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I think you are being overly generalist here. Governments are as rational as the people that make them and run them, in the same way as a corporation (or any group of people, really). Can you really say that all governments are fairly rational? How about North Korea?

At least the motive of corporations is clear: profit. A (democratically elected) government is in constant conflict with itself over ideology (a much trickier motive to grasp, one that often causes irrational behavior), and it doesn't always take consensus to act.
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I'm looking forward to going through this book. Hudak's 'Haskell School of Expression' is one of the books that helped me understand FP, and Haskell in particular. Multimedia applications are not among my current interests, but there were many subtle nuggets in that book that sharpened my functional viewpoint.

Although 'Haskell School of Expression' is written to be an introductory text, I have trouble seeing it that way, in part because of the multimedia aspect. Graham Hutton's 'Programming in Haskell' is a carefully written beginner text.

Functional programming, and Haskell in particular, reward patience. Hudak's and Hutton's books both have a high impact to time spent ratio. I suspect 'School of Music' will as well.

[EDIT - Just looked through it. It is School of Expression rewritten for music rather than multimedia. Cool]
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I don't buy it. If cracking games was purely about the technical challenge, then there would be no need to distribute the crack when you're done.

Also, what is the "conquered the world" thing about? Also, the layout of this page is totally insane.
> many novice users got fooled into thinking that "Centrino" was wifi, and that all those other manufacturers were just cheap knockoffs of an Intel technology. It did great harm to the market.

Really? Both the claim that many users were "fooled" by the Centrino branding and that this hurt the market for Wi-Fi devices seem highly implausible to me. I don't think I heard anyone use the term "Centrino" outside of Intel PR and reporting thereupon, whereas Wi-Fi had made it into the vernacular at least a decade ago.

The only other trademark for the 802.11 series of standards that got any traction at all was Apple's AirPort, and even their OS calls it Wi-Fi now.
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Thanks for the info. I guess I'll look into it more.
Der, does that mean online.wsj.com is banned as well?
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The title is a bit misleading. I don't see any evidence of a hack. Just because a vulnerability was discovered doesn't mean it was used to compromise accounts. It is possible, but it was always possible with or without this vulnerability being disclosed now. If it did occur, this may not have even been the method used.
be sure to do the math. Nothing's going to be receding at >exponential< speeds

Yeah, my bad. Momentary loss of order-of-magnitude sense. Speed will go as t, distance as t^2, so solid angle subtended as t^-4. That's still pretty rapidly shrinking, though nowhere near exponential of course.
No, it's perfectly fine to enforce copyright. However, we have something called "due process of law" that should be applied.
As organic_code pointed out, blinding the drivers is a real possibility. Also, races are fairly long and holding a mirror up for two or three hours doesn't sound like a lot of fun. New drivers in the sport have no chance of winning (see last years Daytona 500). Never mind the problem track owners will have selling concessions to a group of people who cannot eat / drink for most of the race.

I want to watch a driver's skill, not the energy output of his / her fans.
There's not much difference between skilled software crackers providing free games to a bunch of clueless users and skilled encryption breakers/rippers/encoders providing free media to a bunch of clueless users.

The guy sounds like one of the hippies turned stock market drones. What he did in his youth was fine. What the damn kids are doing today is shit.
I consider it a pejorative.
This is exactly what I've been looking for. I've been searching (for years) for a good alternative to SuperCollider and thought Haskell would be great for DSP, but couldn't find a library ready to use. Now I get a lib and a book! :)
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Yeah, it's not bad. Though having array indices begin with 1 annoys me.
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I used to intern at a company that used printers that had that technology (I assume from your competitors). Massive, massive printers, but they were stupid fast.
Thanks.

Did you use a code editor for the markdown? I'm working on a book, and would use vim, but I'd like to see the TOC at all times. Something like Word's navigation pane.
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Obviously a terrific idea for filtering out the riffraf:

«We love your initiative, Linus Torvalds…»
… but you need to improve.
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The problem of detecting URLs with weird TLDs could be solved by using relative URLs (RFC 1808 §4) with the protocol omitted. It would put that vestigial // to good use—//coca-cola is a URL just as @cocacola is a Twitter handle.
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Noel - Very interested in learning more, my email address is in my profile, drop me a line would like to connect you w/somebody on my team to assess further.
A quick look at the MobiRuby example code worries me. It looks like Objective-C, but awkwardly written using Ruby syntax. In other words, it looks more like an Objective-C wrapper, than a Ruby DSL for writing iPhone apps.

