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Sorry, I never got much into Scala 2.10, I'm on 2.9.2 and this impression I got from Odersky's pieces of opinion about it, as from what I remember the initial proposal was for disabling those features, instead of plain warnings, but I guess that changed and it's my fault for not double-checking before giving it as argument (as a disclaimer I'm not an authority on the matter, I'm a rookie too).

I've explained in another comment below what I meant when using the word "experimental". Indeed I don't remember M Odersky ever using this word, but he did use "cutting edge" when giving the rationale for SIP 18.
Actually, using ICS and CPS to build generators forces a reversed approach. With generators is the called function to own the process, in await/defer is the calling context which knows about the "generator like" functionality.

And you're completely right about Coffee not able to implement ES6 generators.
Enough talk about the Windows 8 Start button
That's not a counter example though. Having a place with gun control that isn't full of gun crime isn't that shocking, though it hasn't worked in the US. What you need to prove me wrong would be one without any gun control that has huge lawlessness and gun crime compared to similar places with gun control.
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> Then you just stand up and point out that TSA never caught a single terrorist ...

Your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise -- you're using flawed logic. What would you think of an oncologist whose patients never contract serious, life-threatening cancer? Is he ordering unnecessary tests and procedures on people who aren't really sick, or is he catching all the cancers so early that they're never life-threatening?

See the point? I'm certainly not arguing one way or another about the TSA, just that your argument contains a very serious logical flaw. Maybe terrorists, knowing about the TSA, won't take the risk of going near an airport.

> ... so there's no reason to believe it would have handled this incident.

Flawed argument, flawed conclusion.
Debian's dpkg and apt are both GPL2+. What's the reason they are reinventing the wheel here? Is there some kind of licence incompatibility that the GNU project cares about? Is there some kind of major architectural difference? Why is it important enough to fragment Free Software developers over?

I feel that this should be answered in an FAQ, but I can't find the answer anywhere.
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"Here, off the top of my head, are three things that sound like a formula for success, and here's three companies you like that I'm going to say had all three of these ingredients and you will believe me because it is convenient."
He perfected the personal computer which lead to what we all use today. Woz is an engineer and not a manager-type. He left HP on the condition that he could remain an engineer when starting Apple.
I would throw my dart at financial inequality. The further the upper class gets from the other classes, and the harder it is to go from the bottom class upwards, the more likely people are to step outside the seemingly rigged [1] system.

[1] If you're at the bottom rung and statistics say that you're about as likely to win the lottery as to get out, the system will almost certainly seem rigged to you even if it isn't.
The fact that Q can break the encryption method he himself invented should embarrass him.
From the e-mail:

In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection

Maybe that’s enough? (I don’t understand package managers.)
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How can I give it a try? F.e. if I want to install my own vim in my home directory?
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Yeah there's only 10 winners and a thousand entries so far, and you have to give them your email or connect your facebook account.

There's enough free icons out there.
Word processors - which one is good that isn't Microsoft Word, remind me?

OO is grotesque and slow.

Google docs, for the ease of simultaneous editing is fucking awesome (I just watched 4 people simultaneously update our Saturday thanksgiving meal spreadsheet), but the functionality is pretty basic and clumsy to access.
It's very curious that the first and last groups are identical: AOAKN. That would not be expected from a one time pad.
A related work is the The Black Book of Communism:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Book-Communism-Repression/dp...

"Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy years. [...] As the death toll mounts—as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on—the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. An extraordinary accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century."
Very well, but next time you want to talk about the world's largest economy just keep this in mind.
I always thought that advancing technology would move humanity towards freedom from oppression. Turns out, the oppressors simply adjusted their tactics to use technology against freedom.

This just made me realize: 1) a tool's just a tool, no matter how immaculate. 2) Never trust the user. 3) Don't give concentrated power to one group of people. 4) Beware the 1st rule of nature & evolution: The aggressive will dominate the passive.
1. "[...] you likely would not be on this forum right now if not for him [...]"

Yes sure. Without Apple there would be no desktop PC or internet "forum" users.

a. I've used News/Usenet accessed on a VAX quite heavily
b. The Altair 8800 never happened

2. "[..] all the meaning is there in plain sight, no hidden agendas."

