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> as romantic as it may sound to some to sit in the comfort of your desk chair and bring about digital justice.

Isn't this romantic notion, bringing justice with a click the driving force of nearly every online-petition, and things like this.

Isn't this romantic notion the reason why the new demo is so often practiced? New demo = to ddos someone to mars or jupiter, and rationalize it with: I could just as easily have gone to their headquarter and demoed there?

Well most people could not have done it - and would not have done it in rain, snow, wind, driven 500 miles just to demo there, and so on.

As a lot of psychological studies showed, people saying they would do something and people doing this thing in the real world (not in their imagination) are two totally different things.

So there you have your real, underlying problem, a psychological problem, with this kind of digital activism. It is so totally different from real activism, and at the same time so new, that we really do not have proper ways as a society to deal with the dark sides of it.
That was a interesting way of showing insecurities.
<i>The ARGUS-IS can stream up to a million terabytes of data and record 5,000 hours of HD footage per day. It can do this by the 1.8 gigapixel camera and 368 different sensors all housed in the ARGUS-IS.</i>

It takes a very long day to record 5,000 hours of of footage per day with a single camera.
Thomas Crowne affair.

But: yes.

Crowdsourcing may be useful to develop leads. But LEO really should take it from there.
Some people pick technologies because they are good at solving the problems they have, not because they might help their chances at a lucrative contracting gig.
Similar situation here; my working theory is that I have dominant left wrist/fingers for tasks that require fine motor skills (writing, drawing, painting) and dominant right arm for tasks that require more arm strength (throwing).

Of course, there seem to be some exceptions. I hammer with the left hand (needs more precision than strength?) and mouse with the right (too cumbersome to switch default setup?). Racket sports generally confuse me, but I tend to end up using my right arm.

I find it interesting you wear your watch on the left wrist; I naturally wear it on my right.

On a related note, have you ever noticed many people switch their fork-hand when eating with a knife? Right handers prefer both the fork and knife in their right hand, so they must temporarily put the fork in their left. I just keep the fork in my left hand and use the knife with my right.
The links which you have given above, are for 2 different simulations - the SBCL one is computing the mandelbrot set, and the Java one is doing an n-body simulation.

That said, I agree with your point ... is seems to me pointless to effectively program in assembly in another language and then claim that the wraper language is faster/better ... given enough determination, you can do the same with most other languages and it proves nothing.
Genuine? This seems so forced and fake it's quite painful. No person ever would reply "Fat with a protruding chin" when asked to describe their face.
"They are nothing more than unethical algorithmic drones, that dig up stuff."

I fail to see how this is more applicable to the average 4chan viewer than it is to the average human being.
Sure thing.

http://forums.parallella.org/viewforum.php?f=31&sid=1ca4...
I do not mean this to sound cynical, but are people actually building full-fledged web apps with these frameworks? Where are they? Any public examples?

I'm building a large, complicated app for paying customers with Ember.js. Now that I've actually climbed the learning curve, I'm incredibly happy with the choice. The application has some large, CRUD-like components, but it also involves things like custom touch widgets and extensive drag and drop.

However, it should be kept in mind that Ember.js (and more specifically, the unreleased Ember Data library) is not a mature framework. 95% of the features I want to implement practically fall from my fingertips, and it feels glorious. The remaining 5% require diving deep into the internals of Ember Data. I'm tolerably good at that sort of thing, so it's a reasonable choice for me. But people who don't feel up to reading the source should probably avoid using Ember Data and stick with using jQuery to load JSON into regular Ember.Object instances (which works fine).

I haven't seen any big Angular apps first hand, but I know some former Backbone users who are diving in, and they also sound quite enthusiastic about their choice.
I agree that this "study" is completely unscientific. But I think it definitely opens up a direction for further inquiry.

A counter to your point about politeness skewing the results is that the women who were shown the sketches of themselves afterwards clearly seemed to react in such a way that indicated that they realized they were too harsh on themselves, that they had negative views of their appearance which was unjustified, and that they were relieved/flattered to see how strangers saw them. So, it's not a proof of anything, but I'm just pointing out that womens' description of themselves seemed to be pretty reflective of how they genuinely viewed themselves.
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No mention of my other criteria I see. Money is an important part of a career. Weddings, houses and children cost money.

So the idea is that Ember may serve to fix one particular problem in my company... I don't see how it's any better than anything else. Just because I can knock out a basic web app in less time doesn't mean it's worth learning, especially when you add learning time into the development time and compare it to the Java equivalent.

Seems to me the use case (and job market) is small.

