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Peter Gadwa said the Bell Curve said people at all IQs existed in all races. IQ is based on deviation from average. I had some funny notions on what he meant.

God said "sports" on the topic of racism.

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People do disagree. They also by and large agreed that all of the things that Java and friends brought to the table were supposed to lead to more maintainable software. So far, few software projects in any language approach the maintainability of the Linux kernel.

Having recently read "How We Decide", I can't help but think many of the traps described in that book are hit heavily by those trying to pick a programming language.
> There are huge privacy implications for the first route, however

In the Netherlands, when you want to request (removal of) your data as per our privacy and person registration laws, you need to send a scan of your passport or ID card as proof of identification to the data-collecting corporation as well (which makes sense).

Fortunately you can block out and mangle large parts of this scan and they still have to accept it. It's not waterproof, but:

- you can block out or blur your photograph

- same for your social security number and the passport serial number

- place coloured letters diagonally over the scan stating that "THIS SCAN IS INTENDED TO PROVE MY REAL NAME TO GORGLE PLUS yyyy-mm-dd" (so that whoever receives it cannot use the scan for a different purpose)

Source: https://pim.bof.nl/gebruikers/geef-niet-meer-dan-nodig/ [Dutch]
You really only need that on the free tier, when 2+ web workers are used 1 at least is always kept around to respond quickly.
Interesting point about gravity I came across in a book recently (The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch):

> most non-physicists consider it self-evident that when you hold your arm out horizontally you can feel the force of gravity pulling it downwards. But you cannot. The existence of a force of gravity is, astonishingly, denied by Einstein's general theory of relativity. This says that the only force on your arm in that situation is that which you yourself are exerting, upwards, to keep it constantly accelerating away from the straightest possible path in a curved region of spacetime.

I won't pretend to understand all of this (perhaps someone would like to explain it?) but it's interesting nonetheless.
Personal anecdote is hardly evidence, but in my experience BlackBerry is out of favour in business and in with kids who can't afford a more expensive smartphone.
All I want is a simple single column list of addons. For instance, the official page has a weird two column thing going on which makes it hard to parse mentally when you're quickly trying to find a specific add-on.

This new attempt doesn't seem to fix my biggest gripe with the whole system (and in the grand scale of things, that's a pretty small gripe)
Ada is good because of useful typing (such as the ability to say "apples and oranges are both represented as signed 32 bit integers, the allowable range for apples is 0..5, and you can't mix them"), strong control over data representation, standardized extensions for on-the-metal programming and hard real time, built in synchronous message passing concurrency, and just generally being an awesome language. It's also good because of SPARK Ada, which is an ultra-safe Ada subset plus annotations and supports extensive static checking.

None of this require buying into marketing hype.

It's bad because the language is large and some parts feel out of date, the memory management is more complicated than it ought to be, and compilers are thin on the ground and often expensive. Targeting C at a new machine is much easier than Ada, and this is probably the main reason why it lost.
Awesome concept, love the ratings and comments, hopefully they can make something like this happen on their end
Rust actually has multiple heaps with their own lifetime characteristics so that they can avoid GC in many cases, and that the only GCed areas are per-thread.
However, it is also worth considering that a more neutral title may not have made it onto the front page.
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Hey, same here :) (although I did register a few months back when seeing that they finally had alternative options).

However, my reputation is at 1, several reasons to that :

- I use it mostly for "consuming". Which by the way, is problematic, because I can't upvote useful answers because my reputation is only at 1 (is there a way around that ?)

- I can't really spend time at work to answer questions, and, frankly, have other stuff to do at home (such as doing home projects). Besides, I guess there is always someone answering faster than you :p
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. You make a good point. My main fear is that the big issue with the web development is incompatibility between browsers. We are just now starting to see some sanity. Browser teams are working together. I don't want to see more fragmentation by changing javascript and going through it all over again.
Really poor story you don't have to do OO to do code reuse. At my fist job "hem hem " years ago we reused NAG algorithm libraries in FORTRAN IV.

