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No claiming that complexity is _subjective_ is dismissive. there is complexity and there is simplicity. There is also perceived complexity and perceived simplicity. As far as languages go Scala is pretty darn simple. There is very little going on in the background and the core of the language was designed to be a small set of orthogonal features that can be layered to build complex pieces of software. The perceived complexity is something we can argue about as it is subjective which is why you need to take a look at what your doing and how you might alter your practices to make it a more readable and simple implementation. You will always run across bits of a language that you will not understand, that doesn't mean the absolute state of the language has changed just your perception has changed.

This happens every time new developers run across a piece of Object Oriented C code with run time function overloading, their default reaction is I don't know whats going on this is too complex. C didn't magically become a more complex language because we introduced a new guy to function pointers and dynamic dispatch. Likewise Scala doesn't become more complex the first time you need to understand why marking your types as being covarient is important.
Be sure to check out the content on the Learn pages [1], which present a structured introduction to various aspects of the language (as opposed to the blank slate of the Create page). The examples really show off what you can do with F#, even in the browser environment (type providers with IntelliSense, charting, etc.).

[1] http://test.tryfsharp.org/Learn
I'd love it if ducks did this.
The Intellisense doesn't seem to work for me. Ctr-Space brings up the dialog which just contains "Loading..."
I'm not sure the point the original article was trying to make -- in reality, a lot of HIT software is terrible. "Good enough" would be significantly better than a lot of the crap that is out there.
Whether you are attacking the encryption, or whether you're a user of encryption; a defender.

If you're attacking, having flexibility is advantageous.
"It's surprising to me that CBD is fiat-legal"

Fiat non-psychoactive, not fiat legal. It's definitely still illegal. But it's included on all the lists of non-psychoactive cannabinoids.

As for that journal article, it's behind a paywall even though it's from 1940 so I can't comment on it. But if you look at the menus for any dispensary that tests for both THC and CBD, you'll see that CBD is rarely a significant percentage of the cannabinoids, e.g.

http://www.greendoorsf.com/menu/high_end.php
Hopefully id get all their old games up on that list soon, they put in a lot of effort over the years when not many others were, a shame that changed recently though.
What services are safe? Companies that haven't taken funding and are profitable. If they have taken funding then they are forced to look for an exit (acquisition, IPO, etc.). It's a ticking time bomb.
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We currently provide convenience SDKs to login with Facebook, Twitter and just a regular email/password, but the system is flexible enough to allow any authentication mechanism that can produce JWTs.
4. The most successful product-related decisions we’ve made grew out of a “zen mind, beginner’s mind” mentality. Decisions that resulted from long intellectual debates, complicated forward-looking arguments, or ornate over-intellectualizations rarely led to anything useful.

== Clarity of mind, and its opposite.
If it was so "easy", why wasn't it invented a long time ago?

Because it made no sense to even contemplate such a feature prior to the availability of capacitive multitouch sensors.

Once the hardware became available, the obvious gesture-based functionality was implemented quickly and independently by multiple engineers.
The first rule of Dustin Curtis is you don't ask about Dustin Curtis.
Spotify was a big one, but it looks as though they added non-facebook signups back in recently.
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http://creator.ifreetools.com, an online database app builder, is built from the ground up for hosting on Google App Engine.
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> The archive.org team does follow robots.txt and I believe they remove content retroactively meaning if you update your site with a robots.txt it will delete the old content (which I think sucks).

Indeed, especially since most domain parking garbage sites seem to have robots.txt files for some crazy reason.
Cuban has ranted about software patents publicly many times. He's just putting his money where his mouth is. Even if he's done little that's innovative (I don't know, I'm not especially familiar with his history), there's no reason he can't still be opposed to software patents.
"First do no harm" means to me having everyone perform efficient medicine - going by the book, not cutting corners or adding useless tests (they won't be billable)

I am very sorry if you feel that the system works against you, but IMHO the consequence of the financial incentives is your physician will make sure you have no actual infection if you are in the hospital for any other reason. he will also check for possible bad consequence of your immunosuppressant - something otherwise he might have forgotten, say for a wrist problem.

It's an incentive. It has bad sides and good sides. I believe there is more good than bad.

Regarding providing coverage, the French market is different from the US system. It will certainly be changed soon, so I don't think I can provide an interesting/useful comment.

