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Having a shitty attitude is not constructive. Pointing out the shitty attitude may be rude and unpleasant, but people have to be realistic. The Lisp community, as I have experienced it, has a shitty attitude towards people who might have criticisms or have a more pragmatic approach.

(And I am not a Ruby nut. For crying out loud, Ruby is such a sloppy, pointless direction to take things in that we might as well stick to Perl -- which for the most part was at least faster).

I made a couple of attempts at getting real work done in Lisp, and Lisp derivatives in the past. What almost always ended up making life miserable for me was that doing IO in Lisp was painful. And when you write networked server software, you do care about IO. Quite a lot actually. There was no way to write performant networked servers in Common Lisp in a way that was portable across implementations. And the amount of abuse I took when I pointed out that this was a fairly severe limitation told me that I was dealing with people whose world view may not be perfectly aligned with what is needed to build a following.

For all I know, there may be a perfectly portable way to do highly performant networked IO in Common Lisp today. But that is of no importance. Because what I remember of the Lisp community is that they don't like strangers and they are really big on authority and rank.

But the Lisp world isn't just Common Lisp, it is things like Scheme as well. And what a load of nonsense the early Scheme days were. Again, all they cared about was the inner nuts and bolts. Actually caring for the parts of the language that INSPIRES people do use it wasn't even part of the plan. You know what: having a standard library that does useful stuff isn't raving lunacy. it is actually a quite good idea.

Java may be just a gradual evolution from the transitional languages of the late 80s and early 90s, but it was the first language to have a fairly decent standard library. Python may have been clumsy and filled with warts, but you could do things with it right away. Ruby may have been a giant step back and an exercise in excessive masturbation over a single idea, but even though it was fairly crap it let people do things. Heck, even a hack like Javascript is doing well.

Occasionally Lisp'ers tell me that things have gotten better. That the Lisp community has become more pragmatic. That "we get it now" and that bloated egos might even consider learning something from other communities. Well, then why isn't everyone suddenly rushing to use Lisp?

Because, you know what: people are pretty open minded about languages these days. It is like 1968 of programming languages. Everyone is in bed with everyone else.

So downvote me all you want. And write bitter articles about how stupid the rest of the world is. Go on, it is a great way to limit your followers to people who are just like you and to keep new ideas out.
Completely agree. But fb platform improved a lot here.
As you remember in 2008 we had to throw-away core parts ever 3 months. And stuff broke without any warnings or fallbacks.
But the Lisp community does.
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> My only real surprise is that it wasn't Apache that fell over first.

The Apache web server is a very well-tested, tried and true piece of infrastructure, even if it's not "hip" these days.
You might want to check your DNS server, because nslookup tm works fine here.

And yes, browsers redirect to .com if you jut put "tm", but at least Firefox loads the correct website if you put the whole URL, with http://
Which of course the web site freely acknowledges. At the bottom of that page states the real question is "Which of these programming language implementations have the fastest benchmark programs?"
Yes and no.
I believe the social plugins as we see them currently are an inbetween step only.

But you are right - The big problem we have is that there is no other ID provider that really broke through to force players into an Open Web approach.
Among reasons, I see stuff like this:
"Appearantly someone set the connection timeout to 9000 secs which means a connection to a MongoDB instance through Netscaler is open for 2.5 hours. I have set it to 20 secs. I am not looking for someone to blame but probably it's our sys admin.

Wouldn't any database give you plain bad performance if settings were badly configured? I understand it was merely one of the reasons, but sometimes all you need is one.
Will do! Mine is more from the angle of looking at most followed people in your secondary network (friends of friends) finding 'popular' and relevant new people to follow as I think the Twitter site is terrible at helping you to find & follow quickly.

I agree that for the most part these services should be free and simple and the paid features are to help the pros.
It's in 6.10.3.3 of the C standard.
How easy is it, to write a program that removes a file or a folder?
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HN posts are so enjoyable. Unless I'm thinking up novel animal names for designers that confront me with such a "color" scheme, because 1) I have a very hard time reading even halfway through interesting posts, 2) I'm jealous, because my vision is obviously suboptimal, 3) I only got a laptop, and its display demands contrast.

It's bad. It's itching. And it's obvious. Try to find something printed with gray text on white background. Ads and porn not included.

