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Ah, I used 11.60. It just came out a few days ago, and it may have added bind(). I seem to recall they added some ES5 features in this release. Go upgrade! :]
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True.

And that may be what he meant by failure. If "everyone" isn't using them, then he considers them a "failure".

What I observe however is that these utilities are not going to disappear, they are not going to be replaced; they will remain part of numerous operating systems "everyone" continues to use (maybe they'll be buried beneath the surface but they will still be there).

And therefore they will be "with us" for a long time, because the people that _do_ use them are the ones that build and administer the systems for "everyone" else to use.

If these utilities served no useful purpose, then I think we would get rid of them.

Interesting about git. I was not aware it was built using the shell. CVS also began as a set of shell scripts.

For me, nothing beats the shell for one-liners.

I don't think of this as "prototyping", but I certainly wouldn't mind having some of my better scripts re-written in C.

And given the choice I'd rather hack together a "prototype" using a shell than using some other scripting language, Java or whatever is the "most popular" prototyping environment.
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I think functional programmers would disagree with your thesis :-) As an example
http://xmonad.org/manpage.html - Window manager in 200 lines of code
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Screenshots

Or FRAN

http://conal.net/papers/icfp97/

I am sure there are pretty cool smalltalk and lips examples too.

Knuth is an algorithms engineer and his solution reflects his background. McIlroy's invention of pipes was seminal, but the state of the art has moved on much further. I think David Turner's contributions via SASL have never been fully acknowledged. I would posit that we now know how to go about achieving the composability techniques required to build large programs easily. The answer seems to lie embedded somewhere deep inside category theory! The ideas are slowly getting popular and seeping over to mainstream languages. At least for me, the way I program today is fundamentally different from 12 years ago.
I find the argument that cooked food provides the human eating it more energy very plausible, and am surprised that it is controversial. (Is it really?)

This article appeared some time ago on HN, suggesting that the advent of cooking, and the higher amount of energy we could derive from cooked foods, allowed us to evolve a reduced gastrointestinal system and our big powerful brains:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8543906.stm
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Some questions.

1) How does the USA have political and economic control of Australia?

2) If Australia had not ceded political and economic control to the USA, what would have happened re: Asia? Are you talking invasion?

3) Why is immigration the price of remaining politically part of the English-speaking empire?

Furthermore:

4) Do you think that immigration is altering the status quo of Australia/NZ/Canada as English-speaking imperial extensions/nations, resulting in new "mongrelised" nations, or is it shifting these countries to become more Asian, or is it tacitly maintaining the status quo?
If you are the kind of person who cares about whether the validation closes the IPN retry so you can come up with a reasonable strategy for handling your database transaction policy (which is a good thing: people should care this much about everything they do), then Stripe's documented policy should be a non-starter, as it seems to indicate there is not going to be any retry at all if the request in any way hits your server: "Stripe ensures that webhooks are sent successfully but does not attempt to re-send webhooks that return errors in the response."

WePay's retry policy at least exists, but only retrying three times total, with those three times only spanning a single hour of attempts, is kind of bothersome... I have totally had outages that affected some random load balancer for an hour in the middle of the night: PayPal will retry for something like four days, and has a mechanism to "force flush" the notifications as your infrastructure comes back online.

Honestly, all of these APIs are not that great. Amazon's API, for example, does not let you get the shipping address. They return it as part of the co-branded UI return, but that request to your server, at scale, will sometimes be lost in transit. When the user goes back through the payment process, you are encouraged to look up the existing token the user succeeded in authorizing by CallerReference and then continuing the payment, but that means the shipping address is not sent, and you can't query for it. You can, however, get it via IPN, but if you find some silly bug in your code that drops an IPN's incoming shipping address (but returns a successful result), you are simply screwed and have to talk to the customer to recover the shipping address for that transaction.

