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I didn't say they're mentally incompetent. I said that the state of being poor imposes such a high mental cost that even the intelligent poor struggle to apply their intelligence consistently. Even if we assume (incorrectly) that poor people are exclusively those on the left half of the intelligence distribution, the answer to their problems isn't charging them more money, thus making their problems generational because they can't afford the education, nutrition, and childcare necessary to end the cycle of ignorance. The answer lies in making a positive life more appealing, e.g. by making healthy foods more affordable, more available, and tastier; improving access to education (MITx/edX/Khan Academy/etc.); making education and societal contribution more culturally appealing through changes in entertainment and early education; etc.

It's probably worth mentioning the philosophy that drives my opinions on these issues. I want to minimize individual and total human suffering while maximizing individual and total human potential. In other words, I believe that every human being should have the right not to suffer, along with the opportunity to make their best contribution to the progress of humanity. Being poor and trapped by the mental stresses of staying alive leads to suffering, fast food temporarily alleviates that suffering, and increasing the cost of health insurance will exacerbate that suffering. I still care even if it's someone else suffering while I enjoy the money I might save each month by not paying for their lifestyle.
You can drag it, you just can't end the drag motion outside of the dongle area. Took me a few tries to figure that out myself.
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Trulia/Movity did a visualization on this http://trulia.movity.com/rentvsbuy/
Apple's iBooks app used a private API to allow the user to adjust the screen brightness in-app. This API was finally made public about a year and a half after iBooks shipped.

A more visible example is when Apple rejected a third-party camera app for using private API to allow the volume button to be used to take a picture, then not too long after incorporated that exact feature into the OS's built-in camera app.
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Yeah, same here. Used it everyday from the late 90s until I moved to Spotify (and then not at all when I moved to Macs last year).

The classic player was/is such a wonderfully designed piece of software. Just minimise it and stick it to the top of the screen. Uncomplicated, unobtrusive.
This is actually advocated by the "lean" startup movement. I've read a couple of books that advocate putting "buy" buttons on content/applications that do not yet exist to gauge demand or test potential ideas. I get it, but it doesn't sit right with me.
There are several very controversial ideas here about the prehistory and history of India. And the history of India is such a controversial subject within India that many thoughtful writers who live in India pass up the opportunity to dig into the sources and write thorough histories of their own country.

http://www.historytoday.com/mihir-bose/india%E2%80%99s-missi...

Readers from India who read widely are probably already well aware of the controversy about many of these issues (which have considerable influence on domestic politics in India and on foreign relations between India and neighboring countries). I point this out for the benefit of readers of HN who haven't read much about the history of India and who may not be aware that not all statements in the 2009 speech kindly submitted here enjoy agreement even within India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India#Historiography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Invasion_Theory_(history_...

In particular, the person who gave the speech

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markandey_Katju

has wide-ranging interests but has no specialized training as a linguist or any kind of scientist, but rather is a former judge and political commentator

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ten-ways-of-being-foolish/...

from a long family line of lawyers and politicians. The speech is not really about language, nor is it about science, but it is about politics, and I am aware that some readers of Hacker News take great care to keep discussions of politics off Hacker News, in the interest of finding more articles about the core subjects of Hacker News here.
So isn't this a fairly huge flaw showing up in this management style, if the cats can't even herd themselves well enough to produce a long-promised sequel to the company's biggest franchise?

It doesn't matter that much, of course, if Valve never finishes the Half Life series; they'll no doubt continue to make other projects which rake in the bucks. But for most companies you can't just abandon a cash-cow project like that. What would happen to Toyota if all the engineers decided they really wanted to work on sports cars and nobody could be bothered to work on the next iteration of the Camry? What happens if all the employees for the water company decide to design a new dam and nobody stays on the maintenance team to stop the existing dam from bursting?
> You've got a similar obligation if you rent. Rent or buy, you're still out on the street if you stop paying

Not really because usually you just need to give one months notice to move out. So if you are facing hard times, it would be easy to move to a cheaper place or completely move to another place where there is more work to be found.

A person that "owns" his own house would only move as a completely last resort because the costs associated with it are much, much higher.
The system really evolved to combat Communism. The powers that be ran with the propaganda wars of the 60's and turned the USA hyper-consumer with tons of debt to combat Russia's ideology. Everyone jumped on board because socialism and the "other" were irrationally dubbed wrong and thus we must do the opposite.

That's a good cognate to David Graeber's description of neoliberalism: a program of governance designed to bring down Communism and hail the glorious victory of Capitalism, no matter the actual economic consequences of doing so.
People say this? In a not totally forced way?
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You might be interested in "Enqueue", it's another player for mac.
Used to love winamp, it was the only think used to play media. Until it got so bloated. Imagine it had a simple, clean interface and loaded lightning fast. I would never use anything else.
Which is why it may well be simpler and more effective to declare a debt-jubilee and shift our currency system away from debt-backing than to monetize public debts, which are nowadays often the bail-outs of private debts.
FYI, his personal site is at http://blorp.com. It hasn't changed in at least 10 years.
It is not impossible to mix flat and hierarchical structures.
The problem is that often there is no direct analogy. And even when there is an analogy, often they behave differently as far as modularity and extensibility are concerned.

