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We draw our names in functionally illegible ways on legal documents as authentication, even though we've known it's a broken system for hundreds of years.

Part of the problem is that checks became "free" some years ago but all other alternatives charge fees. Rent is one of the biggest demands for checks, as most landlords don't want to pay Visa or Mastercard (or Paypal or Square or Mint) a percentage of thousands of dollars a month.
I'm working on such a thing during my free time, it's very interesting and I don't understand why nobody implemented this idea, but there are frameworks which do it, like vaadin for Java (it generates JavaScript through GWT )

I would be very pleased to hear from people who would be interested in such a language - what features they will want from it.
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I didn't downvote you but redefining words isn't an argument. Also newbies and non-serious comments are not treated kindly here as I've learned myself.
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> wow... where do I begin?

> I was the founding CTO and VP of engineering of one of the most successful "networking in your hotel room" startups.

> You get many details about the hospitality space dead wrong.

Surely you meant to say "Wow it's interesting to see how different your experiences are from mine, working in that same industry".

Because, you know, I don't think either of you is making stuff up or is "dead wrong". And in such quite a large industry, with several different quality segments it's very possible that there's more than one way to do it.
I feel like this comment was missing the punchline; are you saying that in other countries (where, at least in Norway, apparently even rent is not paid with IOUs scribbled on sheets of paper) checks cost as much as bank transfers, or that bank transfers are free?

(Also, FWIW, in many countries in Europe two-factor authentication is incredibly common, if not expected or even legally required; it is my understanding from some business deals I was a part of that Germany, in particular, is quite the stickler on this front.)
Fine, how about air conditioning?
This makes me think. I know the ast module is an add-on and not at the core of the interpreter implementation. Has there been any attempts at building a interpreter that does the same(Read, eval,print, loop over data structures and not strings)?? It would be hard i guess, but interesting right?
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thanks for the article. one thing that i didn't understand when coming to the website was what to do.

choosing a design for example: i think many people won't understand that you have to choose a design below the featured block.

a headline like "choose a design:" or something could increase your conversion rates i guess.

nice project btw.
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>His system fails to fundamentally solve problems people actually have.

RMS has spent most of his life trying to solve problems which I have, fundamentally. Problems which most all of us have.

There is of course something to be said for usability and the "regular joe," as you say, but Stallman's intentions have always been entirely moral. He really does believe he is acting in your best interest. (Which most people aren't. I'm certainly not.)

Why bother hating?
Give them a way to profit without implementing these laws?

The way I see it, these organizations are really scared that they're losing control and profits, and they don't know what to do besides trying to keep the status quo, which just isn't going to happen (not for very long, at least)...
You could...use solar power.

Your idea of 'beyond common sense' seems pretty limited in scope. And the F in FOSS isn't about price, it's about liberty. This is the very first thing anyone involving themselves in a discussion on FOSS should be aware of, and I feel sure that you knew that.

What was the point of this comment?
Strangely this reads like an advertisement.

The author begins by describing his mobile-contract insecurities, then brings up bad customer service he's endured. The article continues to state that all mobile carriers have equally bad customer service, and wraps up with a shining review of the only company deemed to be different.
The UNIX way is, indeed, to leave this as an exercise to the console. You can use a tool like iconv to convert between encodings; the primary draw of zmqc is that everything is on stdin/stdout. For example:

zmqc ... | iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8

If I'd added information on serialisation formats to the program, it would have become very bloated very quickly. JSON, BSON, XML, protobuf, bencode…where does one stop? And besides, since it's stdout, how does one losslessly represent that format without using the format itself?
How rude. Sometimes idealism isn't practical. Idealism is a goal, not an absolute.
In the UK you'd tend to pay rent using Direct Debit, which is an automatic payment from one bank account to another an a certain date each month.

Charges tend to happen if the payer doesn't have sufficient funds to make a payment.

(http://www.thesmartwaytopay.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx)

Or the payer could just do a BACS bank transfer, which again tends to be free.

(http://www.bacs.co.uk/Bacs/Corporate/BacsServices/Pages/Bacs...)

