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"and a pervading censorship of all media"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_O%27Connor#Saturday...

"NBC did not edit the performance out of the West coast tape-delayed broadcast that night, but reruns of the episode use footage from the dress rehearsal"

Where's the difference? Talking about media.
You would rather that some one being investigated went back to work and potentially adjusted the evidence that is why when your investigated for a serious offence at work you are suspended.
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I don't know; I think it's fairly easy to hit that limit with some constructs like list comprehensions, particularly if they're inside a method (which cuts 12 characters with indention), yet remain readable. Something like:

[person.name for person in people if person.country_of_origin == 'Netherlands' and person.age > 30]

That's well above the limit, yet I still find it more readable than either a for loop that appends to a list or a map/filter (which would also have go through the list twice).
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yay! You just taught me a new term in english: Crony capitalism. It's almost the same in spanish btw: ("capitalismo de amigos", literally: "friend's capitalism"). Thanks for that ;)

And yes, that kind of problem seems to be present all around the world. Probably, it's something related to human nature. And sometimes, it looks like the system is trying to encourage that behavior. We learn of the importance of knowing certain people, pertaining to certain circles, making contacts, grow our social network, and so on.

As a simple example, things like LinkedIn are essentially encouraging the use of our contacts, to get an advantage in our professional careers. Doing that in public service, would be unethical (and most probably, illegal). But doing it in the private sector, seems to be fine.
So, that dichotomy blurs as long as it doesn't go too far away. But then, you'll eventually end up in that crony capitalism... unless something or someone stops you. And sadly, the law doesn't seem to be stopping anyone.
I noticed something even odder when I was updating Instapaper from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3 on my iPad 2, iOS 6 beta 2 yesterday: Instapaper is about 25 megabytes, and I'm on a desperately slow network. It should've ended in no less than 5 minutes, but it just took over 15 seconds.

I'm certain that I'm on iOS 6 ( :D ), and I'm certain that I updated Instapaper (4.2.2 crashed on lunch in iOS 6, that's why he sent out 4.2.3 and now I can open Instapaper), and that my network is slow and it shouldn't have taken less than 5 minutes. So, what's the story? To my knowledge, delta updates are still not available to iOS apps for some reason. And I couldn't find anything about them in devforums/iOS 6 docs/WWDC sessions.

So, could it be relevant? Maybe they were testing delta updates by mistake and some apps got burned?
It's not really a fuck up, it's a "we didn't have time to do that yet because instead we were focusing on make an awesome language and standard library".

Lots of issues with the runtime had to wait because they can wait because it doesn't matter if you wait 5 years to fix the GC because you won't break any code when you do it.
If Apple turns around and sues Google using this patent, I think it will be time to unplug completely and join the people in the mountains looking to escape EM radiation.

And really, they had to add CRT displays to the patent? Seriously Apple, CRT? Did Apple figure out a magical new way of getting "retina" resolution with a millimeter-long tube that can somehow feed the entire field-of-vision of the person wearing it? Come on.
Yes, although there is one subtlety here: should `flip` return a curried function, or an uncurried function? This isn't an issue in Haskell since it only has unary functions.
Oh, I think it was mainly trivial stuff. I'm afraid I don't remember the specifics, this was two years ago.
That's funny, I had a fellow co-worker here who came from Sweden. He said that even when there was practically no corruption at all where he lived, life was incredibly boring.

He seemed to enjoy "having problems" here (yeah, that sounded strange to me too). Maybe those problems add adrenaline and emotion to our lives? Or maybe he was just crazy.
It is just a simple kind of analysis. Normally people working on algorithm and data structure analysis would do large amounts of fairly advanced math to analyse the complexity in detail, including all the "insignificant" parts.

Apart from worst-case complexity, they would also analyse average complexity, amortized complexity, etc.
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They happen everywhere. It's a matter of degree. Some people in corrupt places love to use the fact that no place is perfect as an excuse for why things should not change and why people shouldn't get angry.
Why isn't there a bill circulating in the house or congress for patent reform yet? It's reasonably common in my country for companies to sponsor bills. Company having problems with legislation -> pays lawyers to write a bill -> lobby a few congressman to put bill to vote -> bill gets voted -> if no one opposes it, company gets its new law approved.

