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Off topic - but I got to ask - what's up with Microsoft pushing C++ ? They were pushing .NET then all the sudden it's back to C++

.NET is for corporate stuff mostly. i.e in-company apps, corporate web apps and the like. They never touted .NET as a replacement for C++ for actual Windows apps and they never rewrote their apps (Office, etc) in .NET managed C#. In that area, .NET has been doing well. They don't propose people start using C++ for that, just as .NET was never meant for Desktop application development (and only niche apps use it, like only niche apps use Java for the desktop --Azureus etc).

As for the recent focus on C++, well C++ is having a major new version. And it was always their major weapon for application development (of which there are millions out there for Windows, from major stuff like Photoshop to the lamest shareware crap).

So, .NET/C++: orthogonal.

They could have picked up Mono after Novell, fund it separately (to avoid legal risks) and establish .NET as a truly cross-platform solution.

What sense would that make? So they give their customers a free and open source way to move away from Windows and run their .NET stuff in a Unix stack?
Anyone with different experience with WP7? Something has to be wrong.
wiki has a number of sources:
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Would it be possible that there are no blind spot on the Python side and a "semantic golden hammer" (for the lack of a better term) on the Haskell side?

I'm not being sarcastic or anything, I'm really wondering: are Python programmers using monads without knowing it? Or is it that monads are a good tool at giving a semantic (or "mathematical meaning") to what they are coding?

I think the distinction between the two points of view isn't relevant, but my point is that when you know something and like it, you easily see it everywhere: if you want it, all your code is just lambda-calculus, all your control structure are some kinds of monads, all for loops are just tail-recursive functions, all objects are just closures…
OVH in Europe has 1tbps in combined IP peering/transit. They are renting servers with 10gbps ports for about $200. Just yesterday they added 80gbps to Paris. http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showpost.php?p=41454&postcount=33

Hope Sonic builds a powerful network.
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And we're proud of it! It's lazy to do things right first and lazy not to want to fight with our code, seeking out bugs. BTW, Unit Testing is getting even lazier with Typemock Isolator V7 (http://www.typemock.com/isolator-v7). It's finding the bugs for you, so you don't have to waste 2 hours hunting around.
I've done exactly this before. It works really well. For endpoints that support it, you can put a subscription channel id in the normal REST resource. If the client sees the pubsub channel, and understands what to do with it, it can subscribe for updates via websockets; if it cant/chooses not to, if can just refresh the resource via standard http GET.
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That's what I'm trying to say. .NET is finally in the place where it's good enough for games

No, it's not. Only for higher level game logic. Even Word made with .NET would fill sluggish. Each layer of convenience has a penalty.

It does gets better with Moore's law, but native also gets better along with it, so the gap remains.

Plus, we always do more stuff with our software, so CPU demands are getting higher too. It's not like software (especially games) is static, so that the managed/native gap will get insignificantly imperceptible at some point.
I have no comments on C# as a language

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#Csharp
Especially in the light of Windows 8 and ARM support. Have they announced anything like Apple's Fat binaries? Surely emulating ARM on x86 isn't the whole plan. If it is the marketing of "going native" is a bit amusing. I am just glad the static analysis tools are coming to the low end VS.
Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC announced, enables light-field cameras in smartphones
The app was born out of personal experience. Within a month of moving to Philadelphia, I was assaulted on two occasions, including once on my very first day there. I put that down to my lack of knowledge of the area; I later discovered that a more knowledgable person wouldn't have accidentally wandered off at that time of evening to that particular area. Turns out, some of my neighbors had had similar experiences in the past in the very same area. I was later warned by local authorities that the area was known for the phenomenon of "gentrification".

Personally, I was scared out of my wits after those two incidents and landed up staying home many evenings for fear of a repeat incident. I think such an app could've really helped the general quality of my life in terms of reducing my apprehension.

I do see your point. To be honest, I didn't give the macroscopic windfalls excessive consideration. I had focused rather on the gains to individuals who stand to face the same situations that I did.

The app has not been released publicly so I think I'll do read a bit about crime patterns and their correlation to demography before taking any further step. Thanks for brining this to attention.
While I agree this is a great idea (as opposed to shooting-from-the-hip on proposals), be careful of putting too much faith in the process. From the article:

While how one calculates the price may vary, all the information is now available to see the project through from start to finish, identifying the challenges, and determining the amount of resources required to meet the project’s objectives.

