
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The lack of source control is not an unreasonable criticism. However, it's exclusion from Visual Studio Express does not stop a developer from using source control.

> This is especially true given that Microsoft are willing to almost give away Visual Studio in small licence quantities if you sign up as a Microsoft business partner.

I think you've hit on the issue. My guess is that Microsoft doesn't mind giving VS to you for free. What they mind is giving VS to most companies for free. And when you release the product as "free for personal use', it becomes a major pain to make sure companies actually pay for it. It's easier to have a normal price and make specific exceptions (DreamSpark, BizSpark, etc.).
The Fed keeping interests rates as low as they have punishes savers. Can't put all the blame on households for that.
This seems to be at least somewhat weighed against by Yudkowsky's claim to have done it "the hard way", without cheap tricks.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196464
If you have companies like Facebook using it... surely you'd think PHP is on the right path, no?
I absolutely agree. Because MS is putting this front and center, I think they have a good chance of making something huge out of it.
I can't find a reference off-hand, but I'm pretty sure Yudkowsky has specifically rejected this theory. No matter how you slice it, this would be a real-world consideration and thus cheating.
The "Windows Store" this article is talking about is the Windows 8 store. The install base of that will be larger than iOS and Android combined.
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That's a really funny quote considering the iron cannonball is the size of a softball and a 17th century technology. It's a bit like saying "the horse sped by like an 18-wheeler".
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It's "pretty" and "clever", not actually useful to actual human beings. You know how nerds can be, sometimes.
If you're going to use all the new hip tools (and take the time to learn how to use them), just go one step farther and stop using Wordpress.
I still don't understand how anyone can seriously claim that they could keep the AI in the box. Either your AI has no influence on the outside world (in which case why bother building one since it can't help you from inside the box), or it is able the affect the outside world, in which case it can do what it wants, because it's smarter than you.

You can 'always say no', sure, but that comes under completely ignoring the AI which means the AI can be of no benefit to humanity. You can't filter actions you want the AI to perform from actions you don't want the AI to perform, because you can't tell the difference.

The situation that springs to mind is that the AI, in doing what you believe to be helpful, sets up a situation in which it must be let out of the box. You are unable to see it coming almost by definition, because a super-intelligence just beats human intelligence very time.
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I'm still curious what IDE you used for your project

I use Netbeans, it does not get a lot of press but they have been outpacing many of the dedicated JavaScript IDE's they have great JavaScript support.

how do you rename a method for example with the tool use (imagine that another method with the same name exists in a different class/module)

I use Dojo for large JavaScript projects, there really is not an alternative when you get the the application sizes I deal in, as such everything is namespaced. Netbeans can refactor methods in JavaScript, so I use the built in functionality of the IDE to do so.
Xcode provides the functionality you need by default, whereas you need plugins in VS just to get source control.

There's also profiling support (not included in VSE), an x86-64 compiler (also not included), etc.
Things not turning out how you expected does not necessarily mean that you have failed in your responsibilities.

Shit happens, and real life has a metric shitton of fuzz factors. The idea that for every accident or mishap there must be somebody responsible is outdated and just plain wrong.
If you haven't already reported this as a bug I'd encourage you to do so. The Intellij folks are incredibly responsive to bug and problem reports.
Desktop is a legacy feature of intel Windows 8 computers only. That they are spending any time at all (bug fixes aside) on developing it is suprising. Going as far as to include a store for it seems like big overkill. Windows desktop future is on servers only.
Remember, we're talking about founders here, officers of the company with a fiduciary duty to shareholders. It's one thing to hire a top employee away---he's bound by whatever IP clause is in his employment contract, but beyond that he has no duty to the company. It's another thing entirely to acquire a company's IP assets indirectly by hiring the founders via a big equity package, leaving the shareholders pennies on the dollar. I don't know that that's the case here at all, I'm just saying that it raises the issue. Obviously it matters how much they got. If it was a $500K incentive, no problem. But $50M would be a problem. Somewhere in between those numbers a line gets crossed, and it becomes an ethical (and perhaps legal) issue.
Not really relevant for this discussion, but AFAIK, Xcode never has been prized at $4. It cost $4.99 for a while (when Mac OS X Lion was in beta), but it is free again (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode#4.x_series)
That is stunningly terrible risk analysis; I really hope you don't work in IT anywhere near an operations role (or write software with anything but trivial failure costs). Society can weigh the value of air travel against the risk of an accident and make a decision that it's worthwhile. It has, and found it so. People don't simply throw airplanes into the sky and say "shit happens" when they crash.

