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We've been using the beta version in a medium-scale e-commerce system and could not be happier! Since the declarations are so simple to write, we've managed to reduce our front-end design costs by over 75% by hiring people who are not capable of abstract reasoning.

As you are all probably aware, abstract reasoning only develops after age four. Children under four also happen to be a major liability for families in developing nations. We have effectively killed two birds with one stone by putting unproductive toddlers to work. They pay for their own diapers, we get cheap frontend developers - everybody wins!
>In many ways it is better to have this thing legislated: at least then it's out in the open. It's naive to think that large ISPs in countries without active legislation aren't linking intelligence agencies into their networks.

No, it's actually worse having it legislated.

Having it happen covertly (and in shame) by the agencies, would be much preferred.

By legislating it, you enable it to be more widespread, used in court, etc. But the worst thing is, that by legislating, you make it normal, and that pushes the boundaries of what is acceptable. Since now, this monitoring is acceptable, then even worse things can take its place in the "secret" surveillance domain.

This line of thinking, is similar to what (philosopher) Zizek describes when talking against legalizing torture in the US:

"*Why not go further still and legalise the torture of prisoners of war who may have information which could save the lives of hundreds of our soldiers? If the choice is between Dershowitz’s liberal ‘honesty’ and old-fashioned ‘hypocrisy’, we’d be better off sticking with ‘hypocrisy’.

I can well imagine that, in a particular situation, confronted with the proverbial ‘prisoner who knows’, whose words can save thousands, I might decide in favour of torture; however, even (or, rather, precisely) in a case such as this, it is absolutely crucial that one does not elevate this desperate choice into a universal principle: given the unavoidable and brutal urgency of the moment, one should simply do it. Only in this way, in the very prohibition against elevating what we have done into a universal principle, do we retain a sense of guilt, an awareness of the inadmissibility of what we have done.

In short, every authentic liberal should see these debates, these calls to ‘keep an open mind’, as a sign that the terrorists are winning. And, in a way, essays like Alter’s, which do not openly advocate torture, but just introduce it as a legitimate topic of debate, are even more dangerous than explicit endorsements. At this moment at least, explicitly endorsing it would be rejected as too shocking, but the mere introduction of torture as a legitimate topic allows us to court the idea while retaining a clear conscience. (‘Of course I am against torture, but who is hurt if we just discuss it?’).

Admitting torture as a topic of debate changes the entire field, while outright advocacy remains merely idiosyncratic. The idea that, once we let the genie out of the bottle, torture can be kept within ‘reasonable’ bounds, is the worst liberal illusion, if only because the ‘ticking clock’ example is deceptive: in the vast majority of cases torture is not done in order to resolve a ‘ticking clock’ situation, but for quite different reasons (to punish an enemy or to break him down psychologically, to terrorise a population etc). Any consistent ethical stance has to reject such pragmatic-utilitarian reasoning."

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n10/slavoj-zizek/are-we-in-a-war-do...
Shay Pierce was the only employee not to go to Zynga [1]. Even though the tweet doesn't explicitly mention Shay Pierce I'd say that the subject is still fairly accurate.

[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning_down_Zynga...
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Without copyright, there would be no legal basis for a Free Software license such as the GPL. I think having some kind of copyright is rather important, as long as it isn't unfairly biased towards corporations etc.
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Has the poor child ever got outside the house?
Those sites serve Flash content to non-Linux desktops over Linux ones by a huge margin, like 99% to 1%.

And merely serving Flash doesn't mean you are an Adobe customer. The guy that writes the Flash content in Adobe Flash (in a Mac or a Windows PC) is their customer.
The Scala hype, if there ever was one, started because for a long while Scala was the only high-performance alternative to Java on the JVM. Groovy was too slow, and many people prefer static typing. But then a large gap started to emerge between what most Scala users needed (and the reasons they turned to Scala in the first place) and what the language designers decided to give them. There were all sorts of funny operators and then implicits, meant to support DSLs. Then came all sorts of nifty tricks like type constructors, whose purpose, I think, was to simply prove that it's possible to build a statically typed language that has inheritence, yet does not require casting, ever. That is, if you're willing to put in the time to learn the intricacies of the type system. Well, they've proven it's possible alright. It is truly a great achievement in PL research, only it came at the price of making the language more annoying with each release. Who cares if you need to cast now and then if it makes the type system simpler and compilation times shorter?
Now there are other alternatives. For those wishing to see the light of a new, better, way to program modern machines there's Clojure. For the more timid of heart, Kotlin has been/is being released. It is everything Scala's original users wanted from the language.
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I know many people who don't work in tech who also don't put up with this crap. It's not about whether you work in tech, it's about whether you work for yourself, or someone who isn't an asshole and more importantly whether you respect yourself. I know people who weld metal , cut trees, plant trees, landscape, etc, who would never put up with this kind of stuff.

