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Because writing your own web framework seems to be a "rite of passage" for Python programmers, or did around the time that article was first written. The same thing is happening with node.js right now.
I've just ported Stick from RingoJS to Node, which does the same thing but lets you write code in a synchronous manner: https://github.com/olegp/stick
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I much prefer JSHint. JSLint is draconian, and has some borderline insane decisions (it complains if you don't declare your vars at the top of a block—is this 1980?).

And yes, I realise that some of these options can be turned off—but JSHint has better defaults.
Does anybody know what S in the onscreen graphics is, and what "dog" is an abbreviation of?
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I agree on package management; I haven't used Homebrew, but I definitely find MacPorts breakage much more often than I find Debian breakage, even in Debian sid/unstable.
Not sure what you mean with piping, but all examples in the documentation are fixed length responses.
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It would be interesting to see how much improvement you could get if you walked them through some sort of exercise like I described first, to see how much of the effect you could undo.
Wow, never thought of this rectangle analogy. It makes so much sense. Value*Addressable_Market = How good a startup idea is.
I run ubuntu 11.10 on a thinkpad and I find that battery life is on a par with Windows.

You might want to investigate the ASPM power regression issue; pcie_aspm=force might work for you (or wait for ubuntu 12.04 which cw the 3.2 kernel containing the fix)
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Note that Arianespace have recently also have had their first couple of launches using Soyuz rockets from Kourou:

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The quality of the graduates will bring the employers. Employers only want a mechanism of sifting the wheat from the chaff. If MITx tests students at the rigor of regular MIT courses, there is no reason why employers won't be tripping over themselves to hire MITx grads.

Furthermore, this will annihilate the monopoly that sub-par institutions currently have on conferring degrees and other certifications. Students who have MIT level ability will no longer have to settle for second best. They can prove themselves at the top institutions without having to worry about the 10% acceptance rate.

If executed properly, this will revolutionize post-secondary education and save students and taxpayers billions of dollars. It has long since been proven that the majority of post-secondary institutions are nothing but glorified testing centers. Why not cut out all the excess, and let MIT do the teaching while a test center does the testing?

Also, this will dismantle the broken R&D incentive structure that is publicly funded academic research via tenured professors. The research scientist will be a dedicated profession unto itself, as will the post-secondary professor. Public funding of scientific research will no longer involve the ridiculous process of journal publication, and will instead focus on delivering results to the taxpayer based upon a research contract (much like privately funded research).

Structural inefficiency in academic research has caused an immeasurable slowdown in scientific progress over the past few decades. With one fell swoop, initiatives such as MITx have the ability to rectify this gross misallocation of resources.
Surfraw is a tool that exposes a similar interface to bang patterns.

http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/
I'm interested in CS, IT and Business. I'm also looking to see a rigorous test after the class. I'm ready to pay the equivalent cost of running the courses and taking the exams.

This has a lot of value for someone thrown in a third world country with no financial possibility to join a decent University in the developed world.
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How many CP was really there is debatable. But I tell you this: if Reddit had CP, then Facebook is a major CP distributor, probably the largest in the world.
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1) You could also create some wrapper scripts setting the path, or have someting inspired by virtualenv handle it, or maybe different terminal profiles. Those breakings really are edge cases.

2) Don't put them in the PATH. They're prefixed with 'g' so you can make an non-prefixed alias for your interactive shell, and use the prefixed variant in your scripts if need be. If you write portable scripts you're either using common features or use some vars for those utils, aren't you?

3) g++? that's not in homebrew...

Honestly though, MacPorts is a real pain. That's why I worked with others to bring Arch's pacman on OSX (dubbed ArchOSX) some years ago, but binary hosting was proving being a chore, and then Homebrew started taking off, and in my case Just Works.
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Who was the Canadian Y Combinator guy who just got burnt badly trying to do that?
Not China based, read up on the manufacturing of the Boeing Dreamliner..Japan yes, China no
Too much of negativity...

It seems good to me ! UI is not that bad. Infact I prefer having media list in app. I anyways don't like current playlist UI (which I use often). Its better than that.

Moreover, I'd love to have some feature where I can include my media path once (it may be iTunes Media Library), and the app automatically shows files at those locations. It'd be even better if it could automatically show Movie name/thumb imdb link etc.
i fail at seeing the point in forcing javascript to act synchronously
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The spec has provisions for automatic semicolon insertion that need to be considered carefully before deciding to completely ignore them. Now consider that http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html says the following:

"Bootstrap is designed to help people of all skill level—designer or developer, huge nerd or early beginner. Use it as a complete kit or use to start something more complex."

