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The web in 1993? I don't remember NCSA Mosaic in 1993, I think I first used that app in 1994 in the lab at UW in Seattle. It was installed on a machine running X Windows, I think it was a DEC terminal. Before Mosaic I can remember an ftp site in Sweden that had a lot of photos. Downloading a photo of the space shuttle with Fetch and then opening it up a second later on the Mac IIsi with the 12" monochrome monitor and being pretty blown away by being able to do that so fast. I had a modem at home and could dial in to the UW Switch (via a friends student id number) with my external ViVa 9600 baud modem that I got for $75. That was a big improvement over my first modem, an external ViVa 2400 baud job that I paid $130 for. The early web was sparsely populated, photo.net wasn't born yet and Philip Greenspun had a nice site "Travels with Samantha" and that had some good advice on scanning your slides with Kodak PhotoCD technology, and then how to remove the magenta cast in Photoshop. AOL always sent out free discs, so after the UW access dried up (my friend graduated) I used that free access (17 hours of free access!) and then got a dial up account from Eskimo North in Seattle. Later found out about nocharge.com free dialup. MUD games were cool back in 1991 when all there was was rn and irc and ftp.sumex-aim.stanford.edu for entertainment.
This is unrelated to the post, but I noticed that instead of removing the email addresses from the thread, they've replaced them with images that are using a vary standard looking monospace font. I would think that any program that mentions "OCR" (including the 20 minute template matching hack you could do in Python with PIL), would be able to harvest addresses from it...
IMO people who disable javascript might as well just use lnyx or something. Javascript is the current and future web and nothing is going to change that so get over it.
Since when is ignorance an excuse to inflict harm?

The established players seek to maintain the status quo in which they exist as "established." This leads them to fight change. I for one, hope they lose that fight, but it's only because I'm not one of those established in this fight, so I will benefit from progressive methods to access media.

It's also worth mentioning that you'll find very few undiscovered/unpublished writers that would have a problem with someone buying their book and listening to it on a Kindle.
Part of his point was calling out the pure consumers ("you non-contributing zero"), who are not the ones making the amazing stuff.

I generally agree with you though.
I think you need to take a closer look at the Mac third party application Community. We have been using a GUI builder called interface builder since NextStep existed, and it is far from failed for us. When it is done right it works well.

I'm not sure how Atlas works, but on the mac code is not Generated in the way you are thinking. You should really check it out.
At least, because it's free software, the users have the source and can use that to migrate to alternatives or carry on the projects without him.
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Question: where did you guys get those working tables? They seem cheap enough and perfect for workstations: fairly deep and easy to move around.
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Getting a blog is really not difficult these days.

Sure, most people don't devote have the time to devote to maintain a full-time blog - but then they shouldn't expect to participate in meaningful conversations on the internet.
You can change jobs when you are on H1B. It is L1B (intra-company transfer from a foreign country) where you can't.
I think his case is weak, but it's not dumb.

I don't understand what the Author's Guild is trying to do here... Obviously, Amazon's lawyers have considered what the implications of an text-to-speech service are. As far as I can tell, the AG isn't even filing a lawsuit, just a PR complain-campaign. What does that get them?

Conspiracy-hat-interpretation: this is great PR for the Kindle's new text-to-speech features. If it wasn't for the Author's Guild, this would be just another bullet point on the features list. Is this a favor from Roy Blount to Amazon?
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Loads of "modern" stuff - unit testing, design patterns, continuous integration, aspect-oriented programming, etc - is people trying to retrofit FP ideas back onto OO code.

This is far, far more work than just using a functional language in the first place!
Absolutely agree with you on all points. I've been saying this for a few years too, and you see it happening now with cloud computing replacing IT guys in startups.

I'm actually very happy this is occurring because more than 50% of the time, dealing with the IT guy is like dealing with a bad police officer. It seems like they're always on some kind of misplaced power trip...
I wonder how things would change if the text-to-speech were done server-side? I'd imagine one can get significantly better quality if you're not doing text-to-speech on the 400Mhz processor on the Kindle 2.
I was on CompuServe back then (95 or 96 anyway), at the time I never even opened the web browser - my time online was spent in the CompuServe app looking at the board/chatroom/portal type things that it used to serve.

Strangely I can still remember the "phone number" style email address I had too...
Personally, I think that it makes the absence more glaring, though to be honest, I think that the immigration situation is a little more nuanced than AVC makes it out to be.
Well, how many frames per second until something is considered to be a movie? ;-)
Texthog "stupid-simple expenditures via text/email"
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Well, this sounds like a good opportunity for me to mention an alternative deployment tool with a cooler name : Vlad the Deployer.

http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html
Sigh, the best way to deal with this sort of thing is to ignore it.
I suspect Google will eventually start supporting Javascript as this sort of design becomes more popular.

