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Have you ever thought about why they want that life & those things?

After spending 2 years in Central and South America, I honestly believe Hollywood is the best marketing department in the world.

In countless dirt-street shanty towns I would wander into the village store to find the locals crowded around a small fuzzy TV watching blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jennifer Anniston lament about her love life or some such, which driving a convertible down the sunny California coast, seemingly without a care in the world.

Who doesn't want that?

Never do you hear about the millions of homeless in America, the unacceptable percentage of children born into poverty, the millions without healthcare or the staggering number of people living on food stamps, just to name of few of the crippling problems facing America today.
It's a marketing lie, and it works very, very well.

It was always enjoyable to meet locals that had been to America (mostly illegals), who knew to their core it was all a crock of shit. Every single one said "I don't ever want to go back, that place is horrible" - while living in a small farming town in rural South America.
What is an example of a better board that I can get shipped to my home for under $50 USD?
It's slow but the site loads. Don't think they were expecting this amount of traffic.
Increasing resolution to 4k is silly for movies. It may make sense for sports, documentaries, or educational shows where you can show dense (computer-screen-like) data with the picture.

This same discussion comes up a lot in games, but the experience there is that increasing resolution just shows that you're using shitty digital puppets with bad acting/writing. Increasing pixel-throughput for post-processing or faking an "analog" look can lead to more creativity, though.
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Absolutely, yes! I was and still am upset with PPACA because it reinforces the horrid employer-provided care model.
Linkedin would probably be at a billion, if unlike FB and Twitter, there wasn't the burdon of being an actual person.
This is going to be super helpful for one of the projects I'm working on...researching APIs is always a bit time consuming due to the huge discrepancy in documentation quality/location/formatting/examples/etc.
Presumably though the where clause would be there if you are taking the user id from the request vars in order for the code to work at all?
I'm guessing he's implying that "white collar" programmers have a degree in Computer Science that is heavy in theory (as opposed to being primarily vocational, like, say, the University of Phoenix). Most such curricula will include at least one class that focuses on functional programming. (UC Berkeley teaches their 101 CS class using Scheme!)

The people who care about this distinction are the sort of people who give job interviews where they ask you to implement a balanced binary search tree on the whiteboard and then grill you on the order of growth of each function that you wrote. :-)
>it was not obvious why Lisp would be more powerful than Haskell. The bare-bones syntax felt more like a "proof of concept" than an actual strength.

The answer is that Lisp code is written with Lisp data (the property known as homoiconicity). Why is this an advantage? Because it greatly simplifies metaprogramming; Lisp macros are simply functions that operate on Lisp data structures.
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I agree to some degree. I think ambition is absolutely necessary, but I think passion is something that can be developed over time. I've had some false starts in trying to learn how to program and each time I did have some thoughts that maybe I'm not "passionate" about programming. But I found that my passion, appreciate, love, etc for programming grew when I stuck with it, got better and realized what all I could do with it. Maybe this was the case for me because programming just didn't click for me in the beginning. I'd argue that we don't just have predisposed passions, but rather passions develop as we go beyond the surface level of our interests.
I ordered 4 from element14 in September / October. Was told it would take 47 days, but they arrived in a couple of weeks.
I miss MSN chat. My friends have all long since migrated to Facebook. All I want is instant messaging.
Really, we have two separate problems that unfortunately get lumped together. First, is how to provide healthcare for the working age population and children. Nearly all the evidence points to public healthcare being better for this problem. Insurance discourages people from getting preventative care and ultimately costs more in the long run. Second, is how to provide healthcare for the boomer generation. I don't think there is a solution to this problem, that we can stomach, that doesn't ultimately involve working age people paying out the nose either in insurance premiums or taxes.
I have 4 scroll bars on the right side of the page, and i need to use the second one to scroll through the blog post. A normal stationary blog that could be implemented in one tiny html file with 10 images.

