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You're talking about PEP 394[1]. It suggests that "python" point to either "python2" or "python3", depending on what ships with the distro by default or on the distro's stated goals. Arch tries to be as cutting edge as possible, even putting out new kernels within weeks after their release. It makes sense for Arch to begin pushing the boundaries here.

There was a discussion on the arch-dev-public mailing list[2] recently that you might be interested in.

In any case, I think it's clearly beneficial for every new Python application to make their version requirements explicit in the hashbang.

[1]
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/

[2]
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012...
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There is a trend in Germany right now, where police ask whole neighborhoods for voluntary DNA testing when they are looking for someone. The problem is that you'll get a visit and asked why you didn't volunteer if you don't go.

And it looks like it's not just Germany: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4161983.stm

I think part of the problem is that the reasonings in these cases aren't out of this world. So people will think of the whole issue as much less problematic.
My 24hr hack (mostly complete) to track your tube runs, either overground or underground, http://tuberun.com

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Additionally you can use WASD.
Especially for small increments (e.g. a few bucks a month)?

Kill the problem altogether by charging more. Alternatively, charge annual rates. Whatever you do though, don't try and make a living from services that charge two or three bucks a month.
> * No free implementations existed during a key period (80s, 90s) so no initial traction, no useful libraries and killer apps which would pull the whole ecosystem. Implementations didnt even exist for commodity hardware.

Emacs LISP (OK, a limited dialect) was available and so was CMUCL (full implementation), which I believe was used for teaching in 1992 when I first got in contact with LISP at our uni ...

Also, back then (80's and 90's) most people still paid an arm and a leg for C, Modula and Pascal on their platforms, so that can't have been an issue. My take is that LISP implementations were too slow to justify their use for most people over faster compiled languages. Whether you paid for the language or not, you expected to be able to get the most out of your hardware.
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Gross, dude.
Foot? Doesn't make any sense.
The problem with boyfriend/girlfriend is that it seems strange to use the same term for a relationship in high school that lasts two months as you would for a relationship later on where you live with a person for years.
I hope I'm not insensitive, but if I'm having a bad day and my cab driver (or just about any total stranger) asks "how is your day" I am not compelled to tell him about the intricacies of being me. It's not about fighting for "the truth", it's simply practical. This is generally how to behave for all matters of sex, politics, religion, and anything else personal. Small talk is small talk.
Initial test showed over 95% accuracy, and we are working on make it even better. On one hand it's not intends to be instead of your GPS to count each and every run mileage, even though you can.
BTW, it will clearly count also treadmill runs, while a GPS will not...
The bad thing is when people say "my partner" now, I think they might mean their bf/gf even when they mean business partner.

I guess it got started in non-gay context because it's awkward to describe someone of a certain age as a boy or girl.
Just use one of a thousand other pedometers that attach to shoes? Really disappointing that you left working on something cutting edge to produce something that countless other companies already make. Good luck to you, though.

I'm not really your market anyway. I wore out my knee doing track in school and can only run on my forefoot now. This eliminates the need for shoe padding since you just cushion your step using your ankle as a shock absorbing hinge sort of. Have had no injuries since moving to Nike Free and then Vibram Five Fingers and I don't replace them until I wear through the soles.
Wow. I tell you- reading through some of the responses on here, I'm feeling a lot more confident about my job security as a C programmer.
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Good point. Annual rates are probably good for my idea. But I'm still curious about the state of the art.
c) There are? Like "Friends with Benefits"?
That's sort of like saying "I'll never pay $250 for a meal." Statistically speaking, you probably will, you're just not currently thinking of a circumstance under which it sounds reasonable, but given the circumstance it will sound very reasonable indeed. (Example: Your wedding dinner. Granted, once you have that context, it isn't just a meal, but once you have the context of this purchase, it presumably isn't "just" a video on Youtube. It's an expectation of direct value, a relationship with the producer, a statement about one's priorities, etc etc.)

More broadly: going from "I wouldn't buy that" to "That's commercially nonviable" is one of the classic hacker mistakes. Clearly people buy it, right? You can fail to sell to billions of people and still have a great business.
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> Seems like words "monad" is the same as words "chakra" or "dharma" in a popular culture.

Are there any more interesting concepts you stubbornly dismiss?
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I would assume like NPR it would be for controlling audio streams of news?
I wondered about that as well.

His example of standing up for the truth is easy, because it is simply undeniably true that he is gay and his partner is a man. He can correct wrong assumptions from the comfortable position of what is actually the case in 'reality'.