Is it too different in the US? Why hasn't Google done this yet? They're sure under a lot of pressure, have a lot of interest in patent reform and have enough lawyers to write a great bill. Just getting something like this to get voted, so it would show up on media, that would be huge. The MAFIAA is doing it to defend their interests. Why isn't Google doing the same to defend theirs?
Still, it's an indirection because AS3 primitives are not Dart primitives.
Yet another case of 'It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.' Their capitulation is only natural considering the negative PR mess this has become, however it's hard not to imagine this being entirely intentional.
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Haskell has tuples, so it could use an:

(a, b) -> c

representation. If the uniform/canonical way to use functions is defined to be curried, then flip can simply return them curried.
Unrelated to your question, but your code doesn't traverse array. All it does is:

for i := 0; i < len(ints); i++ {
sum += i
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I have hope both that Apple is secretly working on an amazing set of augmented reality glasses and that the patent will be somehow overturned.
You have in one article two kinds of businessmen mixed up:

First are the owners of small- (and medium-) scale businesses which they built by themselves.

Second are the owners of companies which were previously state-owned during USSR and then they were suddently privatized and "somehow" landed into a hands of very select few.

I don't think it's correct to call the latter group "enterpreneurs". I think it's bad for the former group to have both groups mixed together in one article. What you really have is using some real and ugly problems of the first group to pitch some ongoing cases featuring persons from the second group.

Those cases being ugly too not makes this spin a good thing.
My mother owns a small cloth shop, she has quite a few problems as a small business owner, but I doubt she wants to be used as a lever in the favour of Hodorkovsky or Kozlov. She might sympathise them, she might not. She's NOT on the same field anyway.
> If Apple turns around and sues Google using this patent, I think it will be time to unplug completely and join the people in the mountains looking to escape EM radiation.

Or you could just get rid of your Apple crap and get a nice Linux machine (if indeed, you haven't already). It's a pretty good system for hackers and the inquisitive.
Yes, I spent most of '99 writing a custom GUI system for a tablet. We were even considering ARM (StrongARM) for the CPU, but ended up with an x86 clone. The system was running Linux, NanoX and used Opera as the browser. The widget set was written from the ground up to make it light weight and touch friendly.

See e.g. http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Article...

It wasn't as sleek as the iPad, of course - battery, LCD and touch technology has come a long way, but it worked quite well.

And we were not first with a custom tablet UI (the article above compares it to the Ericsson Screen Phone for example: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/Linux-For-Devices-Article... )
> All of the extinct species. The fact the human eye has a blind spot whereas the squid eye does not. The fact cancer is possible. If I had a biology textbook closer to hand, I could go on at length.

Those examples don't prove much, they just demonstrate that any goal there could be is not aligned with the fate of those species. You seem to be arguing against the assumption that teleology would imply some sort of perfection (for some somewhat arbitrary definition of perfection)

The truth is that there is an epistemological problem here. For all we know, the universe was created by Mr. X who _wants_ us to think there is no teleology. Deception could be the very goal. There is absolutely no way for us to verify this, so there is also no reason to state categorically that there is no teleology.

You could make an analogy with a (pseudo) random number generator. How do you distinguish between a real and a pseodo RNG? You can't, really. There are some statistical tests. But if someone is determined to fool you, they can just feed you X amount of GBs of data from a true random source, and only then start to feed you an infinite amount of zeroes.

I'm of course not defending the idea of teleology, just saying that epistemologically speaking, we have no basis for ruling it out nor accepting it.
Part of the "charm" of corporate IT is that what matters to the users isn't even part of the equation.
You do a great job of undermining your own point. "Hacker News is so full of bullshit! It sucks! Let me spend 4500 calories and six hours trying to convince you of this!"

Ok.
There are many powerful interests on the other side of the issue. For example, pharmaceutical companies have very different desires for the patent system than Google would.
I think a great part of that frustration is down to long-form magazine features being ported to wired.com, where brevity is better suited to the web-page form.

Personally, I think almost all of the writing in Wired is excellent - well crafted and edited and laid out within interesting designs. Yes, while there are pretty common 'paint a picture' set-ups and more detail about the actual people involved than you'd get in news (for sure) and non-US feature writing (my view), that's part of the reason I keep buying the US print copy of Wired (even in the UK), and enjoy settling down to read it.
The advice in your post is terrible because it only applies in some situations. Blog posts like that help nobody because they lack context and if you're simply passing down advice, it's like playing a game of telephone.

