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That's the crux right there. Free Speech does not mean at all what the OP was referring to, and I tried to make that clear using a number of examples.

Yes, the United States has free speech enshrined in their basic legal concepts. But there are other countries where speech is freer than it is in the United States and there are ways to envision systems much freer still.

It all goes back to that sticks and stones rhyme, words really shouldn't matter, but actions do. Because words are powerful we tend to place some limits on what combinations of words are ok and which are not. Usually the ones that are not fall under the header 'incitement', and even in those cases I'd put the bigger part of the burden on the ones that let themselves be incited than on the speaker. In your $1000 example the speaker should probably be counted as someone who contracts someone else, that's beyond mere incitement.

Libel laws are funny in that way, the turn of phrase there is very subtle and can change (depending on the country and context, for instance satire) an innocent sentence into one that will get you into a lot of trouble. And it takes a lawyer and a judge to see the difference. 'You are a criminal' versus 'I think you are a criminal' can be all it takes.
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Look back a few hundred years at Boston. Half of the land is "new" anyway. Granted, I would imagine that it's hard/impossible to do this for a city that already exists and has lots of large, expensive, heavy objects in the way.

http://www.iboston.org/rg/backbayImap.htm
From reading all these reviews, it seems that simply adding a way to disable "Metro" on desktops and bringing back the Start button, would please everyone. There's only one recurring complaint - one that could be easily fixed. It's not really a "Vista situation".
"One problem, said Lofgren, is that the Republicans' swap would actually cut immigration, since there are not enough foreigners with advanced degrees who want to emigrate"

This is plain wrong, last year the H1B visa cap was reached in June. The year before in November. I applied for the H1B visa for a job in SF, two years ago, but I missed the cap by one day. Hopefully the limit will be increased this year.
>(it's super-basic Python, not a proof).

Uh huh. The name of your method was "proof". I've been on HN for four years and you think I don't know how to read and write python? I'm a lisp hacker who came to this place back when it was about lisp hacking for hackers. Now, right wing business douches like you come along spouting talking points straight out of the corporate PR department.

First of all, I did not threaten anyone with the guillotine. The simple fact of the matter is that if the wealthy keep spouting bullshit designed to fuck the poor (which is all that your kind of speech is) then they are going to get guillotined. Don't think the reincarnation of Robespierre is not chomping at the bit to chop your neck.

Naturally, I have no interest in killing pg or myself or any other rich people. However, I have an interest in the survival and success of the human species.

These CEOs that you cite should be afraid. Their poor hearts are chilled at the possibility of a tax raise on their 14% tax burdens. Boo hoo! I am making the point that a tax raise on a billionaire is warm and balmy next to the ice cold steel that you get on the chopping block.

If these CEOs, the richest in all of history, keep acting like idiots they are going to get us all killed. And we'll deserve it. Fuck us if we are so myopic and pathetic that we can't create a rational vision of a human future to build and instead surrender all our autonomy to some metaphysical libertarian nonsense that is widely ridiculed by Nobel Prize winning economists.

In conclusion, welcome to HN. There are a lot more people here than just corporate blowhards and their nerd-slaves. Hacker culture still has some blood in its veins.

This post written in Vim on Ubuntu (not that I'm a fan of Ubuntu or anything. But apt sure is nice!).
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In case you didn't know: "Languages in which program code is represented as the language's fundamental data type are called 'homoiconic'."

From: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HomoiconicLanguages

I didn't.
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Happy to be of service with my naive wonderings :) Anyway, thanks, I'm not much of a PLT guy but I can begin to see why this could not work.
Sounds like typical real estate "enhanced truths" to me:

cobblestone streets: technically true

low density: nobody else wants to live here

historical vibe: the cobblestone streets make it look old

"It's a shithole for tourists in the middle of nowhere whose streets have been neglected by maintenance crews for decades," just doesn't sell apartments.
A couple of non-fiction ideas I recall from my (very enjoyable) freshman writing class. Consider as rules-of-thumb.

* Write about what you enjoy writing about. If you're bored it'll probably rub off on readers.

* Begin with a summary of where you're going. (Here's where your hooks go.) This is where you remind yourself what you aim to say ... and, coincidentally, your readers.

* Begin each paragraph with a topic sentence. Readers can then scan for interests. We've all got too much to read.

* Memorize Strunk and White. Clear, concise, to the point. Cut out the fat and cut to the chase.

* Notice which writers capture your attention and leave you glad you read them. Learn by tearing apart how they did it. Notice which writers are gasbags ... and tear apart what they're doing wrong.