Unfortunately, in most cases the truth you want to defend is in the gray of philosophy, ethics, politics, aesthetics, where you yourself may even agree something isn't a universal truth. Then you're not defending the truth: you are preaching.
So I guess you never cut classes to go drink with your friends.
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Thanks for this -- I've been thinking about taking up SICP but I'm not that math-oriented (I do want to change that, though!) I think that I'll pick this book up first.
> a) you're assuming everyone uses git

Did I say that? No. My assumption in that (concise) means of expression was that people can understand an example and extrapolate, ie. "if you are afraid of (easily detectable problem x), use the hooks provided by your version control system". Hooks exist in [an|ever]y half-baked version control system.

> b) you're assuming everyone uses a cli interface to git

Hooks work through any interface... and can often be applied on the server, so they remain constant for all members of a development team.

> c) you're relying on the PHP linter to identify errors

No, I was giving an example. The PHP linter can surely be configured to pick up lack of a closing tag, if not then it could easily be convinced to do so.

> d) you're assuming...

No, again. This is an example.

To re-iterate: if you want to enforce something, you enforce it programatically. You don't go around telling people to change their more-correct habits and shouting from the roof tops about how your perspective is technically superior, because, quite frankly, it isn't.

I agree that not having closing tags as a coding style might be admittedly handy if you're dealing with the average (ie. low skilled) set of people and a crappy development process, but it's not something to aspire to - or defend.

> Seriously, what drugs create a mind state where that is "elegant"?

Drugs. Mmm. Don't want to get on to a tangent now, do we?

Objectively, elegance is correctness. Good development process is elegant. In fact, it follows that elegance in process is more important than elegance in code, because it produces demonstrably correct code as a side-effect. This is the same "one level up" power-of-abstraction that code can wield on data, or LISP can wield on itself. Sorry to have to spell it out.

I hope this inspires you to investigate improving your development process.
I'm not so sure this advice is generally applicable. At the same time, I understand the author probably doesn't mean for it to be, but maybe that is a problem with the inherent vagueness of language. I don't care to do philosophy of language here.

When I behave as I truly am, stuff like this applies:

[quote]

b) Poor Understanding of Social Situations:
Their good verbal skills enable adults with WS to initiate superficial social contacts. However, they tend to lack understanding of the underlying, 'unwritten' rules governing all types of social intercourse. They are often too open, direct or personal in their interactions with others, and do not recognize the social constraints that would be apparent to other people in the same situation. In other cases their social naivetŽ and lack of inhibition can lead them to tell tales or to say things that might hurt or embarrass other people. Such behaviour is rarely intentional or malicious, but occurs because the individual may not understand the social implications of his or her utterances. Similarly, adults with WS will not hesitate to try and gain other peoples' attention with comments and questions, or to reprimand others. Consequently they may give the impression of being rude, bossy or attention seeking, which again may antagonize others if they are not fore-warned.

-- ADULTS WITH WILLIAMS SYNDROME: GUIDELINES FOR EMPLOYERS & SUPERVISORS By Orlee Udwin, Mark Davies, Chris Stinton & Patricia Howlin

[/quote]

Generally I get asked if I'm stoned or something like this, when I'm only trying to be myself. And if I tell people about my Williams (like my heart conditions and other obvious elfish features, including psychological), it doesn't matter how much truth or scientific backing or reading I bring to the table. Given the linguistic problematic of Williams, everyone just gets frustrated since there is the unfortunate problem that if you self-diagnose, and talk about it, you have to present symptoms/evidence/whatever-makes-you-think-you're-X in a sequential fashion.

I'm learning that this hypermetropolitan-supraurban lifestyle is too fast-paced for a conversational exchange where Demonstration is feasible in conversation. It's like presenting evidence has been restricted to purely scientific settings. It's unfortunate.
The app is interesting, but this article misses the most unique and exiting feature of Whisk - they can add their widget to existing recipe websites [1] so you can order the ingredients straight from the page. It seems like an amazing idea, particularly once they get a few more recipe websites involved.
[1] http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/milk-chocolate-tart.htm...
"If a star goes supernova within a few million light years of Earth, we'd all be fried."
Within a few light years, perhaps. The entire Milky Way galaxy is only a little over 100,000 light years across. A few million light years would be outside of the Local Group.
For what it's worth, my most profitable SaaS product launched without the capability of processing credit cards.

It launched with a price though. But also with a 30-day Free Trial.

The logic being that I could spend all pre-launch time building the actual thing. And then I had 30 days to get that payment processing stuff sorted out. Back then, you almost needed that much time. Today, you need a good hour to get Stripe up and running, so it seems even less of a priority.