I'm not shooting the messenger. I'm pointing out that you have little to no idea what you're talking about.
How about both?

Udon.flip = function(f) {
return function(x) {
if(arguments.length > 1) {
return f(arguments[1])(x);
}
return function(y) {
return f(y)(x);
};
};
};
Considering that the central banks have conjured trillions of dollars and euros out of thin air, this story this seems sadly quaint...
I remember that time. The newer version of Sherlock was but they still had the core plugin based search approach in place before that.
Evernote/Badoo were not founded / grown in Russia as far as I can tell. It would be like saying that Google is a Russian company because Sergey was born there.

Also, the fact that a 50m company even needs to be mentioned among the "top" should be sufficient proof of the country's impact on the rest of the world (again, I'm not counting Russia-specific Yandex/Rambler/Odnoklassniki/[...] here)
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Apple's patent on multi-source search appears to involve search of local and remote sources. There are far older examples of multi-source search that live entirely on the server (e.g. MetaCrawler from '94)

But that just makes matters worse - once you have search over multiple sources, and you have search on the desktop, and you have web based search, the multiple sources bit is a small iteration.
What a crock of shit:

after boot camp, all engineers get access to live DB

I can understand on a startup or small org but an organisation of that size, there should be very tight access control.

Despite what anyone says, the probability that someone does something bad increases in larger groups. Security should be on a simple need-to-know basis and nothing else.

I build BIG financial software and we have certain audit requirements, access control requirements, data protection requirements etc and that is exactly how it should be.

I'd never put my data near FB. They are simply irresponsible.
Except that this patent has nothing to do with multi-database searching.

Did you even read the patent ?
I think that is part of the deal, but Sony Entertainment controls the property. Weird how Hollywood works!
Well, the FBI hasn't been entirely honest about Megaupload's business model. They claimed that it was based around paying people to upload copyright-infringing model when actually it relyed on reducing the amount they had to pay out by enforcing the clause that allowed them to reject payouts if they suspected copyright infringement.
Manually checking if buttons are pressed seems very wrong to me, I want some kind of event framework to associate a 'button' area to an action. Then when a click is fired, work out which button this maps to, and execute the specific action.

I don't see how IMGUI specifically can add features over other methods either.
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That's it! I've had enough with them. I'm moving to the competition.
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something like https://gumroad.com ?
Ugh, the need to delete the corrupt version and then install the good version also gets rid of all user data. What a mess.

Of course, this could be fixed by slightly increasing the version number or some other way to let iOS know that the good version is to be installed as an update over the broken one.
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I believe part of the point is that if Apple's patent abuse continues unchecked, there won't be options like nice Linux machines...
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It looks like Google should have spent a little less money on skydivers and a little more on lawyers :(
I take it you couldn't be bothered to read the article.

If you did you would have noticed that Apple is projecting stereoscopic 3D images using two displays. Does Google do anything at all similar to that ?

No. Case closed.
Good at making counterfeits, bad at making counterfeiting work.

Saw a trashy Discovery channel doc on counterfeiters. They printed using laser printers, and had a good process for aging the money. That was all that was needed... people just don't look that closely at money most of the time. They got away with it for years, even though they were pretty foolish (spent their own fakes, used the same spot every time to print money, etc.)

I can't tell if all that means there are probably smart people getting away with it constantly because they don't slip up in these dumb ways?
It think it is because these are transhumanists. They want these things to be true. They would like to live in a science-fiction world, not in a straightforward, boring, stuff-is-hard world.
I can think of a bazillion of more problems like that. I can also think of a bazillion solutions (ex: reform only for software). An initial draft doesn't need to be perfect. But it would be great to get the conversation started. I'm not optimistic that a patent reform bill would be approved anytime soon, nor in it's first few attempts. But we have to start somewhere, right?
Penultimate counterfeiter doesn't sound as good.
Thank you for clarifying this. It is easy to get misled by those tools, like I was. They should all read this article.
> What's about CSP (channels/goroutines), static duck typing (Go interfaces) and a very practical standard library?

CSP and static duck typing belong to the missing 10% I noted.

Still there are available in other languages that also support native code generation with modules.

> I had taken a look at Oberon back in 1999 and found it so much worse than Delphi for writing real programs. (which was a precursor of C#/Windows Forms, not Go).

