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Honestly by far the biggest difference between the two is the difference in underlying language. Assuming you already know JavaScript the big question you should be asking yourself (depending slightly on what other languages you already know) is, "do I want to learn a completely new language, with a rather different way of doing things". The answer to this question is far more relevant than any differences or similarities in frameworks.
Can you please add some more relevant information to your comment? Expand upon why you feel it is similar to ADA, why ADA might be a better (or worse) alternative, if you have any experience working with ADA/Rust, etc. A three word comment does not add anything worthwhile to this thread. If you're on HN and commenting, please refrain from throwing whispers of thoughts down as they come to you, and instead take the opportunity to reply with something meaningful.
I've always been partial to http://www.plinko.net/board

"Quoth the server, 404".
This is not true.

Try the following experiment. Find a mercury-vapor street light or other mercury vapor light. Holding your eyes straight ahead, quickly move your head to one side or the other. You will actually see the flicker. If you can find one, you can do the same experiment with a drive-in theater from a distance of, say, a mile. However, that is a much lower rate--24 frames a second.

I think the same effect can be observed with sodium lamps.

Florescent lighting is worse. While it also goes on and off 120 times a second when being fed with 60-cycle AC, there are often sub-harmonics that give amplitude changes at a lower, more easily perceived frequency.

So it is not unreasonable that one can observe AC power cycles, even if only occasionally.
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A lot of people that I see use Blackberries use them because the company pays for it or they are in a contract or addicted to the keyboard. What if Blackberry carves out a niche of users who love the keyboard and trackball.
Can anyone explain this, from the first paragraph, to a bog standard PHP-for-the-web programmer please?

"Its design is oriented toward concerns of “programming in the large”, that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries – both abstract and operational – that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency."
How did you do that? I stopped receiving money completely around level 80 (no more cash to buy or upgrade!), and very little money since level 50.

From then on, it became increasingly difficult. I only got to level 141 (Buckingham Palace).
Yes, but they're often not the users you want. Especially with needing an Instapaper subscription, I don't think 99 cents (or lower) is a good place for this app.
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Also important - you can version control text files easily.

One of the more brain damaging einvironments I've worked in (oracle forms) uses binary format for source code. There is some utility app to change binary files into source code, but the primary files deveopment is using are binary.

It means there's no way to merge changes, no easy way to see what changed in which commit, simple text search in the whole project is hard - you have to open all files at once in IDE and search from there, and it's slow and awkward.

If text files are mediocrity - let's us wait before something better comes, because binary formats are not better.
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There is, but after a while, it expires, allowing the article to get resubmitted.
Why don't people know how toilets work? The water comes from the cistern (and it appears that it's only even used for heat exchange). The article author mentions how "the murky water creeps [him] out" and then links to a photo of a tube with completely clean water.

The cistern contains drinkable water. Sure, it's not clean enough to drink out of, but it's tap water. It's not where the poo goes. The water is not murky, it's tap water.
Now you can observe the difference in Europe and US tech journalism. When an anti-internet bill (SOPA) was being discussed in the US, any noteworthy US journalist - those with and without vested interests in the matter - were talking about it very loudly. Compare with the similar situation where TC Europe and others are happily and silently carrying on their daily duties of - mostly - using their media outlet for their own personal short sighted benefits.
Where's that file?
I think the news there is that MegaUpload may get its data back. Of course they will relaunch.
You'd use Novocaine to grab the audio, and then you'd do the audio format conversion yourself. e.g.:

[[Novocaine audioManager] setInputBlock:^(float * inData, UInt32 numSamples, UInt32 numChannels) {
for (int i=0; i < numSamples * numChannels; ++i) {
dataForVoip[i] = YourType(inData[i]) * someScaling;
}
}];
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DWP handles benefits. Organised crime is involved in a lot of benefit fraud.

Allowing the DWP to have access to anything without a warrant would be bad. Allowing them to have access to destination / address data with a warrant might be okay. Allowing them to have access to content data is probably a bad thing. I think I'd prefer Serious Organised Crime Agency to all of it; and I'd prefer some better oversight. Whether that's a warrant (good) or a chief inspector of another force (bad) remains to be seen.

Don't forget that this is, essentially, just an extension to things like RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) to cover new forms of communication.