The french system is interesting and had many strengths, but it need some serious tweaks. Putting a big chuck of the US system (medicare) was a great idea - 8 years ago. Now we have to keep evolving it.
He is being perfectly civil. He has succinctly stated a position that you find unpleasant, but that is all. It is not considered "civil" in the non-software world to suggest that someone should give away their possessions before you care about bad things happening to them.
If you go out on your own and contract with that same company, chances are good that you could easily pull in $100/hr (I've heard numbers much higher than that, but am trying to be conservative here). Now, there's a higher risk for contracting, and you're on your own for paying taxes, but if you work from home and have a home office, you can claim lots of deductions. Still, assuming a 35% tax rate with no deductions, and spending only 75% of the year doing billable work, that's still a nice salary of $101k.

If you don't feel confident to go out on your own, or need stability and/or benefits, you can always start shopping around at other places (lots of companies are hiring for your skillsets in the DC area). This can be a good opportunity to practice your negotiation skills, and see how high of an offer you can get (tell them what your current salary is and that you know you're underpaid). Then you can either take the new job or go back to your current company and get them to match.
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No medical system charges the average patient as much--legally--as the U.S. system does. When it comes to ethics vs. legalities of patient payments, U.S. doctors have the shortest legs in the world to stand on.

The French system, for all the praise it gets in the U.S., is a fiscal mess. That system does need to find a way to charge their patients more, or it will eventually go bankrupt. Conversely, the U.S. system needs to find a way to charge its patients less.
Well, the CSS preprocessor ecosystem is a clusterfuck (pardon my french).

Since the differences are so marginal I wish projects would pick their preprocessor by the number of available implementations (in popular languages) rather than the latest fashion.

Less and stylus only have javascript impls and should be avoided for that reason alone. The same applies for most other niche processors.

Like it or not, SASS appears to be the only one with a C library that enables a wide range of language bindings.
Like the idea. It could be a time saving service :)
It was also the first game they brought over for the mac port, though I think that was before the in-game store.
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>With 4 years of data we now know who was right and who was wrong

Do we? I think at best you could argue that what was done was wrong, that doesn't imply the other alternative was right. There exists more than two possible courses of action and thus we can't simply anoint one as right and the other as wrong, they could in fact both be wrong. I think that is one big problem with macro-economics as a science, you can't really have controlled experiments whereby we try each of N hypothesis in turn, controlling externalities, and see which yields the most accurate outcome vis-a-vis the predictions that that hypothesis made. Even repeating what worked N years ago isn't a guarantee of anything, since it is highly unlikely that all the confounding variables are the same.
I have heard of that (and also, unfortunately, experienced it), but that is not what I was talking about.

The second-system effect is a product of naiveté. I've made that mistake more than once, but I believe I know better than it now.

But this practice of rebuilding from scratch I'm describing is not that. It is more a matter of practicing craftsmanship.

It's like a sculptor who sculpts a wolf, sees its good and bad, then gets the exact same size block of wood and sculpts it again -- but differently. And again. Not out of naiveté, but out of a patient determination to get better.
Do you actually know what you're talking about or are you just joining the large chorus of whiners that exist everywhere these days? People don't want to exchange knowledge and learn, it's one huge rant. I wish I could figure out how to stop this.

Anyway, I think salaries in many Wall Street jobs have been declining. And many of the banks that took TARP money paid it back with interest. Those that haven't, should be forced to at some point. Also, I think some of that money went to Detroit.
FWIW, I didn't get any sense of defensiveness from the question - just a direct, succinct, and honest question.
Of course that was a factor. Every time I ask anyone I know from Iceland about stories like these, they roll their eyes and say it's BS.

Also, notice that this is published in the Irish Independent, a fairly newspaper which traditionally supports what is now the opposition party and which dug the country into a hole in the first place. It would be a mistake to assume this commentary is wholly objective; likewise it would be a mistake to overlook the historical record, in which Ireland has been through past periods of austerity and emerged sooner than its peers for having taken the bull by the horns. In the meantime, it's useful to remember an Irish proverb: 'faraway hills look green.'
You assume scale invariance. There is abundant evidence that this is not the case in the field of economics.
Can only say one thing about Launchpad, "ew". It has a horrible UI.
I agree with you regarding statistical confidence. In this case, there was a second metric I was also looking at (which I didn't mention in the post and should add) - the conversion of people who hit the signup page to signup complete. With this call to action it was improved 30% (+/- 5%) so I was pretty confident it was a win all around.
Try http://postmaster.io. Its like Stripe for postage.
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Simple (BankSimple)[1] has a blog post describing this situation and some of the potential problems.[2] Worth reading.

[1] https://simple.com/
[2] https://simple.com/blog/Banking/mobile-payments/
I would say take to offensive. Its not the revenge I am talking about. Its the fact that its extremely important to not let those teachers ruin any more money and life/career (in some cases).

