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I would love a compelling reason to use Perl again! But I never see one.

The combination of Moose, Catalyst, Plack, and DBIx::Class is unbeatable for me. Throw in Dist::Zilla, perlbrew, and cpanminus and I'm almost unstoppable. That's my preference, but the difference between this and pre-modern Perl feels to me like the difference between writing client-side JavaScript by hand and using jQuery.

In 2007 you had Catalyst and DBIx::Class with much less maturity.

Maybe you want to see more amazing new ideas that have never been done before (and that's fine), but even if these things are only incremental inventions or syncretized ideas (and Moose alone is more than that), the combination is very powerful.

That combination is all the more powerful when it takes advantage of the entire CPAN ecosystem.
That 'shoot yourself in the foot' strategy is exactly what you get when you put old school hardware guys in charge of software. Sony had years and years of success with proprietary connectors, batteries and exclusive content deals. Consumers don't really like it but they quietly tolerate it if it means getting the newest features. Put those guys in charge of your software strategy and lawsuits and rootkits is exactly what you'll get.

Also keep in mind that the rootkit came out of the 50-50 joint venture Sony BMG and was the brainchild of Bertelsmann as well. The guy who went on-air to defend the decision saying effectively 'if you don't know about it, why should you care?' was in charge of that division and originally from the Bertelsmann side. The old-school publishing industry has almost the exact same relationship with software.
The title is wrong. Québec is Canada's largest province, bigger than Ontario by about 500K km^2. Nunavut is the biggest land mass of the country, considering territories and provinces.
LSD, peyote, shrooms
First thing: You /about page currently asks you to log in. It would be cool if you didn't have to do that.

Beyond that, it looks interesting, especially if you can (or do) use some sort of Fuzzing tool: messing with the inputted code to make sure that the tests now fail.

I think I understand, but also a page that talks about how this is different from things like Codility would be awesome. (I think I see that this uses TDD and judges the quality of the _tests_, where as Codility judges the quality of the code(??)).
Are you sure Google guessed in Example 3? It usually does the "leave now to get there on time" for every event in your calendar (for which it can find some kind of geographical reference, fitting or not).
I was more concerned with expressing a relevant thought I had than ensuring that the phrase I used to sum up the general concept of a compass was scientifically accurate. Because after all, the very thing this entire thread about is that the properties of magnetism and the nature of compasses are irrelevant to the meaning of the phrase, "moral compass."

Nerds, each of us. I say that affectionately but man I regret answering theorique's question.
Hm. I really don't know the specifics of this move or its market, but: I believe there are two ways for amazon of getting a benefit out of this, in some way.

The first one is setting a reasonable interest rate (13% in this case) and make a benefit out of it (they have spare cash, and a very good interest rate, plus a fairly secure investment).

The second one is actually investing at a lower rate (how about 5%) in their mid-sized, strong sellers, to create some growth (long-term) and increase amazon revenue (as I said, that's thinking long-term and sometimes loans won't be administered properly). Amazon can probably estimate the risk of each seller (they have a lot of information about their sellers' sales and additional information about almost everything else too!), so that would be clever for them.

It sort of surprises me that amazon is putting such an interest rate, as the only benefit I can see this way (instead of other ways of getting a traditional loan) are probably 'amazon benefits' (if any), as it might be faster / more flexible / less painful than a different kind of capital loan. And for Amazon, it's more of a way to get some easy money out of a pile of cash (which I presume they have), and not another creative way to keep strengthening their business.
Then most people in the world are miserable in your books. Becoming egoless is a hard and long road that not even everyone pursues, let alone achieve.
Mind altering != hallucination inducing
Foursquare's experience developing apps that use background location has been the exact opposite.

The iOS background location APIs are so restrictive precisely so that you can't drain the battery. The OS, which is running anyway, can listen for major changes in location and start your app only if the location change is relevant to your application.

On Android, your app has to be running in the background always, to constantly check for such changes itself, which significantly drains the battery. If several such apps are running...
GE is not a vendor to Boeing, they are both suppliers to the airline. The standard setup for both commercial and military sales is for the customer to buy the engines and airframe separately. Both the engine company and airframer collaborate in the integration testing, with the engine company being primarily responsible for the engine.
Thing is, Amazon is in a different game than your normal lending agency. Proper lending agencies make their money from the interest, and thusly, they have a desire to make your interest higher. Amazon on the other hand makes money from direct sales- they might have interest there to discourage people from borrowing without reason, but they can also chance it at a lower rate because of the possibility of making more money via real sales.
Why do you think I wrote that it is self-serving to suggest that I ought to have an open mind per se, when I wrote that it was self-serving to suggest that I ought to have an open mind about taking drugs or drinking? When you figure out what led you to distort my meaning, you should have the answer to your question.
I can't really see Google proper abusing this, as the product is one-to-one the monitoring: commerce. If you accept that, Google Now is just really targeted advertising—a big, NLP-based, bayesian coupon.