* When you're done, stop.
I tried it out and the CircleCI team installed the latest Haskell platform, so I was up and running with cabal tests in five minutes.
Some more info here: http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller/projects/crack/Manual-0.7.ht...
Link to the code, because the article doesn't have it in a proper link: http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/4409...
What does this even mean? Do we need to find a new buzzword to obsess over?

Application development tools are nice. However, they're hardly a disruptive or new paradigm in the start-up world. How are people supposed to react to this? "Oh man, I see you're building an enterprise product...but does it fit the B2D model that the industry is dying for?"

Also, aren't the majority of enterprise products in some way or another automating some piece that used to be the burden on a team of developers within a company? I just don't like this type of fishing for new buzzwords and defining new industries that really just belong within the scope of an existing one.
Gottfried Leibniz "invented" calculus around the same time as Newton. Indeed, the dy/dx notations were Leibniz's.
Retention is definitely not the main problem in mobile. It may be in social stuff (ex. the games referred in the article) but that has nothing to do with mobile. Retention in social stuff is a big problem.

In mobile the main problem is discovery. There are so many apps on each market, and the ways to find one are much more limited then a web app.
This is fine for the slightly aware power user (I have Windows 8 set up with Start8 and find it miles better than Windows 7), but if you put yourself in the shoes of your technically incompetent grandmother then you can see how things could be that much harder on Windows 8, especially if they took a long time to get used to the traditional Windows desktop.
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His wikiquotes page will give you a flavour of his thought:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra

But especially "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruelty_of_Really_Teaching_...
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So, if you don't mind me asking, do speak about your (and your brother's) upbringing.

What was your childhood like? Did you parents teach you programming? Did you play with legos a lot?

Write as if you were giving advice to future-fathers.
>> (For what it's worth, the check I use personally is: "is there a difference between how those who know me best would describe me, and how I'd like to be?" Most of the time, I just try to fix those gaps.)

^^^
If only I could up vote this many more times..
Yes

His father may be a businessman (yes, I read the part where he says he's an electrical engineer), I'm not sure.

Based on what things cost in Ireland today and the salary one can make, it does not look good. And any salary considered 'high' pays 41% in taxes (where high is > $41k per year)
Please refute what he said then.
Okay, thank you for confirming that there is no reasoning with you forensic. I'll save PG the trouble of yelling at us and end my part in this here.

Also, just to clarify, I've been an independent freelance programmer/serial entrepreneur for over 10 years - I've never worked for or held an interest in a big corporation, and my bank account balance looks a lot more like an OWS member than a VC. I'm just not gullible enough to fall for this class warfare nonsense, or blame others for my success or lack thereof.

Tell you what: when OWS rounds you up, I'll have a talk with my fellow plebs and see if I can get you a pass.
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It sure would be a shame if you end up being a sluggard like Jeff Bezos who started Amazon at the ripe old age of 30. :)
I find it amusing that as I was clicking on this story I was thinking back to the last ad I really remembered and immediately thought of all the pretentious ipad mini ads I've seen that made me not want to ever buy one. I believe such a polarized response probably drives more sales than wishy washy wide appeal ads.
Apple actually stopped supporting Safari on Windows since Safari 6.
Clicked in case this article is about me...
In regards to 1: Any decent editor should have highlighted parens matching. What do you use for coding?
you're making a whole lot of assumptions there. I'm not sure all of them pass the test of reality.

1- How about the Nexus 7. it sells for 200 $, built by another vendor. There are no carriers in that equation, is it also being sold at a loss or near break-even ?

2- How big of a margin do you need before you deem a business profitable. AAPL has margins in the 40~45%, I don't know about Samsung but the've just released quarterly results indicating record profits. if a business operates at 7% profit margins, would you describe them as pursuing a loss leader strategy ? countless public companies are doing just fine with those margins. What if it's just high time in this stabilizing/ somewhat mature business for the very fat operating margins to come down.

3- the 649 $ price point makes it impossible to have competition because nobody (or very few) would pay that for a handset, thus the carrier/ subsidy model longevity. WHAT IF that 299/349 $ price is just the sweet spot that is needed to unleash true competition between devices without the interference of carriers & Google were simply blindsided by the success of the Nexus 4.

4-How about the fact that the Nexus devices come without skinning. don't underestimate the cost that goes into that exercise (however misguided, in my opinion.) It also indirectly lowers the cost of the device by putting less pressure on choosing (powerful) hardware components sue to the extra-lean nature of the OS.
I'm curious what a typical use case of this tool would be? It seems like the 25mb max is kind of limiting for dealing with large CSV files where this tool might be even more useful.
Why do you think that nerd robot ( Nikola ) competes for a sexy looking girl ( Sofi ) ?
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I really want Nexus devices, but not because of their price - I want them because the hardware is good, because they come completely unlocked and because I can upgrade the OS as soon as a new version of Android comes out. You "own" a Nexus device in a way that's not possible with other Android devices like Galaxy S or iPhones/iPads.