A very bold claim without any facts that substantiate it.

3. "[...] even a sense of naivety is quite rare [...]"

Naivety might be cute but it's not a value in it's own like you make it sound.

[edit] More downvotes please. Fits our industry with booing of people that demand facts and upvotes for people with strong opinions with no ground in reality.
GNU Hurd finished? Good one :)
My biggest problem with DDG is that it is so English-centric. I know they have those "regions", but the results from them are much worse than from US region and a need to switch them via settings page every time I change the search language is an unacceptable hassle.
Elon Musk certainly sails close to the wind. In this talk he says that SpaceX would no longer exist if the fourth spaceflight had not succeeded. And during the financial crisis in 2008 Tesla almost went bankrupt. I admire Elon's success, but I couldn't take the risks he takes.
I would completely understand if this _was_ a server side shopping cart, but it's not. It's a client side shopping cart which you can use on any architecture - you just have to give it data, and then check the data at payment using whatever server side language you want. It's not any different to a Spine or Backbone based project.

Just because it's JavaScript doesn't mean it should be in npm, similar to just because a project is written in ruby doesn't mean it should be in rubygems. A lot of the time, there's no reason for a ruby project to be bundled as a gem - it just ends up polluting an already crowded package management ecosystem. I wasn't sure if there was something I might have missed about npm. To me, it seems like it would be something that would be better managed with Bower ( http://twitter.github.com/bower/ ) given you don't (and shouldn't!) need npm in order to use it.
With e17 in alpha, Hurd has to be around the corner.
Somewhat NSFW?

As at work not going to visit, but it does now strike me that archive.org probably has probably accumulated the world's largest porn collection.
> yes, these things still take me a weekend

I would think so. This HN myth that you can build and launch the infrastructure you need to run a business in a weekend needs to die.
No. Steve Wozniak is quoted because he is a celebrity. I assume your opinion on this topic is as good as his.

Never react to ad hominem attacks, people who claim you're a fanboi just don't have any facts or arguments to bring to the table.
Developed countries don't normally have this kind of economic diversity. It's pretty common in developing nations though, with similar results.
Its best to always remember this, Google was not on the side of "internet freedom" when they recommended to the FCC that wireless networks didn't need net neutrality.
Just a fun little side project I've been doing over the last few evenings. Might do a writeup of the process/tech if its of interest but its all on github too: https://github.com/d0ugal/peps
> A distribution built by GNU hackers is a great opportunity to improve consistency and cohesion in GNU!

Because the existing fragmentation of GNU package management is too confusing, so we need a new standard for everyone to rally round.

[http://xkcd.com/927/]
As suggested in the comments on the Telegraph article, it would would seem likely that this message was encrypted with a one-time pad, making it essentially unbreakable. Unless the key is found in some MoD vault (and released to the public).
> Yes, but you started off talking about crypto so that's what I'm going to address...

I didn't talk about crypto at all, and I don't see any connection whatsoever to this subject. Admittedly, even my comment was off-topic. Now it really goes way off.
Woz created A computer.
This is probably the best hidden advice on this page. Build complete projects. Make it a habit. If you just make gameplay prototypes, that will become your habit and you'll struggle to ship your big idea when the time comes. You'll be missing the final 90%. You won't know how to prep game art for example.

This applies to all creative "package" projects. Learn to ship.
Perhaps it is the identifier of the pad used, and doubles as a kind of EOF signal?
Many people tried different ways to create objects. All big frameworks come with their own methods to do this. Some people use closures to create inheritance.

I just tried to define which way seems to be the best one this days to follow. I don't like to use all that frameworks for object systems. However, the most important thing is the new 'class' feature in ECMAScript6.
Those issues are already fixed thanks to community work.
The VAX was not exactly a personal computer.

I've read quite a bit about and from Steve Wozniak and I've yet to see him exhibit a hidden agenda. He's just as likely to say stuff against his own financial interests as for them. I don't think he speaks for Apple in any official capacity. If you think that he has a hidden agenda I think it is up to you to prove that he does or to come up with an example where that would be evident.

