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Half the point of CPAN is "installability", it is trivial to d/l and install lots of modules. There is also CPAN Testing which drastically helps portability. Can Java really compete with a Perl module that has a long list of dependencies (50+ is a pain but will work) and some code tying it together...? [That was the example in the GP post.]

With all due respect to the Java runtime (if not its memory use :-( ), it is part of a totally different ecosystem compared to the usual suspects of the scripting languages.

(And I'd argue that it is always easier to debug a scripting language than C/C++/Java, except maybe just for long running server processes.)
Arguably management tools for all those devices, but that is very rapidly changing. The real reason is that no body has done it and said "this is how you do it" and not that many IT guys are in a position to decide to try it and take the risk. The only technical reason would be custom apps built for window or .net, otherwise all of the pieces are there to do it for most businesses.
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My question is do the Terms of Service allow for the situation Wil Wheaton is explaining?

People all over the technology industry fall over themselves trying to predict what these companies are going to do. A lot of them fail. Changing the ToS is a big deal because its tangible and meaningful. Intent is hard to define and I don't think folks should get the habit of assuming a companies intentions.
Yeh, if there is one true metric it would be profit
What's the problem with sharing from Dropbox instead of Instagram and how's that any different?
Well, that's a false statement. If you don't follow the guidelines they have the right to delete your photos without any warning or explanation.
facebook has an office in hamburg and iirc it is in the same building as qype(recently aquired by yelp)
> Just thinking out loud here, move along.

By "thinking out loud" you're begging people to not move along, much like the guy holding forth in Times Square.
I think Germany understands full well how the internet works:

Nations all over the world block content that violates their laws... from the Tiananmen Square Wikipedia page being blocked by China to megaupload.com being blocked by the U.S.

Certainly Germany cannot prevent you from running a server in India and publishing to Indians, but they certainly can prevent you from broadcasting to Germans, and if you want to do so, you have to play by their laws.
No, because there is no single ideal price for anything. The ideal price varies between customers.

Real world:
Customer A thinks the $14 pizza is overpriced. No sale.
Customer B thinks the $14 pizza is delicious and worth it. Would pay up to $20 if forced. Pays $14 and enjoys $6 in surplus value.

Ideal world:
Customer A thinks the $14 pizza is worth about $6. Buys it for $6 (Arriving at the deal is the tricky part).
Customer B thinks the $20 pizza is worth about $20. Buys it for $20 (Arriving at the deal is the tricky part).

Now both customers are happy with their pizzas, and the pizza maker made $26 in revenue instead of $14.

There is no "true" price for anything. It's not morally wrong for the cheap customer to pay $1 in a PWYW deal, and it's not morally wrong for the seller to enjoy it when someone pays $100 in the same deal.
I'm aware of the distinction. However, part of the goal of SPDY is to avoid round-trip by pre-emptively sending resources. So the question still remains, why not use some type of archive format to send the HTML along with the images and other assets that would have been pushed down the pipeline? Clients could negotiate for the bundle using Content-accept, and proxies would not be broken.
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I work in the financial sector, 80000+ employees. Office, Visio, Project, Active Directory, SQL Server, Server, etc. all play a huge role in our PC structure and end user environments.

We also have massive IBM deployments including MVS and Unix (z/OS, AIX, DB2, Oracle, etc.) that run most all of the back-end banking.

Microsoft in the front-end, IBM/Unix in the back. Gotta say, the front end, although more complicated, is more easily managed and deployed. I could never see a replacement for it, not yet anyway.

Edit: No, iPads won't play nicely with this setup.
Did God invent Kidney cancer and if so why? I think God has given us an environment to live in which life is precious and meaningful. The irony is that in Christianity we are promised eternal life, where all bad will be undone.

Right now what we have is free will, without a seatbelt. When an average person become angry or jealous, they may hurt someone, but usually not too badly, but when a mentally ill person becomes angry or jealous, the sickness in their brain may leave their violence unchecked, as in Sandy Fork.

Solzhenitsyn said, after years on observing mans depravity, that the line separating good and evil run through the heart of every person. We're all in a way guilty of the same sin.
> Privacy is very important to Germans. They have learnt from experience that it is very dangerous to centralize identifying information within the hands of a single ruling entity.

Never mind that this is very close to Godwining the discussion: There is a world and then some of difference to telling a private company your real name and being physically forced to detail the ethnicity of your entire family to the government.

It's also rampant survivor-bias (although the name of that bias is awfully inappropriate in this context). Plenty of countries did (and still do) plenty of registration of citizen's private data without subsequently mass murdering them.
Negotiation is something you have to do when there is friction involved in discovering the market price of something. The more efficient a market becomes, the less negotiation there is, with the benefit being the time and effort saved for the buyer and seller. This is why you don't negotiate for things like gas, clothes, and milk.

