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If you also believe that we should not block or censor sites that primarily share copyrighted material and serve next to no other purpose, you should probably stop reading as well.

I decided to read on anyway.
It's clear that the author has put a lot of care into this post and is doing his best to come up with an idea that can bridge the gap to his detractors. Unfortunately, I fear he is still missing the point.

Banning websites will not stop piracy. Just as CD protection, hardware dongles, remote authentication, signed binaries and every other technique under the sun only serves to frustrate legitimate users, so shall the specter of the SOPA DNS censor be memorialized upon the ash heap of history.

The author and those who think website bans are a solution need to realize that bits are the cheapest commodity on the planet. This is a fact of life. There is no getting around it. I said this in the last thread and I'll say it again: if the full value of your work can be represented in totality as a string of ones and zeores, you must accept the reality that computers, the most ubiquitous machines on the planet, are all designed to push around ones and zeores. Any solution to copyright woes that involves attempting to stop the copying of bits will fail, it's like trying to insulate current by attempting to dry water. Every effort in the field of computers over the last half century has been aimed at making it easier to share information, there is no effective censorship solution in a world where information flows freely.

By the time the author's proposed bureaucracy can be established and come into effect, the tech world will have moved on to the next data sharing revolution which will simply render the DNS ban irrelevant for pirates. Those who shall suffer a loss of free speech under the inevitable abuse of DNS bans will simply be fucked (since they follow the law).

Find a way to create value that isn't inherently rooted in the order of your bits.
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Yeah - unfortunately I ran out of spare time to do more thorough cross browser compatibility testing, but decided to deploy it as it was so people could play it before Xmas comes and goes.
The expressive language actually makes his point clearer. An inexpressive comment is when someone makes short insults and doesn't explain themselves. He explained himself in detail.

Good English communicates the ideas and feelings of the writer, which he did with aplomb! Since he is a primary source for his particular polemic, his rhetoric is a valuable contribution to the discussion.
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I'm starting to feel like anyone who has a negative opinion of CoffeeScript should prefix their statements with "I've spent the last M months writing code in CoffeeScript for H hours a day and these are my specific issues with it."

Otherwise, these endless discussions of JavaScript vs. CoffeeScript really aren't productive. If you haven't spent time with actual coding in it, then you probably don't have as well formed opinion on it, compared with people who are spending a lot of time with it.

So, I'll start with my own opinion...

I've spent the last 5 months writing code in CoffeeScript for 8-14 hours a day for my new startup. I can't imagine being as productive with JavaScript as I am with CoffeeScript. I write a fraction of the amount of code with CS than I would with JS and I get to take advantage of all sorts of great features, that would be much harder to replicate, like class hierarchy with constructors. I really love not having to type 'function() {}' all the time and the fat arrow really helps me with binding scope.
But they /are/ code. They're sequences of characters that get lexically analysed, parsed in to an abstract syntax tree, executed by an interpreter and make a computer do stuff. "Code" != "Turing complete"
Clearly people don't agree with my original comment. I'll see if I can figure out where I've strayed, and make my original idea clearer.

If I may, I'd like to squish the content of your comment into the single word "motivation." At present, it takes a high enough amount of motivation to either take time off work to vote early, vote by mail, or wait in excessively long lines after work, that far fewer than a majority of people participate. The arguments I've typically heard suggest that highly-motivated voters are more likely to make correct choices, and well-informed voters are more likely to be motivated.

My (untested) conjecture is that, rather than trying to increase motivation, we should decrease the level of motivation required by making it ridiculously easy to vote. Allowing larger numbers of less-motivated voters may lead to an improved "wisdom of the crowd" effect[0][1], counterbalancing the vocal minorities that we often see controlling local and national politics.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/12/in-group-decisio...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd
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you actually type function(){} ? not utilize those editors hey :p
Ah, a dumb pipe carrier. Why hasn't one materialized already? I was saying that it was inevitable at least a decade ago.
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actually now that i think about it, maybe that's why people like CS so much, their own inability to write clean code
I guess go interfaces are like c++ template implicit interfaces except the interfaces have names instead of just protocols. I think the reason that it can be difficult to grasp is because it isn't as explicit. Maybe OO programmers are afraid of the crazy gcc error messages you get when you incorrectly instantiate a template in c++ and think you might have the same difficulty. Whereas explicit interface implementation declarations give you better error reporting. I have very little go experience but when I first learned about go interfaces that is where my mind went.
This is a very serious accusation that implies a lot about how the company handled it, and after a handful of searches I've found no other references to it.
I type => or ->

Once you get used to not reading the auto typed 'function() {}', it really makes your code look a lot cleaner.
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Absolutely. Try growing up as a geek in a semi-suburbanized farming community (though things have changed since then).
There is a whole lot you can do without risk of spinal injury. Just securing the scene (preventing additional vehicles from hitting the vehicle), calling 911, checking for other hazards, and if safe, approaching and talking to the victim (to see if he's conscious/alert, and to try to calm him down), and if not, ascertaining if the victim is massively bleeding, has airway, breathing, and circulation, is good. If someone's not breathing, or is on fire, or has spurting arterial bleeding (e.g. from a severed leg), the potential risk of aggravating spinal trauma is basically a non-issue. You don't shake the head around, and support it in movement, but enh, it's a question of what's worse. It's not like you need special training to talk to someone who was injured.

