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Just to leave here the same comment I left on the blog. I completly agree, jQuery is an awesome tool. But developers need to learn how to write modular javascript before they start hitting on frameworks that provide shortcuts. I recently wrote a post about this issue. Mind if I share it? Feed back is welcome. http://franciscomsferreira.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-write...
I don't have anything to offer at the moment, but good for you for sticking your head out, I hope it pays off for you!
The "beige policies that nobody wants" reminds me of the reliance on "fairness" within debate at the moment. Raise taxes on the rich and cut services to the poor because you can persuade people that it is "fair". Everyone gets poorer but its okay because our society is so unequal who would even notice? They get away with policies that know one really wants because they are usually directed at someone else (richer or poorer than me). We have replaced empathy with simplistic politics.
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Author of this article is missing LGPL entirely. LGPL allows anyone to ensure that all changes to his code are published freely, but also allows packaging with commercial closed-source code into single downloadable file (unlike GPL).
Actually that's incorrect.

The parliament (all parties) voted 400-175 in favour. The ruling Conservative party voted something like ~130-~135 (slightly against, with ~30 abstaining).

The point is still valid though - what is considered right wing in the UK would largely be considered left wing in the US.
All values are artificial. Everything is worth whatever someone is prepared to pay for it.

If someone buys this lot for $550k, it's worth $550k.

You probably could have found a buyer willing to pay £500 for your intaglio, but it's all about market reach.

This is why sniping on eBay for badly listed stuff can still earn you a small fortune. I bought a pair of mislabeled oil paintings with provenance on eBay for £45, and sold them at Sotheby's for, um, more than that.
There is actually more choice than jquery and vanilla javascript. Mootools, for example, is a great toolkit that helps you build great abstractions.
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> jQuery is more or less a wrapper for the DOM API.

Note that jQuery is a pretty big (and complex) wrapper. Zepto provides a much smaller wrapper with a very similar (though not fully identical) interface. It used to be mobile-webkit-only but has since moved to "modern browsers".
People started using R about the same time they started using Python (that is, the first half of the 1990s).

Since then, R has gained a huge number of statistics packages. Python has fewer of them.
Didn't MySpace fail once it was an apparatus of News Corp? I think it would be very difficult to count News Corp as a startup.
So you also think that

mean(iris(iris(:,5)==2,2))

is more intuitive than

mean(iris[iris$Species=="versicolor","Sepal.Width"])?

Or that constructing matrix by mapping f on 1:10 like

M=[]
for not_i=1:10
M[:,not_i]=f(not_i)

is more concise that sapply(1:10,f)?
(I know there is arrayfun, but I have never seen it used except in wow-MATLAB-is-functional blog posts)
Wonderful: just spent quite some time playing it.

It would be amazingly lovely if you could also display simultaneously other mappings than the Mercator one. Say a sphere in 3D in the upper right corner, with the "figures" moving / showing on both mappings.

It's interesting to see that if you take the eight biggest countries by size (well, ok, Antartica ain't a country), they all are very placed in term of GDP:

Russia: 10th (GDP), 1 (size)
Antartica: ---, 2 (size)
Canada: 11 (GDP), 3 (size)
China: 2 (GDP), 4 (size)
U.S.A.: 1st (GDP), 5 (size)
Brazil: 6 (GDP), 6 (size)
Australia: 12 (GDP), 7 (size)
India: 9 (GDP), 8 (size)

You then have Argentina and Kazakhstan lacking quite a bit behind:

Argentina: 26 (GDP), 9 (size)
Kazakhstan: 49 (GDP), 10 (size)
That submenu works great on my tablet and phone. Very easy to navigate. I hope it compels Mark and Jacob to reconsider the submenu for Bootstrap 3.
I am brasilian too, I could find this one [beware of strong images]:

http://www.cidadeverde.com/asssaltante-morre-eletrocutado-do...

The thief tried to break into the a trailer but it had electric fences. The thief died electrocuted and the owner of the trailer is being accused of murder (facing charges and trial).

I remember reading several others like this one, so this is real in Brasil.
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> element.querySelector and .querySelectorAll [1]

They provide a limited part of the selection function. Altering nodes, creating new nodes (and adding them to the DOM tree) and programmatic DOM tree traversals? Not so much, you get very clumsy and verbose APIs for that in the regular DOM. Same with DOM event handling, jQuery provides nice shortcuts for binding and delegation, the DOM... not so much (even if you limit yourself to IE9 and don't have to handle the garbage that is the oldIE event model)

Also, as usual with the fucking DOM, querySelectorAll returns a NodeList which means you can't trivially use higher-order iterators on it (you've got to use the "generics" version and hope it works correctly everywhere).

Fuck, that makes me angry again, the DOM is such a clusterfuck of an API.
I am not sure what "mobile first" means, could you please explain what that means for the end-developers?

