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"use the most apropriate tool for the job" is a hard place to get to, as it requires a combination of experience and critical thinking.

If they want to make something to make new programmers write better programs, by all means!
Why don't you add a thanks to Heroku for hosting their images for you?
Perhaps this story is also about a person who overcame many obstacles to do somethng nobody thought was possible. If that doesn't belong on HN, what does?
It looks fine to me and is as readable as the text on heroku itself
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All-OOP? So functions will be objects too? And classes? And contexts?

Not meaning to start a flame, just saying the title's a bit inaccurate IMHO...
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My personal guesses why Ada lost: In (Western) academia was a massive dislike of Ada because of its DoD roots and NATO applications, so they didn't use it for teaching. And hackers disliked it because it was a committee-designed language and it's pretty restrictive (even paternalistic) and directed toward mediocre programmers (a good decision for systems that run over decades and have big, changing teams assigned to it).

What was meant half-joking (that they should use Ada for the browser) becomes better the more I think about it. When I look at Rust's design goals, I find that Ada 2012 fulfills them (at least superficially). Additionally: if users have to learn Rust as a new language, then they can use Ada anyway (which has a good track record, while there's no experience with Rust's possible quirks).
And I guess if they ask AdaCore to include certain features as add-ons to their GNAT compiler, they'd do it or assist (because for fun and for the publicity that Firefox uses Ada).
This is actually a startup idea I've had for a while now. It's a great idea in theory, but it's very tricky in practice. Facts have a mysterious way of vanishing if you look closely enough at them, and the raw numbers themselves don't actually tell you anything.

The part that's actually interesting is:

- The methodology behind the numbers

- What we think is most likely the case based on the evidence available

- How each fact connects with other facts

- What we think we should do based on the evidence available

Being able to embed facts is definitely a cool use case, but unless you have all the other stuff backing it up when you click the link back to the database then it's pretty much worthless. And curating these sorts of epistemological discussions and third party analyses isn't something that really fits within the Wikimedia mission, so I doubt they will even try.

Because of this I doubt their implementation of the project will be successful, although I do think it's a space that ultimately has potential.
Wow, how can you seriously plan releases of a programming language out to 2021? That is an eternity in this industry. Even 2015 for JDK 9 seems mighty far off, especially accounting for the usual slippage of release dates with big software projects.
It seems to me that eliminating primitives could be a really bad idea. If you have a class:

public class CompoundObject {
int i;
int j;
double k;
}

This class's data members are all a few bytes away from each other, so once the object is loaded into the CPU cache, all operations should be fast. With boxed types, you might get 3 cache misses when accessing i,j,k.

On the other hand, referential transparency can help here. Given referential transparency, the compiler can transparently unbox Integers and translate method calls. So if Oracle does it right, rather than slowing down unboxed code, this might just speed up boxed code.
This is a very good point. If functions become objects, interfaces would become literally useless. Somehow it seems that it would not be the case since this would be a drastic change (even thought getting rid of primitives are as well.)
Giving the maximum benefit of the doubt, this easily could have been a placeholder image that was missed when it was pushed into production.

The real problem is the gulf between the law and perception on what is content "theft". There are many people who wouldn't see a problem using the XCode logo for other purposes (read http://clientsfromhell.net/ for several examples of people not understanding copyright infringement).

The article seems a little overblown in its tone. We should allow NBC the same latitude we would want if one of our employee's had made the same mistake. We should also ask NBC to support legislation that would allow for education and forgiveness.
This comment adds the least to the conversation; why is it at the top?
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RDF has been adopted by some pretty big data websites, and apparently that's one of the formats they plan to support:

The data will be exported in different formats, especially RDF, SKOS, and JSON.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal
How would you access the return value object?
Given obj is (int, bool), obj.Key and obj.Value? Or obj[0] and obj[1]?
Who said anything about bugs?

Getting an API right is hard, but if your API is simple, then by definition there are fewer things that can be changed, and that means there's less need to refactor.

I'd rather create 3 simple APIs and throw away the two that didn't work well, than create 1 complex API that needs to be constantly refactored. Small, immutable, simple components are preferable over large, mutable, complex components.

