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Busted em. Most people don't know how many people die from lightning. Or on our roads every day. It dwarfs all other "death " news". At the end of each report on death they should say: And to put that in perspective x hundred will die from lightning this year and over 50k will die in cars ( in America 250k die per year in china) . We need a war or CAR TERROR.
Something like Xcode, Codeblocks, MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, Komodo, or Python IDLE.
Lessons are defined as one object. Lessons are often bite size bits of customized content to meet the needs of your audience. These are not really lessons, they are preached pieces of content with a static audience in mind..

There are various video creating, editing and sharing websites already available for teachers. Most content of much value ends up on youtube exclusively.

Disclaimer: I work in this field (tech in edu)

Wish them the best though :) Integrate Etherpad for more real time collabo ;) Would be great to have a time slider running along side the video to give more context / detail =)
I don't see that choice. Would it have another name?
The collision in namespace is amusing. For a second I thought this was about a modern open source compiler for the programming language called Id. It was an influential language with strong stress on functional style implicit parallelism and efficient array like data structures called I-structures. I would kill to play around with such a tool. (and kill double if a free CM-5 came with it)

The real deal is no less exciting. The clash in name space does not end there. Cormac is the first name of one of the developer's of a distributed memory implementation of the language called phLuid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_%28programming_language%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CM-5
Sorry, Galaxy Nexus running 4.0.2 (GNex)
The underlying systems don't magically build and support themselves. Basically you're just offloading the sysadmin responsibility to someone else and paying for that privilege.
And well add the 55k (america- china is 250k /yr) that die in cars. It means your safer once you GET to work no matter what your work. All news reporting should mention this until we get a WAR on CAR terror!
Wow, just look at the ad copy:

"The Vortex Water Revitalizer is based upon a revolutionary concept in water treatment. It performs far beyond what any filtration system, distiller or reverse osmosis system will ever do for you. It processes all the water in a direct way, leading it into a double spiral, which creates a powerfull vortex energy field.

This uses Mother Nature's own methods of generating energy within the water. One of the results is that water's self-cleaning ability is re-established and the water is being restructured on a molecular level. The Vortex Water Revitalizer will restore the health of your water. It will make the water alive and well again."

This kind of derp wouldn't get through an elementary-level science fair. Definitely a lesser-of-the-two-evils kind of situation, though.
Who said anything about the realization of a parent's goal? He's already asking me when I'll help him make an iPhone app.
Aren't you just describing used auto fairs?
The only way I'd buy a used car is if i knew why it was being sold -- if a friend makes a lot of money and wants to sell a 5 year old well maintained car because he's buying a new one, sure. If someone has an S2000, has a kid, and needs something with more seats, score. Otherwise, adverse selection seems to be a big deal.
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and the inclusion of oh-my-zsh as a reason to switch

That's the reason why I switched. Perhaps I'm missing something: what's wrong with 'oh-my-zsh'?
I went ahead and bit the bullet but I haven't been able to give that one a test. It currently is segfaulting for me so I'm waiting on a response from the developer and/or getting my normal machine back up and running (down for backups) to test it somewhere other than my laptop.
> People are downvoting you not because they disagree with your opinion, but because it adds nothing to the conversation.

I disagree, I think there was a valid point made in a comment that overall had an arrogant tone and some inaccuracies and that should be addressed like I chose to rather than just ignored.

Dispelling inaccuracies adds to the discussion, or at the very least attempts to prevent someone else from detracting from the discussion. To act like I just came out of left field with this or something is just ridiculous.

> The response you replied to was perfectly valid: there's no iOS or WP7 bundles because they are contrary to the philosophy of the bundles; this is a valid point that no one had mentioned.

Which is why I didn't take issue with or mention that part. I took issue with referring to iOS and WP7 devices as appliances when they aren't.

> Complaining that the response was snide, OTOH doesn't say anything that's relevant to the topic at hand.

It was both snide and inaccurate because of that, I assumed that was implied or obvious. I didn't think I needed to lay it out so blatantly.

> A better response would have been to say that you think referring to those platforms as applications is wrong, and probably some explanation as to why.

Like I said, I assumed that was implied. I did cover why in my edit. It's simply incorrect, no definition of computer appliance backs it up and it smacks of arrogance.
I'll spare you the exact results of my recent web search, but my impression is that it seems to be a rapidly developing area. There are definitely some good libraries out there of varying scope and maturity.