However, with plans to port the system to Android, perhaps a unified DSL could be built to target both platforms.
Yes, really. I had to explain to numerous relatives the distinction between "Centrino" and "Wifi". How old are you? Were you engaged with people who were actively buying laptops at the time? Were you engaged on the subject outside the tech community? The Centrino television ads were pervasive, everyone knew what they were about, and no one at the time had ever heard of a laptop that could get on the internet without a wire.

(edit: your remark about AirPort makes this clearer on reflection: you were a mac user at the time, and familiar with Apple products much more than PCs. Outside the mac world, as you might expect, literally no one had heard of an "AirPort". So you were insulated from Intel's nonsense, essentially.)

It's the same thing here. We have "retina.js" being pushed around as a solution for what is clearly a manufacturer-independent problem. Yet on it's face it appears to be Apple-only software. You don't think that constitutes harm to the market?
People will say 'woosh' if somebody took a joking comment seriously because the humor was too sophisticated. People use this word because it is the sound made when the comment goes over someone's head (here, the comment is treated like an airplane.)

Urbandictionary can be a good place to look up this kind of thing, if you read it selectively. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whoosh

Also, since I can no longer edit my earlier comment, it was actually derleth's comment that I was factually correcting (although he likely said that because it allowed the joke to work better).
I've always enjoyed creating analogies like to see why certain behaviors, mindsets, and tactics are okay in some industries and others not. To wet your palette a bit more here's a wonderful essay analogizing math education to music (Famously, The Mathematician's Lament) http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

And a TED Talk comparing the use of patents and trademarks in the fashion industry to software. http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio...

Both are quite insightful, and I think you'll enjoy them.
10 years is not a long time frame for something like a new battery technology... it's surprisingly short, in fact.
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... but if he hadn't have had an iPhone to "cheat" from, he would have been able to "cheat" from the desk calendar or the address book or any of the other real life objects that Apple makes their apps look like.
And sadly, that score will keep some people from applying for a job/internship they would be qualified for.
I think there's no question that the Li-Air battery is one of the most important, game changing technologies that we'll see in the next 10 (hopefully) years.

It changes everything. It's not just about better battery life on your MacBook. There are so many things held back right now by poor battery technology.
So the key seems to be to having many nodes, corrects?
They may shut down some but others can be built at the same time.
It's good to know that there are some efforts in this sense, but as far as I understand we're pretty far from it right?
Paul Ormerod makes a similar argument in Why Most Things Things Fail: that the economy is a dynamic system, therefore any theory that rests on an assumption of a static equilibrium will not reasonably approximate reality.

It seems though that most economists rarely talk about the invisible hand.

There seems to be more talk of 'emergence'.

Personally, the use of the term 'invisible hand' seems to be increasing, but it seems, in my opinion, to be coming from those who oppose free(r) markets. And it seems to muddy the waters as it is based in metaphor.

Classic liberal economists seem to agree that yes the system is dynamic, that it can rarely be predicted with the tools we have now, and that the best way to communicate the needs of the market on both the supply side and consumption side is through an unfettered price signal.
Yes, precisely. Kids these days, they're a new breed! We've never seen anything like this before! This is the end of the world!
It's amusing that the "fix" is making the user experience much worse.
yeah, It's not clear to me what their criteria could possibly be. Their own employees seemed to have scored decently well, while heavy weights did terrible.

I didn't even make their first tier at < 10k
Nested functions can access variables from local scope in Python, so this isn't a huge issue. It's a bit wonky in python (see discussion of the nonlocal keyword, Python did this wrong from the start) but it solves your encapsulation problem.

def sorted_by(xs, attr):
def cmp_attr(a, b):
return cmp(getattr(a, attr), getattr(b, attr))
return sorted(xs, cmp_attr)

It takes a little more vertical space and requires you to give a name to something that might otherwise be anonymous, but in the long term it's actually beneficial in my opinion. I've actually taken to using the same pattern in my JavaScript development, giving all of my callbacks names, because it makes maintenance so much easier later.

var load_into = function (url, elem) {
var handle_response = function (response) {
$(elem).html(response);
};

$.get(url, handle_response);
};
I like the "blablabla" description :D
If you don't use github actively, everyone is free to get in touch via jobs@divio.ch - in that case, attach something else to show you are qualified :)
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I wish.

