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> nothing about either language makes one inherently faster than the other

You can't make such a statement confidently unless you examine the specs of both languages.

For example, Python integers promote to bigints automatically while JS numbers don't. For one more, in Python you can overload attribute access, while in JS you can't. Both of these are language features rather than implementation details, and both potentially affect performance. There are probably others.
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You think the duckface is an aesthetic quality we've evolved to have a taste for?
Great that they're probing the reasons for going after him--including whether his advocacy background was a factor, and why the superseding indictment--when they upped the felony count from 4 to 13 a year after the first indictment--was necessary.
Of course people will continue to write software for the platform. I never said otherwise.

But there is a ton of software being written right now that doesn't target Windows, with no plans to target Windows. The only way Windows users will ever be able to use that software is if Microsoft makes it easy enough to port.

The nail in the coffin will be when most of the games on Steam do not work in Windows. With most business software becoming web-based, the only holdouts left will be old businesses locked into their enterprise crapware.
By the way, if you don't like the colour of your asciidoc, http://leanpub.com (with whom I have a material association) is a markdown-specific self-publishing platform.
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Lots of opinion, but extremely few facts. I'll limit myself to one example: Mac OS X gets worse and worse because of its _continued_ use of HFS Plus?
They are working on it! :)

http://stuconnolly.com/blog/sequel-pro-postgresql-support/

http://code.google.com/p/sequel-pro/source/list
Wall Street is not a synonym for revenue.
And I thought Thanksgiving with my folks was bad...
Note that, for terminals, it benefits hugely from knowledge of escape sequences.
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Transloadit doesn't do video only, it does much more.

Not sure about Zencoder and Pandastream.
I can think of two reasons:
(1) Because he has others commenting on his issues and suggesting fixes, and probably more importantly (2) because github is already part of his workflow.

The main reason I never stick with TODO applications is because I can't get into the habit of using it. I often think this is why so many persist with email as a todo list.
The only advantage is network effect. It's hard enough getting the grandparents to use any service, so having a few people already on facebook makes it that much easier to just get everyone on the same service.
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You're right that OSM doesn't have satellite imagery (though various partners that use their vector data such as Bing, Mapbox, Mapquest do), but it does have mountains, illustrated a bit more clearly than on a satellite image imho. I'm not sure it's that mountainous compared with some of its neighbours:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.03&lon=126.558&...

The data is sourced from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission:

http://srtm.usgs.gov/mission/maptheworld.php
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there are no people/ cars/ anything in most (all?) of the images doesn't anyone else find it strange that its a ghost country?
NaCl is not needed for that. Embedding CPython into the browser has been done for some time now with Emscripten. Here's a demo: http://syntensity.com/static/python.html

This has the advantage over NaCl that it works in all browsers, not just Chrome. It's also portable.
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Comparing the two situations is absurd.

First, myself and several others in the thread did not realize the author behind that post was a woman until reading the comments. This was well after I had upvoted the article, and decided it was worth discussing.

Second, that was a situation where someone said "what you made is crap." You are saying, "you don't understand floating point," which the author clearly cops to. And, to that point, I'm surprised there are several comments in this thread that say "the bug is in your code, not with floating point" when it was clear to me that this author knew that, he was just playing with words in his title.
uhmm, AFAIK pep8 suggest UpperCamelCase for classes, under_score for packages, methods and functions[0]

btw: it's not a decorator :) but a camelCase->under_score renamer it's pretty easy to write

import re

def unCamel(obj, *maybe_camels):
if not maybe_camels:
maybe_camels = filter(lambda n: not n.startswith('_'), dir(obj))

for maybe_camel in maybe_camels:
underscore = re.sub(r'([^A-Z])([A-Z])([^A-Z])',
lambda m: '%c_%c%c' % (m.group(1), m.group(2).lower(), m.group(3)),
maybe_camel)
if underscore != maybe_camel:
setattr(obj, underscore, getattr(obj, maybe_camel))

if __name__ == '__main__':
class CamelCase(object):
def multiWordMethod(self):
print('called multiWordMethod')

def multiWordFunction():
print('called multiWordFunction')

unCamel(CamelCase) # magic
import sys
unCamel(sys.modules[__name__], 'multiWordFunction') # magic

CamelCase().multi_word_method()
multi_word_function()

[0] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Pricing this per-video-minute seems pretty smart (not familiar with the space so I'm not sure if this is how it is generally done).

As their CPUs get faster, they can transcode the same video for the same price for less cost to Amazon.
Neat idea. I don't see an email list sign up on the front page. Add one and gage interest by driving some Google ads to it for particular keywords that have high exact searches with low competition.

