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I'd also think commits are not a productivity metric.

An interesting topic. If you look at commits on the same project for a long enough period, trends do emerge.

The time scale is important, because committing a 3rd-party library or a bunch of docs isn't really productivity, but it evens out over time.
I really don't understand how someone can be only a front end developer or a back-end developer. Why would anyone want to learn just one thing when the thing that is valuable is delivering actual applications. Who wants to have to depend on someone else to accomplish anything and make a living?

To answer your question, a front-end or back-end developer is someone who (erroneously) sees development as sort of blue collar labor like a plumber or a electrician. A web designer is someone who decided they could just do all the easy, fun stuff while getting to decide everything and prefers to work with trade-type developers for the un-fun bits.

Object oriented scripting is important because without some sort of organization of code, you end up with a huge mess of code and variables. Without encapsulation you never know when and how it's safe to modify data or what side effects it might have or what code is allowed to modify what data.
I won't claim any level of tooling/IDE parity, but FPs are quickly getting up there.

As an example, Haskell has a very helpful community, lots of stimulating content (yes, some are math heavy but many/most are not), over 3000 packages on Hackage (many of which are really excellent), 700+ people on IRC at anytime constantly talking/answering questions, at least 3 major web frameworks, many concurrency libraries, database drivers/libraries for almost anything, an astounding number of utility libraries and a real world-class, top of the line compiler (GHC) that produces blazing fast, robust code. Many companies are building commercial/proprietary tools with it for mission critical applications.
My immediate thought was, "Neat, I'm going to add this to my feed reader and see how it progresses." Followed by... "Hmm, no RSS link." (view source)... "Huh."
A tiny (700 bytes) library for changing the favicon of the page.
Actually, a software-driven car could follow cars much closer than (mph / 10) car lengths. That particular rule of thumb is based off of human reaction times. A safety buffer is still a good thing, but software will react several orders of magnitude faster than a person.

Also, if software-driven cars become common enough, you will probably get places a lot faster, at least in heavy traffic. Traffic flow could be much better than it is with humans driving. There have been several studies on freeway gridlock traffic that show that small driving mistakes (e.g. slowing down more abruptly than necessary) can butterfly-effect out into massive bottlenecks. And of course if software-driven cars cause fewer accidents, there will be less gridlock due to those as well.
These stupid meme faces need to die already.
I'm hoping they keep the iPod Classic around, regardless of how well they sell. In my mind, it's the seed of the Apple renaissance.
I discovered Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia at the same time, in 2001. TOP was finished but SO was not translated (or maybe only item names…) and I remember being so impatient that I printed a walkthrough and played about one third of it in Japanese in the summer of 2002. I wanted to play it so badly that it pushed me to register on many forums at that time.

And now I can't even remember my usernames or even the name of some of the the forums I joined.

Do you remember Silhouette? That's the first SNES emulator I've used, back in 1996 or 1997. A friend gave it to me along with 4 roms, including Chrono Trigger. I wasn't into Video Games before that…
He also expressed a slight desire to adjust his focus, in a post from earlier this year -
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/25/three-things

Slightly off topic: The Atlantic had an article yesterday about DF's 10th anniversary (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/08/happy-10...), and it had this bit of astute criticism:

The past year, DF hasn't been as enjoyable as its been in the past. Apple, Gruber's Beatrice, is engorged as a company, and seems now to be veering from interestingly complex to dully complicated. [...] But, in light of that victory, his renegade confidence has become an assured superiority. He hasn't written, for a long time, an engaging description of a laptop or an account of an anthropomorphized interface element.

To which Jason Kottke agreed: http://kottke.org/12/08/an-appreciation-of-10-years-of-darin...

So perhaps Gruber is consciously responding to these critiques and upping his game - which is nice, because this post was a great read.
Instead of making a Saturday trip to change an oil and chat with mechanics about good old days, about whether, girls, beer, or whatever it is, I am sure better staying home to chat on Facebook, while my car gets oil change on its own.

If that's how you prefer it, that's fine. But all my mechanic ever chats with me about is about how much I need his $49.99 radiator purge. It's not how I want to spend my time.

If its going to be safe, noone will need to be convinced.

Many people have an innate fear of things they can't control. Think about all the people who fear flying on commercial airliners -- quoting them a statistic about its safety doesn't make their fear go away. There will need to be a lot of convincing.
I should add that my "90% of the way there" gets you a service that easily speaks JSON via REST calls. Its all you need if your frontend is backbone based or its just a service getting called by another layer. If you need to actually render web pages in response you'll need something for views/templating, freemarker is a reasonable option and JSF isn't terrible if you avoid half of it (looking at you ViewScoped). But, honestly, I would do the page rendering elsewhere, I don't think there is a good Java answer for this, maybe the Play Framework, haven't used it much yet.

