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1.0.0 — March 20, 2013
Renamed Collection's "update" to set, for parallelism with the similar model.set(), and contrast with reset. It's now the default updating mechanism after a fetch. If you'd like to continue using "reset", pass {reset: true}.
Your route handlers will now receive their URL parameters pre-decoded.
Added listenToOnce as the analogue of once.
Added the findWhere method to Collections, similar to where.
Added the keys, values, pairs, invert, pick, and omit Underscore.js methods to Backbone Models.
The routes in a Router's route map may now be function literals, instead of references to methods, if you like.
url and urlRoot properties may now be passed as options when instantiating a new Model.
So, you can't read then, and you also can't understand that people who are not exactly like you exist?

When you are with your close friends in public do you 'speak however you like' in such a way that it disturbs those around you? If yes, you are an asshole. The public spaces in conferences are much the same - and in the true Pythonic way (explicit is better than implicit) they even spelled out what the social norms were for the 'public spaces' at PyCon. If you call that crazy, you don't understand Pythonicity.

As for 'profession' - yes, programming is a skilled activity, and being paid to program usually involves being in a workplace with norms of behaviour - hence, a profession. You can say "I still don't consider it a profession", to which my reply is "that's nice; it still is one though".

edit: Urgh, I didn't see your edit when I posted. Your edit actually makes your post more stupid. Oh well.
Ah. Thanks for clarifying. For very small markets, like classics or nostalgic, maybe you could up the price because your potential buyers are price elastic?

If you are selling to 10,000 older, rich guys who crave old school arcade action, why not sell at a $40 price point?

That's the only solution I can think of that other niche markets do to stay alive (collectibles, etc).
Yes, the time that Apple refused to release the new version of Quicktime until the MPEG-LA retracted their idiotic, web-incompatible licence regime for the AAC audio codec simply didn't happen.

Nor did the uproar of Chinese DVD manufacturers who saw the value of IP in a DVD player rise to nearly half the cost of production and put many out of business.

And no consumer has ever complained about DRM or region-coding on their video content that rely on their patents as Hook IP to be enforced in player devices.
And nominally counts? Paying TSA to be groped is somehow beneficial for the society because it's nominally work?

In many cases we'd be better off paying people who currently work for the government to do nothing instead of what they are doing right now.
To be pedantic: 'begging the question' is when you import your conclusion into your premises, not when you show that the logical task has been satisfied but merely assume that the material task has been satisfied. Your identification of the problems with my informal reasoning is likewise totally wrong.

Your attempt at informal logic is also pretty laughable. I'll try to give a better response than this tomorrow though in another reply, as you seem to be actually engaging with this, which is actually super awesome (it also doesn't hurt that my degrees were in Logic, and I hardly ever get to bust that stuff out in forum comments).
I wonder if Google will be able to use its own patents on VP8 to pressure Nokia into a deal. As I understand it, Nokia lost its license when it sued HTC in Germany over VP8 technology[1], since the WebM licensing terms say:

If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that this implementation of VP8 or any code incorporated within this implementation of VP8 constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you under this License for this implementation of VP8 shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed. [2]

Of course Google only gets leverage from their VP8 patents to the extent that VP8 is used...

[1] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg06704...

[2] http://www.webmproject.org/license/additional/
The Gotthard Base Tunnel is also pretty impressive - under the Alps from Switzerland to Italy, at 57km it'll be the long rail tunnel in the world:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
People don't leave jobs, they leave bosses.
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Incomes have risen, but inflation-adjusted income for the bottom half of earners has essentially been flat for 40 years.

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-household-incomes-a-42-yea...
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Would you say that Foundation is better fit for marketing/product sites, while Bootstrap is better for webapps/admins?
>he asks us to start rewarding charities for their big goals and big accomplishments (even if that comes with big expenses). In this bold talk, he says: Let's change the way we think about changing the world.

It's true, they way we think about charities is dead wrong.

But not for the reasons stated above (which is also in the "dead wrong" region).

Charities are a kludge, an aspirin for cancer. It's a way for the privileged to feel good about themselves (and do some minor good) that never "changes the world" -- just perpetuates the same sad state of affairs and maybe gets them some tax cuts.

You want to "change the world"? Then CHANGE the world, that is make systemic changes (changes to laws, politics, etc). Don't merely poor your excess money on problems.

If a problem needs funding, then make sure it gets funding, not that some rich folks can opt to give whatever they feel like for the cause.
Analysts: Analysis shows that if you treat your employees like crap and pay them badly, they're likely to leave!