If people are willing to sign up you have one reasonably strong indicator.
Sometimes it's nice if a site evolves in ways not foreseen by the founders. Usually it is not though.

I have seen countless internet forums devolve from being mostly sensible discussion around a particular topic to becoming a place for a small but active clique of users to post endless in-jokes.
Fund of funds get hit pretty hard by fees since each fund takes out there fee and then the fund of funds also takes out it's fee.
I personally have been feeling the quality bar slipping but this article goes way too far. For me things aren't that bad but I can see where it's heading. Hoping to get another 5-10 years out of the Apple ecosystem.
I was looking for one not too long ago and came upon this:

http://inductionapp.com

...which I couldn't use because I'm on 10.6. the website is colorful though so there's that.

I ended up using this...

http://www.teampostgresql.com

which is browser based but does the job
I wonder if Apple is even contemplating that one?
I haven't used it much, but it looks good and is open source: http://inductionapp.com/
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Apple can charge $30 for Mountain Lion and $99 for Aperture because they assume you already bought their hardware.
My porn startup.
http://xstashed.com/home/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5126668

Some traction with a few hundred users. I need to figure out how to do the advertising.
We've thought hard about Opus, FLAC, and ALAC. Don't be surprised if you see those soon...
Its using some custom fonts or something, weird icons showing up where I would assume there is some nice looking icons...
More so than working out, video games, eating, taking a walk, or any of the typical "zoning-out" activities I've tried over the years, the one that never fails to relax me is stream-of-consciousness writing.

I've found that on nights where I have trouble sleeping, taking 20 minutes and writing out every single thought in my skull (into a notebook; not onto a computer) pulls me out of the mental block and brain thunderstorm that is resisting calls to slumber. When it's out on paper, it becomes real. It doesn't sit and dwell as an empty, half-complete thought.
> Time Machine Silently Excludes Critical Data

Sorry, but you simply didn't read the docs when setting up backup of your critical data. It's explicit that Time Machine does not back up removable drives. Try: http://www.bombich.com/

EDIT: Apparently, this runs deeper. Time Machine mistakenly marks his internal drives as removables. However, he also states that he's done lots of system modding and that he has 10 internal drives. I don't think he's the target user TM was designed for. I'm not either. I have also had some TM problems and now use CCC as my primary backup, with TM as a convenience and secondary backup.

> Finder Refuses to Delete 'Backup Items'

Author states he uses OS X for serious work, and implies he has the technical wherewithal to evaluate OS X's stability and coding excellence. Apparently, he's not a programmer, or not one competent enough to use lsof and kill.

> Bottom line: Fusion as-is and as supplied by Apple is OK (maybe, hard to say for sure in multi-drive systems). Other than that, messing around carries some ugly risks.

Sorry, but if you mod your setup, then you should look in the mirror when you complain. For what you want to do there, you should be using diskutil corestorage on the command line. However, the diskutil GUI doesn't tell end users everything about corestorage yet, and I agree that this is bad. It contravenes expectations established by Disk Utility and OS X in the past -- without sufficiently warning users.
Perhaps the author's expectations are increasing over time. If HFS+ stays the same, that means it is worse and worse compared to the state of the art.
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And yet, when we try to point this universal truth out to people about science and technology, we are scoffed at.

In one hundred years, will it matter what any of us are wearing today?
Lacking guns and even bows, they could hunt only by digging traps or pursuing prey across the mountains until the animals collapsed from exhaustion.

It's interesting that they stumbled on the persistence hunting technique so naturally. Indirect evidence to support the Endurance running hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_running_hypothesis).
I have tried to us it, it does look good, but does not work. The latest build did not run for me at all on Mountain Lion
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There is a third reason. If he wanted to, he could store associated files with his issues. That use case makes more sense with a private repo, but it is something I plan to do with the repo I just created for my house.
Maybe I am pessimistic but I think that Ubuntu definitely has enough corporate interests to ruin this idea.
Javascript is frequently stripped of all whitespace as part of the minification process. This includes removing all newlines and indentation. This would a good bit harder with Python.
Does anyone else think it's sad that "journalism" has degenerated so far that now "fact checkers" are a thing? Isn't it the job of journalists to be fact checkers?
> I've never had anyone ask for transcripts, and I've never seen a database of what they're supposed to look like.