In my case the Java backend exposes RESTful models via JSON which are consumed by a rails app using Her[0] a great gem that is what ActiveResource should have been. It wires up to Jersey quite easily.

[0] https://github.com/remiprev/her
Static files are still served by a normal CDN. This helps with dynamic HTTPS requests that change each time.
From the youtube link:

"Men must be governed. Often not wisely I will grant you but they must be governed nonetheless."

"That's the excuse of every tyrant in history. From Nero to Bonaparte. And I for one am opposed to authority. It is the egg of misery and oppression."

"You've come to the wrong shop for anarchy, brother."

And from the RT interview:

"The trouble is, a lot of it [network neutrality] has to be enforced by the government, and conservative types and libertarian types say 'government shouldn't have any say and control over that; that takes away our freedom.' Wrong. It takes away the freedom of the companies that are taking away the freedom from us."

I'd assume the clip from youtube is meant to reinforce the inherent necessity of an authority to enforce order. The "conservative types and libertarian types" would likely consider authority the "egg of misery and oppression." But Wozniak argues that "men must be governed. Often not wisely... but they must be governed nonetheless." Wozniak is addressing the oft-repeated mantra amongst conservative and libertarian types that government is inherently inefficient and should be limited in order to maximize freedom; his argument is to highlight the paradoxical observation that from a lack of authority grows the very oppression -- non-neutral networking -- that these types claim to deplore.
> self-driving cars becoming a norm leads to more car-centered infrastructure over public transportation

Out of curiosity, why would this be? I can see that commuters who despise driving may switch to cars from public transport, but at least from personal experience, I don't see this as a major reason for people using public transport in the first place.

Is there another reason I'm missing? I'd imagine it would be more likely that self driving vehicles end up improving public transport (both in quality of service and popular usage).
Or anyone who doesn't want the admins to have their True Name via paypal.
Computer that could outlive the universe a step closer
Needs a modern 'good broadband' movement. Thanks for the link.
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Bus drivers and those represented by unions and assciations will take a while to be eliminated from being necessary.

It hasn't been necessary to have train operartors/conductors for a few decades but they persist, despite trains being by their nature of prescribed, unchanging, predictable routes with preditable stops, prime candidates for automation. Monorails, for some reason are an exception.
Compact communities don't have to involve large populations. There are already small and medium-sized villages in Europe that have successfully converted to 100% car-free walkable spaces, and it isn't inconceivable for many existing US suburbs. You just have to move away from this design philosophy focused on strictly separating residential and commercial zones.
I just love it when people try to juxtapose "pragmatic" with "math-heavy". Obviously, in the real world no one ever uses math, all they do is print "Hello World" to the screen.
I don't hate ORMs, but I hate when they are too intrusive. What I like about Ebean is that it was designed to only handle the simple stuff "ORMish" and provide a very smooth and easy breakdown to raw SQL so you get the best of both worlds. I also love "autotune", it tracks your call stack for queries and after it has enough statistics it'll start only fetching the fields that you actually ended up using. So if you have an object with 25 fields and one page A you only use 5 of them, it'll only fetch those 5, but since its based on a the call stack and not hardwired into the model, it can can track that you used 5 different fields on page B and optimize that query too.
Bilal, I just want to thank you whole hearty for your, and your teams, effort!
I'm a Phd student in engineering, where as far as I can tell, it is even worse. I love academia, but the fact that we don't even attempt to live up to the standards we supposedly agreed on makes me sad.

Especially in computer focused areas like CS or Statistics, it would be straight forward to submit more or less completely self-reproducible papers.
Alas, it is seemingly impossible to find an adviser who will allow you to publish all your source code and primary data, let alone spend the additional time to get them into a publishable form.
I'm reading a little between the lines here. But I think this is what her answers would be:

> The people she knows who signed up were male, and that's unfortunate because?

A lack of diversity is a fundamental evil.

> Her female friends were not being di[s]couraged from signing up, were th[e]y?

Females must equal males in all things. Otherwise it's DISCRIMINATION by the GRAND EVIL SEXIST PIG CONSPIRACY.

> Would it be disappointing if most of her readers were female?

No. A mostly-female community is empowering. A mostly-male community is a sexist boys' club. THIS RULE HOLDS REGARDLESS OF ALL FACTS, REASONS, AND MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES.

> But then, it's also bad that there is a $50 cost to entry.

