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I think the potential of RubyMotion is in the "new ways of thinking and coding" aspect you mention -- the big potential win here is to import a Rubyish way of thinking about iOS programming.

I'm not part of either the ObjC or Ruby communities, but the impression I get as an outsider is that Ruby is a language and coding culture obsessed with elegant and minimalist expression, and ObjC doesn't make those things priorities. So what I'm hoping to see come out of RubyMotion is an obsessive drive to wrap the iOS frameworks in libraries that let you do the common things with no code at all, and the uncommon things with the least code possible. For people who have only worked in lower-level languages ... well, the difference over time could be surprising. At least I'm hoping so.

To put it in practical terms: I bet if you follow the sample RubyMotion apps over the next six months, you'll see the number of lines of code required to do what they do plummet, replaced by high-level libraries. If I'm right, let's get back together then and high-five. If not, oh well, it was a fun experiment.
It's not that uncommon for citizenship changes, in either direction, to be public record. In some countries they're even pro-forma passed as laws through parliament, which of course then becomes public record. (In Denmark, at least, only the parliament has the right to grant or revoke Danish citizenship for any reason, an old restriction intended as a protection against the King arbitrarily doing so. In practice the immigration authorities draw up lists of people, and Parliament rubber-stamps the lists a few times a year, reading them into the legislative record.)

Another reason to make them public is that otherwise there's no way to determine if someone is actually a U.S. citizen, since there's no central register. For example, someone with a birth certificate showing they were born in the U.S. is a U.S. citizen by birth... unless they've renounced it. So to determine if someone is a citizen you need: 1) a copy of their birth certificate; and 2) a list of renunciations so you can check that they aren't on it. Sort of like how key revocation works in crypto— you can't actually haul back the original documents, so you have to publish a revocation list.
Thanks for commenting, Simba!

As to an idea, when showing it to some friends everyone said "its cool" and everything, but at the same time they were asking "aren't there more interesting projects to code?", and frankly speaking until now [1] I didnt have any.

As of WP7 I haven't test it at all, simply because I do not have a WP device :( I did 3 trips to Apple store to test-drive everything on iPad (the new one) because there were some minor ongoing glitches (outlook related, not software wise. btw: I am happy to share all my development notes, if someone is interested). I will look for a code to prevent moving screen on WP7, something that is particulary locked on ios/andro, so drawing should work for you soon. I will visit Verizon/ATT shop and will test it thoroughly on your device then, lol :)

[1] recently it came to me that HTML5 Canvas could serve as technology for signaturing documents, where Public Notary is not needed. Example: real estate sale. Lots of documents do not require PN to be present. It takes days to obtain those back and forth. The idea is to give attorneys tool to upload legal document, generate unique code and send it to a client that can look it up on his touch-held device and securely sign the document. But obviously I need to do much more research into it. Any comment, welcome!

Edit: Simba, if you could send a screenshot of your WP7 device, I could fix all the elements' positioning. Fixing them all at once would prevent from scrolling, as there would be nothing to scroll :) thnx.
I'm hoping they bring out a trial version... Ruby is not my main language, and while I'd like to give this a try, I'm not $149 keen on seeing if it is something I'd use.
RubyMotion has potential but like any intermediary framework it will start to show cracks when building a real world application.
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I don't think the concept of "don't force it" can be stressed enough. Something I've learned living in Austin where there is a thriving start up community (or at least many people who want to do a start up), and from attending SXSW, there seem to be a lot of people who are trying to repeat the success of others by trying to figure out exactly what steps they took, and then attempting to repeat them "cargo cult" style.

Maybe there are a lot of successful start ups that were purposely built (i.e. “forced”), but it seems so many of them just kind of evolved, almost as a by-product. Maybe good start up ideas, and start ups in general, are like happiness; if you expressly seek to find it, it is elusive. However, if you merrily go about your way remaining curious, inquisitive and interested, it finds you.

When trying to repeat what other successful founders have done, it seems wise to keep the works of Matsuo Basho in mind: “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”

Anyway, I had better get back to my idea brainstorming. I’ve found this great mind mapping tool! ;-)
Great point. The quizzes and exams should not be hard, they should re-affirm your knowledge and let you move on. Making at test difficult for the sake of being difficult is not productive. People are learning this material to better themselves. If one wants difficulty one should dive deeper into the material elsewhere. Maybe Algorithms 2, or maybe a more advanced book altogether.
I thought storm worked on infinite streams? Does this support that?
jbooth is my name. jstalin's a guy who killed about as many people as Hitler.
The beauty of good spin is that it can be "accurate" without being "complete" or "informative". So it can fool the weak-minded into emotional responses (in this case, that tax is "like theft" and thus evil [removed, see below]. So what if tax starts as "your" money? You still need to pay it. Don't like the current policy? Then state a new one; don't spin.

