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> It's up to you which you believe, and after making your decision I suggest you use google to find further justification for it.

This is exactly the wrong order to do things in.

Assuming you value truth, then it's not up to you which you believe. You have to look at the evidence first, and then believe whichever one is best supported. Ask questions before you shoot.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/js/the_bottom_line/
"No taxation without representation" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representat...

Only being taxed by duly elected individuals is a founding principle of the US. The American revolution was literally about that issue.
And even then, there was plenty of C, it just hadn't migrated down to small memory microcomputers yet.

By the mid-Eighties I was doing some dev on C on the Amiga, and on Sun boxes at Uni.
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But I have also seen a trend where cafes and bookstores are moving towards brand based wifi service. For example, Barnes and Noble stores offer free wifi through at&t. This require not only for you to be a at&t customer, but also to give up a good amount of your privacy.
im all for Google Glass - but I just don't see anyone talking about the health aspects of these glasses. Given the prominence of electromagnetic radiation and the often fear that it has spread around the globe in respect of brain activity, heat and so on.

how possibly can it be healthy to be wearing a set of these around, all day long, with data beaming towards your temple as it processes what you are looking at ?

i love the idea and concept - im just not sure I like the idea of the electromagnetic radiation being so rawly exposed to your head for as long as you are wearing the glasses. at least with mobile phones you are subjected to "bursts" in the sense that its only for the duration that the phone is against your head (which many fear - regardless of whether you personally being FUD or not)

contrast this to glass however, it's there constantly and design to be so. i would just love to know the risks associated with the volume of data, the impact of such exposure and the level of heat generated etc. it just seems to be swept aside in my mind
There's nothing tricky about it. Hate speech is a vile thing, but you or I have as much right to say it as we say anything else. Freedom of speech should ensure that no one is silenced for their viewpoint. Whether we like what other people have to say depends, but they always have the right to say it.
I wasn't ahah. I genuinely thought it was an intentional design element.
I completely disagree with you. JS' prototypes may have been poorly designed, but once you understand it, there's no reason you shouldn't use it at its full capabilities.

Now, I do have a lot against enforcing OO behavior in js. Aside from the obvious performance overhead, you might be shielding developers from understanding the very language they're writing code on.
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Not much is both water soluble and smaller than sodium. For the most part your basically left things like individual molecules of lead or other heavy metals which you would need to drink a lot of water from vary contaminated sources before you had a problem.
That's a good point, but those "price signals" could still result in the element being very expensive for quite a while, if we have to scale up production by two or three orders of magnitude.

Hydro power is good as far as it goes, but there's only so much you can build: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/pump-up-the-stor...

But that's a good point on uranium. In fact, in Japan right now they're extracting uranium from seawater at about double the current cost of mined uranium. There's enough uranium in seawater to last us millions of years, especially if we went with fast reactors (which can burn U238, a hundred times more common than U235).

That seems like a pretty good silver bullet to me.
But that has the same problem you mentioned about "complicate". It just means "make simple", saying nothing more about how, nor about what it means to be simple. Not all simplification is disentangling.
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But legally does that matter?

Can a corporation pick and choose what patents/royalties or whatever they are to pay for if you use them just because the corporation deems it to be unfair?
"Can go on promoting," should be changed to: "get back to living by."

Our government is currently busy abusing and or destroying all of the things that made it a great country.

We don't need to shovel those ideas on other people as much as we need to stand for them again. Leading by example is radically more powerful than trying to tell people to do what I say but not what I do.
The plan is if we ever release a 2.1 to backport what makes sense to a 1.10 if the oldIE's are still a big enough market share.

I'd also like to point out that this concern only comes into play 2 years from now. We are not intending to drop support for oldIE forever, but we do want to make jQuery smaller and as efficient as possible in the newer browsers, and leaving all the oldIE code in as we progress past these browsers wastes time.
I would nuance that by saying that productive work is good for the soul. When you can look back on what you did today and see some tangible evidence of it, that's satisfying. To me it's most satisfying if it's a physical thing, but something like a working piece of software does it as well.

Of course all I've done so far today is eat breakfast and surf the web, so it's not looking so good.
You should have a look at AngularJS. It's two way binding and declarative philosophy makes it very tidy and true to the MVC paradigm.
But I think you need to have a general affection for design in general to really get anything out of the book.

In my experience you don't :-) At least, I've seen it switch many people out of the design == "making things pretty" mindset into something more productive. It's always on my reading list for people who don't get design, or people who understand that they need to get design. Seems be effective with both groups.

I think it has something to do with it not being written as a "design" book per se. Remember the original 1988 title was "The Psychology of Everyday Things". It's up there with "Peopleware" as a book I keep buying for clients :-)
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It will be very difficult to develop a plugin for 2.0 that won't work on 1.9 - they will be 100% API compatible, and pass the same set of unit tests.
I can't speak to the whole of Bloomberg, but Infrastructure R&D is very different from Bloomberg at large. Bloomberg does indeed employ an army of people to write and rewrite financial/enterprise line-of-business applications on their terminal platform.

