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Agree with your first two points, especially in the comparison to NYC. They're just not comparable from the outset--NY is way bigger (469 sq miles and 8+ million residents, while Boston is 90 sq miles and 600,000 residents).

But I'd say bar closing time is a real issue. I hate having to end my nights at 2, especially if I have to cab it back anyway because the T isn't running.

Actually, that's what I'd say the biggest issue with Boston is--the T service. Not only does it suck when it is running, it doesn't even run when I need it the most. The MBTA is very poorly-managed and many hundreds of millions of dollars in debt (very few actual improvements to the system are done because of this; it will take the MBTA until ~2050 to pay back all its debts under the current structure assuming it incurs no other expenditures)
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The future of my childhood had fusion power, strong AI and bases on multiple planets.

However, no Internet.
Imagine someone explaining a new feature in their web framework while all the time taking time out to explain the concept of arrays, dictionaries, list comprehensions, URL routing, MVC etc. This may be a great idea for a book aimed at beginners though it would be frustrating for experienced programmers to have to constantly revisit basic concepts. Assuming the reader to have a solid background allows the author to concentrate on the novel thing they are trying to show.

Also historically some journals have restrictions on paper length, which increases the incentive to cut the idea down to the essential, novel material.
I also find it odd that the masthead for the blog is a 737KB PNG...I don't know why you wouldn't use a JPG - at a high quality level it's virtually indistinguishable and 1/4 of the size.

It's a little pedantic, but if you're going to talk about how sites should be lightweight and then use a sizeable PNG image you're sort of opening yourself up for criticism.
> That's not user friendly customization

1) You were arguing in your original post that the default is good for a target audience of non-power users, but not for power users. However, power users should be able to go through the dead-simple extension two-click installation process. So you're contradicting yourself.

> Couldn't this be a simple checkbox integrated natively into GNOME 3 instead of a third party download?

http://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html "The question of preferences"

> Why is the accessibility menu there by default in the first place if very few people are going to use it?

It's just an icon, no one has to click it. But it's there for those who need it. Why make it harder for them while others have no loss with the icon being there? And everybody will need it at some point in his life.

3) e.g.o is not meant as app store. Extensions are not intended to be apps.

3b) Automatic updating: it's coming with Gnome 3.6. Source code: You can see the source code of every extension under .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/. It's plain JavaScript.

> Is it curated or can anyone upload malware there?

Extensions go through a review process. You could have figured that out by looking at https://extensions.gnome.org/about/ "Are GNOME Shell Extensions safe?"

4) Power users and extension developers do not want to wait for the next distro release in order to have fun. Same rationale for browser extensions.

5) https://extensions.gnome.org/about/ "Are GNOME Shell Extensions safe?"

6) It's not a random download. It's from the official Gnome project site and subject to a review process.
Thank you. I'll do that.
Referring to the toy example from the article: Without »weak« purity, renderScene() could not be pure at all, but now, it can even be »strongly« so.

The point is that it enables some function to be pure in the traditional sense even if their implementation relies on mutating data – any idea how I could make this more clear?
Gibson's early novels are very much under the spell of classic hardboiled detective fiction. He claims to favor Dashiell Hammett while disliking Raymond Chandler, but if you read The Big Sleep and Neuromancer in parallel it's clear Chandler was a significant influence. They have the same strengths (e.g. style) and the same weaknesses (e.g. plotting).

> They aren't only inaccessible but actually off putting to anyone but a dedicated reader.

Can't really agree with this, but I'm not sure how to respond without sounding like an elitist prick. If someone made the same comment about, say, functional programming languages, wouldn't you say it's not so much a matter of them being inaccessible and off-putting as simply different? And isn't there some value -- a lot of value, actually -- in those differences?
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Though those in C-level and sales-focused positions do not always understand the need, every project I have ever worked on has benefited greatly from a thorough pre-production process.

It is the ready-shoot-aim projects that are the greatest victims of these issues, even though we are always told to ship, ship, ship!
Wait until a professional engineer review the version and publish it on piratebay. Probably the process on downloading, and make it work on your machine, is faster through piratebay than from the official webpage.
They could at least run the PNG through a png compressor and shave 91kb off the size (tested on pngout) and without any loss in quality. Would save a lot of bytes over time...
I've noticed that, and have been taking advantage of it. Any downside to using `this`, besides potential scoping issues?
You should try relaxing a bit more, this seems like an incredibly silly thing to get worked up about. There are plenty of legitimate things in the world to get angry about - object serialisers are not one of them.