One possible path: Go talk to your college's administration (take evidences along like slides, etc.) and suggest your college to encourage this behavior among students.

An incompetent teacher has absolutely no rights to teach.
> Costs (eg negative impact, not price) of limiting firearms: low, mostly political. Costs of limiting cars: catastrophic, economy-devastating.

Not sure where you get the idea that the cost of limiting firearms is low or that the cost of limiting cars is high. Mass transportation, tele-communication etc. seem like viable solutions and because "for the children."

> That's why we should stop at firearms.

That's why we should stop giving our rights and freedoms away.
Not just part of the EU, but members of the euro zone: i.e., they have neither their own currencies nor their own central banks.
You can't test hypothesis with no control group and no way to falsify theories. Comparing economics to physics is absurd.
It is, but overall their economy is a net importer:

Economy of Greece - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Greece

Which is not totally surprising since it's this imbalance of trade that resulted in them running up their massive 'credit card' bill in the first place.
I recently watched a video made back in January of Shirley Phelps talking with an openly gay DJ during one of their protests. It's surreal at first. Then preconceptions melt as it becomes obvious that the two actually have been buddies for quite a while. WBC is a professional trolling organization hell bent on keeping awareness of Scripture on the front page. They're like "Dick Masterson" except they want you to buy a bible.
The first half was great but the narration was not very good towards the end.

I finished it though because it was fascinating. Reminds me of the birds that have elaborate rituals and when I think of the bug versions they are much less exciting.
The spider was 'almost' cute but then I saw some of the other suggested videos and remembered why I don't like them.

What's amazing is there are probably many species of bugs just waiting to be found.
Certainly possible, plausible, and I'm more than willing to be corrected!
The argument you portray is sufficiently complicated that's it's hard to even begin... not that arguing is really the purpose. Yes, that is the purpose of a patent philosophically, for sure. It's hard to apply a philosophical test to a legal case though =)
So... how do I actually use PayPal to do such a thing now?
Heh, I just realized I do as well :-) I think it's primarily a consequence of using svbtle -- all the blogs look the same.

And this is the high point of design apparently...
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No. White background without shadows means the images will be used as product images on websites. He will most probably produce interactive turntables of living models for online clothing stores.. Or he is planning his own clothing store or clothing preview app for iPad, whatever. That's the only way it makes sense as an investment.
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I think you missed my point, rather badly. I'm saying the concept of a legal real name is a valid one, not that you should have to use it everywhere. Anigbrowl is not my real name; I don't think people should always be required to go under their real name, which is why I don't use Facebook, for example. The use of pseudonyms does not invalidate the concept of a legal identity.
Reread what I wrote: Class warfare by the upper class is a real thing, but trivializing every item as "pet issue" of this or that class doesn't help anybody and makes you look like a loony.

I'm not saying it's not true that some topics get more attention because they affect a certain class, but that if the problems are real (and we agree the TSA is a problem) and do not depend on class divide (and the TSA does not, at this point, depend on that), in strategic terms there is no point in bringing up the topic.
Done - donated $50 to the cause !! =)
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Credit to Michael Ward for much of the content:
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To add another counterpoint; not everyone in college uses SnapChat.
> Having the fire of destitution in your belly is how you breed Goldman Sachs investment bankers, not good citizens of a developed society.

no way. Its greed and not destitution that breeds these investment bankers to exploit whatever they can to make money.
This is a pretty compelling idea. I hope you implement it.
> I'm not 100% sure why they have a "repo" for an "installer". It sort of rather defeats the purpose.

It's because they don't really grasp yet how these things work on Linux. Which is understandable, since they're coming from a Windows world, where package management has to be done manually. So the Steam executable you download is an installer that downloads/installs the Steam package manager, which then downloads/maintains the games.

Ideally, all the Steam Linux games would be maintained in APT repositories and you would update them through APT, but I don't know if that will ever happen. At least this is better than nothing at all.
> You don’t have to lower your voice and pretend to be working really hard when I walk by.

Not quite. There is a second order effect here and that is letting others know that the boss knows that goofing off is ok sometimes.

That's a very important point. The boss might personally agree and not care (as long as work is being done), but they might not want to show or make that explicit to others that they allow that. So if you goof off in an obvious way in front of others and the boss is present he will be forced act to tell you to stop it or worse he'll make a new company policy about goofing so as not to seem like he is a bad boss how lets others waste time.