Companies like Samsung are really stupid for not releasing at least one phone model under their own brand with characteristics like this. I guess they are afraid their hardware is becoming a commodity, so they need ways to "differentiate", but the way to differentiate is really not through shitty UI skins that makes upgrading the OS challenging to say the least.

The Nexus line is basically Google's way of saying "get your shit together".
Before you jump at this, research the reputation of your SSL certificate provider.

https://www.google.com/search?q=comodo+reputation

$50 is a pretty good price, the nearest competitor is charging about double that. Still, if you are going for a wildcard SSL certificate (and you already need one even if you just want to respond to www.example.com and example.com using https) then likely the $50 is a rounding error on your annual expenses. It's good to be frugal, and if you feel that comodo is good enough for you then this is as cheap as it gets.
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One topic I wish you would cover is offline saving of graphs generated from D3.js in a subsection of your articles [0].

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12719486/d3-js-graphs-out...
I agree with the thrust of what you're saying (one discipline is not poorer or more valuable than the other) but I take exception to your "campus supremacist" tone. True, organic chemistry and cooking serve different needs, but the organic chemist can appreciate cooking while the cook cannot appreciate organic chemistry, and the same superset implication is present in your second analogy (that programmers cannot appreciate N-dimensional spaces).

I'd be more worried about this attitude if I thought you had much comprehension of the overlap of these fields. To take your own example, many machine learning algorithms begin with N-dimensional spaces (you know, the kind programmers can't comprehend) and go from there—support vector machines are the obvious example ("a support vector machine constructs a hyperplane or set of hyperplanes in a high- or infinite-dimensional space"). But that's just the beginning; the Curry-Howard isomorphism shows that proofs and programs are the same thing. That theorem provers exist at all seems to undermine your original point. The category-extras package for Haskell, which is a set of abstract algebraic entities that, to my knowledge, are used exclusively for mathematical experimentation and not of any practical application at all.

On the other side of the coin, the only practical applications of number theory have been in cryptography, and the big name there (RSA) is simply modular arithmetic combined with things we expect to be true about large primes. This level of math produces practically applicable results roughly every thirty to fifty years. It's wonderful when it happens, but the idea that mathematicians are consistently churning out theories of practical import is laughable. We do have people doing that, and we call them applied mathematicians and computer scientists.

Are most programmers sufficiently mathematical? No—Dijkstra bemoaned this at great length. Does this mean that mathematicians are somehow a superset of programmers? Absolutely not.

Let me be clear. I'm arguing with your tone and the implication behind your ham-handed analogies. What you've simply stated (we need both), I agree with.
Now we're demanding that progressivity must balance the budget too? This is car salesman accounting, muddling unrelated choices together to distract from individual choices that can be rationally considered.

You keep giving these pundit talking points – the talking points of pundits have been rehashed enough, we shouldn't be using them here, it's not a productive form of discussion. Are we men or are we pundits? I, sir, am a man! ;)
As a Gnome 3 user, I am overcome with a strange sense of schadenfreude.
I'm not sure what this article is implying. Is Google killing Motorola? Prepping it and slimming it down to become the Nexus product maker?
Thought "how bad can it be" and left thinking that the world maybe is filled with bad programmers like this guy.
> does waving chat logs like this around for people to gawk at really belong on the front page of a supposedly educational foundation's website?

It's a post on "the blog" which for 24 hours or so (if post timestamps are to be believed), was the first thing anyone looking at the website saw.

And yes, since they are a non-profit, and some idiot is wasting their time trying to weasel out a $35 gift from them, I don't see a problem with shaming to prevent recurrence.

The rpi foundation IS a non-profit. As someone with some experience in hardware design and in entrepreneurship, I see EVERYTHING they've done is along those lines. Your snark and disbelief of that is completely unwarranted, and speaks volume about you, rather than about the rpi foundation. They have some ideals and principals, but are extremely pragmatic, and if that bothers you (as it seems to do), you are welcome to ignore them.

They're STILL on track, as far as I know, to produce a $25 board that's useful for education. If you think they are chasing profits, please explain how that is possible. Their $35 model is STILL significantly cheaper than any comparable commercial offering (I found one vendor in Singapore offering an MK802 for $46, the rest are >$50; cubieboard is $50 but not yet available; RPi is available from multiple vendors including for-profit ones for $35-$40).