This was a cannonball stunt. Surely that changes the calculus about "worthwhile" risk a little, no?

(And in any case, even looking objectively at the risk of mishaps of the few thousand Mythbusters vs. uncounted millions of airplane flights, I know which party I'd trust to do better risk analysis.)
It's a good service, but unless they bring prices way down, some big provider (Cough Amazon..) is going to come in and eat their lunch. Granted they probably wouldn't offer the level of detailed APIs that Twillio does.

We started using them for SMS sending but went with Nexmo at a fraction of the cost.
I wish you would.

Yahoo's one was slow and a dead-end but enough good remained that I could get by.

This one is incoherent and sloppy. It doesn't feel like the people developing it have much understanding of (or passion for) the space.
A general reply to everyone saying this was unacceptable or that insufficient precautions were taken:

This experiment was performed at a facility designed for such experiments under the supervision of people who are trained to handle such experiments.

The result, while upsetting, was a freak accident. It could not realistically have been predicted. It is not necessarily anyone's fault, even if human error played a role.

Life is risky.

Sometimes surgeons slip and kill patients. Sometimes food producers slip and ship contaminated products which kill people. Sometimes parents turn around for 1 second and their kids drown.

All of these are caused by human error, but there has to be a point where you can say that reasonable precaution was taken so no blame is warranted. Because the alternative, only doing things that are 100% certain to be safe, means never doing anything at all.

There is no way to guarantee 100% safety. The building you are sitting in has been checked for safety. But something could have been missed, leading it to spontaneously collapse.

And here is the most important point of this entire post:

This will be true regardless how thoroughly you check the building.
I'm not a Ruby developer, so I can't comment if this makes it easier for someone who lives in both Rails and Wordpress, but as someone who has to occasionally make a custom Wordpress theme and has no experience in Rails, this looks like a lot of complexity just to put together a theme. However, I could see this being very nice for someone whose time consists mostly of Wordpress themes, and you obviously put a lot of work into it, so I don't want to write it off. It's cool you were able to make such a feature-rich Wordpress plugin.

Just to make sure: the production/live machine doesn't need the Wordless plugin, correct? Basically you use the Wordless plugin on the dev machine then just distribute the created theme directory like normal? Or am I off-base?
Overload resolution is entirely a compile-time task. But the method resolved may itself be virtual, and so use dynamic dispatch in its invocation.

(Overload resolution is a pattern matching task, selecting a signature from a list of signatures, given a tuple of candidate value types[1]. It's not just used for invocation, but also when e.g. determining which overload of a function to assign to a function pointer.)

[1] The set of value types is usually larger than the set of types available for use in signatures. For example, most static languages don't have a name for the type of the 'null' or 'nil' value, so you usually can't refer to it in a signature (and nor would it be particularly useful to do so).
What if he's interested in nerd dudes?
With a tech startup, code is core functionality.

Building an MVP and iterating requires building to a (changing) vision. Contractors have an incentive to stick rigidly to a narrow, fixed specification. If you can build that spec and task it out then you may get good results, but just telling a contract developer your vision and sending them off to build it has a strong chance of ending in (expensive) tears.

I am a contract developer. I work with clients to elicit their requirements and have seen this first-hand - the projects that turn out best are the ones where I'm working with someone in-house who has development knowledge, even if it's just to manage and review.
what evidence do you have of an NSA shutdown?
If the operators of a military firing range got that wrong, then I find it hard to believe that anybody could have realistically been expected to get it right.
That's one kickass walled garden... just what I'd expect from Apple. ;)
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> Doesn't that go against your argument? Didn't the iPhone prove that developers were very willing to pay to develops apps?

$99. And only after being able to play with the full/complete development tools and simulator for free. If that's what Visual Studio cost, I'd pay it now.

> You keep insisting that the full version of VS is necessary, but that simply isn't true, and repeating it over and over again will not make it true.

As an non-MS developer that's just now working with Windows 7 and Visual Studio (C++, and the AVR Studio 5 that's built on top of the VS shell), I can state definitively that the full version is necessary to get any real work done.