Lua seems to be such a good fit for this paradigm that I would bet the community is going to produce some outstanding frameworks. (Was kicking around the idea of implementing something myself.)
What happens if/when an issue comes up that the managed service can't/won't resolve? If you can move to another provider that will, you'll have some leverage. But there's always headaches associated with any move/migration and a possibility of lock-in to the provider's platform.
Meh, am I this shallow? I just dismissed the whole article because of a misuse of "principal" instead of "principle".
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I find it odd that the data was mutually exclusive. They didn't find a single CEO with both an MBA and engineering degree?
So radio is only acceptable because it's bad for the consumer? Does making radio better (by allowing on-demand listening) suddenly make it illegal/immoral/bad?
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I hope it really is a kid that made that site.
Short answer: no, FOSS couldn't possibly work without the ability to modify and redistribute, and licenses that attempt to suggest otherwise get rightfully rejected before they can proliferate. Source code has little value without the right to make and distribute modified versions. Attempts to create open ecosystems around proprietary products typically turn out badly, with very few exceptions.

Also, since you brought up engines like id's, I'd point out that copyleft licenses like the GPL make it trivial to profit even if releasing the engine on day 1, given that the numerous makers of games based on those engines don't want to ship their entire game under the GPL.
I get that, understand it and agree which is why I didn't take issue with that part. You see the "appliance" bit as an insult as well, so we are in complete agreement.

His main point is correct, and I took no issue with that. Hence, it still doesn't really clear up for me why I'm being downvoted so heavily.
I agree, this goes in line with what Francis Ford Coppola recently said [1]. People refuse to accept it because they cannot understand how it could be different.

Hollywood's model is broken because it has been dependent on scarcity of distribution. This couldn't be sustainable forever. Internet fixed the distribution so Hollywood is bleeding. Art is getting easier to access and to create thanks to technology. (this is where we, startups, come in)

IMHO, art will become a commodity. In a few decades, you won't pay so much to watch a movie that cost a few millions to produce. You'll pay almost nothing for a movie that cost almost nothing to produce. And it will have much higher quality than today's movies. Thanks to technology. Like you said, art will survive.

[1] http://the99percent.com/articles/6973/Francis-Ford-Coppola-O...
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The difference is that if someone is googling John Smith, they won't find your blog post without his name on it.

Thankfully I've never had to experience court on either side - it looks like it gets expensive very very quickly.
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I wish I could upvote you more than once for this comment.
it is not. we don't get any of the cool payment gateways in canada.
A lot of debate points really aren't "true" or "false" but only "true from a certain point of view". There's exceptions in both directions, certainly, but I don't think this is amenable to real-time analysis by anyone; you're mostly going to get fed the biases of the person on the other end of the wire, not "truth".
"Information wants to be friction-free."

That's worth thinking about.
Hi refurb, I compiled the statistics behind the white paper. We found several candidates with both MBAs and engineering degrees. However it was on the order of low tens so the sets are largely disjoint. We excluded it for the sake of clarity. Sorry if it wasn't clear.
So, per your admission, Microsoft's software monitors user behavior on a competitor's site (among others) and sends it back to the mothership, then they use that information to tune Bing's algorithm. How many of these data points do you think they get per day from all of their competitors? Millions?

If you seriously don't see the problem with that, then it doesn't brook further discussion. If your competitors got a leg up on your business to any degree because they were able to post-process the results of your work, you'd be furious.
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And yet I've taken a Volcano [1] through TSA's "security" at least 5 times. The first time the TSA agent asked a bit about it and, basically, he said: "oh, it is like a fog machine?" to which I answered "Yes"....

From then on, it has been a "fog machine" as far as TSA was concerned... ;-)

Admittedly, and sadly, I haven't tried to fly with it within the last two years [and, at that time, I didn't worry about it a bit nor did I clean it obsessively, etc. - these days, though, I'm hesitant to even attempt flying with it]... =\

[1] = http://www.storz-bickel.com/vaporizer/volcano-vaporisation-s...
Last week 2.0 introduced me to the world of responsive design. Converted our current project to it. Higher ups are pleased and it saved me from creating a second "mobile" site. I am a fan.
I think they cast anyone with a MBA into the MBA category. I know of one CEO who has both an engineer degree and MBA. The CEO of Adobe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantanu_Narayen
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I've heard this a number of times anecdotally. I remember once going to the head of my university's business school as an alumni and he said you're one of the few that came out of this school that actually started a company. To which I replied I didn't, I came out of the school for Electrical Engineering. He laughed and said well that makes sense.
> Can't get more functional than scheme :)

