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Only skimmed the article, but this question came to mind:

If your database API generates a 5800-line query for a common use case, isn't that a flaw in the API?

Given this data, I'd advise anyone planning to use this framework to instead consider avoiding it and using a better API or even writing SQL manually if necessary.
> You have to remove "by illegal means" from your statement, because you're claiming how copyright infringment is theft, and being illegal doesn't make it theft. It's illegal because it's claimed to be theft.

You can't drop the "by illegal means" part from my statement, on the grounds that copyright infringement isn't theft, because my statement isn't predicated on it being theft, it's predicated on it being illegal behavior. Which it is, on a basis wholly distinct from theft.

"Getting something you would normally have to pay for for free by illegal means" encompasses a wide range of non-theft illegal means: by use of threat (extortion), by use of trick (fraud), etc.

The point is that it's not a very defensible position to say "give me more product at lower prices or I will subvert the law to obtain it for free."
Well, everybody ripped off everybody, it's just the fault of the patent system
NASA is a wonder of our modern age. If we're going to have a planned economy (and we are), let's do it through science, technology and knowledge rather than military power.
One thing this doesn't seem to answer... Why bother when we already have SPDY?
You can negotiate all those BS fees to $0. For example.. I pay 0.1% + interchange. $0.05 per transaction gateway fee and $0.10 cc trans fee (includes AVS). $5/mo base fee. NOTHING ELSE (well chargeback fees, everywhere has that).

You have no clue what you're talking about. I guarantee Stripe will charge you CB fees too.

Only way Stripe is worth the time and % they jack it up is if you do LOW volume.

edit: 5 seconds in google and Stripe charges $15 for a chargeback, same as Chase. Basically paying Stripe 1% + another $0.15 or so per transaction. NO THANKS! No one doing any type of CC volume would be dumb enough to give that $ away.
Which is why you make sure that you can easily switch to something else if you need to.
The progressive enhancement approach you describe does not address cases where an alternative should be provided for less capable browsers.

The closest analog in existing tools might be YepNope - "a conditional loader for your polyfills." http://yepnopejs.com/

There's an argument to be made that this is unnecessarily reducing maintainability and increasing development complexity by building redundant functionality to account for edge cases, but there are scenarios where it's appropriate. Building modern web apps with a support gradient more inclusive than latest Webkit/Gecko will appreciate the tools.
But copyright infringement, in certain contexts, is a crime.

The "it's not theft" argument is pedantry. There are lots of ways to obtain things for free that aren't technically theft: extortion, blackmail, fraud, etc. Illegal copying is one of those ways.
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I always see people comparing pirate downloads as akin to motor vehicles while the copyright industry is the buggy whip manufacturer but has anyone parroting that actually stopped to think about how patently ridiculous the comparison is?

Technology has not rendered copyright unnecessary. Yes, it is easier to mass-infringe these days than in the past but you must remember that, not only has it been possible (and generally easy) to infringe upon copyright, but that that is the very reason why copyright exists in the first place.

Intellectual property is more than a business and it's silly to claim otherwise. To quote the US Constitution on the matter:

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"

This is the clause that essentially says "People can copy the work of others so in order to encourage creation we will allow creators an exclusive monopoly for some time after which it will belong to the public."

The problem with copyright is not that the industry is trying to pretend that it's not easy to copy because that is really nothing new; the problem with copyright is that the idea of "limited Times" has gotten ridiculous but that is an entirely different conversation.
Patrick, I'm curious how you have been using Stripe as you are in Japan and it seems they only recently began expanding out of America. Is the business entity behind BCC registered in the US?
> RSS I'm sure had at least 10 users, but it was an unneeded overhead in two applications.

Exactly this is my issue (not the rest of your comment, but this sentiment which I see everywhere since a couple years or so). Every time Apple drops support for anything, people talk about cleaning up, or the inevitable march of progress, or about how Microsoft is doomed because you can still install their OS on unworthy 32-bit boxen.

