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The apps are mostly compatible (look at the number of straight ported iOS games on the MAS for confirmation here) with no UI rework done.

The games ported from iOS and Launcher, maybe, but most apps are not "mostly compatible".

A few examples: Safari, Mail, Photoshop, iTunes, iPhoto, Pages, Numbers, Garageband, etc. Also everything third party: Chrome, Photoshop, Word, Evernote, etc etc...

Non of those are designed with touch interaction in mind. This shows in the layout of the menus, toolbars and buttons, and is even more evident in the size of buttons and control elements. They are not made to be controlled by a coarse pointer, such as a finger.
I have this book. This book is good, and very complete from a traditional formals grammars point-of-view (LL, LR, SLR, LALR), and has very good sections on top-down and bottom-up parsing, but it is rather outdated in terms of what people are using now.

Nowadays many people use parser combinator libraries or packrat-style PEG parsers. This book provides no information about either.
I would assume that part of the reason military units are so expensive is that they already have high quality RF filters for jamming resistance.
I don't really buy that. I have built applications using BDB on the back-end. It works really well for some things. It just has other shortcomings development-wise that usually makes up for the benefits and then some.

The thing is that object-oriented and relational design are fundamentally different. It is very rare to find people who are very good (or even equally good) at both. They are entirely different design disciplines aimed at very different problems. What non-relational db's do is they free the developer up from this second, very different discipine using tools that usually perform very well for standard OO operations.

That's a powerful thing.

Of course it's also powerful to have a math engine which can take your stored data, digest it, and spit out a report based on criteria you hadn't thought of until 30 seconds ago. And iterating through a collection of objects? Not a good way to do that.
Just at a quick glance, I think LFE is a Lisp-2? At least, it bears more resemblance to Common Lisp than Scheme. I don't see any 'funcall' function though, so I could be wrong.
That's one of the surprises in NFL. If you read Gregg Easterbrook (Tuesday morning quarterback on espn), he frequently points out stastically obvious plays that coaches should have called, but they dont! It is hard to believe that NFL head coaches with their large entourage of assistant coaches do not have the same information that a writer on espn has!

The NFL actually boils down to players making plays. There is no rocket science involved (although coaches are regularly hailed as "geniuses"). If the playbook is made too complicated, players will have a hard time learning it. The trick (in my opinion) is to have your players accurately anticipate the opposition's moves. Belichick's playbook is not the most complex, but it definitely geared towards exploiting his opposition's weaknesses, and simple enough to be understood/implemented by the players on field.
Ah, there are finalisers. The function finalizer lets you define a function to be called when there are no more references to an object. I guess maybe the idea is to use this from within the constructor.
"absolute consistency isn't a hard requirement for banks": see above. Yes it is.

This one gave me a laugh. Thanks for pointing it out.

Let me see.... Your business does nothing but manage money. You don't need absolute confidence over where that money is at any given point of time? Right..... In fact accounting systems (and by extension ERP systems) are about the LAST place you'd want to use anything other than a relational database system/
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Hi!

New to these particular arguments, so your first sentence was perspective adding. Should have realized though that the strong libertarian bent to HN would make a lot of arguments old.

That said: In my defence, I'm neither for nor against the topic, and wasn't making the arguments you suggested I was. I was alluding to large groups of criminals overwhelming or out-gunning paid protection at some point of the scale.

As you said, lets get back to the real topic - libraries are great. Although it did seem like computer education and literacy was one of the major draws - perhaps people here could help by helping an NGO which provided volunteers to help people fill forms up or give them computer education?
This benchmark is pretty pointless but I can't resist. Here is a version in Quixote:

https://github.com/nascheme/quixote-shootout

It looks like mod_wsgi is quite a dog.
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Just because REST says you should do it one way doesn't mean you should.
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Ah, you hadn't said it was the same post office...

In any case, I'm not saying being Japanese is the only factor. But it's very likely a factor.
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If someone is making a consulting agency that gets clients, deals with most of the risk, etc., then that is worth something to me and I'd be willing to take a less then I could get if I were doing the same work freelance. I'd give up, say 10-20% of the value of the contract to pay for such services. If the owner wants to take much more than that then he/she will have to expect people to jump ship after training. The salary difference is worth taking on these other responsibilities yourself or finding an agency that will take less.

As far as your second example of people, I don't think enough people are like that to warrant consideration. People are more likely to stay with a company beyond the point of rationality.
In the interest of keeping you from making the mistake again, and possibly in company that wouldn't be forgiving, the term "ivy league" isn't a generic term for academically prestigious schools but refers to a specific group of schools in the northeast us. Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.