This role isn't that.

The difference here is akin to the difference between being an ASP.NET web developer at an insurance firm (boring job) and being on the Windows kernel team (not boring job).

One thing you'd really want to understand about Bloomberg: unlike most companies in finance, regardless of how much OCaml or Haskell they're allegedly using, Bloomberg is a technology firm. Enterprise/line-of-business development jobs have a bad reputation in large part because they are hosted by companies that aren't about technology. That's not BB. Yes, BB deals in quotes and market data where Google deals in web pages... but the distinctions start to end not far past that.

Andrew can do a better job talking up the role than I can; I just know a couple people who work in his group, have heard the war stories, and it's really pretty awesome.
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What more can I tell you?

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That's an interesting stance.

There are things I can do in http://git-cola.github.com/ that I simply can't do on the command-line. That's why I use a GUI.

To be fair, I wrote it, so I know exactly what commands it runs. I do think I've done a decent job of making it very clear what's going on under the hood, though. I even have a mode where the tool prints every git command it runs.

In general, though, I agree that folks should have an understanding of the underlying concepts. That way the GUI becomes a supplementary tool (rather than a crutch). This advice is not limited to just GUIs, though.
My fear is not even that: I worry about a future where we're so used to loads of context sensitive information bombarding us that we see it as weird to unplug or otherwise try to slow down.

Consider Facebook: it is probably a net negative for me, but in the past five years it's become weird not to have an account. So, I delay killing it off, justifying it not by the utility, but instead by the apparent necessity.
Sure, sometimes that's what you need to do. But, other times, if you know you're sending to a trusted server, such as your own company server that you manage yourself (or people who are trusted manage), it's deemed acceptable to send passwords via email. The problem here is that facebook has introduced a new vector.

It's low grade evil; but low grade evil multiplied by millions starts looking like more serious evil. Just like low grade incompetence begins to cause serious harm when it is inflicted on millions.
I've always felt that we should brag about efficiency, instead of talking about being busy. A blog post from a few months ago: http://fayezmoh.tumblr.com/post/21470081227/efficiency-matte...
Estimated time to product?

Why not sooner?
Yep, I read that, and was e.g. wondering whether the upcoming 3.3 did anything to address the issues alluded to there.

Basically, it's a developing situation and it's not economical to change that text for every inch things move, but I'd love to hear what's in flight right now in this less formal context.
Because removing all of the special case code paths in jQuery 2.0 will inevitably remove bytes from the library, allow us to use newer browser features with less polyfills, and increase performance for modern browsers. Read the post, we are not "dropping support" - 1.9 is going to be API compatible with 2.0.
Does it matter?

The specific patent that is being used to block these devices, which from what I've read relates to a very weak patent on live search-as-you-type from multiple sources, is a bad patent.

It is one thing to say "They are stealing our design." It is another to say, "We happened to get here and patent this first, even though everyone is pretty sure that given enough time and money the patent will be struck down... but we're going to sue anyways."

One is a economically sound, consumer benefitting action. The other is the opposite. Apple Legal is at odds with Apple Engineering, trying to litigate away the competition instead of innovating past them. No one benefits from a patent apocalypse, least of all patent holders. In this, many other companies have shown much more restraint.

But still, I sort of get it. Have you used an up-to-date android phone in the last 6 months? Perhaps even gotten to play with an Nexus 7 or a Galaxy S 3? The competition is fierce right now, and Apple has badly mismanaged its money (by not expanding their engineering capacity enough) so that they're in the awkward situation of having to litigate to try and keep up.

Apple has never pretended to have scruples in the legal department, so it's not out of character for them to twist the broken patent system to its very limits to get what they want. But we should call them on it. Maybe we should even inform our purchases with that knowledge, because their business strategy is not good for us as consumers.
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Rather than having this ambiguous FRAND principle, standards bodies should require that companies that want their patents included in a standard hand over these patents to a patent pool in return for a shareholding in that pool.
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A strong China would be the best thing to happen to America in decades. What America has lacked, really since the Soviets of the 1960s, is a strong competitor (another super power).

America would be greatly strengthened by a stronger China. The longer we go without a super competitor, the weaker we will get.

With a stronger China we might just stop being such a lazy, take-it-all-for-granted nation, and get back to doing what it takes to make sure the next generation lives better than the last. It'd be nice just to have a functional government again, focused on real progress for its people.
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> I'm not sure how well TOR hidden service would work behind a NAT though.

Just as well as tor works normally.
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Should be Geoffrey Moore.
There are really really great Git GUIs out there. Tower is the one example everyone is citing. That said, Tower is a largely transparent wrapper around the git command line. Pretty much every button corresponds to one and only one command in the terminal. All it really does is to give you visual feedback and meta-information on what you are doing.

