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Just wondering, is minimalism really the forward of design where it comes to software-related aesthetics? You'd think so that, on principle, computers are getting more and more user-friendly and easy to understand, so minimalism and simplicity should follow. On the other hand, should every company embrace minimalist aesthetics, as both Apple and Google have?
There is no need to get worked up on this - no one is calling into question the great work done on by SN Bose.
The immediate discovery is of Higgs Boson - which is why Higgs is getting a lot more mentions. Every time a subatomic particle is discovered do we go all the way back to Rutherford,Bohr or Einstein?
The great thing about patent-a-geddon is that its really bringing the problem out front and center, both to the judiciary who are learning how the patent office failed us around the turn of the century and Congress where companies are crying out for relief and promising campaign money if they get it. I predict it will do a lot to make this stuff saner.
I don't think apple are really trying to protect their intellectual property per se. After all the patents they put on the line are frivolous, and usually easily discounted... after a lengthy case.

Instead I believe these lawsuits are their 'revenge' for what they view as an injustice or 'stolen product', they know this harms their competitors and google financially, and interestingly the bulk of the buying market aren't phased by what they're doing. As a ruthless competition tactic it seems to be effective. I'm curious to know if the net spend of paying out legal fees is advantageous in comparison to the sales generated by this tactic.

If we're lucky this stunt of theirs will be what's needed to have the patent system overhauled in the USA. Apple have had fewer successes internationally, and the USA should as a minimum follow this lead.
With so many blogs writing praises about Go, I keep wondering how much people learn about programming languages in the universities nowadays.

As a compiled language, Go gets usually compared to the experiences people have with C and C++.

The reality is that 90% of Go features are available in the Pascal family branch of programming languages since the early 80's.

So most features that people enjoy in Go are all features that would already be mainstream, if the Pascal branch had won over C to become mainstream.

Even the ability to use a language like Go for systems programming has been proven in the Native Oberon OS and its descendents (A2) at ETHZ.
Drawing 2D pattern is the same slide, just path is more complicated.
As for popularity, I think it's because that's pretty good solution: you have to lock the screen do disable accidental manipulation. Simple tap doesn't work in this case, physical buttons are also less than optimal.
And do what with it? The transition is happening too fast for that. Nokia was always the one to push features down the stack (S60 to S40) but ZTE can do that cheaper with Android. The reality Nokia never saw was that Android is two systems, 2.x is S40 and 4.x+ is S60. Both run on a Linux kernel and run basically the same apps, with games running better on newer hardware.
>The problem is that they have had high moments in the past which is what this designer is competing with.

When? I'm asking that seriously. They've always been pervasive, but I can remember at least as far back as the late DOS/Win 3.11 era, and I can't recall any point in that span where they've been a "cool" brand. The Xbox is about the closest thing I can think of, but that's always felt like some weird thing Microsoft did that happened to work out cool than anything that defined Microsoft as a brand.

They're nowhere near as bad today as the mid-late 90s when every story about Microsoft on Slashdot was accompanied by a photoshopped borgified Bill Gates, but they really could use a shot in the arm branding wise. The Metro stuff they're doing now is distinctive, but there isn't really any driving philosophy to the marketing at this point. I think the linked article does a great job of providing it that.

That said, many of Microsoft's problems have as much to do with management as anything. I'm pretty much convinced they're going to continue to flounder as long as Ballmer remains CEO. You could have the best branding campaign ever devised and it's going to be worthless if there's nothing worthwhile driving the company behind that brand.
Well, I doubt you could make it arbitrarily general-purpose.

I was thinking about maybe building on top of some existing framework. I think there are various existing libraries that help you create shapes and animate them; I imagine you could make something very useful by hooking onto the various methods in a library like that.
>AS3 -> Dart -> JS, a bit much don't you think?

That's not what this is. The API has been ported, they haven't written a AS3 -> Dart compiler.
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> Currying is the process of converting a function of arity n into a nested set of functions with arity 1, i.e. making it partially applicable

If a reader knows what the words in the description mean, then presumably they know what currying is...

Wouldn't it be better to have documentation that illuminated, rather than showed off your grasp of programming terms?
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"Yes, there are cases where the 'insignificant' part is so significant it's actually more efficient to use asymptotically slower algorithm for everyday problem sizes. The Big O notation is not so much about running speed but about scaling."

I do understand that. My point was that the analysis is likely too optimistic in some cases. Maybe that's not an issue. I guess the whole thing is fairly arbitrary anyway, and conservative, since we're going to use "worst case" wherever it can be applied.
"BUT before Apple it seems that none of the 100 engineers you mentioned came up with the idea"

except for, you know, the numerous examples of prior art given throughout this thread.
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IDE support:
http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=5047

Debugger:
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Also it seems a bit weird to have 'any' and 'filter' without having 'first'.
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How about the fact that Visual Basic tops both?
Its interesting as the big studios like the ones that Spiderman was made hire specialists to handle things like that!
You are totally right with this, the big companies want to see more for their money. They don't understand minimal. I'm sure we'll get there some day, but right now the closest thing to minimal appreciation goes to the apple users, and the complement to that are the people who relate 'more & inexpensive' as better. I know that, when I show my dad some kind of minimal design he always goes, "where's the rest?, they're wasting so much space here."
This is a really interesting approach to writing graphical user interfaces, if you have written any GUI code ever this is highly recommended reading. The differences are subtle but extremely important. Here is a simple example that both renders a button and tests if it has been clicked:

if button("label", 100, 100) {
buttonAction();
}

There are two main benefits to IMGUI's. First, you don't need to package your data from whatever store it is into some GUI widget format. The canonical example is a long list or any other data intensive format that you want the user to be able to explore. In a classical GUI there is a lot of data packing and unpacking to be done to handle this.