Looking more at WePay, I again see the same thing I keep harping about regarding Stripe: I see no mentions of chargebacks. Doing a "site:wepay.com chargeback" search using Google I find their terms of service, but nothing in their API documentation; and omg: their terms of service regarding chargebacks is the worst I have so far seen... $35 ding and your account seems to immediately be put on hold and goes into account review? For a single chargeback? WTF.
It's not like Flash because the primary implementation of Flash by Adobe is not open source whereas NaCl is.
This is a very pessimistic view of the world and future events (which I don't share). I'd get that looked at.

A bad Redis port by Microsoft makes them look bad, whilst their endorsement of Redis makes Redis looks good.

The 'pro developers' that Redis attracts are going to be more than capable of identifying the culprit behind a shitty port.
I do wonder how

Windows to OS X.

made it on that otherwise agreeable list.
I don't understand - doesn't the security community usually give the vendors a heads-up before they announce?

Did Adobe just ignore them?

How does the 11.2 beta fair against the exploit?

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/fla...
What about a script injection to rewrite the DOM and create a mock WePay iframe that's actually loaded from a third party server?
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration only 5% of accidents are caused by mechanical failures.

Drunk driving alone (at least in 20004) is the cause of 30% of fatal accidents during the weak and over 50% during the weekend.

So even if car maintenance is still left to humans, we'd see a massive decrease in car accidents and subsequent deaths.

>will those driverless vehicles be capable of handling the unpredictable human drivers on the road?

With certainty, yes they will, and with much better reaction times than humans. In 2004 at the DARPA grand challenge the farthest any car got was 11.78 km.

1 year later 22 cars got farther than that, and 5 completed the race (240 km).

Self driving cars have only kept improving over the last few years. The Google car has never had an accident while in autonomous mode, only while a human was in control.

Self driving cars will be here. When is going to be dictated
legislation, but when that time comes, they will save tens of thousands of lives per year.
And 50% of over 65s live below the UN poverty line. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/elde...
Thanks! Too many update cycles these days ;)
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The most interesting thing about this is you can use plain text in data URIs. For some reason I assumed it had to be base64 encoded, but apparently only for binary data.
I hear you. However I would like to point out that the two PayPal services I designed 10 years ago, Web Accept and IPN, continue to work in the same way they did a decade ago. I was fanatical about not breaking and not needing to version.
I would be interested in a tool that tracked this. The amount of code I write a day is as useful to me as the amount of bugs my code introduces.

Mind you, I would not be interested in comparing my daily code output to someone else's. But for myself working on one project, with the same language and coding methods, over a period of months, it could be useful.

It would also be interesting to track number of books read in a period of time, even though some books may take longer to read than others.
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Agreed. You have a low bar if you are impressed with co-founders helping you out. That is obviously only a figment of the service being tiny.
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But you understand interfaces, you have just given an explanation. The candidates I interviewed didn't explain themselves at all, I think if a language has a feature you should be able to explain when and when not to use it.

I think that all Java IDEs make it trivial to introduce an interface when it is required, so unless you are producing an API for consumption by a third party you should only introduce an interface when you have multiple implementations, or a third party can legitimately produce their own implementation, and not because you think you may have multiple implementations at sometime in the future.

Also if you have a single implementation naming it InterfaceImpl is just lazy, you almost always have more information that you can use to name it, it might be a InterfaceUsingJdbc or an InterfaceFileBased for example.
The right to innocence until proven given guilty is quite fundamental to our legal system, and laws like SOPA and Protect IP go against that very ideal. Right now these laws that take away these fundamental freedoms are only in the copyright domain, but if these laws stand, I'm assuming they could be used as a precedent and used to justify other laws that take away the presumption of innocence. I'm not a lawyer, but this is what these laws seem to be heading towards.
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But if you're always living within your means, why would you ever want to have a credit card at all? Things like reward programs certainly aren't universal (or even common, I believe, though they do exist), and pretty clearly only exist to try to get people to use the card in the first place, on the basis that it's to the credit card company's advantage, in that enough people won't pay off in time to justify the rewards. (I should also note that it's more common in UK/EU for credit cards to also have a monthly or annual fee.)