At the very least, I need VCS integration, a profiler, and an x86-64 compiler.
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I already said much the same in another reply to you, but they could have predicted the worst case trajectories of the cannon and chosen a location where that did not include houses. Not doing that was what I see as reckless.
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I wonder how much of this effect is just due to the fact that admitting the child is overweight would be tantamount to admitting that they themselves are overweight. Without making any moral statement whatsoever, that's simply hard for people to do.
Purely server-side tech is less sensitive to this kind of swing because you control the execution environment. Likewise for open-source software, and software based on open, widely used technologies, protocols and specifications - for example, it's unlikely that HTTP is going away in the time it takes for a startup to outgrow its "startup" status.

All of this applies to PHP, so I can't see it being killed off anytime soon, regardless of technical merit. (I wouldn't choose it for a bunch of other reasons, but those are subjective)
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Expecting everybody to match the risk/reward ratio of the aviation industry is absurd. There are few things that I am aware of that can do that.
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For a few years, the thing that bugged me the most about the show was the editing. It was being cut and presented like the target demo was a bunch of hyperactive 8 year olds who couldn't be trusted to remember what happened on screen 3 minutes ago. As an adult with an actual attention span it was extremely obnoxious, but I realize I'm probably not their target demo so whatevs.
I often find that there is usually one person very invested in the standards and it is more of an extension of their need to control their life and environment rather than making things readable. Often I see things as more than opinion rather than absolutes (although no indentations is probably an absolute no-no).

I once worked at a company where code reviews devolved into stylistic debates. We would spend hours witnessing style arguments without ever noticing that a variable was undeclared or a header file forgotten.
It reverse scrolls with my mouse wheel, but I'm on Ubuntu. I wonder if Lion users are seeing reversed-reverse scroll.
Any trivial example demonstrating how something like this works will seem obfuscatory, because examples are usually trivially solved with other approaches. But see the Expression Problem[1] for the deep problem.

Whether it's an appropriate solution depends on whether introducing new operations or new data types is more common; and where the modularity boundaries are. For example, what if the base class in the hierarchy doesn't have a method for the task you want to perform, and you can't add one because it belongs to third party code, and nor can you implement it appropriately for every descendant?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
Argument by appeal to authority. If you can hit a residential neighborhood from the firing range, it's not safe. Or it's not being used safely. You seriously disagree?
Yup, no one uses Windows. The half-a-billion Windows 7 users will all stop buying Microsoft and their 95% marketshare momentum will come to a complete halt overnight. I believe Microsoft will be bankrupt this time next year.

Or do you think it's more likely that your average user (the same market that is abandoning the desktop in favor of the iPad) doesn't share your fear of a new, more friendly (to them) interface? Remember, the Internet pooh-poohed the iPad as just an oversized iPhone. That really hurt its sales.
I think its a good idea and will give it a try next time I need to spin up a theme.

Ignore the negativity in these comments. This is a great example of scratching your own itch and being generous enough to place it on Github. Who cares if the bulk of WordPress users won't grok it? That's no reason not to build it. Thanks for sharing.
Pff i just know the kitchen as i worked there for some time :)
It's not a trojan or malware for sure. 3/43,
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=cb2428c76...

Some crappy adware? probably :)
I just love how he's blaming web developers for managerial mistakes.
I am familiar with how China operates. Being close with the govt/CCP in China is standard practice.

So you must also be aware that Foxconn has come under very intense media scrutiny in _China_ since a couple of years ago. Consider this sequence of events:

[1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Foxconn-Sues-Two-Journalists-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chinese_labour_unrest

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/business/global/07foxconn....

Of course this observation doesn't depend on Foxconn being Taiwanese. But the two are not necessarily unrelated given the increasingly nationalist trajectory of Chinese policy. And more in response to the nature of Foxconn's guanxi with the govt, no amount of it can save Foxconn from uniform wage increases or increasingly negative _Chinese_ media coverage.
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Do you know if Mathematica does what you're describing? Mathematica functions and calculations can take arbitrary objects as arguments. Example: http://blog.wolfram.com/2008/12/01/the-incredible-convenienc...