The future started more than two years ago, actually. You can experimentally verify it for yourself -- my understanding is that they use a combination of heuristics and actual evaluation.

For example, putting an invisible div on your web page stuffed with keywords is usually a one way trip to smackdown city. Put an invisible div on your web page and make it visible in response to pushing a button and they will index the content much of the time. They are known to spend extra resources to make sure popular techniques do not cause their algorithms to break. (From a SEO perspective I'd suggest being one step behind the cutting edge on innovations like that. 100% JSON site? Cutting edge, probably uncrawlable. Shopping cart rendered using Prototype? Works fine.)
The point as I see it, normally one thinks of programming in "a" language, not 5-7 at once! Just imagine trying to rewrite this paragraph in multiple foreign languages...let's see, nouns in Japanese, verbs in French, adjectives in Russian, and the remainder in Taglish? Illustrates just how demanding web development is. And consider, not only are there best practices to follow for each real language, the conclusion reveals there must be implicit best practices (or at least opinions) for mixing them as well.
I find a couple of things ridiculous about this whole thing.

1) The music industry refused to acknowledge the impact of iTMS instead pretending as if CD sales are the only thing making them money. I might be wrong, but isn't iTMS the number 1 seller now... ?

2) I have a deep, very deep problem with commenters who say stuff like "piracy for life" or "I'll keep pirating till I die". They're just confirming the views of the music labels.
Since when is ignorance an excuse to inflict harm?

They see it as protecting themselves. They inflict harm in the process, but they don't see it as that, and that's why I feel sympathy for them: they don't entirely understand what's going on.

The established players seek to maintain the status quo in which they exist as "established." This leads them to fight change.

They think that the physical form of the book is an important part of literature. I agree with them, but unlike them I think the book is stronger and more lasting than they think. If the book was in danger, then I don't care what solution was being proposed, I would fight to keep the novel afloat for as long as possible. It's too valuable to risk losing.

It's also worth mentioning that you'll find very few undiscovered/unpublished writers that would have a problem with someone buying their book and listening to it on a Kindle.

Most of those writers aren't as dedicated as the published one. A few are, and they're the people who are worth reaching out to, but writing takes an incredible amount of dedication. It attracts an odd bunch of people.
I don't disagree with you, but that's still begging the question.
If you want to see what the Kindle 2 text-to-speech sounds like, you can checkout this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9UtONUBV0s (at the 4:05 mark)

The unboxing video is really annoying but I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the text-to-speech. The voice even has intonation which I've never heard in automated speech before.
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Any Blackberry released before the Bold does not come with AJAX support.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that maybe they should think about how the site will work without Javascript.
Oh, Usenet is still out there. There are even still communities, although it's mostly just used for binaries now.
We finished fine-tuning our prototype yesterday (you know your web site is ready when your registration page looks beautiful). Starting today we're coding the beta.
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Actually after his last announcement of no longer supporting Windows for Capistrano and Net::SSH this will hopefully be a good thing, assuming the community picks it up. Would be nice if he could find a designated maintainer but either way I doubt these projects will go to the wayside.

Wish I had the time I'd contribute more and props to Jamis for the great tools.
Thanks. I liked tdavis's non-explanation of it better.
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When this came up at the Kindle 2 release, I had hoped that the Author's Guild would listen to people's reactions as an indicator of things to come. Instead, they shout their argument twice as loud and in a more public place. Roy Blount has a choice, but he needs to make it soon.

The smart thing to do is restructure his industry following Apple's iTunes model, reducing the power of publishers and negotiating more favorable agreements between authors and ebook distributers.

The stupid thing is to become the next Lars Ulrich, telling people that they're pirates and technology is bad. He has a convenient corporate entity to attack, which is much easier than poor college kids, but he is fighting a futile battle against the tide.

Audio rights are an absurd right to begin with, existing because we drive around so much that some people are willing to splurge on this luxurious derivative. Technology naturally makes things less expensive, and if it isn't the Kindle, it will be another reader, or a reader add-on, that will provide the same functionality.

Do the right thing, Roy, and spend your time optimizing the efficiency of the market for authors.
Well, so did I! But it's over so quickly. So just in case you find yourself wanting more...
1) "The USA will emerge stronger than before" That's a tall order. I'd settle for we will recover... I wonder if that's a promise the President should be making.

I took this to mean we'd be stronger in the sense that we wouldn't be so vulnerable to economic disaster (because we won't be tempting fate by overextending ourselves). But still, that which does not kill me makes me stronger.