Saying I am "seriously naive" implies I don't have experience with designing components in this way, but it is precisely because of my experience that I advocate this position in the first place. The APIs I've had to change and refactor have been complex; the APIs I have not had to have been simple. Over the past few years, I have been slowly moving away from complex APIs, and there has been a dramatic decline in the amount of refactoring work I've done.

This is not to say that it's easy to create simple APIs, but good design is never easy, and I don't think it's naive to say that if you want good design, you need good designers.
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I think similar to C# where the primitives are objects is what they want, terribly misleading title I agree. However, I cringe when I think of what this does to performance. The memory overhead of objects in java is pretty high (relative) while primitives are very memory efficient. If they can make the primitives just as efficient, it would be awesome, but I guess its a wait and see. I don't currently mind using the static classes on the object representation of the primitives to do things.
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Marta Jasinska posted her notes:
http://kreskasnotes.blogspot.com/2012/03/qcon-2012-future-of...

These slides were posted last November, so they're probably a bit stale, but might give some insights:
http://www.slideshare.net/JAX_London/keynote-to-java-se-8-an...
For what its worth CNBC's 'All-America Economic Survey' (http://www.cnbc.com/id/46857053) resulted in the conclusion that 51% of all homes in america have at least one Apple product.

I would say thats starting to get pretty common (of course this is probably skewed based on the demographic reading cnbc)
When did a programming language became the core of solving scalability problems?
Classes are already objects. I don't know whether Java 8 will finally introduce function as a data type, but if it does, I'm pretty sure they won't do it the way Ruby blocks work (i.e. block is not an object).
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Nice.

Have you shared the code somewhere ?
Literally useless? Would you like to elaborate on how specifying a contract that has to be implemented is suddenly useless because you have function types?
That doesn't really make the statement untrue.
That's why you ought to put a big ugly red placeholder text on every temporary content.
It's also breaking up our monolithic compilers, giving us incremental, modular Compiler As A Service, which is where the code annotations and feedback will ultimately come from.

Microsoft is leading the way. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/roslyn

And Clojure looks promising. http://blog.fogus.me/2012/03/27/compiling-clojure-to-javascr...
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Are you saying that they shouldn't bother because if they are succesful someone else might copy them?
More likely than not, this is -- as the article surmises -- the result of some intern at a far-flung backwater of NBC's having been sloppy. Probably a Google image search for some query that incidentally returned Apple's artwork among the pile, followed by a "Hey, that looks cool," followed by an appropriation. This is copypasta, not intentional infringement. (It's infringement just the same, and should be taken down, but there are mountains and then there are molehills).

Let's remember the old dictum: never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity.

I'm not excusing NBC in any way here, least of all for SOPA (those who've read my comments and writings know I'm a huge opponent of the latter). But the likelihood that anyone in any position of power at NBC even saw that page is slim to none. I've worked for NBC in a past life, and I can tell you that the divisions responsible for these web pages don't even show up on the radar. They're so far removed from the power centers of the organization that many people probably aren't even aware they exist. (That, in itself, is a problem; don't get me wrong).

If you want to find much more malicious and intentional rip-offs of this logo, they abound on the interwebz. For example:

http://cdn1.1stwebdesigner.com/wp-content/uploads/bigthumbs/...

Had NBC been using something like that, I think we'd have far more cause for indignation and uproar. Something like that image bespeaks a rather deliberate and shameless attempt to rip off Apple's artwork.
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To test if this article is overblown, you could launch a new product with one of NBC's major logos as one of your main promotional images and then see if NBC shares your view.
Unix was a success exactly because it wasn't a hog and didn't require a mainframe. Instead it could run on PDP minicomputers (small and cheap at the time, they cost only $100k and were only as large as a small car).
Clojure has both function objects and interfaces (called 'protocols'). In fact, it encourages the use of interfaces while strongly discouraging the traditional object inheritance model. Most people who've tried it AFIAK consider Clojure a well-designed language.
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So?

A) Intent never seemed to matter in the SOPA debate.