If they tried to make more profit, they would have priced it higher - demand definitely supports a higher priced point. And by NOT chasing profits, they've actually brought down the prices from anyone else.
You're right -- I've never seen anyone in the private sector avoid controversial decisions or cover their ass. We should hand over all our nation's money to Bill Nguyen.
Try the standard library: http://golang.org/pkg/
Try `dig mx va` instead.
An argument must be coherent to the writer too! That often means getting clear on what your most compelling point is.

So it's worth knowing about this phenomenon:

Typically, once a writer warms to their topic, they make their most compelling point. You need to find that point and move it to the beginning of your writing, usually the headline.

For newer writers, it often occurs somewhere around the third paragraph. (Some writing coaches will simply have you delete everything you wrote before that, and open with it.)

For more emotional writers, or folks who are worked up about their topic, it often occurs very near the end.

For experienced writers failing to put their main point in the headline it's in the first sentence or paragraph.

Some writers get used to this phenomenon, write freely, and then simply remove most of what they've written once they realize they're onto their most compelling point.

Read a lot of blog posts, and you'll be amazed how many writers make this oversight, usually consistently in the same way. Learn your own pattern, and you'll learn to find your most compelling point.
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CPC on Facebook is fairly strong, the issue is CTR. Facebook is having to show an ad many more times to get a click.

From an ecommerce perspective I the difference in effectiveness is massive. I have found it very hard to really generate a lot of spending intent across the ads, retargeting, sponsored stories and offers. Whereas a good Adwords campaign across a large product inventory pretty much prints money and annoys users a lot less.
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There's been debate over whether volcanic activity in the Canary Islands could cause a 150ft tidal wave that would cause enough damage on the east coast that long term sea rises would have little left to do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami#Canary_Islands
import crack.io cout;
x := 'test';
cout `This is a $x\n`; # prints "this is a test" to standard output.

Really weird strings... I don't even know how to type this character with my keyboard layout.
Nice job for this language. It has a lot of things for so few versions. I couldn't build something like this. But who would use this? D is 10 times better and mature and almost no one uses it.
Can't wait to see his Fizzbuzz implementation!

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There's an ambiguity in that definition: what does "represented" mean? It can mean "represented as source code", i.e. for consumption by the programmer, or it can mean "represented as runtime state", i.e. for consumption by the machine. The first is what the OP means by code-as-text and the second is what the OP means by code-as-data.

A program always has both kinds of representation. Without a textual representation, no one could write or read it. Without a runtime representation, it couldn't be executed. But usually it is complicated to translate between the two. In Lisp (the classic homoiconic language), these representations are so similar that it is trivial to translate from one to the other and back again. That's what makes Lisp good for metaprogramming (writing programs that manipulate other programs): it's so easy to go back and forth between the human-friendly representation (source code) and the runtime representation (data) that a whole class of new techniques arises.
Maybe sponsored stories could work like spot ec2 instances. Ask what the most is you will pay for story impressions and then balance that against the volume of sponsored stories people are seeing in their feeds.
Hilarious! I would rather read bad code than watch bad TV. It's still pablum, but at least it's my kind of pablum.
Neither, but it definitely is making cuts.
Perhaps there's a tiny little possibility that only a small fraction of mobile apps are actually good, useful and continuously create new value.

I'm sure retention isn't a problem for them but on the other hand, most of that stuff tends to come bundled with the phone OS already these days.
Quite a few of those abstraction layers and userspace interfaces exist solely to insulate between GPLed code and proprietary code. An Open Source driver can and should do away with those.
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actually you can get alphassl for $40-50 as well. Comodo is pretty good for the price range. You can pay a bit more for a GeoTrust or an arm and a leg for Thawte or VeriSign, but there is no difference between all these SSL. It's purely marketing BS.
I've used python2.7 for the last two years, and I'm probably part of the problem, but python 3 really doesn't have enough killer features for me to be incentivized.
what is crazy is the complete lack of ackowledgement from MS on this. Why not give this option that would clearly please a bunch of people?
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Just have the levees built and maintained by private enterprise rather than U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and you should be all golden with no unexpected problems or failures
I read a lot research papers, specially related to compiler design.
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The problem is the bigger picture here--Microsoft wants to phase out the desktop and move us all to Metro so we have to buy all software through their app store. I would guess that in the near future we'll be talking about jailbreaking windows just to install our own stuff. It's the only explanation I can find for Microsoft completely ignoring how much everyone hates Metro.