The only thing to that effect I see right now is that responsive less files will no longer be separate from the core. That will probably mean that I will be forced to support mobile platforms.

Is there more to it?

(Aside, wishing someone would take a deeper look at https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/4935)
Just about everything is a pain point when using JavaScript or when dealing with the DOM. So it's understandable, although maybe not a good idea, why so many people don't separate JavaScript and libraries like jQuery, MooToo, or YUI.

Such a combination is essentially needed merely to bring JavaScript up to a minimal level of usability. We generally don't find this to be the case with other, more sensible languages, which is why it seems so odd. C, C++, Java, C# and Python implementations come with a sensible language and a rich standard library. Developers using them don't need to bring their own standard library just to get a basic level of functionality.
For me, I fucking relish the day when everyone
on the Earth can be as wealthy, or indeed wealthier,
as I am today.

I assume that your wealth, unlike that of many Americans, doesn't include a house with a big yard because everyone on Earth will never be able to have that.
or ender, zepto, microjs libs, etc.
I'm seriously trying to understand why they would be used. I see them focused on nudity and porn, but neither has harmed any child. Very rarely are they focused on violence, but that's available readily anyway.
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There's this, and then there's also the fact that it's a large investment to replace desktops or laptops en masse with something brand new. Even corporations that have a form hardware refresh policy typically only replace user computers on a rolling 3 or 4 year cycle.

Besides day to day management (patching, A/V, GPOs, etc), what the inability to join a domain means for large companies is that they cannot track what they have in use in any useful way, primarily the useful way that Microsoft cares about when it comes to Enterprise Agreement negotiations. This is a huge bugbear, but one that millions of companies have to deal with triannually.
I think the existence of a Political Class (which as Charlie points out, is an inevitable outcome of our current system) is one of the main problems.

Personally I would like to see a random election system whereby every X years a random group of Y people are chosen to be MPs for the next parliament. It would be a civil obligation, similar to jury duty. Each person would only be allowed to serve once. That way the MPs would not be insulated from the world outside of the political sphere.
The speculation on Reddit is how much Pawn Stars or Gamestop would be willing to spend. I don't think $50k is an honest speculation, but just a lowballed arbitrary number. Someone else chimed in after looking over it and guessed $150-200k.
I see a huge, annoying jump into and out of Mercator.
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Reading this I kept shaking my head and thinking "what a sad little boy/man." Everything about his life makes me cringe: the awkward adolescent photos, his gravitation towards adult "friends," his dependence on a largely analytical basis for relationships and connections, the endless dissatisfaction and detachment, the fruitless big dreams, the inability to focus and work on one objective, the recklessness, the grueling self-analysis and self-exposition, the anger and the impotence...

I think, from reading this, that Aaron was a person with something missing inside of him. To compensate, he tried to change everything around him - everything but himself. People like that have poor odds in life. When the world resists their efforts and they are forced to acknowledge the limits of their agency, their big dreams of quick change come crashing down. They can find themselves with little to retreat to in the aftermath.
"First of all, I want to thank the members of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship Church in Champaign, Illinois for everything that you have done to help me and my family in our times of crisis. It's been a long time since I've seen or heard from any of you, but I think about you always. You have been such a blessing to me, my wife, and Daniel, and I could never thank you enough for showing us Christ's love when we needed it most. I thank God every time I think of you - I thank Him for bringing you all to us in our deepest times of need. Even out in the middle of Illinois with no friends of family, God showed that He was still watching after us. Thank you for being His hands on Earth. Specifically, I'd like to thank Joe and Rhonda, Pam and Dell, and Herschel and Vicki. There were many, many others, too - so many people helped us that it would be impossible to list them all."

Thanks but no thanks. I prefer sanity.
To just make the DOM API's a little cleaner is so simple in a language like JavaScript, why not just create the abstractions as you need them?

This is not something you should use in production, but just a quick example:

function setAttr (attr, val) {
return function (elem) { elem.setAttribute(attr, val); };
}
NodeList.prototype.forEach = Array.prototype.forEach;
var $ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);

$('.foo').forEach(setAttr('foo', 'bar'));
There's an educational game like that, 'Stack the countries'. It's loads of fun. (Available for iPhone, iPad, and Windows Phone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZzzw4ohq-o

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stack-the-countries/id407838...
> If you agree with Mr. Stross that this is a structural problem (and I do), then remedying this within the system seems pointless. So what? Trying to replace the system seems equally doomed, because as soon as your replacement structure gets any traction, the System will squash it.

I think it's a shame that guerilla gardening didn't take off more. Or that graffiti artists don't also clean up bad graffiti.

Or that there are not more voluntary home gardening schemes - there are a bunch of people who enjoy gardening but don't have gardens, and a bunch of people who don't enjoy that kind of thing (or who can't do it) but who do have gardens. There must be some kind of way to get them together.