As yukon already explained, they don't ask you for your transcript. Instead, either the company's HR department or the background check company they hired just goes direct to the source. It's not an instant process either. Typically they complete everything several months after you're hired.
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Would he post even a bug like: "Front door lock not working. oops!!! " :)
It's absolutely astonishing to me that there could still be people out there, even in what's termed wilderness, who have never encountered the modernities of the society we inhabit - that for an all but unknown few the world is still just what lies outside their front door.

I feel true sadness for the Lykov's, being 'discovered', then somewhat forced by the intrusion of others to be aware of their greater surroundings and soon thereafter the father and sister seeing the rest of their family felled in quick succession.
Glad to see some books on behavioral economics in here, as that's the only true way to understand what factors contribute to our decision to (or not to) purchase. Some good reads I haven't heard of before... although Tony Robbins? Seriously? I would remove that book for the sake of your credibility.
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The only people I see "guaranteeing any return on whatever investment they sell" typically turn out to be ponzi schemes.
This is a very subjective and vague list of criticisms. It reminds me of the iPod haters around 2003 who didn't like that Apple was spending so much time on its music player.

I mean, what exactly is he talking about when he says OS X is becoming more of an entertainment platform or that features are getting "dumbed down"? No examples are given, so apparently it's just a general feeling he has.

Due to its lack of details, the article isn't persuasive.
I don't see what is so grey about it. Regifting property to one other person without retaining it, OK. Regifting property to multiple people or while retaining it, not OK. You could argue that regifting is depriving artists, but it is terrible argument because property is generally allowed to be redistributed without the original creator's consent.
Has anyone noticed all the blue roofs in satellite maps of North Korea and China? A quick search hinted that all industrial buildings are painted blue, much in the way construction vehicles are yellow.

At first glance, it looks like a mapping detail injected by Google Maps. Anyone have more information on these blue rooftops?

Example (Sinuiju, North Korea): https://maps.google.com/maps?q=North+Korea&hl=en&ll=...
Hardware support should be better. I've had at least four firmware updates since the Air was released, which seems extraordinarily high for a product in a closed ecosystem.
What's the connection between a complaint about Time Machine's silent exclusion of critical data and Time Machine's missing support for removable drives?
It's not often you want to use two libraries that both use $ anyway (e.g. you'd use jQuery OR prototype, Zepto OR MooTools - not usually both).
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Computer math is not math. You can't generally assume that (a * b) / b will produce a. With floating-point, you have representational issues, and will all types you can get overflow.
I would not have believed the "Finder can't copy files reliably" if it had not happend to me more than once, (lost parts of the code + .git directory)
The thing that annoys me about both this and Zencoder is that for people who are actually experienced with video encoding, there is absolutely no way to tweak eg. the underlying x264 settings. There's quite a few settings that have no effect on decoding in any way but are pretty important in getting the most out of the video at a given bitrate (most notably the strength/mode of AQ and psychovisual optimizations). In case of AWS, there doesn't even seem to be any kind of "general" tuning (like whether the content is film, animation, extremely grainy or so - x264 has --tune settings for these among others - Zencoder at least allows you to access this option[1]) options available, making it pretty much "one size fits all". I could always rent a generic server and use that for my encoding needs, but it'd be much more convenient if these cloud transcoding services simply offered advanced configuration for people who know what they are doing.

Also, even for a "simple" cloud transcoding service, Amazon's offering is pretty limited in what it can do right now[2] - you can basically only encode H.264 & AAC in MP4, define the profile, level and bitrate, and that's about it. Zencoder has much more options in comparison and has generally more transparency in regards to what their encoding software actually does (sadly when I asked them about getting access to x264 settings directly, they replied along the lines of "they could change and things might break for users!" - which I don't think would be an actual issue since the direct settings ought to be for advanced users only, and they should be aware of things changing - plus Zencoder could just notify users of direct settings before they upgrade so they have time to adjust their settings if necessary).

[1] https://app.zencoder.com/docs/api/encoding/h264/tuning

[2] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/latest/develope...
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The link seems to be non responsive. Does anyone know of a mirror?
I don't believe this is legal. Goldman was convicted and fined doing exactly what you describe. The investment banks are not allowed to intentionally deceive their customers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/business/16goldman.html?_r...

However, it is worth noting that after Goldman agreed to pay the fine their stock price rose. This indicates that the stock market believed they got off lightly, so while officially illegal it does appear to be a reasonable business model.
Depends on the German. I know Germans that are faster in telling Nazi jokes than I am. :-)

Of course, only do that with those you know well enough. For the rest, the Fawlty Towers advice is golden.
> OS X is degrading into a base for an entertainment platform. As it stands, the trend is entirely downhill for serious work (albeit a mild grade so far, but steadily downhill nonetheless).