I agree that we need to be careful that they don't kludge in things like "looking at the content is fine" or "you don't need warrants".
I ask you then, who are we if we don't have our experiences? What defines you as a person? Let the man speak. It might show that there are more cases to this dilemma than just one lonely person who experiences this.
Could UK web-snooping bill trigger new tools?
It looks nice? I don't get it.
Government work would just infuriate any top-notch engineers by moving too slow.

Simple changes move slowly, and hard changes take forever. Naturally, it isn't a limitation of the equipment, but the bureaucracy in place.

I've been involved with projects where, after having already spent money on hardware and software procurement and over 3 months worth of man hours on actual implementation, the project stopped because a DNS change request form was filled out incorrectly. Correcting the form and getting it reapproved took four weeks to correct what was literally a one character correction.
If you're going to, hit me up for managing your IRC channel or anything else like that. :)
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First, NO. Amazon is arguably the MOST innovative company of our time.

Second, Kindle is a product, and RIM is a company. You're comparing two different things not comparable.

Third, I think Amazon's rationale in not innovating the hardware that much is that it's not really worth it to move too fast. They own the mindshare for online bookstore so they don't really need to iterate very fast. All they need to do is make apps for different devices, and look at the trend. Probably they will come up with an entirely different type of reading device based on what they learned by building apps on different platforms. The bottom line is, they don't look like they're innovating on the hardware side because they are not, and I think that's a wise thing, when everyone's still trying to figure out where this is going.
That's true, but everyone is resistant to everything. A problem with English is that there are more homophones than there are in Greek. When you see a Greek word, you can pronounce it and, in the vast majority of times, you know what it means. Not so in English, where there are many more homophones. Context helps, though.
He's more than welcome to start his own thread to speak, rather than just dumping irrelevant stuff in other threads.
I didn't hear anything about SOPA on cable television news.
Sony says PlayStation 4 will launch ahead of next Xbox
agreed. however, it is relatively simple to sideload a new launcher to take the place of the horrific default.
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More details in this blogspot on why and how he did it: http://dwellertech.blogspot.jp/2012/02/converting-all-my-ami...
In the 1970s when a megabyte cost many thousands of dollars, there was much more reason to use binary formats than there is now. If it made sense then, it makes much more sense now.
`font-family: Comic Sans MS` (without quotes) is valid, working CSS
Agreed. It looks solid, and (while I was admittedly just making a red-tape rant in another thread,) delivering an attractive website for a government entity that cost less than three quarters of a million dollars is something of a feat in my opinion.

That this isn't particularly ugly or broken in some way is what's surprising to me.
As developers, when we see something like this, we have two responses to choose from:

a.) Outrage. How could this possibly be??? I could have built them this site in four hours. This sort of thing must be stopped.

b.) Joy. How awesome is my life that I work in a industry where I could conceivably bill half a million dollars for a simple website. Gotta work on my networking to make sure that I'm the guy they hire to build version 2.

I think that, as computer folk, we have an unfortunate predisposition to Reaction A. I'd suggest, if you can stomach the idea, manually shifting your outlook on life to more closely line up with Reaction B. Life gets a lot better if you do.
"disturb the quiet in the office"

Oh you mean you were secretly browsing at the office? ;-) You know, in almost all cases the 404 page fits the website you're browsing.
This exact same process is what kept me from applying to ycombinator this year. Asking for my Facebook url is the same considering everyone at ycombinator has whatever access they need.

Raised $20k in two weeks on my own instead, for a much less percentage than ycombinator would have http://www.cloudromance.com
These "overly expensive" publicly-paid sites often include from scratch creation of extensive content management system which requires a lot of work. That being said, most of the money is often spent on maintenance and running the site. I.e. it can contain 5 years warranty, 5 years of hosting, guaranteed availability and scalability, and so on... (even telephone support in some cases).

Don't know if this is the case though. I'm also not saying it is a good thing. In my opinion, ordering site like this is just a way to steal more money than you could with a custom wordpress site hoste on a shared host.
It used to be part of the early releases, but was eventually dropped of.

You can easily find this information if you search on the gonuts mailing list.
I know realtime technology is cool and all, but I don't think realtime is what you should be doing. People are increasingly accessing RSS readers through mobile devices such as phones and tablets, and that's where opportunity is at. And this audience doesn't require realtime updates. If you just build what you think is the best experience for desktop consumption, you're fighting against google reader. not an efficient battle. My two cents.
Smart and automated homes are closely related to my research so I'll chime in on this. Even though the technology exists to do lots of cool things no one has built a modular system that you can mix and match pieces to.