Unfortunately, doing it within the system means insurance and criminal records checks (and the misuse of those) and etc etc etc.
Beige politics is surely intellectually frustrating, but what if it is quite optimal from the utilitarian point of view?

Maybe we should not measure politics by how interesting it is?
On the other hand, if the company collects data on the device for their purposes, that data should be shared with the authorities.
Hmm. Michel's "Iron law of oligarchy".

Summarized as: "Bureaucracy happens. If bureaucracy happens, power rises. Power corrupts."

See also Niklas Luhmann's[1] idea of autopoiesis[2] in modern social systems, the political system being an example of a modern social system. Luhmann contends that modern social systems are functionally differentiated from each other: legal, political, mass media, and so on. Autopoiesis is the idea that these social systems contain within them the means for their own continuation and effectively do not exist for anything other than to continue their own existence. In order for these systems to come into being one needs self-reflexivity, this is provided by language. No language, no autopoietic systems (this is my contention). "An autopoietic system is to be contrasted with an allopoietic system, such as a car factory, which uses raw materials (components) to generate a car (an organized structure) which is something other than itself (the factory)." The common natural example (of an autopoietic system) given is the biological cell. The primary function of a cell is to keep the cell being a cell. Sure, different cells do different things but they all use the raw materials of their environment primarily for their own upkeep.

Ok. So given the Iron Law and Autopoiesis how do we stop social systems from becoming self-serving? This is the challenge of our times. Luhmann is a pessimist. He contends that you _can't_. Should we be pessimistic? It is the nature of these systems. We have never been able to have a full participatory democracy because of the coordination problem. Does the internet change this? Can we show that the internet allows everyone's hand to be on the tiller so to speak? Another idea might be to go with the inevitable flow of the way systems "evolve" and "mutate" over time and come up with a virtue theory for social systems much like we have a virtue theory for human behavior. So we should 1) reject monopolies (in politics, single party systems; in commerce, single telecoms carriers, single os vendors, and so on), we should 2) prefer transparency over opacity (think wikileaks), following on from this we should 3) prefer freedom of expression over censorship (an example often given is the advantage protestant countries had over catholic countries because of the papacy banning certain titles thus handing economic advantage to protestant publishers).

Anybody else got any ideas? Sorry for the vagueness and haphazardness of my thoughts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis

edit: clarification, elucidation, and grammar
I don't know. I think left-of-center types could take back "leftist" and similar labels if they wanted to. See "queer", "geek", the mascots of both American parties, etc.

It's confusing why you would be complaining about left-of-center being outcast when America has just re-elected a left-of-center president and when the media is awash with "whither the Republican Party?" features. It seems to me that the left is doing fine (if not better) right now.
I wasn't referring to friends, I was thinking strictly professionally. Business associates, clients, etc.
You assume that the original code is still available, which might not be the case.
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Agreed. Often when I'm searching for a problem I stumble on the Arch wiki (I don't use Arch) and it has often been the perfect thing for me.
reddit hasn't seen fit to include his avatar in the 'reddit alumni' http://www.reddit.com/about/team/
I'd say: start with learning jQuery and check out the equivalent Javascript code for reference and amusement.
With 50,000 rows plyr should be fine, and I've tested it up to 1,000,000 and it's reasonably. The problem is more that it doesn't scale terribly well in the number of groups.
I would argue that the American right and British have similarities but that they desire fundamentally different things.

For example, enhanced federalism isn't a primary goal of the British right.
There used to be a time when game developers didn't use "high-level" languages like C++ at all. But in the end they moved to them because of other benefits they got, and most of them slowly started to realize that with the hardware getting faster and faster, it's a good trade-off to make. They might think that again.
"Am I missing anything?"

Stop SOPA?
That's sort of why I have them as well. I used π or µ as a variable constant before in a script I was writing or use ² and ³ in documentation for something.
I appreciate the categories, even if it wasn't personalized.

One idea for future development might be to add a point score based on Naive Bayes (which has been discussed previously). Not as a filter per say, but just as an indicator.

E.g. http://joelgrus.com/2012/02/16/hacking-hacker-news/

Sure, you can use a bookmarklet or write your own thing, but I've always thought it'd be an interesting idea to have a centralized like/hate server, where you could add different sources, say HN. That might be a different project, but adding a score based on the likelihood of "I'd read this" (not recommendation as I should note) would be a interesting in terms of skimming.

Let's say one of your users is in a hurry, he might want to skim the most (homogenous) likely news that'd interest him/her, whereas if it's late at night in leisure time, one might be more interested in new/abnormal stories.

Just a though. Good job.
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It is in 99.99% of the cases.
Except that it isn't. Just because the DOM is indeed horrible it does not mean that JavaScript is not a bad experience, either.