And even when I allow all scripts (which load from 10+ domains) and cookies, and use the site as they intended it still is a nightmare. While scrolling to view the entire post I am attacked by some weird top menu bar that grows and somehow more stories are added to the same page making the post I'm reading even tougher to get to.
Do you have these issues with Medicare, Medicaid, and Veteran's healthcare?
it requires foursquare to login? it's 2013 not 2010
I'm missing something; how does LISP enable bug-free programs?
I wonder if you were seeing the first choice "Mrs Eaves" or the backup Georgia? Or perhaps you're on a high resolution display? The combination of font and size does seem a bit extreme to me.
But there is a licence required to legally use the software. They have (contact) information. To avoid confusion, Adobe could've used some kind of login to hide access to this download to people that don't have the required cs2 licence. Instead of this, Adobe gave you the option to register for a new Adobe ID. This process didn't check if you had any business on this download page. If this is truly an accident, as in, if they don't want you to use the unlicensed suite, why is this page still up? They know there's a lot of traffic coming from the blogs.

From the forums:

"
Dov Isaacs wrote:
What is true is that Adobe is terminating the activation servers for CS2 and that for existing licensed users of CS2 who need to reinstall their software, copies of CS2 that don't require activation but do require valid serial numbers are available."

On that same page users mentioned that this "looked like a legitimate product form the official web-site."

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4974662
Can't wait for the camera module...
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Canada's system would be as constitutional as Medicare is. The Affordable Care Act introduced a novel (to U.S. case law) mechanism for getting everyone insured.
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1) Can this just stop until someone presents a direct (and accurate) comparison? You make it sound like it will be a fourth branch of Government. There are several Government Agencies that don't hemorrhage money and actually accomplish what they set out to do. Look at Medicaid - people were saying essentially the same exact things about it and now people probably couldn't imagine not having the program.

2) Please explain.

3) Probably because a wider availability to care and an overall increase in average quality of life is a good, if not great thing for a society.
Ideally that would be the case. If I could freelance and be paid in bitcoin, and could alternatively pay for services in bitcoin I'd be smiling.

In reality, it'll probably be outlawed in the US as a money laundering system.
I'm ADD as well, and the only thing that works reliably for me is alarms. It seems stupid to have to set an alarm for everything and it totally goes against my nature, but it's slowly becoming habit.

It helps if you can get into a routine. I'm married, and so we always have dinner at the same time, which means I always leave work at the same time, which means I can have a daily alarm. If I don't get everything done (due to procrastination &ct) I work after dinner.

If you're like me you will hate the structure (to the point of possibly even feeling a bit physically ill) but if you keep up with it, the feeling goes away and it will help enormously (particularly with your relationships with those close to you)
There's a difference between being a long-term middle manager at someone else's company and being a long-term founder at your own company. I wouldn't choose the former and I doubt DHH would either (of course, I don't know him so maybe I'm wrong).
Regarding (1): The question isn't whether gov can run it 'efficiently', but if gov can run it MORE efficiently than the current system.

Based on the US's position as highest per-capita spender on healthcare + the underwhelming quality of care that $$$ gets you, more gov intervention seems like a pretty valid thing to look into.
I’d be happy if 37signals is the last place I work.

I've had this exact same attitude at every company (many!) I've ever worked at. Until someone or something completely outside my control fucked it up. Then I took my positive attitude and moved on to my next "last place to work".

Kinda makes a difference if it's your company, huh?
Similar to the Nathan Barry situation, I felt that the Execute book (touted as a book about getting a product out the door in a week, written in a week, but not available in any other format than print for two months) was equally asking way too much for the lack of information given. I wrote out this huge response to one of the designers and posted it on Dribbble, but deleted it after his response was merely "Thanks, we might do that later."

Basically it dwindled down to "Why? Who are you? What have you done? You've proven nothing to me on this one page site, which isn't even attractive in itself. We don't even execute a product together, you tell me how you do it, but that assumes too much on my capabilities. Does this book expect me to know how to program? Does it expect me to know how to design?" Information on the book was spread across three different websites, the Table of Contents screenshot was just a mockup, and none of the sections seemed to be about actually doing something so much as "how it works for me." Well, I read enough "How x works for me," posts on the internet, and they are almost always pointless and subjective.

Just really basic stuff that would have helped convince people that they were making a solid purchase. If you're asking for money up front, especially if you don't even have any idea what the final product is going to look like (i.e. the author scrapped the book with three out of the seven days he'd slotted and rewrote it), this is a minimum of what I'm expecting.

