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We all played with building blocks, no? Frank Lloyd Wright credited Froebel Gifts, a type of building block, as being instrumental in his early development "For several years I sat at the little Kindergarten table-top... and played... with the cube, the sphere and the triangle—these smooth wooden maple blocks... All are in my fingers to this day..."

Anyway, here is a study summary that may be of interest.

http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/buildingblocks/writings/Building%...

"Building Blocks is a NSF-funded PreK to grade 2 software-based mathematics curriculum
development project, designed to comprehensively address the most recent mathematics standards. Building
Blocks materials were created upon explicit design principles and a nine-phase formative model—they are
truly research-based (details are provided in Clements, 2002a; Clements, 2002b; Sarama & Clements, in
press)... The materials are designed to help children extend and mathematize their everyday activities, from building blocks to art to songs and stories to puzzles...

...The results are illustrated in two graphs. We computed effect sizes using the accepted benchmarks of
.25 as indicating practical significance (i.e., educationally meaningful), .5 as indicating moderate strength,
and .8 as indicating a large effect (Cohen, 1977). The effect sizes comparing BB children’s posttest to the
control children’s posttest were .85 and 1.44 for number and geometry, respectively, and the effect sizes
comparing BB children’s posttest to their pretest (measuring achievement gains) were 1.71 and 2.12.
Therefore, all effects were positive and large. Achievement gains were comparable to the coveted “2-sigma”
effect of excellent individual tutoring"
I took a look at that website and noticed alot of the job openings were very similar to job openings of Start-ups.
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I disagree, the section quoted by GP continues "[...] $65/hr equivalent salary [emphasis added]" which makes it even more clear that a full-time position is being referred to.
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Hi HN,

Martin here from http://UpOut.com. UpOut helps people discover fun events and activities happening nearby. The magic behind the site is how we aggregate and quality assure events.

We're prepping our API and building out a few widgets now. We just thought we'd ask the community for their opinion on use cases and users of our API. Although we haven't hammered out all the details, we've come up with a few ideas for different use cases:

- Widget to show events on local blogs, websites etc.
- Tagging photos to events (not just places).
- Matching people up for dates (events & activities) for a dating website.
- Suggesting nearby events for itinerary style websites.

Any ideas or pilot partners interested?
All of them with the emulator. :)
If you encrypt it, then everyone will need to decrypt it. Which means they need the decryption key or it won't work :-) Sort of defeats the purpose!
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I wouldn't want to noodle on this too much. I take your point. Anycast abstracts away some of the notion that you're talking to a specific computer. But the unicast service model is inherently about computers talking to each other. Many, maybe most, of the most important Internet applications aren't about 1-1 conversations, or if they are, they're 1-1 conversations in special cases of systems that also work 1-many.
I'm guessing two things from this comment.

(1) You are a computer programmer.

(2) You are not British.

Am I right about either of them? I hope so. I upvoted you in sympathy. :)
If you want to get introduced to Smalltalk and happens to have a Windows machine, check out Dolphin Smalltalk http://www.object-arts.com/.

Many years back, I tried Squeak a couple of times and it didn't click. Dolphin Smalltalk did that for me (and I then went back to Squeak due to other reasons). It has a well-designed, compact class library and a decent UI. I'm not sure if it has been updated to keep up with Windows, but it's a great start.
"Programmers may be surprised to note that the vast majority of users do not ever view the sources of a web page."

I can't imagine anyone being surprised by that. Programmers, on the other hand, look at source all the time. Being able to view the source when you wonder "how did they do that?" is a big factor behind the rapid evolution of the web.

"The source of the desktop applications you use isn’t typically human-readable unless the source is open and you seek it out."

Which, I would argue, is one reason why most innovation is now occurring on the web rather than the desktop.

"Beginners need consistency, and the majority of developers are always going to be beginners, so we have no choice but to help them."

By concealing the way things are done from them and eliminating the terabytes of publicly viewable example code?

