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It seems to me this is a discussion on two levels: statically versus dynamically/weakly typed languages in general, and ActionScript versus JavaScript in particular.

Concerning the first aspect, the most important advantage I see in static typing is not that is finds bugs (tests are better in that discipline), but that it leads to much better IDE support. Only in a statically typed language, the IDE can definitely find out which class, method or field your code actually refers to, which allows for code navigation, documentation lookup, and last but not least intelligent refactoring support.

Concerning ActionScript versus JavaScript, I must say that I like and respect JavaScript a lot and want to keep its "good parts" (a la Crockford), but I also want to be able to take advantage of static typing for the reasons given above. Thus, although the company I work for is not affiliated with Adobe in any way (rather on the contrary), we were looking for the statically typed language that is closest to JavaScript and finally chose ActionScript 3. We then built a cross-compiler from ActionScript to JavaScript years before Adobe/Bernd Paradies did. We have improved and been working with this tool since 2004 (starting with JavaScript 2/ECMAScript 4) and never regretted following this approach. In contrast to Adobe's tool, "Jangaroo" is Open Source and ready to use now. It focuses on integrating with, not replacing JavaScript, and we help solve problems like dependency management for JavaScript and reuse such solutions for generated JavaScript code. Jangaroo's generated JavaScript code does not look like assembly language, but as much as the AS3 source code as possible.

It's not always black or white, I believe we can use the best of both worlds!
From actual usage of Yammer, have heard of many companies where it is in use but the user engagement is really low. Can anyone using it comment on any success stories or failures of using Yammer internally? What has worked and what not?
Uh, if you don't collect any personal information, COPPA isn't an issue. So if you don't ask for name and birthdate, you have no need to ask for their birthdate. To my knowledge, playing a game requires no personal information.
Unfortunately one misbehaving extension is enough to break Firefox' memory usage. I ran a fresh profile without any extensions for a few days recently and it was a marvel: Firefox kept releasing all memory immediately once I closed tabs.
Even if there is a law that would give the local council the necessary power, freedom of speech (given from the british constitution or human rights or the constitution of the EU) would override that.
Hello from Europe! You would be surprised how many rights inmates have over here. I am pretty certain the same applies to schools, they don't have fundamentally more rights over their students in any way I could remember.
I once read an intro to Icon written by its creator back in the 1990's. It gave a short example program to create an "index" (which lines each word appears in) from block of text, and then at the end he added some statement like "Try doing that in another language." Well, I tried in in k and it was a one-liner, maybe 1/10 the amount of text required to write the Icon program. I never looked at Icon again.

It's the same story with Pike's paper. He's touting his own creation: the Sam editor.

People have strong biases toward what software they want to use. Regardless of whether it is actually superior or not. It's not about power (=execution speed and amount of code). It's about fitting someone's idea of what power is. That can vary.

Look at the people menitioning "Powershell" in this thread. It does not matter if it's inferior to UNIX (or just a lame copy of ksh, 20 years too late). If people like it, they'll use it. And they'll believe it is better than the alternatives.
Well, that's all really cool, until you have to start maintaining that kind of application. Suddenly you can discover that just fixing one simple bug in your popular and successful app takes almost a complete rewrite. It's all about the up front / ongoing cost balance...
Knowing if someone is below or above 13 is different than knowing your exact birth date. G+ should simply confirm to that game that you are over 13 rather that give your exact details
There is no such thing as a British constitution ;)

There is a bill of rights though
I'm not sure how they've worked it out, but Cisco has a registered trademark for IOS, which is their operating system for network equipment: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6537/products_ios_sub_...
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Thing is, they weren't horrible. By and large, they were pretty good. That's the strange thing - the council really didn't have much to hide here.
Because ultimately he wants it to go away and regardless of the rights and wrongs they can still keep him busy dealing with this nonsense rather than drawing cartoons.
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Did you just equate school children with inmates? On second thought, maybe you're not far off.
Wikipedia says otherwise ;)
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Well, in a sense.
Just to clarify the item dupe was caught quickly and no rollback was needed, they were able to track the item that was the basis for the dupe and all the clones and remove them.
Do you believe we shouldn't?