RSS support in mail hardly imposed any overhead on users. Why do we care about what Apple's programmers think or feel? These folks are paid to keep their apps running. Maintaining Cocoa apps is something that Apple can easily hire more people for (unlike hacking on the kernel, or on system frameworks).
it says: "nuclear battery". it looks small. can someone point me to some more details? Obviously if they decided its fine to shoot this thing into the space (go through Earth atmosphere) - it should mean that there was no environmental danger for this thing to go bad?
Not really. To verify what you get you just need to have the groups sign the content. Doesn't have to be from anywhere official (that would be counterproductive), but given time you would learn to trust a specific signature, based on past actions/releases. Then it wouldn't matter where you got them from.
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I was able to get in running against an existing statsd installation trivially, and explore it to my heart's content on my existing metrics. And I can look at the source - what more do you want? That was the easiest 3rd-party dashboard setup I've ever experienced.
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Eh, I wasn't meant to be so cynical (It just came across that way because I suppose I am!)
Will this let me see the faces of users watching my film? If I can't see the face then I don't want it. Whenever I screen my films I like to see the face of the person who is watching it. In fact I setup a camera pointing at my audience so I can watch the faces later. I like to see the reaction of someone's face to my movie. It's very important feedback since the face doesn't lie.
I am someone who is interested in Clojure trying to learn something from a survey that was posted, and I'm providing constructive feedback (explicitly constructive, as I went out of my way to carefully come up with an improved wording that could be used for one of the questions) to further that goal. To help demonstrate that the question was confusing, I asked someone here to answer it, and he came up with multiple answers to the question, which was the very way I claimed that the question failed, as the question only allowed a single answer. I don't care about "contracts" or "loyalty/zealotry": I care about trying to come up with an improved survey that has answers that mean something. I'm "sorry" that no one else does, and that they would rather type long replies about how much they love Clojure than discuss issues in question design on a survey... whatever.
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Just because copyright infringement is not theft doesn't mean there aren't cases where infringement is problematic. I think most people support reasonable modifications to copyright law, not the total abolition of copyright altogether.

And for the record, a "startup idea" cannot be copyrighted, and they can be and are copied all the time. The closest you can get is patenting a fundamental part of the business model.
Android has got a bazillion time superior keyboard than Apple's, not to mention other choices. Samsung just wants to continue game of lawsuits.
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We have been working on everythinker.com for some weeks. The idea is that current blogging and social platforms do not really help users spread their content.

On everythinker.com, we guarantee an audience for whatever you write! The website is based on quid pro quo. Every time you read another user's message, you get 1 point. You can then use your points to post your own messages. The more points you use when you post a message, the more users will read your message.

We want to give voice to everyone.

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Patrick, just noticed your Adwords spend went from $1000's to $0 suddenly. Looks like a disaster. What happened? Is Adwords no longer viable?
2checkout is an option for payments outside the US. They are a bit pricey, but they're one of the few international payment processors around, and have very good customer support, both for buyers and sellers.

[I used to work for 2co. I don't any more.]
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It may be worth noting (though you perhaps already know this) that our fees are all-inclusive. We don't charge extra for amex cards, international cards, qualified vs. non-qualified transactions, etc. These things often add up to make other gateways' fees higher than they seem.

Also, we have volume discounts for people processing more than a million dollars a year, so this may be something you'd be interested in.
It uses a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG). Many spacecraft use them. The Apollo 13 RTG is currently at rest on the ocean floor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
This is really key. The guarantees provided by modeling systems are of limited value if the translation between model and runnable code involves manual labor.
> The dollar is a fiat currency, and plenty of people (and countries) keep all their assets in the form of dollars

The point I was trying to make is that most people's assets include some physical items like food, shelter, clothing, appliances, vehicles, computers...regardless of what currency you hold, these physical items can all be physically seized.
The Android gang is not offensive (yet) because IIRC their most important patents are "essential" patents (connecting to 3G network and stuff like that), which they can't go offensive about. Google paid $12B for Motorola Mobility and was willing to pay another $3.141B for Nortel patents. They're a publicly traded company, they can't just dump $15B for "charity" and "advancing the technology". I'm not sure that had they won the Nortel patents they would be as un-evil as they are now.

Apple is being obnoxious, no denying that. But Google is just being 'good' because being 'bad' is not profitable to them at the moment. They're all companies, and capitalism rules.