Sorry, that doesn't seem very helpful to me.
As per a United pilot, the mainframe United Airlines uses for flight scheduling is programmed in Fortran. They don't have a GUI for checking flights, just text commands.
<meter> element is better than <progress> when it comes to styling and support. Try using <meter> instead of <progress> or divs.
Absolutely, visualization is commonly done, everything from ER diagrams to object models to flow charts to the little blocks and arrows drawings we made to understand pointers and data structures.
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Re: the large boat, I imagine that's a photo of (a replica of) The Endeavour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endeavour), sailed by Captain Cook. Given that The Endeavour is both the blog's and the image's name, and that the blog author's surname is Cook.
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In such a situation, the upcoming SOGA (Stop Online Gzips Act) shall provide a reliable decidability methodology.
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Type systems aren't there to help you do tricky stuff. They're there to protect you from the silly mistakes we all make when doing normal stuff.

Maybe you've created a button that puts some text in an element, but, in some rare cases, due to other events on the page, that element doesn't exist. The user clicks the button, document.getElementById returns null, and a nice error message pops out.

In JavaScript, you might discover this after a lot of testing. In DynXML, you would never be able to make that bug in the first place -- you'd get a type error.

(JavaScript has the advantage, though, of not being vaporware. As the low-paid undergraduate doing the implementation work on DynXML, this is my fault.)

Remember, being able to write a function that converts either a string or an integer to an array is exactly the kind of thing that dynamically typed languages let you do that statically-typed languages don't. If you're not doing that kind of thing, you're better off with a statically-typed language (when available).
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My first thought as well, but in 1969 Forth was still busy being born. Based on the notes here[1], many of the core concepts of a modern Forth like defining words and the structure of the dictionary were being actively hammered out.

[1] http://www.colorforth.com/HOPL.html
I'm sorry, DNS/Registration is NOT the same as an exploited website.

There is nothing intrinsically bad about DNS that it needs to be turned off; the OP has already said they were using different hosting.

BlueHost was in no way vulnerable, and in no way needed to protect itself, as the only traffic was DNS requests. GoDaddy tries to pull the same thing with disabling DNS[1].

I feel like we need a Chris Crocker video about DNS systems this month.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy#Suspension_of_Seclists...
Ah yes, that was it, from Ken Thompson, thanks.
Isn't that just a restriction on people holding a political office of some kind?

"No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State"
Should be able to use a two-byte BEQ, BNE, BCC, BCS, or something like that instead of the jump, depending on what COUT returns.
Yes, he is. The U.S. Constitution forbids U.S. citizens from receiving honors such as this, but, of course, does nothing to prohibit non-citizens from the same. It is a matter of courtesy to use someone's title, even in the United States. Even the U.S. government refers to people with their titles, such as The Right Honourable Stephen Harper when the Prime Minister of Canada visits the United States.

"Sir," especially in an instance such as this, is an earned title with which its owner is entitled to be addressed.
Not to forget the F00F bug, which did the same thing in full-blown protected mode.
The video in question, great stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGEMQveoqg
I tried compiling the code they have in the example with llvm-gcc and it doesn't compile and returns an error?
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From the article:

"I've written a lot of crappy code, and most of it is due to following Rails 'best practices.'"

Funny how the author purposes to be following 'best practices' yet is doing things such as writing 200-line methods full of if statements, putting logic in views, etc. It seems the authors woes stem directly from a lack of 'best practice' knowledge, not only of Rails but also of Ruby itself.

There will never be a framework that can completely stop developers from shooting themselves in the foot. Education is the key.