B) A corporation is responsible for every employee, no matter how lowly, that's the way it works. Look at the FedEx employee who threw a monitor he was delivering over a fence on camera - even though he is but one of 20,000 delivery men, they still were completely responsible for that.
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I'm curious how they're going to handle the GPU thing since there really isn't a unified GPU architecture, yet (by 2015, who knows but still). Have vendor specific translations or try to rally around something like OpenCL? I'd love it if GPU coding would become more available and vendor agnostic, so I'm really curious about this.

I know the article didn't mention it, I also wonder what the memory bloat will look like when they turn all primitives into Objects and introduce object overhead just to track int i in a for loop.
Or Harper could just be a fairly centrist politician - after all, there's no better time in Canadian politics to push through radical change than the earliest stages of a majority government, something Harper has never previously had. If his 'true colors' were ever going to show, it'd be right now.

Not everything has to be a conspiracy theory.
I think the experience of Haskell is relevant here. Once Haskell introduced first class functions, everyone stopped using typeclasses.

[edit: apparently my sarcasm was too subtle. HOF and typeclasses are both vitally important pieces of Haskell, which are orthogonal to each other. I'm pretty sure both were in Haskell from day 1. Some code for which both are essential:

class Monad m where
(>>=) :: m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
(>>) :: m a -> m b -> m b
return :: a -> m a
fail :: String -> m a

]
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Development work is nowhere NEAR the same as selling somebody something.

It involves defining scope, deliverables and timelines. It involves a long-term commitment from two parties: you to provide skill and effort, and them to support you (because there WILL be gaps in the requirements) and pay you.

In my experience in these "I've got an idea" situations, once you attempt to define the project concretely the client frequently realizes how far in over their head they are and changes their mind. And if you're not defining these things upfront then you're running a very risky business model: if you don't know timelines, how do you know how much budget they need to afford you? If you don't whether they can afford you, you're taking a big chance accepting the project.

(And if you are defining these things and realize the guy isn't going to succeed but take the work anyway without warning him, you're unethical).
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Even more funnier; there is 30 men in Norway with "Odd Even" as their first name (http://www.ssb.no/navn/)
And dbpedia?
I don't disagree with either of your points. I'm just saying that the spin being put on this story is out of synch with the magnitude of the story.
Probably a customer requirement. You don't do something for a contract in the government, unless the government requires or asks for it specifically.
Aren't methods already an object of class java.lang.reflect.Method? Do you mean you should be able to do something like foo(PrintStream.println.method) like you can do foo(PrintStream.class)?
I don't know why people think Ada is restrictive, it really isn't at all, at least, not since the Ada 95 revision (which added pointer-to-stack and pointer-to-function and OOP). It isn't even verbose, it's just communicative.
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It doesn't mean that any debate observers were convinced by Schneier. It just means they agree with the motion.

In order to see who was convinced, you'd need those polled to have given their opinion before the debate and after, to calculate any change in opinion.
> so why not just steal it?

Can we please stop using the terms "stealing" and "theft" to refer to copyright infringement?
They don't say how they're implementing it. Given the compiler always knows the actual type of a primitive at compile-time, they can probably implement most of the Object functionality by plugging in the class meta-info at compile-time. When a primitive would need to be boxed, Java programmers are already used to the performance implications of this. The only object functionality I can think of that would be hard to implement on primitives is wait/notify/synchronization, but I don't actually know how those are done in the JVM either.

Even if these things turn out to be impossible to optimize at compile time, they're probably then betting on JIT functionality to detect primitive objects that are only used as primitives.
Thanks! I was also totally lost.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but I don't think you can seriously plan releases so far in future. What you can do is delude yourself (which happens all the time at big bureaucracies) or make it look like you're planning seriously in order to appear responsible and visionary.
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The way you state it is a little negative, but it's an interesting question nonetheless. I think Objective-C would not have been on many developers radar if it weren't for the fact that Apple frameworks use it extensively (they don't 'force it on you' by the way, as you can easily use C or C++ for anything except interfacing with Obj-C frameworks).

That said, Obj-C for me is very much an acquired taste. I had seen it a few times before I started developing iOS applications, and on the surface, it never appealed to me at all. The idea to use it for anything never even crossed my mind, and looking at the sad state of GNUstep usage and the many modern Obj-C features GCC doesn't implement, I'd guess it's not really popular in the FOSS scene either.