It seems like the bigger issue is when malicious parties usurp this data and use it for their own ends. We can look to science-fiction for predictions. Scroogled comes to mind, as well as a (possibly falsely remembered) recent campaign IRL to root out dissidents via internet searches.

And one more scenario: false flag. Since search records are considered evidence, planting this evidence could be all the sway that a jury needs, or even just for defamation purposes.

I think the fear is not of Google, but of making our lives tied to a record-keeper that could potentially have no accountability.
If these sellers are only lacking capital in order to see growth, wouldn't they be getting it from others by now, even in a tight lending market?

This one's easy: because the lending market isn't even close to efficient.
Thats the theory behind "Dyslexic Notation." You can try it if you'd like: https://github.com/antijingoist/AlphaSymbolic
This is a good example of why certain segments of the population should not be granted pilots licenses.
Do you have a source for that?

Most drug discovery and development is done in the private sector. Think 60%+.

Of the stuff that is gov't funded, it's basic research, not the development that actually gets a drug to market and that's what costs so much money.

EDIT: Wanted to provide some numbers.

252 drug were approved by the FDA from 1998 to 2007[1]. Where did they come from?

58% from pharmaceutical companies
18% from biotech companies..
16% from universities, transferred to biotech.
8% from universities, transferred to pharma.

During this same period, 118 drugs were considered to have scientific novelty. Where did those come from?

44% were from pharmaceutical companies.
25% were from biotech companies, and
31% were from universities (transferred to either biotech or pharma).

[1]http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/11/04/where_drugs_...
I just did one for you. It failed.
It's true. The stuff off the beaten path usually hasn't been commercialized. Thus it makes sense why it would only account for 5% of the spending
A lot of seriously dedicated "off-the-beaten-track" types will have solar chargers for their iPhones (or whatever), GPS works everywhere except near US Military Bases.

I hope they've been judicious in their use of power while in the background. It seems like a cool idea to me. I can easily imagine simply trying to fill in the area I live in much the same way as I would explore nooks and crannies in dungeons maps.
Apple's iOS 6 stumbles on basic connectivity: Wi-Fi
Amazon has more details on every seller than any bank could hope to have. They know what products they sell, in what volume, they probably know the approximate margins achievable on the products sold and they know the customer service rating of each merchant. With this information, machine learning and the number of merchants they have, they have more than enough to be able to make really smart loan decisions. I bet you they can keep the default rate much lower than any bank could achieve and they can better price their loans interest-rate wise.

TBH many of the internet giants (or any company who has grown enough to have enough of their own cash to manage) ends up adopting features of banks. They get the benefits of banks (easy money) with less regulation. Paypal for example promotes the holding of cash in Paypal accounts. Paypal isn't a bank, but all that money from users is cash that they can "loan" to the federal government and other AAA and AA rated companies in the form of bonds.
I take it that you don't live in a place that has winter (speed bumps == ice humps) or have back pain.
They didn't invent the tablet, they invented the tablet as we know it. It consider that to be a much harder thing to do. The concept of the tablet hardly needed inventing, just watch Star Trek, it was pretty obvious. The less obvious is the "how" (what you call the execution).
And where "elsewhere" exactly is this "innovation" happening?
Amazon has more information about these companies' business than anyone else in the world. They'll have an edge in knowing whether a loan is a good investment or not.
Remember theres a difference between getting rid of patents and getting rid of intellectual property.

I don't think anyone is serious about suggesting we get rid of intellectual property; if you're create something, there should be protections to stop people ripping off your stuff and selling it without paying you for it.

It's patents that are the problem.

Patents let you capture an idea and prevent people from creating new things.

That's not protecting something you've created; it's stifling the creative will of others, because you don't want anyone to compete with you. It's the legislative antithesis of the open market.

Notch wrote about this before too, thoughtfully: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/27751395263/on-patents

The US could happily continue to have an major IP 'exports' (however that is appropriately referred to) without patents.
No, Apple has a "liberal arts problem"

-- Seriously? This is "analysis"?

A "a self driving car with tons of lasers spinning on it"? Learn before you speak. The noticeable problems are not subtle: clouds covering cities in the UK, buildings not being named on College Campus, etc. Stadia 0.5km out of place. They are obvious, silly, dealbreaker problems for Soccer Moms and Sociology FFS. Algo's are not going to solve this cr@p, its Cartpgraphy 101...and in any event, Google has to hand fit the data that they do have, for a variety of reasons, to sat-nav visuals (including incosistent basemaps).
"it's closer to $1 billion on average."