(I'll admit this comment could be much more helpful in as much as stating what the best practices are which would solve or prevent these problems but I would be repeating ground covered by better teachers than I. The truth is out there, seek and ye shall find, etc, etc!)
It'd be interesting to know how much they pay, though. And how they adjust salary over time.
Mandelbrot fractal set viewer in brainfuck would fit the bill nicely. It's not 10 lines exactly, but reflowing the BF code with no loss of clarity is not a big deal :)

http://esoteric.sange.fi/brainfuck/utils/mandelbrot/mandelbr...
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What the hell have they done to that website to make it impossible to read on an iPhone?
Just about any Forth Haiku would probably qualify. Here's a nice Mandelbrot set (not my code):

: z^2 2dup z* ;
: layer push push z^2 pop pop 2dup push push z+ pop pop ;
: many layer layer layer layer layer layer layer layer layer layer ;
: len dup * swap dup * + ;
: mant y 0.7 - 3 * x 0.5 - 3 * many drop drop len dup 1 < * ;
0 0 mant
0.1 0.1 mant
0.2 0.2 mant

(http://www.forthsalon.appspot.com/haiku-view/agpmb3J0aHNhbG9...)
For people who didn't hack apple IIs, can you expand on what's going on there?
I wouldn't hang this guy from a tree if that's what you're asking.
I'm not sure if he's been knighted yet. The honors come out in a long list at New Years, but I think the ceremonies are done bit by bit over a longer span of time. The Queen would probably get tired waving that sword around for so long.

Terry Pratchett's knighthood was announced in the 2008 New Years' list, but it was a couple of months before it was made official at Buckingham Palace.
Here in Dallas, lots of retailers have their corporate headquarters here. I've done some consulting work for one of them in the past and a couple years ago one of them was trying to recruit me pretty heavily for their big e-commerce push.

Most of these companies don't have that many full time employees in their IT departments. A handful of full time employees will oversee an army of contractors and consultants. Most of these folks are specialized in SAP, Oracle, Business Objects, etc and don't know the first thing about building scalable web-based e-commerce.

The sites that do exist tend to be old, monolithic .NET or Java apps with antiquated processes to deploy them. An old boss of mine that went to work for one of these retailers said he had to get 5 physical signatures on a form to push out a CSS file to the site.
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> instead, alloca(0) behaves as if it returns NULL in some cases, and non-NULL in other cases, which is completely allowed.

Not really. I can't reproduce the optimizer bug here (on the contrary, the optimizer in the version of llvm-gcc I have installed seems to assume it is null[1]), but if alloca() is returning null and the optimizer assumes it's non-null, the value will be treated as non-null in the function but null if, say, the value is passed into a non-inline function which compares it to null.

[1] i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.1.00)
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Let’s instead serve things in concise, binary format

We tried this already in the 19[89]0s, it was called client-server.
C requires that variable-argument-list fuctions be called with a correct prototype in scope, so it is perfectly feasible to use a "callee-cleans-up" ("Pascal") calling convention for regular C functions and a "caller cleans up" ("cdecl") convention for varargs functions.

The point is moot though, because just because an operation can be represented using a single assembler mnemonic doesn't mean that it's any faster than an alternative that uses several. A case in point is the "REP MOVS" style string functions, that until very recently were actually slower than opencoding the equivalents, since they trapped to microcode.
That version is very basic. Dipperstove's version is much better in terms of design.
That's not especially true, actually. If something on the internet receives enough public attention it never dies, but lots of unnoticed and uncontroversial things just rot away quietly without anyone caring or being the wiser.
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In the U.S., censorship will very likely travel under the guise of some "overzealous attempt" to stop this, that or the other.

SOPA's censorship problem is not the explicit endorsement of censorship but the precedent of mechanisms and principles that will make censorship far easier to implement and "justify".
You are correct. I have nothing against the British government or the Church of Scientology, but I do think titles of nobility are bizarre and a reminder of our civilization's dark past.
"Or that the site makes a few hundred million dollars, and can't just be rewritten on a whim?"

Why not? If the site is unstable and can't stay up, you can either throw 50 programmers at it and still have it crash regularly or you can take far fewer and re-write it from scratch.