As others have said, hate the game not the players. Patents are good, but patenting ridiculous "innovations" or attempting to license the patented technology for unreasonable prices is the real issue here.
The coordination of all this just blows my mind.
They could run it from a non-profit instead of a private company. Would be an interesting experiment!
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My question is this.. why the fuck does Apple ship Photobooth, Mail, Safari, Garageband, iMovie and iDVD with my OS and make it super bloated, when I have no bloody use for those?

Why can't we just go to Apple's website and install it if we want to?
So, in my 70/30 example, the goal was to demonstrate that there were two reasonable paths for someone in that situation to start using Clojure, and that if this question were worded differently it would be possible to get useful information out of it: you could tell whether Clojure's "main in-mind competitor" was Python or JavaScript; this could be done in a way that even removed the mental biases of how a developer self-associates himself, because the question could be made resilient to such.

After all, there is a goal to the question other than to just ask people "what're all y'r favorite languages out there in ClojureLand!", right? If not, then sure: the question as answered might be somewhat vaguely reasonable, in that it is more "free association in the mind of the person answering the question"; but if you have some actual purpose to asking, maybe to provide better "how to move from language X to Clojure" documentation, or to know on what forums and in what magazines outreach efforts should be coordinated, or to get a feel for the kinds of language and library features that people may be missing, the question as stated isn't really going to help, and may as well be replaced with the much simpler "what is your favorite non-Clojure language".

Again: the developer might actually consider himself a JavaScript developer, consider JavaScript even to be the one true language that binds all other languages together and by which all other languages should be understood, and thereby is his "primary language", and yet in his world he just replaced every single moment he used to use Python with Clojure. The answer "JavaScript" is then of some vague interest, but honestly he wasn't even using JavaScript for these tasks before even though he theoretically could have been: for some reason the kind of task he is now using Clojure for was dominated before by Python in his mind, and that's what it is going to be compared to and what it is going to be replacing.
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700B for DOD, versus 8B NASA. 87x difference. If NASA would have 87x more money, by now we would have a Martian base and most likely missions where civilians could buy a ticket and fly there for a honeymoon.
Or HTTP over SCTP
> It's not essential for 99.9% of Mac users and only developers and system admins would want it installed.

It is worth pointing out that X11.app is necessary for window management apps like Cinch[1] and Divvy[2]. The former simply reproduces Windows 7's "dragging to the edges to split/maximize" behavior. This is hardly deeply technical stuff. Both apps are available on the Mac App Store - but users need to jump through a painful DMG installation hoop to get their purchases to run.

[1] http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/
[2] http://mizage.com/divvy/
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Thanks for sharing. I think I am going to switch to a scheme like this.
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One component is the transit security -is the data safe from interception in transit (on the network). The other component it security of the data at rest - is the data safe from interception if it comes to rest on your server (sessions, databases, etc.).

From data security standpoint is is easier to let somebody else do it, but end users tend to have a less satisfying checkout experience.
I signed up with my US address and banking information. "By registering for a Stripe Service Account, you are confirming to be either a legal resident of the United States, a United States citizen or a business entity authorized to conduct business by the state in which it operates." (Though I finally got a DBA from Illinois, um, yesterday. Not related to Stripe -- a hospital wasn't thrilled with the notion of writing a particular flavor of check to a natural person.)
I bet James Gosling was proud.
Nuclear batteries are unlike what we normally think of as "nuclear reactors". They both use heat, but nuclear batteries do not bring the fuel to criticality (in other words, no chain reaction). This limits their power output obviously, but they are pretty damn reliable in return.

The one in Curiosity seems to have 5kg of Plutonium 238. I don't know what kind of containment it has to protect it during launch, but I assume it is fairly substantial. Nuclear batteries are not something NASA is new to, they have used them many times before, including in the Voyager probes.

Interestingly, nuclear reactors have been put into space too, by both the US and the Soviets. There have been incidents but nothing that I would really call a disaster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RORSAT
You have to convince them that machinery is the critical path - and in a large organization it probably isn't. The bottle neck is probably elsewhere.

Suppose team leaders meet once a day to review progress and assign workloads - that cancels out at least part of any two minute time gain (and perhaps all of it).