This is only a preliminary result though, we need more funding to back up this radical hypothesis.
While I understand what you mean, each one of us is so rare that there is only one of each one of us. Businesses are similar. What we can do is learn from their successes and their failures. And for that evaluating everything is important.
I was thinking the same, but in reverse. If I asked someone to sit and drive my esoteric setup, there is no way they'd even be able to type code let alone be productive :D. And the same is true when I walk over to help someone. I start typing and then I realize, this isn't vim, they don't have my .profile in their shell :D, ah fuck it, let me do it on my machine and I'll check it in or send you the change.
Do you want to be more explicit? Right now your comment is surely extremely convincing to people who know which environment you're talking about and what it's like, but will not help to enlighten anyone who doesn't already have the experience you're alluding to. And the people who do have that experience are probably already convinced! By The Castro, do you mean the neighborhood with all the gay people, or something more specific (a theater or bar, maybe)?

Tell us your story.
Thinking is like digging. If you don't keep digging at one point, you wont go deep. However, the deeper you want to go, the broader your hole is going to be.
tl;dr - This offers a fantastic means for Audio Unit/VST developers to prototype and even export working code.

One amazing thing (among others):
In the future:
- You want to program visually and get output as source code for use in other programs which you are working on as a developer
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i wonder if this will be implemented...
There will never be an alternative the way it is today.
One of the reasons the MPEG-LA exists is to prevent and supress competition, don't you think? The whole concept is bullshit.

I tell you how i see it: In a world without MPEG-LA (even without h264) there would still be good video codecs. There are plenty out there (e.g. VP8, VP9, Dirac and what not). They were created like many other codecs and standards and still they can exist, there is no need for the MPEG-LA!
The only purpose the MPEG-LA has is to prevent competition (and thus prevent choice for the endconsumer, for me!) from entering the market.
And even without the MPEG-LA and the licensing model (and the obvious patent trolling behaviour in the past) there is enough money to make for codec implementations and content creators. Why can't it be that way, that we have a "free" codec (as i've said, there are alternatives) without the licensing and yet we can still have a whole industry around them. Hardware chips could support a free codec and h264. The W3C could recommend a free codec for HTML5 video and webrtc. Software companies that write encoding/decoding software could even earn more money (no fees) and would thrive on competition and not rely on suppression/patent trolling. I think that everyone (meaning the customer!) would win, if the MPEG-LA (and other patent trolls) would be shut down, you'll have a hard time to convince me otherwise.

I couldn't care less about the "hardware decoder/encoder support" argument, because it's a symptom of all that MPEG-LA crap, not a reason. Everything the MPEG-LA works for is to make sure there will only be that one video codec. They will also make sure that only H265 will get enough hardware support (see, 2 codecs in one chip, is this even possible you say!?)..
And on it goes, it's a kind of monopoly and one that knows how to play the game and keep earning money.

The point that there are "other technologies in widespread use that aren't royalty-free." is not an argument, it's just a sad fact. In general there are alternatives available and in general i don't see such a patent abusing behaviour in other areas.
The 2nd amendment is the kill switch. And I say that as someone uncomfortable with guns used for anything other than hunting.
here is a more readable article:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/21/apple-looks-to-pro...
Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry
Nice design, good features to collaborate. But no option to delete uploaded presentations???
Do you have a source for "tiny royalties"? How much does MPEG-LA earn in a year? A few millions per licensing company here, a few hundred thousand per video site there.. It adds up!
That photo got two people fired. Seems serious enough to me.
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>> r.js has an inflexible build process. It tries to do everything and assumes you want it to be your only build tool, which fails with things like LESS files, custom image generation etc.

I'm not sure I agree with that. I use r.js just for building my JavaScript. I just point it at my main.js and voila I get a main-built.js.

I'm not sure how it stops you from using other tools like LESS to deal with stylesheets and pulling these steps together however you want. For instance my build.sh script is 4 lines, a call to r.js for my JS, a call to handlebars to precompile my templates, a call to uglifycss for my styles, and then a call to a tiny Node script which generates my index.html in either dev or production mode. I don't feel like r.js is dictating by build process at all. (PS, I am aware I should probably check out Grunt!).

>> browserify does its bundling and lets you do the rest in your own build system of choice (even minifying is separate). Much better.

With r.js you can set optimize: "none" [1] (in build config or on the command line) and then it won't minify it for you. You can then minify as a separate step if you wish.

[1] http://requirejs.org/docs/optimization.html#turbo
The point is very valid.

The person who has to install some third party web application is mainly concerned with “how easy is this to install”.

Not only have I steered clear of installing things with too many alien prerequisites, I’m often writing in PHP only because deployment is just so much easier.
As long as the Qualcomm application processors don't support hardware based VP8 decoding, Nokia probably won't care.