This works really well. You have to understand Git in order to use it efficiently, but once you do it is in many cases just a more convenient way of using Git.
Well, and then it knows to do a `stash/pull --rebase/stash pop` instead of a simple pull if you want to.

On the very other end of the spectrum is Github for Windows, which literally only has one button "Sync" for all that is pull, push, fetch, rebase etc. It is a giant PITA. Also, it does have an interactive commit view with files and checkboxes BUT IT DOES NOT STAGE STUFF WHEN YOU CHECK THE BOXES. This drives me nuts! Also, it trips up and dies if you stage stuff externally. I die a little every time that app breaks something.

Thus, I don't have anything against VC GUIs at all as long as they stay true to the command line. But any kind of abstraction is bound to leak at some point. This might be OK in some places, but your VC is not the right place to store leaked Git abstractions.

In many other places though, command line abstractions work just fine. Maybe this is more a comment about Git being hard to abstract than an argument against abstracting command line tools in general. And maybe that does not say anything good about Git.
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> The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Ok, nothing to see here, move along.

Disclaimer: I am Brazilian and read this book in Portuguese. That might explain why I don't like Paulo Coelho. I see him as a pop version of Herman Hesse, an easy to read cheap mystic. Gave up on these kind of readings a long ago.
That's kind of my point. Google seems to find firearms to be as offensive as gambling, prostitution, illegal drug sales, and criminal activity. I would suggest that that is a rather limited, urban hipster point of view, while their business is global.
With huge consequences for access to information and high quality teaching / learning materials
Even if, you'll never get a guarantee that it will be safe, secure (no encryption will help you if someone can get a snapshot of RAM) and no storm will put it (or your connection) down in the most unfortunate moment.
In general I agree.

But I think the question is whether you can be a successful entrepreneur without having some sense or idea about design.

In my experience from working with many many startups the entrepreneurs either get it or they don't. In fact if they don't they wont even entertain the idea that they don't get it.

But yeah our experiences might differ :)
Anonymous publishing isn't dead, but rather anonymous payment.
According to this Wikipedia article this is not true:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_wars

Nokia started suing Apple in 2009. I do not consider them a smartphone incumbent. After some back and forth between the two companies Apple sued the first Android manufacturer (HTC).
A statement like "the government shouldn't" is a value-laden one that the recipient needs to be talked into through a good case being made for it

That's not how the government in the U.S. is supposed to operate. You're supposed to have to make a strong case for "the government should..."

The benefit is that gun possession by criminals might be reduced eventually? That's speculative, depends on enforcement tactics, and ignores that violent crime rates are not a simple function of criminal gun possession; it is a complicated function including culture, criminal gun possession, deterrent effect of non-criminal gun possession, police presence, specific factors inducing gun crime (including gangs and drug turf wars, or drug addiction), and the environment of the local neighborhood.

The cost of a gun ban in the U.S. is that it would require tens of millions of citizens to forfeit property, and it removes one option they have for defending themselves. Even if you successfully make a case that guns should be banned, there's a nearly insurmountable obstacle: that a gun ban would be unconstitutional.
First, I think we agree about what's happening and how things should shake out.

Secondly, I knew I wasn't going to navigate the semantic waters of "reselling" vs. "importation" and had hoped that describing a 1.2MM/yr business of importing textbooks would illustrate the distinction.

The trouble, as I see it, is that a lower court found recourse to halt a parallel import practice in the contours of the First Sale doctrine, rather than simply applying straightforward import law. Since that lower court's interpretation of First Sale has far-reaching and (probably) unwanted consequences, it's hitting SCOTUS.

The trouble I have with the Techdirt piece, I mean besides the fact that it explains none of these complexities, is that it once again paints a genuinely interesting legal dispute as yet another effort by "MAFIAA" (or whatever we're calling it these days) to sieze the pillowcases of the American consumer on the auspices of having copyrighted the color blue. That's not at all what's happening here.

Fair warning: I did a lot of reading on this, but the armature of my understanding of this case comes from two other HN commenters who batted this back and forth a few weeks ago.
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The law of big numbers is harder to climb than the projectors would ever like to admit. Which is why the Japanese and German 'miracle' economies of the mid 1960s-1980s didn't lead to either of them becoming super powers.

China and India will have a much harder road than most are willing to admit. India is already displaying massive political paralysis, with an economy that has stopped growing properly. China is taking on very large amounts of debt domestically, with national growth that has slowed considerably (and some would say dramatically, as numbers are being lied about at a local level to falsify growth according to a recent NY Times article). If you run what may in fact be 4% to 5% national growth against their inflation rate, the Chinese economy has all but stopped growing (which explains the massive sitting hoards of commodities at their distribution points that are going unused and the collapse in electricity usage). China had to instigate a huge real estate bubble to keep their economy going, using substantial stimulus to generate 'growth.' As those imbalances in their economy adjust, growth will be harder and harder to come by. Studies have shown that for each dollar of investment that China makes, they're getting radically less growth out of it than they were 10 or 15 years ago.