I think that the problems with JavaScript are very obvious to developers who have used multiple languages (aside from PHP). There are far too many unacceptable quirks. It is full of absolutely stupid ideas, like semicolon insertion. Its scoping is poorly designed. In practice, prototype-based OO is inferior to class-based OO. Its type system is not sensible. It lacks proper support for namespacing and modularity (sorry, CommonJS is a hack and nothing more). It does not have a practical standard library. Its development environments and debuggers are quite lacking. And these are just some of its numerous issues.

So for such a small language, it has many critical flaws. This situation is far worse than what we see when dealing with most other languages. And none of those problems that are listed above have to do with the DOM, so disregarding it has absolutely no impact on them.
That's not entirely true. The LGPL requires that the end user be able to re-link the product with an API-compatible version of the LGPL-licensed library.

On platforms that support dynamic linking this is easy to allow - just package the LGPLed library as a dynamic library the user can easily replace. On platforms that don't (e.g. iOS) it's harder, and I believe it's still 'gray' what's required in practise - or even if the requirement is possible to satisfy. Some will say if you supply object files so that the end user can relink, that's fine.
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By element do you mean a specific plant or the broader principles of naturopathy?
Look, I am really not trying to bust your chops. You could have emailed me. You chose not to. I am abundantly familiar with controversy and firestorms. That is why illuminate is harrassing me. He has a history of calling me a "quack".

I originally wanted to try to gently suggest that you may not need riches to accomplish something. I do not have riches. In fact, I am currently quite poor. But I am making in roads on a large goal. Due in part to the ugly attacks I get subjected to when I talk about this thing I am doing, I chose to not bring up what I am doing. But if you are going to accomplish anything in the world, at some point you have to discuss it with people in some fashion.

Anyway, this conversation seems pretty pointless and I am running a fever. Later.
I'd appreciate any comments on https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki - it's my attempt to teach R like a programming language, focussing on cross-cutting concerns and general concepts. It's still a work i progress, so your feedback can help make it better.
I don't care what his motivation is as long as he jumpstarts the movement of supporting AAA games on Linux, and getting GPU makers to make drivers for Linux, and game engine builders to support it as well.

Linux adoption is a chicken and egg problem right now. If Valve fixes the developer side of that, then the consumers will want it on their laptops, and manufacturers will start building such laptops, too. Well except Dell now, I guess.
Are the LibreOffice developers aware that most Mac users will not be able to start their application?

The reason is simply OS X' default configuration:

'LibreOffice.app can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.

Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac Ap Store or identified developers.'

I know, using the Ctrl key lets me confirm that I really want to run LibreOffice.app, however, how many Mac users know that?
I couldn't see the Steel Battalion controller for the original Xbox.
And when you sell the device but then later attempt to extort the new owner by reporting it stolen?
I kind of hoped an infographic would be about aggregate stats, not a pretty picture of six businesses. To get right down to brass tacks:

- the two really successful ones are both commerce-related. We aren't comparing Facebook and MySpace, it's not really a compelling comparison. If they didn't fail because of market fit, show us people with the same idea who executed better

- there are few attributes that are compared directly. They cite some good things one company did, and some unrelated bad things the other one did. Why can't we see how much funding they took side-by-side, for example?

- Maybe this is a bit old, but I wouldn't really put Zynga in the 'wins' column.

Which brings us to the real point; on a long enough timeline, everyone's chances of survival go to 0. The common metric for success seems to be an acquisition, or going public. We don't get a good idea of who's exited, or even on what timescale we're comparing these companies.
And still the Linux ports on the Humble Bundle are buggy and painful to play (some examples here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154932)
Nice idea.

I tried to add a domain and it said it was invalid, looks like a faulty regex or something...
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Personally, I think we should just pay them off and start fresh. Unfortunately, that ends up basically looking like nationalization, which in the US is extremely difficult politically.

Actually if the Government broke up the monopolies that have a stranglehold on connection points and wires to the homes -- competition would sort everything out without a bunch of needless Government bureaucracy creating huge unintended consequences.
>America has just re-elected a left-of-center president

This is exactly the problem. Everywhere except in the US political bubble he is solidly right wing.

The redefinition of people like Obama as left wing is exactly what Udo and others here are talking about.
"enhanced federalism isn't a primary goal of the British right"

I suspected for a while that the leadership of the Conservative party (and a lot of Conservative voters) would be delighted to see Scotland getting independence, but they can't really say that publically.

Similarly, I suspect the leadership of the Scottish National Party would be horrified if we actually got independence as what I suspect they really want is to maximise what Scotland gets as part of the UK. Obviously, they can't say this either....
I upvoted this because the article is GOOD, whoever wrote the title of this submission needs some good old fashioned http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/