Now that I have used Objective-C for some time, it would actually be a serious option anywhere I used to automatically pick C++ before. The more you learn about Obj-C and the more you use it, the more you will like it. It basically has most of the good things of C and C++ without many of their downsides, and it adds some almost Pythonesque dynamic features that are very useful and elegant.

IMO Objective-C deserves a little more credit than 'just the language Apple uses'
SOPA would be great - it would mean that the owner could (and should) go to a judge and take NBC's website(s) offline. And then ask their official opinion about SOPA.
So if I dug through a bunch of environmental activists' trash and found a stray recyclable would that be an indictment of mandatory recycling laws? The only thing thing interesting about this article is how easy it is to use SOPA as cheap link bait.
> First off, realize that I don't actually care about the FAQ

Has it ever occurred to you that you're a fool? You complain about the site and have no regard for the rules or what the site is. It's not your spam-filled phpBB site that you dump the same 'plzzz halllpp I can't get $_[get] when I make a post!!11' nonsense onto every day.

> it was closed for being "too conversational," whatever that means

I'm calling you out on this.

Link to your question. You're totally full of it, there is no "too conversational" option. There does happen to be a "too localized" question, which is something we pick when users think the site is a place to dump thousands of lines of code and ask a question nobody else will ever have (ie, lazy slobs who don't read the FAQ and know what the site's about).

In short, you're full of it.
> it's cheaper and faster for them to create [image] content during each 4-week release cycle.

Would you elaborate on how it is cheaper and faster for them to create content, esp. text content, by going the image route rather than simply keeping the text as text (given that the text has to start out as text in order to be rendered into any image format in the first place). I simply do not see any reasons how performing a text->image transformation can be cheaper and faster than simply keeping the text as text.
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I've taken a bunch of IQ tests over the years with some wildly different scores. I score pretty well. I'm also very sceptical of their general utility.

The between the lowest and highest score I ever received on an IQ test is 45 points. That really doesn't sound like an objective measure of anything much (The lowest was when I was stressed, running on no sleep, the test was sprung on me with no warning and had US cultural aspects when I'm from the UK - things like talking about quarters and dimes. The highest was when I had practiced math & logic problems to win a bet that I couldn't add ten points to my IQ :-)

I find the idea of anybody using an IQ test as a factor in employment laughable. As far as I'm concerned any company using an IQ test is hanging a big red sign on the front of their organisation that says "we don't understand what kind of employees we want".
What does it mean "a very widely-adopted standard in the world of open data"? "standard" of what?

There are meta-format standards: XML, RDF, HTML and lately JSON. With these four you are probably covering 80% of the world published open data, the rest is PDF, MS DOC and MS XLS.

That is missing, and good like filling this void, is a single format that you can use to describe everything. Personally, I think that such a single format will never exist and looking for one is pointless. Geographical data requires attention to certain details, music data to others; this means two different formats must be used (serialized through XML, RDF, HTML, whatever). If you are thinking about "bridging" different formats and data models, then, welcome to the world of RDF/S, OWL, TopicMaps ontologies (or ontologY), I'm not sure you want to live there :)

This new Wikidata, just like Freebase, is trying to collect structured or semi-structured data instead of unstructured data such as that present in Wikipedia. I am happy about the aim (completely unstructured data is basically useless for any serious data reuse and data extraction) but my fear is that they will not succeed as well as they did with Wikipedia. Wikipedia funded its success on the fact that anybody could edit it. In order to edit a wikipedia page you only need very low technical skills and basic writing skills (plus knowledge of the topic, obviously). Adding and manipulating structured data requires people to obey to a certain mental grid, to a formalized model, to a schema developed by someone and put in place to be respected strictly. The vast majority of people is easily demotivated when they are required to learn something substantial beforehand and most of the edits of unskilled users end up removed by watchdog (something seen often in high quality Wikipedia articles: edits made by new users are quickly reverted on the grounds that they did not follow some of the many guidelines that must be followed).

My idea is that many problems found in structured-data projects (FreeBase, MusicBrainz...) could be alleviated by better interfaces and a wide use of automation, both things that Wikipedia projects do not seem to excel in.