When was OS X not an entertainment platform? iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes -- these applications have been around for a long time.
This is not a surprise. Academic research has shown that 80% of funds underperform index funds and do even worse when you factor in costs.

Its not sexy to say "take all your retirement money and put it into three funds: international stocks (eg. VEA), domestic stocks (eg. VTI), and domestic bonds (eg. AGG)" and rebalance it once a year to ratio based on your age but the research shows this is the most effective method of investing because it takes the emotion and costs out of it.
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What would be really fun is if somebody actually developed a bug tracker for bugs (as in insects) through github! :)
What? Each of those bulleted points need supporting "evidence" or at least anecdotes. And the proofs below are fewer than the arguments. And after arguing that Apple doesn't do "productivity" apps anymore, most of the OP's proofs are for leisure apps like iPhoto and iTunes. Apple doesn't use ZFS is a real argument in there? File systems are contentious for a lot of reasons. And I'm not sure who DOES use ZFS anyhow.
No. That is a part of journalism, but not the only "job" of journalists. The best journalism, for example, derives new facts from existing ones (or from debunking lies)...this is an extrapolation beyond just reading through a list of assertions and checking true/false. And a lot of journalism is the conveyance of information for the record, factual or not.

Edit:

To use a software dev analogy, non-devs are bemused at the idea that some developer jobs are focused almost exclusively on testing. "Isn't it the job of a software developer to write software that doesn't crash?" they might ask. Well, yes. That is a part of writing good software, and yet the best software dev places have extensive testing practices. Making sure something is broken is a skill all in itself.
FTP. There are also some Telnet sites that are still online.
Fast copying of files in several directories is handy too if you know precisely what you are looking for.

A good "Attrib -r-a-s-h ." is also handy to find some hidden files when you suspect an infection.
Free Pascal statically links programs by default, avoiding libc.
And by the time that 5-10 years is up we will probably be in the middle of a huge paradigm shift. I am not sure of the details but I think everyone can sort of sense it on the distant horizon.

Yeah, OSX is subject to consumerisation. So is Windows. I don't think it will get too bad though - after all, the Apple developers have to use it. I think we just have to kind of roll with it. The consumerisation of computing has a momentum all its own and I don't think anyone knows where it is going to end up.
Stunning site and remarkably original approach to an old problem. I look forward to giving this a proper trial.

I dont suppose you have data on the age distribution of people using the site? My 13 year old self might have sniggered at the storybook style but the way you've dealt with the psychology of motivation and habits seems suitable for all ages.
Sequel Pro is essential to my work. Now if they can also support a few more database companies I would be all set and I would pay a reasonable price. $20-$30.
The UI looks very much like a programmer wrote it. But I can ignore the gradients and the Soda UI theme makes it look more like a native app.

But the find panel is the sole reason I cannot use ST2. Every time I bring it up I can't remember what button does what. And then I get stuck in the panel and have to click to get rid of it. Or hit escape.

But if I hit escape before hitting enter it assumes I didn't want to search after all and scrolls the viewport to somewhere random. Even though the term I wanted to search for is clearly highlighted on the screen.

It's a very very frustrating experience and even my co-worker who uses ST2 every day for the past year or two still gets tripped up by the find panel.

If I had a way to import the TextMate 2 find dialog into ST2 /3 I would buy a license.
You might already know about this, but I feel like you might be interested in the people of the North Sentinel Island, some of the "last people to remain virtually untouched by modern civilization": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island
>Deprecation with threat of removal of robust long-standing threading APIs with rewrite required.

What's he referring to here?
Whoever is interested, here are two very good academic articles about persistent hunting (subscription required):

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/508695

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248408...

Also, here is a video of a modern persistent hunter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
Could you please elaborate on this comment? Thanks.
This system externalizes the risk of telling the truth. Too many people excoriate journalists who say things they don't want to hear, so too many journalists pander to their audience. This will let the journalists continue to say what their audience wants to hear and blame the algorithm for any uncomfortable truths.
Works fro me. But if it's not working for you, you could always try the Coral Cache link, by adding .nyud.net to the end of the domain:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com.nyud.net/history-archaeology/F...
Don't the bullet points all repeat themselves. It could have been just:
* Software products are being dumbed down for novices at the expense of power users
* OSX isn't getting enough attention because the iPhone and iPad are so big now
Because they don't give a shit about openness and connectedness, all they care about is gossiping with/about their friends and drama.
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I wonder if this is more to do with HFS+ rather than Finder.
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