I'm not sure what additional fraud guarantees exist. I had fraud on my debit card once, and it was resolved much easier and quicker than the time I had fraud on my credit card. The UK does have a slightly odd additional consumer protection law in that if you buy anything over £100 on a credit card, and the goods turn out to be faulty, you can claim the cost back from the credit card company, rather than the retailer. That's certainly vaguely useful, but I've never heard of anyone choosing to have a credit card just for that reason.

I think there's potentially a different worldview at play in the "had a chance to do something dumb and't didn't" approach. To massively overgeneralise, I'd say the European way is to simply not put that temptation in front of people, whereas the US way is to deliberately encourage it, so as to massively profit from it (with the UK constantly torn between the two!) :)

So I'd say pretty much the opposite of your final conclusion: There are so few advantages to using a credit card rather than a debit card that why would you bother with the hassle/risk?
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Thanks. I really like your use of map and filter to do the drawing and hit testing!

Edit: oh, and please consider it a pull request. :)
My prime goal is early retirement. My father and his father both died at 57 so I don't won't to work till I drop :(

Secondary goal is to make sure my kids get a good start in life. This unfortunately conflicts a bit with first goal!

Third goal is to enjoy my day to day work.

So far 2nd & 3rd goals are covered. The first goal was to retire at 50 but that will slip a bit. But I'm hopeful that I will be (semi) retired between 55-60.
The interesting thing about WordPress is that it's one of the few cases where an alternative is vastly more secure while providing similar functionality - namely, any blog software that exports a set of static HTML files.

It's not perfect, since any of the listed breakin methods not directly related to a WordPress vulnerability is still available, and you have to make sure your control panel is actually secured the way you think it is, and if you use a service like Disqus for comments you theoretically gain nothing, since you're just outsourcing your security to someone else's webapp running arbitrary JavaScript in your domain...

But in practice, using static publishing is an excellent compromise: PHP webapps are probably one of the least secure categories of software in existence, especially compared to relatively secure OS services; it's usually easier to update the OS, and all updates come from one place; and the same solution also happens to be vastly better performing if your site is under load.
Fantastic work, very impressed!

Far more interesting start to the day than when I woke up the other day dreaming of how to get culture codes into my .net application for a foreign website we are building...
the thing I care more about is screen real estate usage on my phone, now everything is smaller and a vast percentage of space is wasted by that pointless border.
Also, the 1970s and 1980s were a low point for cars in general -- lots of new environmental regulations were kicking in (including a whale oil issue which was discussed on hacker news), causing objectively worse reliability for many cars in the 1970s and 1980s vs. the 1950s and 1960s. By the late 1990s the Japanese and German manufacturers seem to have resolved things, and by the 1990s, the US automakers.
Unix is still the same (in some ways) as before because Unix had a remarkably simple mental model, and the ways we try to replace them don't. Unix didn't last forever because it had features, good god! No, it's because it was so robust and flexible as to serve even a modern system. TeX, and Unix, and all these things, were hackable. (If you don't agree about TeX, read the TeXbook and some traditional TeX, not this LaTeX crap that's grown around it.) That doesn't mean it these systems are irreplaceable. (Hell, I'm working on a project to replace the Unix shell...) It just means you need to put more effort into devising a very good mental model. Something that actually captures all of the variation you want. So, don't replace TeX because you don't like TeX. Replace TeX because you have something better, something obviously better, something that you could explain to a five-year-old.
I don't understand your PayPal IPN rant at all (I designed IPN; it's not perfect but it works pretty well). PayPal POSTs payment details to you. You capture those details, post them back to PayPal as-is and PayPal tells you if they are valid or not. Pretty simple. Of course there is a unique identifier: the txn_id. And because the validation step is a simple hash that doesn't hit the DB, it's very performant.
> What I meant, however, is that the problem has been solved in practice. When you ask Google how to drive from SF to NY, it'll give pretty good answer in milliseconds. Is it an optimal answer? It might be, it might be not, but it's a very good answer. Getting slightly better answer is not worth the computational time because it won't make a difference in practice in your trip.