IMHO, aggressive comments that contain nothing but sarcasm are not welcome here. Let's try and keep the place a bit friendly (or at least grown-up and professional), even if we disagree. If you are going to be sarcastic, at least have the decency to make an interesting point at the same time.

> When was Crockford elected to set the rules for programmers and why wasn't I given a vote?

Crockford was obviously not "elected" in any official sense. However, he produced something that the programming language needed, and it very quickly became a standard. Have you ever used JSON in a project? Then you implicitly voted for JSON and, by extension, Crockford.

> Oh, he was never elected? Why the fuck should I care about what one man thinks then?

Because the rest of the industry has decided that JSON's benefits outweigh its downsides, and using it is a net positive. JSON is not perfect, but it solves an annoying problem rather elegantly.
:) Well, there are rules, (official and unofficial) guidelines and "best practices". The first two, you can't break them, but you can break the third and still be in the App Store. I think an annoying direct channel falls in the third category. I've seen many apps/games do it. Two of them (of top of my head) are blockbusters and have sold tens of millions of copies combined: Doodle Jump & Jetpack Joyride. So, yes, you can do it and still be in the App Store.
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> People hate on Google Apps

Really?

Do you know of any other (free) options out there with comparable options? I really only use the hosted email, but other features are always handy
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Just for the record, I think you should have used `encodeURIComponent` instead of `encodeURI`. And in `exports.info` as well.
i think that's not right. see [1] from 2009 for a figure on haskell adoption.

(but you are right, in that adoption plays a crucial role in adoption ;).)

[1]: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/paper...
The articles calling this a "Europe" or "EU law" are disingenuous. The EU issued a directive. It's up to the individual countries to implement the directive. So here's what happened:

http://www.dlapiper.com/files/Uploads/Documents/DLA_Piper%20...

Quite a few countries chose an opt-out system, which appears to be workable. Quite a few (most?) countries are still debating what to do or are intentionally or unintentionally dragging their feet (this is very typical).

The UK chose an extremely strict opt-in system, which is complete bullshit and unworkable in practise.

Now, I know it's "de rigeur" for the UK to blame Europe each time something bad happens, but in this case they only have their local government to blame. So please, stop calling this a European problem and tell it like it is: it's a UK problem brought onto them by a stupid government. The sooner the people of the UK realize they have their elected officials to blame, the sooner this can get fixed.
[2] > shutdown is hidden by default behind the modifier key Alt

Don't you have a hardware button on your machine? Why not shut it down the same way you turned it on?

[4] > PHP a "fractal of bad design". GNOME 3's shell is certainly a fractal of bad design.

No, "fractal" is referring to the PHP syntax and API being overly complex and frayed. Gnome is the opposite of complex. Adding more options, however, would certainly make it a "fractal" (think KDE control center and apps)
For some reason I thought this would be about PDF parsing on the client -- actually it's just somebody complaining that some eCommerce site takes so long to load that it's faster to download and read their PDF brochure offline.

Who cares?
This thread is the second reason why HN still outclasses everyone else.

I have just got a better perspective on the Euro crisis than all the newspapers and tv of recent weeks. I never knew the debt delegation issue had been happening.

I would like to know how we can see the total level of debt for each country. If we can find a reliable source let's put it on wikipedia :-)
Munich is the most polluted German city, also, fun fact, city with the slowest average speed in EU (at least some time ago) because of traffic jams.
By default the accessibility options - should be very.. ahem.. accessible. For good reason. But yes, have the option somewhere to turn it off, if it really does bother you.
It's 2012, and I'm using a lousy hotel wi-fi shared by 503 guests that takes me back to 1997 connection speeds.

No wonder PDF is the solution. Sure, sites should be optimized to the fullest extent possible and probably even detect connection speeds and offer a low bandwidth version (are there libraries for this already?) when appropriate; but that's a huge amount of work (and money) for what basically are outliers (I wouldn't expect many people to browse the Campers site from a lousy wi-fi in Bangkok)
Yes, we must be careful to use it sparingly and only in the extreme cases that could result in many negative reviews.