Assume an economy can be sized... so it's a $100m economy, or a trillion-$ economy, etc.

Connecting economies together obviously causes them to impact each other. So long as games are connected just to the US economy, and it is much, much larger than any game economy, the impact on the "real" economy is nil.

What about a much smaller real economy? Connect an economy the size of Eve or WoW to one the size of Zimbabwe. Suddenly, events in the game can have very real macro-economic effects on the "real economy". For example, uncontrolled creation of "wealth tokens" can lead to inflation, and contaminate the real world just in the same way as currency fluctuations impact the real world.

Banks can create money, and they are regulated. If virtual economies can create money on a scale large enough to disrupt the real economy, shouldn't they be regulated too?

I'm not saying the answer is obviously one way or the other, but to dismiss the question with an "Oh wow" seems very short-sighted.
This is an Amazon outage.
Funny how now that the social network games fad is moving on Google looks even more pathetic: they blatantly, blindly went after every success FB had and didn't even get to ride the wave.
He guesses it is iOS because the case is the same shape?
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What would happen if she just carried on doing it?
> If the building she's in is their property ....

You may well be right. Still, I find the concept questionable. I mean forbidding the lawful use of her property (camera, lunch), just because she is inside someone else's property? She is not photographing the school.

Besides, council property does not belong to the council officials but to the residents in the area and I suspect that, if their rights and opinions were respected, this order would not have been issued.
Really?

I had 2 (short, scheduled) downtimes with Linode. Since 2009
Of course. Copyright is essentially a right to a monopoly, how can you expect competition offering the same product?

(I'm not being factitious, it's exactly what it is)
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No, it doesn't help you write faster because as you say you have to think. But it helps you read faster.

Also, a tiny program that does not require lots of lines can fit in a chip's cache, and stay there. Can't say the same for large programs.

Acme and Sam depend on GUI's. What happens when you can't get into the GUI? That never happens, right?

I would not expect these old guys to want to work too hard these days. They paid their dues. Mouse clicking sounds about right.
Apps don't GET finished without some kind of development approach / philosophy. 'I don't give a shit about maintainability' is a philosophy. It's just a really, really, bad one.
I'm not sure the submission's point was to showcase disappearing ad boxes; I think it was commentary on the headlines, something about how creative web reporters are.
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The company where I work tried to use Yammer in 2009, and it seemed like a good idea implemented very poorly back then. It was just the engineering division with about 40 people. Tech issues quickly went to email threads where you could deal with code, screenshots etc. It mostly got used as an IRC channel to post WFH messages. But what caused their downfall for us was the constant updates (using AIR--argh) that broke the client, moved buttons around, etc. One by one, people just didn't update, then just removed it (AIR too). Since I hadn't heard much buzz about them until now, I thought that happened to everyone and they died a slow death.
Actually a pretty decent part is in JS since most of the standard libraries are purely written in JS. Github claims that nearly 70% of the node repository is in JavaScript.
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Prototypal inheritance is native to JavaScript while, simply because JS doesn't have classes, you have to go through quite a lot of troubles to make classical inheritance work.
A green circle with a little note on it, for "There was a complete power failure"

God only knows what they reserve the red circle for...
not much more time commitment

This is fiction.
OK, sorry for the snark.
Maybe I'm assuming wrong but I guess in your example zone A and B are the same and that the different zone names users see don't represent different ways of spreading resources. If so, why aren't they named consistently? If not, are there any details on how and why they've set up their zones (or am I overlooking another assumption I've made?)
It's not the interfaces that are product types, but the concrete classes which correspond to product types.

Interfaces are a different concept. In functional programming, an implementation of an interface would extend the domain of polymorphic functions that use that interface. The same can be said about Java, if you tilt your head funny and don't need to communicate with other Java programmers, and if you only care about single argument dispatch.
What will the huge Microsoft announcement be this coming Monday?
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Here's a local company that promises to change that: http://www.captchaad.com/

I think they may become successful for the time being, although they have some issues with UX and technology they need to work out first.