I'd like to see salaries return to the pre-dotbomb days 10+ years ago.
Wonder how long until Kickstarter sheds its Amazon Payments dependency so they can keep a larger share of the pot.
Skeumorphism is what makes the iPad the iPad. Instead of being a computer with its own paradigm that you have to learn, the iPad is a blank slate that changes itself with each app. And by using Skeumorphism, Apple makes it immediately obvious to people-- many of whom may have never used a computer before-- what the functionality of the device is. It allows the device to become the apps, and it makes it easy to use.
I remember OS-9 as being very unixy and much more powerful than the single-user, non-multitasking, 'toy' desktop operating systems of the day -- like, say, CP/M or the Apple II's OS.

It meant that one could have a powerful, multi-tasking, multi-user system just by installing OS-9 on a cheap TRS-80 CoCo (typically hooked up to a home TV). It felt like a great deal at the time.

As to x86 assembly language, I've had almost no exposure to it, so I can't really judge it.
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I though you were talking about multisite, but what you are talking about much likely can be done with third-party module - Domain Access (and related ones) - http://drupal.org/project/domain
If I'd want to hear what people are wanting, I would much rather listen to people instead of the "fop-cum-restauranteur".

It's simple really, if you're not cooking, cleaning, waiting, providing the building, providing money, marketing or anything BUT providing ideas, you shouldn't be surprised if people find your ideas worthless.
FileSystem, Zinc, or Zodiac alone would have been enough to celebrate! It's amazing what's been accomplished in a short time...
I think having a massive fan base really just helps to speed up the launch of something, and it doesn't determine success in the slightly longer term.

With a new and great product, you have an exponential growth curve. People find it, think it is great and tell their friends and so on.

The only difference with having a fan base built up already is you get to start further along the curve.

It's still the same curve though. And how great the product is determines the shape of the curve, not the fan base.

In my opinion anyway, for whatever that may be worth.
I like this idea a lot, but you're right. There needs to be a clear distinction made along the lines of, "this is not scientific and if you are interested we will give you a chance regardless of score."

But this is of course at the discretion of Divio.
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We bring together people offline, which presents some hard technical problems. It's also ridiculously fun (we're all frequent users of our product, as it should be).

We try to improve social interactions through a combination of technology and insights about human nature - we call this social hacking.

Our long-term goal is to end loneliness.

Both founders are deeply technical and we're looking for a peer with an appreciation for clean code and elegant design.

If you want to start your own company one day this is a great place to learn the ropes. We've done startups before and some of our hires from these previous co's have gone on to start successful companies of their own.

We iterate quickly, write tests, deploy dozens of times a week, use libraries when it makes sense, but aren't afraid to write our own.

We're in New York and take full advantage of it.

We're relatively far along, but generous equity stakes are still available.

Send us your Github profile and/or Dribbble profile at social.hackers.nyc@gmail.com
Sounds complicated. I think we just need to do something similar to HTML5 'video' tags for the 'image' tag, where you simply put a list of file paths in the tag, and the browser selects the best one to request, only with different resolutions instead of different file encodings. We could have a standard notation like adding "_x2" to the double res image filenames, and the browser selects the appropriate one to load.

Then, we can support current image formats in the way you envision.

Also, anything you have vectorized should be in SVG format, including text in non-web fonts.
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As you said, even heavy weights did terrible: http://imgur.com/fgvlQ
I want to see redis with mruby scripting instead of or also with Lua scripting, one day.
> [11:39:56]	<_notch>	fly in highly radiated areas, and random bits in ram will flip

Everything I hear about this game makes me want it more and more.
If I'm scoring 33% higher than dhh, something is wrong with your algorithm.

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I have given this subject much consideration. I have a good idea how to solve it. All I need you to do is sign this NDA first.. ...
They seem to favor python users.
Me, I sing like Neil Sedaka. Apparently.
Reminds me of my community of modders and mappers of the original Jedi Knight game. The engine was out-of-date pretty soon after release, but it's only within the last few years that the editing community has died down. People found ways to create 16 bit textures (the game only came with 8bit colour-mapped ones), how to implement bots in multiplayer, they hacked the binary to remove hard-coded graphical limitations. All of this happened while there were far more powerful engines like Quake 3 and Unreal available to play with.

Sometimes it's good to see just how far you can push an idea.
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While iOS devices are pretty up to date, phonegap/flash/titanium/corona are actually pretty nice on android when you have 15 different operating system versions all seemeingly evenly deployed on the market
woops, deleted it by mistake. Here is the link again: http://imgur.com/fgvlQ

My bad
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While this article was more about web, it immediately made me think of the game industry. So many people would always tell me they wanted to get into the game industry to be the "idea guy" and come up with games.