The day that mainstream application processor vendors support hardware based VP8 decoding, this will change.
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This needs repeating - interviewing is a skill you have to, and you can learn.

Like lsc below, I'm also a "mercenary". But probably much less competent and maybe even better in interviewing.

My background is in humint which gives me some skills to "read" people, figure out exactly how to build the trust with the interviewer, get them to like me and even manipulate the conversation towards the questions I want them to ask me... In my 17y IT contracting career, I didn't have a single interview that didn't end up in an offer despite my significant lack of algorithms or programming knowledge. Luckily, I didn't have 5h pair-programming interviews.

You can make it "click" with the company and you can manipulate their "gut feel" to tell them that you would be the ideal candidate for the position.

It's not fair and it's irrational that people like me can get the job instead of some much more capable developers, but that's what humans are - irrational.
Isn't the solution to the whole thing just Postel's law?

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
I was thinking the same thing whilst reading the article. There are surely people at Yahoo! who would gladly help if asked.
Now if they could finally complete the 2nd Ave. subway...
I never arrive to such conclusions: "Oh, I'm smart". I'm unaware of this, even I don't consider smart, I'm just consider curious enough.
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> Women have an instinctive revulsion of anything that could be construed as sexual.

Do you have a source for this information, or is it, as it appears, complete rubbish?
You actually watch the C code change as you edit with the patch. This for me makes it double super cool
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thanks for the typo notice. I really hope that's not what it becomes ... but who knows? :)
I have become a quite a fan of http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/. It's more or less a cleaner and updated version of Fireworks which Adobe has left to rot.
In another comment i mentioned installing apache, php, mysql and configuring all that as an ancient way that i was able to tolerate years ago, but not nowadays and not for a quick, single-user installation.

Nowadays you can easily have a webapp configure it self. I don't expect more then install/unpack, run, open browser, configure (in the browser), done! And the configure step shouldn't be much more then a) set up admin password and b) point so some database. And if i only want to evaluate or only want a single-user installation i don't want to install MySQL, i am fine with SQLite or HSQL or some other database that comes with the package.

Downloading a .tar.gz, unpacking to /var/www, editing apache config, editing htaccess, editing some config.php, restarting apache, continuing configuration in browser, installing a mailserver to send mails (wtf) is a rather common way i have seen in the PHP world. Gitlab just happened to make it even worse with post-install fixing known bugs/behaviour that should've been working out of the box.

Of course there are good examples and bad examples in each of those, it's surely not tied to the programming language that is used.
Here's another viewpoint. If Google Reader was so good that it made people so mad about it being shut down, and it was so important in people's lives - then it must've been a pretty good app, right?

Okay, so even with Reader being this good, the RSS protocol was still dying because most people have moved on to other ways of consuming news. So then if RSS didn't have a reader that was this good, then it would've probably died a lot sooner, and Google Reader actually prolonged its life. Without Google Reader, RSS might have died 2 years ago.

So I don't know what's with all this "Google killed RSS". Google didn't kill RSS. Twitter, Facebook and RSS' "geekiness" that made sure it never crossed that "chasm" into mainstream usage (and what doesn't grow will probably die, as nothing is constant) are what killed RSS.

As a side note, I'm someone who consumes a lot of news every day, yet I still found a service like Reader to quickly become overwhelming, and I've barely used it occasionally. As we've seen, many of these journalists actually had thousands if not tens of thousands of unread news stories in their Reader, which I think is also why not that many people were using it. It felt overwhelming.
I had similar experiences with Require and wrote http://github.com/olegp/joinjs instead of using Browserify since I found it unnecessarily complicated.
So wealthy people do not bother with housing, transportation or entertainment, and instead put all their money into investments? I think it's more likely wealthy people had income sources that allowed them to invest, while still enjoying some level of comfort.
If I were to ever leave the world of software, I would want to become a civil engineer so I could design and build projects like these. The maze of tunnels, access ways, pits, support piping and machinery amazes me every single time.

The freezing the ground technique was also used (pioneered?) on Boston's Big Dig for the tunnel under the Amtrak train lines. They also changed the supports for I-93 going through the North End, just like this project did, though I think it was on a larger scale due to the use of the slurry walls they first constructed.

The other massive works project that's been going on for decades in NYC is water tunnel #3 [1]. It's been going since 1970 and is scheduled to finish in 2020. It will be the longest tunnel in the world at 60 miles (97 km) when it's completed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_No._...
I would have killed for pictures like this for the Big Dig in Boston! I lived in the North End for a year while it was going on, though sadly I never got to see pictures like these - only enduring the daily changing traffic patterns.
Hacker news? No more...
A post about disability issues in the USA is at the top. It is upvoted and commented on much more than a post about a new GCC release.