I'm mostly used to combat casualties (where you also have to worry about enemy action, unexploded IEDs or UXOs, etc.), but I've responded to a bunch of traffic accidents in other places, including one a few hundred meters from my house on the offramp a couple nights ago. It's not really that hard, and basic first aid/CPR training is something most people should have, especially if you have kids.

(also, if you have a car, and you don't carry a flashlight or two, a blanket, a cellphone, and a seat belt cutter/glass breaker, and ideally a real first aid kit, you're really doing it wrong.)
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Nay; Edmonton, on the south side. I did attend Cairns SHS from 2004-2006, if that's of help.
Structural subtyping is not OO? Somewhere Luca Cardelli is scratching his head.
That's basically what I had in mind too -> edgerank for libraries. I reckon you'd need to have some sort of decay function that is relative to the amount of activity in that problem domain.

In inactive problem domains (such as linting, which these days sees few commits and has almost no competition), you wouldn't need as strong a decay coefficient. Lack of activity suggests a solved problem or something that is no longer a problem.

Highly active areas such as asset management (ender.js, browserify, require.js, etc.) you'd probably need some sort of coefficient for that problem domain. Tagging could be used to strictly or loosely assign packages to a problem domain.

Acceleration is another issue worth considering. How quickly is a project being adopted among those that matter.

Anyways, it's not a trivial problem to solve by any means once you get around to measuring social aspects surrounding a module, but it certainly is a step in the right direction. It's also a problem whose solution can be continually refined.

TBH, I reckon that any refined system is going to look increasingly like a financial mark where certain behaviors are analogous to actions like put and call options.

It'd be awesome to have a smidgen of transparency into private repositories in the form of aggregated gripping of the require() statements in active private projects. You could go even farther and look at the number of method invocations of a particular library.

It would be cool to be able to view such data in the same way Google Trends works. For example, it'd be interesting to compare optimist, nopt, commander and nomnom.

(going to stop now because I'm just rambling now. hehe)
There are plenty of people in India for whom USD $500K is not a lot of money, particularly if a solid case can be made for the investment.

And that person would be welcome to undercut him and provide better value. Before he came along, pads were too expensive. Now they're affordable. They also stimulate the local economy, both in terms of increased jobs and increased healthcare (very underrated). Regardless of the means, the end result is better.

And even if he did the industrial machine thing, you've missed the comment on transport issues - transportation is a big thing.
There are bad things which can happen all the time. I don't think being "extra vigilant", as long as it doesn't cross over into clinical hypervigilance, is really that wrong. Driving, in particular, is incredibly dangerous, and treating really bad drivers like they might be VBIEDs seems to be consistent with safety.
Google opposes SOPA. Facebook opposed it, but then supported it when a clause was added that protects Facebook.

Truth be told, SOPA is actually beneficial for the big players, it actually gives the big players a competitive advantage. No court or congress is going to harm the Facebook.com DNS -- that's political suicide. But the public is not going to care/notice if Facebook-Competitor.com gets shut down.

These laws will be used to crush sapling startups, which actually just eliminates the competition for Facebook/YouTube.

It's Congress's way of saying: you can have YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. This is all the social media anyone should ever need. Anyone who wants more social media options than the Big3 is obviously some kind of criminal.

SOPA essentially freezes the social media internet as it is and makes new social media companies impossible. It also makes borderline-popular social media companies like reddit unlikely to survive. Reddit is too free speech tolerating to survive this legislation. Facebook is borderline, but they're untouchable. YouTube is in violation. Twitter is shallow enough to be safe.
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Source? And why should we presume the accused guilty? Does Twitter company policy suborn rape?
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The key insight that relates to the analysis of merge sort is that solving problems with computers always goes better if you divide them in half a few times. This comes up again and again; binary trees, binary search, and all the n log n sorts. Branch prediction is a little different; it's an optimization engineered into modern processors. Splitting problems into two is a fundamental property of the Universe. Therefore, it's less excusable to not realize that you do that a lot.
Presumably T-Mobile USA gets the spectrum, right? What would DT do with random spectrum in the USA outside of T-Mobile?
Maybe Go interfaces fit a theoretical formulation of OO, but this isn't the OO most people learned for Java or C++.
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As someone who does a lot of interviews and has switched jobs six months ago, I understand how it feels, on both sides. I've written my fair amount on the topics too (http://allenc.com/2011/04/how-to-score-a-google-onsite-inter... and http://corner.squareup.com/2011/10/why-we-pair-interview.htm...).