What they do is they display a short ad video and have the user answer a comprehension question. Apparently it's not as hackable, although I'm not sure how that will work if they become popular: Producing a video is fairly difficult, so you can only have so many videos running, and I can entirely see a cracking group able to simply watch every possible video and crack it. Recognizing videos from a finite set of possibilities is a solved problem. However, as long as they're not huuuuge, they're better than reCaptcha. I think currently everything that is popular will be cracked sooner or later, so the only hope is in people having new ideas. This becomes less of an art now and more of an unending race. So for the time being, Captcha Ad seem to be OK. The ads they place are acceptable, and they pay loads more than the typical ad box, which is good. They're only doing germany right now, but they have plans entering the english-speaking market.
I'm not going to complain about options, but to me Knockout.js looks better and more featured.

I'm not going to jump on something new, just because it came out of Google.
I've only been using Heroku as we're working with a client who's managing it themselves for the last month or so. I'm surprised at how much downtime there's been. Is this typical or is it just an unlucky spot?
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G-WAN Captcha page is down. Are they trying to fix their broken captcha rule?
The point is: searching for "Company X quietly" is a good way to find out about news burying. It's especially relevant for Apple: they make big product announcements very rarely, and when they do they typically update a wide range of less-important products. I don't think they're burying the news per se, but you can cut through and directly find out what happened that wasn't announced loudly. It's a useful trick.
I agree, but I totally think it depends on your market. I would love nothing more than IE <9 to die a horrible death (I actually really like IE9). Some things are just bizarre. But we're in the business of making money, and as long as there are users out there using these browsers then we have to support it... if you can persuade your company otherwise then you have more understanding bosses than I do! I have worked on projects before where we would develop for the main browser and then only support minor browsers if if it was not much effort and that was left to use to use judgement on... mind you this was a fair few years ago and the optional browser was IE6!
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In my opinion "That’s not so useful, though, if you want to have multiple developers work on the same project." is much more revealing. Has this guy never heard of VCS? If you use a modern VCS it does not make any difference if you split your source into lots of different files or have it all in one. At least not regarding the number of developers working on the project.
Not very interesting for a customer of Heroku.
From wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law]:

"In general under the law of the United Kingdom one cannot prevent photography of private property from a public place, and in general the right to take photographs on private land upon which permission has been obtained is similarly unrestricted. However landowners are permitted to impose any conditions they wish upon entry to a property, such as forbidding or restricting photography."

I think the council would argue that they are enforcing the ban of photography to protect the children from people who might want photographs of the children. I know when I used to work with children we had to get written consents from parents before any child could apear in a photo and in some cases we were instructed to make sure some children were never photographed and step in the way if we saw anyone with a camera.
That certainly would have been an interesting take on the
material, which some believe is essentially unfilmable.

Seriously? Snow Crash was supposed to be a comic book, that's why the intro is so strongly visual. The Street, the sword duel on motorcycles, the Burbclaves, the Loglo, etc etc.

Some of the deeper themes may be difficult to translate to a 120 minute movie, but that's not the same thing as unfilmable.
What do you mean "part of the design"? Showing keys you know very well many of your users can't type is part of your design?
Agreed. One of the first things you learn as a parent is that all children are different and not all the advice that gets heaped on you will work. (Though the advice givers are usually certain that it will).

In fact, the constant advice and even "you're doing it wrong" comments are one of the more frustrating parts of being a parent. I was quite disturbed when my friends started having children and I found myself trying to give them advice -- I now force myself to just keep quiet most of the time.
That seems normal. If you related to the desire to kil Jeff Atwood's kid then I'd be worried tbh.
It is going to be really tough for me to avoid that since that is exactly the behavior that I am drawn to when a problem presents itself.
Yes, sadly you are right, and it's cos of this (IMO) that you end up in this situation. I'd hire an average JS guy over a average jQuery guy any day.
Couldn't agree more. I go to g+ for comments from people like Torvalds, Crockford, etc. I actually wasn't even aware that there are games on g+.
I am not saying I agree of disagree with the use of the law in this case but the problem that is associated with children having cameras at school could be fear of things like this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29017808/
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Unlike MS, Apple makes it's own hardware. they are free to do whatever they want with it. MS on the other hand, is trying to get hardware from all other manufacturers locked down. this can potentially cause much more problems to other operating systems.
You probably know this, but for anyone else reading in the UK, the 14 day 'cooling off' period applies only to things bought remotely ('sight unseen'). If you had a chance to look at it before you bought it, it's yours, no backsies. :-)
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Tried it couple years ago and the only thing I noticed was that it used more memory (almost twice as much as 32bit IIRC). So I returned to 32bit and am still using it, with PAE kernel so I can use all 4 gigs that I have right now. I really don't feel a bit responsible because Skype refuses to support 64bit.

