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Did you try reading Why Functional Programming Matters [1] ?

[1] http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pd...
Looks a lot like Ingredients

( http://www.fileability.net/ingredients/ )
On the other hand, maybe its just me (which I don't think), but has anyone else noticed that when you get >8.5h of sleep, you're actually less productive the next day? I always feel sluggish the whole day when I get that much sleep.
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Shorter doesn't automatically equal better. Keep the abbreviations where they belong: text messages. All online message board communication seems to be devolving slowly into text message speak and I don't think it is a good thing.
I try to avoid self-referencing, but since it does answer your question, here's my idea creation/testing thought process[1] and a walkthrough of an example I'm currently working on[2].

Joel (of Buffer) also did an awesome write-up of how he validated that idea[3], which is probably the best practice for freemium or subscription ideas.

[1] http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/2011/12/how-i-come-up-with...

[2] http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/2012/02/an-example-of-how-...

[3] http://blog.bufferapp.com/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-week...
>"single, ringable, neck."

You don't "ring" a neck, you wring a neck.

Like one wrings a towel dry.

Take a towel into your hands and wring it dry.

Now imagine a clasping your hands around a neck and doing the same thing.

I've just used a mnemonic trick to prevent you from ever making this mistake again.
> From nowhere to 8 % - that's quite a feat in our slow-moving political landscape.

I actually feel that the slow-moving days are over. The recent rise and fall of the FDP was spectacularly fast too, without anything happening, or the FDP even changing their opinion at all. (The FDP is a libertarian/neocon party with some interest in civil liberties.)
With respect to #1: in countries with a functioning justice system, humane prisons, no death penalty and no insane "three strikes" rules, criminals are more likely to surrender and just accept defeat.
I'm from Finland, maybe I can give some background.

Finland has a high rate of gun ownership due to popularity of hunting and farmers, who use guns to keep unwanted wild animals at bay. In addition to that, there was a fair amount of guns left over from WWII, and there was a well-known case where guns where stashed away to form a resistance militia in case of foreign invasion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_Cache_Case).

In addition to that, Finland's southernmost tip is roughly at 60 degrees northern latitude, roughly at the level of Anchorage, Alaska. That means that 3 months of the year, this is a cold, dark and desolate place where the only thing you can do is get drunk and wave guns at your friends and/or yourself in a state of delirium tremensis.

Also note that firearms-related suicide is far more common than homicide, in that Wikipedia statistic it's about 6 times more suicides than homicides. (The Finns prefer to stab each other and shoot themselves).

It is a very rare occasion that a police officer fires a gun at a person in Finland.
Strange, I would expect this to be part of the Apple developer tools.
It also has a dataflow language, a typed language, a lazy language, etc. Racket is not one language, it's a language family platform (or language laboratory).

Matthias summarized this pretty well[1].

[1] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Thoughts/Racket_is____....
Shooting people directly usually harms only the people being shot. Warning shots have larger probability to harm other people.
There are a lot of great comments here already, but in the event that you'd like to chat with someone who went through EXACTLY this, feel free to shoot me and email at eric.classconnect@gmail.com :)
I think defining broadband access like this allows them to move certain legally required things to the internet age. I believe there are a lot of small laws in Finland that say what the radio channel, newspaper or Tv channel should provide. For example we actually have a law that during icehockey World Championships our own matches should be broadcasted for free.

If enough people legally have access to a broadband internet, its easier to make laws to offering certain services through the internet (certain information delivery, services like taxes and maybe voting in the future).
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You seem to be operating on the assumption that the hiring companies are just "trusting" that we put out good students, when in fact they each have their own rigorous interview processes designed to weed out people who have just read the books from those who actually have the ability to think and solve ambiguous or complicated problems, as well as who have the curiosity and passion to continue their education. At my previous jobs I interviewed quite a few potential hires and didn't find a great deal of correlation between having a degree in CS and their fitness for the position. In fact, those who taught themselves tended to need a lot less ramp-up and hand holding than hires straight out of undergrad--the knowledge sticks a lot better when applied to real world projects.

At DBC we're not just a bunch of opportunists trying to make a quick buck. We're people with advanced degrees in CS and educators who believe that education can be done better, at least when it comes to engineering, and we aim to prove it. We choose students who are eager to make a career switch and who have the right attitude for growth. Zed's right--these people would be successful on their own, but we're giving them a leg up by helping them to make it happen in a few weeks instead of a few years. We're not just training a bunch of script monkeys. We're ramping passionate people up on the tools commonly used in a modern web-based company, as well as giving them the mental resources to solve messy problems and to continue their education once they leave. Not to mention a strong sense of the community they are joining and where they can contribute. They won't be experts, by any means, but they'll be ready to carry their weight as entry-level engineers.
Haven't you answered your own question?

