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I can't believe how Techcrunch threw Steve Job's name into the title of this story just to gain some early weekend traffic.
I click on a couple per year perhaps. It's a rare occasion because I usually have adblock on.
>> There's just so much the brain can absorb in a short time.

Daniel Tammet learned Icelandic in one week. I would be interested to see what backs your claim that the brain can only absorb so much in a short time.

I think both you and the GP are projecting YOUR limitations onto everyone else.

The brain can and does absorb a massive amount of information each and every day. Training the conscious mind to direct that natural ability of the brain is something that is orthogonal to the brains capabilities. Being an Opera Singer (dedicated and focused) probably helps with that task.
Period?

C powers the Internet, period. Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Drupal, etc. etc. You can whine all you want about this and that, but you can't argue with success.
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Well any way you slice it you're still going to have to interface with the Cocoa frameworks that make up the OS. Anything that masks the interface too much just causes friction. e.g. you can't look stuff up in the docs anymore.

MacRuby does a bit better job at first glance than this does, but you can't get past the way the framework you're using works.

In Objective-C:

Person *person = [Person new];
[person name];
[person setName:name];
[person setFirstName:first lastName:last];

and in MacRuby

person = Person.new
person.name
person.setName(name)
person.setFirstName(first, lastName:last)

As far as I can tell in MobiRuby that'd look something like this:

person = Person._alloc._init
person._name
person._setName _S(name)
person._setFirstName _S(first), :lastName, _S(last)
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My previous company shipped mac desktop apps written in Python. It made sense at the time (no sqlalchemy for cocoa) but turned out not to be great for many reasons. The two main ones imho were that the language doesn't fit the framework (argument passing style) and that you have to understand both languages and the bridge to be able to debug well.

My cofounder did a nice talk on our experiences: http://www.madebysofa.com/archive/blog/pyobjc-and-cocoa/inde...
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How is this :

alert = UIAlertView._alloc \
._initWithTitle _S("Hello"),
:message, _S("I'm MobiRuby"),
:delegate, nil,
:cancelButtonTitle, _S("I know!"),
:otherButtonTitles, nil
alert._show

supposed to be better than this ?

alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]
initWithTitle:@"Hello"
message:@"I'm ObjC"
delegate:nil
cancelButtonTitle:@"I know!"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
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Time for some EU-wide regulation here! Should not be legal to charge your customers depending on what content they download, with their connection. When you rent a X mbit line you should get that and nothing less.
And here too: http://dirkstoop.posterous.com/why-im-slowly-moving-checkout...
I think this is an awesome idea and is incredibly straightforward. Here's what we got, here's what you'll get, what have you done? I assume however that once they've selected some good candidates, based on github participation and code, they take the time to get a feel for the actual person. I know a lot of really great developers who are just horrid to work with in a team environment.

Good to see you guys are being innovative with your hiring. I love the NO-BS approach.
Yeah yeah smart kid. And x86 machine code, and transistors, and electrons. And sand, and don't forget about the high-tech machines that were used to make the chips.
Does this signal our perception of the universe is structured by the energy's surrounding us? We did evolve along with all of these energies.

The human mind is malleable and dynamic, not fixed like a 24 FPS camera lens (I imagine most humans don't have a fixed framerate for incoming sensory) - I do wonder if other critters with less dynamic minds would fail to some kind of trick.

I wonder too if it was this kind of dynamic ability that allowed us to disconnect from a fixed reality, thereby giving us contrast, the ability to analyze our surroundings, and therefore consciousness.
Yes, MobiRuby aim implement all ObjC capability.
Ok, i consider myself competent 3 languages(English, Tamil, Hindi). And all three are as different as languages can get(grammatically,lexically).
I consider myself C1 competent in only English. I suspect i might be able to clear it in Tamil as it's after all the native tongue, though not sure, can do it without a month's studying(part-time).
My experience,
I learnt tamil and english during my school days. (english being the medium of instruction). I was fluent* in both in my teens(can't remember much before that, except what seems like episodic memory reformed by hearing). Somewhere around the age of 11/12 i started to learn hindi. but i achieved fluency quick. Infact one of the repetitive grouch/feedback i got from teachers' was "don't write on your own. just reproduce what you read. Newton's law is newton's.". Ofcourse I used to think if you want Newton's words go read the textbook and not my answer sheet.