When you relise the fact that you use the most apropriate tool for the job is when you start to become a professional programmer.
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First: this "Economist Debates" format is a wonderful idea, but questionably executed. Its layout could use quite a bit of rethinking, focusing on improving usability for those who've only stumbled onto the debate after its conclusion (as I assume most of us have). I'm guessing that the format felt more natural and threadlike to those who were along for the ride from the get-go. But there's real value in being able to read the debate, after the fact, from start to finish in an intuitive and easy-to-follow fashion.

As for the content of the debate: I've been following Schneier's commentary on airport security for at least a few months now. What he's saying is no surprise to me. He's preaching to a choir of which I am a fast and firm member. On the other hand, I'm actually amazed at the willingness of his opponent (Kip Hawley) to concede some points that I would have thought were held as unshakable dogma amongst the TSA-apologist set. To me, genuine progress was made in this debate. This was not a case of two people's arguing pre-fixed talking points in circles around each other. This felt more like a real discussion, with give and take.

Kudos to The Economist for hosting this debate, and for attempting to innovate on the printed-debate format. To date, it's a format that nobody's quite nailed. (Nor, for that matter, has The Economist here). But it's an interesting step forward.
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My point is that the existence of ports is irrelevant. A language is popular if it is used by a lot of people. The choice to use it involves a lot more than language preference.

To claim that objective-c doesn't count as popular because anyone who chooses to write for iOS must use it whether they like it or not, is like saying that java doesn't count as popular because anyone who chooses to develop on an emterprise stack that a corporation has built on java must use it.
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This might be very interesting if it's implemented in a sane way. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a very widely-adopted standard in the world of open data for now..
Cutting spending is positive among their base, which is about a third of Canadians. The rest typically wouldn't vote Conservative. They and the NDP simply split the Liberal and Bloc vote in the last election.

You may view the CBC and Healthcare as waste; the vast majority of Canadians do not. Harper wants more than anything to convince Canadians that the Conservatives are trustworthy. The last thing he wants is for Canadians to be sick of them by the time the next election rolls around, especially if the Liberals manage to find a halfway competent leader.

That's why Harper's been as centrist as he has, and that's why cuts to popular programs are being delivered alongside this news. He'll stay true to conservative values, but only insofar as they don't hurt his re-election chances.
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+1. I think many people feel threatened by these ideas, and the potential to open up programming to a whole cadre of non-professionals who won't need them.

The opportunity is that the professionals get/have to work on Real Problems.
The word on the street was that they got skittish about stepping on Apple's IP. Which is a shame, because GNUStep doesn't get nearly enough attention.
Haha!! Well, me too! But I think more women need to be inspired to do the same! Would be a fun challenge!
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If you really want to program classical inheritance into Javascript, there are ways to do that today. Meanwhile, prototypal inheritance is already simple and powerful - so simple, perhaps, that programmers trained in classical inheritance tend to stumble on it.
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Many games are written this way, for sure.
Clojurescript proof of concept.
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Does the story really have just 15 comments or is /. just bugged? Too bad that threading of legacy stories seems borked.
> When it's not that bad, evaluation the pro's and con's and make sure you have a plan forward -- your plan forward, not theirs.

100% agreement. You need to figure out your plans and goals, and then implement those. If you can find these goals at your current job you'll probably stay, otherwise you should think about leaving. This is the same whether you're in a company of 1 or 100,000 people.

One thing larger corps will expose you to is bureaucracy and politics. It's actually quite handy to learn. It becomes evident when people don't have skills like allowing a party to save face. You absolutely have to work with people that get on your nerves again, you have to network, and in a few years they could be your boss. It's just the way things go.

> corresponding autonomy combined with a good manager leads to a good, productive, educational experience.

There are actually several different career desires. While autonomy could lead to a productive experience, it is not the only way. Certainly your autonomy could cause other problems. Some of the other career desires could be work/life balance, challenges, security, or advancement. In other words, you can still have a productive experience but put value on things other than autonomy. I do not doubt that a good manager will help you significantly.