Please! Stick to essential typography! Make it BLACK on white. TNX1E6
http://mathalon.in/ Similar to Project Euler.
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I imagine by the time we find extra terrestrial intelligence, 10gbps will be childs play. I HOPE we find some way to use entanglement as a communications mechanism by then, although I don't know if that's even possible.
Clojure is there but where is clang?
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I guess he took away some good lessons from this, since his "morals of the story" say:

* Do not accept responsibility for anything that you had to do in a very limited time.

* Do not accept the job if the timeline is short, the work is big and the load is heavy.

* Load test your application no matter what the cost. If they want to get them all, they need to pay for them all.

Failing is hard, but I'm sure he learned :)
True, but it often needs tuning to handle massive loads.
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True, but it's defaults are not really "battle ready" and since they didn't tweak MongoDB in advance, I can only guess that Apache was already pre-configured for that load - perhaps they used it for their existing web servers?
Yes but apparently not televisionscale.
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There is a few things that require jgit: a while back, I found a really nice library (I'd look it up, but am on 3G on a train) that let you use Amazon S3 as a git remote. The author had just written some bridge code between jgit and an AWS library. Works suprisingly well, you just have to remember to use `jgit push` rather than `git push`.
Good software is worth paying for.

I hope the developer is able to live comfortably while working full time on his own endeavors, rather than relegate them to a hobby, and himself into wage slavery.
Count me interested.
Irrelevant to the fact being stated.
"So what? What are people going to do, another "mass exodus"?"

No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that pissing people off and/or confusing them is putting them into a mindset in which they're not going to be very receptive to the message. The goal should be to get users to care about the SOPA issue on their own volition -- not to beat them over the head with it, especially when it's likely than >90% of them have no idea what it is to begin with.

My point isn't that pissing off the users would be dangerous for Facebook's longterm health. Rather, it's that pissing off the users is unnecessary -- and probably counterproductive -- in the mission to get them to care about SOPA.

"People always get mad at the person who inconveniences them first (in this case, facebook) and then when they see the first one won't move then they get mad at the person who caused that (in this case, SOPA)."

It's a big leap from A to B here, and I'm not so sure your average user will make it. More likely than not, a typical FB user will get mad at FB for inconveniencing him, but will stop investigating at that point. He'll just be mad at FB for a service disruption, and he won't really care about why it's happening. He will be less likely to care about SOPA, because he's pissed at the company trying to get him to care about it.

If Facebook were aiming to maximize receipt and uptake of the anti-SOPA message, then as the saying goes, they'd catch more flies with honey than with shit. Badgering your users into reading about a political stance is bound to be less effective than encouraging them to read about it. Second -- and even more important -- a service blackout does not allow users to do anything about SOPA, even if they cared. All that most of them will do is sit there and fume while waiting for service to be restored (it's a big stretch to think that the typical user will actually read through literature on the subject and then file or sign petitions, or write congressmen, or what have you). A grassroots strategy, on the other hand, allows them to spread the word.

It's not a perfect analogy, but consider the case of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Back in the old days, PETA activists used to show up outside of shopping boutiques and throw cans of red paint onto consumers wearing fur or leather goods. It got attention, and it certainly pissed people off. But it backfired: people got pissed off at PETA. Nobody made the logical leap from "I'm pissed at these hippies who just threw paint on my $3,000 coat" to "Well, they have a point; I guess I'm really pissed off at the fur trade." Eventually, PETA wised up to the folly of this tactic, and they adopted a new one: getting high-profile actresses to pose nude in tasteful, but provocative print ads. Needless to say, this concept received more attention, and the attention it received was a lot more positive.
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How is this any different from, or better than, all the other bookmarking apps out there?
The code in the article is actually less horrible than I expected from the title. However, it seems like a situation which could be more elegantly solved with X-Macros (http://drdobbs.com/cpp/184401387), provided that you consider X-Macros elegant.

X-Macros: you have a header file consisting of lines in the form of "FOO(name, type, defvalue);" and include it several times with different definitions for FOO.
The Raspberry Pi also exclude those costs (Not sure about packaging).

The 15 USD however looks like the BOM cost (for 100k), so the RhombusTech device will be sold for a higher price, probably close to 30 USD.
apache had not fallen first because netscaler is load balancing between 26 web servers and they are already pre-configured for all these heavy load.
Of course, applying pressure to your representatives is just one way. If you have access to influential people, you should educate these and then see if you can convince them to use their influence to visibly oppose this legislation.

Another vector is the press. SOPA is a non-issue in the press. It needs to get higher up on the agenda.