2) I read the speech in its entirety twice and did not find one mention of immigration... I think that's true but a lot of that ingenuity and tenacity came from first and second generation immigrants.

That we are all the children of immigrants is a given, isn't it? Or in many cases, immigrants ourselves. It's such a given that I don't think it warranted direct mention. Red herring.

4) Hardest working people on earth? C'mon Barack. Don't bullshit us. Go back and read number two.

What do you know about the European work ethic? They think we're slaves to ourselves. You could argue that many Asian countries are harder-working, but I'd argue that they are not as innovative. Hard work + innovation = America (at its best). (Also, remember: Barack is doing a certain amount of cheerleading here. That's part of his job.)

7) A new accountability for money spent saving banks. Barack said "I intend to hold these banks fully accountable for the assitance they receive". Good luck with that. Money is fungible.

Maybe, but cynicism never solved a problem. Better to try and fail somewhat than to take the previous administration's approach and let it be play money.

Watching Pelosi and Biden behind the President was distracting and a reminder that as well intenioned as Obama is, he's got an impossible job.

I'll say! What was with that? You're trying to pay attention to what Obama is saying, and Pelosi keeps playing with her hair. WTF, is this national-level speechmaking or what?
Hoodwink.d used this idea

http://redhanded.hobix.com/-h/hoodwinkDDayOneForcingTheHostT...

And there was another framework that did essentially the same thing, using DHTML and AJAX to create the page from a blank slate. But I cannot recall the name.
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It might just be me but their processing times seem to have been growing and growing. Also I've been getting frequent erroring machine s(screenshots obscured by dialogs etc.). Might just be my luck though.
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Allowing kids to stand, sit, fidget, etc, seems so obvious.

The whole sit still for hours at a time, is unnatural for kids and comes from the time when school was in a monastery and the monks thought fidgeting was devil's work.

It is amazing how long counter productive rituals can persists. Requiring kids to sit eerily still, makes teaching them harder, for no good reason. And it has been that way for hundreds of years. Civilization can be seriously crazy some times.
Yeah, I second this. It's really useful and easy to use.
Agreed. In fact, Amazon engineered the Kindle to play Audible books as well. And they didn't eliminate this functionality when they added the ability to 'read' the books aloud.
It seems like http://www.couchsurfing.com/ is a bit more mature than airbnb.com, but airbnb.com looks more technically competent.
It's a nonsense argument posited by younger people who really haven't had much life experience, and have not met many people who aren't of their same race.

Agree with everything you said except for this. Most of the most racist people I know are 40+. Sadly, I don't think life experience tempers prejudice...often it just reinforces it.
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This will sound like a trollish comment, but can anyone point to a modern web-app written in a purely functional language?

I'm curious how several design problems, such as DB access and authentication, have been handled...
You're not familiar with TimBL's Principle of Least Power, I see. The majority of the web pages I visit work fine without JavaScript (I use the NoScript extension) and they look a lot better in Firefox than in lynx, or even links.
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I don't see why semantic features should get credit.

As information continues to mushroom, I find that I have to use more search terms to narrow down the results to be more manageable.
He probably doesn't imagine just for how many people he made life easier every day. Great job, props and good luck for whatever is coming next!
Would the film be as big without all the controversy? Early reviews suggest it's not brilliant but it'll still make a fortune.
Newsletters are also the best way to get visitors to return to your site. Far superior to RSS. It's the difference between being one of dozens or hundreds of feeds in a reader and reaching into a person's inbox. Jakob Nielsen wrote an Alert Box about this.
BLOGENGINE.NET OR Tumblr.com

Tumblr is damn easy, but blogengine.net is damn fun.

For Example blog.drinkingfor.com
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Kai Krause:

It is a near impossibility to define quality of life, a deeply personal set of values, judgements and emotions. But in recent years there have been breakthroughs, a new sense of empowerment, a new degree of functionality for our tools: Research is now immensely powerful, fast, cheap and enjoyable, it used to be a slow, painful and expensive chore. To have the entirety of Britannica, Wikipedia, millions of pages of writings of all ages, find answers to almost any question in seconds, view them on a huge sharp window-to-the-world screen: a pure joy to "work".

Images: memories can be frozen in time, at any occasion, in beautiful detail, collected by the hundreds of thousands.
The few cineastic masterpieces mankind produced, among the wretched majority of trashy abyss, one can now own & watch, rerun & freeze-frame.
Music: all I ever cherished at my direct disposal, tens of thousands of pieces. Bach's lifetime oeuvre, 160 CDs worth, in my pocket even! Consider that just a few generations ago?

A perfect cup of tea, the right bread with great jam,
the Berlin Philharmonic plays NOW, just for ME, exactly THAT
....and will even pause when I pee!
What more does anyone need ??