The only reason I can think for someone to like haggling is it lets them think THEY got a good deal, and makes them feel better about themselves. However, it is almost always in the interest, and benefit, of the seller if haggling has to be done (they have more information than you do, unless you're willing to spend a lot of time and effort).
For the folks questioning jurisdiction, that's moot on several counts, most notably since Facebook has had a German daughter company ("Facebook Germany GmbH") since 2009.
Zepto doesn’t support any version of IE.
If you know enough about the standard Perl warn() and die(), it turns out:

croak(): (slang) To die[1]

confess(): to provide information, commonly[2] as one is dying[3]

carp(): To complain, often at length and of minor details[4]

cluck(): Not actually sure about this one, although 'clucking their disapproval' seems to be something of an english idiom.

So yeah, there's some logic to the choices, even if it is rather whimsical. It's a valid point to say it's not immediately obvious, but it doesn't take long (from experience) to figure what they do and out which one you want for a given situation.

[1] http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/01/croak.html

[2] Obviously some religions promote regular confession, but the 'deathbed confession' is afaik common even among the less pious/religious.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathbed_confession

[4] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/carping
> I think a lot of this is that people are pattern-matching 'God' with the huge amount of baggage that the term has rightfully accumulated.

It's not "baggage" but "meaning".

If you don't attribute intention, agency and potency to the "God" then you are just using words in a way they aren't intended to.
This here is the problem with web-based services, and the advantage of Microsoft Office.

If Microsoft decides to kill a feature available in Excel 2010, you still can use it.

Of course also the difference is that I paid for MS Office while I haven't paid a cent for Google Docs.
And how about Russia with vkontakte (vk.com)?
Isn't this how YouTube policy works as well? As I recall YouTube is always the rights holder - if a YouTube video is played on TV the TV program pays royalties to YouTube and the user gets nothing.
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"And now add the fact that MS seems to be launching MS Office on iOS soon."

I think this really sums up the long term fate of Microsoft. This happened to Sega several years ago. They eventually gave up on the console business only to focus on software for other consoles. If Microsoft has any chance of long term success, they need to start building apps for iOS and maybe even Android. This is how Sega has survived over the years. They make games for Xbox, Nintendo and Playstation and have even licensed their characters to Nintendo to share the spotlight with their one-time rivals. Microsoft is sinking and they need to start forming some alliances with their one-time rivals.
Didn't we expect that they'd need to find some way to make money off us?
I like perl "expression": perlguts, bless, sv_2mortal, etc i feel we are listening the same song :)
> I've always had issues with certain details on Flickr (perhaps since the Yahoo acquisition; I honestly can't remember what was just carried over) such as the inability to download all your photos at once for backup

The dozens of Flickr downloader apps, and countless free scripts on GitHub, let you not only download them all for backup, but often will keep them in sync with folders. Even iPhoto has this sync built in.

> lockout of your own photos when your pro membership expires (combined with the aforementioned non-feature), and some other things.

They notify you before it expires, and said tools take not long at all.

What's more, their policy is incredibly generous: they retain all the photos for you, and when you re-up, everything's back as it was. That's extraordinary customer service.
Development Manager for large private company. Came up through dev ranks, mostly on the MSFT stack, and will always be a dev at heart. Stumbled upon HN in the last year and love reading it as a way to keep a finger on the pulse of the industry. Don't get to dev at work as a manager, but stay involved with side projects at home as my wife allows :)
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Genomics and bioinformatics for one. Identifying specific cancer tumor-specific gene mutations on a per-patient basis is happening today in small batches.

This is a direct result of hard-core hacking in sequence alignment software, advances in sequencing hardware, and piles of normal data management tasks being focused on helping flow the necessary information back to pathologists and doctors who make actual treatment decisions on this data.

I also think this is a "ground-floor" area in medical treatment. There is just a deluge of previously unknown results and even analysis techniques. This work just wasn't possible before . . .
> If you want to feel hated, and I mean something on the verge of knowing some of the people hating you have lynch mob like ideas entering their mind, go walking down Pacific Ave in Downtown Santa Cruz as a "Mormon" (LDS) Missionary (I imagine it could be even worse now post Prop. 8).

Now try being gay - the lynch mob becomes real.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_acts_of_violence_ag...
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"If half the people on FB have pseudonyms it will make the process of reconnecting with old friends and family frustrating"

Why? How so? And - why do we care? If users want to choose their name, how is it relevant if it's frustrating for _other_ people to be unable to locate them?