Cheques are not secure. One well known scam is to order something (imagine for £2000), then overpay by cheque (say £10000). You call the seller, and explain the mistake. You say "Wait for the cheque to clear. When you have the funds could you transfer the extra money (£8000) to our account / bank transfer / etc?". The victim assumes that once the cheque has cleared the money is theirs and it's legit, they don't realise that a bank can (and will) claw-back the money from forged cheques.

The victim is down the product, and £8000.

The scammer has the product, and £8000. And because they used other means of money tranfer there's no way of getting the money back.
> Not to mention, in today's world, it is impossible to live without depending on corporations.

His purpose is exactly to change the status quo. You can blame him for being a mediocre communicator, but he believes he can change the world and that deserves respect.
I do not personally approve of the "rms attitude" in general, as I find it too extreme, sometimes plain rude (I can't forget that he fell asleep during the first talk of his that I attended). It's true that he's got the kind of profile that would fit a hard-line political leader that refuses to adapt to social change.

However, I believe that mixing up Stallman's attitude and discourse (and personal hygiene or lack thereof) with his legacy and the priceless contribution he gave to computing world wide is plain wrong.
Of note, there's an experimental console API that you can use but it requires users to set a flag to use the extension and you wouldn't be able to add it to the chrome store (which I might do at some point).
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PayPal will have this same photo check deposits soon. Also fun fact, your PayPal account is actually a Chase bank account. Read the back of your PayPal card. I frequently go to Chase to withdraw money from PayPal with no fee and no wait time.
I see how it may seem like facebook is parasite project in a scenario of using facebook that is most common (sharing photos, liking, tagging pictures, having friends,..). But users that use facebook platform like that are all doing it by their consent. If user chooses to do so it may leave the platform at any time.

While in parasitic relationship there is one side that is being parasited without consent and other that is parasite. If we must compare facebook and its most common users with realtionship in nature it is more like symbiotic relationship.
I ventured into that, but having to set a flag is a deal breaker. Let's hope it becomes official soon.
I'm not being literal! Their are flavors of personal ethics. You can be a non-conformist and have ideals about behavior that don't extend to other people. Really that's the core of my annoyance with his point of view.

It's just annoyance. Richard Stallman is a person of influence, but only in a narrow community. So I don't think he is dangerous. He's a person of great accomplishment, and has contributed a huge amount to the world. The idea of open source and free software does cut against the grain of the dominant corporate-state power structure in the US and that's great.

I am personally concerned with the abuses of power that happen (by the powerful, all over the world). But it's not black and white. The unlawful surveillance of US citizens by our Gov't is disturbing. It's not as disturbing as launching unfounded wars on the other side of the world, but still disturbing. To the extent that Richard Stallman is fighting against the use of technology to increase the illegal use of Gov't power, then I get it.

Somehow though, and I can't put my finger on it, I don't think it's the technology per se that is at the root of this type of activity. Modern computing technology is certainly being co-opted to this use. But the tensions that underly the behavior are more fundamental to the issues of power and state. At the highest levels of power, it is just damn hard to enforce any kind of law, as their is no enforcement mechanism. The gov't is just not going to let people do whatever they want in regards to technology and how it is used. We have to accept this, and fight to keep that power from being abused. An absolute stance along the lines of a super strong right to privacy obscures what is at stake. The line will never be drawn to that extreme, so I wish for a more nuanced discussion. FWIW:)
Checks are the precursors to debit cards (aka check cards) - you can carry them around instead of cash. They just became so widespread that they're still in use today - which is not surprising, seeing as half of the population got used to them since they were young.

They're actually just as effective as a wire or a credit card, except the recipient has to go through more hoops to get the cash...
For people interested in the algorithms that won the Netflix Prize (including the Matrix Factorization and Restricted Boltzmann Machine approaches mentioned in the first section), there's a summary here: http://blog.echen.me/2011/10/24/winning-the-netflix-prize-a-...
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Doping is the intentional adding of impurities.

Maybe phosphorous could be added among the carbon molecules in the diamond, similar to how silicon is doped with phosphorous to make a better semiconductor.

Maybe nitrogen or oxygen would be a better choice, for the similarity in molecule size - they wouldn't disrupt the diamond's carbon lattice structure as much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-type_semiconductor
You don't need any sort of "military" connections to use or be a customer at the USAA bank. Almost all banking services are open to anyone.