Right now each "smart" feature would be completely separate from the rest so you can't amortize the cost of each one. So if you want a home security system, an automatic door and window locker, and an item tracking system you will need to pay for and install three separate systems. Since the utility of some of those systems just isn't that great people only install the system that has the highest economic benefit -- the home security system. Everything else costs too much for too little benefit.
A sad story of an Internet Search Giant
We have enough people trying to mess up with the real world, leave games alone. If we go down that path we end up burning books, remember ?

Free society begins with free speech, no matter if you like what is being said or not.
My experience with topical subscription service is most mainstream people don't care much about realtime subscription. They come back time to time to read through stuff they are interested in. Of course, if your target is journalists or financial analysts, it's a different story.
Downvoted.

Sexuality is one of the strongest, maybe the strongest undertone in society. This is (was) a game lampooning some of the silliness.

Take a deep breath and laugh at the silliness.
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can any one help me out to get some feed back on this software
Sadly, we're moving away from text protocols. SPDY and WebSockets are binary.

I've telneted many times to debug HTTP issues, and I wonder what am I going to do with SPDY problems.
I wish the dust storm was about the top rate of income tax! At least we could have enjoyed a few minutes of "sane" class hatred.

No, the real topic for media reporters was a tax on pasties (which is not even a real tax, but rather a realignment of some food categories in the tax system).
I don't really expect them to take it away completely. So, a simpler version is that I expect the capability to silently disable applications on user machines will be misused (through third-party insistence if nothing else; see the _1984_ debacle at Amazon). A similar system which could only throw up scary warnings when starting an unsigned application wouldn't bother me much, since it wouldn't be such attractive lawsuit bait. But I agree that I'm only speculating that Apple will carry this through to its natural end of being iOS-like. I can't imagine any reason for them not to do it, and I think that for the majority of their users, it will actually improve the experience.
The paradox of writerly rereading
The buttons look nice, but I don't have a clue what some of them do. Adding tool-tips to icon-only buttons would be nice.
Previous discussions:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3774075

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3501980

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3027777

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390980
A genuine question and not a smart arse comment:

Does any of this really stop the snooping, or is it just giving a false sense of security?

Then, would deploying all this on a day to day basis suggest to a paranoid snooper that one is hiding something than there for a legitimate target for more snooping?
Awesome apology. We screwed up in every concievable way. If it affected you let us know and a 3 hour downtime will give you 3 months credit.

Bravo for honesty!
Government sites are expensive because of all of the hoops that must be jumped through. The increase in administrative load over a normal corporate client is at least one order of magnitude.
> Perhaps for those industries patents are a better fit and more standard practice.

Pharma industries live and die on patents, today, and in the UK they are over-represented in any lobbying effort on the subject. Most politicians don't know/care about software patents, but they will have been lobbied by the likes of AstraZeneca and they will write legislation with that sector in mind, mostly.
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The only thing you seem to be saying you want is to be free from the fear of unintended negative consequences of code signing.

Yeah, I dislike negative consequences. :)

To me that means that free software must eventually develop a decentralized code signing scheme.

I wholeheartedly agree!
Quite a few of my clicks didn't seem to result in any progress within the experience. Found it a bit confusing and disappointing.
While I tend to agree with your sentiment, comparing prostitution to fixing sewage pipes is not really a fair comparison. Also, the number of industries where abuse by management involves physical violence is rather limited (as far as I know). I believe I understand what you are saying, but I think these points weaken your argument.
And gender reassignment, too.
548k actually seems about right. I think a lot of us would be surprised how much a professional CMS integration can cost, as well as how long it takes to do it right.
Five hundred thousand dollars. Give me a fucking break.

Their justification is even more baffling:

"I (Paul) just got off the phone with Greg, the producer over at Double Fine and asked him how it was possible to make a full fledged adventure game for $400k when it's costing us $500k to re-make Leisure Suit Larry. He told me that they initially only planned on making a small iOS game with 3 people on the entire team: 1 artist, 1 programmer, and 1 producer. That, plus they already had a game engine they spent millions of dollars making for a previous game whereas we're using the Unity engine and we're starting with the PC English version, which is a huge, huge difference!! The only thing we can re-use is the original design. Everything else we need to create from scratch: characters, environments, animations, engineering, and even sound effects."