Maybe I just don't want my readership to be suckers, I want them to be people who know what they're getting before they get it, as that will only help me spread the word and make more sales in the end.
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I've been hearing a lot of anecdotal evidence lately that the costs of private health insurance are stopping people, especially those with kids, from making the leap into their own start ups. Is anyone else getting that same impression?
In my own experience on the topic I've become increasingly frustrated with the U.S. system of employer provided health care. Either give us a public option with universal coverage, or a true private system with the benefits of market efficiencies and a standard tax policy. This muddled middle ground seems to give us the worst of both, and the only people who benefit are large employers who have one more thing to prevent employees from jumping ship.
I think bundling most healthcare under the idea of insurance is a big problem. Insurance works because there's profitability in calculated risk. Everyone doesn't get in a wreck every day, everyone's house doesn't burn down regularly.

Dissimilarly, everyone gets old, everyone gets sick, everyone is going to need healthcare.
Symmetry may not have been the correct word, since it does provide referential transparency but it certainly does add an extra layer of complexity to the parsing, even if it's only one extra step. Furthermore, I would argue that the additional syntax isn't necessary, which is my biggest beef with it - since you can convey the semantics of a vector or a map without altering the syntax at all, there's no reason to complicate the syntax any more than needed.

> In Common Lisp and Scheme, that structure is either an atom (an integer, a string, a symbol, etc.), or a list consisting of cons cells.

Let me fix that for you: in other Lisps, an item is either an atom or a cons cell. There's "no such thing" as a list in Lisp.

There's a huge difference between having an option with two outcomes (S -> atom | cons) and an option with three outcomes. In computer science, we count "zero, one, many" - booleans are an example of this. By adding a third option, we've stepped out of the realm of the binary into the "many", and that's a much messier world to deal with.
A great cheeky project to make fun of all of the Social mumbo jumbo by StartupBus alums. =)
You are right. Though Javascript with its weirdness took off...
Thank you jaz!
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There is dropbox integration, why would you need evernote?
I also got mine from Newark and it arrived even faster. They even phoned me to follow up which I thought was a bit over the top for a $40 item (although I think they were just checking to see whether I might be a potential volume purchaser)
Clojure IMO is gaining great mindshare as a practical Lisp, especially given how recent it is. I don't think anybody expects it to become as mainstream as Java. But it does attract programmers unfamiliar with FP, but whose appetite for languages higher in the power continuum has been whetted by languages like Ruby.

My colleague Steve presented a talk at RubyConf India titled 'Why Clojure is my favourite Ruby' which might appeal to such people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCdEbUBk6a0
> 2) The more the government runs our lives (especially something like health care), the more they will be able to dictate our choices (what we eat, risky behavior, etc).

I know I will be pushing for change towards less and not more freedom. It makes no sense that you have to pay for my reckless high-risk behavior such as jumping out of a second floor window "for shits and giggles".

Another thing in particular that I want to call out attention to is food. If I retarded enough to eat nothing but McDonalds every day for a year, why should you just not let me die? Why should you pay for my surgery? If you are going to pay for it, over time you will gravitate towards a "high-risk fee" on activities that are just plain dumb.

Let's increase taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, (and implement new ones on ecstacy, marijuana, and all drugs... I don't know how that's possible without legalization but there is no way I am paying for someone rehab for something that has not been taxed)

The idea is that nobody should have to pay for someone else's high risk activities. Over time, the high risk activities will become expensive enough. Money will be a driving force that will drive people towards a better lifestyle. Think about it. Money will be a force for good for once.

Just take McDonalds. People say McD is a cheaper to healthier food. If a McD meal is a dollar and causes a health maintenance fee of twenty dollars, what do we do? We tack that twenty dollars to the cost of the meal. Bam! The McDonalds meal is now $21. That $2.49 price tag on the celery at Aldi's is suddenly not so expensive by comparison.

Yes, there are downsides but if enough people are annoyed you will get real reform. Please don't do anything stupid like the last time when conservatives tried to "starve the beast"[1]. We have solid evidence that starve the beast does not work.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Processing money should be something you consider at some point, but what I am missing is a mention that this is coupled to your target market.

In Germany many businesses (assuming you are working on some SaaS / B2B / ...) would look at you like you just talked Klingon if you tell them you only accept credit cards. Sad truths is that most smaller companies do not even think about having credit cards. There is slowly some change, form what I have experienced, mostly due to older CEOs and business owners being replaced by a younger generation but overall credit cards are not as common here as in America.

On the other hand I currently looked at some providers for credit card processoring (currently working on a project where it could become necessary). Most of the services seem to require your company to be in America or England, most won't work in Germany. So maybe I skip credit cards for the beginning and chose to go with something else (just hypothetical) - does this mean I do not have a product? Because I only support 5 out of 6 possible payment options?