You're right about programmers not liking the cruft, but we also don't like most of the management processes that occur in large companies. I don't know if things have changed, but back when I worked for a large brake corporation, web programmers were devalued and distrusted. All of our decisions had to be signed off (in triplicate!) by a manager who didn't know how to program or the implications of the decisions being made.

To give you on example, one of the official company-wide policies was that if you wanted to transfer files between company offices over the internet, you had to use FTP for "security purposes." We were technically not allowed to use SSH or SFTP because, when I asked, my boss said nobody had heard of it. This was in 2006.
I think he also was trying to make the point that the more popular the language is, the more resources there are to reference when you get stuck.
No need, we just limit the expansion pace if there is not enough people.
And it can go even further: now customer wants to return item X and get a refund! Where does he send it? Has it arrived? What about the money? Wow.
... nor is downvoting nerdy posts on HN of all places :)
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Multiple inheritance.

Operator overloading.

Doing non-atomic work in constructors (allocating memory, doing file I/O, etc.).

RTTI

Template metaprogramming

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You could also try wvtest, which is a bit lighter weight and works with any shell, not just bash: https://github.com/apenwarr/wvtest
It's not a bug for IE7. It's just that when you switch the user agent to IE7 it's using the IE7 CSS to render the page on Safari. Obviously that stuff isn't going to work.
It's not a troll. Why do governmental institutions deserve an ounce more (or less) credibility than non-governmental ones like the Gates Foundation or the Church of Scientology.

We're all just in the habit of glorifying those who have power over us (or who once did) and treating nonsense like this as if it was a real honor. If you want to honor Ives, buy an Apple product.
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No big box retailer would ever consider an out of the box solution that took minimal amount of effort.
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There are lots of jobs for anyone capable and willing to do ASP.NET. But building a career on .NET can lock you into the Microsoft ecosystem in the eyes of many employers. Depending on how you look at it, that can be a good or bad thing.

I have tried to get hands on with Android development but since I did not have a Java background i hit a wall. I am discovering a liking for .NET

I'm curious about this statement, mainly because C# in .NET is very close to Java. The Visual Studio IDE definitely makes things more approachable for newbies than Eclipse, but I'm interested to know more about the 'wall' you are hitting with Java.
It turns out actually reading is surprisingly going out of fashion. Perhaps not so surprisingly for grad students tasked with grading these by the hundred.
It's all bikeshedding, and thus should fail HN's test of interesting content. Junior programmers obsess about this crap. I don't know why these discussions continually pop up. It really makes HN look like /r/programming, and that isn't saying much.

Of particular note are comments in the vein of, "I haven't used Language X much, but it is terrible." I'm baffled why they're not called out for their obvious lack of intellectual honesty.
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; enter the machine language monitor

CALL -151

; toggle the speaker and load the accumulator with the "floating bus" value--the byte last read by the video refresh controlled by the video scanner.

0300- AD 30 C0 LDA $C030

; print the accumulator as a character

0303- 20 ED FD JSR $FDED

; repeat (loop by going to 0x300)

0306- 4C 00 03 JMP $0300

; run it! (0x300 Go; just like G in your debugger)

300G

Running this will display random characters and make noise.
I think that was the "compiler for a substantial subset of
Pascal using Fortran" that they originally planned to translate to Pascal after implementing it in Fortran.
It's pretty good to tackle SOPA, but the bigger picture is that there had been and currently are other SOPA-related bills. So it's seems likely that there will be more future attempts until it gives way to more Internet control.

Demand Internet Freedom bills to replace SOPA.
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I'd argue a skilled polyglot developer probably wouldn't advocate using C/C++ until necessary, optimizing for development time. Later, as performance problems arise, it can simply be another tool to employ.
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Punching a hole in the wall is a mistake. Cheating on your wife is a mistake. Steering your car into a ditch, or into another car, is a mistake. People can do these things out of a sudden lapse of attention or outburst of emotion. Plagiarism isn't a mistake, it's premeditated and everyone knows not to do it.