And the larger the organization, the less effect speeding up development may have - adding version 2.5 features to version 2.4 is only beneficial if marketing and product packaging can coordinate their collateral with the new scope AND there are additional new features in the pipeline which can support the release of version 2.5 - and doing that requires approval at increasingly higher levels of management.

Or to put it another way, faster machines may simply mean that the programmers have more time to surf the internet while requiring additional capital outlay. Not that that's the entire story - faster hardware is often an easy way to confer status more cheaply than a raise.
Legend has it some students in the UK banked a cow

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But using a service like authorize.net usually means using their PCI-compliant storage in turn with their e-commerce service. How it works is basically the data does not have to pass through your servers exactly like stripe works. They store the data in their servers and you use a key to pass that data to the e-commerce mechanism, never seeing the actual data yourself.

If you're interested the service is called the Customer Information Manager. You can use it to store any secure data that you'd rather not be responsible for. I've used it to great success.

My main reason for my love affair with authorize.net? Recurring billing. They nailed it.
When you're against conglomerates like Comcast, Time Warner, etc., whose interest heavily leans toward draconian copyright enforcement, and who not only control the pipes but also have purchased most of Congress, any filesharing protocol is going to be an arms race just as BitTorrent has been. BitTorrent has easily won and been very successful, and a "harder-to-kill" protocol might end up that way too and give a bit more resilience, but if we want things like this to really stop, we have to fix it at a social level.
Different techniques are useful for different problems. Sometimes you really want a powerful type system: it makes invariants for safety, concision, and speed available that you can't get any other way. Other times you want a more dynamic type system: especially where you don't really know the full shape of the problem yet. This is a choice you have to make, as a language: where on the type continuum do you fall? It's partly technical, partly cultural. When done well, it pervades the language offering tremendous power--but it is a choice.

In many other respects, Haskell and Clojure are ideologically similar. Both emphasize immutability, referential transparency, higher-order functional programming, and laziness. Clojure chooses to layer this on top of a mutable core; Haskell uses monadic combinators. Again, there's a difference of perspective. Haskell's technical emphasis on purity makes powerful invariants available to the compiler, but requires some serious type acrobatics for concurrent stateful operations. Clojure gains the ability to drop to mutability in a simpler way, but places the burden on the programmer to keep track of side effects: relying on culture to maintain sane guarantees.
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I got married. Lots of balls to juggle. "Send credit card statements to VA for entry into the bookkeeping software which automatically populates a few stats on the BCC website" wasn't very high on the list. My actual spend is probably as high as ever, but "Log into AdWords to check" also hasn't been high on the list.
"makes me suspicious that the developers they care about are Mac/iOS developers"

No surprise here. It is very clear that the Mac is becoming two things:

1. Just a bigger iPad that isn't too awkward to use where your average consumer can actually create stuff (videos, photos, etc.);
2. A development machine to create iOS apps.

Everything else is an afterthought.
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Would you have listened to yourself or anyone who'd told you that 5 years ago? I've got some people in town that I do some mentoring with, and I've given them most of this list over the last few years, and generally it's ignored. However, I'll get a call, email or coffee with some 'hey - gotta tell you something!'. I listen as they excitedly share some revelation which is pretty much exactly what I'd told them 2 years earlier. I initially took it personally, but I think now it's more a case of "you gotta learn for yourself". As much as people think they can 'crush it' by reading garyv's book, it's not until you're out there living things day to day that most of this stuff is really driven home.

Another thing I've learned is that it's not what you say, but who you are when you say it. Both who you are to yourself, and who/what others perceive you to be when you're saying it.
I'm concerned about what level feature detections occurs.

For example, it makes sense to have a native @support CSS rule checking for things like border-box support.

But what about detecting features that are separate from rendering? Should @support check for geolocation?

If not, where does that test live - javascript (modernizr, yepnope)? Is separating tests based on type of feature a good thing? If so, how should the interactions between display and feature be intelligently managed? If not, is CSS, Javascript, or some other layer the appropriate place to consolidate tests?

Testing for non-rendering concerns in CSS doesn't make any sense to me, and I'm afraid our future will be HTML markup full of classes namespaced by concern, managed by javascript & feature detection. It's an evolution, but hardly elegant. (class="js-toggle function-geolocation structure-list typography-chrome")