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A pardon is a legal term. It is related to, but not equal to, its plain English meaning. Law will forever confuse you if you insist on trying to use plain English meanings.

For that matter, you're going to have some serious problems as a programmer, too. There's hardly any term that two programming communities have the exact same definition for.
I agree about Microsoft's heavy-handedness. Interestingly, the C# language up to version 3.0 is ISO standard (SO/IEC 23270:2006).
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I removed it, i try to be less judgmental.

I am not in the US, but I would probably have done "sexting" instead while being at that age. Looking at these percentages, it seems like the laws don't display the reality. At least they should make exceptions when the other part is at a similar age.
As someone with both a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics I'd agree.

My CS degree was quite theoretical (completed in 1999) so it wasn't just being taught the language of the day (we did x86 assembly, Modula-2, Prolog, Lisp, C++ and Occam).

The Mathematics degree has definitely been useful for programming; specifically set theory, matrix manipulation and linear algebra, number theory, and graphs/networks/design, but a lot of it is stuff I'm unlikely to use for usual programming areas. Number theory (and implications within assymetric encryption) is where I'll probably look to continue learning (as part of a Masters degree) if I find the time.
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I'm sorry. Best wishes for your wife and you.
Personally I tend to stop reading wp-svbtle websites (and I've seen others say the same thing). Whilst many, like yourself, use it because it's nicely designed, to me it feels almost like the blogger is trying to deceive the reader. I like the look of Simvla because whilst the UI is still very similar and minimal, it looks different enough.
Fortunately, if there's something you should feel guilty about, you can complain about a liberal conspiracy to sooth your conscience.
I know, that's why I sorted them! I think the first 18 are especially worthwhile.
Is it really deceptive when only a handful of people (HN readers) even know what Subtle (did I spell that wrong?) is, and they can tell the difference immediately, despite the identical layout?
The peoblem is, we have an out of control situation and an utter lack of people to blame for this. Everyone it kind of not supporting the shit but nobody actively prevents the shit from happening.

The people to blame for this is the people not to blame for this.
Space Alert is another interesting one: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38453/space-alert

Sort of cross-over between Pandemic and Robo Rally... you play and win/lose as a team like in Pandemic, but much of the mechanics is "programming" your actions like in Robo Rally.
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True...but i do wonder why it is so popular...
Of which four start `X-`, suggesting they are unstandardised and not supported by all browsers... but browser support is not mentioned for these four (and barely mentioned for the other three).
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He implies that the security of a teenage sexual experience is responsibility of their parents.
It's good to see national governments seeking to retain their influence and power, working for individuals this time.
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Well not having played dominion I can only vouch for Sirlin's Puzzle Strike. Another plus it is very easy to play. My girlfriend gave it to me as a present and my little brothers learned to play just after watching us play a couple of times. Plus the mechanics are solid, they keep the game from having a clear winner and then just having to wait for it (I'm watching you, Monopoly). They updated the rules recently with the new expansion but I haven't played the new version yet so I can't comment on the improvement. But it is definetly a blast for 4 players.

His other game Flash duel is also really good. It tries to capture a fighting game (a la street fighter II) with the board game. It succeds in the zoning part imho.
Google "ppss".
And if that isn't enough for you there's a complete series of stanford cosmology lectures from Leonard Susskind (!) starting here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=32wIKa...

It's part of a comprehensive course in modern physics, all taught by susskind, and all on that same youtube channel. There's classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, the aforementioned cosmology and more iirc. He's a great teacher, it's amazing that you can just dial up tens of thousands of dollars worth of education like this.
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Weren't there cases where underage girls got charged for distributing child porn?

This is so ridiculous when you think about it, destroying the life of the individual the law should protect.
Oops! I missed that in the top paragraph! Thanks! :)
Sort of unrelated: but Ticket to Ride is a great example of how well German-style board games can translate to tablets.

You can either play with friends as pass-and-play, or with bots. Different maps are in-app payments.

We've killed time on some long train rides in Germany with it: http://www.daysofwonder.com/online/en/t2r/ipad/

Update: seems you could also play it between iPads online. We only have one iOS device so haven't tried.
I use http://chizzl.com/ for this. 'Dead simple, and has the multi-dimensional prioritizing ability to encourage working on the important things.
It's more than just this. They also undercut their own third-party sellers and use them to find profitable products. This happened to me all the time when I sold products in the Amazon marketplace.
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Because of the whole elitest nature of svblte, I actively go out of my way to ignore it. When the 'cool kid' in school doesn't want you to be in his group, you don't mimic him and try to be like him. You say fuck 'em, I'm going to do my own thing.
Well, everyone knows Marc Andreessen has extreme Randist views. I'd say it borders on a Machiavellian worldview, especially considering he's apart of the class which has the most influence, so it's not an evil view, but rather a pragmatic view that would benefit him.