Assuming the worst because she wouldn't give access is exactly the kind of reasoning that courts resolutely set their face against.

Necessity is the argument of tyrants and the creed of slaves. I for see this decision being overturned quite quickly.
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Bitterness and negativity are bad for any brand, but especially one presented directly to consumers.

Representing the company is one of a CEO's job, and it is certainly the point of the CEO's twitter feed.

There's a good chance that what he's saying is true, it does not matter.
But it's not fun. It's played out.
Apple is seen as a company that cares about simplicity and user experience. If a feature is confusing to many, mostly because the behavior depends on application and window size, we should expect them to refine it. Claiming that such users are "wrong" because it works fine for somebody who has used Mac for the last 20 years completely misses the point.
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The problem is we're mainly conditioned to expect the condition up front, notwithstanding Perl's initial slide down this slippery slope. Ugly syntax seems an argument for improving the syntax, not changing the grammar.

if mum.birthday.isToday(): call(mum)
The legislation would permit information obtained in this way being used in legal processes. Currently if GCHQ were doing intercepts in this way it would be unlawful, and as such evidence obtained through such potential intercepts would be inadmissible in a court terrorism case for example.
>It's remarkable to me that people seem to think that Adobe Photoshop is an amazing product.

It doesn't have to be perfect inside to be an amazing product. People could care less about how PSD is structured or if the code is a spaghetti mess. The organic growth is also inevitable when you have something that evolved over 20+ years and want to keep backward compatibility as much as you can --including with tons of external third party tools. It's not like they are idiots and can't get it right if they are given the chance to do it from scratch.

The thing it: it works, it works great, and nothing compares to it in it's field.

For the actual graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, etc that use it, there is no alternative that is as capable. There is also no alternative that can be integrated with a full ecosystem of products, from TV/Cinema work (Premiere) to print work (InDesign/Acrobat), to Web (Flash/Edge/Fireworks), to Vector (Illustrator), with all being leaders (or almost) in their particular field.

I'm talking for professional workflows. For just getting some pics up to a webpage, without any chance of it be used in other contexts, YMMV.

Compared to GIMP for example, there are tons of stuff that make it better for a professional workflow. From better text support, to a complete RAW file import/edit support, to a complete (and working for years before Gimp got any) CMYK support with gamut warnings and the whole kitchen sync, to Smart Objects, to vector support, etc.

Though, latest releases and transitions (like to 64bit Win/Mac, to Cocoa, to the new UI etc), seem to have given Adobe also chances to rework parts of the code.
On the last part, there's a slow move towards journals mandating that authors share their data, so that other researchers can replicate/extend/revise results: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_open-data_policies

This case is a bit tricky due to privacy concerns, though; it contains raw audio/video of years of his personal life, which even most open-data mandates wouldn't require sharing, at least not in original form.
I lol'ed at the Android Paint Scheme...
Without copyright, there would be no need for the GPL.
This is quite possibly one of the worst April fools jokes I've seen. I physically groaned when I read that.
Changing the status-quo of interview process...
blah blah blah use PGP for emails blah blah in fact encrypt all the things blah blah "no it's too hard for Joe Public" blah then Joe gets what he deserves.
The Commission is undemocratic because it holds great power, yet its members are unelected. Contrast with the EU Parliament, which is elected and therefore far more accountable to the electorate.
Police Are Using Phone Tracking As A Routine Tool
Saying 92% have Android 2.2 and above makes it look as if there are 92% of them that have only Froyo, and the rest 8% are Gingerbread and ICS. It's not like that. Last I checked around November or December last year, 75% of them had Gingerbread. I figure by now there should be around 85% that have Gingerbread.

I haven't tried the emulator in a while but they've just announced that the new emulator can be run at near-native x86 speed with some modifications, and it also has GPU acceleration for Android 4.0+ API's.