The second benefit is that your UI's can be much more dynamic and reactive. Because rendering can be nested inside conditional statements and similar it's easy to create bespoke details easily that would be very hard with a traditional GUI framework.

The main limitation with IMGUI's is that they are easier to implement on a system that has pretty constant screen refresh and where you can control the pixels on the screen directly. It is possible to implement an IMGUI on top of a classical GUI framework but that is usually not worth the effort, the classical framework will kill most of the benefits of IMGUI.

A second word of warning is that while IMGUI's tend to result in 40-50% less code that code will be more intensive. This is definitely a technique you want to utilize when you need to hit those high notes and create something world changing.

For a concrete example of IMGUI's in the wild take a look at the editor at http://tinkercad.com. The whole user interface is done as an IMGUI system which is a big reason why we have been able to create things like our unique manipulation widget.
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They are only serious about it if they push it to their channel and compete directly with the OEMs. They don't have enough stores to go it alone. If you read between the lines of the recent article in Vanity Fair, it seems Ballmer will not take it seriously and wants it to die by not being successful enough, because they never gave it a chance.
I have found that imgui are easy to use, but only for the basics. When you want to build something more complex, like animations and transitions between dialogs, it becomes messy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Dawn_of_Sorrow
Cool, but how about the rest of the code, for the "game"?
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Interesting approach with mobile analytics, focused on location, versus the standard in-app activity that a Flurry, Mixpanel, or Google Analytics would measure.
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Makes sense; Dart is a closer heir to Flash/AS3 and Java than it is to JavaScript, and there's still a lot of people out there with Flash skills who're experienced building RIAs. It's a fairly natural place for them to go.
I have this excellent tutorial translated to luajit+sdl ffi bindings http://github.com/malkia/ufo/tree/master/samples/SDL/imgui
I've talked with Chris Lattner about upstreaming it and the LLVM developers seem open to it when it's ready. In the meantime you can find the most recent work here:

https://github.com/elliottslaughter/llvm/tree/noteroots-ir

Currently, you are mostly out of luck if you try to use mainline, unless you're okay with the llvm.gcroot intrinsics, which pin things to the stack so they can never live in registers (causing a corresponding performance loss). Probably your best bet is to do what Go will do once the patch enneff was referring to is merged: scan conservatively on the stack and precisely on the heap. You can still get false positives and leaks, and you can't do moving GC that way, but it's better than fully conservative GC.

By far, the hardest part of GC is precisely marking the stack and registers. Yet you have to be able to do it if you want to prevent leaks. Our goal is to put in the hard work so that new languages will be able to have proper GC without having to roll a custom code generator or target the JVM or CLR.
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Interesting conjectures...

On the other hand since Zuckerberg's being an arrogant asshole preceded his wealth, one can argue that this sing and dance number that fools you is actually just history repeating itself.

I think I'll base my opinion on him from actions rather than what I read in a multi-billion dollar letter... as if he would realistically say anything else...

One thing is for certain though: his stock has underperformed because his company was considerably overvalued, not because he wasn't a kiss-ass to the street.
It actually was mandatory in the past for some DoD projects. Not anymore, for quite a while, which is why I'm surprised. It's never been a hip language, and so I would expect Ada engineering positions to be somewhat like Cobol jobs, i.e. maintenance and legacy. And thus not as likely to appear on things like Tiobe.

It's an interesting language, worth a look.
>Russia is so corrupt, only a full scale revolution will have a chance at fixing the country.

So you're saying there's a violent class struggle between the populist system and the oppressed business class - and that the only way the downtrodden business owners can rise up and free themselves from their chains is through full scale revolution?

This sounds like it's straight out of Monty Python - but hey, good luck with that.
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Exactly -- that's why this is exciting, particularly the Flash / interactive part. The authors have done a very good job with what they have to work with, with the assumption that they're only working with a preview and that the primary medium will be a VM with a JS fallback. The performance, all said, is very, very good.
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That look he gives at the end really makes me tear up. What a great sentiment.
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I noted this above, but what is analogous between doors of a bygone era and accessing a touch-based device. Swiping a portion of the screen is the obvious component, but the skeuomorph isn't, I'm yet to see a good rationale for why this is more obvious than the many other opening simple-gesture skeuomorphs that could have been chosen.

I can think over many other more logical/closer skeuomorphs, which forms the basis of my question: was apple's choice a naturally occurring one, or their design choice. This isn't about patents, it's just a mind experiment as to understand if this is as straight forward as it seems in retrospect. (Because good design always appears obvious in retrospect.)