A real world example of how this can ruin your rating:

I use a text editor on OS X called 'Mellel'[1], which is available both in Mac App Store and as a direct purchase. It's excellent and supports RTL languages (Persian, in my case) better than any other text editor. There was a bug on OS X 10.7.4 that caused the cursor to disappear. It was a simple bug and the developers issued a notification to all non-App Store customers (they obviously have their emails) on how to remedy this issue, but it took them like 10 days to update the app on MAS, causing a few negative reviews.

[1]: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mellel/id415467848?mt=12
Except that (good) code is written to be read, and to be understood - and not
be terse and cryptic, just so that people writing it have less to do. That's
essentially what most math texts do. I don't want math to be prose, but often,
a little more verbosity or communication of intent would be nice. Just like
good comments and documentation. In CS, this is universally accepted as good
style, and for very good reasons - and for the same reasons, it should be in
math, as well.
I wish he still wrote science fiction. His last book was pretty much about fashion.
These "dumb rules" are one of the main reasons that, by some people's quality metric, the Valley is such a great place to live (if you can afford it, of course). Oakland, San Jose (at least the downtown area), and San Francisco all have pretty high density. Some people like cities, but I think most people would prefer, all else being equal, to live in Portola Valley or Woodside.
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As far as I understand it, the UK now allows an implied opt-in, so long as you make it clear to the user that cookies are being used.
An European brand called Euroshopper did something very similar:

http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2011/3/7/before-after-euro-sh...
Oh, with Adobe there are different kinds of hell:
"Adobe’s rep told me that she’s very sorry, but I simply cannot buy CS 5.5 via the website. I must have an American billing address, or else they can’t sell me the product. Can’t buy it on the site, big deal. But wait, the plot thickens." http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/adobe-actively-encouraging-inte...

Or: Why are UK prices nearly double US prices? It's cheaper to fly the team up to New York and buy the software there.
https://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topics/why_are_uk_prices_n...
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1576969
Oh, I didn't know that — thanks! But yes, to me it looked like I had some fonts wrong or something.
> "So, my only option seems to be that I should not embed Google tag code at all if the user has not explicitly given consent."

The other option is to ignore the directive, which is what most websites will do.
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I think whole Europe will pay because of being too late...
I live in Barcelona since 2009 and I couldn't believe the total lack of reaction of the current government at that time. I don't know if it was because they didn't know what to do (anything should have done better than nothing I think) or if they didn't want to pay the political cost of doing something "wrong", which, ironically, they have paid because of doing absolutely nothing at all!
The thought of eschewing productivity makes me cringe instantly. But that said, I worry he's not wrong about some things. Our economies don't seem to be growing fast enough to negate the downsides of things like automation.

Rather than slow down productivity, which surely few other nations would do, wouldn't it serve us better in the long run to do a better job of splitting up the work between capable hands? In that vein, I'd be more for dropping the full time work week significantly, as he mentions offhand. The story mentions 21 hours as a good work week number. I'd like to see that as three 7 hour days. I'm fine with that. Lots more family/me/we time. Of course, the issue becomes "compensation".

How are you going to survive off of roughly half of what you made before? The ideals of a crazy person like me would be "hike up the minimum wage insanely high, pry money from the pockets of the wealthy" but I doubt much of this crowd would be with me there. (Based on my casual browsing I think it's fair to call HN of a, to use American terms, slightly economically Libertarian bent.) But the US already sees a large disparity between productivity and compensation ^1, and it seems to be growing.

I'd love to see this discussed here though, if anyone has any insight. We all agree there are many smart people here. So what happens? We find a magical new job creating field like the Internet? (Because 3d printers only seem like they'll increase productivity further.) We let a generation or two pass and become an even more entrenched class based society?

I'm not asking anyone for answers. I'm just asking for other possible outcomes. From my (hopefully wrong) view, it seems like we either reduce the relatively abundant resource of laborers, increase the amount of labor to be done, or even the two out in some fashion. The author here chooses one avenue of balancing, I mentioned another. What else would other options entail?