How is using Baby's First Crossplatform Engine harder than using an engine created from scratch, even if that engine is already finished? And the bit about creating their own assets is hollow rationalization, too. It's not like Double Fine is just porting a decades-old PC game too.
Grep the Linux kernel source with live results as you type
What can be even worse that using binary files for development artefacts is storing code in the underlying database with no straightforward way to map to/from files.
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So, mega snooping, well publicised. Any serious terrorist or lentil rights protester would encrypt or simply stop using electronics for communication. That leaves the rest of us being snooped on for no terrorist or what ever reason.

I'm a thick idiot and I can work that out, so presumably the government can too.

This is not about terror and all that scare story stuff, its population surveillance.

Some how these governments need reminding that we the people are supposed to be the boss. They serve us, not the other other way round.
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I have no real experience, just college classes in ADA. And reading the rust documentation reminded me of ADA. I can't hardly explain more than that is an old feeling I've only had when I studied ADA.

I wasn't sarcastic or trolling, but I understand it's hard to know with a cryptic 3 words sentence.

ps: I gathered some thoughts. It reminded me of ADA because it's designed to be low-level, yet embed high-level concepts and typing (generics).
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> and in a few years time, not being able to code will be as big an impairment as not being able to read and write.

Because, y'know, writing code is the easiest thing in the world. And, y'know, anyone can do it, y'know.
Is anyone actually comparing the bells and whistles on yahoo.com to the ones on google.com? The sites are like night and day.
It does several things:

1) It anonymises where the traffic originated ( in the case of a VPN run along the lines of Relakks )

2) It encrypts, so whilst if you weren't using a VPN they'd still see traffic go from point A to point B, they wouldn't have a record of the contents of the communication

Neither of those things is a false sense of security.

And yes to the last... if only those who feel that they have something to hide encrypt things, then you might reasonably expect a person who is suspicious of others to reach that conclusion.

But I would argue that everyone has something to hide. Privacy isn't just core to democracy and free speech, it's core to intimacy too.

So you end up with two strong arguments to encrypt, one is to protect your own privacy, and then from your argument about how only "those with something to hide, encrypt", comes the second which is that most freedoms enjoyed by people were earned through dissent and revolution (and war, but that doesn't help this particular argument)... are such things possible in a society that pervasively spies in it's own citizens?

So to protect the future dissidents you should in addition to caring for your own privacy, encrypt to ensure you give protection to those who may one day be fighting for your rights.
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Did Yahoo ever dominate basic search? Directory maybe but search?
I've seen the value of text formats personally.

I work mainly on an iPhone project. In order to handle customers requests for this or that custom UI feature, I invented a tool that generates something like a simplified XIB file from an image and a chunk of CSV. I made the end result of the tool a text file that the iPhone code parses.

Working in text saved a lot of time. Since I invented my own tool, naturally there were things to debug and tweak in the results, but I could do that with a text editor and commit the changes as easily diff-able deltas in git. Although I work on iPhone code, everything also has to be implemented in Android - but it's no problem for the Android developer to use the text file since it's just text.

I've also written tools for migrating chunks of customer data from an old back-end system to a new one using the new server's customer-facing API. This was partly for dogfooding purposes, since the API was new and had very suspect stability.

I wrote the tools to generate text files where each line is a JSON payload that would be sent to the server. It made everything easier to debug - examining the payloads lets you distinguish between errors in the export tool and errors in the API. The text files themselves could then become test cases if there was a bug in the API, or be quickly hacked to contain correct payloads via find-and-replace if the export tool was wrong but we still needed the migration to finish right away.
Education is the way to fix things. Not abstinence.

Take a look at teen pregnancy numbers in Texas after they stopped teaching sex education in schools.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2011/10/19/govenor-per...
note:

> Only use binary protocols where the performance is so sensitive that it's worth the implementation and debugging downside

SPDY was created explicitly to improve performance.
The google closure compiler does this. You can optionally annotate your javascript functions with type information (JavaDoc style) and the compiler will enforce it. For example:

/**
* @param {Function} fn
* @param {string|null|undefined} str
*/
foo.bar = function(fn, str) {
// do something
}

It is pretty powerful, you can also do some generics-like stuff like "@param {Array.<string>}" to enforce an array with only strings as elements.
Actually they use ttyrec. And also you should always remember size of your terminal and fit it to one of two allowed sizes. http://shelr.tv/ automatically saves term size and allows records with free dimensions.