Always be very careful about putting the management on the spot and forcing them to act. That is how really thick rule and guide books end up creating.
Really? Are you in enterprise software or something? We (WePay) see less than 1% of our traffic and revenue from IE<=7, and that includes the data from our embeddable checkout flow. And of that tiny amount, most is related to our API.

We still officially support 7 for our offsite/embeddable stuff, but from the chatter I hear of the devs that are working on that stuff, the maintenance cost sounds higher than the revenue. Then again, that cost to us is yet another reason that people like our API, since its one less tedious thing for other devs to worry about in their checkout process.
Seriously dude, I'm pretty upset about this. Please see me in my office first thing tomorrow morning.
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One proposal has been microstamping[1] the bullet casings, although this was really meant for forensic identification, not regulation. I don't know how it could be used to prevent home handloading[2] though.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_microstamping [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handloading
Thank you for sharing this. Hang in there. Don't let the haters get you down.
Then why install it in your private residence? that's what office space is for.
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Everything else is both finite and not clearly larger. Insofar as everything else might be infinite (e.g. Infinite multiverse) so might prior art.
Sorry that you are getting down voted and being called a troll for suggesting that patent and IP laws serve a purpose. I guess the down voters would be comfortable investing a billion dollar in R&D for a drug that Walgreens can copy in a week.
Great concept! Here are some random ideas:

1. You should be able to attach metadata such as beats-per-minute or key signature to each track, so it's easier to make remixes of tracks from different songs.

2. It would also be great if you had support for formats which include per-note data like MIDI, Lilypond [1], and MOD/XM/IT. Bonus points for built-in scrolling sheet music and/or Synthesia view [2].

3. If you have an MP3 of each track, then mix them together to create another MP3 of the final song, your data is going through the lossy MP3 encoding step twice. Maybe you should have an option to store music in FLAC; perhaps a perk only available to premium users (since it takes more resources).

4. Content creators really want to find music to use in Youtube videos, phone apps, games, whatever. People who upload songs to this should really have a way to include license information. Bonus points if there's a search or RSS feed for music by license type.

5. You should be aware of DMCA compliance. If this app becomes successful, I have no doubt that people will try to upload copyrighted songs, and you'd better have a plan for dealing with takedown requests.

[1] http://www.lilypond.org/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuzP067_gZs
This is the work of David Bresears

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

The result of a project by David Breashears, who has already climbed the highest mountain in the world five times. He used old images of Everest and its glaciers and combined them with new ones.

The photo is part of a broader project called GlacierWorks by the mountaineer Breashears, who made the much-acclaimed IMAX documentary “Everest.”
Depends on context. Indeed with one axis locked and the other free pinch to zoom and rotate is great for, e.g. Adjusting 3d views in a game.
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I can't help notice some similarity in name and motivation to http://tryclj.com .

http://www.tryfsharp.org/Help 404s for me. My browser "does not support the execution of F# code in the browser", probably because I don't have Silverlight.

I install Silverlight (for Chrome on OS X). "Could not load Silverlight Plug-In."
There are two groups of economists: scientists who predicted that austerity wouldn't work and would make things worse, and quarks (aka the Chicago school) who recommended it.

In most areas of science bad ideas don't disappear, it is just that those who support them die and ideas with some evidentiary support become the new norm.

After the response to the 70's oil shocks economists knew that austerity didn't work. Unfortunately measures that are known to work are a political minefield, so those "economists" who don't support it get a lot of support from politicians who don't support it either.

In some ways it is similar to evolution or climate change. You can find "scientists" who deny them both. Economics is worse though, because it is so closely tied to politics.

Incidentally, Krugman has been writing about Iceland since 2010[1].

[1] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/the-icelandic-po...
take a gander at some art history. when photography was first introduced in France in the first half of the 1800s it sparked a longrunning debate concerning the medium's place amongst other art forms, or even whether it should be considered an art form at all. Part of the debate was centered around public figures such as Nadar (who made photographic portraits of people such as Jules Verne and Charles Baudelaire). Nadar was so reviled by some for his insistence on photography as a high art that he was the subject of ridicule in the popular press, for example in this caricature [1]. It seems odd that something so banal to us as a photo should provoke such a debate, but photography had a highly disruptive effect on the rigid, academic art world of the day, in a way reminiscent of the anger caused by the introduction of the railroad not long before, or the way some individuals have predicted 3D printing technology could disrupt manafacturing and the power structures associated with it.

[1]"nadar raising photography to the height of art" by Honoré Daumier http://bit.ly/12qOL4Z
Further, you can copy and paste it into the console.