My corporate job is dry at times. I do learn things and solve problems with scopes that few people would. Is it enough for me? I'm not sure, and it's certainly a good question to always be considering. I have started trending towards "ask for forgiveness" rather than to ask permission. So far that hasn't back fired, and that lets me work on some work related topics that I find interesting.

Is corporate good experience to have later in life? Yes. Like another post was saying about full QA test suites, standardized release processes, etc. You need exposure to these things, and how it's done "in the big leagues." Then you can go to a startup if you wish and choose to ignore certain aspects. But you know them, so it's not impossible to implement them later. That makes you infinitely more valuable than someone who does not have that knowledge.
Not even that uncommon in their scope:

select count() from profiles where first_name='or';

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| count() |
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| 839 |
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(out of dataset of ~40mil g+ users).
You'll be happy to know (or sad, depending on how you look at it) that your N9 is defective. It takes me 5 seconds at most from the home screen until I can hit shuffle, with all the loading, animations and whatnot, I never have the feeling that I am waiting. I also used the included USB cable to transfer my music to the phone, can't say I have experience with the ssh app.

The fact that you hit numbers in the dialing screen and have to wait a few seconds before the phone makes any sound is another strong indicator that your phone is broken and you need to have it replaced under warranty. It is not supposed to be behaving like that.

I have not seen any swipe conflict between the applications and the phone's UI, which is basically because for the built-in gestures you swipe from the edges, whereas for the apps you swipe from inside the window. I don't see how you can get a conflict out of that. Can you give me an example of app that does that? Seem like an app fault, not phone fault.
This is why G+ is dead to me. Most of my friends like to use Funny Names On The Internet. And are also early adopters who LEAPT on G+ like starving orphans when it came out, only to find their accounts disabled.

So now the people watching me are mostly... dudes in Egypt who friend anything cute that comes up for a search of "Egypt+female". Who think a photo of their penis is an appropriate icon.

I went back to the rotting husk of LJ.
I'm having trouble locating the source, but 5 - 10 years ago (when Best Buy was flying high) I read an article that talked about Best Buy's financials and it revealed that a massive portion of their profits came from (mostly impulse) buying of CD's and DVD's, not all the big ticket electronics and appliances. This was one of the reasons all that stuff was in the front of the store right by the registers. I remembered wondering at the time what their long-term plan was for extracting themselves from that dependency once it was commonplace for those goods to be entirely digital. Apparently they didn't have one.
Nice try, but you've only copied their design, removed the polish and added a bunch of unnecessary bollocks to the thing.

Also, people need to read the content, hence their visit to the site. If you're going to insist on using a dark background, at least make the text as bright as possible and remove the text shadow.
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It seems Firefox 13 will be the first release to contain many of their efforts.

I've been reading up on it over here:

http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2012/03/16/snappy-march-15th/
Nice trolling you did here. Though I wouldn't like JS becoming more Java-like.. Or Dart-like for that matter.
I don't think it's that. Rather a) on OSX, you might as well use real Cocoa and b) on Linux, if you want to integrate with anything else, then you might as well use GNOME/KDE.
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The game demo Bret uses is based on time mechanic concepts developed in the 2009 game Braid by Jonathan Blow.

I am not a gamer but I downloaded the game over the weekend because of the talk, and highly recommend it, it's a real work of art with serious production values, and easy to download for Windows, Mac and Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game)
http://braid-game.com/