Insurance is another matter though...
Well, in that case we disagree on everything.

I am personally grateful to Stallman (and many other people) for making it possible for me to have access to simple programming tools that I wouldn't have otherwise.
That may not look as important today, but it for sure was in the past, when charging for software was the natural choice ("shareware" anyone?).
> Perhaps we should remind ourselves that people with disabilities are worthy of the same kind of consideration and respect as everyone else.

Of course, but that was not the point of my post. It's Google who seems to be trying to distance itself from Android but can't, because they're in too deep.

Sorry, no offence meant.
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I suck (BIG TIME) at estimating time for programming tasks. From last few days, I've been recording my programming times: estimates and actual per task. There are huge variations in planned vs actual time spent and its bothering me inside. Is it really bad thing? Does your estimate suck as much as mine (i.e. at times you underestimate as much as twice: 3 hrs for an actual 6 hrs job)? Is it a problem big enough to worry? How to improve?
Even Stallman would find the time to get a gun, for the sake of effectiveness, cleanliness and productivity on computers :D...
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The software should already be there, I've seen it mentioned many times over the years.

If one of those software producers would provide an API (something similar to Automattic's Akismet for spam) I'm sure there's money to be made in selling that service outside the academic realm.
It took me 20mins to force read my way through that entire page, and the whole time all I could think was "can this guy be any more boring?"
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The author makes some reasonable points. Customer support with GiffGaff is provided by the community. I've asked a question, and got very rapid, thoughtful, correct replies. That was amazing. Often I've asked questions to big (proper) networks and got confused, misleading, incomplete replies.

FWIW I'm not using Giffgaff (although I am thinking about it) because I'm using T-Mobile with vouchers. It's mostly okay. I've never used their customer service. They do use an annoying proxy to serve rare interstitial warnings about bandwidth use, and to serve low quality images with changed alt text. (Telling you to shirt r to improve that image. The alt text revert once you do that.)

Mobile broadband is bafflingly expensive in the UK. T-Mobile claims (for this product) NO LIMITS, but what they mean is no limits for "web surfing and email", but blocks on some other things (Flash, streaming, etc) after you reach the limit. Torrenting is still possible.

Mobile broadband is one the the causes of "Bill shock" (the other being data roaming when abroad) so it's reasonable to be looking around at providers.
Unless it's 'zero becaue i don't have an account,' I disagree. I don't know until I land on a site whether they're using fb connect.
Consider the case of Scheme, again. Since making Scheme object-oriented is so easy, many Scheme hackers have done so. More to the point, many individual Scheme hackers have done so. In the 1990s, this led to a veritable warehouse inventory list of object-oriented packages for the language.

It's funny that something quite similar can be said about today's arguably most popular and ubiquitous language: JavaScript. Each of MooTools, ExtJS, Prototype etc. sport their own model of OOP, with minor or even major differences. Yet it doesn't seem to be so big of an issue that it prevents cool stuff from being done in JS. For one, I don't think many people would claim that you need some implementation of OOP (i.e. classes, inheritance 'n stuff) to effectively program in JS. The readily available mechanisms are perfectly sufficient to just start coding what you want to code and doesn't require "amending" the language first.

JavaScript code generally seem to be fine with that and happily proceed to create another batch of coolstuff.js. But according to the article, Lisp hackers have totally different mindset: they first "create a language" and only then proceed to use it to actually code stuff. (There is quote about giving man a Lisp...) If that's indeed true, I don't think it's really an issue of the Lisp itself, i.e. it's all-too-great power. After all you can just proceed into writing your program rather than writing a language first - like in JS. If Lisp coders fails to do that, I would say it's a problem of Lisp coders.
there are two classes of boss, those you look to for technical leadership and some degree of mentoring, and those you expect to do the actual "management" stuff so that you don't need to. for the latter category, i'm not looking for sheer brains so much as i am looking for good leadership qualities.
True, as long as you mean 'instinctive' in the sense of default, rather than in the sense of innate.
And I'm sure rms would do more good if he fought for food and water for poor in Africa.