That sounds like an old fashioned waterfall fantasy to me. I know it's not true, but I'm afraid clients would believe it.
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It failed for a couple other important reasons too. A web desktop is an anti-pattern. With my current OS I can already open a web browser fullscreen and access web apps on the internet. And I can also do other things like attach peripherals, copy my music and pictures, use photoshop and desktop publishing. I don't gain anything by abandoning my current OS and restrict myself to web apps. There never was any killer apps for WebOS, or any real reason to switch.
"The Python programmer said he had downloaded BASIC, and was experimenting with it. “But what is this GOTO stuff?” Never. Never ever ask that. One negative effect of asking that question is the horror of finding out that you use GOTO more than BASIC programmers; but because they are everywhere in your life, you have developed a blind spot to them. (Hint: do you use if?) In fact, as I showed him, every control structure in Python is an instance of GOTO."
Who pays for investigative journalism in that paradigm? It sounds like the whole concept of a journalist is going out the window. It will be up to the soldier to write his own account of a battle, rather than an embedded journalist, etc, etc.
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Not exactly side by side, but Node Inspector lets you use the webkit debug tools to step through Node.js code.

https://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector
Compulsory ADR process gives UK broadband customers a stick to beat their ISP
But, if you follow a link and that link is generated by the server, I still don't see how encoding a version number in the URL makes things any harder.

FWIW, I've made an effort to follow the purity of it, but the APIs I see that try to do true ReST are insanely obtuse. If you know of any real world case studies where a provider went from "fake" ReST to true ReST, I'd love to read it. The contrived examples are not helping me out in the comprehension department.
Windows Phone 7.5 update lowers system requirements
I see both sides here. My main concern with this approach is the false sense of security it might create. In my experience , the separation of cities into "good" and "bad" areas is only valid in aggregate. I'd rather someone took precautions and stayed alert than happily sauntered through an area that the app told them was safe. I guess it's difficult to know if this strategy works, since you'll never know if you avoided a would-be encounter with a mugger.

With that said, I can't fault your motivations, and building it so quickly was a real achievement!
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Amazon Payments is pretty good; I've been using it and am reasonably happy.
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This seems a lot like a webOS with Gecko instead of webkit. This seems interessting as I hope the projects open webOS are building are going to be on which both plattforms can build on.
Situation has changed a bit:
http://store.ovi.com/search?q=dropbox
http://store.ovi.com/search?q=evernote

Symbian UI got better with Belle still worse than Android, MeeGo or iOS.
Any other working link? App engine says the server is over quota.
The art of producing sustainable consumer goods: basketry
Stripe, if you're located in the US.

SaaSy or PayPal, if you're elsewhere.
Sorry about the pay-wall link guys :-( I'm in university so I didn't realize it was this way.

I've posted 3 other links which should allow free access to the paper. I think these things should be open (and free) to start off with.
I thought it was familiar, too ;-)

What do you actually use as features for training? Just the words in the title?
To see some good examples where this model has been truly successful, see every successful VC fund and accelerator (especially YC), ever. Also, I totally agree re prospective employers, from an employee's POV. But don't make the mistake of conflating Investors with Employers. The two are very different beasts, looking for very different attributes.
but the problem is that you do not know what is signal and what is noise. If you have two pixels with correlated noise, you have in the extreme case s_1 + n and s_2 + n, so averaging that gives you (s_1 + s_2) / 2 + n. If the noise is uncorrelated, then it might be positive in one pixel and negative in the others, so it might cancel itself out. In the extreme case you would have s_1 + n_1 and s_2 + n_2 and (n_1 + n_2) / 2 < n. Thus you have reduced the noise.
I don't understand how attacking the guys who find secret information, analyse it, and sell it to businesses, governments, and the public promotes an open society.

Is it that opaque to you how attacking a company that finds and SELLS secret information to businesses and governments promotes an open society?

Plus, the part about making information available to "the public" is laughable.

The public does not "buy" information from them. What little they make available to the general public (subscribers etc) is not at all the same stuff they sell to governments and corporations.

And the plural "governments" is also crap -it's mostly the US government, first and foremost.
I think the only thing political scientists say government should have a monopoly on is violence and national security. Anything beyond that and you enter a fractious field.
What's the time function on your graph? Are you only showing the last X weeks or all time? Things like police patrols could affect the frequency of crime over time, and that may change your predictions and confidence intervals.

EDIT: Depending on your data freshness, you may want to do something like push notifications if a crime happened in your area in the past 4 hours. That way if someone walks through a "good area" but there's recent crime they should be more vigilant.
Hmm, I see your point regarding conveying a "false sense of security". If the research that I spoke of turns out to be encouraging, I'll be sure to add explicit warnings and instructions. A private beta to test users' perceptions is on the cards too.

If there's anyone out there with experience in sociology, I'd be glad to have a chat.
I've commented on Modafinil before ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=647333 ). Please see caveats there.

I would say that Modafinil does not make a boring task interesting. It does not supply any drive to work.

I characterise the effects as blowing away that fog you sometimes feel is within your head.

Even better, I have found that it is quite possible to sleep on Modafinil. It will be light sleep because if you're indulging then you probably have a lot on your mind anyway and this will dictate how well you sleep.