Unfortunately for him, the idea that the middle class doesn't exist is incorrect. I know because according to some sources, almost half of the world now fits in this class. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class#Recent_growth_of_t...

When you also factor in that more and more young people are viewing excess spending and wealth after meeting ones needs as excessive and look down upon it, then you could also point to a future where we actually shift from this purely capitalist view to a more social capital view point.

Regardless of what you think, it's all speculation.
Have you considered open sourcing for people who coud self-host?

What may be a failed startup due to financing could well be a wealthy project in terms of interest, and it seems like you've packed lots of features into it.
There are problems with the threaded model, but they're not the same problems that Jeff is saying that there are. The real problems are:

1. When ranking threaded comments, often times a low-ranked comment attached to a high-ranked comment will be read before a more highly ranked top-posted comment.

2. Two diverging branches of the tree can result in the same discussion occurring at two different points in the thread.

3. It's very easy for niche discussions to become the focal point of the conversation, which, while good for discussion, detracts from the subject matter.

I don't think any threaded discussion system has solved all of these - Slashdot has its threshold filters, reddit compresses large threads with a similar threshold, HN is more simple but I find the text dimming effect to be valuable. Facebook doesn't really need to be concerned with these things as much, because the discussions are usually more personal and shorter. Stack Exchange is obviously an outlier here, but I feel that if its mods weren't so jackbooted it would have devolved into a similar discussion system long ago.

I think the biggest problem with our current discussion systems is that they are inefficient. Sometimes experts will avoid a conversation because they can't quickly and easily reply on all points. Multiple conversations can happen on the same topic (or in the case of the news sites mentioned, across different posts entirely). People get karma for being snarky but that's different than the karma given for being wise, being analytical, or doing the legwork (finding references, etc) so that others don't have to.

If you then consider the extreme - a contextual tag-based karma system with threads combined based on their subject matter, you quickly realize that no one will do anything with that because it's too complex.

What we need is curated discussion - not the Steve Jobs kind, but rather the kind you get when you go to a dinner party and the host introduces you to someone that you really wish you had met years ago. Unfortunately, that kind of discussion can only happen currently in more intimate settings, or, in the case of a site like reddit, if we have limited AIs that can actually determine the context and sentiment of a discussion, and alter the structure of the thread tree based on that.

Unfortunately, you're never going to get something like that in an ad-driven Internet.
Agreed. An interesting article on the subject that was posted a few months ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4495914

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Agreed. For me a big part of these games is that often you don't really know who is going to win until the very last turn. Especially with the games that have a collaborative element, people teaming against whoever is "doing too well" equalizes the gameplay a lot.
> who's focus is to produce a general purpose language

More a "solve Google's specific problems" language, general Google purpose
Not really, no. I'm not saying it is. It's just my immediate reaction and I've heard other people express the same feelings.
Looks like an interesting product. I noticed a typo on this sentence "someone else are hidden under the hood." I think you mean "some others are hidden..."
I'm not from the US, I have neither in depth knowledge who Yglesias or this magazine is. From his wikipedia profile it seems he studied philosophy and never worked in finance - which is exactly what I would have suspected...

I'm not saying Amazon isn't overvalued. But to posit that, you have to make a comparison with a similar technology company and compare their respective growth prospects - of course nobody is buying Amazon stock because of their current profits.

A statement like "The P/E is high, other companies have a lower P/E, therefore the shareholders are generous" does not have any value at all and does not reveal profound domain knowledge.
It took me about two minutes to do all of that. Updating the github homepage would take at least two orders of magnitude greater effort, more likely closer to three.
As I recall, the buttons looked like just ordinary text links in a coloured table, presumably with javascript callbacks for the clicks. So I suppose they'd have been screen reader-friendly enough for use by the blind and so on, while still being random enough by default to defeat mouseloggers, and keyboardless enough by default to defeat keyloggers.
Depending on your prior expertise level with c++98, you could pick up the c++11 just by looking at deltas of the standard.

Along those lines, the Microsoft compiler team had a good blog post with links to relevant portions of the standard that I found helpful. [0] All of those "No" not implemented yet is a definite problem. I can also recommend the MSDN series "Welcome Back to C++ (Modern C++)" [1]. And also Microsoft supplies the source code for an app called "hilo" that utilizes c++11, asynchronous techniques and MVVM patterns, but obviously in the context of the microsoft platform! [2]

[0]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/09/12/10209291.a...

[1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh279654(v=vs.110).a...

