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Cannot say one favorite. But Children of Heaven impressed me a lot when I saw it first. Perhaps because I saw the innocence of children that we have long lost..
Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle are also very good.
What do people think? Could a totally transparent, open startup work where everything (except legally private things) are public and open to comment?
Haha.. chemical engineer here... and my work is computational. Although I have used HF to prepare wafers before.
If you're really happy and think things are dandy and don't really have an alternative, then no, stay away from Haskell and FP. As others have commented, you will not be able to code the same way after you have learned functional programming.

While FP doesn't solve everything, it does massively reduce the amount of code you write. Where I work, I started writing everything I owned in F#. After a while, I noticed all other new projects were being written in F#, even by people that had previously told me "we are sticking with C#". Why? Because they feel bad having to write loads more code to get the same work done.

Every time I have to work in C#, I'm constantly annoyed about how verbose even the tiniest things are, how much work there is.

Beware, PHP's syntax for lambdas is incredibly verbose (and IIRC there are some odd limits on how you can use them), so if you become "enlightened" then continue to try to apply it in PHP, you are in for a rough ride. Even C# which slightly embraces functional concepts, gets pretty nasty if you write in any sort of real FP style.
Immigration reform in America
Wow. I want some of what they are smoking.

Had Nokia mixed their ecosystem in with Google's at an earlier stage of the development of Android, Nokia might well be where Samsung is now, or have a big slice of that pie.

It is galling to read justifications like "Nokia does not have Samsung’s vertical integration" when the reason is parts of that had to be thrown overboard to prevent collapse. Nokia still has more software capability than Samsung.

Android scales down to low-end hardware pretty well, and Nokia would have had a successor to S40, too. When the S40 business gets hit by the onslaught of very inexpensive Androids from China, the game is pretty much up for Nokia.

Nokia started from a position of commanding, unassailable dominance. Analysts called Nokia "Tier Zero" of the mobile device business. The platform may have been burning, but the result of subsequent decisions has been that it has become a charred remnant.
Perhaps that was a bit overly broad and not quite representative of what I meant to convey. The problems faced by a campaign and the problems faced by a tech start up are inclusive but not all encompassing. Every dollar you save on your server infrastructure is a cell phone plan for a lonely field office in Texas struggling to make a dent in a hopeless battle but they're there because they care. Are you gonna tell them they can't have phones?
I don't think so, for example:

var list = querySelectorAll(selector);
var i;
for (i = 0; i < list.length; i++)
list[i].value = value;

Is just as readable as:

$(selector).val(value);

Except that the jQuery example requires you to be familiar with jQuery. The first, however, just requires you to be familiar with a for loop, which is a common construct in many languages. Being faster is just a happy by-product.

I, personally, am starting to use Dart instead, because it is a nice middleground between jQuery and raw DOM manipulation; it doesn't hide the details like jQuery does and it's still fast.

Ihe best argument I can see is with XMLHttpRequest, which is still a pain because it doesn't have a nice API.
I personally always wanted something like that I wish that could be standardize to solution for not just gmail.

When I see how difficult it was for few friends to close the accounts for a lost member of their family. The after digital life is going to become more and more a problem.

At least now, I can give access to my email to a member of family when I will be in Peace .
I saw this post on twitter; logged in here to make sure these words were spoken.
I'm curious, are you saying that with some particular examples in mind?
An interesting question, and option 2 seems to be the likeliest option. However, I would qualify it and say that it was created with the intention of having it fail. This would ease the introduction and attractiveness of any regulation, or prohibition, of virtual currencies.

If a government were to create it with the intention of it lasting, then I would imagine they would have designed it such that the supply of the currency increased with the number of transactions; I'd like to hazard the guess that this is both possible, and would prevent both inflation and deflation. Why is preventing both of these necessary? Had they included inflation, it is unlikely bitcoin would have attracted its initial users - that is, the libertarians et al. Similarly, had it been deflationary, then this would possibly constrain government; no seignorage, and the real value of debt rising over time.
Covert ops usually have a small, well-defined purpose (taking out Osama, for example).

The creators of bitcoin could have one or more purposes, picked from a fairly large set of possibilities.

I don't wish to express contempt for the possibility, just that it is unlikely.
So to show it's more modern, you take the name add .fm...

Alright then
While I can not verify concretely whether or not airlines change prices tied to cookies, I know that it's outcome is suboptimal. Changing prices over a hunch that people will perceive the price as going up or down does not actually convert to more revenue.

Most price changes, even if they are minutes apart have to do with supply and/or time changes.

At ventata, we have an API for limit supply pricing strategies and time/supply are the biggest factors.
Can we please hear a little more about this, rdl?
I completely understand your suspicion.

The protocol specification is fairly impressive, and runs almost smoothly for 4 yrs.