Naivety is not 'cute', it means to me that someone is not out to play me, to say words to please me or to further his own interests. There is a lot off value in there because it means that you can probably believe what they say, whereas words from people that have an agenda and are actively working to twist reality by using words that generate a feeling of trust in the listener need a lot more scrutiny, assuming they have value at all.
Or, google could have tried to not be evil and redirect duck.com to DDG instead of google when they bought it to prevent Gabriel from getting it.
Last time Woz did an interview I said pretty much the same thing, and I say it pretty much any time he pontificates on Apple (good or bad), his opinion on Apple is the same as anyone with the history in the industry he has. Useful, but not as relevant as it gets turned out to be. His involvement with Apple ended decades ago, so he's an observer from the sidelines.

He makes an interesting point about Microsoft's creative development for sure, but because it's 'Apple cofounder disses Apple for Microsoft!' it has column inches galore thrown at it. Plus it ignores the fact that Apple's development cycle for it's products (release, iterate, 5 years in, release new product, iterate, repeat) has been ongoing for at least 10 years. Apple does innovate, they just do it on a much slower cycle than we'd all like, but it's good for business.

I mostly like Woz because of his honesty and straightforward manner, but it's telling from the article: "He seemed to almost decry the iPad as something that's easy, for normal people, but not for the true nerdy geek.". Apple shouldn't be building products for the true nerdy geek, we're a small percentage of a small percentage. It'd be lovely if they made an Apple Macbook Pro developer edition with all sorts of random additional tools and ports and so on, but it'd sell poorly and be waste of time. We're not their core market. That's okay.
1 in 11 million probability of the first and last blocks being the same by pure random chance. I'd guess they must be some sort of pre-agreed message sentinel, but even 1 in 11 million chances happen sometimes!
I'm confused. You say that, and yet you don't upvote it? I don't need the karma, I'm just confused by the mixed message.
Scala for the Impatient is definitely the best introduction to Scala (by a wide margin). Re-posting your link:
http://blog.typesafe.com/free-pdf-from-typesafe-scala-for-th...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re...

The US has made a solid and consistent habit of supporting very distasteful governments in order to profit from them. This has been happening for almost a century now. The propaganda is so well crafted that most people do not notice the fact.
So compare the US to the EU then. It still doesn't come out favorably for the US.
Often times there are too many Jobs types and not enough Woz types. When people ask "why should we listen to this guy?" they ought to look at the history and make the connections between what Woz accomplished and where we are today with personal computers. This is a guy that wanted to give the computer designs away for free. Woz is a true hacker.
We care about his opinion because he is a really smart guy who has been living at the forefront of technology for longer then most of us have been alive. You don't have to agree with his opinion, but ignoring it would be pretty foolish...
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It seems everyone reinvents package management poorly again and again. Some things that obviously stand out to me:

* Why utilize scheme? It's declaritive utilize a markup like yaml, don't go off the deep end because you can.

* Utilize OS specific features such as jails, bind mounts, namespaces, you can have the same NIX style separation without destroying FHS.

* Parse the config files for options, it's easy cmake, autocrap, etc all have parsable formatting this way you don't need to mess with adding build time options.

* Parse the source for dependencies, there are lots of white papers of people doing this and beating human made spec files.

* Utilize machine learning for classification of options, dependency resolution (utilizing previous data).
To be fair, Word isn't that great either. I spend a lot of time shouting at it and for about 95% of the things I do, Google Docs is absolutely fine and not tied to a specific computer. It has become my default word processor.
Right on. He's one of us. I admire Jobs. Of course, how could you not. But Woz sees things most don't. And you have to respect him - greatly - for that.
Same problem as every other GNU software.
1525/6 could be a time and day. The Normandy landings took place on 6th June 1944.
Sorry -- I don't normally upvote things, for reasons too complicated to briefly explain. I will make an exception for this terrific column.
I don't allow myself to want that which is impossible. Doing so would only frustrate me.

You have a plan for extending human life by ten years? Sure, that seems awesome; if the details are good enough I'd be willing to donate to fund that.