OK let me be more specific (keep in mind that I am a little bit Haskell-minded right now so some of my examples apply to generic FP but some are more for Haskell):

As far as encapsulating state goes, you have objects in one side and closures in the other. Pretty straightfoward, if you see it in practice.

As far as control-flow goes, things are kind of very oposite. FP languages tend to use pattern matching (that is, switch statements / the observer pattern) on transparent types to do branching while OO languages settled to use message passing over opaque types. These two approaches are very much opposites - pattern matching makes it easy to add new functions and harder to add new "cases" and also forces types to be transparent. OO dispatching on the other hand, makes it easy to add new cases (classes) but makes it harder to add new methods. The objects are also opaque and encapsulated. (For more on this, search for the "expression problem")

As far as polymorphism goes, things tend to be pretty different. OO languages focus on subtyping, writing code that works seamlessly with a class and its subclasses. This is good for always being able to add new subclasses without breaking old code.

FP languages, on the other hand, tend to focus more on parameric polymorphism (generics, that is, writing code that doesn't care what types its manipulating) and Haskell handles ad-hoc polymorphism with type classes. Type classes are kind of like OO interfaces, but they allow type classes to be created after the types that "implement" them but do not allow you to turn previously monomorphic code into polymorphic code (so its kind of the opposite of OO in this sense).

----

Finally, if you are willing to go really academic on this, you can check out things like Cardeli's "A theory of Objects". Computer scientists inevitably end up translating everything back into the functional calculi they are confortable with and this leads to formal FP-to-OO translations, if that is what you are looking for. Just to warn you though, it turns out that some things like support for inheritance and dynamic dispatching can seriously complicate the final models.
It's alloy, not pure magnesium, so it doesn't ignite at the same temperature. The article states that ignition temp is 650 Celsius which is pretty damn hot (compared to 475 or so for mag ribbon). I bet you'd have a hard time getting it to ignite even if you deliberately tried, because the heat is going to rapidly dissipate across the unit.
I think this may be an important point, but it makes me wonder if "click here to order" would be less effective than "order today." Certainly the latter contains a call to action and perhaps a better one. Again it's a question but one which I have not studied in terms of user behavior.
When you're out of a job the state will take care of you indefinitely.

Is that the Flexicurity system? How does that work?
How much can I expect to pay a programmer for this?
My use case was a simple vector-drawing program. Many bugs related to inconsistent behavior across browsers, and things generally not working as documented (difficult to tell what is a documentation bug and what an implementation bug sometimes).

One that I actually had to fix (and submitted an as yet unacknowledged pull request for) was for arrow-ends: draw a path with an arrow head in blue, then draw one in red and watch every arrow-head on your page turn red.

Here are the 258 open issues in github:

https://github.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/raphael/issues

I'm not trying to bad-mouth other peoples' work; just point out the current state of the project as I've experienced it, for the benefit of others.
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This is coming from the point of view of someone who doesn't dwell in the world of programming to any significant degree. I don't always understand or use the jargon correctly.

I was really put off by the contrast between declarative programming and imperative programming. Honestly I didn't understand the declarative example at all. It seemed to me that all the author did was move functionality into some functions and then not bother showing the implementation of those functions.

I work in hardware design, so my perspective is bound to be pretty different, and maybe that is where I am having trouble. We have declarative tools, and what they consist of is stating a bunch of things that need to be true about something. It's not at all what this supposedly declarative example looked like. I could see no difference between the imperative and declarative examples except for refactoring some functionality into functions that then were glossed over in the imperative example.

Can someone clarify for me where I am mistaken?
Android is open source, but that isn't reason enough to rip off someone else's UI. Atleast Microsoft's innovating and not just copying stuff wholesale(which admittedly it used to do a lot in the past).

Regarding opportunity, the MS store will very likely be the biggest opportunity for software developers in a decade. There are more than 500 million Windows 7 users, and assuming that only 20% of those people upgrade, devs will still have a 100 million strong customer base.
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BTW, since we are takling a bout Haskell, an interesting thing I noticed about it is that precisely I don`t need to memorize the whole standard library. Whenever I have a though like "man, I whished that there was a function that gor me a Bar from this list of Foos" I can just pass the "[Foo] -> Bar" type to Hoogle[1] and it will magically find the name of all the functions in the standard libraries that have compatible or similar type signatures.

[1] http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/
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I had thought Graeber was writing that way because he wrote in the middle of one of the most complacently accepted debt crises in world history.
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I think the article applies to "normal" website content, e.g. body text, articles, etc.