Just one thing that I can remark, the elliptic curve used in the bitcoin protocol (secp256k1, the Koblitz curve y^2 = x^3 - 7 with a 256 bits prime) is not the one recommended by standards, and may contain leak. (It could happen that NSA already know some weakness of Koblitz curve over prime fields.)

So 2 possibility here:

1. That's a backdoor set by the designer.
2. Designer just doesn't care about gov recommended specification.
He's not the only one working on this. But he doesn't have the skills to defend his ideas (it might be just communication skills, it might not). As it is he won't be able to make the big revolutionary step the patch was promising.

If he had been making his own VCS he wouldn't need this kind of review, but Git is an agreed-upon format and protocol; it is absolutely necessary to start by considering the downsides when core changes will affect a large user base.
Not every businessperson aims to create the next Walmart-scale business. You can live comfortably with a few tens of thousands of repeat customers.
I would like to have this accident plz.
Thanks. CAPTCHA/CSRF is not an option since it is meant to be an API called from applications. As a precaution make a phone call to verify the user. That guy went through all the things and theoretically we can actually track him down(costly though). I have blacklisted the phone- question is how many phone numbers do he have :). Added a per day free call limit to stop this for future attempts.
The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [video]
I'm surprised nobody mentioned MintChip [1]. It does not use the exact same concept that bitcoin uses, but it's another crypto currency, and it's being developed by the Canadian government.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip
hey Scott, I just saw this. It depends on whether your map implementation expects a unary function or whether it injects optional additional arguments like the index, and whether your function is unary or accepts optional other arguments.
The parent believes there's parallels between the demography-driven expansion of radical Islamism in certain countries (I'm guessing in Europe, although he didn't specify) and and the demography-driven expansion of Mexican nationalism in the American Southwest.
Actually, Stuxnet was outed pretty quickly (less than a decade, if the speculation is correct).

An the target of Stuxnet was an single program of a fairly obnoxious state (Iran).

The "target" of btc is an entrenched system of currency used by nearly everyone on earth. Much harder to contain.
Chain a few more commands onto that example and then we can talk about how readable the pure JS version is.
Or they work with stuff that's neither explosive nor poisonous.
Oh man, here is a passage from the Forbes article they cite:

"Nokia’s faith in Windows Phone seems to be paying off for now. The company continues to not only dominate the Windows Phone market but also take away market share from rivals such as Samsung and HTC, according to a recently released report by AdDuplex. The usage stats for April show that Nokia has increased its share of the Windows Phone market to 80%, up from about 78% a month ago."

I suppose I should take pride in the fact I'm the most handsome man in my car most days.
Mind sharing any links / citations?
Space Dice - A GAME OF GALACTIC PROPORTIONS
I don't think anyone should try to follow Branson's example. The man is gambler and an extreme case of return on luck. One early success and some antics that catapulted him into fame, then this notoriety allowed him to hire good managers (Ex-McKinsey types) to run and launch new businesses under his name. Read his book 'Losing My Virginity' and you'll understand why.
Sounds far-fetched to me, but I'll play along.

Assuming some third-party actor in the game, we make a mistake if we assume there was only one reason. Even if we concentrate on one reason, we may be drifting off-course.

The primary value of BitCoin is its anonymity and difficulty to trace. That means that the people that made it appreciated those values.

The world economic system is closing up -- slowly the noose tightens, and there's less and less place to hide transactions. That creates a need both at the state and individual level.

What I'm interested in is if there is a BitCoin 2.0, or 3.0. I sure hope so. I'd hate to think the very first thing that became popular ends up being the de facto anonymized currency. When I'm thinking about who would build this and how it would be reviewed, everybody jumping on the 1.0 bandwagon doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies.
Novel? What about nuclear fission?
Talk to Binney. They contract out everything, and don't even oversee shit well anymore. They have regressed to the USG mean.
I like the food for thought but as a lot of people have stated I don't know that it totally all adds up. The idea that a gov't would create a currency that is currently not being taxed doesn't seem like its at the moment that beneficial of a government project (looking at you, USA). However, I suppose it could be a different government (any of the PIGGS countries, Israel, Iran, or any other country that is having a money crisis and wanted a black market way out.
That said, couldn't the author also be a big bank? I know big banks here in the US have thousands of coders on staff and while most do meaningless chores more than cool projects perhaps banks in other countries aren't so bad (looking at you Switzerland).
I've just assumed that Neal Stephenson's next novel is so large that we're actually living inside it.
if, say a government created a time machine and figured out that this is the major form of currency in the future, to bring prosperity to the past much quicker.
Mark's been very active in the WebKit/Blink codebases over the past 18 months or so http://trac.webkit.org/search?q=pilgrim&noquickjump=1... Taking on huge refactoring efforts.
DOM manipulation and querying is a small subset of what jQuery does. There's ajax, event handling, dom creation from html fragments, animations, utility functions, size / position / offset calculators etc. And there are messy cross browser stuff in there.