How many people are searching the ex-gf/-bf by name to stalk and see what they're up to?

Isn't it very frustrating as well if people got married and - whoa - just give Facebook their _current_ 'real name'. You wouldn't be able to find them. Maybe the service should require you to list the maiden name, blocking you for failing to do so?

And - frankly: I know more people on FB with 'fake' names than with 'real' ones. Family, friends, random acquaintances, 70% don't use their real name. The range is from fantasy names (like, obviously invalid/~random~), to play on words/phrases (localized variants of 'Some Dude' or similar) to the braindead exercise of writing your name backwards (you'd be there as "Kram Rettun").

Against the TOS? Yeah, sure. Impossible to enforce for localized jokes or seemingly valid names anyway. And quite frankly, if it's 'frustrating' for people that want to search for old contacts is really, really not interesting _for those users_.
The celebrity angle is interesting here. I eventually killed a little product because it was too hard to legally acquire face shots of celebrities and it just didn't have enough zing without pictures by names.

If enough celebrities used Instagram, and Instagram could figure out their accounts, they could open autopaparazzi.com.
Richard Stallman vehemently disagrees with you.

http://stallman.org/amazon.html

He cites DRM, remote wiping of Kindles, sweatshop conditions in some shipping facilities, cutting off service to Wikileaks, squeezing small publishers, not paying enough UK taxes, and being a member of a right-wing lobbying group.
Uhh, the callbacks aren't from node. The fallbacks are from vanilla JavaScript. You just notice them more in node, because you're doing event stuff, like making http connections. You have callbacks in browser JavaScript when you use AJAX.
Don't tell people what you do, tell them WHY you do it
That answered my question, thanks. I was thinking of larger-scale, internet efforts (In Rainbows, Louis CK) but of course those don't involve physical delivery. Had not even considered honesty boxes.

Thinking more, I do remember reading about someone who started a business in DC delivering muffin baskets to beltway-area office buildings. Their business was purely honesty based, and I think losses due to cheapskatery were around 5%. In the end, they'd cut off buildings with rates worse than that. All that is more support for your points.
6x seems like a big difference; it makes me wish Ouya had waited a few months.
yet one still needs to solve these problems somehow...
Tell that to the people that take down .com domains for violating US rules.
> ... our problem is 2D,
> yours is a lot harder

Most of ours is 2D - as I say, we do the maritime equivalent, so we're watching ships, most of which stay at sea level. We do have to track low flying helicopters, micro-lights, and other aircraft, but we're primarily 2D.
Didn't Facebook already use people's pictures in their ads? What makes you so sure this will not happen again? (well okay, maybe not after all this outrage).
I am a perl lover. For me, the TIMTOWTDI means mainly that I can write code the way I think. When I have an idea of a solution for a problem, I have no effort to make to translate this idea into perl because there exists always a concise syntax for it. Perl does not limit your thinking. Instead of loosing time fighting to adapt your mind to the language, you have freedom to improve your skills. The more you improves, the more you find cases where not common syntaxes appear to be useful. At the end, when you are an experienced perl programmer, you master most of the syntax "tricks" used by the others experienced perl programmers.
If you dig into definition of monopoly, you'll be surprised that everybody has a monopoly on themselves. Important thing is that Facebook does not have monopoly on you, but your government does. If monopoly is evil, then deal with your government first. If it is not, then why worry about Facebook?
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Yeah, telling people what they mean is also pointless, but ok.

I was also a little disappointed to see Wikimedia called a 'charity'. Because people ask you for money does not make them a worthy cause. Now, I'm sure Wikimedia is doing what they do out of the goodness of their hearts. But its not the same as feeding the hungry. In fact, its kind of a first-world problem being solved, isn't it?
its perfectly well founded and measurable.

my issue with objective-c and its runtime is the message passing implementation and the reliance on it - it is incredibly powerful, but the cost is phenomenal in the contexts i work with - and a common optimisation i find myself doing is making C++ style calls out of c functions with a 'this' as the first parameter.

there is no real need for this cost if the compiler could have more information about use and respected the "don't pay for what you don't need"
Change is not always good!
I think there's a valid argument in the fact that it's diverse enough that you could have 2 highly experienced Perl coders who nevertheless disagree about an awful lot of things[1].

In professional environments or large projects, hopefully you're got a reasonably comprehensive style guides (or better yet, perlcritic config), but for smaller things, it can be a bit of a struggle to understand and conform to the specific style in question if you're trying to contribute to something new.

I don't think it's enough of an argument to dismiss the language though, and agree that the benefits far outweigh the somewhat-pointy learning curve.