So:
1. "illiterates" are welcome to use it.
2. If the goals are to be met, do not assume anything that can be interpreted differently by different players.
Just becuse it is in the language spec does not mean that you should use it - Arithmetic IF's in Fortran are a good example.
Used it experimentally to port a python tool that does some log aggregation with several options (read backwards, query on fields, etc) and returns the results in JSON.

A straight line by line port (ie less idiomatic Go) runs at about twice the speed of Python and with the same memory footprint. With the right fine tuning should be even better.

It was also very easy to do -- i.e code translated quite easily from Python to Go.
I don't think this is a matter of taste. I think this is showing off for the sake of it.
Two halves of the same coin. Programming something is 'teaching' a computer to do it. Except a computer is in many ways the dumbest student possible; you have to spell everything out for it.
> The keyboard shortcuts sometimes work, sometimes they don't

This is fixed in latest versions of VLC.

> Various widgets aren't standard

Which one ? All of them are standard but the volume slider and you can change it.

> The popup menus flicker when opened during a movie and they can go really deep.

I do not understand what you say.

> Changing some settings in mid-play causes restarting the movie from beginning while some settings are lost after switching DVD titles/chapters.

This is fixed since a long time.

> For example, transcoding into a file could be just a "Save as..." with a simple selection of formats.

Good idea.
I think this is mostly a case of someone who develops for Linux, but prefers to develop on his desktop instead of a development server that is close to the production environment. This results in requiring the desktop to be closer to that of the production environment. I think this is the main reason I've seen people switch away from having a Mac. Personally, I've always seen my desktop and laptop as a terminal and this approach has been working for me for 20 years now, it also allows me to not having to upgrade my desktop a lot or waste a chunk of my life fiddling with it.
Yes. The two eventualities are equivalent for this purpose.

Obviously the non-existence of a solution might itself be unprovable, so you'd still have to set some time limit. Oh Gödel, always there to ruin our plans.
"How good an idea is" should also take into account your ability to do something with it. A small rectangle that you can dominate may well be better than chasing after something huge where you don't really have a way to attack it.
I think the bottom line is that the author is used to working with Debian and thus perceives differences between OS X and Debian as bugs.

It is true that jumping between Linux and OS X can be difficult at times. It's also true that Debian's packaging system is better than OS X's.
In one paragraph he says he has four gigabytes of memory, and after switching to LInux, he says he has eight.

It seems he's misunderstanding inactive memory, which can be either filesystem caching (since it's already backed on disk, can be freed with no penalty) or allocated memory by the processes but not recently used (which would count as used under Linux, and when running out of free mem, would be paged to disk on both Linux and Mac OS X).
I recently went back to GNU/Linux (Ubuntu). This was after a three year stint on OSX though. OSX is good for people who don't like to tweak. I'm much happier with my Ubuntu laptop than I was with my Macbook, now I have it set up how I like. I'm generally happier using free software anyway.
I avoid using the semicolon in JS because doing so forces me to be aware of the semicolon insertion rules. Forgetting them can lead you to believe that statements like

return
{ foo: 3 };

do what you expect :)
Whenever someone tells me about their amazing new idea that will completely overhaul an industry or transform a marketplace, I usually have one question for them: What will stop your competitors (established or following) from taking your idea and doing it (or marketing it) better?

Answers I tend to accept are:

* Because I love this product and even if a competitor tries to compete, I'll remain three steps ahead of them at all times

* They won't believe it'll work until it's too late

* There's a lot of technology behind this, and it'd take a year to simply replicate the functionality -- let alone understand what parts of it matter

* The product benefits (at least in part) from being distanced from an established player

* We have a really good patent!

Answers I usually get are:

* Umm...

* Ahh...

* Because we're awesome!
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This is fairly spot on. Apple makes really nice laptop/desktop hardware, but though OSX as been getting a lot better, it is still a terrible playschool excuse for a unix-based operating systems go when compared to *BSD or Linux.