Yeah, let's get rid of it.
I think its possible to be a huge fan of DIY drones and also to have a healthy respect for the kinds of conversations we're all going to need to be having. Thanks for the link.

I'd like to buy a personal drone sometime. Do you know of any good resources for reviews?
> just keep on hacking on his fork. I know I would use it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the problem that Linus brought up this: If you introduce a new object type, you need to get it right. A new object type would create non-backwards-compatible repositories, so you'd have a new minimum Git version. If you were to use this fork, then everyone who checks out your code would have to use it. Also, it would preclude tooling support (eg GitHub). Once such important repository versioning decisions are made, they can't be unmade. Git, at it's core, is basically just a well designed repository model.
Please stop reposting this
Would PG's Artix startup succeed in today's world?
Was it bad timing for Artix in 1995?
Haha this was so good.
I've seen idle chatter about scouring the internet for posts from early bitcoin adpoters and offering to buy their old computers. And then of course searching the hard drives for forgotten wallets.

Not something I think anyone will actually do. Yet. But check those hard drives before you sell/donate any old PCs!
So, the only piece of evidence pointing to a government is the lack of reviewers, which IMO is a pretty weak indicator. Why would Bitcoin need a ton of reviewers? It's not like it was designed to replace critical parts of the economy overnight. Tons of non-academic "research" is released into the wild (such as nearly all commercial software) with zero peer review. I mean, there's no peer review of AirBNB, that doesn't make it a NSA operation (or does it? Hmm..).

My impression is that BTC is a relatively simple application of existing (peer reviewed) crypto-tech, and could therefore have been invented by a single, or small group of, dedicated crypto scientists.
As one of the comments point out, at least one of these 'professors' is wrong about anonymity. Don't let the title fool you into crediting more authority than warranted. I shouldn't have read this article.
Can one really blame the crawler for trying to parse URLs out of an, allegedly, text/plain document?

I'd argue the MIME type starting with "text/" for binary data was wrong. One could serve it up as application/binary or application/x-protobuf or something like that.
Care to speculate on their motivation for remaining anonymous?
Isn't "uses tech to facilitate the things that people do" what a tech startup does?
You got it right, buddy, but it's an emerging government - not an entrenched one.
... he said, on "Hacker News".
> I'd be reluctant to invent in someone who made desktop software

I wonder if pg would revise that statement now seeing as how Dropbox is its largest winner so far.
Why? Simply to discuss it and evaluate alternatives that could be better. I'm referring to the solution he proposed not to the fact that git modules have a lot of space for improvement. "miles better" considering that we are talking about git modules it's not really that hard to devise.
For some reason this website wants me to run a Java applet. Nope. I'm going to flag this submission and maybe a mod can shed some light into this.
The Silicon Valley Bootstrapper
> Surgeons can easily make seven figures depending on what they are doing.

That seems like quite an exaggeration to me. Surgeons are highly paid, but in the grand scheme of things very few of them make $1m+/year. And the ones who do so generally do not do so easily. Neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons are generally the highest paid of all doctors, but both rarely crack seven figures, and they work horrendous hours in many cases. And becoming a neurosurgeon is simply beyond the ability of most medical students anyway.

Perhaps if you set up a plastic surgery shop in Beverly Hills and hired other doctors under you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPAnet
Certainly in my opinion. The default goto for random binary data is application/octet-stream.
> The problems faced by a campaign and the problems faced by a tech start up are inclusive but not all encompassing.

I thought this was pretty obvious.

> Every dollar you save on your server infrastructure is a cell phone plan for a lonely field office in Texas struggling to make a dent in a hopeless battle but they're there because they care.

I have no idea what you're trying to convey here.
First, a arithmetic error: it's $0.74 per CFL, not $1.74. So so the LED costs 17x as much as the CFL.

Congratulations: You found an example of a really really expensive LED - which is exactly what I said.

And I've seen this LED before - it's the very first one I've ever seen that beats a CFL for efficiency, and it does it by having a CRI of 80 (the legal minimum). So the color advantage LEDs have over CFL? Not for this bulb - this bulb looks terrible, so bad that it's going to turn people off from LEDs, the same way the early bad CFLs made people think they are all bad.

How exactly are you saving anything from flexibility? Who cares if they are dimmable, the majority of the time you don't, and the tiny savings in electricity when you do hardly matter.

I turn my CFLs on and off quite often and I go years between having to replace them. And they cost 74 cents - replacing them is hardly an expensive proposition even when they fail (which they usually don't).

Check the efficiency of LEDs that cost no more than $5 (still 6x the price of a CFL, but reasonable) for around 800 lumens, if you find one that beats - or even matches - a CFL let me know. And make sure the CRI is comparable too. A low CRI CFL is also much more efficient.