That being said, I still wish they found a way to make it an order of magnitude easier to upgrade your own Android smartphone, and do it soon after the new version has just been released.
As a UK citizen, I now do not regret in the slightest forcing every single user of my website to use HTTPS. It costs maybe 10 or 20 dollars a year, your site runs no slower, and all your users get real privacy.
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Sounds to me like Shay Pierce was the smartest employee on the team.
I don't understand this. Pierce didn't slam OMGPOP, from what I have read, just Zynga's unwillingness to exempt his personal project from its IP clutches. I have to wonder why OMGPOP's CEO felt the need to do this.
I think the title is quite misleading, apple did not "gives in" they just force to apply the laws
fully agreed.
sorry to correct you, but it's the "free software movement" or "FOSS" and it's not a communist system. not even with a small "c", because communist systems force you to share, FS allows you to share.
It doesn't change much, because two year warranty was the law in Europe anyway.
True. It is indeed very unprofessional. But how come people like him are held up to such high standards? When you're not anyone important you can be brutally honest and say what you want like everyone else does. But as soon as you're in the public eye you're put on this pedestal. This is what scares the hell out of me. I'm a very uncensored person who says what he means and means what he says (and am an asshole sometimes). So the thought that one day IF I'm successful in getting my business off the ground a life of censorship awaits me. :(

Then I see celebrities like Snoop Dog (who owned a porn company), Sarah Silverman (who has some of the most offensive jokes imaginable), lil john (self explanatory), Colin Farrel, Charlie Sheen, Lindsey Lohan, and other well known figures who say and do anything they want yet still have successful careers, keep starring in movies, and even get in on really good business deals and endorsements. Lets not forget the Lady Gaga / Polaroid event where during the unveiling she said "smile you're fucking famous" and other unprofessional phrases.

It's like there's absolutely NO consequence for them. I guess because it's their "image" and it's "expected". So I guess the moral of the story is, become an offensive comedian /or/ celebrity known for being crazy and work your way up towards serious entrepreneur. That way you can talk shit and get away with it. OR start out as the well spoken guy, and just 1 accidental F-bomb later, show up on the news as the bad guy and get thrown out by your company board.

EDIT: ALSO, wtf did Notch gain by saying "You're an insane idiot"?! What did he gain from his remark?
Part of the fun is seeing the posts mixed in with serious news. Even more fun, for the subtle jokes, is when you're not sure if something is real or not.
Porter forgot the number 1 rule of politics: If your opponent is making a mistake, don't stop him. I understand what Pierce is saying (and can't help sympathizing), but I can't help thinking that writing that editorial was poor taste on Pierce's part, and probably would have reflected poorly on him had Porter kept his mouth shut and not turned him into a martyr.

I mean, if you disagree with a potential employer's" values", it's career suicide to write a widely distributed Op-Ed about it unless that value is something like "Don't club baby seals" and you have hard proof that said employer is actively clubbing baby seals. Calling them evil over what is essentially a contract dispute (even if it's a perfectly valid contract dispute) would make me think twice before negotiating a contract with him. If he's writing an Op-Ed about them, what's to prevent him from writing an Op-Ed about me if he doesn't like my terms?
It was a poor decision, but I can see being furious/frustrated that the story of your company's success had mutated into one on how your new parent owner was evil.
True, but I like being able to do this declaratively. You don't incrementally change it with code, you define a mathematical function against time for the transformation.
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Interesting use of a google map integration
Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
People like him are held up to high standards because they have responsibilities and are paid accordingly. It's called leadership. Leaders watch what they say.

As for celebrities acting badly, this doesn't make it particularly admirable. I should point out that no F-bomb was used by the CEO in question - he merely showed a complete lack of class. There really was no upside. A lot of people wouldn't have known, or perhaps wouldn't have cared, that Shay didn't join the new company.

I'd suggest that the OMGPOP CEO be very careful about what he says. Saying someone was the "weakest link" in a team with no backup might lead to defamation proceedings.
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What a fool. Shay Pierce's article was incredibly polite and graceful, so there's no way OMGPOP can come off looking like anything but pathetic and vindictive.

I think the worst thing I've heard our CEO say about a former employee is "it was time for the company and X to part ways" after X took a job elsewhere, and this was an internal meeting. We don't take to tweeting the inner workings of our company.
I wouldn't worry about that, here in Europe we have a long tradition and history of solving our problems in a conciliatory and, above all else, peaceful way.
Chrome's text aliasing for CSS transforms is horrendous. It's because they don't use hardware acceleration (something Safari does by default, quite beautifully), meaning they render things in software poorly for greater performance.
In the meantime they want to propose a new law to monitor web and e-mail use in UK.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745

It's like it's all coming together for these Governments. I wouldn't be surprised if more of them decided to push for this type of laws in the same time, and it's not completely coincidental.
I don't know much about CSS. What happens here?

https://developer.mozilla.org/media/uploads/demos/m/r/mrflix...
Looks like they were a bit hasty in doing it. When I search "weather chicago" it breaks ... http://flic.kr/p/bHDLKn
Popcorn is more healthier than fruits?
You should try foretaster, it's very close to what you've just described - http://www.foretaster.com
I keep a git repository[1] of my son's (1,5 years old) keyboard hammering. He "types" until he accidentally leaves insert mode in Vim or leaves the computer, and then I commit it.