Edit: removed the "zero tax" bit as apparently it sounds like spin. I don't think it changes the point. (was: ", even though no one sane thinks a zero tax policy is possible")
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That's not necessarily a bad thing: if you're like me (seasoned Objective-C developer, and only the briefest exposure to Ruby) it's quite informative.

A lot of talk about RubyMotion has been about how Ruby developers and those who aren't familiar or comfortable with Objective-C can develop for iOS. I don't see why it can't work in the other direction as well: a nice entry point for people familiar with Objective-C looking for an easy-in for Ruby.
That seems implausible. If anything, maybe he doesn't want to deal with the IRS for the rest of his life.

After all, it's not a burden on his children until they begin collecting income. If the concern is really for the children, it would be more pragmatic to give them sufficient time to make up their own mind.
According to his blog, as of last year he had moved to Singapore and it appeared he intended that to be his permanent home.

Perhaps he has decided to obtain Singapore citizenship? Singapore requires those who obtain naturalized citizenship there to renounce all other citizenships they hold.
In what way is communism dangerous? I fail to see any inherent danger in a form of society that distributes its wealth evenly across its citizens.
The law in question defines things in such a way that it's assumed you are renouncing your citizenship for tax purposes if your income or net worth are over certain thresholds. It provides for exceptions under specific conditions and allows for govt officials to grant documented exceptions if you can convince them to do so.

The assumption, though, is probably correct far more often than not.
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There are apps written in MacRuby (RubyMotion's desktop sibling) in the Mac App Store, and there are apps written in other alternative languages in the iOS App Store, so it's hard to see what the problem would be. The RubyMotion FAQ agrees with this assessment.
One of the few instances where you can use the word "disruption" seriously. Holy cow if this takes hold.
Good work on this. Personally, I tend to use Preboot (http://markdotto.com/bootstrap/), which was the precursor to bootstrap, before they tacked on the kitchen sink.
Like any other technology, people will grab the wheel when the incentives don't pay off. Take for example the iPad. iPad is great as a media consumption device, or the occasional email. But as soon as I have to write longer than a few minutes, the iPad becomes a burden. In the case of a heavily crowded street a self-driving automobile might be able to trek through, but it may be more feasible to grab the wheel if you just want to move on.

Once self-driving cars become more commonplace, issues with eye-contact with pedestrians will naturally seek their own level as comfort ensues.
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I'm a bored systems admin in Ottawa, Canada. Presently managing 6200+ servers across 16 facilities(mixed environment of Linux - Debian, RHEL, SUSE, Windows - 2003, 2008R2, and Unix - HP-UX, Solaris). My experience is specifically with Linux though. This is a government consulting gig but painfully boring.

I'm looking to take on some spare work managing peoples closet servers and small shop setups; I like helping tune little shops up so they can get more done with limited hardware. Does anyone have any experience finding this type of work?

Thanks!
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I've explained a bit longer than your 'wtf'. Perhaps you can explain to me applications where lisp is the best fit?

Almost every website or software running a business I can think of runs sql. The very small few that don't, google for example, run on c++ and assembly.

So, in 2012, with gigs of ram and postgres, why would I use lisp?
No one has introduced the concept of zero tax policy until you did so just now.

There are many kinds of spin, that's one of them.
Yes.

NYT homepage editor has flexibility on when they "roll" the date depending on news events (and content can be ranked ahead of time too). But yeah, basically midnight.

Internally I know editorial preserves them on an hourly basis. You might ask current NYT-ers if you could get access to that?

I know I did a scrape every 10 (or 2?) minutes of the Homepage HTML for a couple of years (2007 to 2011?). If I can find that data and its still meaningful I'll get it to you. It was quite a few GB.
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>I'm not sure how any of these qualify the man as someone to be listened on the topics of economics or manufacturing.

Maybe because neither economics, nor manufacturing nor any other field, are fields to be left to the "experts", to the exclusion of the citizenry in general (economics especially, as a soft science that leaches on Math and thrives on state power, is full of idiotic experts, with Phds and Nobels to match, whose aggregate predictive performance is closer to a coin toss, if not negative).

