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A big part of me hopes I'm wrong about this. Even if it's not what everyone wants to do for a job, being able to code is incredibly empowering. I was lucky to appreciate that early on.

I'm an odd case: I was a really stubborn kid, and I decided to learn to program while I was in grade school, so I picked up a language manual and dove in. I was obviously more than interested; I was deeply obsessed, and I happened to be good at plowing through ridiculously dry reading and fighting with something until I made it work. My experiences aren't typical, and I don't have a good handle on what is typical. (I also learned BASIC, then assembly for two CPUs, then C, then some higher level languages. My path is undeniably strange.)

I'd think most people choosing to study computer science would be interested in it, but I also know I met people in college who had no idea what they were getting themselves into, and they didn't exactly meet a kind introduction. There has to be a better way to teach this than what I saw.

It'd be really interesting to see how many students who go through your program go on to pick up a few programming languages or who can ultimately understand deeper computer science topics. Basically, what impact does this have on the world?
This is a great tool meant for cross-browser testing on many different platforms — and it shines when it comes to testing responsive web designs.

https://github.com/viljamis/Remote-Preview
That can cause problems if a header is accessible by two different paths (which is not uncommon in a large project). Using both gives you maximum efficiency without sacrificing correctness, and it works everywhere.
Not surprised at all, and IMO a good move. Mozilla needs to focus on its Firefox OS development. By the way, MS doesn't want 3rd party browser on its Windows RT, that could be a very discouraging factor.
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> pip/npm/NuGet

Well actually all of those you mentioned are awful compared to Maven ;-)
I had once a check stolen. No money was taken, since the bank got suspicious and called me and I told it's not authorized, so they did not pay anything. But I had to close that account and open a new one, because having the check the thief has account # and routing # (the latter is public anyway) so he can initiate electronic transactions from my account without asking anybody. I myself did so on many billing sites - you just given them account number and payment is processed, my bank has no idea if I authorized it or not (in those cases I did, but the bank has no way to verify it).

Security of this system doesn't even deserve the name, the only resort it to catch it after the fact and rely on the bank rolling back the transaction.
FWIW I'm a UK resident and have never heard it used sarcastically.
Same kind of thing in Hong Kong, you can cover large parts of Wan Chai and Central without ever touching the ground. But I remember the opposite in Japan, you could seemingly traverse long distances underground by going from Subway station to Mall to another mall all underground.
I could be wrong, but this seems like something you need a state-by-state money transmitter license to operate legally. If you're launching this on the cheap (there are significant net worth requirements to get licensed) and worldwide (let alone nationwide), you might want to talk to a lawyer about your liability. These laws don't really care how technically easy it is to build a money transmission service on top of other companies.
It is a tough moral problem, but one that societies of old have recognized and formalized. For example, most all religions have some formal structure where a person with a "higher calling" can take up a monkhood of some sort. Formal induction into monkhood made their severance from family ties public and contractual, much as the formal wedding ceremony publicizes a man-woman relationship.

We just don't have a socially accepted notion of "scientific monkhood" yet I suppose.
If you look at similar platforms based on "real" money (as you put it), you will see these are actually relatively high budgets for these projects. Take a look through the projects over on odesk and weep: https://www.odesk.com

Given that though, yes there is an allure to bitcoin. Many people believe they will be worth more in future, so may willing to work for lower rates in order to get some and participate in the "bitcoin economy".
Sounds like a bubble.
Who talked about "denying how they live"? I'm just saying that in the strict sense of the term the author is not female. Per wikipedia:

"The sex of most mammals, including humans, is genetically determined by the XY sex-determination system where males have X and Y (as opposed to X and X) sex chromosomes."

I think the correct term for the author's sex is "Trans woman": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_woman
> I am holding my breath to learn what language you are going to propose, as a first language, that teaches all of those things.

You're not reading my other posts, then. I explicitly said programmers can learn those things as and when they need to.
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Just placed a bid on a project. Didn't realize till after placing it that the message would be publicly accessible. There's no mention of this on the bid page nor is there any way to edit the message after the fact. Both of these sound like issues that should be addressed.