You'll find that you wake up with some residual effect ( clarity ). This is a good thing, unlike a hangover/comedown.
No, WebOS was a proprietary operating system with a proprietary framework that happened to run apps written in html/js.
>Are there humans from Google

Yeah, good point, are there humans at Google? Or have their bots finally taken over?
Why? Because we can!
WebOS also has its own framework. As far as I understand this is about standard web applications (i.e. framework agnostic). F.e. you could build your app in jquery-mobile and make your app communicate with the device through a JavaScript API.
My problem is that I am often tired when I get home from work, not that I am procrastinating as such.

But there are a ton of things I would like to do, anyone got an algorithm for beating tiredness?.
> like in 左 and 右 where it's easy to mix up the order of the first two strokes

That one's easy, just remember it's "opposite" - in 左, the first stroke is to the right, whereas in 右, the first stroke is to the left.
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This is American news. Speeds like these, for this and smaller price tags, are not the least unheard of in Europe or Asia. I'm glad to see that some American ISPs dare to move things forward.
I apologize, I simply forgot that they did, even when I have used it enough. In fact when I just checked Firebug again, I realized how easy it feels to use as compared to Dev Tools.
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No, it mostly has to do that they sell information to governments (mostly, the US and chose allies that the US gets a say to what they are given) and businesses (big corps). Thus, promoting both corporatism and imperialism against citizens, other/foreign businesses and sovereign states.

Plus, it's not like "information gathering" is a neutral process. What you select, what you report, how you frame it, is a standard method to promote the agenda of your backers. Their "customer", besides heavy backers like the US gov, is mostly a product for sale.
I use Anki on a daily basis for kanji practice - what drew me to your app was obviously the handwriting recognition. My handwriting is notoriously poor in English, and I'd rather avoid repeating the mistakes I made when I learned written English growing up.

If you were to add support for practicing the readings as well, I would buy your app in a heartbeat. I'd like to avoid using 2 different apps on a regular basis for kanji practice.
See also what "The Ultimate Productivity Blog" has to say on that topic: http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/
Took longer than 10 seconds, but a helpful introduction nonetheless.
Put another way, it's a sustainable Wikileaks (sustainable because it is self-financing and can attract talent, albeit evidently not IT).

No, put another way, were Wikileaks is a robin hood (steal from the powerful, give to the public), they are a villain for hire -- and one that also has a super-boss at that.
Not exactly. Mini compresses far more than what Mobile can do (when going through the Opera proxies is enabled with Turbo), and is useful on networks that are extremely slow or when you want to use as little bandwidth as possible.

The chain of efficiency is basically: Mini > Mobile with Turbo > Mobile.

Unless they merge the Mini's mode into Mobile, you might still want to use both.
Down-vote opinions you disagree with? Don't misrepresent my statements in an attempt to exaggerate their absurdity.

Obviously, Wall Street !== Angels, ergo IPO !== seed stage.

There's no doubt there are edge cases. But the point I was trying to make was that investors are interested, above all, in people. The fact that you managed to raise a seed round in the absence of traction or a polished product is evidence of this very point. I'd love to hear from your investor as to why he invested in you. I'm willing to bet you are the single biggest reason.
Telefónica has other names. Here in Britain it's O2 (yes, the oxygen molecule)
Lengthy, an extension to add a table of contents to README files on GitHub
Spanish facebook Like button, heh
Is it just me, or does using mind-altering substances to get through one's daily schedule seem like it crosses the line?

I'm always a little baffled when people sacrifice their health for work - it's a very bad decision in the long term. You can always find another job, but once you damage your health, you may never get it back.
And Apple is amply rewarded for doing so.

I guess it's easy (for some of us) to remember when Apple was a niche player, with only a few loony fans. I jumped on the bandwagon with a first gen Intel Macbook (switching from an Ubuntu PC), so while I'm not a hardcore Apple fan I've had a few rough moments dealing with stupid companies (and government departments) who don't give a toss about people who don't have ActiveX. People would be "wow, nice computer ... pity it's useless".

The reality is, Apple is doing quite well now, and doesn't need so much defence. People kind of understand that it's not just a pretty white (or aluminium) brick that can't do anything but play Carmen Santiago.
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So if it's neither online nor print, where does the ad spend previously allocated to newspapers now go?
I guess the question that I have is: Is Stratfor shaping the information that it is supplying to its retail subscribers, for whatever reason (either for the benefit of their corporate subscribers, or for themselves)? It certainly seems like this is something that Friedman and Stratfor are capable of doing.

In an era where Joe Public can be under GPS/Mail/whatever surveillance for whatever reason any in the government wants, do people believe that an entity like Stratfor would exist without the explicit consent and control of the government and/or secret agencies? And that they would NOT shape the information that they are providing to retail subscribers?