In 5-10 years time I hope to be able to do some real-time visualization with milestones like "first real word", "first use of complicated word", etc. If he's interested I might track his first code there as well.

1: https://github.com/jacobrask/Ivar
The solution seems self-evident: Being so good it doesn't matter what you say and being known for doing just that.
Leverage email for social shopping
I would like to see minority upvotes weighted in some way to avoid mob rule. However I'm not sure of the math of this, or how it could be gamed. But I do know, if a story or comment gets 10 upvotes and 90 downvotes, I want to be given the chance to see what those 10 users saw upvote worthy.

Also, I'd like to see the number of upvotes and downvotes, not just the total. I would find it much more informative if there were five hundred upvotes and five hundred downvotes, rather than just a zero.
There is a big difference in UI design for the mobile devices and for the desktop. On the desktop you can often specify the UI using automatic layout features and the result works. On mobile devices the limited screen estate forces you to weight every pixel and therefore the different screen sizes matter much more. Similar argument can be made about the performance – on desktop Macs the performance differences are not interesting for most regular apps, whereas on the mobile devices even a simple app can tax the machine to the point of not being usable.
It's not so much how offensive you are, but whom it's directed at and what the relative power balance is. Powerful or famous people will usually only attack or make fun of those who are more famous or powerful than them.
Celebrities can get away with a lot, but they don't have carte blanche to say whatever they want. For instance, Lady Gaga's comment indicates that she has some business acumen. I guarantee she wouldn't have gotten away with saying something like "Nobody cares about Polaroid. This is about me.", which probably better reflects what she was really thinking. But since she said something that reflects well on her business partner, she can ultimately get away with using a bit of salty language.
This is a consumer protection law. No one wants to wait six months or a year before discovering that the device they spent a bunch of money on is crap. Requiring a 2-year warranty makes Apple (and everyone else) build to a minimum standard, which in turn means consumers can trust manufacturers more.
Apple considers it in bad taste... if they feel an App will harm the App Store's reputation or is not good for consumers they can pull it.
It is my understanding that the GPL forces you to share your code under the same licence.
Does a language need three ways to say "if x do y" ? or maybe there's an "unless !x do y" construct and it's 4 ways.

This to me looks like going out of your way to have lots of ways to do the same thing. I never cared for it in PERL either.

The argument that "it reads like English" is not one that I like much - The history of making programming languages read like English is a long succession of dead ends. Programming languages work more like formal maths proofs than they do like English prose. Rather make the language readable on its own terms.
Try picking a different date from the "timeline".
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I think the grandparent meant to suggest GPL is small-c communist.
This is a case where I can eat my cake and have it too. The minimum warranty is specified by law. If Apple doesn't like it they can go do business somewhere else.
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I know this is pedantic but the subject is a quote, so your parent is correct. It really should have either used square brackets around the name, or been written differently. Personally, I feel that once you open a double-quote there's a certain responsibility.
Looks amazing! I'm forking it right now :)
The Commission's staff are chosen and approved by both the indirectly elected Council (Member State government ministers) and the directly elected European Parliament[1]. The Parliament has forced the dissolution of the Commission before.

http://ec.europa.eu/atwork/basicfacts/index_en.htm#chooses
Sorry to spoil it for you, but HTTPS provides no protection against MITM when the MITM is a nation state which can legitimately buy root keys from CAs (or become a CA themselves, if they are not already).

For more info about the security theater revolving around SSL in the context of HTTP see this great talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
I'm glad I hadn't yet bought into this particular craze. There is no way I will sponsor a company whose leadership behaves in this manner.
Watch these two videos and tell me whether you think this is already happening in with US data ... most-likely transferred outside the country for the purpose of analysis beyond the nation's legal jurisdiction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ae0yED6gRA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYNXVgYhPOc
If the mere illusion of privacy gives someone peace of mind, who are you (or I) to tell them they can't have it?
I used to say "An egg. Before the chicken there was a fish, and fishes lay eggs". Now I use dinosaurs instead of fishes; dinosaurs are way cooler.
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Have you looked at docutils?

A few years ago I rewrote my résumé in reStructuredText where you can use rst2html.py, rst2latex.py, etc. to generate various formats from one text source. And the source file is so free of obvious markup that it serves as a "plain text" version.
What EU directive is this?

Please link or state the directive before claiming such.
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/sigh.

If it runs in the browser, it's not an operating system. Nice April 1 joke.
You miss the whole point, it's about the implications of the legal frameworks which are put in place, not about how to hide from governments. The simple fact that you need to hide from the governments is indicative of a deep systemic problem.

This is just a first step in making encryption illegal. Not like that's not the case already in some parts of the world, and it's not regulated heavily in other parts of the world.
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