Landing pages, big call-to-actions, etc. are a different beast entirely. Especially because it's not always obvious what's a graphic or a link, what's a headline or a link. "Click here" makes it obvious, which is necessary when dealing with anything is not "standard" page content.
What actually happened in Ancient Israel was: the market (and the society) worked around it. Creditors lent less money in the run-up to a Jubilee year, but once that had passed, they also came up with various religious/legal rationalizations/arrangements to allow them to effectively enforce debts.

The part I found interesting, and wanted to read more about, was the Golden Age of Islam, in which a financial and commercial system developed (in fact, developed free-market ideology) entirely without usurious debts of any kind.
It is definitely a flaw for the customers.

But as long as Valve is making enough money, the employees can work on whatever they want and Gabe won't care.

This is why many of the "unsexy" parts of Valve are in utter disarray. The Steam chat network and steamcommunity.com goes down at least once a week. And their security isn't very good. They lost credit card information earlier this year and they think encrypting your password with Javascript RSA ontop of SSL is going to help.
I really like this:

twoK=1:(map (2*) twoK)

I still have a long way to go though - I can't write a lot of it without getting stuck and giving up. It would be really nice if I was comfortable with haskell.
Debts for investment are mutually beneficial. However, history shows it has all too often been in the interests of society's upper class to create lots and lots of debt that was not for investment and is thus very difficult to pay back.
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Interesting to compare this to the tales of AOL's mismanagement in this comment thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4120136
And yet another Reddit post. When did Reddit start spilling out?

Seriously, could we please not encourage posts like this...
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As a "language snob", I feel that Java is hopelessly behind among JVM languages. But I also think that C# is well-designed enough that it doesn't matter whether it's the only CLR language I'll ever use. I don't know if the grandparent poster feels the same, but your post actually confirms my opinion.

Of course I have no realistic idea how Oracle would ever migrate millions of Java coders to a cleaner language. :(
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Depends on the person. For most people, having a 10" screen will suffice, because they use the computer mostly to browse the internet and only occasionally need the full capabilities of a desktop OS, like when they need to write a word document or preparing a presentation.
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It would be nice if you could expand on what the actual controversies are.
Sometimes I think I'm the only person who never liked Winamp. I always found it awful. Why do I need fancy skins for a media player?

I found Foobar2000 and never looked back. I know you can customize the hell out of Foobar...but I personally loved the default "giant list of searchable songs" format.
There's no argument here - just sarcasm and unsupported claims. You invoke janitors to imply that non-hierarchical organization can't possibly work. But you don't know that; no one does. People have barely begun to experiment with these forms. How much imagination has gone into figuring out ways to accommodate menial labor so far? It takes time.

If we can figure out how to build software without bosses, I'm confident we can figure out how to clean toilets.
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Just to clarify - when you refer to buying (or not buying) a property - do you mean actually buying it, or taking out a loan (mortgage) to "buy" the property. I've noticed, especially in north america, people tend to refer to "buying" a house when really they are borrowing it and paying for it for a long time...... just curious.
It wasn't Haskell but another functional programming language (scala). I got my major "ah ha" moment when I did a code review with another experienced functional programmer. It showed to me that functional programming is a different paradigm.
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One would still need to know the majority of the functions in Prelude write a useful program, and even more to write an elegant program, since they are abstracted as concepts.

Where as in an imperative language often learning the syntax is enough to get the ball rolling.
That also what I did when I realized that the "return" function isn't actually for returning values.

But then I came back for the 24th time and got hooked. Now Im doomed forever.
I generally used it because it had better format support than others I'd tried, but no, I hated it too. Tiny buttons, non-resizable interface, bleh. It's everything I hate about skeuomorphic interfaces.
I do not understand how this really any different that what we already have with anonymous classes/interfaces. If we have to continue to define interfaces for our lambdas then we might as well continue to use anonymous classes and remove the final restriction (that's completely backward compatible). The final restriction wasn't required in the original design of anonymous classes before the community freaked out over memory allocation of primitives. The reason closures are a pain in Java is having to meet the static typing declarations using interfaces for our anonymous classes. The whole point to this was to create a compact syntax for declaring methods that take lamdas as parameters without resorting to interfaces.

I also wish that default mechanism could be extended to existing classes as well so we could add methods to classes because the real question is what are the API changes to collection, File, etc with respect to the addition of lambdas. The places where Java has fallen short in the past is the API (Collection.join? Collection.map, Collection.reduce, new File( String... paths), etc).
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I bought a 300k house for 70k (4.9% Fixed) after the bubble burst (Florida) the house had never been under 100k since it was built in the 80s Now it's value is back up to 150k, rent pays mortgage and maintenance 3x. I understand your point, however property can be a good investment if you make smart choices.
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I still use it as well. I didn't realise it was something people laughed at - WMP takes up too much screen estate, iTunes has far too much bloat, and I don't need a music player with the complexity and learning curve of emacs.
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