We're not talking tin-foil paranoia here, this is state politics 101.
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The majority of beef comes from grass-fed cows. Of the about 1.3 billion cows, only 100 million are fed grain (those in industrialized countries).

According to a quick googling, it seems that grass is more sustainable but lower output.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/207/4433/843.abstract

Free trade would mean less or no grain-fed livestock, hopefully (here in Uruguay we have almost 7 million cows, all of them grass-fed, neighbour Argentina has 40 million cows, also grass-fed, Australia and New Zealand also have similar numbers of grass-fed cows).

In any case, as you argue, cows are not the most efficient means of producing meat, that's why chicken is much cheaper for instance :) .

Grass-fed cows probably take more land, but I suspect they pollute a lot less (for example there's a lot of indirect pollution from the grain produced to feed the grain-fed cattle)

Edit: about free trade - both the U.S. and Europe have trade quotas and subsidies in place to maintain the local agriculture. I understand not wanting to destroy it entirely due to strategic concerns (and excessive dependency on a provider), but I believe it's gotten out of hand.

Edit2: the number of cows in Uruguay was inflated, changed for more reasonable source.
Interesting, but I'm not sure I agree. In my experience education - especially post-grad - tends to push people further and further down the funnel of specificity. By that logic, you're much more likely to have a macro startup idea - like Gumroad for instance - without any grad-level education.
Switched to using Opera Mini Next. I don't like the social home page but it can be switched off. The speed dial looks really nice and over all the browser is responsive. Great work as usual from Opera! Allows my aging Nokia N73 to browse the web in a sane way.
Isn't this pretty much what BizSpark from Microsoft does? Your startup gets pretty much full MSDN for $100, then you start paying regular prices.

Disclaimer: haven't used BizSpark personally
In Canada it costs 50$/month for 5Mbit DSL. So I couldn't make it past the first few paragraphs...
He/she was pointing out that how many people you can feed is not a sensible statistic. You can feed a lot of people with a single sugar cube. The question is how long can this lot of people survive on the energy that goes into growing a steak.
I have a 1 gbit connection at home and there is little difference to the 100 mbit connection I have at my parents. The gains are pretty much the same as the difference having wifi and gigabit LAN. Transferring large files etc. are in the minute range rather than tens of minutes or even hours.

But 10mbit is definitely not enough to use the internet effectively, hell, my HDTV soaks up that much just watching any a generic HD channel, if you had 2 TVs running it would slow to a crawl.
"You could have ruled it out from the function signature alone"
- kindly elaborate.
New visual form ui builder for jQuery developers
Just a quick note about a new project that may help a lot of jQuery developers.

The site is located at www.codeCanvas.org and it offers a rapid visual jQuery form/ui designer. It's free to all and I am hoping to build a large community of tool authors.

Our press release can be seen here:

http://www.mmdnewswire.com/free-visual-jquery-and-html-designer-launch-90290.html

Hope this helps!!

Best,

Jason Burgess
codeCanvas.org
Do you drink coffee or caffeinated soda? Also Modafinil by itself doesn't seem to cause any health problems, so I'm not sure what you're getting at there. The impure Adrafinil can cause liver problems though. I'd agree that a drug that gave work benefits but resulted in brain damage 2 years later isn't worth it, but let's be specific when talking about what health risks are around for particular chemicals, diets, and chairs/no chairs.

My own experience with Modafinil is that it lets me focus intently on one or a handful of things for longer periods of time, but doesn't give me much if any boost in willpower to pick, so I rely on putting myself in the right environment where there's only a few options to pick from.
.NET is for corporate stuff mostly. i.e in-company apps, corporate web apps and the like. They never touted .NET as a replacement for C++ for actual Windows apps

I don't agree with that. MFC was used for lots of corporate desktop applications and some if not most of those are being replaced by Windows Forms and WPF apps. Replacing C++ MFC apps with .NET is exactly what Microsoft told Windows developers to do in the past 10 years and that's what they did.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=MFC%2C+WPF%2C+winforms&...
I think people do end up eating a little bit of others everyday. Won't some of the skin cells shed by humans everyday end up in the food they prepare?
While I think the idea is interesting, I will say what I always say in these situations:

Talk is cheap.

I wish people would announce projects when there is actually something to look at rather than just having a vague list of goals. It's like the "I have a great idea for an app and just need somebody to do the software development". I always like to think of products consisting of 15% Idea and 85% implementation.
> Do you drink coffee or caffeinated soda?

In fact, I don't, and precisely for this reason. Caffeine addictions seem to be just as bad to me.

Instead, I sleep more (enough so I don't have to use an alarm) and strive to cut unnecessary things from my life to save time. For example, I know it's a little cliche, but people survived without TV until 50 or 60 years ago. I got rid of my TV, and it saved me a lot of time.