I regularly watch a few american newscasts and so far these issues have been absent. The anchors will gladly spend hours talking about silly, pointless bickering in congress, but will spend absolutely no time educating people on the issue that the prerequisites for a democracy are being eroded and being eroded rather quickly.

As a side note: The Economist publishes a yearly "Democracy Index". Last year the title was "Democracy in retreat". This year it is "Democracy under stress". Things are not looking good for western democracies.
I was going to agree with VonLipwig until I read this. This may hold some truth to it - even if the world doesn't know HN (thankfully, I keep it on the DL myself) and even if all of HN's readers/contributors are fully aware of SOPA, showing solidarity may have some impact.

On the other hand, I think the GoDaddy exodus did more in a week than months full of discussions; 'big guy' corporations seem to really notice when we use our wallets to speak.

Based on that example, whom does HN control with its wallet?

Off the top of my head I think we could sway: AWS, Linode, Rackspace, Heroku and the likes -- are any of those supporters to begin with?
The .NET runtime is well optimized for that sort of thing, as it needed to be for F#.
Seems similar to the functionality built into Knockout.

Can you describe your libraries VS Knockout (or those like it)?
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this was a reason specific to our stupidity. why on earth would someone keep connections open for 2.5 hours? how he misses this setting?

my point in this is, if you have something that balance connections between servers, check if it kills them or not.
Yeah, the only difference is you're not funny.
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Easy ways to take some actions:

https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr3261 click on 'Oppose'

https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/s968 click on 'Oppose'

Slightly harder:

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/pipa_sopa (Sends modifiable form email to your Senator and Representative).

Add a comments to the PopVOX entries

Go viral and tweet/facebook/G+ the DemandProgress page.

Harder still:

- Lookup your Senator and Representative's phone number and make a personal call. This gets the most traction as a constituent.

- If you are lazy, sign up on Demand Progress. Eventually you will get an email encouraging you to make a personal call. The software will provide you with the number to call and who you are calling based on your zip code. You don't even have to use Google.

Having HN black out is a dumb move. Most techies are aware of SOPA/PROTECT-IP. Many non-techies do not. Explaining just a little bit to my non-techie friends gets them opposing these bills. When we black out HN, at most we're simply shutting down a source of addiction. Even if it reaches the ears of the legislators, at best it will be seen as children saying, "I /QUIT, and I'm taking my ball with me." A bunch of techies shut down their own community site in protest. Wow ... Failure to understand Rhetorics 101.

Having FB and Google black out on the other hand reaches out to people who are not aware of these issues.

Best if you can convince non-techies to oppose these bills and then to have them call up their Congressmen. Tell them that bills do not, in fact, save jobs and would make life difficult for non-techies still treading water financially.
I don't know what IANA decided; all I know is the TLDs I listed do have A records, and they load at least on Firefox, so there's obviously no technical reason the new TLDs can't.

You should also note that email addresses that doesn't have a '.' in the host part are technically invalid, i.e. me@mytld is not a valid fully qualified email address.

Hmm, has RFC 2822 been superseded? Because it clearly says the domain part can be a dot-atom, which is defined in the same RFC in ABNF form as:

dot-atom = [CFWS] dot-atom-text [CFWS]

dot-atom-text = 1*atext *("." 1*atext)

As you can see, the dot (".") is enclosed in a section of variable repetition (*) with no minimum number of times, so it can not appear at all.
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Yeah, I read it as 30k requests in a matter of seconds.
I've heard the argument before that in need, one can use a FFI to optimize bottlenecks in high-level code, but I've never understood.

Won't using a high-level language incur an omnipresent speed slump? And even if a bottleneck exists, how would using a FFI remedy crucial problems in the language, like the absence of unsigned types or that all types are boxed. The types will have to be unboxed anyway, so whether that happens in foreign code or in the interpreter/JIT code won't matter.
White on black? Larger than normal font? Good god, you fooled certain death there by not reading further...
I'm amazed really by how much FUD has be4en spread around by Twitter, and most reports of the story. This article clears it up perfectly.
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I should probably point out that 50% was just a random, badly chosen constant. It's not a zero-sum game anyway.

But fact is that thanks to copyright laws, one can save some money from copyright-unrelated work, take a break to invest in a game, album or movie; and if people like it, one can make money with it, for which others agree to do a little more copyright-unrelated work on their part.