Then there is still the option of in app purchases. For most apps which are "just an app" I believe they will work way better. No need for another service, no separate website or member area, nothing to care about but integrate an existing system which is designed to move money from a customer as fast and easy as possible to you (and a middle man).

The author is right that you should think about payment processing while working on a product - but processing credit cards is not the holy grail.
From the article:

Existing Themes

The biggest asset of WordPress is the large number of themes and plugins available for it. Of course, by switching to a templating language such as Mustache, the existing repository of PHP based themes are no longer valid. To take care of this, Automattic (the company behind WordPress) could bundle a plugin with WordPress 4.x that allows loading of old templates, which would be disabled by default. Keeping that code out of core would help keep the overall project more manageable and secure.
I have to agree with that. I find Scheme to be a lot cleaner, more modern, and easier to use than Common Lisp.

I really only see two reasons to choose Common Lisp over Scheme. The first is that CL has a ton of libraries compared to most Schemes (though Racket has quite a few of its own.. I'm not sure how those two would compare on the library front). The second reason is that CL has a much larger community.
Agree with the conclusion, but some of the reasoning is unsound. This statement is patently untrue: "This doesn’t mean you can attract smart hackers to your language just by running an advertising campaign though. Sun tried that with Java, but a: their marketing was too explicit, and it just seemed like one company trying to push its own technology, and b: Java itself is a detestable language. So, in addition, it seems like language quality is not something you can make up for in marketing."

It implies that Java failed in the marketplace. It did not. It has taken and kept huge market share. Sadly, it is the language most employers are hiring for. I would rather poke myself in the eye with a pencil than program in Java, but it has most certainly succeeded in the enterprise.
This was created at last weekend's Foursquare hackathon. I hope you enjoy it. We had a lot of fun making it.

Here's a link to a youtube video that explains what the app does for those who don't want to login: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyCnazRbqGY

Built by Brian Fountain, Justin Isaf, Christopher Kennedy and Harlie Levine.
Do you ever stop and think about working on it? After all, a language is a very personal project.
If you build the query at runtime based on whichever arguments are available, it is quite easy for missing arguments to slip through to the inner query generator and end up with a blank where clause.
Canada is indeed undergoing a debate on how to fund and deliver health care, but what is not under debate is whether it should it be kept public. It is also worth noting that the current government slashed taxes upon taking power and is now trying to cover the deficit by reducing social services. In this way it is a classic right-wing "starve the beast" tactic, wherein you take in less money and then say "Hey we can't afford these things anymore so we have to cut them" even though you could have paid for them without the tax cuts.

Most of the things the article talks about amount to adding efficiency to the public system, something that no one would protest. Nowhere in the article does it talk about the public system collapsing and serious discussion over switching to a private system. As far as public debt goes, Canada's debt is not great, but it is certainly nowhere near most other Western nations, so the whole "public health care is a recipe for inordinate amounts of public debt" doesn't seem to be true either.
Another piece of anecdotal evidence, but my previous dentist was also married to a dentist and they worked at two different practices. Every time I went to him, he complained about how expensive medical insurance was for his family and their 2 kids. Eventually he quit practicing and joined an insurance company for the medical benefits.
Start-up with kids and no spouse providing health insurance is basically a no go. My friend had a baby last year, and they had a few month health insurance gap between graduating school and their starting their jobs. In the meantime, the baby fell off the changing table, and they faced the choice of either hoping he was fine, or going to the emergency room and paying thousands of dollars just to check for a concussion.
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MOst new tvs have a mode that adds extra interpolated frames to "improve" the frame rate of a 24 fps movie to 120 or higher. I can't stand this mode for 2D movies, but when i watch a 3D blueray is actually improves things a lot.
> The problem with market share stats is that they don't always correspond with usage. People with 3D TVs don't simply seem to be very interested in watching 3D content on them.

This is true of my parents. I've never seen them use their 3D TV as one, the rather pricy viewing glasses are still sealed in the box.
Good luck getting a JVM working reasonably well on a low-horsepower CPU. C is always your best bet for something usable.
In the meantime, only the less educated candidates will bother with teaching since it doesn't pay well enough to justify extra schooling, and so education quality will suffer, impacting all of society. Education is a fundamental societal need, assuming you want to live in a nice country.