You have a plan for extending human life indefinitely? That's so implausible I'm not going to even look at what it is. Chasing that dream looks a lot like gambling away your savings - worse, your lifetime - chasing after that one big win that's never going to come.
So next time someone trots out the US being the largest economy on earth, I can use your same argument? We should be comparing all of Europe to the US since that's more realistic, right?
This is really nice and simple, and might be nicer if you supported selecting the applications from the terminal like..

curl -s http://getmacapps.com/raw/chrome:firefox:sublime | sh

Additionally, if you're interested in supporting it, I think this process would work with my "Install all firefoxes" shell script, that works in a similar manner (it curls dmgs, installs, etc.) You can see more about it here - https://github.com/omgmog/install-all-firefox

Might be worth adding descriptions, and links to the original sites for applications, so that people can discern if they want to install them or not.
Can someone explain what benefits do I get for using this rather than the package manager offered by my distribution? And do you need root access to install guix? Because if you do then

> unprivileged package management

seems quite, well, useless imho. If on the other hand everything in guix lives in the userland, I can see myself using it in the servers I don't have root-access to..
Does it need to? It's for hackers, not for every user. If you're bored and feel like hacking on something, this might interest you. If it doesn't, Mr. Ludovic is not trying to force you to use it.

For me, some of its features, specially non-privileged user package management, are interesting. I'm not so much interested in the distribution at the moment, more in the package manager. I imagine there aren't many supported packages yet, so it's a matter of writing scripts... eventually it can become a distribution. Not for everyone.

But I still see no problem in more package managers being out there - any one has a problem with yum / apt being two different package managers? Why is yet another package manager is a bad thing?
Hi Tom, we've been using a combination of responders and Draper decorators for this. It has been in production for almost a year and has worked out pretty well so far. Simon, one of our developers, wrote a couple of articles outlining our API setup:

Part 1: http://techblog.tribesports.com/blog/2011/09/24/versioning-t...
Part 2: http://techblog.tribesports.com/blog/2011/09/24/separating-a...
If this were from 2012, the message would be in plaintext in some DB, and probably easily crackable.

WW2 crypto FTW
Some studies point that operating cameras is expensive and in some way just move or change crime, therefore less efficient than real police at the same cost.
As a UK national I can corroborate this :) I was the proud owner of a fake university ID (think it was from Heiot Watt) in my mid teens. Traded it by ripping some CDs with a first gen burner (which were still quite new in 1997/8!)
No, you do not need root access in order to install guix. Put it in your home folder, there, done. For ease of use add it to your $PATH.
Most of those people have the power to vote this nightmare away though. If they won't then they're just getting what they wanted (if you think I'm being extreme, there are people in this very thread claiming this is necessary after all the evidence that's shown conclusively that it's useless).
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It's a forcible interruption of whatever the user is doing, and the user has to interact with it before continuing. As such, it should be used only when there is something that needs attention immediately.

If it's used for collecting user info after they hit a signup button, that's marginally acceptable, but they would still be unable to, for example, scroll back up the page to double-check some info until they finished with it. So I see popups like that as a failure of design; "I didn't know where to put this, so, here. Modal."

What modals are actually used for in the majority of cases I've seen is making modal popups begging first time visitors to register for websites and similar. This task is neither urgent nor necessary (nor, in most cases, desirable) for the users. Forcing them to interact with it before the rest of the page is incredibly irritating, but that will never stop because it's more lucrative.
Worth noting that it is well over 200 years since James Hutton first identified evidence for "deep time":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hutton

His paper presenting his findings ends with the haunting phrase:

"The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,–no prospect of an end."
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Once I looked up the word "innovation" it made sense. I understood "invention" and "improvement", but "innovation" always sounded like marketing-speak to me, so I turned off my brain on that one.

The page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation compares all three.
>Before we checked luggage for bombs, bombers took down entire aircraft by checking in explosive laden bags

Not sure what you're talking about here. The reason 911 actually happened was because no one on the plane expected anymore more than a bit of inconvenience (flying to a different destination).

I'd say do nothing. There aren't enough people trying to do this sort of thing to make it worth the effort or expense. Especially since they have to die every time they do it.
1. I didn't say the VAX was a personal computer, I've countered your claim that without Steve Wozniak people (me) would not be on a forum talking about these topics. As many people accessed "forums" on the internet without a desktop, I don't see your argument holds true.

2. If the agenda was hidden you probably would not know it. I would call a public agenda not hidden.

"If you think that he has a hidden agenda."

You have to show he has no hidden agenda (should be hard, see aboce) as you have claimed he has none, not me having to show there is one.