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Limiting use of resources should not be humanity's main ambition. Encouraging human creativity - which buying new things does - is more important, in my view, than minimising use of resources. It is only this generation's environmentalist mindset that make such a big issue of resource use, at the cost of almost anything else.

Having said that, I am not saying that people should not repair stuff - people can do what they want. I was just pointing to the benefits of buying new things, which has somehow become a contentious issue nowadays. Hence, the downvotes...
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Thanks for the ideas. In my experience, press releases don't do anything. There's just a million of them, and the only ones that get picked up by the mainstream are probably ones with lots of novelty value.

I could add a couple more puzzles in an update, but in terms of reach, I can't monetize people who have already purchased an unlock, and if they haven't already purchased the app, they probably won't despite the update (just a guess). I might get some sort of app ranking boost from the people that update, so I suppose that might be worth it.

In the case of building flash / web assets, I'd have to go out and build those and then promote them as well. An incredible amount of work where my goal was just trying to drive app downloads + unlock upgrades. I don't think such an indirect path is feasible when I make only $1.99 on a purchase. Like I said, app marketing is goofy :(
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This is why the round trip between source-code and parse tree is so great. Say branch A adds a call to foo(), and branch B swaps out foo() for foo_nolock(). You can tell from the round trip on branch A that there was a new reference to foo(). Then in branch B you can tell that the implementation of foo() has changed.

I'm not sure how you would represent such a conflict. A valid way to resolve it would be to tell the DVCS, "You dummy, this isn't a conflict, the author of branch B obviously wanted to change foo() for every call-site, even those he didn't know about." The normal diff-file syntax of "this branch added these lines, that branch removed those lines" wouldn't work.
I agree with all comments made thus far. I also believe that CodeCademy will have lessons coming soon that will incorporate both Javascript and HTML/CSS.

I am creating my own site which I launched last month. http://codeavengers.com

I found many of the lessons in CodeCademy were not that effective. You had to do a lot of reading and often only needed to cut and paste to pass the task.

I am trying to create lessons that are both suitable in difficulty for high school students and are also FUN and EFFECTIVE.

I do not have lessons that integrate Javascript and HTML yet, but I plan to... Would love any feedback!
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Call it what you want but the web is a way better development environment for UIs than anything else. If the device isn't mobile, speed isn't an issue. The only reason web apps are lackluster now is for speed reasons. I have developed my companies app in HTML5 for the iPad using Phonegap. Speed is good on the iPad 3 but alpha layers had to be turned off because the blending put too much strain on the processor/gfx card. Also transitions are a bit iffy, glitchy, and not as fast as I hoped they could be. However, when I run my app straight from Safari or Chrome on my Macbook, super fast, almost insane speed, and the webkit transitions look damn nice, on par with most things I've seen from Cocoa and Windows UI Animation toolkits. The reason why HTML apps are so slow is because these engines were built originally for static pages, the codebases can't instantly be transformed to be super optimized for dynamic, animating, heavily sized, heavily routined(setTimeout) content but they have been releasing a lot of performance updates so things look optimistic for HTML apps.
Well, it's gone public now, it's tainted. I'm already receiving "You sleazy bastard. :)" mails.
This doesn't make any sense at all. You could easily defeat such a countermeasure by putting an IR filter over your lens. Dunno about camcorders, but usually DSLRs have such filters built-in to prevent IR from contaminating the sensor's input.
I don't know, there are some other pretty compelling examples out there already.

The application I like most is programming languages--not just compilers and interpreters but also various tools and analysis. I think quite a lot of software related to languages gets written in functional languages, and in my experience Haskell is much better for that sort of thing than Python or JavaScript. I've actually written very similar interpreters in all three languages so I think I have a particularly useful perspective here.

Another field is web development. There was an article recently about Yesod's being as productive as Rails; I think a functional language would be a safe choice for your next web app.

I think there has even been some 3D modelling software written in a functional language--Wings3D is written in Erlang unless I'm much mistaken.

I haven't really been paying much attention to other fields--all my time recently has been spent almost equally between language stuff and web stuff--but I think there are other cases where functional programming is a fairly safe choice that are not just calculations.