The point is, he did not resolved to do it, just like his resolve is not fighting dictators. If not helping folks oppressed by tyranny government, then we all are talking bulshit, although it's less true with regard to Stallman, since free software helped Twitter and Facebook happen.
And I'm sure rms would do more good if he fought for food and water for poor in Africa.

The point is, he did not resolve to do it, just like his resolve is not fighting dictators. If not helping folks oppressed by tyranny government, then we all are talking bulshit, although it's less true with regard to Stallman, since free software helped Twitter and Facebook happen.
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"Why the nerve, living a life different than I would choose!? IT MUST BE STOPPED."

Hm, is it just me or doesn't that sound like the agenda RMS is trying to push down everyone else's throat regarding their choices in personal computing?
Electricity is a service, and you're free to use electricity however you want. Nobody can (physically) stop you from using electricity in a way that is not "approved" by the provider of your electricity.

Granted, there are other issues with the generation of electricity, such as the issues with nuclear power, and the environmental effects of coal etc. However, electricity itself is Free (as in speech).

Also, you can't interact with electricity on a higher level. You can't really change its behavior, and the way it works is "open source" (physics). Software and, to a lesser degree, hardware, are things which we can deeply interact with, and are a fundamental part of today's society. This is why they need to be completely Free.
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> but why souldn't I use Windows

And I thought you were going to say something that made sense...
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Just like electricity is completely free. Right? I think I get it.
i actually find c++ more pleasant to read than to write. when writing c++ i am constantly annoyed at the tedium involved in things that would be a few lines of ruby/clojure/ocaml (my top 3 hobbyist languages), but once the tedium activation barrier is crossed and the code is written, it usually ends up pretty clear and straightforward to read and maintain. this is especially true in google, where coding standards are taken seriously and refactoring is a culturally valued operation (that was actually one of the main draws the job had for me).
So many words just to explain that he switched phone provider. You can fuss too much about the small stuff, you know.
All interpreters do it on some level, they just don't expose this functionality to user.

As soon as you want to expose it to user in a non cumbersome way, you realize that the thing that stands in your way is the syntax of your language -- converting from textual and structural representation back and forth does not look like the way to go. You need to get rid of one of them for it to make sense. But if you get rid of textual representation, you'll just get another Lisp.
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“Why is he so threatening?”

In my view, because he has influence based on credibility that he does not deserve any more, and because he exerts that influence in ways that do not benefit free software.
That is very distasteful. Just because someone is advocating firearms rights doesn't mean he will shoot you if you don't share his opinions.
Yeah - instead of putting their brainpower in finessing recommendation, I wish they would put it into improving the user experience. The web UI has hardly changed since they launched. It does not support notes (Joe recommended this movie), it does not support filtering of long queues (show me all the movies in my queue with predicted 4+ star rating that were added more than a year ago"), search is not great and lacks features (show me only PG movies), the site works poorly on the iPad, and yeah - a single streaming queue and the assumption that everybody in the household has the same tastes? Ai.
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From that site:

"Should a campaign for abolishing child labor talk only about how valuable adult workers are to their employers or how happy kids are when they don't work?"

No, they should provide better more efficient alternative than child labor.

"Should a campaign trying to abolish land mines talk only about the benefits of bomb-free fields and intact lower limbs?"

No, they should provide better alternative to land mines so everybody switches to it.

"Should a free speech organization only speak out about the social welfare brought by a free press and never against acts of censorship?"

No, they should provide better means of communication that cannot be censored like that.
Where you are right now, it's ok.
They could also pay bloggers directly to advertise them. Especially if they are specialized on letting "the community" work for them.
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Assuming nothing changed in last 3 years, there's a simple script on gnu server that does the trick: you send an email with subject "wget http://websi.te, and get response like this:

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He advocates his views loudly, but he's not trying to impose anything to anyone.

He's judgmental towards those who don't share them, though. Maybe that's what you mean when you say he's conformist?

Technology is not all there is to oppression, for sure, but he's doing his part as a programmer to prevent it.

The creation of the GNU movement, and subsequently of the FSF stems from a personal grief: the demise of the MIT AI lab during the Lisp machines wars. You can read more about it here:

http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/109