So yeah, sure, you probably aught to have "makes money" baked in from day one. But if all you have is some Stripe sample code, I don't think I'd consider that a product.
I'm not sure what I said is obvious because you seem to have missed my point. I didn't say that "state exists". I said, "It's all state." I'm saying the notion of "separating out code that can be reasoned about in a mathematical fashion," while a successful strategy in the past, is inherently crippled by that division.
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What if you are a building something like a game where you want to use some form of micro-transaction model?
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that's a silly, yet creative, take on using WebGL - bravo
Because $250 to see some content that is of value to you is reasonable. $250 to get an email telling you that the latest instalment of a series that is available on a public channel is not.
Today you have 3 main alternatives:

* Common Lisp (used by the author of the article)

* Scheme

* Clojure
No, but paying - and thinking of it as paying, rather than donating - that much for a service that youtube gives you already for free (at least, I'm amazed if there isn't an option for "email me whenever this channel uploads a new video") would seem... odd.
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I fail to see how this is going to convince anybody who hasn't tried lisp to give it a shot. This cartoon can be summarised as "All languages are accumulating bugs while lisp has some magic X and Y that provide a way around them."

A blub user will think "yeah whatever", IMHO.
Thanks very much for the feedback Joshua!
I "discovered" DI when learning about Unit Testing, but the benefits to maintainability were obvious from the get-go.

I'm not sure many people argued that it wasn't about maintainability. I'd say they just ignored that part of the argument.

The best explanations of Unit Tests I've seen also explain how it helps improve maintainability, so perhaps that's why Unit Testing and Maintainability has always gone hand-in-hand in my thinking.
The recruiting agency that launched here yesterday seemed like a good example of this. Their entire product consisted of two webforms (without even any validation) that would collect contact information. It's entirely possible there was no database behind it, and that it just emailed the founder.

The founder would then send out a mail to the addresses in Pile A saying "pay us $25k and we'll forward your details to Pile B using our Top Secret Algorithm". No computers necessary. And genius.
I learnt about this a while back when sinatra was released, you could have your html template in the same file. great idea for a micro framework.
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Some people still give you weird glances and awkward pauses when you use it though.

In situations where it doesn't matter (and that's most of them) I've stopped correcting people who assume we're married and I've taken my partner's surname.

It actually makes things easier. If they assume you're married, they generally have no problem talking to you about whatever they called to talk to your partner about. When they find out you're not married, sometimes suddenly you can't be trusted.
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I was in a relationship with my partner for 11 years before we got married. "Girlfriend" doesn't really do it justice.
Looks nice, the older posts link doesn't work so I can't see what tutorial 1 is, but aside from that quite a nice start.
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You don't. That's why successful executives often seem like jerks[0]. It's very important to question everything and ask "Why don't we do X instead of Y?" 90% of the time there really will be a good reason for Y, but that other 10% of the time pointing it out will stop a really stupid mistake. Plus, the 90% of the time that you're wrong, you learn something.

If you're really lucky, you're in a company where feedback doesn't seem personal, and everyone can feel free to question everything. If not, then you just have to play the part of the jerk to ensure some level of quality.

[0]: http://bhorowitz.com/2012/10/17/making-yourself-a-ceo/
And suddenly the true purpose of WebGL became clear..

This is pretty awesome, would be better if it was in sync with the music though? It gets out after a bit.
I almost never use credit cards. In the Netherlands they've got iDEAL http://ideal.nl/?s=&lang=eng-GB (online payment through your own bank). Why use Cedit Cards at all?

Then again, I hate living on credit as do most of my countrymen. I am amazed people would lend to buy a new car. If you can't afford it buy a cheaper model or one that's got more miles (or years) on it.
But then it reinforces the belief there there aren't other options. Or rather, it does not show alternatives as more normal than one would assume. I guess that was the point of the article.
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such place? planet Earth.
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Interesting product.

Observation: Am I wrong in thinking that both amateur and serious runners keep a general idea of how far they've run (just like in the video, "Hi I'm Meir and I run 80 miles a week"). If that's the case, then he'll need to replace his shoes every 5 weeks (given a 400 mile limit). Even if he's got races or marathons or friendly runs between then, he's still got about 200 miles of wiggle room. For someone who just runs for general health (say every other day at a rate of 2 miles per run), one's shoe will last at least a year upwards to two years. At that point, aren't most people thinking of getting a new shoe anyways?