Coincidentally, I doubt that we will see Photoshop or a word processor in a functional language any time soon. Not because functional languages are particularly unsuitable but because word and image processing software is rather big, boring and requires a lot of specialized knowledge; I imagine the intersection between "functional programming enthusiasts" and "word processor enthusiasts" is not very big. In fact, most of the people I know who like functional programming use something like LaTeX rather than a word processor and don't do much image manipulation either.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window.

If person A throws away his widget which could have been repaired for $2 and buys a new, identical widget for $10 his balance sheet shows $10 of assets (scenario A). If person B repairs his widget, he now has a widget worth $10 plus the $8 cash he saved - his balance sheet shows $18 of assets. Thus, person A destroyed $8 of assets by behaving irrationally/inefficiently.

One may say person A's frenzied purchasing of widgets drives R&D dollars into the development of better widgets. A good counter-argument is that it was more important to develop things other than widgets and that by focusing so much on accelerating widget development scenario A forsook technological progress in more productive areas.

We saw this happen with the construction industry across the developed world siphoning dollars and talent away from other areas that would have produced more long-term benefit.
It'd be really great if you guys had an implementation of Friedman's Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines[1]. For me, this is the only R package left for which I don't have a Python alternative.

[1] http://www.salford-systems.com/doc/MARS.pdf
So you send ~50 mail every (working) day?
Could your sheer volume skew the result?
(as in: spam people and they start to ignore you, put someone on CC and they have reason to believe it's worth reading?)
Very cool experiment, kudos, and i can see why it works. But did you actually say in the emails "ccing my assistant?"

Even if you didn't i am not sure how legal it would be. Just by ccing someone, you mislead the other party, eg that you have someone else in your company. Of course the argument for "don't use for important emails" is invalid, why you can mislead some and not others?

And when in doubt, i say no.
You should try different names and titles for the assistant as well:

- Instead of Alex, what about Sarah (?)?

- Instead of a standard name, what about a noble rank / recognizable surname (+?)?

- Instead of CEO assistant, what about personal assistant (-?), accountant (+?), future candidate of CEO (+?)

What about varying the person(s) involved depending on the type of project? If it's a issue of numbers, involve some accountant. If it's about coding, involve a senior coder, if it's about direction of the company, involve a imaginary future board member. The possibilites are endless - just make sure you don't get caught lest you want people to think you have some kind of disorder.

Just the idea of having someone else looking over your shoulder could increase the conscientiousness a lot and keep people on their toes. If this got to become the mainstream way of doing things in some subcommunity it would be horrible though.
That is something. I wonder if there is a similar law to protect my Internet privacy from my boss in the Netherlands.
It has the same level of obnoxiousness as paydirt's to be fair.
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There are already "national Internets". This is just the nature of the beast, the Internet being mostly decentralized.

And btw, when it comes to net neutrality, I don't think it's such a good idea, because I'm a firm believer in a free market and government regulations only hinder competition.

Net neutrality may be a solution in the U.S. where monopolies are a bigger issue and where you don't have much choice in regards to your net provider depending on location, but in Europe the competition is pretty tough.

For instance people criticized the net neutrality proposal pushed by Google because it exempts mobile providers, however in my country there are 3 major carriers (plus a couple of smaller ones), each of them with mostly the same network coverage, each of them with 3G data plans, each of them operating on the same standards and compatible frequencies. Also under our law, you can always interrupt a contract, the only penalty being that you have to give back the subsidized amount for the remaining period (e.g. the price of the phone minus the initial price, divided by 24 and multiplied by the number of remaining months), but if you have a contract with no subsidy, there are no penalties involved. And since you can also move your number from one carrier to another, there is absolutely no lock-in effect, other than the bureaucracy involved. Also, for locked phones, the carrier must unlock it for free once the subsidy is paid.

The competition is pretty though, and the PrePay plans here would make you jealous ;-) And in my area I also have not less than 3 major broadband providers which are national, so the same arguments hold for landlines.

In this light, in the context of cut-throat competition, yet another government regulation simply does not make sense.
This is interesting because you're saying recipients are opening the mail and then choosing whether or not to reply after they read it. This shows e-mails are not just sitting unread.

I always figured that it was the subject line that mattered most and that once a mail was opened it was more likely they would reply.

I've experimented with improving e-mail structure. I always get a more detailed reply if I group any questions I want answering together as the final part of the mail.
But please don't lay down the torch of dark backgrounds :)
Largely, what I need is integration with JAGS http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/ which is a niche that pymc fills. I am working on a PR to get in the other stuff I need.