It is very inspiring to see such creativity and the courage to express it from people like Jonathan and Bret.
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I think whatever they choose to implement it in has a good chance at becoming the next de facto standard.
Sadly, Goooglers are not unaware of this issue. That's the trouble of problems with Google: at J. Random Megacorp this would be a stupid oversight. Multiple Googlers have brought up internally that this policy would result in them locking accounts of innocent users and they lost the argument. You're quite literally acceptable collateral damage of a core design goal of Google+: for strategic reasons, they want real identity relationships not "Internet identities" which may or may not be pseudonyms. They want Facebook names, not IRC nicks, and they're willing to backstop that with their famous willingness to use individualized customer service. These decisions were internally controversial but supported at the highest levels of the company.
The penny change in no way is distracting from other parts of the budget, and as tabbyjabby mentioned it is focused on here because it has cross-border novelty that the other parts of the budget don't. But among Canadians it is a meh change -- we electronically pay for almost everything now, so the nickle will follow in short order.
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The man has a degree in Neuroscience from Brown University, he is not unfamiliar with critical thinking, analysis or statistics.
Both Rust and Go have GCs. It is true that Rust has mostly per-thread GC, which should help to curb performance concerns quite a bit. And Rust aims to have more explicit control over where things are allocated. But it's still a GCed language.

Whether GC is acceptable in systems work depends on what you construe as "systems work" (kernels and GC don't mix nicely; browsers and GC is OK if you're careful).
IHMO, This is a much better way than donation.

Donation just dont work. For example MongoID got $2800 for how many hours, days and months of work? And he's lucky, I don't have projects in mind but most of the time people get like $100.

I also agree about:

"why I keep seeing such negative feedback around Yehuda's choice of soliciting money to bring us Rails.app. Sure, it may just be a few of you, but if you don't want to give Yehuda money, fine, just don't. If you think Yehuda is asking for too much money, fine, just don't donate. If you just don't like Yehuda, fine, just don't donate."

Two thumbs up for kickstarter.com too!
Perhaps it might just be because the research has potential to be useful.

Although you never know with these crazy scientists, they might just be doing it because it is really, really cool.
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Probably the most useless thing I've ever written.
How does one read this debate? I don't think starting at the top and reading down makes sense....but am I wrong?
Cutting spending is positive among their base, which is about a third of Canadians.

Cutting spending is a positive among all Canadians. The Liberals had their most populous years when they were responsible for -- and still deserve credit for -- brutal spending cuts (health care transfers, services, etc) that balanced the budget.

While HN isn't the place for discussions like this, it really is hard to rationalize some claims against conservatives with reality. The Conservatives are currently running the largest budgets in Canadian history. They increased transfers to the provinces more than any other government (some would say naively and rashly, making promises that health care spending, for instance, could just increase exponentially forever). They cut the military budget.

But if you read what you just wrote you would think that they were a slash and burn government. Hardly.

It's also worth noting that Harper has the most liberal reign to do what he wants right now, given that he doesn't have to face an election for another four years and memories are infamously short in Canada. He doesn't need to pander to the masses right now, at all, and the same-old "trying to hide the hidden agenda" bits grow enormously tiresome, bringing the sort of ignorance, baseless partisan noise into the discussion that we see too often South of the border.
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Has anything come of this? Has Apple been notified?
I think the problem is the original link doesn't really go to the beginning or the 'home', as it were.

Here's the start: https://www.economist.com/debate/overview/225

then it starts to make sense IMO.

in the end, yes, a bit of a usability hiccup.
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That combines instant preview with a playhead slider for undo.

https://github.com/tnlogy/live-coding (not linked from the demo)
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The last paragraph mentions this: "We’ve reached out to Apple to see whether a licensing arrangement has been reached for this graphic…but we doubt it.".
I'm not shirking responsibility for putting the responses there. I'm saying that they aren't condescending. The messages are to inform people why their question was closed and to help them improve it.
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Much love for Alex Russell and for efforts to move the web forward as a serious development platform, but this was among the more content-free stories I've read in a long time. If you'd like to actually learn about "model-driven views," the component system the article mentions, head over to http://code.google.com/p/mdv/.
Well, considering one of their founders is called Сергей Михайлович Брин and married Ms. Wojcicki, you'd expect some international sensibility.
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It's the difference between a Hacker News that tells you how to feel about an issue, and a Hacker News that assumes you're a big boy and can generate your own opinion. When linking to a source material it's best to stay neutral.