Other than that I like the idea. Although, the only reason I can think of why a developer would use btcworkers rather than your USD counterparts would be for anonymity (read: avoid paying income tax). What are the other benefits to being paid in bitcoins?
Knuth is Knuth. You are not Knuth.
The k = 0 case is an interesting one.
Current address can change. The only reason my bank knows my current address is because I've repeatedly informed them, and it took about half a year and some effort from my side to have them update all accounts and records with the correct address. So the FBI has a good chance of scaring some innocent men living in a rental apartment that was used by some bad guy two years ago. In one place I lived, I regularly got payment demands from various credit companies to the name of somebody that (I suspect) lived there 2 years ago at least (I knew who lived there before me, and that wasn't the bad credit person). So address doesn't give much.
First of all everyone is not going to do this - they haven't in the past. A few points...

If you like the car and you tell others they will most likely buy it at full cost or a least with a profit still on it.

Servicing the car will most likely depend on the manufacturer's own part on which they make a profit.

In terms of sales there is one more on the road, which will contribute to the quarterly reports for the company causing the share price to rise.

If the dealer has had it on the forecourt for several months they actually want to get rid of it now and they will be bring the price down towards, or even below, what they paid for it. You may even end up paying more than they were going to sell it for.
I tested the machine at Codebits and I had that same first impression. But after a while I got it: it was the pedal tuning and not some communication delay.
With moves like this is it any wonder why Chrome basically hit the ground running with market share as soon as it hit a stable release? I got tired of the Mozilla bureaucracy a long time ago when they failed to acknowledge there were some serious memory leak issues with addons and the browser itself slowly consuming hundreds and eventually gigs of memory the longer it was left open, it wasn't until later builds (this year) they released a version that fixed this by sand-boxing the addons or something to that effect.

I still remember the time Mozilla developers were fighting about removing front-facing version numbers from the browser, it's also at that point I realised there are some issues with the Firefox development team all while Chrome and even Opera gained more market share.

Remember where your loyalties lay, Mozilla. I think they're starting to spread themselves too thin with wasted development of a Firefox OS and social integration. Halting 64 bit versions of Firefox for Windows for the time being might seem like a small, trivial thing, but it's not and I think it's a bad move.
...and a bunch of browsers don't want to trust it.
This shouldn't be the case. My email is on my profile if you want to email me any details you can - I'll get this solved!
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International work. I would use this to find freelancers and be able to easily make payments regardless of where the worker was based. I am in the UK so it opens up access to other workforces, plus making paymets to those foreign
Workers would be simplified.
> I have gotten refreshed on basics plenty of times though from a wc3schools links

When even the basics are wrong you're not getting refreshed much. Especially when adding three letters ('mdn') to the query at the end gives you a much better resource by all metrics.
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Yes it is slightly less secure. But you can't really "lose" money so much. What can happen is the server can report that you have money that you don't actually have, so if you were expecting to receive some coins, and the attacker had control over one of the servers, they could make you believe you had received them.

There are several stratum servers however, and you can disconnect from one and check with another. I think the plan is to eventually connect to multiple and make sure that they agree. This doesn't prevent a possible man in the middle though if all your communication is being tapped.
Personally I think this slight risk is worth it for the instant start times and the deterministic wallet. And it's still considerably more secure than the online hosted wallets, where you are not in control of your coins at all.
what do you mean? Is it very objective then?
It's not ridiculous. http://w3fools.com/
I'm curious what equation would approximate best the human limb movement such as when I'm moving my hand in front of me from left to right.

I'm not sure why but for me even motioncaptured movements seem unnatural and give no illusion of life.
The famous Wuppertal line is an aerial train - not gondolas on a cable. It is clever and I loved riding it though - but it is a different type of system.
I was about to bid on the same project as you and refreshed before submitting and saw yours and then decided against bidding due to this. My message included my intended approach to the work and past projects and also a link to my cv. I didn't want this to be public.

I emailed the contact address for the site to complain about it.
Well, I don't know of the details of Spanner, but even if I did I wouldn't dare trying the limits of that NDA. Job's too nice to lose over that :)
This is roughly the level of programming I expect from DRM software. After all, the content needs to be in unencrypted format at some point to view it.[1] Therefore there are two kinds of programmers working on DRM, idiots and liars. One kind does not understand the futility of their efforts, the other kind wagers that there superiors do not understand the futility of their efforts.

[1] Assuming a general computation device, not a dedicated hardware player.
The job is not just "display text", it is to match the UX of the other newsstand apps:

+ Background Updating

+ Push Notifications

+ Works offline, always

+ Doesn't go down when your server does

+ Subscriptions without a credit card.