Billions of our predecessors would have spontaneously combusted with "instant happiness overdose syndrome" given all these wonderful means,
and I am not even mentioning heated rooms, lit at night, clean showers, safe food, ubiquitous mobility or dentists with anaesthesia.

...

No need to invoke grand sweeping forces, momentous upheaval, those armies of nano-tech, gene-spliced A.I. robots...

Let's embrace the peace and quiet of keeping things just as they are for a while. Bring them to the rest of the planet.
Taking the time to truly enjoy them, milking the moment for all it has, really watching, listening, smelling and tasting it all....
...that stasis.....
that changed everything.

http://server1.edge.org/q2009/q09_11.html#krause
It does seem to be a fairly obvious oversight...why would database query commands be constructed from GET requests in the first place?
@Danmatt: Hell no! Controversy is the marketing man's dream. I refer to you to Father Ted episode The Passion of St Tibulus.

"Blasphemous you say Ted? Too much sex? Well, sure, I might just wander in and take a look".
The costs of supporting clients with disabled Javascript increases constantly. As Javascript frameworks get increasingly feature-rich, regular users expect more out of their Internet experience, and development techniques mature, it gets easier and more mandatory to do more in Javascript and harder and more expensive to fake the presence of comparable functionality using HTML, forms, etc.

The revenue generated by supporting clients with disabled Javascript is not increasing at nearly the rate support costs are.

I know many technically apt people get up in arms over this, but there comes a point where going into your browser settings (which 99%+ of users will never do), scrolling down to the section marked I Hope You Know What You're Doing, and unchecking boxes means you are affirmatively opting for a second-class experience.

I know the rejoinder: "Blind people can't use your site, you heartless bastard!" It is highly likely that my site and software will be suboptimal to them. It is also highly likely that my site and software will be suboptimal to people who, through no fault of their own, are illiterate. Both of these are tractable issues if someone wants to throw sums of money which are many multiples of my budget to fixing them.

I have yet to hear a good reason for why that someone must be me.

[Edit to clarify: this is not specifically related to the site I have in my profile, but it could be very easily.]
Agreed, and I think we all know this, but none of the substitute questions he proposes approach anything resembling an objective measure.
Excellent reference! Other comments welcome.
Makes complete sense. I like your idea. You should do it.
Maybe I'm missing the point, but what's a good measurement of energy expenditure? You can't reflect on 6 months time and come to any helpful conclusion without data to analyze.
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Mosaic was released in 1994, but Lynx was available by 1992. But yeah, in 1992 most of the action was in ftp sites. They were already a lot better than the local BBSes where I lived, though.
>""Kennedy said that the reduction in sales in the music industry is directly attributable to illegal downloading." Again, PROVE IT."

Of course, it is impossible to "prove". But there is a strong correlation between the rise of downloading and the collapse of sales in the music industry. It would be sloppy reasoning to dismiss any causal relationship between the two a priori.
I work for an Irish ISP although not the aforementioned Eircom. This deal is a bit of a landmark deal, although there are no reports of notices/suspensions because of the deal just yet.

A large hosting companiy called Blacknght over here received a letter, seemingly in error as it's not an ISP, and published it here:

http://blog.blacknight.com/irma-threatens-irish-isps.html
Maybe the question should be "What happens if javascript is disabled?".

I do think that it's important today because there are still web browsers, especially in the mobile space, where people will not have javascript or more specifically AJAX available.

I think it's especially pertinent when talking about social anything kind of sites, where people are going to be likely to try to access it from a mobile device.

I don't see it as an issue of responsibility as much as I see it as a customer service issue.
Probably, yes. They get a bit less useful, but they also get a bit easier to write.

And the point of unit tests isn't really to smoke out every possible problem: it's to give you confidence in your code, so you can say "This will work" instead of "This should work". Functional programs still need some sort of test suite to achieve this confidence.
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I was on the internet in 89 and found tons of things to do:

Irc, Usenet, Mucks, Muds, Gopher, Ftp.

By 1996 we were complaining about the Aol users ruining the internet.
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Maybe it's better for psych or english, but I'd like to see the results for math or engineering classes. In those classes, the slides were nearly useless, but anything written on the blackboard was gold, so the "audio and video of the slides used in class" would only give you half the picture.
Of course the real money is B2B, not B2C. The more desirable your audience is to advertisers (e.g. corporate IT managers), the more you can charge for ads.
Regarding the "hardest working" question, this chart shows we're #3 in terms of total hours worked, behind Japan and Australia:

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lab_hou_wor-labor-hours-wo...

That's from 2003, so it may have changed.