~ No users
~ No revenue
~ No investment
~ No developer founders

Sounds like you know what to do, but you're still in a state of denial.
So basically, you think we shouldn't have welfare because you're not allowed to immigrate to China.
The obvious different is that you don't want to execute arbitrary C code just because a compromised ad network is serving malformed HTML. The ease of attack is much greater on the web.

Mozilla has used "no IE-like privileged mode" as a marketing point in the past. There's obvious benefits, but I hope any modern browser is going to be careful about the sandbox is implemented.
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The US government does a pretty good job of discouraging that sort of thing these days.
So you in your opinion it's better to shoot to kill a person than to give a fair warning that they mean business, where there is a slight, near non-existent, chance of bystanders getting hurt or killed.

I would agree with you if they were using high powered rifles with armour piercing rounds, but most shots fired by police are from hand guns.

When I was enlisted we were trained to fire warningshots in the ground or something hard in near proximity of the target. This way you knew that your bullet would land within a visible area that you would be able to make sure was reasonably safe.
Yes.

The. War. On. Drugs.
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"He adds that the agencies also use the review process to get up to speed on fast-moving industries they may not fully understand."

Wonderful. Private business picks up the government's tab for training?
In my opinion a gun is a measure of last resort, to only be used when nothing else is possible.

A gun is a lethal weapon, and it is used to kill. When a gun is used the shooter has to be thinking that someone needs to be killed.

"Warning shots" carry the risk of injuring / killing innocent people. They also carry a risk of injuring / killing the criminal. That risk is unacceptable.

Warning shots mean that guns are used before they absolutely have to be used. But if warning shots are needed why not have one officer armed with a blank-firing pistol?
Well, many psychopaths aren't drugged and end up in jail. I don't see any potential for good there.
Not really into high speed javascript, but wouldn't you be able to achieve the same kind of memory reuse by simply using factory methods patterns that would reuse object instance from a pool instead of reallocating ?
It's the same kind of tricks we use in ios / android programming when we want to avoid memory allocation or garbage collections...
"By the end of the next decade" means "never" in NASA-manned-spaceflight-speak.

NASA needs to be much much bolder in their planning. Set ambitious goals one relatively short timeframes. Then this stuff might actually happen.
lived for 3 years in germany; i was extremely clubbing. Forget shooting you don't see much fighting neither. In comparison, in my one year in England, I witnessed 5 club fights, and in Russia two gun fights. It seems mostly an attitude of the society towards violence and guns. On the other side, in Germany, you frequently see your neighbor calling the police if you make some noise.
Can the history of the universe be compressed into a 4K program?
Meanwhile, in my country, regular people can't have anything better than 128kb (it's the law).
I tried to find similar figures for the UK, but could not. Best I could find was:

"From 1990 to 2011, police shot dead 53 people"
> http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/dec2011/riot-d27.shtml
Yea, most BSD guys I know are also fans of Apple; iOS and Macs on desktop rather than GNU or Linux and Clang is supported by Apple for license reasons.
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http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/about-us/non-perso...

Suggests that police in England and Wales discharge firearms in ~ 6 incidents a year.

(updated: UK -> England and Wales)
German here. I believe this is because power is balanced on a level of low escalation.

The threshold for firing a weapon is rather high for law enforcement and criminals know this. They also know that pulling a gun or even firing at an officer when things go wrong will easily add 10 years to their sentence. As a result, most chases and arrests are not a life-threatening situation.

Let me illustrate this with a story: My neighbor had a break-in, the alarm went off and the burglar was caught in the act. Burglar pepper sprays my neighbor, her friend and two police officers and escapes via the roof. Police officers had their guns drawn but wouldn't use them. Burglar knew this and didn't bring a gun of his own in the first place. Everybody lives.
There is an extremely interesting podcast episode about that topic. I recommend it to everybody who is interested in a scientific discussion of this topic:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszon...