CAPITALISM AND MAKING MONEY are evil under all circumstances. In the future, everyone will work for the government, and all will be sweetness and light. Despite the fact that this was tried and failed miserably, as anyone who knows anything about the past 100 years of world history can tell you.

> I'd like it to be easier (dollar-free) to join a site I thought was the wrong direction in social?

The world owes me a handout. Obviously.

> If app.net is successful, what would prevent others from creating their own interest-driven sites?

OH NOES MORE CAPITALISTS IT'S SPREADING
Please, please, please spend a day abstracting out commonly written functions to one place. Your quickly-written prototype code should not be slowed down by the 100th slightly different implementation of a text tokenizer or kNN classifier.
There's a big difference in turning a page the size of your hand when you are already holding the book and trying to click a micro button the size of a word when you use the arrow keys to move the browser window.

I'll just wait until the exact same information appears on a single page. I was expressing sincere regret because I liked the first page, but I absolutely will not read paginated articles.

Also: you're obviously irritated by my grumbling, but grumbling about it is just a massive load of hypocrisy, so please realize I'm not going to be taking any of your comments all that seriously.
I was already on Linode and I'm only serving a few hundred GB of static files per day (with the Linodes I have this is well within my free quota).

In my instance (forums with current discussions) most static file requests are for image attachments in the very latest discussions, the hot topics. So Varnish fits this scenario really well. I didn't need a long-term storage of images in the CDN, I just needed to store the most recently requested items in the CDN.

Linodes are cheap, I was already using them in a distributed fashion to reduce SSL roundtrips, and introducing Varnish was a small configuration change.

I have tried a few other providers (most recently CloudFlare). But I was generally not happy with them, usually due to a lack of visibility.

I proxy http:// images within the user generated content over https:// when the sites are accessed over https:// . And occasionally I found that images would not load when I used a CDN provider for that. But never had enough data and transparency with the CDN to know why. Users notice this stuff though, so I'd have isolated users complaining of images not loading and no way to debug or reproduce it.

So I found that as my scenario made Varnish a good fit, and the bandwidth was within my allowance, and it was easy to do... well, I just did it.

I still experiment with CDNs every now and then, but largely I get more reliability and transparency from my own solution. I've also found this to be cost effective, though I would be OK with paying a premium if I found the reliability and transparency rivalled my home-rolled solution.
Government is merely a set of people. These people don't give you your rights any more than some random person on the street gives you your rights. Both merely either respect them or not.

America, in spite of its contradictions, was to a significant extent based on the idea of "inalienable rights", and is why it was so successful. The verbiage in The Bill of Rights was intended to recognize, not confer rights, and it was intended to restrain government from violating them.
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>Now cut the price of the car in half (no front seats, steering column, etc needed)...

You're kidding, right? steering column, steering wheel + pedals cost a fraction of the cost of a car. That's assuming they aren't left in there for manual override (parking ,etc).

Front seats? Where are the passengers going to sit? Taking away 1 driver seat will just mean 1 more person capacity, which wouldn't affect revenue because very few cab calls are 1 seat over, resulting in two cabs.

Now that you've saved $500 on the cost of the cab by taking out the steering wheel (or making it removable) now add in the $x,000 worth of sensors.

>Now cut out the pay for the time cabbies spend waiting for calls

At $10/hr, the most you're going to pay for a cabbie sitting around all shift is $120. Which doesn't happen, because cab companies already effectively model utilisation patterns.

>Now cut the fleet size by 75%

Cab fleet size is dictated by peak usage patterns as a function of revenue, not by drivers.

Cabs can be autonomously profitable - many cities have privately owned cabs. The fixed costs of running a cab company are actually quite low in comparison to the marginal costs per cab.
Oh Woz, you're so confused. You want the Internet to stay unregulated, yet are in favour of Net Neutrality?
But that's not how the constitution is supposed to work. The federal government is supposed to have specific powers, enumerated by the constitution, and no more, with all remaining powers going to the state or the individual. The federalists were concerned people would misinterpret the bill of rights as an exclusive enumeration of individual freedoms, and they added the ninth amendment to explicitly say that it isn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_S...
I have a Debian laptop.

ls -alh | wc -l returns 89. I can subtract "..", ".", and the "totals" lines, so that's 86 init scripts.

Big O for 86 scripts is 86 * n, which simplifies to "n". I'm not concerned.
I'm not a regular reader of daringfireball, but that blog post is very long on speculation and decidedly short on facts. It's random chance whether any of the resolutions, dimensions, weights, or features he settles on wind up proving to the true. This is firmly in the "Bluray support will be native in the next version of OSX!" sort of speculation.
You have freedom as defined by your government.