I bring up R more as a point that there is more to a library than supporting lots of algorithms. R wins by that metric http://www.cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_package...
I'm not convinced new things is the best way to encourage creativity: consider buying a new (factory-produced, line) car vs. a cheap repair plus commissioning a nice painting.

(I think scarce vs. abundant resources is too big a topic for a HN comment thread; suffice to say that I disagree, especially with the notion that we "make such a big issue of resource use, at the cost of almost anything else.")
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I send mails every (week) day, and favor it in front of any other form of business communication.

I've sent 17 since I've started this thread.
Yes and on top of that a lot of products are "designed for assembly" which often means using parts that 'click' together, instead of using screws. This means they're fast to assemble, but almost impossible to take apart again, making repairs overly difficult and costly.
Good for them.

I'm a firm believer that everything can be repaired cost effectively. You just have to know what you are doing, know when to give up, know how to spot a lemon and start from the right end of the problem. That is the art.

The main trick is to start with the broken item, not an item that you paid full price for and broke...

i.e. I don't mean buying a $1000 item new and when it breaks spend $200 on fixing it.

I mean buying a $100 broken item to start with and spending $200 fixing it, resulting in not spending that extra $700 on the new item in the first place.

Despite the cost of repair in cash and time, the gain usually runs in favour of your own time, satisfaction and knowledge. It also makes you less of a slave to the credit facilities which when you consider interest, results in a lot of time spend earning to pay back.

I will repair anything and everything rather than buy new.

My latest win: Sony Bravia 26EX smart OLED TV. Paid 25GBP as it was completely dead and just out of warranty. 30 mins diagnostics with a Fluke multimeter (which cost me 10GBP that I repaired) pointed to duff PSU. 30 mins on the Tektronix scope (which cost me 30GBP that I repaired) pointed to a problem with a VRM. Replaced VRM in PSU from Farnell order (12GBP incl delivery) - was a bit fiddly as it was an SMD component. Works fine now and the kids have a nice TV.

Also don't buy any old consumer junk. If you can't remove the battery it's not likely to want to be repaired (yes you Apple).
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GOD you are damn right on this one. Dubbing studios in Japan are just horrible. Honestly i dont understand how Japan can both have excellent voice over studios for animation and extremely bad ones for western movies. There s something deeply wrong going on there.
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After it became apparent by parlement representitives they probably had to pay "chatheffing" - chattax, this law was reality quite fast.

It's pretty hopefull the law passed senate unanimously.
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They didn't. They sold it to Avos.
Apple stores can be found all around the world.

This is only true if you consider "the world" to mean the US (~2/3 of all Apple stores) and a handful of major cities in each of just 12 other countries [1]. Most of Apple's sales and servicing are done through third-party retailers. There's zero incentive for Apple itself to get into the rental/servicing business. They can just churn out another 100 million iPods, iPhones and MacBooks every year, take their known profit margin and leave all of the low margin after sales to someone else.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Retail_Store
Well you're not sticking the phone inside yourself are you?
No, no e-mail sent nor received had any mention of Alex in any way outside him being in Cc.

I hardly believe it's at all illegal to have an e-mail address in Cc field, even if it's imaginary. E-mail isn't Facebook. :)
> No mention of equity.

This does not mean anything - mentioning this upfront would give you time to think whether the deal is fair.

People who want you to sign a bad contract won't state this upfront. I'd rather expect something along the lines "Oh yeah and we also need your signature on this" after you have already invested your time and it seems rude to refuse those people who were so nice to you.
For some movies i dont mind doing what you recommend, but for avengers theres no way i will settle with watching it at home. The same thing happened with Drive last year (its only out NOW in Japan) and that really pisses me off.
When was that exactly? I've been around for about a year and half, and vaguely remember it. I think it was about a year ago. Is it right or my poor memory is playing tricks on me?
Dude nice app, but can you add a quickview button/quickview spacebar binding, so that I can check the whats in my dragondrop.

Also, maybe bloat but can u add plug-in system so we can have things like a right click with send to twitter, imgur, pastebin, etc?

im sure you can think long and hard about a better user experience than a right click, maybe whatever 'providers' you choose can appear as a logo to the right of the main dragondrop box, and you can drop on them if u want to upload to them. Or if you drop it in the regular dragondrop box, u can just click on the relevant logo.