I'm yet to be presented with an answer to this, this is the crux of originality.
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I have to agree with him. We gain a slightly deeper conceptual understanding of the Universe, but we're in essence replacing one constant with another. Like he said, instead of asking why particles have different masses, now we ask why particles interact differently with the Higgs field to produce mass. Why is there mass? Because of the Higgs field. Why does the Higgs field lead to different masses? Who knows. Maybe if scientists had spent more time on that issue than on string theory and dark matters, we would have many more predictions to test today.
Exactly. Already waiting for someone to build ps3dev.box :)
Good Dr.,

Be certain (if you've got time) to write a worthy blog post on the results of that Canadian tax situation. I'm curious as I (was, is, could have been) in a similar situation.
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well i would probably feel the same. The fact is that the user usually does not expect it, therefore it might create awkward moments in the office or else, i think it's not a good thing for the website. You risk to loose an user even before he sees you homepage.
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Just to add; and through the Haxe NME framework it compiles to Android and iOS targets.
I actually wish it was that obvious: I used Palm OS, RIM, and Windows Mobile devices before the iPhone and the unlock mechanisms (on the touchscreens!) ranged from "press the tiny * key, then the unlock soft button" (which was awful) to "press the center button once" (somewhat less awful). Slide to unlock was a huge deal for me: I no longer dreaded the crazy key commands needed to unlock a smartphone.

Palm Treo: http://blog.treonauts.com/picKeyGuard01.jpg

Palm Windows Mobile: http://www.hpc.ru/lib/arts/2364/palm-treo-750v-keylock.gif

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Now, compare that to Putin's pipe dreams of creating his own version of Silicon Valley in Russia. Obviously, even he can't be that stupid. So it's all PR, Putin doesn't want Russia to go anywhere, he just loves presiding over the vast criminal empire of intelligence services, organized crime and oligarchs.
I'd probably throw in concatMap, head, tail and the various scan functions for lists. Maybe init and last as well, although I never really use them.

As far as functions go, uncurry would be neat and create a nice symmetry along with curry.
So, uh, you're afraid that someone has introduced malware in Atari 2600 machine code, that can break out of any arbitrary emulator and do Real Damage to a hosting system, and hidden that in what appear to be vintage game ROMs on the Internet?

That would be quite the malware, indeed.
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This was the first thing that came to mind to me: can't PUT take a Range header, and would that not be the same as patch?
The beauty of how Facebook bubbles up relevant information is what makes it work best. My mom may have seen it once, but probably won't see it much anymore.
And there is an awesome Clojure interface for it called Overtone. http://vimeo.com/22798433
Evolution works by exploiting regularities in all of those complex and intertwined factors.

In instances where we see obvious regularities, and we see that they've been exploited, then we should at least bump that probability that it's a valid explanation for the behavior. Are we sure? Of course not. But we've got some information, and often a pretty significant amount.

That's not to say there isn't a lot of bad evolutionary psychology out there, especially in the popsci section at the bookstore. But the idea that we shouldn't even consider evolution when we're trying to explain behavior is too far in the other direction.
think of all the AS3 developers starting to feel left out in the cold now that Adobe's walking away from Flash.

while i'd agree that now's probably the time to jump into JS and HTML5, some people think Dart has a future, and I guess this opens up its potential market.
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Ok, so how does that contradict my point about content over presentation?
> This sounds like it's straight out of Monty Python - but hey, good luck with that.

While I'm not supporting his assertion that this is the case, if such a thing were to happen anywhere, well...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_russia
I remember having a conversation with Peter Thiel at the Singularity Summit in 2009 where he expressed a pretty strong opinion that humanity seriously pursuing advances in theoretical Physics was a momentous waste of brain power. At the time I was a relatively recent Physics graduate, I wasn't too pleased to hear that. I wonder if his opinion on this has changed at all.

Anyway, nice to have you here Eliezer ... like the commenter below, I'm a massive Methods of Rationality fan too :).
The corruption, like corruption in other countries (including the US), hurts the poor and wage-earning directly and indirectly as well. It's not like it's the populace vs. business owners, it's the powerful and capricious vs. everyone (including other powerful people), using the state and security apparatus as a tool.

Aside from a few people who made a lot of money a couple decades ago from rapid deregulation, I don't think business owners in Russia are worried about taxes, reasonable regulation, etc. hurting their businesses -- they're worried about totally random extortion.

Very few businesses would rather operate in Equatorial Guinea or Somalia instead of (heavily regulated country of choice: depending on context, could be Germany, the US, Denmark, ...).
"finally the demo throws 18 errors ... fail."

I just runned it on FireFox and Chrome, and it didn't have a single error, you running the demo on what browser ? Did you even run the demo ?

This is a good start for anyone wanting to learn what Dartium is:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/google-has-released-...

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Does anyone else have difficulties reading articles written this way - structured as Hollywood movies, with artificially built-up suspense and all? I feel patronized all the time, trying to get to the "meat" of the article, just finding "next page" link instead.