Want two wives, nope sorry.

Marry someone same sex, maybe depends where you live.
The extreme popularity of the mac book air and now pc clones of that form factor would indicate otherwise. I think Gruber hit the nail on the head with: Don't think of it as an iPad mini but an iPad air.

Once the early adopters flash their iPad airs around with no case (or an extremely thin mag cover), an ipad 3 is going to look fat and heavy. A nexus 7 is going to look bulky and old. Soon it will be a basic expectation that tablets are light as feather computers with no perceivable thickness. Tablets that don't come in this form factor will be seen as clunky relics of the past.

The best way to tell if an apple product will do well, is to ask your self: "Once this product gets wide spread adoption, will this product make its predecesor seem, old, clunky and/or unrefined". From a tactile and visual stand point a iPad air will do this.
If only :/ I don't even have an FPU.
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The pipes themselves must not be regulated based on the content. In other words, freedom for users, not necessarily for ISPs.
Wow,

The whole article read like a description of my day to day life.

I'm a procrastinator and didn't even realize it till now!
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Super lucid break down of a lot of the issues.
I have a bit of operation understanding because very early spring, a friend and I were exploring doing an fleet/taxi management application for the NYC FHV drivers and even were at the TLC taxi app rfp reading. All of these points are lucid and concord with my knowledge

Note: I'm not doing anything in that space presently (merely did a thorough exploration of it), all the human factor issues terrified me, I like my good ole hard core math & computer science & engineering challenges! :)
Too little too late. Honestly, I have a lot of other problems besides this recent dust up but I think it was a last straw for a lot of people. They have just as arrogant a view about privacy as Facebook, just far less users.

I think StackExchange is far superior with a few notable issues, such as the lack of breadth and long road to go from the Area 51 or whatever it is to actually being a full site. I think StackExchange.com should have an easier of finding subject sites. If nothing else, SE shows you don't need to surrender your identity or privacy at the door just to ask and answer questions, which for many people is the time they'd raher not surrender their identity.
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Same here, I had some discussion with the creator but it looked rather doomed from the start. He was worrying about parser optimization, logo design, and interactive shells, when there wasn't even any (hand-)compiled program or proof of concept of the semantics...
Jolla Phone leaked
Is this the new Jolla Phone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolla
I think there would be a feedback loop in place where self-driving cars demand better infrastructure to support them, and as this infrastructure improves, self-driving cars become more convenient to use, leading more people to want to use them, leading to more such infrastructure. Since this infrastructure gets funded, it's not much of a stretch to think that most transport money would go there.

Some of the technology might make public transport more efficient (self driving buses seem like a good idea), but cars would probably dominate.
International shipping to Malaysia is almost definitely not free.
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Kind of an irrelevant point the internet is not part of the U.S... nor should the U.Ses laws apply to it.
It must be terrifying to read articles like this (written for a domestic political purpose: preserving and expanding Navy funding) in a foreign newspaper, if you don't have the right context.

I assume Russian publications say exactly the same things whenever US forces conduct exercises nearby.
'ls -A | wc -l' will spare you having to account for the '.' and '..' lines. Omitting the '-l' (redundant for your case) also spares the "totals" line.
I emailed their customer service about a minor issue (more of a feature request really), and got back a response within hours which included a credit to my account. I hadn't asked for- or felt I deserved- a penny, but apparently their customer service people did.
Extraleanstartup....settled, have house, on meetup.  next entrepreneur step?
Posted couple weeks ago about arriving with just an idea in tow and a couple thousand dollars. Have secured a share room for 300, Paid months in advance. Now looking to move forward with building a product. Dont have cofounder (tech) , but believe the next step is too get b cards made, nd build a minimum viable product. i.e. a demo video on a website. My idea, after exhaustive research is not being implementedin the enterprise space(Its a training social software focused on sharing success through the organization.....

What should be my next move....talk to people at meetups, pitch crawl, operate in stealth, trademark names, etc..

Thanks. Torben 415-336-6890
This app is open-source: https://github.com/zielmicha/emacs-android. When you start the app for the first time, it displays that link in the terminal output.
Sorry this wasn't clear, I actually meant Apple as an example of what you said.

Apple under Steve Jobs famously refused to issue dividends in spite of shareholder pressure, instead choosing to reinvest most of the cash back into the company.

This clearly turned out to be a great decision. Tim Cook's decision to start issuing dividends may well turn out to be the beginning of Apple's decline.
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Media Temple operates this way, as well. I like this approach, as I can never remember those "4-digit account pins" (looking at you, AT&T), and I'm happier knowing any given pin is only usable for the next hour, anyway.