And arbitrary objects can take the role of unique values. It's quite convenient, especially considering that Mathematica's language and display system let you put arbitrary expressions anywhere you want (like a 3D plot animation used as the surface texture of a 3D cube).
man, these people are complete whacko!! somebody please let them build next gen car.
I am taking exception to this line: "when I say they were reckless, I'm looking at what actually happened, not at their intent."
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I hate this too, but it is not the case on PhpFog.

The Bright Orange "Sign Up" and Blue "Learn More" buttons in the sidebar both go to the product site.
> Multimethods is the dynamic language analogue to overloading in static languages.

This implies that multimethods are not possible in statically typed languages, which is trivially disproven by stuff like the Nice programming language.

The difference between compile and run time is a red herring, since the actual distinction is between a statically _declared_ type and a dynamic type (which FWIW could be determined statically within AOT compilation).
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Intellij falls squarely into that category of software that I'm always happy to pony up money for, year after year. The product is excellent, and support is just incredible.

A few times a year I'll run into an issue and fire off a support request. "Serge" usually responds within minutes, either with helpful guidance or an offer to create a bug report (that actually gets fixed). This same guy has been answering my support requests for something like 4 years now... incredible.
The standard approach is to place the cannon such that no trajectory with the energy of the projectile can hit anything important. That's why huge ranges like the Canadian Forces Base Suffield exist [2,690 km2 (1,040 sq mi)]. The the only dangerous variable is the energy you put in, and not the direction you point the gun, unlucky bounces, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFB_Suffield
> first monolithic 128Gb part can store 1 terabit of data in a single fingertip-size package

This gave me one of those rare "I'm finally living in the future" feelings
Appealing to authorities is probably the best thing to do if you are playing with explosives. They did this, and it didn't quite pan out right. Shit happens.

"You seriously disagree?"

Yes, stop asking.
Since so-called overweight - BMI 25-30 - is the longest-lived cohort, I'd say parents aren't the only ones with distorted perceptions.
Well - the obvious solution is to just move the explosives testing to a more remote location.

I drove past the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center outside of 29 Palms a few months ago. You could shoot a cannon ball several miles in any direction out there without hitting anything of value.

The same is true for Fort Irwin just north of there, or the Naval Weapons Center China Lake just off the 395 on the way up to Mammoth. Of course, all those pale in comparison to the vast emptyness of the 1,300+ square mile Nevada Test Range. If it's good enough to test Nuclear armaments, it's probably good enough to handle the occasional wayward cannonball. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_National_Security_Site

Sure, none of these are as convenient to Mythbuster's HQ - but I'm sure they can fit it in their travel budget - and if one of their experiments went wayward and actually killed someone, I'm sure it'd be the end of the show.
A small uni? The University of Southampton is a leading research university here in the UK, it is a member of the Russell Group and the ECS school is incredibly highly thought of. I'd thank you not to refer to it as small.

Have you tried working in Java? I happily use Emacs for every other language I use, but even doing simple XML processing becomes unmanageable without intelligent auto-complete.

Further when you're marked on code style in an OO context the ability to refactor code smoothly is a huge bonus, that you just don't get from a mere text editor.
It is a very cool accomplishment. And even though it has some of the 'hard disk' disease that denser flash is often slower than less dense flash, I'm less worried than I was before about how fragile flash is relative to hard disks.
Does this plugin generate standalone themes or do they depend on the plugin?
The Jane Jacobs book looks fascinating, I just ordered a copy along with some other books I was buying :) Thank you.
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I wonder how many erase/write cycles it can sustain. Interesting that the press release doesn't mention it. Previous generations had already descended as low as 3,000 cycles.

I realize wear-leveling makes it a non-issue in many applications, but I do wonder just how flimsy a memory we'll wind up settling for, too.
That might seem common sense to you, but it isn't obvious to many economists and financial experts. Examples:

* "What is killing the economy is lack of credit" -- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/opinion/nocera-no-extra-cr...

* The idea that private-sector debt might be the cause of a depression has not been influential in academic circles "because of the counterargument that debt-deflation represented no more than a redistribution from one group (debtors) to another (creditors)." ( Ben Bernanke, 1995 --http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/meltzer/bermac95.pdf )

The research by Sufi and Mian tears a big hole in these arguments.
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Yes, here's the comparison:
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_m...

And the better integration with Maven was our primary reason for moving to IntelliJ.
And the vast, vast majority of mobile apps aren't worth the $0.99 they charge for them. I don't have a problem with people making fewer shitty apps.