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so it's Python but functional?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4980350

3 days?
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yes absolutely! I should make that clearer - it's suitable for any "newsworthy" event, like a launch or an update or if you previously have not liased with the tech blog community.

That said, as I've elaborated in another post, it's quite closely tied to the iTunes API right now so if you're not an iPhone/iPad app it won't work for you. We can work on that though!
Nice article, though I don't think Michael is boring. As both of you seem to agree, the problem is that the major tech blogs have been boring.

It is ironic at a time when tech has never been as exciting. Tech is a lot more than the latest mobile startup from a VC friend, or the latest samsung vs apple development. Maybe it is time for some new publications?
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The fact that the message on http://ubuntu.com says:

> So close, you can [ ... ] almost touch it.

... suggests that it has something to do with touch screens. Probably a mobile or tablet interface.
WPF is definitely the way to go. I started a modest sized project a few years ago at an internship, and this past summer I was allowed the task to move it from Forms to WPF. Let me tell you, working with WPF is so much better. Especially when you get into anything custom. Custom drawing in Forms is always a hack, and you basically have to do it in code. WPF is essentially designed to make creating custom controls with custom drawing incredibly easy.

Not to mention all the awesome databinding stuff, and now with async in C# 5, it's easier than ever to create responsive UI. Just reading about the async stuff had me thinking back to that project, saying "yeah, that would make [some chunk of the code] a lot more intelligible".

I contribute a lot in the /r/learnprogramming subreddit, and when new programmers are asking about UI with C#, I generally suggest just skipping Forms. There's really no reason to use it anymore. I can't believe I used it so long while WPF was right there, ready to free me of the Forms peril.
Amazing article. Personally, I find Arrington to be kind of arrogant, especially the way he criticizes people (and entire industries). But, I wouldn't be surprised if Arrington wrote a long boring letter on this 'credibility check' either attacking the author or the industry (again).
Yes. But for medical purposes diagnosis is usually done by a doctor who can apply some reasoning to the process. They use the DSM, but they do not just tick boxes.

Compared to the ATOS (the independent assessors) who are real doctors but who are forced to operate to a very strict, limited, set of tick boxes. That kind of works for some physical disorders.

"On my bad days I cannot stand for more than 30 minutes"; "On my bad days I cannot walk unaided more than 10 metres".

Thus, real doctors are not allowed to use their subjective experienced judgement.
It's a little long, but made me took my arduino board out of the closet to decode the tamagushi code :)

If anyone is interested, there is a great library to start from on Github: https://github.com/shirriff/Arduino-IRremote
Luckily, all the latest browsers are good. The real effort should be to upgrade older browsers. The latest round of "Browser wars" is less about capabilities and more about brand loyalty. rise above.
Far more interesting than the language itself is the "Regional Interest" for the different terms on the Google Trends site:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=Java%20tutor...

India is far ahead of every other country for all of these tutorial searches. eg for Java, India is search index 100, while USA is only search index 11.
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FinFolio - C#/WPF, HTML/JavaScript - Denver Tech Center - Local Only

I'm a serial entrepreneur in the financial services space and FinFolio is my 3rd company. We're always looking for skilled Microsoft-stack developers, both entry-level and advanced positions.

About us:

FinFolio is a boutique technology company that makes software for professional financial advisers. Expert skills in C# and related technologies are needed and past experience in finance would be a big plus . We're seeking long-term employees who want to help grow our company over a period of years.

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I'm not sure why people don't also look at job sites to see language popularity. I quickly compared a few languages here http://www.zappable.com/2012/12/job-market-for-programming-l... but one could do a more in-depth analysis.

I created a chart with some more languages in this Google Doc: http://bit.ly/UBuI02. Java seems to be by far the most popular, though C# seems to be pretty high-demand too.

One could probably compare different job sites to see why they have somewhat different rankings. Also, I wasn't sure how to search for C (and even C++) without getting C# results too.
Oh 100% I do. The best selling is the cheapest Chinese crap still, followed by the mega laptops followed by the ultrabooks.

Outside Starbucks and excessively middle class areas, cheap is king.
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Not really. The language of year is the one with the largest growth of "popularity share". C# has gone from 8.2% to 10.5% this year, while your presumed language would go from 0% to 0.0000001 % : not a big increase, really.
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For the Platform Engineer position, you should have or at least be interested in learning: Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries

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Personally, I think 8 is BETTER than Vista. Sure, it's got some UI regressions, but at least its still got the reliable (and now even faster) Windows 7 core underneath it (unlike Vista, which was slow and groggy)
Computers: It's Time to Start Over
Google Maps directed me down a trap street once on the way to a new tutoring gig. I got lost, was late, and had to sheepishly call the family to ask for directions. Just glad I had a printout of the directions to show them.

Never used it for anything essential after that. Thanks a lot, Google Maps. You'd think they'd have the decency to add a "don't route down this street" flag to their trap streets.
Human intelligence: Cleverer still
Or just use java and benefit from mature libraries and frameworks, tooling and package management that isn't a piece of shit. Your insurance is the openjdk then rather than a thinly veiled promise not to sue from Microsoft.
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I appreciate the alternative viewpoint.