-- I know i scored a 287/300 in TOEFL. Don't know of any equivalent in Tami l/Hindi, that i would compare to that format.

*-- I mean fluency in terms of forming sentences, by combining vocabulary learnt with/without context to form sentences that express and/or describe processes. Not spoken competency. That came long after that, only when i was forced to immerse myself(school rules around 16 for English and later at 25 when went to do a Master's for Hindi).
I seriously doubt that whether the repositories were private was a financial consideration. More likely, they wanted others to be able to find the project and join in.

People who develop software of this caliber can easily afford the expense of a private Github repository if they want one.
Wonder if this is related to the launch of their new datacenter? Did the bugreport say?
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I thought the hivemind was that Lua was bloody awful?

Disclaimer: I have never even read some Lua, honest question
Thanks for the suggestion, I liked the philosophy behind Fever so much, I've just bought it (despite the crazy requirements). Might get me hooked on RSS again, who knows.
Doesn't currently support Internet Explorer?! That's a deal-breaker still unfortunately.
When it comes to nginx and apache you can always go down the hosted realtime infrastructure route. That way you can use WebSockets in your client (app) but you don't need to worry about installing mods or handling the persistent connections on your server.

See: http://www.leggetter.co.uk/real-time-web-technologies-guide#...
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It's possible to get iTunes to change its idea of where the music files are. I've done a similar amount of iTunes library moving, and it's been quite amazingly reliable through all that upheaval.

A combination of consolidating and setting the default media location and re-consolidating and holding option on launch etc will eventually get it to find all its media.
501 Programmers and Craft? Well Most of the programmers and it types I have worked considered themselves "Professional" and not skilled tradesmen such as carpenters

The 501 Manifesto makes some good points but using terms like Craft and being rigid about 9-5 & days a week, makes me think that they havent made the trade up from blue collar shop floor worker attitudes. I am quite strict with my time but ill do what hours I consider are required to ge the job done.

It may be different in the USA but in the UK there are huge social and class implications in being a professional and all that entails.

As a "profession" collectivly we need to stamp out any attempt to devalue our jobs by conflating them with lower status and lower pay "Craft" ones.
PHP powers the Internet, period.

That's a bit strong; I would even say it borders on being outright false no matter how you meant it. PHP is convenient for bashing out quick server-side scripts, but it doesn't "power the Internet" any more than any other language does.

Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Drupal, etc. etc. You can whine all you want about this and that, but you can't argue with success.

"Success"? You say it as though the use of PHP were in any way consequential to the success of those projects. Wordpress and Drupal, maybe, but Wikipedia and Facebook are squarely business successes more than anything.

I'm not saying PHP is necessarily as bad as people make it out to be (though I personally think it is), but the fact that a company like Facebook uses PHP (and in fact has poured millions into desperately engineering around its many faults) isn't exactly a shining testament to the virtue of the language (any more than a hypothetical Company X using COBOL internally would make COBOL a better language).

See:

* http://www.quora.com/Would-Facebooks-maintenance-costs-be-lo...

* http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-did-Quora-choo...

* http://www.quora.com/Do-Facebook-engineers-enjoy-programming...
This might be good to way to weed out all the weak points in your thinking - but for a more beginner phase I recommend organizing panel discussions instead.
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Thus replacing vulnerabilities in your HTML sanitizer with vulnerabilities in an emscriptened spidermonkey, which you believe to be safer mostly because you are unable to do a reasonable code review of the resulting code :)
As a matter of implementation, I wonder if this is in fact true at the moment.

Of course in the future there's no reason that national biometrics databases couldn't store unique identifiers that could be used to identify individuals (given the biometrics for an individual, you would be able to look up that individual in your database).

However my very patchy understanding of systems as currently implemented is that they provide a way of tying a document reliably to an individual - so that you can present a passport and an automated kiosk can scan your irises/take fingerprints to work out if the document actually belongs to you. This is what's called a "closed search" problem.

If you can generate the document in the first place then this doesn't really change the situation from before.