That's not the traveling salesman problem, it's the shortest path problem, for which polynomial-time algorithms are well-known and taught to first-year computer-science students. (To be fair, driving directions do require coming up with good edge weights on the graph composed of the American highway system, but once you've got weights, you can run Dijkstra's algorithm and you're done. That's probably not how GMaps driving directions work, but the point is that driving directions are not TSP.)
I like the idea. If only we had a system of cars, that for a small fee could drive us anywhere we wanted. That fee could be based on the number of kilometres travelled and the time spent in the car. We could call that fare a "taximeter", based on the latin "taxa" and the Greek "metron" meaning measure, together as "taxed metre", as that's a bit long - in time we could shorten it to "taxi".

Then we could have certain cities where only these "taxis" (and other kinds of public-transport) were allowed entry. Normal cars could enter, but would need to pay a special "congestion" fee.

Maybe London could try this out as they have a problem with congestion.
I would love to be able to use stripe instead of PayPal, can't wait until it's available in the UK.

Unfortunately they don't even have a timeline for availability outside of the US yet - http://twitter.com/#!/stripe/status/144951134795218945
> Java is memory safe, and classloaders have been used since forever to sandbox applications (remember applets?).

Well, except that Android allows apps to run arbitrary native code using the NDK.
This is probably one of my favorite things about owning a car, and why I have a sedan vs. a hatchback. Being able to store emergency supplies (couple cases of water, a backpack, ...), personal tech supplies (spare mbp charger, cable toolkit, etc.) in my car makes life much easier. Realistically this is 100-200 pounds of stuff, and I wouldn't want to have to carry it to/from a car myself every time I got a robot car.
Lots of Java development is carried out for internal business applications and like it or not they would typically be integrated with third parties using something like SOAP or a shared database. So in this type of application the choice of a concrete class over an interface probably has little impact on the known or unknown clients of your code.

However, as you point out, if you are presenting a Java API to your known and unknown clients you had better think carefully about which abstractions you are going to expose and interfaces are probably going to be very helpful.
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Well, she does (have a fundamental misunderstanding of something regarding a mobile OS): she is an Android developer, and it is pretty clear from this article that she has no clue what she is talking about when it comes to iOS.

Seriously: you should trust Xuzz from this thread much more than Dianne about issues related to iOS surface compositing. Xuzz worked on jailbreakme with comex, did much of the work for the recent Siri-on-non-iPhone-4S ports, and has written numerous modifications to the code of SpringBoard (the main window manager and graphical shell process on iOS) over the last few years he has spent reverse engineering that system, and most of his posts on this thread are corrections to statements that Dianne seems to have simply made up for this article of hers.

(For "people to watch" on this thread, I should also point out ryanpetrich, who is responsible for such modifications as DisplayRecorder (which records the iOS framebuffer to a video file) and DisplayOut (which splits the framebuffer out to a television), both available for jailbroken devices.)
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This is a good point. PayPal has moved beyond being a mere payment processor. There are a lot of shoppers (10s of millions at least) who actively prefer paying with PayPal.
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Although it's only in the context of studying...

This core philosophy is very close to the spoken truth and highlights my biggest gripe with cargo cults:

Blind faith and regurgitation of process/teachings without a deep understanding of what and why it works.
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Oh god, I did Odyssey of the Mind for a couple years in elementary school. At the time it was somewhat fun, but in retrospect it was pretty ridiculous.

I think I did "Crunch" (building a balsa wood structure to hold weight) and "Scientific Safari" (some really lame skit thing)...

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It's just the lean methodology applied to studying. But the point is interesting, because while learning you do get a lot of informations that you have to assess in order to focus on the essential.
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Hm... does that mean that Apple's software updates aren't signed or that Apple gave the key to that company?
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