[1] The old "Everyone uses 10% of C++, but they all have a different 10%" joke, basically.
>>The java runtime makes everything else look amateurish and unprepared.

The java 'runtime' is hardly Java. Its like saying Pentium is C.

Java the language is hardly comparable with a scripting language like Perl.
this is a very good analogy and precisely what i am saying. :)
Yeah, I don't get the difference between the left and right sides of the two graphs either.
I'm pretty sure this is posted because it's a fairly-well-known blogger (which Wil is, now) talking about the Instagram TOS topic and not just because it's some redshirt from Star Trek.
Thanks, that's a good point. In the beginning, when I didn't have a lot of episodes, the free ones were easier to find. I'll be adding a quick way to see all the free videos on the site soon.
i'd like to use objective-c as both screwdriver and chisel. there is nothing wrong with this imo - i can see how to fix the problems myself for instance. it would make a very good chisel with some work, without compromising its screwdriver capabilities.
RK4 is indeed a popular and standard method. However for this particular equation or other equations with a conserved quantity a Symplectic integrator [1] should be used, as they are much better at keeping the numerical solution close to the real solution since they conserve the quantity of interest (energy, etc.).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic_integrator
I don't really understand why we are putting this kind of computational power in mobile phones. I mean, for the daily usage of almost everyone, I don't even see the difference between a Samsung Galaxy S3 (or an iPhone 5) and my phone which is a Wiko Cink Slim. Yes the phone I'm using is only dual-core at 1 GHz and not a 1.5 GHz quad-core, yes it "only" has 512 Mo of RAM instead of 1 or 2 Go, yes its screen pixel density is less impressive (but still more than two times better than what we have on laptop screens). But I actually can't see a difference when I'm using it: it is as fluid and as responsive. The main difference I see is that I paid my phone less than 150€ while the Galaxy S3 or the iPhone 5 are four times more expensive than that.
(it is good you avoid it for operators etc. - so you must be aware of the issue and how it can be avoided with a little common sense and work)
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Who do you think these poachers are?
-What a ridiculous thing to say. Let's arm all the kids, they're defenceless. Let's arm all the old people too, they're defenceless. In fact, let's arm everybody because after all, when kids and old people have arms everybody else is defenceless.

I don't know what to make of this silly argument.

-And then we'll both sit back and watch the world burn while the defenceless people try to come to terms with their new-found power and slaughter each other.

So in your world view a populace given the responsibility or defending themselves from bad people will inevitably lead to wide spread slaughter. You are an idiot and apparently have no love of your fellow humans.

-What's despicable is that there is a country full of people that are so insecure and that have such little faith in their law enforcement that they feel the need to stockpile ammo and weapons as if there is going to be a shoot-out any moment. And guess what, they're all surprised when there is going to be the occasional shoot-out and when people that shouldn't have access to guns find it all too easy to get their hands on them.

People who shouldn't have guns will always have access to them because they don't care what law there is to prevent them. You can make it more difficult but you can't make it 100%. You can however make it 100% for those who are responsible and capable of owning a gun without going on a power induced rampage. Your goal seems to be to make the responsible law abiding person weaker in a confrontation with the law breakers. That is why I don't like you.

-The power to kill is bad enough when we pass it on to the state but that's a necessary evil. It isn't called the state monopoly on force for nothing.

It's a monopoly on the initiation of force. No one has the right to initiate force against others but they do have the right to fight back. Removing a persons ability to use force to defend themselves by law makes them a slave to those who do not care about following the law.

-If you're so insecure that you can't live without a chunk of iron under your pillow then you should look at how you can improve your society to the point where it is safe enough to live a normal life without having metal detectors at grade schools and armed shopkeepers.

I've tried and I'm still trying to improve the world around me but there are way too many people like you that think there is strength in making others weak.

-Keep the poor as poor as they are, keep the insane living on the streets, give everybody access to as much hardware as they want and you will reap exactly what you sow.

I think you are projecting on to me somehow. I don't believe in any of what you wrote. I believe the poor should not have impediments put int their way. I don't believe in giving them a hand out. I have no idea what to do about insane people. If they are violent and hurt others then lock them up but other than that I'm clueless about what to do. I don't believe the average person should have a howitzer in their garage.

I probably shouldn't have called you despicable because I'm sure you mean well. The end result of your ideas would be awful but you obviously don't see it.
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Yes, it is within the rules of the event. There are lots of ways to play within the rules and still be a jerk.

Everyone who bought the cards for under $3 was faced with a decision: do I want these badly enough to literally cost the people who make them money?

Did you answer yes? Cool, you probably acted selfishly. Own it.