Go method definitions are taken from Component Pascal, an extension to Oberon.

Actually I find Delphi much more powerful than Go for large scale development in the enterprise world.
If you read this article and have a halfway decent model of the world in your head, you will realize that police entrapment was the proximate cause of this real, talented artist low on his money becoming a counterfeiter: i.e. they made him do it, and he wouldn't have done it without them, and a judge released him early on probation for this reason (from the article).

But the damage was done. Still without any money, this genuine artist (who had "refused to do two Warhol copies, including forged signatures", always signing his own name instead on homage pieces) now had a criminal skill that had no other applications.

The fact is most people here have had a time in their life when they had unhoned skills (e.g. software/hardware hacking) that, if they only landed the right internship, would become very valuable. When the police are the proximate cause to creating this "lucky" internship (lucky in that the guy had 0 experience with it, or even interest for that matter) to create skills that have only a criminal market [1], something is very wrong.

It would be great if Freakonomics covered entrapment some time, as it's very insidious - on the surface it seeems that if you do it you "would have done it anyway", but this example shows pretty obviously that this isn't true in any form whatsoever.

[1] EDIT: or not even a criminal market, as the case may be:

"The problem was, Kuhl and his partners couldn’t make a deal with anyone. It wasn’t for lack of trying—a sale brokered by a criminal-minded former cop fell through, and another transaction with a supposed buyer in Majorca fizzled. That was when Becker and his colleagues decided to help things along by providing an attractive buyer themselves."
Whoa, that is some statistic! Eventually the best entrepreneurs are going to vote with their feet and that cannot be good for Russia. High time for Putin to fix the broken legal/police system.
I'm in the process of writing my a functional utility library myself, and having thought about these things for a while, I think letting everyone curry things themselves make things less intelligent.

For example:

Udon.elem(2, [1, 2, 3]) === true;

As it stands this is simply an accessor for Array.prototype.indexOf. If people know how to use that, this alias is relatively useless unless you want to compose. And even then, you could always compose around the expression, or with a method on the prototype of the result (Number in this case).

However, it's very useful to have a curried version of it so that it can be used in filters:

[1,2,3,4,3,2].filter($.elem([2,4])); // [ 2, 4, 2 ]

This maintains your current javascript indexOf usage, but allows a higher order use that I think should be the default for this function.

If you want you JavaScript to look more like Haskell, then your way makes more sense, but having to write Udon.curry everywhere sort of takes away from that cleanliness you are trying to recreate. I prefer to not mess with existing semantics too much because of it. For reference, here's my library: https://github.com/clux/interlude#usage
You can find corruption all around the world, in places that were never under a communist regime.
Corruption is a consequence of our human condition, not our economic system.
A proposed bill to ban software patent would be great, but maybe Google, Apple and co. actually "like" the status quo ? It's a kind a dissuasion weapon that only huge companies can get, so even if they don't like to fight with each other, at least they prevent new competition to arise
Yes because Linux only come onto the market this week and hasn't been around for 20+ years without a lawsuit from Apple. Or how about the fact that at one stage Apple had their own Linux distribution (MkLinux) and contributes a lot of core technologies used in Linux e.g. CUPS, WebKit.
Among other things, it doesn't matter how much Google wants to spend on patent reform. Apple can spend double or triple if it comes to that (not to mention other interests inside and outside the tech industry).

If you knew you were hopelessly outgunned, would you start that fight? Or would you lay low and hope that gridlock means that at least things don't get worse?
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I really like seeing this approach listed:

"resourcing for projects is purely voluntary. A PM lobbies group of engineers, tries to get them excited about their ideas. Engineers decide which ones sound interesting to work on."

That sounds exactly the same as how Github's engineers work.

It's an awesome concept; no-one can justifiably be bored with their projects if they chose them. And if you can't get anyone interested in working on the project, then it's a good indicator it may not be a project worth completing for the company anyway.

I'm sure there are times when someone has to say "We need someone to do this", but I'd be curious to hear from someone who works in one of these environments how common an issue that really is.
I dont know why people dont getting the reality of the whole patent thing. If apple not patenting things, someone other does and come back to kick apple in the nuts. Its just one of the many legal capitalism games. Stop the patent laws and nobody does it. Just simple as that. If Samsung or Google would lead the mobile Race, they would act the same (and they do already).
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