Haizt's Law has nothing to do with efficiency. Also, the theoretical max for efficiency is 250 lm/w. It's going to get much much harder to improve things as we get closer.

I agree that eventually LEDs will beat other technology. It's just not there yet.
I didn't see much new there... perhaps except for the talk on currency 3.0 that fixes bitcoin's deflationary problem. I wonder if we'll see some new digital currency that has something of a decentralized algorithmic fed that can increase/decrease a monetary supply based off of certain rules.
More projects should look at and adopt the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) HTML Living Standard page (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...).

You can see status annotations in the left margins that allow you to go to extended/extra information on each section. If you have comments/questions on a section, you can use the widget at the bottom right (it says "Click the location of the error to select it, then type your message here:") to submit a review comment.
Should Bitcoin succeed, that makes an anonymous crytptocurrency more likely in the future, not less.

If we have one main cryptocurrency, we'll also have a number of secondary ones, filling various niches.

For some reason, a lot of criticism of bitcoin seems to focus on it becoming the sole currency, but that's never going to be the case.
Is this a joke? A huge percentage of the web is running with Jquery.

I think you’re being too dismissive. It’s a fair question to ask, and the answer is not obvious and probably not the same for everyone on every project.

Frameworks like jQuery became popular for good reasons, including easy DOM manipulation, AJAX, and event management, and in particular for offering these tools within a single, widely tested, cross-browser API.

However, using native APIs instead is easier than it was a few years ago, unless you really still need to support very old browsers, and we’ve learned to use polyfill/shim strategies to fill in most gaps when we need to. We’ve also learned a lot about how to write better plain JS in that time, for which the folks developing popular JS libraries like jQuery deserve a lot of the credit. In effect, the major reasons for using jQuery have all become less important. Almost no-one really needs to write code like your “bad” example today, and even if they do, it’s the sort of thing you only do once and wrap up in your own library so you can reuse exactly the ideas you need and optimise it using the same tools as any other JS you write.

On the other hand, jQuery has a number of potential disadvantages. There are run-time performance questions that can only be answered by profiling, but they are fair to ask. In any case, fetching jQuery means more download bandwidth and more HTTP round-trips, which is definitely a real problem for performance, particularly with mobile networks. The obvious counter is to say everyone should load jQuery from a CDN like Google’s, but now you have a third-party dependency that is a potential risk to reliability, security and privacy, and in any case not all web sites/apps run on the public Internet, so that choice won’t be for everyone.

The thing that is increasingly bugging me is the universal dependency problem. Most of the little JS libraries I’ve looked at recently, things that do one simple job well, seem to depend on jQuery even if it offers no real advantage at all. jQuery has become the God Object of client-side JS development, and having one of those is rarely a good sign.

So while I certainly wouldn’t go as far as to say that jQuery is no longer useful, I don’t think we should take it for granted that using jQuery should somehow be the default choice.
url: "test.html",

is clearly not equivalent to

var age = document.getElementById('age').value;
var wpm = document.getElementById('wpm').value;
var sex = document.getElementById('sex').value;
var queryString = "?age=" + age + "&wpm=" + wpm + "&sex=" + sex;
ajaxRequest.open("GET", "ajax-example.php" + queryString, true);

so your example reeks of hyperbole.

The first piece of code is GET'ing an arbitrary, presumably static webpage and injecting the word "done" into the body, while the second piece of code appears to be pulling data from a form, sending it to another webpage, and then displaying its response into a specific div.

As for the try/catch statements, I think the OP's point is that we don't need to worry about XMLHttpRequest failing anymore. The decision to support IE6 is up to you, but I think most web developers are willing to draw the line these days.
Provided that one way is both achievable for beginners, and a healthy practice to continue in the absence of further development. You don't want beginners thinking some terrible practice is how they are supposed to build things, just because it was the only workable thing you could use to introduce them to the topic.
What the heck is my MVP?
What PG says resonate so much with me, it's hard to explain. People asking me questions about my startups or hacking stuff... I wish I could just redirect them to this video. Actually, I will!

On a side note, I didn't know PG sounded a bit british : )
yes, but that doesn't make competing on price an invalid strategy.
Do you mean what is covered at https://lwn.net/Articles/423732/ ? I don't think that makes Nussbaum look bad at all.

A few months after that fracas, Debian actually made several changes to address Rubyist's concerns; see http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=681
I totally agree. The http://diydrones.com site has a lot of good information. There is probably more focus on the 3DRobitics gear since the site is run by its founder Chris Anderson but I think you will be able to find a bunch of really good information to get started.

Also, let me take a moment to call out my buddies iPad accessory for use with DIY drones or really anything that talks 900MHz: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fighting-walrus-radio since their project has some of the more popular personal UAVs available as rewards :)
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