As mentioned, that's a hugely suspicious "fact". As noted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

"In the March 2003 edition of the Journal of Health Economics, a trio of economists from the United States wrote about a number. Soon after, that number began popping up all over the place — in newspapers and political speeches, on television and the Internet. But the figure, despite reaching near-canonical status, drew criticism. Some said it was inflated. Less diplomatic detractors said it was a 9-digit fairy tale.

That number was 802,000,000. It was, according to the 2003 study, the number of US dollars that pharmaceutical companies spent, on average, to bring a new drug to market (J Health Econ 2003;22[2]:151-85). Now there are new numbers. Some health economists peg the current cost of drug development at US$1.3 billion, others at US$1.7 billion."

Full article here.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2630351/

Key point: the data used to come up with the original number came from an industry financed source and was not made public. And here's a bit more coverage that throws additional cold water on 10 figure costs.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/drug-...

While the actual costs remain unknown, it's a safe bet that they're nothing like the inflated figures being circulated by the industry.
There's some evidence that sweeteners harm gut flora. Here's a random study I found on splenda affecting the gut flora of rats:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18800291
By then they'd already started their slide.

I remember Sony for things like TA3650, the Walkman and their (excellent) reel-to-reel recorders. By the time they got into media (and don't forget betamax) they'd already lost their spirit, even though financially they had not yet peaked.
Depends on the location. Where I am both the old and new version lack this kind of data.
New iOS 6 Loses Google Maps, but Adds Other Features
the way snogglethorpe used "tl;dr" is fine and pretty generally understood. can we stop arguing semantics of an internet acronym? regardless of your admitted assumption, their intent was explained, let's move on now.
This is revolutionary, I've always been a advocate of incorporating a gaming atmosphere into everyday activities. This is a great push in that direction!
Unlikely, the list of communities has a lot of unincorporated areas that are formally part of a larger municipality and the results for some of them are correct. Clarkson and Dain City off the top of my head.
The official Google maps app has an offline mode that works great for me at least.

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/06/go-offline-with-g...
Though this is the internet....

Far too many hyperbole. Much of this is straightforward when dealing with GPS data. And all the shortcomings of relying on gyro data can be found by searching for dead reckoning systems.

Don't get me wrong, I am very impressed with the x-plane application, but the writing style assumes a complete idiot.
Yes and no. It's definitely an externality issue where one group robs another via voting power, but it's not NIMBYism because it doesn't involve "backyards"/neighborhoods.
This isn't a citation but you might be interested in checking out The Language Log (a language blog, as you may have guessed). That would be a good (and incredibly interesting) place to start to see the countering view to prescriptivism. Personally, they sold me on the idea of "prescriptivist poppycock" years ago, particularly the flavor of it presented in The Elements of Style. I thoroughly loathe that book, mostly for reasons discussed on TLL. The "grammar" in that book haunts my prose to this day.

EDIT: Fixed a typo caused by me pecking out this reply on my iPhone.
I'm getting stuck on this paragraph, it seems that it's missing a 'locks','stops working' or something else:

"If a customer comes to you and says that occasionally when they click the "run business" button on the application you built for them, how do you go about solving the problem?"
Yes, if you have location history enabled, it seems to pretty much assume that if you go the same place during the day often enough, it calls it work, and if you spend enough nights at a place, it calls it home.

Google had picked a location for me and called it "work" which was not the exact street address but close enough. I know I didn't ever key in an address and explicitly tell them it was where I work, or else they'd have had the correct address from the get-go.
I don't disagree that the difference between $150 and $1000 isn't a huge deal for any serious venture, but the topic of this conversation covers a wide range of possible levels of seriousness and some people suggest always incorporating even for goofing-around projects but those people never go into the fact that incorporating in some states will cost you some serious dough in minimum yearly taxes.
It's not coding, in the strictest sense that it has no computer science or is solely syntactic, but it works at weeding out people who can't build anything. At least this level of analytical thinking is necessary for any programming task, and therefore Fizzbuzz serves its purpose.
You started picking nits saying:

There was absolutely nothing wrong with the maintenance procedure. It was simply not executed properly.

But the text you cite says:

"as a result of the failure of mechanics to follow the established and proper procedures" and "repeated failure of supervisory personnel to require mechanics to comply strictly with the prescribed installation procedures"

I'm pointing out that there were, in fact, multiple procedures involved here. Some were well-defined and supported the reliable operation of the engine, some procedures were probably poorly defined and led to rapid failures.

But the mechanics do appear to have been following a repeatable process as evidenced by the fact that all the engines failed simultaneously. This is a procedure in the general usage of the term, even if a bad one and different from the one prescribed by the regulatory authorities.
If fizz buzz is too complicated, what would be an example of a problem a programmer should be able to solve? Why do programmers exist?
As a kid, my Grandmother weaned me off soda (and she wasn't sly about it---she outright told me what she was doing). At first, she got me to drink iced tea with as much sugar as I wanted. Once I got to the point of drinking tea out of habit, she then had me slowly lower the amount of sugar I added.