^1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/18/wages-productivity-...
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I don't think Play was meant to exclude apps so much as recognize that the apps that sell the most tend to be games (or at least it looked that way the last time I compared the iOS and Android leader-boards).

Books, on the other hand... it's clear no one was thinking about them (but that's par for the course, I'd say).
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Bankia is the result of many "Cajas" creating a bank together. "Cajas" are non-profit financial institutions that have to use their benefits for social responsibility (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_bank_(Spain).

Admin council of "Cajas" are formed by people selected by political party in power in that region, thus "Cajas" are highly politized. Many "Cajas" had a lot of toxic assets, and were forced to unite and create Banks to be able to refinance themselves.

Bankia is the fusion of many "Cajas" controlled by the PP (Partido Popular - Popular Party, right-wing party) in an effort to create a "Bank of Popular Party", that is Bankia. The "Cajas" involved, being the most important Caja Madrid, had huge losses due to toxic assets. The fusion of all of them won't get anythyng but a even greater hole.

That hole of toxic assets is being nationalized and assumed by the state. Remember that Spain is now ruled by the PP. That allows effectively saving Bankia as a Bank of PP. But Bankia is NOT owned by the state, only 100% of BFA (the bad part of Bankia) is owned by the state, which in turn controls 45% of Bankia. That leaves 55% of Bankia, free of toxic assets and owned by private hands, but effectively controlled by the PP.
Zurich (and Geneve for that matter) consistently lead the list for the most expensive places on earth to live in not to mention that it is damn near impossible to find a place to live. Geneve's rental market currently has less than 2 promille vacancies.
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The problem I have with the way equations are often presented e.g. on Wikipedia is that the authors are so focused on conciseness that they don't stop to explain the idea in straightforward terms. For example, a while ago I was looking into the Radon Transform.

The wikipedia page is full of concise technical explanations and equations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon_transform

After reading a number of articles and eventually stumbling across one on MathWorks (http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/images/f21-25938.html) with some great worked out examples I immediately got the idea: if you put your x-ray glasses on and look at an object from many different angles, and make note of what you're seeing at each angle, you can use your notes to rebuild the image or figure out how similar this object is to another object. Pretty intuitive.

With that understanding of the idea, the Wikipedia article made much more sense. Most mathematics is only difficult for me because I spend all my time trying to understand why the author is " the integral transform consisting of the integral of a function over straight lines". Once I get that, the rest is straightforward.
It's funny reading people's replies. If it had been from MIT or Stanford, they'd have accepted it without question. I don't think many Americans are really aware of universities outside of the US.
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When I read that section, it occurred to me that "weak purity" is like monads and "strong purity" is purity as we know it in the FP world. Then drawTriangle() become an action in some monad (I imagined a State one) and renderScene() is just a pure function using some monadic computations (doing something like evalState (drawTriangle ...)).

I don't know how to explain that without analogies to Haskell (which, I presume, author deliberately avoids), though.
I consider myself highly productive, efficient (when I'm not on HN) and reasonably smart and informed, and yet I'm not living any better than other people who don't even know how to turn on a computer and never read books.

In terms of material wealth, I'm way behind many others my age (I don't own furniture or a vehicle).

Still trying to figure that one out.
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Does anyone know of a decent and up to date guide on what is/is not allowed? The official guidance is typically not much help and my searches reveal a lot of stuff out of date and other sites that are more interested in selling me cookie analysis - so I'm taking their advice with a grain of salt.
As far as I'm aware you can't merge Apple IDs and it has been said a few times that it isn't likely to happen, I might be wrong however.

If it does exist, do you happen to know the URL as I've been looking to do this for a while.
Another anecdotal data point: I managed to make my back pain disappear with a combination of deadlifts, squats with good form and stretching of hip flexors. It also fixed some knee issue (side effect of strengthening the legs I guess.) Having recently moved I haven't taken the time to get a gym subscription. After 2 months of sitting all day I managed to hurt my back while sleeping (yep, it's ridiculous); I couldn't bend to tie my shoelaces for one week...

So yep, I'm convinced lifting heavy stuff is good for your back (IF you use good form, of course.)
I thought it would be about pdf.js[1] or something similar.

[1] http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/