Another reason that I keep 32bit is portability, as I have quite a peculiar setup: I keep my Linux on a removable HDD, and boot off it on several different machines, which may or may not support 64bit. (So I don't have to tow my laptop to work and back every day.)
As it is not a perfect world, sometimes you will be faced with data that is unstructured and there is no existing library that does everything for you. No JSON, no bencode. The UNIX uitilities have the flexibility to handle these situations. I've seen developers who could not get anywhere with a project because they could not see how to get from unstructured to structured data -- the project was literally a nonstarter in their mind -- and this was because the data did not fit their programming paradigm -- it was not something their libraries accounted for. Meanwhile it was a trivial task to reformat the data using a series of steps (in some cases it was only one step!) with the old UNIX utilties so that they could then work with it using their language of choice. But surprisingly they did not know how to use the UNIX utilities enough to do this themselves.
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I would hesitate to apply that rule. A school is not a private club or an Apple store; it is taxpayer-funded and compulsory for all children.
although i'm not a fan of facebook or g+, the idea that games are a key factor to their success is an alien idea to me.
Yet kids that young are logical. They want food and love, and they want to know that they will get those things. If they have those and still cry, they're sick. Later, it gets more complicated.

Plus, when they're your kids, they have half your genes (usually), and it's easier to grok them. I had that "no idea how to deal with a kid" geek/engineer perspective, and it went OK (kid was colicky, so it wasn't easy, but it wasn't irrational). But also note that in the grokking is the empathy (no need to fix anything other than the food and love and providing them consistently)--raising and loving a child is not rational.
I think because of the zoom feature...at least that's what caught my eye as relatively unique.
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That's why I thought it should be an autostereogram. I hadn't tried to focus on one in 20 years, but I relearned it with a little practice. I couldn't get this image to resolve either, but I did feel like I was seeing something in there. I'm pretty sure it's not pure noise.
Yes

"Unlike many other nations, the UK has no constitutional document. In this sense, it is said not to have a written constitution but an uncodified one"
Which is why articles like this have no place here. It's simply not relevant to Hacker News unless you want to play the "7 degrees of Hacker News" game.
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If they weren't different it would likely everyone would just pick the same first zone, this way they can randomly assign resources keeping it even.
Due to a quirk of both human nature and copy/paste example code, if the names of the availability zones were mapped the same for all users then 90% of requests would be to the zone named "A". To make certain that the zones get even usage, as they bring on new customers, they change the A-D order of the availability zones as seen by these new accounts.
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Come now.. research your own deep track of historical data, all you've ever posted on the Internet for 'eternity' for 'all to see', and you do indeed get a broader picture of the person behind the posts.

Indeed we all have a common blithe ability to write a rotten sentence. But if you look at, say, jwz's broad swatches of data, or some other such figure, you can see that the bad emails are par for the course. I'd be worried if the figures of the 21st Century couldn't write an e-mail, at any position of the scale of troll to hero.
Another framework worth taking a look it in this general category is https://github.com/elabs/serenade.js. It's a lot smaller and comes with it's own haml inspired templating language (whether those are pros or cons is up to each person to decide), but it feels very much in the same spirit as AngularJS, with two-way data binding and plain javascript objects.
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It's not like Amazon haven't had multizone outages though.
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This is a terrible idea. Does the inventor suppose the rapist is going to let the woman go after she's just maimed him with this thing?

Rape is awful. Murder is worse.

(Although it's odd to see this after just reading about the Snow Crash film adaptation - 'dentata', anyone?)