I think all of these are something that mobile browsers can't do at all.
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Yes, I know the rates in USD/GBP/EUR, and that's why I was asking. I had a quick look at odesk and the rates are lower than I would normally charge myself for the things that I do.

That's what made me curious, but your answer makes a point, but then it means people are taking a punt on the Bitcoin.
I agree re not judging. I made the mistake a very long time ago to assume that I understood someone else's relationship and gave them advice on what I thought was an obvious matter. After a decade my friend is now happily married to that same person with amazing kids and a wonderful life. It's become clear to me that there are two sides to a relationship and no one except the participants will ever understand it.

So I think the important thing to understand when reading this is that we have zero context - and perhaps worse because all we know are Einstein's works.
> Is/was Leaping Brain violating the license?

No, I can't see how they are.

Here's one GPL FAQ that's vaguely relevant:-

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CompanyGPLCostsMon...

But this question is very relevant:-

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DRMProhibited

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Does GPLv3 prohibit DRM?

It does not; you can use code released under GPLv3 to develop any kind of DRM technology you like. However, if you do this, section 3 says that the system will not count as an effective technological “protection” measure, which means that if someone breaks the DRM, he will be free to distribute his software too, unhindered by the DMCA and similar laws.

As usual, the GNU GPL does not restrict what people do in software, it just stops them from restricting others.
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The important bit is that HTML5 is a set of standard abstractions around complicated things, such as networking and data-storage, that should almost never be re-built from scratch by the developer.

It is extremely important that we build standards around these things. Unfortunately, it seems like these abstractions are only accessible through a JavaScript DOM environment, which makes them sort of useless if you need/want another language.

I think we need languages agnostic standards. That's at least my idea of the future of the web and desktop development.
Sure they have, but the cost to make each copy of a book hasn't been zero until very, very recently. That's the special part.
Since it uses [L]GPL software then this comes in to play:-

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DRMProhibited

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Does GPLv3 prohibit DRM?

It does not; you can use code released under GPLv3 to develop any kind of DRM technology you like. However, if you do this, section 3 says that the system will not count as an effective technological “protection” measure, which means that if someone breaks the DRM, he will be free to distribute his software too, unhindered by the DMCA and similar laws.

As usual, the GNU GPL does not restrict what people do in software, it just stops them from restricting others.
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> VC is Google shorthand for video conference

That is the case nearly everywhere, I think :-)
And, as per https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DRMProhibited the DMCA cannot be applied to this software.
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I was told this one by a high school instructor, and figured it was BS.

I should probably forward this to him; for his students sake.

It's pretty funny how rumors about things manage to spread so well. Stuff like a "three requests" policy sounds plausibly convenient enough for people to imagine it's true. I can only assume this is because the reality of copyright law is; frankly nuts.
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> Hmm, semantics? Dont' know:

Newton held idiotic ideas. Was Newton an idiot? No. Did I just call Newton an idiot? No.

> What would you suggest someone should start with?

It depends on the person and why they want to program.

> Why?

Because I don't think C is the best choice for all tasks. In fact, I think C is a poor choice for most of the reasons people start programming.

> How is it better than starting with C?

Because C forces the programmer to prioritize machine efficiency above everything else. Algorithms get contorted to account for the fact the programmer must explicitly allocate and release all resources. Data structures get hammered down into whatever form will fit C's simplistic (and not very machine efficient) memory model.

In short, everything is simplified and contorted to fit the C worldview. The programmer is forced to act as their own compiler, turning whatever program they want to write into something the C compiler will accept.

> What will they learn that they cannot learn with C?

A clearer understanding of things like recursive data structures, which are complicated with excess allocation, deallocation, and error-checking noise code in C.

Compare a parser written in Haskell to one written in C: The string-handling code is reduced to a minimum, whereas in C it must be performed with obscene verbosity.

> How would learning C as their first language hinder them?

> Why is C an idiotic first choice?

It is purely wasteful to have new programmers worry about arbitrary complexities in addition to essential complexities. It is wasteful to have new programmers writing the verbose nonsense C imposes on them every time they want to do anything with a block of text. That time should be spent learning more about the theory behind programming, the stuff that won't change in a few years because it is built on sound logic, not accidents of the current generation of hardware design.
Looks like you have not been in a large ski resort lately - throughput of common cable transportation is at least double the 720 pphpd you estimated. There are now 40 years of experience in increasing cable car throughput. As urban transportation, Medellín and Caracas put 3000 people through per hour in each direction. The Rheinseilbahn in Koblenz gets 3800 people per hour across the river in each direction. 6000 people through per hour in each direction is nowadays considered within reach of the current technology.
This seems to come round every few years, and yet nothing ever comes of it.