These days, I prefer unsweetened iced tea. I may add sugar to hot tea (usually black teas) but not often. I also found that soda tastes a bit odd to me these days.
If I were presented with the 'fizzbuzz' test on a job interview I'd walk out.

I would really hate to work in a place that had such a ridiculously low bar to entry that they would consider that a valid test.
I completely agree with you. Putting a new UI on news won't fix it, neither will new ways of aggregating and sorting the stories that currently exist.

But there are two sides to the equation you mention, that revenue from ads needs to be greater than the cost of content. I love what your company (http://ownlocal.com) is doing, but I also don't think you should rule out the other side of the equation. What if a company can create a more compelling solution at a lower price? (That's what we're trying to do at http://grasswire.com).
All good points. I was mostly responding to the GGP's snark.
It all boils down to a population problem. Japan is ageing and software demands huge work force.

I fail to see how it boils down to that. The demographics of Japan are changing (we hear about it constantly in the western media but holy hell spend one weekend in shibuya and you wouldn't believe it) but there's no way it could account for the effects we are talking about. Japan didn't lose their way because there weren't enough young people to fill their software industry; they hit this problem because they didn't even know they needed to be training people up to be software engineers. The best engineers went into solving hardware problems, not software. It's a quality thing, not a quantity thing.

As an aside, comparing apples and oranges is sometimes instructive to see if a theory has a kernel of truth to it. There are 1.8M total people in Silicon Valley (including food service industry and the like) and at least twice that many in just the 20-24 year old category in Japan. There are also at least 10 million more Japanese people now than there were in the 1980's when everyone was hysterical about them taking over the hardware business world. If Japan hadn't been so successful in hardware and had motivated their workforce around software instead, they certainly would be a significant force today. I don't think an aging population plays a significant factor (yet).

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=silicon+valley+populati...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/share/clip?f=d41d8cd98f00b204e98...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Japan+population
I think it may be a lot easier for sellers doing most of their business through Amazon to get better loan terms. Traditional banks are harder to convince on this type of business model.
I just tested this and unfortunately the test case doesn't pass on the nightly. I am seeing (252,40,252) instead of the (255,0,255).
there were 123+236 comments on it until now.
it just didn't happen on hackernews but on carl's blog instead:
http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r?view=0511#comments
http://www.rebol.com/cgi-bin/blog.r?view=0510#comments

im wondering why people weren't so sour about the open sourcing of doom or quake. i know it's kind of comparing an apple to a (non-chinese :) pear, but still... :)
Actually, as someone who has treated many people over the past week for heroin withdrawal, I would like to add that heroin withdrawal very very rarely kills people unless they have an underlying medical condition like coronary artery disease that can become worse with stress. On the other hand, alcohol, benzos, and baclofen withdrawal are much more common ways that people die.
For users. This is on topic as nwzPaper just launched the core platform to rebuild the news business. What's the problem, isn't this a place to discuss technology innovation?
Just curious, are there any sites which show most-used apps?
The point of Fizzbuzz is to save time and money weeding out the clear incompetents so you don't have to take time to interview them later.
A colleague of mine commented that he would not sell volume through Amazon, and instead creates his own ecommerce sites. Why? Because, he argued, Amazon uses volume sellers to discover new products to sell, and then Amazon undercuts large sellers after the sellers have done all the market validation.

I don't know if this is true or not, but if it is it's bloody brilliant.

So this seems like a great strategy to improve market discovery for Amazon.
FizzBuzz isn't a coding test, I agree. It's an interview prep test. If a candidate can't take 15 minutes to read up on common interview questions and prepare a simple answer, then they shouldn't be hired.
Sorry, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

I was just trying to demonstrate that although "big" businesses tend to get a lot of attention, they don't actually employ a large proportion of the working population, nor do they necessarily make much more profit than a large SME. In other words, really big business isn't the driver behind a successful economy, something else is. I contend that the "something else" is SMEs.
This video explains it in very easy-to-grasp terms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QnD2c4Xovk
Really? That's a pretty knee-jerk reaction. A lot of companies will ask multiple technical questions. If a candidate has sweet talked his way into the building for an interview without possessing real skills, then a fizzbuzz test will weed out those people in a few minutes. A serious coder could whip up an answer almost instantly. Perhaps the last guy the hiring manager saw that day turned out to be a dud? He might feel an itch to make sure you're not of the same cloth.
Without a proper scientific study the premise is worthless. IMO it's at least just as likely they were predisposed to play with lego...