Rich Hickey: "Functional has been applied, you know, for a whole spectrum of things. I think there’s the haskell meaning of functional, which is sort of, the pure notion of function applied to absolutely everything in the language. And then there’s another notion of functional... lisps claimed to be functional early on, only for the simple reason that functions were first class objects or values that you can pass around. Those are the two ends. Somewhere in the middle, i think, is a style of programming that emphasizes programming with pure functions, in other words functions that are free of side effects, that operate only upon their arguments, which are values, and that only produce values as results. So that’s a pure function. Clojure emphasizes the style of programming using pure functions, where lisps, traditionally, have not. You could do it, but it was a choice. The key thing in forcing you to make that choice, is to have the core data structures be immutable, so they now can be treated as values, in a way that mutable things cannot. So Clojure emphasizes functional programming, by providing a set of immutable core data structures, including those ones that you use to represent code. They’re also persistent, which is a special characteristic we could talk about. Because of that, it encourages the functional style of programming, because you cannot change [the core data structures], so you have to write a function that produces a new value as a result. but there’s no enforcement. if you write a function and that does IO, well that’s not a pure function anymore, and I don’t preclude it, and there’s no type system to preclude it, its a dynamically typed language, which just respects the programmer’s right to do whatever they please." [1]

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Vgbw3hGCye2rtmnZ6iS...
I imagine communities will manage a few forks until there's mainly one or two main builds people use.
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I'm trying to wrap my head around this comment. You're saying that GPL isn't restrictive enough to provide the security for businesses to open-source their work? GPL is very restrictive, more so than most other open-source licenses, which is why businesses usually release under Apache/MIT/BSD.

If a business is worried that their open-source software is going to backfire and feed the competition, they have no interest in open-sourcing their software in the first place, and no license restrictions will help them.

GPL's other effects (forcing businesses to open-source software they make modifications to, which are covered under the GPL) are good enough.

> I believe that every software owner deserves a copy of the source, but I don't believe that every software owner has the right to redistribute that program practically without limitation as the GPL allows.

I'm not sure you realize how unrealistic that artificial approach is becoming.
If you want to see patched and updated versions of the open-source id games, icculus.org hosts several relevant projects.

http://www.icculus.org/
haberman's argument is making an assumption that perhaps you aren't. Namely, one of the benefits of Lua is that, barring behavior introduced by C extensions (and bugs in the Lua interpreter), it can't really harm your program. It can't crash or do anything else. It can suck up resources, but that's about it. As such, with whatever sandboxing you feel is appropriate, you can run arbitrary Lua code without worrying (e.g. World of Warcraft can run third-party addons). But with LuaJIT's FFI interface, it appears (note: I have never used LuaJIT or its FFI interface) that you can no longer trust arbitrary Lua because it can reach into your program and call whatever function it feels like, including the ability to crash you at random, or do other things that it's not supposed to be able to do. You can no longer just trust Lua code to not impact the rest of your program.
Spoiler alert: Two things that blew my mind: Citizens were empowered to sue law enforcement who were caught not enforcing the immigration checks because of language in the bill. The other thing was that you have national platforms using states as petri dishes to see what laws gain any traction. I never even thought of it that way.
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It's funny that you specifically call out Montreal. I've spent quite a bit of time in Quebec over the years and I don't recall having much trouble getting what I wanted from shop keepers.

Or put another way, I had about as much trouble as I did in France and about as much as some really Cajun parts of Louisiana -- and I don't speak French.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

I'm from the mid-Atlantic, but have had significant issues in parts of Alabama/Arkansas both with being understood and understanding them, parts of Miami, and even parts of Washington D.C.!

In Alabama and Arkansas I also found that I ate very different foods, parts of animals and plants prepared in ways I wouldn't normally eat - lizards, organs and frogs oh my! On the contrary the food in Quebec seemed pretty familiar except for the Poutine.

In Hawaii there are more East Asians and Pacific Islanders than Caucasians. There are parts of the Islands where you might not be intelligible unless you speak Tagalog or Japanese, it has an economy built around tourism and they eat more spam than the rest of the U.S. it has royal palaces. It's about as comparable to New York City as Zurich is.

In fact I've felt more at home in Florence than I did in Greenville, Alabama. In Texas, my friends thought nothing of pulling off to the side of the road at a BBQ pit and eating beef off of Styrofoam plates in a rickety shack where we brought our own beer. I couldn't imagine doing that anywhere north of D.C.