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I think he meant that it should have been type=json or type=xml instead of json=true/xml=true. The former has been pretty standard practice with REST APIs as far back as I can remember (2005 at least), as an alternative when Accept headers weren't possible.
I think fame can be a bit of a burden. If you have a kind of guru status you might be averse to taking risks that others think are foolish. Whereas when you were an unknown that wouldn't have mattered.

But, that's a minor factor. This is what I was thinking: celebrity is associated with at least one past success, and it becomes like a characteristic of the person, for at least some time. Business success has many more factors, some of them effectively random, and not associated with the person.

So we should expect reversion to mean for the entrepreneur's post-celebrity ventures. While they may succeed more often than others over time, their next big venture would be highly likely to be a flop.

But: Smietana's post linked to research which suggests that I'm actually totally wrong here, and entrepreneurial success is more of a function of skill. Maybe that suggests that the successful entrepreneurs are the ones who learned the best during their first venture, which makes replicating success easier.
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The codebase for my current project is well protected. For the moment. Most of the rest are gone. Their time came and went; this one will go too. As will I, and as will you.

I'm entirely in favor of research into extending human lifespan and maximizing the quality of human life. But this "circuits will save us all" stuff is not materially different than all the people who believe Santa-in-the-sky will let them live forever in happy-shiny-fluffy land. It's pure wish fulfillment, with no significant evidence.
And I was talking about the US.
5 years away from programming, boy have things changed
Not that it makes any difference, but Berkeley isn't an Ivy League school.
In other news, chess players are not allowed to use iPads either while playing. The chess association must hate technology!
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It's probably not true. The magnetic field generated by heated seats is very very low. The coercivity of magnetic tape is much higher than that, plus the car field is constant, which doesn't work very well to erase thing.

The heat maybe, that could do it, magnetic media doesn't like heat. A car warmer would not be enough, but a hot car in the summer might be.
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Yes, type=json|jsonp|xml|csv would work. We would just need an extra parameter for JSONP to specify the name of the callback function.
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Has Daring Fireball ever had blog comments? I don't think it has. Neither, from what I can tell, has Kottke.
cool tips, but i'm worried about writing a script which isn't portable because of dependencies to some tools.
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They're pretty interesting because there's an APM (actions per minute) cap imposed by the game itself. IIRC, once you approach 2,000 actions per minute, the game stops responding to commands properly.

You only have a small (for a piece of software!) amount of actions you can do for minute, so you have to choose wisely.
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Mostly-agree. I think you're right that cheating, above everything else, is why the NFL is slow to adapt technology. But I do have to point out it's happening with the technology they're using already: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3014677

Newer tech would make that easier, but it's going to happen one way or another.
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>Perhaps there is no persistent identity at all; in every moment in time there is a single separate identity.

That view is known as perdurantism (opposed to endurantism).

> Perhaps time itself is an illusion: perhaps the universe is just one single snapshot in time.

Not sure what you mean here, but if you're assuming determinism then you're scientifically wrong (which is to say that there's now a scientific answer to what was historically a philosophical conundrum). The universe is indeterministic. This is more because of entropy ("determinism is fundamentally a denial of the arrow of time") than chaos theory (which is still deterministic). Ilya Prigonine is notable for emphasizing this worldview as a third departure from Newton, first two being quantum mechanics and general relativity.

> Does anyone have a recommendation for reading more about this topic?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_space_and_time
This would be far more interesting if Netty was in the comparison.
Let's review the bidding here. Somebody said "death is a medical failure." I said that it isn't; when you fail to achieve an impossible goal, the failure is in the goal, not the work done. I went on to say that all composite things decay, and that to expect that one is going to be the first exception is folly.

I agree that few people imagining they can have eternal life think that they will suffer. But that's exactly the problem. They haven't thought it through. They don't yet understand what life is. Which is why they are so woefully unprepared to handle the parts that don't match their fictions.

The bit about Shakespeare's sonnets I take to be a counterargument to "all composite things decay". That we have managed to keep 100k of text around for less than half a millennium seems like poor evidence that immortality will soon be ours. People die. Species die. Planets and suns die.
Cool idea. I think it would be awesome to make it possible to automatically encode favicons in qr codes (pixel by pixel -> unit by unit).
Here's also a webapp for some customization inspiration. code's color and even the unit shapes can be customized: http://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/qr-designer/
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I don't think he will answer positively. It's only a demo and somehow I don't see him releasing an unfinished program. But I can imagine other people picking up his ideas.