From the transcript:

So we all start by mimicking but by the time we are adults we can tell why rape is wrong. Rape is wrong because of the horrible suffering that it inflicts on the victim. And psychopaths, even when they're adults, will say 'of course rape is wrong', they don't really understand that it's wrong or why it's wrong. They are just saying that because other people have told them that and it helps them get along in society to mimic.
If you control when the reboot happens, you will plan something for it. What I think is absolutely necessary in our lives, even for those at Google, is a significant amount of unplanned events, unexpected experiences, or any other occasion to prove to yourself, to feel deeply inside, that you are not a robot.

Maybe it is personal, maybe it is cultural, or maybe it isn't: I don't like (an understatement) fully planned trips where you are told "the 8th of July at 10:45, you will get an artistic ecstasy in fron of the Taj-Mahal, the 9th [...]". I won't work on anything that has no risk to be hard to control and nothing unexpected can happen. I don't mind if my PC has to be off for 10 minutes.

("Disclaimer": I live in China, not in Switzerland.)
I think a slight clarification would be in order here: motivation and attitude are huge weighting factors in our selection process, but another important part is that we feel you can learn enough in ten weeks to be able to get a job. This doesn't require any programming skill, and the bulk of our students have little to none, but we definitely look for problem solving ability. Anyone can learn to code, everyone should. Just not everybody can learn it in ten weeks. As we nail down the curriculum and improve our teaching we'll probably take on more challenging students, and move closer to the goal of assessing students based on attitude alone.
While useful, there are a few implications

1) security

a) I won't trust you with my API keys

b) If you get hacked, ANY javascript can be executed on my pages

2) scalability - how much traffics can you handle?

3) I can implement your service with a 3-line PHP script. Why would I use your service?
Indeed; all police are trained in martial arts of some sort; disarming someone with a knife is usually easy. If you have been trained, you can see if your assailant is trained as well by how he holds the knife and the way he looks, moves and runs/walks. I'm talking knife here, not tree branch.

Then you have (again, you are trained) the option to shoot him in the head, heart, stomach all of which are usually quite lethal OR you can hit the leg, knee, shoulder, arm. Why use LETHAL force? Actually, in almost all cases of police violence in the US; why did they use lethal force and not just cap someone's knee? Unless the person is on PCP (or a zombie; note that in Resident Evil when the first zombies come in, they first shoot in the knee; it's obvious right? Basic training?) (which, tiring to say, you can see if you are trained) she/he will drop their weapon (even guns mind you) if their knee is capped or shoulder is pulverized...
Because he's employee #1. I bet he's thinking there's some great way to come out on top, like "Tell them that you now require 40% equity to continue, 55% of voting rights, immediate cliff, and that if this is more than they can do you must now pursue other options". Well, sorry, there's nothing like that that you can do and 'come out on top.' Just cut your losses. :(
Given the fact that the parents don't seem abusive at all and their other two kids seem to turn out normal, a brain defect would be a much better explanation.
It is a well known fact for decades, sleep, REM sleep has a major role in sleep. Not only in neurophysiology but by the broader science audience and I am surprised by the title "Surprising" indeed.
I'd be surprised if many users type it twice. I always copy from the first to the second and wonder why the form designer has bothered.
I have been working on getting a quite complex C++ code base (3M+ LOC) with heavy template use to compile on clang. Along the way, I have found many violations of the C++ standard that GCC silently accepts, several obscure GCC features that clang does not support, and up to now filed three clang bug reports.

The project compiles now, but the resulting executable is still not passing basic regression tests :)

I think our codebase has been depending for too long on just one compiler, and clang C++ support isn't perfect yet. (FreeBSD has mostly C code which is very stable). I will keep pushing to get it all working :)
We're actually not counting you towards the total. Here's hoping your assessment goes well, though.
I sounds like you're the one with the most to lose, and on top of that a none technical CTO?! you sound like you should be the CTO as you're the one developing.

My opinion you should move on, end of the day it's your life you shouldn't waste it with unfocused individuals friends or otherwise, they're probably treating the star-up as a hobby.
> Linus

Linus' ultimate plan for Linux. Replace brain with Linux. Circle complete. Spleen still uses binary blob for driver. Open-source attempt to recreate it called Splouveau.
Sometimes magic is necessary but these slides right here contain some serious voodoo.

That said I've used monkey patching before which can be quite useful when you don't want to change the underlying library too much but don't want to make a complete fork. Specifically I've monkey patched methods onto the User model in Django.
Aw come on, if HN's UI would be "advanced"[0] enough that it would collapse low-scoring comments[1], it would actually make sense to downvote this. But now it just seems petty.

[0] you know, like Reddit.