Not to mention that arguments are to be judged in themselves, not based on the expertise of who's making them.
It's a valid criticism, but it's not interesting or on-topic for the conversation here. Cesare has an email address and a Twitter — those would be better media for a comment like this.
ChromeOS, possibly?
Sure, I never said it was a defining film (although it's arguable so), only that my kids were super-interested in it and that they'd been pushing to watch it. My thoughts were to wait until they were older to see them as they are VERY intense compared to the Pixar movies they've already seen. Given that they REALLY wanted to see Star Wars I decided to show them in a controlled way, that's all.
The belligerence of the state doesn't hold a candle to the belligerence of unfettered individuals.
Constantly updated Street view. Also, they could map all the roads of the world this way.
I heard that she's Indian, so she might just be a citizen there.
I would imagine by now there are some treaties between most nations that exchange such information. There is also passporting system. You gave them any sort of passport (at least here in US) and they will look it up in the computer. They have to be looking up some sort of database, right?)

I could imagine someone holding so many citizenships would be very valuable asset to government agency that hire spies.
As a film geek, this news saddens me so much....
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Well, you can only use the word "disruption" if it actually disrupts. Given the vested interests at stake, I'm not convinced that it will.
Also for a movie like Avengers, which relies a lot on special visual and sound effects for its success, its easier to get such box office returns. But if same thing happens to a movie like Carnage[1], then it might be affect its returns drastically.

Carnage - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1692486/
Based on your argument, calling someone a dick would be sexist as well. I'm not arguing that the author is right to use douchebag; he was trying for entertainment value but to me it came across as unnecessary. But getting worked up because he chose the wrong insult out of the many, many insults we have relating to both male and female body parts and functions is silly. Calling someone a douchebag doesn't insult anyone else who uses a douche the same way calling someone a dick doesn't bother me everytime I use the restroom.
"In the wild" in this case was just their honeypots. Actually vulnerable site should be very rare.

Also, one would assume that any website still using php-cgi has plenty of other security vulnerabilities.
I think you would be required to disclose your other citizenships when obtaining the U.S. one.

They wouldn't necessarily know about others if you got the American one by birth, though if you were born abroad you can be sure that's going to be in the profile.
So basically you want all the upside of a startup without putting in any of the hard work/long hours required to make it a success?

As harsh as this may sound, working at a startup is often chaotic, if you can't deal with high pressure, it is probably best if you go back to being a cog at a BigCo.
I like Scott Aaronson's blog (http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/), which has some posts about computational complexity and quantum computing.
Another great example of how finance mumbo-jumbo destroys industries.

So the publishing industry's balance sheet looks better because they carry no inventory. How is the publishing balance sheet going to look when the industry implodes?
Exactly. Star Wars was coming up at school literally every day. This was their first exposure to anything close to "evil" and certainly their longest exposure to guns/blasters. It's a War Movie, no question. Going from zero violence to two hours of violence without explanation is a lot for a little mind. I just chose to eek it out in bits and provide context.

The best part of this experiment/experience was that we ended up talking in aggregate for at least 3x longer than the length of the movie. A lot of good discussions came out of this that wouldn't have had we shown the movies all at once. Little people need time to absorb, consider, argue, dream and understand complex stuff.
Take care with putting this into action -- the external homepage archives constantly suck in the latest version of any precoded module on the page ... so for example, this should show the Iowa Caucuses, but shows nearly two months later instead:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2012/01/03/

... a misstep we later fixed. For what it's worth, there's also an internal version of the homepage archive that doesn't suffer from this problem, and is snapshotted hourly.
It is Chomsky, after all: long ago exposed as a scoundrel and purveyor of dishonest pseudo-scholarship (in the realms of politics, history, and economics, not linguistics, where his ideas were considered important for a considerable time).

On another note, I don't remember Salon being this cheesy the last time I visited the site. The sidebar with links to other fascinating Salon articles includes pieces on gay porn, "Girls" sex, naked models, big butts, and more porn. That's five out of seven about porn and body parts. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it seems pretty desperate.
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You would be surprised:

http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=PHP-CGI
Well, for one, it fails to address the inherent need of people to achieve for personal/selfish reasons, thus removing life purpose for many of your best and brightest - it kills ambition.

Ambition is what drives humanity forward, for better or worse. Unless you can channel the needs of the state as a replacement for personal ambition, your society under communism is unsustainable. This is very difficult to do without reverting to a society that is either 1) capitalist or 2) utterly corrupt.

Either way, communism is self defeating, and therefore dangerous.