Actually there is someone in the Vimeo comment thread who has started a live canvas editor(1) inspired by one of the demos.

Edit:
(1)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBUC-7D1LIc
What a load of baloney. This is symptomatic of the believe that management adds overriding value to performance, whereas in practice the best thing they can do is bring the best and/or most cohesive individuals together.

An interesting factoid for football is that in nearly fifty years of the NFL a coach has never led a two different teams to a Superbowl win. So why overestimate the value of what can be done on the sidelines?
Sure, and maybe some day if you've lived as long as you care to you may choose to allow your consciousness to fade away too, and that is all very well and good. It's the inability to do otherwise that is a problem.

With regards to possibility; it's the difference between hard science fiction and simple fiction, there's nothing ruling out that any of these things as possible, and in light of that fact I think pursuing them is an undeniably good idea.

We know the origins of Santa, we know the origins of god and religion, we understand why they're false and why that's a waste of time. Theoretical future advances in technology allowing fundamentally new paradigm shifts are something completely different.
I'm frankly not surprised-- Winer has complained in the past about comments. From the perspective of someone who often disagrees with him, I've never really understood why he had them in the first place, as he simply does not tolerate alternative views well.
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I Agree. Maybe putting an intro video or at least a couple of screenshots next to the faq would make a better presentation.
Comments are often worthless, and the reason comments are worthless is because there's no identity invested in them. When sites like HN and Reddit work (which isn't all the time), it's because there's a community of identities which are invested in the comments. When a site like HN or Reddit grows too much, though, most of those identities disappear.

Publishing your own blog post as a rebuttal, or emailing the author, are generally worth more, not only because of the identity involved but because there's a barrier of entry you won't bother crossing unless you're sure you have something to say.
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Speaking of this, has anyone tried Neuro-Linguistic Programming (eg the swish pattern) to accomplish the same goal?

There are some interesting videos on Youtube of people having their phobias cured, for instance.
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Any other tools out there? How good is something like SciPy for this sort of thing?
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I don't think this is a resounding victory for Go. It's a compiled language and yet it can only manage just over 3000 requests a second. With such a small difference in speed, I'd be better off with Python.

If you want to see some impressive figures from a compiled language, look at Haskell's snap.
It also is a modest barrier to cheating. Tech that is networked can have stuff appear on it that recently was seen somewhere else, not so with printouts. The vulnerability being that someone on the opposing side looks at the plays and sends copies over to the other side.
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The process of interview indeed, requires a very good amount of skill and sagacity on the part of the interviewer. Selecting the right person has been a daunting challenge for any company, be it giants like Google, Microsoft or budding startups.

The process becomes all the more tricky when it comes to freshers because they may have the talent required for the job, but nothing to show that backs it up.
A first order filter will attenuate at a rate of 20 dB per decade away from its cutoff frequency. For example, at a frequency 1000 times higher than its cutoff frequency, a first order filter will attenuate by 60 dB.

An n-th order filter will attenuate at 20*n dB per decade.

Let's assume based on your numbers the GPS band is 20 MHz away from LightSquared's 1.5 GHz-ish band. That's log(1.52/1.5) = 0.00575 of a decade.

We need 180 - 70 = 110 dB of attenuation to push the LightSquared signal amplitude well below the GPS signal amplitude. Solving for n above, 1/0.000575 x 110/20 = 956.

An order 956 filter is not something you can design for a buck or two. It's certainly not something you would design if you expected to filter out other space-based -160 dBm signals. Plus, the numbers above are very aggressive. You're going to need to do even better if you don't want to distort the signal you care about.
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Have you noticed somebody objecting to neutrally pointing out something that might be a theoretical possibility?

Because what I see people objecting to is not the raising of a possibility. It's the indulging of a fantasy that lets people avoid thinking about an empirical certainty.
True and it seems like no matter how much foresight I have and how much abstraction we code in, eventually some change comes along that nobody saw coming.
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It's up to the customer to choose. Why would a business give shit away for free after the client made their choice not to buy it?

And as far as I can tell they didn't "physically delete files", they just pulled the plug on a VPS as per the clients requests. You think being able to terminate an EC2 instance is amateurish from Amazon?
There are no animal species that do not age. Some age slower than others.

I agree we should try to improve human lives, now and in the future, and extending healthy lifespan is certainly part of that. But there is plenty of reason to face the fact that we will all eventually die.