Yes my friend, America really has very different cultures.
You almost certainly know more about this than I do (I had to google FNSAX), but here's my issue with this strategy:

You don't make money off stocks by investing in strong companies. You make/lose money by investing in companies that do better/worse than expected. Because of this, when you invest in specific stocks, not only do you have to know whether or not the company will do well (not that hard to figure out) but also how this compares to the current expectations for that company (very difficult).

There are tens of thousands of people who are smarter than me and who sit around all day trying to guess whether companies like FB will do better or worse than expected. Unless I'm a genius, there's no point in engaging them in a field where they have all the advantages, inside knowledge, practice, etc. and all I have are guesses. (Though come to think of it FB might be the one exception to this as people on HN may have a better idea of where the world's going than others. Even then you'd have to be willing to hold for years for your strategic "software is eating the world" knowledge to kick in and become more important than the financial people's exquisitely tuned formulas).
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I can't speak to what most people expect from lambdas; I force myself use Tcl's [apply] occasionally just to try slightly different paradigms, so I appreciate your commentary.

One thing to note though, your final [inc 1] has nothing to do w/ $inc. In the interactive REPL (which I'm assuming you used), Tcl will (by default) essentially autocomplete commands if it can, and [inc] completed to [incr], which is "increment". [incr] adds (by default) 1 to the named variable and returns its result. In this case, the variable name happens to be "1", later accessible via "$1", or [set 1], for example.

[edit: I erroneously initially described the "1" in [incr 1] as the integer constant 1; @groovy2shoes reply below reflects my original error. This does go to show another neat feature of Tcl: no keywords.]
Already exists (at least for many products). This happens when the source is released, not when id posts the pre-community source to github.
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>Short answer: no, FOSS couldn't possibly work without the ability to modify and redistribute, and licenses that attempt to suggest otherwise get rightfully rejected before they can proliferate.

The ability to modify and redistribute continues to exist; the limitation should be equivalent to something like, "You are not allowed to use this unless you have a license", similar to the "You are not allowed to use this unless you agree to the licensing agreement" that many Linux distributions use to preface installation of the Oracle JRE.

You are free to disagree but I do not see any necessity for the provisions of the GPL that allow unlimited redistribution as long as source is included. It's not that I don't want people to use the GPL or that I don't find it worthwhile or noble to release software as GPL, it's just that I don't feel freedom 2, "the freedom to help your neighbor [whether they have contributed or paid anything or not]", is an essential component for all software.

I do believe that source should be included with all software, so I think there is a good middle ground somewhere out there and I want someone to seize it. I want the image to be perpetuated that giving your users source code isn't the same thing as bankrupting your company and/or resigning yourself to profit only on supplementary "support services". I don't like the image that has been perpetuated by things like the GPL that a source release == complete unsellability.
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If you're considering TCL, the Jim implementation might also be worth a look. It has most of the features of the core language, some extensions to enable even more and a very small footprint. If I recall correctly, it's even faster for some things and does lambdas etc. a bit better.

The bad thing about Tcl is probably its library support. It has an extension mechanism, but for a lot of "contemporary" projects (web etc.), you're actually more likely to find working Lua "Rocks" than tcl modules.

jim: http://jim.tcl.tk/
"Just because a sweatshop may be better than backbreaking farm work, doesn't mean we can't care about what is happening in sweatshops."

It's not that we don't care about what's happening in sweatshops. Appeals to emotion and morality are often dismissed as fallacies but they are certainly real. The problem is a lack of context and solutions.

Most of the arguments used disappear in context. The linked article makes the point about the injury rate and the wage rates; I do think he's partly off on suicides by missing that they clustered around the exorbitant benefits Foxconn had given for suicide.

"Apple should use it's margins to do something" isn't a real solution imho. How do we know they haven't already "done something"? How many "somethings" should Apple do? Until they run out of margins? What do the companies with very/low margin do? They get to do nothing because their products are shit? If a boycott closes Foxconn is that helping these workers? Will the anti-Foxconn people be thrilled when Foxconn transitions to primarily automated assembly plants?

"Also, it's "Daisey"."

Thanks, corrected.
I used to use oh-my-zsh but gave up on it after a few months because it took almost 20 seconds to open up a Terminal tab. I switched back to bash with some really basic git completion and was happy enough, enjoying < 2 second opening times.
yes.

>>> class A(object):
... def __getattribute__(self, key):
... try: return object.__getattribute__(self, key)
... except AttributeError: return lambda: 12
...
>>> a = A()
>>> a.asdf
<function <lambda> at 0x7fbb8fb6f848>
>>> a.asdf()
12