A really sad community this is...
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I think you skimmed the post. The memo is to his employees and he specifically addresses whether or not the advice is applicable to non-entrepreneurs (spoiler: he thinks it is).

I don't necessarily agree or disagree with the advice, but it's clear that it is intended for "people who do the actual work".
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Here in Brazil, elderly people say that kids should receive a healthy dose of "Vitamin S" (S referring to 'sujeira' - dirt in portuguese)
r.js tries to pull all the files in the base path and copy them to the build path by default. It also pulls the less files, non-built images - pretty much everything, and mirrors it exactly at the build path.

How to turn this off? I suppose its the appDir option - or is it? With require.js's documentation and the confusing option names, who knows...

If its appDir, why isn't it called something saner like copyPaths that actually indicates what its going to do rather than assuming I'm familiar with its notion of "appDir"?

It all probably comes down to these two points:

* require.js options are confusingly named, and

* the documentation is convoluted and conflates explanations of multiple options at once
That's not cricket, old chap, to knock the competition.

Super Hexagon has highly polished gameplay and a stellar soundtrack, not to mention being very, very fun. IMO Terry Cavanagh knew exactly what to leave out.
>Wait, I'm British. You were talking about Britain. Why did we suddenly switch to the USA? Also, half of your rebuttals are inaccurate and half are not comparable in the slightest.

Really? I'd like to see how. China is mostly a country that hasn't attacked or bothered anyone. Tibet and Taiwan are disputed areas next to mainland China -- not some remote countries they decided to invade and exploit as colonies. Unlike Britain (and the US, France, Belgium etc) that has soaked large parts of the world in blood, theft, and slavery for centuries.

Heck, a British guy speaking about China re: Tibet and Taiwan? Oh, the irony. Britain stole Honk Kong from China (some 15,000 miles away from "his own business") and attacked China to enforce their trade (of opium among other things).

>No, there is no western version of the horrors of "Tank Man". A lot of the Chinese i've spoken to do not even know this happened, and the other half refuse to see it as a problem.

The horrors of the "tank man", have an estimated 250 to 2500 dead.

No "western equivalent"?

For one, the Britain, in the Opium Wars, killed around 40.000 Chinese. That's from 200 to 20 times more.

And here's another: "the British detained not 80,000 Kikuyu, as the official histories maintain, but almost the entire population of one and a half million people, in camps and fortified villages. There, thousands were beaten to death or died from malnutrition, typhoid, tuberculosis and dysentery. In some camps almost all the children died".

Mind you, this is just one example of tons of British atrocities the world over.

As for not acknowledging the Tien An Men incident (or it's importance), well the Guardian article from where I took this speaks volumes: "Deny the British empire's crimes? No, we ignore them".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/23/british-...

Or this: "British Colonial War Crimes: Unpunished, Unaccounted and awaiting Apology"

http://www.opinion-maker.org/2012/12/british-colonial-war-cr...

Or this: http://www.monbiot.com/2005/12/27/how-britain-denies-its-hol...

>The wars that have spanned the last five decades (Middle East, Asia, South America) have been brutal, bloody, and in many case unwarranted, but again, this is nothing to the blatant and open genocides caused by the Chinese. Half of the country is in extreme poverty. Examples: Three-Year Famine, Mao's "1000 Flowers Bloom".

Those are internal issues, and they get to do what they please with their own citizens. Political changes (like from a humiliated colony for britain and Japan to a sovereign nation) always have a blood toll -- in China, that has 1 billion population, that toll will be bigger. Sure, a lot of those killings were misguided, but that's their issues to solve.

It's not like Britain didn't have its own internal civil wars in its past (or they didn't repress the Irish and the Scots). Or like it doesn't have people in poverty (heck, tons of people in England are uneducated, piss poor, living on the dole and with petty crimes). Compared to most of the affluent Western Europe, it can be argued that England does the worst in terms of poverty -- in places like Yorkshire, Bradford, et al.
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Ending the Cold War and the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction? Expanding and increasing civil rights for minorities and women? There are plenty of positive things that the boomers have done, but Gen Y seems to have it in for them without ever bothering to open a history book.

I'm an Xer, so I get ignored in this mudflinging, but once I listed these things along with some others in an argument with a Y, talking about who had it harder growing up. Her response? Yeah, but we had peanut-butter bans in schools. It's hard not to succumb to the stereotype that Ys are self-centred when you never hear one giving boomers props for the good things they did.
Hackers are curious people. We like to know about everything. This is not linux news per se, though probably one of the best places to hang around if you're interested in that. I hope you can have faith in the community and take a step back to look at how active and amazing it is compared to what's out there.