The alternative is that everyone does copyright-unrelated work and creates goods in their free time, outside of all market mechanics. But I'd rather let the (democratically) good artists have more free time to do their work, and I don't see anything wrong with it.
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Or contribute how it is hard to contribute. If contributing to OSS is hard, then OSS communities may be able to make it easier.

For instance, I'm involved in Wikipedia heavily and have always thought that it would be worth contributing to MediaWiki: at the very least being willing to beta test new stuff and write tests and so on. It's a big legacy hairball type project, but the community have made it easier to contribute by documenting the process of getting a working environment setup, by better documenting the process of submitting bugs and patches to bugzilla, by marking a bunch of bugs as suitable for newbies, by the new maintenance/dev scripts and by having a newbie developers liaison person.

If you want to get involved in an open source project but feel inadequate, try and politely work with them to nudge them into making it easier for new developers to contribute. Document the process of getting a working environment setup, including getting things like Vagrant setup if needed. Most projects will welcome attempts to try and make it easier for new developers. And, well, if they don't, then find a better project. ;-)

(If you think your coding really does suck, we've got an encyclopedia with lots of loose ends that need tying up. Just sayin'.)
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Well, if someone "wants it", it has monetary value.

What you're saying amounts to "I'd want it (over other things) if it was free".

Good, move along then, and don't use it because it is no.
You can fix it with a simple user script for your browser.

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And the gist: https://gist.github.com/1600378
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The cited Danny Sullivan article has a little of his interview with Eric Schmidt:

sullivan> I countered that Google seemed to have all the permission it needed, in that they’re not blocked from crawling pages.

schmidt>“That’s your opinion,” Schmidt said, then joked: “If you could arrange a letter from Facebook and Twitter to us, that would be helpful.”

sullivan> I pushed back that both have effectively given those letters since their robots.txt files — a method of blocking search engines — weren’t telling Google to go away.

Well, why stop there? Why shouldn't Google ignore the robots.txt file in its search for shareable nuggets for its search results, which they are equally not "blocked" from using? The answer for both rel=nofollow and robots.txt is that Google has explicitly promised webmasters that it will not do this. Sullivan knows this: this is bad journalism. I'd be curious to see more of the transcript of the interview.
Since Kotlin runs on the JVM surely it's also "fatally flawed" by your reckoning?

Scala also targets LLVM:
http://greedy.github.com/scala-llvm/
and .NET:
http://www.scala-lang.org/node/10299
What feedback? All I see is "+1" ? There are upvote buttons for a reason.
The article is a bit wrong. nofollow does not mean that the crawlers must not follow the link, but means that the ranking algorithms must not consider the link for the ranking as the link could be dubious or spam.

As such, the relationship between the page linked and the page linking is not to be affected by the link. And this is what makes the links not surfacing.

Basically, the current Twitter HTML says: We have no outbound links.
I'm starting to get worried about the long-term plans Google might have for the apps I use that I'm rather locked-in to. Mainly gmail.
I wouldn't call those companies manufacturers though as most of the work is outsourced to ODMs.
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This article makes me want to become a psychomatheconometrician mastermind developer.
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I was thinking about the idea of A/B testing that's often used on the web, where a company will put up two nearly-identical pages and measure which one is more effective. I think this idea, used with photos, could be turned into a really popular phone app.

Here's an example: Say a girl is rummaging through her closet trying to figure out which shirt to wear. She whips out her smartphone, launches the A/B app, takes a picture of herself wearing each of two shirts. Within 30 seconds, she has an answer of which shirt hundreds of strangers liked better. While she's waiting for the reply, she's prompted to rate other people's pictures. This is as simple as seeing two pictures and tapping the one that she likes more.

The number of use cases is endless. Say she's shopping for eyeglasses and trying to figure out which look better - she could try on both right there in the store and get a response from the A/B app. It doesn't have to be limited to fashion, as people could use it for any subjective comparison.

Users can be shown ads while waiting for their answer. They could also pay a small fee for faster responses, more responses, or even to break down the responses by gender, age group, or country (the app can ask these things when you install it.)

If the app is a success, it could be extended to integrate with social networks to allow people to see ratings from their friends.

Anyway, I'm already doing a startup so I'm not going to make this app. If anyone wants to run with this idea, feel free. I hereby place the entirety of this post into the public domain. If this helps you though, it would be cool if you wanted to cite me.

What does HN think? Have you heard of this being tried before? Do you think it could be a huge hit?
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comparing the American gov't to the chinese gov't is jsut ridiculous in this context. american gov't cares too much about it's economy to do such a stupid thing