See also Hypersonic jets that will fly at the edge of the earth's atmosphere and do London to Sydney in two years.

//edit//That will teach me not to read the article. I thought this was about airships.
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The biography by Walter Isaacson puts this into context.
If you're the breadwinner, why don't you hire the domestic help to make meals for you and the kids, and incidentally help your wife if there's time left over?
In ski resorts, having to rescue people in stopped gondolas is an extremely rare event. I wonder what the fatalities per kilometer per passengers are, but I wager they are lower than urban bus transportation.
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This thought experiment is flawed. When you steal a car from the local dealer, he doesn't have the car any more.

The correct thought experiment is: having bought a car from Ford, you examine it carefully then purchase all the raw materials yourself and assemble an identical duplicate for your wife.

In doing so you save whatever markup Ford places above and beyond their marginal cost.

Asking whether this is morally okay is the true issue.
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Which algorithms, what implementations thereof?
> Definitely seems like Go has led the way here. Not that there wasn't a lot of pain before, but Go's lightning compilation seems to be an impetus for the "let's finally do this" change.

Except that this is pure marketing. Languages with modules were already compiling as fast as Go does, back in the 80's.

Modula-2, Turbo Pascal, just to name two of many.
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I don't see how apps solve subscription any more than a (paid-access) website. In fact, thanks to Apple's draconian 30% cut of all in-app purchases, it can be argued that apps are worse, when it comes to subscriptions. At least when you're serving content through the browser you're not automatically losing 30% of your revenue.
Without making this about judging a specific person in a certain context, what are the implications today?

(Some) folks seem to suggest that since Einstein was working on something as significance as GR, the solitude prioritized over family made sense. If Einstein's work had not succeeded, would the justifications still hold?

Actually... the question on my mind is: every person trying to do something on their own believes in their heart that it is the most important thing, something that will change the world. How far should one take that conviction/belief as justification to forego responsibilities of being a spouse or parent?
Lol the comments are full of the worst fanboys I think , anyone denying that surface is a turd hasn't actually used one.
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As is the case of 'multiple equilibria' ...
I didn't mean DRM violated the GPL, I thought that they may not have been complying with the GPL by not releasing their code that used libvlc, but it appears they are.
> When dealing win an array is 400 times slower in a "modern OO language" then in raw C, well, the code id fucking bloated.

Social science numbers do not impress me. Besides, what is a "modern OO language"? Haskell? How can you give any numbers without even specifying that detail?

> Of course there are lots of places where OO makes absolute sense. And the fat and slow code is the compromise you might have to make.

Your idea that "OO = fat and slow" is blown away by actual benchmarks.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Shootout

(And, yes, unless and until you define what "OO" is to you, I'll pick Haskell as a perfectly reasonable OO language. Given than I've seen C called OO by people with better writing skills than you, this is hardly a strange choice in this context.)

> So, yes, I am an idiot

Again, I did not call you an idiot. The only one calling you an idiot here is you.

> More often than not, when it's pedal-to-the-metal time C is the most sensible choice.

I agree fully with this. However, I disagree that "pedal-to-the-metal time" is all of the time, or even most of the time. Especially when you're trying to teach programming.

Do you teach new drivers in an F1 racecar? Why or why not?
The notion that teaching programming at an early age will somehow degrade the software engineering profession is simply preposterous. The fact that I took Spanish for 4 years certainly doesn't devalue the translation profession. Learning how to code is like learning a foreign language-- it takes time to master and is best learned when being fully immersed in it. But that doesn't preclude from introducing it earlier. In fact, it will probably have the opposite affect that you imagine. After my years of failing to learn Spanish, I have a profound respect for those who can speak it so easily. And because I know good bilingual speakers are hard to come by, I would probably pay a premium for their talents if my day job required me to interface with Spanish-speaking cultures.
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The main advantage was still the possibility of having binary modules, without parsing the same imports multiple times during "make world" compilation.

Just as input, the ISO Pascal eventually got the changes that were available in Turbo Pascal and Mac Pascal (known as ISO Extended Pascal), but by then most people considered Turbo Pascal the _de facto_ standard.
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