What they never seemed to understand is that coming up with ideas is not the hard part. The real hard part is finding time, skills and actually shipping. Hell, take a 20 person game dev company, and they could come up with 100 game ideas before the end of the day, and they will be just as good and original as the idea guys (probably better actually since they have more context and experience)

We (atleast I) became developers because we had ideas and we wanted to make those a reality. I literally have had hundreds of web and game ideas and so has every other developer.

We are in an "idea bubble"... There are far too many people who cannot create, and simply have ideas, and we can already see this starting to erode when you examine how hard it is for "idea founders" to get others to work on their project.

No developer anywhere has said "If I just had an idea of something to do"
The absence of an invisible hand is caused only when it is wiped away by the punching fist of the government. Whether it is by artificial money out-of-nothing, by regulations or by expropriations and controls. Mr Schliefer is an excellent example of the "intellectual class" (http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/doug-casey-pseudo-intellect...)
I don't think "arrayByAddingObjectsFromArray:" is particularly clearer than "concat" or "+" unless you're just totally unfamiliar with the language. In fact, for many selectors I find the shorter names easier to read because my brain sees them as a single token while I have to mentally parse Cocoa's behemoths every time I run across them. There is some benefit to clarity, but very often Objective-C's glut of information makes it harder to pick out the details you were looking for. Smalltalk was considered quite readable and in fact was the inspiration for Objective-C and Cocoa, but its selectors were more minimal (for example, the equivalent to the above methods is #addAll:).

(Just to establish that I'm not completely talking out my rear end: I've been programming Objective-C for ten years, Ruby for five.)
Maybe it's a random number generator. I got 18k, and I barely know anything about the technologies listed at the bottom of the page.
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There are more correct words to describe this. Like "greater fool theory".
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> While I'd welcome clearer law it's important to point out that it's the ICO who'll be enforcing the law, so if they say they're not going to go after people it's safe to say they won't.

Until some group puts pressure on them to enforce against analytics sites. Or the top brass at ICO are switched out. Or a politician makes it their mission for a little while. Or...

"We are making this illegal, but we won't enforce it, really!" is not a trustworthy statement.
"Believing far too credulously in an invisible hand, the Federal Reserve failed to see the subprime crisis coming."

I assume he is stating the Fed believes in a stable state.But the Federal Open Market Committee meets 8 times a year to evaluate the interest rate, which is in constant flux at their hand:
http://www.moneycafe.com/library/fedfundsratehistory.htm
That seems hardly like the activity of an actor who believes they are in a stable environment.
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It's not a bubble if prices going up because of monetary policy. It's inflation.
It might not be that easy. A lot of WiFi drivers in the kernel today don't support MAC address change.
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I truly believe that the only way to put the "NDA or no NDA" question to bed is to have every single person out there try to execute on an idea. Only until you've done it once do you realize the infinitesimal odds of having an idea, telling someone, them executing on it and making it big while the same experiment carried out with the only variable changed being not telling them would have resulted in you making it big.

NDAs are meant for investors/strategics who want access to real, sensitive and actionable data. Not a couple of folks in a bar batting around ideas.
i wish I could read this but the layout is all over the place and some menu is jumping around in opera mobile.
Should link to the source instead of blogspam.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/north-korea-website/
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You could always make use of enterprise Java if you like verbosity.

The extremes are probably not the place to be.
When you publish with Amazon, 30-65% is in "processing" fees. Similar with Apple, BN, Kobo, etc. Self distribution can be a lot cheaper if you already have the marketing platform built it, which apparently @jstorimer has.

From my own experience writing, it would have been a better investment of my time to do side consulting jobs. But like @jstorimer, once I had the itch, I needed to scratch it (along with writing my own tooling for ebook production).

But the goal is to get a passive income. From the "indie" publishing crowd, (which has a fiction bias), the following are needed to make a living:

1. Luck
2. Good reviews
3. More books

The first two cover the quality of your book, the last is supposedly a multiplier (at least in fiction and I assume in non-fiction as well). I would need to write a bunch more books to write for a living. But there have been other benefits to writing as well.
I can't tell you the exact algorithm, but as we are searching for an intern to work together with us - we are definitely weighing some things higher than others.
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That seems to imply that if you have 'accept cookies' and 'accept 3rd party cookies' checked, you can be tracked. Those boxes exist for precisely this reason, are they not consent?