Also can you add a buffer of say the last 10 or so items copied, like a stack. That way if i am composing something i can chuck a load of things in dragondrop then yank them back in reverse order, or all at once.

Oh yeah and maybe can do other stuff with this buffer, like zipping if its a loada files. You can then drag the zipped file off, or concatenating PDFs if its a load of pdfs. Or uploading an imgur album if its a load of pictures. Watch out for that bloat :p

Anyways just some ideas man, good luck great app. I'm sure it can be even better!
it all makes sense now. sincerely, alex@gmail.com
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This is getting off-topic for Hacker News, but you need some legislation to maintain the parameters of a free market. Net neutrality is the fair basis of an online market.
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Nice article, but you failed to focus one of the real co-authors of Kind of Blue: Bill Evans. There would be no "Kind of Blue" or Miles Davis without Bill Evans. You can even say "Kind of Blue" is a Evans' LP by how much his influence on composition and arrangement is strong, how his "impressionist" way of playing is permeating everything... One of most underrated musicians ever.
Agree with hoovers. I nicked a Dyson DC07 out of a skip. It cost me 30GBP in bits and has done me for about 5 years now :)

WRT computers, it depends on the computers and the availability of spares. You're screwed if you have a Mac as the parts are expensive due to scarcity. if you buy Lenovo, you can get every individual part on ebay for very little and they have published FRM and diagnostic manuals which are very good. An overheating T61 will cost me 15GBP including investigation...

(Sitting here on a recycled 2007 Lenovo T61).
>A place where I can come in and say "I have $100, I want to buy 80 euros", and you say "I have 100 euros, I want $130", and we'd find each other

Sort of like what you do with an FX trading account? You wouldn't have to pay the spread. Of course the price could slip against you while you wait, which is why most hedgers just pay a market maker (MM) to take that risk.

Or, if you think the spread is so sinister, you can go and make a market on the spread as well. There are upstarts doing this all the time, once again laying waste to the claim of banks having a stranglehold on the FX market.

>...rather than force us to let the bank...pocket the spread. It works for stocks, it works for futures, it works for commodities.

You pay the spread to an MM on all of these. Plus a commission to your broker which includes a commission to the exchange. If you trade a stock on the NYSE you always trade with specialists; on NASDAQ you only mostly trade with MMs.

The reason there isn't a currencies exchange is because there are a number of de-centralised, inter-linked currency trading venues in place. It would be more expensive to trade FX on a stock-exchange model.

>FX, which is dominated by the banks

You seem to have a faith-based conviction on this, so I'm not going to argue it any further. The currency markets are one of the most efficient, i.e. fair, markets on the planet. As a former trader at a multi-trillion dollar Swiss bank I can say with supreme confidence that you're far off the mark in that charge.

P.S. The currency markets work like Craigslist, except where there are tons and tons of Craigslists that are constantly talking to each other and that everyone is always connected to.

Note: there are banks that have a strangle on the FX market. Central banks. And the market still runs away from even them. Trust in the fact that if there was any pinch point in the FX markets the central banks would have found it.
"Encouraging human creativity - which buying new things does"

Citation needed/please explain.
For your statistic to be relevant, the experiment has to be blind: You must not know to which recipients you're sending the CC-enhanced version.

Then, the name of the CC-ed recipient may be important, so you have to do this experiment with multiple "imaginary assistant emails", trying out different variations of names (male/female, first-name/full-name).
Simplest case: custom control structures.

In JavaScript, a broadly comparable language, I mainly use anonymous functions for event handling and map/each/fold. They are also useful for implementing more advanced code like arrows cleanly.

In a lot of ways the anonymous function in these cases is more akin to a block than a named function--it's only used once and in a very clear place. Having to name my click and onload handlers would make the code more confusing.

Coincidentally, this brings me to something that annoys me in both languages: lambdas are too verbose. Having much simpler and more concise lambda syntax (I'm personally a fan of Haskell's \ x -> x because it looks like a lambda if you squint) would make a lot of common idioms more readable and would encourage wider use of custom control abstractions, which can significantly improve code.

Amusingly I don't find myself using lambda syntax nearly as much in Haskell despite the fact that it looks really nice. A surprising amount of the time simple point-free code is all that's needed, and anything too complex gets moved into a where clause. But Haskell is not really comparable with JavaScript/Python at all.