Of course systems may get more sophisticated but I suspect the problems with collisions of biometric checksums are likely to put some sort of a limit on the practicality of an approach like this. Especially when retina scans etc can be defeated by wearing lenses etc.
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Divio doesn't go so well in divio's test:

https://www.divio.ch/github/u/divio/
I couldn't agree more. I saw that in two situations:

- I started blogging recently, and found that having to actually write my thought in an organized way forces me to really learn and understand the topic

- When I was a student preparing for a competitive exam (one where your rank determines the school you go to and the other students in your class take it "against" you), some people refused to help others, thinking they would beat them in the exam. In fact, I found that helping other actually helps you even more, and overall, the "helping students" fared much better in the exam
They have a project of mine on there (eMusicTheory.com), and I admittedly didn't ask to be removed, but the paranoid side of me worried... if there's a particular security flaw in Stripe (or websites' common implementations of Stripe for payments) that turns up in the future, I'm on the cracking shortlist.
The trouble is, this causes almost as much friction as just using Objective C in the first place. I use Ruby and ObjC extensively (have even mixed them in a desktop app), so I'm familiar with both. While I find ObjC immensely frustrating for dealing with strings and text, and love to use Ruby for that, the syntax above just makes me cringe - it's not idiomatic Ruby, which would be something more like:

person = Person.new
person.update_attributes(:name => 'Joe', :surname => 'Blogs')
OR
person = Person.new
person.name = "Joe"
person.last_name = "Blogs"

So why not just use ObjC and call a bundled script which deals well with a specific problem in a rubyish way, and takes input from files, rather than mixing up the two paradigms and ending up with a Frankenstein language which is harder to parse from both sides? I think Apple bans calling bundled scripts on iOS (or did, not sure if the rules have changed), but that's not a technical problem but a political one.

I understand people might want to try to use the strengths of Ruby (munging text, some nice libraries), but to get there, you're throwing out some of the nicest things about Ruby - a lovely syntax that doesn't get in your way, and method names you can easily guess. Usually writing Ruby I find I don't have to look up methods and can stay in the flow, but I can't say the same about the cocoa API, with NSString in particular full of huge method names and bizarre syntax for simple operations. So this is throwing out that advantage for the dubious advantage of being able to call cocoa methods from Ruby (using a weird syntax).

YMMV
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The algorithm is not optimized for organizations as we're only looking for real people ;) But you can check out the high score here: https://www.divio.ch/en/github/highscore/
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Unless a company is failing, acquisitions should also increase the worth of the company if cash is put in and it's not a pure stock swap.

So it's not strange that valuations go up after an acquisition, and in my formulation, they would also go up as well, and for the same reason.

On the one hand, you're right: if everyone is using misleading valuation calculations, then they're all relatively misleading by the same amount.

That still doesn't make these numbers remotely helpful. Here's a thought experiment:

Company X sells $10K in equity at a $1 billion valuation, with no revenue. Wow, good for them.

Company Y sells $15K in equity at a $1.5 billion valuation with no revenue, and promptly acquires Company X for $1.1 billion in cash and stock.

Well color me impressed! That's an amazing exit for Company X! Incredible. Bravo. /sarc

It's both easy and cheap to be a paper billionaire when valuations are calculated as shares x 'last price of an individual share'. Anyone can sell their company for $1.1 billion dollars with minimal actual capital changing hands, or value created.

FWIW, the real problem isn't the valuation numbers per se, it's when people start talking about "losses". Evernote's stock drops, and somehow they "lost" $600 million in "value". Uh, no, they didn't. They never had that value to begin with, and didn't even lose it.

If you think about it, that makes sense. How can a stock sale worth, say, $1000 change the value of the company being sold by $100 million? That doesn't make any sense.

With my formulation, selling a single share at a lower price wouldn't move a company's market cap by hundreds of millions of dollars, ever, unless that share somehow was sold at a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars (that's one pricey share!). Instead, it would decrease only be the amount that was lost on that particular share, which is generally minimal in stock sales.

My approach is much more stable, and would prevent all of these idiotic headlines about "market drops" that we keep hearing about (and market increases, for that matter). It's just more honest all the way around, and furthermore, it's easy to calculate. You can always track each share's individual purchase history, and trivially calculate the value of the company based on that (and the other factors I mentioned), in real time.

It would also prevent the quarterly gaming that goes on, since recent stock sales would not be a major driver for increased (or decreased) valuation. Instead, you'd have to actually improve the company's fundamentals, and as investors and shareholders, isn't that what we really want anyway?
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Useful to know, though this has been supported since Chrome 14 (the post was written in August last year). Does anyone know which other browsers support it? Can't find info on html5please.com or caniuse.com.
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Ah.. assume the paypal link will be on the bill. ok no problems. had dropped a mail too. Will pay once i get the bill. :-P
> (in particular, a + b < a will never be true if a, b are ints.)