[2]: http://hilo.codeplex.com/
I feel somewhat similar.

I like how easy it is so get started with wordpress (PHP environment + famous simple "installer") and I find it's popularity staggering (very high proportion of ALL new websites)

However, after making custom themes and modules, and trying to hack others, and doing a fairly lengthy performance review I must say I intensely dislike it from a development perspective, particularly the architecture (or comparatively lack of).

I have a vision of a clean, well written and architected MVC blogging platform that is a joy to use for both users and developers.

It would have to be PHP/MySQL (simvla is Rails and unfortunately this just cuts off most of the market), I would use an established framework (CakePHP would be my preference).

I have been debating for about 12 months just writing it (possibly forking wordpress to help the core developers follow my decisions) but I know adoption would be governed by users, and do they want to change? No!

I've almost resigned myself to the fact that no matter how good my intentions, it would just end up another "snail after a storm"
You're missing the intermediate certificate so some browsers will throw up trust warnings concerning your SSL cert.

http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=https://...
Thanks! The "your stream" page just gets slow sometimes.. it has nothing to do with who you logged in as.

Try clearing your hackerstream cookies to log out. That whole login flow was mangled to fit in a single-screen app.
I don't quite understand how it could be that high...for software sales (which I assume falls under the retail classification) the B&O tax rate is .471%. On $1M gross that's $4710. In order for that to be equivalent to a 10% income tax, you would have to be only netting $50k on that $1M, which would be incredibly low margin. Did I miss something?
Your chart shows just that there are more single mothers. What the chart fails to indicate is that 40% of babies are born to unmarried couples these days, many of whom are a happy couple but just not married. It is a reflection of changing attitudes about marriage, and a failure of data collection. There has always been families of all sorts - single moms, blended families, happy and unhappy marriages, etc. (source: wife who is a sociology professor).
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Great beginners tips to mobile analytics. App Annie and Intercom.io are definitely leaders in the space and product quality insights. Great job Countly!
I absolutely love board games and card games. And I love to think about game mechanics. If I would not be a web developer I would love to work with this kind of game development.

I have developed a version of Magic the Gathering which is played with a normal 52 card deck (one deck per person) with much more simple rules and good strategy (better?) and less luck. I have played it around 100 times and the rules are finalized. I think I should translate the rules to English.

A note about Monopoly, the new card game Monopoly Deal is actually quite good as a family game with simple rules and around 20 minutes.
This is not true at all. There is nothing complex about basic legal practice. Legal services get expensive because companies hire expensive people to work on very complicated problems (e.g. multi billion business deal gone wrong). The process itself, for simple problems, is not complex or "messed up."
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yeah! thank you very much, thanks for letting me know!
I love both Trello and Remember the Milk, using them for different purposes, but keyboard shortcuts shouldn't be one of your reasons for one tool versus the other. Both tools allow you to specify most of the information you want right at construction time (e.g., <N> "Remember the milk #groceries ^Soon ^1" <RET>, makes a new card, labels it Groceries, and puts it at position 1 in the "Soon" list--basically the same as RTM's <C> "Remember the milk #groceries !1" <RET>). Both tools let you search from the keyboard ("F" for Trello, "/" for RTM). Both let you assign due dates from the keyboard, with "D". Both let clear out cards from the keyboard, with "C" for Trello, "XC" for RTM. Noticing a pattern here?

I love RTM, and I think there are good reasons for using it, but keyboard shortcuts shouldn't be one of them.
It's great that they think everyone should be heard equally and all but a closed network isn't such a bad thing just because it's closed. Svbtle maintains quality because it's closed. Open it up and it becomes the next Wordpress where everyone and their mom is publishing their half baked malformed ideas.

Still, I like this and if I weren't already happy with Octopress I'd pick it up in a heartbeat. I just didn't like their answer to the "Isn't this like Svbtle?" questions. You know, if you're gonna be a Svbtle copy then own it! There's absolutely no shame in that at all.
Linux support should be a first class citizen IMO.

I'm not too impressed by the editor. It's like a less mature and worse version of cloud9. The only neat thing was the inline tag-based css editing window but I wouldn't switch editors just for that.
We've been using the Prosperity, Alchemy, and Dark Ages expansions, and they really add a lot of depth and enjoyment to the game. We use the Platinum treasure cards and Colony victory cards from Prosperity in each game, which can speed up the game and change how it plays. Maybe the game was designed to prevent players from "topping out" by limiting how much treasure or victory they can buy in a turn, but we don't like feeling limited.

Our house rule is we can't play with more than 1 stack of "+2 action" cards, because most of us will just buy those and combo them with "+ draw" cards, which give us "+ action" cards, eventually allowing the entire deck to be drawn, and ~30 victory points gained each turn.