EDIT: Just to note that I upvoted you and encourage others to do the same. This is a place to share knowledge and you asked a perfectly valid question that many people have. This is not reddit and nobody should be downvoted for asking a question, regardless of how basic it might be.
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Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the discussion of Sealand on Ars Technica [1] was the notion of 'laws of state' vs 'laws of self' which is really nicely explained in this PDF http://illinoislawreview.org/wp-content/ilr-content/articles... . The money quote being:

"Juxtaposing these three theories of the rule of law allows us to see that there is something deeply anomalous in HavenCo’s simultaneous rejection of national self-government and embrace of formal legality and
restraint on government. Having started from the premise that the political systems of existing nations could never be trusted to protect free speech, HavenCo needed a place outside of them to stand while it
beamed its bits their way and undermined their national Internet laws.

That place needed to be able to stand up to annoyed nations, which led HavenCo to seek Sealand, with its colorable claims to sovereignty. And once HavenCo had chosen a protector with power, it also needed to be
protected from the abuse of that power. HavenCo expected international law to protect it from the rest of the world and expected Sealand law to protect it from Sealand itself."

We can discuss and agree that people have fundamental rights, but having that discussion only makes sense in the context of establishing a way of enforcing those rights. The day you hold 'no' citizenship is the day that nobody is going to help protect your rights and you become someone else's slave. That isn't a day I would look forward too.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/sealand-and-...
i dont know much about this industry, but I am guessing the delay works to some organizations' advantage. Don't they get to keep the money longer in their accounts and thus have better cash-flow (on paper, at least)?
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The tax system for overseas income is complicated, especially if you hold foreign assets (bank accounts or corporate interest), but the short version is that any income earned as an employee up to ~$95,000 can be excluded. It's called the foreign earned income exclusion.
"Why are we getting signups but nobody willing to beta test?"

1. Your landing page is confusing in my opinion. The concept of persona is not something that everyone will understand easily. You should provide something that shows "how it works" on the landing page. So people might think it is a cool concept but will not beta test since they are not really sure how to go about it or if it is of any use to them.
EDIT: 48 upvotes in an hour and this submission just jumped from top 10 to second page? WTF?

Honestly, the US is the most invasive government in the "free" world I've had the misfortune to encounter.

I can't think of another developed nation that is quite so overbearing when it comes to foreign income. US citizens who haven't been in the US for 40 years and work in other countries STILL need to report their income to the IRS (as an Australian who lives and works in the US, Australia doesn't care about my income as one example).

The reporting requirements on tax residents in the US (citizens and non-citizens) is absurd. If I fail to disclose my retirement account in Australia, established well before ever working in the US, the US government can technically imprison me and charge me a penalty of 300% of the value of that retirement account (all in the name of "fighting terrorism").

What really doesn't sit well with me is the presumption of criminality that exists in US law (actual and enforced). The presumption of innocence seems to be some kind of anecdote in history.

I know I'll never take up US citizenship. No thanks. I'll stick with Australia/Britain (dual citizen) thanks.

In all honesty the only reason I'm even here is because I want to see it (New York in particular) before it's gone. The US reminds me of the crumbling, dying days of the Roman Empire.

Don't get me wrong. There are many great things about the US. Up until WWI, the US opened its doors to those seeking riches, a new life, freedom from religious persecution and any number of other terrible things in the Old World. In the span of a century (1800 to 1900), the US had turned itself from an agrarian backwater into an industrial superpower, a legacy that has lasted until the present day. The US has certainly played a key part in the technological progress of the 20th century.

But now the government seems to consist of self-interested parties who are happy to persecute citizens of every country including its own. It really seems like it's lost its way and I'm not sure how it comes back from that.
Really? I'm no expert, but this seems like a market where it'd be natural for there to be only a few major players, rather than every manufacturer having their proprietary implementations. Why would you build an in-house system rather than buy one? Generally because buying is more expensive in the long run, because you can build a better one, or because keeping the expertise in-house allows for more chances of integration.

The expense idea makes no sense. This is software we're talking about, so the marginal cost is always going to be 0. It's also software that's likely going to have to through very expensive certification procedures to be allowed on the roads (or to be allowed by insurance companies). How could it possibly be economical for a manufacturer with 2% market share to do this on their own?

So could a smallish manufacturer at least build a better one, if not cheaper? It's hard to see why you'd expect that. Maybe if 20 of them tried, a couple of them would end up with a better technology than what could be bought. But even if that's true, it's not going to brighten the day of the remaining 18 manufacturers who ended up with substandard software. There's one obvious exception (regional differences - maybe Japanese drivers have very different preferences from German ones, or something).

Are there any integration benefits from making the software for self driving cars in-house? I can't think of any, but I'm not too familiar with the automotive industry. Maybe there's something obvious I'm missing.

Of course there's no guarantee that even if the future ends up as one of a few major in-house systems and a couple of successful publicly available ones, Google's solution would be one of the successful ones. Still seems like it's worth a shot.
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