Code of exactly that form in the patch for this bug made me do a double take. Fortunately, they'd also changed the a & b from plain ints to size_t, so it was ok.
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Teaching something generally forces you to review what you know and organize your thoughts on the subject. It's not hard to see why that improves your understanding.
I've been waiting this for a long time. There's also TinyRB (http://code.macournoyer.com/tinyrb/) but it's too small subset of ruby to be useful and seems abandoned.

But my first impressions are not very positive (stripped x86_64 executables with -Os):

-rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 708480 Apr 20 11:27 mrbc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 713056 Apr 20 11:27 mruby
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 712128 Apr 20 11:27 mrubysample

compared to lua-5.2.0:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 147864 Apr 20 11:28 lua
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 99168 Apr 20 11:28 luac

I'm not a big fan of lua as a language but it has been the only option to do scripting on small embedded systems. I've manged to compile size-optimized version of lua on arm to the size of about 80kb but mruby just might be too big for my embedded usage.
Still, I don't see it as downside of the method at all. If Joe learns how to say "Excuse me, where is the Hilton Hotel?" in Chinese with really good pronunciation, and some Chinese people go on to assume he speaks really well, then that means to me: (i) Joe used a method that teaches good pronunciation from the start, (ii) those Chinese people are overestimating Joe's ability, they're simply wrong.

On (i): any method has to make some choices on what to teach first. I think good pronunciation and listening skills are much important than knowing spelling or explicit grammar rules at the beginning. While Pimsleur is not perfect, I believe it's a good method in that respect.

On (ii): it's possible that Joe got unlucky, or maybe people in that region are monolinguals and don't quite understand that language proficiency is far being binary. It's not a big deal anyway: just learn how to say "I don't understand", "sorry, I don't speak Chinese well" and "please speak slowly". At least the first 2 of those are stock Pimsleur phrases.

For what is worth, some of us foreigners in Japan experience a different phenomenon: Japanese people who can't quite believe that non-Japanese can speak their language.
Given the huge margin on mobile voice minutes, I'm surprised that it's taken this long for one of the operators to try this. Anecdotally, other operators in Europe have silently degraded VoIP traffic in the hope that the better quality GSM traffic will prevail but this is taking things to the next level.

If this does continue, expect Neelie Kroes to start getting involved which will probably see them going back to the silent degradation model.
From their buy page https://incident57.com/codekit/buy.php

>It's simple: you decide how much CodeKit is worth. If you're making money faster than a Zynga game crashes, the higher prices help me out a lot. (I'm hoping to pay off my student loans with the proceeds.) But if "money" is something you remember briefly having one night back in 1987, $18 is perfect.

I'd be interested to know why they provided four different prices [$18, $20, $24, $28] instead of just two - if the customer doesn't want to pay a lot, they can just pay $18 and if they want to support the creators then they can pay $28. Why the middle prices? Who is it for?
> C powers the Internet, period.

PHP is written in C. So, yeah, I guess that's true.
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> Is it 2001? No, because there's that lesson to look at and learn from, but it's a bubble 'we're' in.

Agree. As they say - history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
A lot of these things can be abstracted out, but I agree. I think the MacRuby syntax is significantly better for cocoa/uikit ruby. And considering the man who made macruby hasn't been active on it for a long time, I wouldnt be surprised to see him just pop out with something like this one of these days.
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I love how people jump on the anti-GS train because it's the hip, popular thing to do. No doubt, GS has done things wrong. But:

1) They were not the SOLE underwriter of GroupOn, nor were they the largest (that was Morgan Stanley).
2) They were co-leads with Morgan and Credit Suisse.
3) They made $8mm in fees on the deal.

To put it into perspective, GS's Q1 2012 revenue was $9.95bn. Let's compare for perspective:

9,950,000,000
8,000,000

Obviously GS also profited from the fact that they could buy GroupOn on the cheap, at pre-IPO prices, but even then I hardly think it would have made a dent in their bottom line.

So if you're going to criticize, add Morgan and Credit Suisse to your list. And JPMC wasn't even a lead underwriter on GroupOn. And even then, if you're going to implicate people, you might as well add the other 11 underwriters.

And in fact, you might as well add GroupOn's early investors who standed to make a KILLING on the inflated IPO price.

It's dollars all the way down, sir - and it doesn't start or stop just at Goldman Sachs.