Question: While I like the medical bracelet idea, how does that actually become implemented in real life/what usecases do you guys see being used? The benefit of a medical bracelet is that LEO or medical professional can immediately identify what is wrong (he's having a seizure, check his bracelet, it might be due to diabetes). Is there a precedent for a LEO to take out his laptop which is presumably connected to the department's network and plug in an unknown and unsecured USB storage device?
Well, for non recurring charges Stripe is awesome.
Nice post.

Tangentially, am I the only one who feels the card is a brilliant, simple, secure UX, and that I don't really see the draw of the cardless approach? (I guess I see the draw of weakening monopoly players like visa/mastercard but the selling point for the individual seems so weak.)
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I watched some of the video of the presentation. They attribute the increase in accuracy to the analysis tools being developed/specialized for English.
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The "culture of narcissism" wasn't invented after WWII and it's not even western. You could see the modern kind of moral decay even in Tokugawa Japan 200 years ago.
You may be on to something. In the future more artists may choose to make music videos like this or Ro.Me if it's cost-effective enough. Artists have always embedded CGI stuff into their music videos, anyway.
I think you're being overly harsh. Picloud is a super-awesome abstraction layer for running Python over AWS.

The problem they have is that they are trying to support arbitrary Python (which includes underlying libraries like LAPACK which depend on runtime CPU detection working correctly) and expecting code will work the same across identical instance types.

I think normal people would consider this a fair assumption, and in the event that AWS's advertised CPU capabilities were not broken for some instances, it would hold.

I don't think it's fair to say that they're ignorant of how virtualisation works. Disclaimer: I am a huge picloud fan and they have saved me a lot of time.
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I find the gray on gray-stripes very straining on my eyes and stopped reading.

http://contrastrebellion.com/
You ignore something else. The nuclear weapons would (arguable) create real pressure only against countries that don't have them, and even then - it's a big risk to anyone raising the stacks and pulling the big gun. This is similar to the WW2, where chemical weapons although being available, weren't used.
Bug report for the author:

This demo tries to capture your mouse cursor, so that you can use the mouse to look around the world. But it's malfunctioning (on Chrome, Win 7 x64).

Synopsis: the first time it loaded, I clicked on the canvas. That popped up a banner at the top of my browser window which said something like "so-and-so website would like to take over your mouse cursor. Allow or deny?" So I tried to click on the allow button, but wound up accidentally clicking a bookmark, which of course navigated me away. So I hit the back button, which reloaded the demo. But now it's not trying to capture my mouse anymore, regardless of what I do.

Just writing that up on the off-chance it's helpful to the author. The itself bug doesn't matter much, though.

Author: fantastic work, fantastic execution.
There are a lot of businesses that start out that way. Probably my favorite example is ZeroCater, which -- to my understanding -- was a cell phone, a Googledoc spreadsheet, and a lot of hustle.

"Hey YC companies hit me up, I'll order all the sandwiches this Thursday.

"Hello Bay Area restaurant, I want to place a $4k order this Thursday and every two weeks for the next six months. Can I talk to your owner? We have some requirements to make this work."

"Hey Valley IT company, tell me your dietary restrictions and food magically appears at your office, for the low low price of [guesstimate: $400 / employee / month]."

"Hey Valley restaurant, we're really loving the sandwiches. Here's an order for $6,000 and please pay extra special attention to the note about the vegan ones. I know it's a hassle but then again I do order $6,000 of sandwiches at a time so I expect you to deal."

In the process you'll discover things about this process which suck, and you can automate or systemize them as business needs/opportunities dictate.
Not sure how credit cards work in Europe, but in the US, I use credit cards exclusively for the rewards they give out. I get 2% on all of my purchases plus an interest-free 30 day loan until my payment's due. I've never missed a payment and never carried a balance, so at the age of 24 I've made something like $3,000 net off of credit card companies.
The idea here is right on. It's like if you build a free app on the app store and you don't have ads or in app purchase. That isn't a MVP, it's a hobby. Things change when you start charging money for what you're doing.

A business is likely not a business if they aren't charging someone for something. Instead it might just be an organization that builds things, but for better or worse a business is something that is created to make money. If you don't like that idea, you shouldn't be "in business".
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I'm sorry, but this post completely lost me. Are we complaining about credit card processing? Are we talking about when to ask for payment for creative work? What are we talking about?
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Am I the only one having a hard time reading lisp?

Non-functional programs read like plain English. Particularly Python but I just can't get my head around the functional ones.
Very creative and entertaining. I can't stop watching the middle monster.

Something I didn't realize at first was the ability to use the movement keys - seeing different angles is pretty cool. As another comment mentioned, the sync could definitely be tighter, but otherwise well done.
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