[1] or if its HTML wouldn't be so horrid to make me give up in despair every time I think to script myself such a thing (as none of the existing 3rd party solutions seem to have gone through the trouble of testing on Opera)
> > So they don’t develop the same aversion to punishment or to the experience of hurting someone.”

> That's not true at all.

So you are not a psychopath.
Below 10yards a knife can be more dangerous than a gun. There is a video of a mentally ill brasilian with a machete sorrounded by 4 armed officers. He goes bersech and kills one or two and wounds the others, all without recieving a shot. Even if you shot someone but is not an incapacitating shot, it is possible that the attacker could inflict severe injuries on the cop. This is the reason of the huge quantities of shots to a single suspect in USA (better sorry than dead is the way they think about it). For example one famous case in florida, where an injured ( by a shot fired by an officer) suspect was able to kill 3 or 4 FBI agents( they changed the caliber from 9mm to .40 after this incident to increase the stopping power). So now they are encouraged to shot till the suspect doesn't move any more (15 shots or more).
Here in Spain is very extrange for police to have to shoot. But I don't think is only due to the restrictions of the police( very similar to the german ones). I think that the felons know that even if they are arrested and condemned, they are not going to spend a long time in prison (prison sentences are not very long, some time they seem a joke), and therefore it doesn't make sense ot worsen the charges by atacking or murdering someone. Also jails in Spain have a very open system of benefits and permits for good behaviour.

IMHO police violence is reactive to crime violence, which is reactive to punishment toughtness. Is a growing violence spiral that can be stoped if there is a change in the way punishment is understood ( after all you must grand an honorable exit even to your worst enemy).
Some reasons would be:

* Every field you add to a form reduces the number of people who complete it -- as it gets longer, more people will go "ugh, big form, not worth it" and click away the moment they see it.

* Autocomplete usually provides my email address for me, so asking twice is pointless; when it doesn't, I usually copy-and-paste from one email box to the other, and I'm not alone in doing so (see elsewhere in these comments).

* "These email addresses don't match" leaves the user to play hunt-the-typo hirself, while the submission's approach points hir straight at the (possible) error. I guess you could highlight the differences with the double-entry approach too, but suggesting plausible corrections remains easier for the user.
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I disagree, as a warningshot is usually followed with lethal shots within seconds. You basically give them one last chance, if the circumstances allow for it (!), to lay down the weapon.
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Same goes for ads. It's very irritating on the eyes.
In the Netherlands you have to, before you are even allowed to shoot at someone, point the gun in the air, call out "Halt or i'll shoot!" and shoot in the air which you have to repeat 3 times. We had some hilarious TV about that.
From this argument "Lisp" is a portable idea... and much as I love Lisp (and I do :-) it doesn't seem to have been a very portable outside of the kind of people who love Lisp.
Yes, indeed. JetBrains uses a closed source model and that works really well (they have a "lite" open source version, but the version they earn money from is closed source). I'm not saying that you shouldn't do support at all, just that it shouldn't be your primary business model.
It is based on the official apple documentation, but it's trying to provide a different interface to the one built into the IDE Xcode. In my experience it's significantly faster to use.
Is that really the case?

The chance of someone being injured by a "warning shot" is essentially the proportion of the ground surface which is occupied by a person. Unless you're in a crowded area, this is very low - in fact I would think it's less likely than a bystander being struck by a horizontally-fired bullet that misses its intended target.
Linkbaity headline for an article that (rightly) goes on to slam pretty much every conclusion Lehrer comes to in his book. I haven't read this book, but it's unfortunate that the "Gladwell technique" still pretty much guarantees a best seller. Great storytelling, but usually pointless or factually incorrect stories.
fyi, article is 3 years old
One of the best educational tips I got as a teen was to write down my math problems (things I didn't grasp) in the evening and read them after waking up in the weekend. Suddenly you're hit with a series of "aha"-moments and problems get solved in minutes. Tiredness has an enormous impact on your problem-solving skills.
I don't really understand why you'd move a tech business to somewhere where there's famously a shortage of tech talent? Sure the pool of engineers in London may be smaller, but so's the demand surely?
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Hmm. I work with Eclipse a lot, but this is not just visual. Maybe I use something different but the way of organizing your methods on screen and the actual live coding I don't have in Eclipse. We're not talking 'debug' here; we're talking live coding. Did you check videos like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XUWpze_A_s If you can do that with Eclipse & Android, please tell me how because then I have been stupid (which is very possible: I haven't changed my toolchain in a while).
London does not really have anything that you could describe as a ghetto.
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