For an interesting variation on this idea, try Quarriors -- it's like Dominion but with dice, with some faces being treasure/currency, and other faces being the creature/attack spell.
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They really do entirely different things. Angular allows you to create custom HTML tags, and have smart bits of HTML that react to arbitrary changes in a nested JSON object.

Backbone gives you tools for modeling the client-side data of your JavaScript application, and having an interface that reacts dynamically to those changes. In Backbone, the emphasis is on the data and rich models; in Angular, the emphasis is on the HTML structure.

Fortunately, there are many good examples you can take a look at for both -- http://builtwith.angularjs.org vs. http://backbonejs.org/#examples. A longer answer to the question is available in the FAQ, here: http://backbonejs.org/#FAQ-why-backbone
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That was already covered in my post:

> "Not least of all because -as great a man as Turing was- every other victim of this law would them equally deserve a pardon too (and you know what's going to happen next; some of the less reputable descendants of the aforementioned will no doubt sue the government for an absurd amount of damages)."
Never used Tcl, nice overview.

set a pu
set b ts
$a$b "Hello World"

Seems pretty cool.
uplevel is neat as well. The modifications = DSL approach seems interesting, too.
I have, on my Nexus 7 and deactivated (but still functional) Nexus S 4G. It's not that compelling for me - which may be that they're both used mostly on wifi or offline, but not enough to make me miss the platform.
I'm pretty sure you answered your own question there. I don't know for sure but I tend to agree with your assessment. I wondered the same thing for a long time and I finally realized that this is one of those questions where the answer is so simple that you refuse to consider it because of how damn simple it really is.
Small units of code are good. The smaller it is, the easier it is to understand. It’s harder to screw it up — and I screw stuff up a lot, so limiting that is really important. So, I strive to build small modules of code with a single purpose, or at most a few closely-related purposes. They should be self-contained pieces that solve individual problems. These pieces then work together to solve larger, more complex problems.

To me the article's perspective misses the point. The language itself is just a vehicle for encapsulating data and logic, etc. for some purpose. A framework adds levels of tools and abstractions to "take care" of common situations. The small units can be modules that one employs within a framework, such as an authentication mechanism within a web app. I feel just the opposite of the author: the language is only as useful as the tools available to take superfluous overhead of shared tasks off my hands. The excessive fragmentation of the PHP framework scene is the main reason driving me toward Rails, and thus Ruby. I don't have any practical arguments against PHP and for Ruby, but I'm dismayed that I can't find a current midstream PHP framework like symfony1 was, with great community support, that's easy enough to adapt to a wide variety of projects. Looking into the Rails community (I still haven't rolled a project), I feel like Rails accomplishes that.
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Back in the day TCL was the most efficient way to do a GUI prototype in a non MS Windows environment.
Yes.

And a hybrid solution might be a directory watcher which auto-commits the files which are in version control after every save.

BTW, there's also vim's "go back in time" feature, which lets you go back, say, 2 hours in development to an earlier version of a file.
>I can see this first hand with Objective-C, where Apple evolves the language as they see fit. The joining of such different paradigms as Smalltalk-style OO and C was fragile in the first place and can barely sustain the new functionality.

Huh? Cocoa (and the rest of Obj-C libraries Apple does) are just fine, hardly "barely sustained" by the language.

And it wasn't even Apple, the core framework logic is mostly the same as in NeXT era Objective-C (minus some welcomed syntactic sugar additions).

Smalltalk-style OO and C are very well married in Objective-C, and the language has been, historically, a joy to work with. Jusk ask Tim Berners Lee and Carmack.

Even today it gives strengths that other platforms lack, namely the ability to have very dynamic high level abstractions and easily drop to C whenever you want, which for desktop and especially mobile use is very nice: better memory management and no GC pauses, while still having a full blown OO GUI framework.
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On the side ... I work full time as a mobile application developer. Of course, I had to stop all other side-projects. I usually (against my better judgement) work on at least 2 other things on the side at any given moment, but this book took all of my extracurricular attention.
If you're coming from C, then you need to understand the STL's concepts of "Concepts", "Modeling", "Refinement", and Iterators etc: http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/index.html
(that link doesn't cover C++11, nor even the STL additions in C++03 and TR1; but it is still essential background reading).

When some people say "Modern C++" they mean template meta-programming (traits, partial template specialisation, etc) as exemplified by Alexandrescu's book "Modern C++ design": http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Design-Generic-Programming-Patt...
(note that I am not necessarily advocating such techniques, but understanding them will certainly help when you run across them in the wild).