#1 It would definitely counter the "rules" argument, but that still means the kid can't use it for important purposes (It could be taken away at any time, and the data could be deleted).

#2 The purpose of a contract is to protect both parties. This clause helps give absolute power to the parent. By the logic you've presented, the government should have access to your email, computer and phone passwords as well for the same reasons.

#4 It does set up a strong boundary. It also means that the kid's friends have to remember when the kid is actually in possession of the phone, which will cause problems with the communication aspect of a phone.

#5 Unless the kid does after school activities, in which case not having a phone means being less prepared for an emergency.

#18 The use of pronouns here is important.
"The kid will mess up. The parent will take your phone away."
It's a forgone conclusion that the kid will mess up. The parent doesn't think the kid can follow the contract as given.
"We will sit down and talk about it. We will start over again. You & I, we are always learning."
This isn't so bad taken by itself, but when taken with the context of the first two sentences it calls to mind the classic authority figure type conversation. Ex: Your boss says "Can I talk to you for a minute?". Such conversations are typically one-sided and berating of the non-authority figure.

#3 vs #11: Ambiguity has no place in a contract.

#1 and #6 That makes sense given the lending situation.

#15 is a heavy handed suggestion of music at best. "your peers that listen to the same exact stuff." The double-confirmation "same exact" is unnecessary and serves to show the opinions of the parent. The whole sentence is a command that says downloading music that the kid's peers listen to is off limits.

I'd agree that it is hard to judge from the outside, I'm also not sure it would be easier on the "inside". My largest concern is that the kid has no protection in this contract; It just serves as commands from on high.
Pretty cool. How are your sales going?
I don't get it.

If you're a foreign guy in China there are always tons of girls who'll go with you to wherever you want to go and who'll translate for you. If you speak just a little Chinese you can have a very comfortable life there.
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Would be nice to see if this could be converted to javascript to run in the browser, just like markdown. I don't know Haskell myself, but there are javascript ports of the Parsec parser library here:
https://github.com/weaver/ReParse
http://code.google.com/p/jshaskell/

As well as several Haskell to JavaScript compilers here (Fay, ghcjs, & jshaskell seem to be more popular): https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
Sorry to be snippy. Same to you!
It all depends on the definition of popular. This is not to be confused with widely used.

Much more interesting (and catching the Zeitgeist) metric will be:

"Languages (and tools) the top 5% developers prefer to use when left on their own"

From anecdotal evidence Python is indeed somewhat high ranked there.
Look like you just give me new idea for my weekend project. Nice.
Especially considering Persona already has some websites that use it (like MDN, and my websites)
Probably the end of older generation COM C++ stuff that is being pushed to .net (server 2k appears to have finally bit the dust in corporates) and reasonable maturity of WCF.
I agree with your premise but not with your solution. For exemple, IE would never have any point in your "popular" statistic.
App for quizzing your way to being a mastermind
Youngfook, congrats with launching another online venture. I'm your "follower" since the days of OpenSourceFood.

The most important question I raise with submission services (like your PeterPings and AppLaunch) is that followed traffic would not be targeted.

"Why A Link from TechCrunch Will Not Make You Rich" - this excellent article by Rob Walling better describes this issue: http://j.mp/VXJoDp
Windows 8 is and I supposed designed for tablets but not specifically for tablets which is what I think is wrong, I'm sure everyone thinks that.

I'm curious to see how many people got tablets over the holidays and if Windows 8 use increases some.

Windows 8 is so different than the previous versions of Windows it's quite obvious people are out of their comfort zone. But I think it's good to see some attempts at change and this change is not "just because" it's a valid attempt at spurring sales because of the tablet craze.

I like Windows 8 but I am comfortable with computer and even I find it quite a leap there's no way my elderly relatives could figure it out, they have trouble even with Windows 7/Vista/XP.
I wonder if that's when Google started recognizing that "C#" wasn't a typo of "C". :-) C# has always been a PITA to search for (although, maybe not as bad as 'Go').
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We are a small team of 2 looking to add a highly motivated engineer. We work in a rapid delivery product cycle. The idea person would love the latest web technologies and able to pragmatically apply them to our application.

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just launched like a few hours ago so it's a little early to disclose :) we've had a few early adopters who signed up for the beta last month open their wallets, but it looks like HN hasn't driven any sales yet! ;)
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Serious question, I'll come back through my comment log to look at replies I promise: what tools exist for C# on Mono? I've used VS. I use Eclipse. I refuse to leave an IDE. I've never liked debugging from the command line. Any help here would be appreciated since I really like C#'s sense of balance and embracing newer ideas from the functional side of the house.

Thanks.
Seconded, but Linux and OSX seem to be the root causes of this (Net-/Open-/FreeBSD people flocking to these).

What happened to all the extremely interesting efforts like EROS (http://www.eros-os.org/) with its global persistence (i.e. can basically recover back to the previous state from switching off the system), Amoeba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_distributed_operating_sy... multiple hosts seen as one) and others that actually brought extremely useful (even from today's perspective) new paradigms to the table?

Most new OS-related efforts seem to happen around virtualization nowdays.
That's inline with what I'm seeing. Were dropping .net slowly as it's simply unpredictable to manage costs and the staff quality in London to be honest is shit.