OSX is certainly a better choice for the pointy-pointy-clicky-clicky masses than windows by far, but we have chromeos and ubuntu for them now. Lets face it, OSX is made to suit the needs of people who just want to use social networks, play farmville, and not worry about running constant spyware scans. It is also largely appeals for people that have been trained that the Adobe Suite is the only way to do professional media/web work, but at least know enough to realize the entire windows ecosystem is irrecoverably broken. (Obviously I am generalizing and there are certainly exceptions but you must admit this is the majority)

OSX is not, nor will it ever likely be made for serious hackers or sysadmins that actually care how things work at a low level, like to choose their own window manager, manage memory, write/apply kernel patches to support new hardware, run enterprise-level systems with rebootless kernel upgrades, have low level file-system control/choices, get and apply same-day security patches, have custom kernel-level security extensions that compile into every binary on the system etc. It is also certainly not for the wider range of users and developers that want an operating system they can install on their existing hardware that for most common tasks "just works", and/or want to easily manage all the software on their system with a mostly unbiased package repository system where everything is free, and where most of it can be legally modified.

I also found it interesting the author chose to give up the multitouch trackpad he liked for a lenovo, after just saying the macbook was nicer hardware. Debian runs great on Apple hardware.

I personally run Arch Linux on my macbook pro and I have full multitouch trackpad with the same gestures, keyboard backlight, all the special buttons work, etc. Many other major distros also have run smoothly on my new and old style mac minis, friends macbooks, and my macbook pro. I daresay many major Linux distros support a lot of Apple hardware better than Apple does.

Decent hardware, complete control over the software, and I can dual boot OSX when I happen to need to open some proprietary formatted file once in a while. Works out fairly well.
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Here are some of the companies making much than us:

Harvest (look at the size of their team; and for web apps, they are old!)

Mite (the last time they posted about revenue, it was more than double ours, presumably that trend has continued)

Freshbooks (they do more than just time tracking, but they are a chief "competitor" if you want to call it that… and they make bank)

I strongly suspect that RescueTime and Intervals have greater revenue than us as well.

…and probably many more… these are just the "cool" ones which I know about. I'm sure there are many tools for specific industries or who are otherwise entrenched who make ridiculous amounts of money.

It is the easiest thing in the world to dismiss something by saying "nobody would pay for that" or "they must be unusual if they're making money" or "it must be because they're famous." None of these things are true. But they sure are easy to believe and even easier to say, discouraging yourself and others.
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Side note about the first axis: When you measure how much you're improving people's lives, remember to look at how much you're improving them compared to if people used the best available alternative, not compared to nothing at all.

The main selling points for Tarsnap are that it's secure and easily scriptable; for most people those are far less important than "having backups will prevent data loss", but that last property is something which any good backups would provide, so it's part of the ignored baseline.
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Would like to know what happened to that guy. It does seem like you would invalidate a standard visa waiver business visa
You end up with less code that's easier to maintain, in my experience. Check out this presentation I gave on the topic: http://www.slideshare.net/olegp/server-side-javascript-going...
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Indeed, why not. I like writing code, let someone else deal with the boring stuff.
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If you (or, okay, I) can create a new product which has certain selling points, and gain quite a lot of customers, how is the market still considered "over-saturated"?

I make my living exclusively in "over-saturated" or "nobody will pay for that" markets. Which so far has worked out just fantastically.

My first foray into an "over-saturated" market was a Mac news, opinion & tutorial site back in the late 90s. Every single person I talked to said the market was over-saturated, that nobody would read it & more importantly, I wouldn't get any advertisers. They were all wrong.
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HomeBrew and MacPort do screwed up lots geeks' Mac, seriously.
This is a simple logical error: "It seems like lots of people are doing it, therefore the market must be saturated, therefore nobody will make any money."

In the face of credible testimony from somebody you presumably trust (since patio11 has such a sterling reputation), why would you insist that "you can't believe it"?

It staggers me how many people when hearing about my success come up with ways to minimize it, to say it's not possible, it's a fluke, they don't believe it, they can't believe it, etc.
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Does that really apply to someone working every day in an office - even if they don't earn a salary
openSUSE is the best KDE distro around, not the least because the vast majority of SUSE developers use KDE. Dogfooding really works in this case.
How CAN'T you acquire a decent amount of customers? The world is so much simpler and easier than you think it is. Maybe that sounds like hand-wavy BS to you, but it's simply the facts. Freckle grows even when we ignore it. We don't "do" verticals.

You're assuming that variety means people are satisfied. But as a rule, people are never satisfied, and rightfully so since most software is crap.
How does it compare to Play! ?
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Let's not question that source!

TechCrunch has the most punchable "journalists" I've ever seen, not including tabloids. As for one of their people accusing others of writing shit just for the pageviews, that's staggeringly hypocritical.

Also CrunchFund is a scam. Hire a popular hack, pay him to talk up a new venture, guaranteed business. It's as ethical as insider trading. Bad shit. Leads to lots of crappy "me-too" startups doing better than they deserve.
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