I think a part of it is ego, especially nowadays - some really good engineers are doing their own startups now, and when these companies start hiring they're looking for people just as good as they are, which means taking a page out of the Google/Facebook style interview process. I've met and worked with people who, while with great intentions, think great software engineering comes from graduate-level CS studies.

That said, resumes and achievements aren't great indicators of success because so many people have good-looking job histories and many can also sound good just talking about their experience. For me, front-end web eng. has become a pain to hire for; too many candidates put down things they don't know enough about, and unless they have fully-viewable source online it's hard to tell whether they accomplished much of anything in their past projects.

I do think our current standard of heavy whiteboard interviews is misleading, though, which is why I prefer pairing interviews when given a choice. Working with an engineer is a great way to measure cultural fit.

And finally, companies are super careful with filling a position because while firing someone is at-will, the cost in bringing that person up-to-speed, dealing with the bad player's code and work, the messiness in letting that person go (in planning, morale, etc.), not to mention salary and severance make everybody err on the side of caution.
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Hate to be that guy, but Siri is getting pretty close to this.. "Phone Mom" will work with an iPhone 4S.
Python certainly imposes greater overhead if all you are doing is writing a short shell script of a few lines in a few minutes. I feel that Perl is closer to bash than Python is (whether that's good or bad just depends).

But if you want to be able to go back to that code later, or reuse it in a bigger system, or have things like robust error handling and testing, you are out of the domain of short shell scripts anyway. Now you have a choice of whether to write nice Perl code, which takes a little overhead and effort and thought more than just using Perl, and writing nice Python, which is pretty directly what Python's language design is about. I figure it's a matter of what you know best and what you like and what libraries you need.

I reckon the reason you won't use Python is that you are relatively uncomfortable with Python for whatever reason. That's legitimate, but it doesn't mean that Python won't be a great solution for someone else doing the same task.

As a 20-year old language from the Unix/C world with mostly boring Algol-family syntax, I don't find Python very fashionable at all, and I think it is just weird to accuse Python of "trying to be half serious" in anything except being Python. If people prefer to write big apps in Python or Rakudo Perl, and those languages facilitate writing big apps, it doesn't really have anything directly to do with Java (except that all the involved languages have some shared heritage, concepts of objects, etc.) The same is not true of C# or Scala, which have really deep and undeniable debts to Java, nothing like the very general family similarity you see between Java and 90s interpreted languages like Perl and Python.

The problem with treating Python as Java is that Python is NOT Java (and has never attempted to be Java) - so the results of treating it like Java are often not as a Java programmer expects, giving the impression that Python is a bad Java. But it isn't supposed to be a Java at all; this is just Doing It Wrong. The same is undoubtedly true with other language combinations - it isn't fair to judge Ruby harshly for responding poorly to C idioms, for example, because it just ain't C.
There is a world of difference between SOPA's "somebody in the stands called strike and you're out" nature (makes "three strikes" laws seem positively lenient), and the proposal here of taking a website down after repeated egregious violations with warning. DNS banning is still relatively light at that point. I suspect any real law would contain criminal penalties. If nothing else it resembles contempt of court.
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I assume goodweeds refers to this http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Noirin_Shirley_ApacheCon_... . That page classifies the incident as sexual assault instead of attempted rape, but I have to admit that I don't know the precise distinction between the two.
I mean really, all abstraction is just taking a step further away from the real problems and optimisations right!
Let's all just write Assembler specific to the given chip architecture we're running on. What's with all this high level language abstraction about anyway, I think it's a fad...
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The way I see it, the alternatives to forcibly wrapping are:

* Overflow that extends into the page margins (looks ugly) and either forces the browser to show a scrollbar, or forces the user to resize the window to view the full text (which may not even be possible).

* Overflow that is contained within the margins, and can only be read by use of nested scrollbars (I hate those, don't you?) or again, by resizing the window to widen the content column width (again, not always possible).

Of all the options, I think forced wrapping is the most visually pleasing. Whether that can be done with CSS I don't know. I do know that introducing spaces will do it. Other techniques may involve e.g. Unicode soft hyphen, see e.g. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/12/13/10246...

Of course, another way to do it is to simply reject the input. That's the way Slashdot does it.