I wish I was still 22 years old and didn't need to care about earning decent money...
There's a HUGE difference in enjoying/playing sports compared to vicariously living through professional athletes.

Getting together with friends for a pick-up game is not difficult and much more gratifying and you can still drink beer afterwords.
Sure, I would be!
Also faces seems wider in self view. Could it be just the effect of mirror vs. external "3d"?
It runs MPI and has a GBit Ethernet interface. They've already bult an 8-node demo cluster.

The Zynq 7020 arguably has enough spare capacity and I/O ports to implement a 3d torus with ~GByte/s throughput for each link.
I find my problem relating to this is the ladder up against the wrong tree/building problem, it seems an absolute bugger to work out. The good news is, I know when I do I have the tenacity and work ethic to constantly get better
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Dropping back the frame for a bit - Jeff Sachs is on EconTalk this week, and he says what ( IMO ) should be the idea under scrutiny - employment prospects for people without college degrees have declined quite a bit since 1973. The present relatively high debt/deficit load was a result of an attempt to trade debt/deficits for higher employment using a ... somewhat intentionally-blown housing bubble. It didn't work. Something mysterious is "regulating employment down" in the system, and we don't seem to have a good handle on it. Tyler Cowen has posited a weakish "zero marginal product worker" hypothesis that does not seem to be easily decidable. Sachs' idea is that this has been developing since about 1973 and we haven't addressed it yet, and that this failure is a failure grounded in weaknesses of social science itself.

I can't find a more evenhanded and clear statement of the problem than his.
You may be interested in systems like KLEE http://klee.llvm.org/
Each TigerSHARC-like DSP core has 32 kByte embedded memory, and memory-like access to other core's memory space. The system has GBit Ethernet, runs Linux and takes only 2-3 W power.

This is ideal cluster material.
Would that be considered negative? In any case, KO is not a Microsoft project, and only one of the core team members (me) works for MS.

Anyway, many projects are built with KO, and its 3500+ watchers on GitHub suggests it's something like 7 times as widely used as one of the libraries in the article, so it's perhaps inaccurate to say that nobody considers it!
I have changed the password already, and i didnt use fb or Ln ids to register. May be its specific to registration through email.

I am not able to change my profile yet.
Article misses the fact that managers rather than creators took over the electronics companies. Losing creativity meant losing an edge.
Albeit a great resource for the community to continue to produce tutorials like these on front-end frameworks, 'Web Applications Done Right' is a complete nonsense notion for what was presented. What would be hugely beneficial for beginners is someone who would take the time to go through a large-scale web app using one of these technologies. In my experience building large-scale front-end applications, I had to resort to using techniques that aren't really documented anywhere with good examples (extracting objects into presenters, decorators, dynamic template inheritance, etc...).

These simple one-page apps are great as an initial learning resource - but it leaves people not understanding what they're getting themselves into later on down the road.
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Sure thing http://www.adapteva.com/white-papers/building-the-worlds-fir...
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I love how the girl standing behind him is also wearing a black backpack but isn't circled.
Of course someone would.
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Every time the government gets involved in something, it destroys it. It perverts the economic efficiencies and causes a mess that "Oh darnit! We need a bigger government program to solve it!" Then, when it racks up failure after failure after failure trying to solve a problem; it never takes the blame for its intrusion by shutting the programs down and allowing for other solutions. It asks for more money, more authority, more regulations/laws. There is no testing in government for usefulness. There is no refactoring. It is the worst kind of spaghetti code that grows endlessly.

- I mean, we just had a Depression because of government's involvement in housing pricing and lending.
- Public Education. Ever increasing money spent, never increasing results.
- Student Loans and Higher Education pricing is the next disaster that they have brewed by getting involved.
- Healthcare, as bad as it was with the mess of state regulations it had on it is becoming astoundingly worse with Obamacare.
- Social Security, Medicare, etc. are all financial disasters that have created huge obligations that we will be unable to pay.
- Airport security has done nothing to make us safer since the TSA, but there it is. A huge behemoth that makes travel painful.

I'd add the Military in there as well since it's a huge money suck that is extraordinarily wasteful - but it's one of those few necessary evils that we don't have a choice on to some extent. Plus, since it's results oriented (kill or be killed) - it's actually gotten to be pretty good at what it does.

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Yes, there are people building full-fledged web apps...at least with AngularJS and Backbone. Hubspot uses a lot of Backbone in their products, and they're a large company at this point. Google uses AngularJS...the Youtube app for PS3 is written in Angular, for example.

If you find yourself fighting with Angular, it's because you're new to it. Angular is a very rich library...I believe it's definitely possible to do the equivalent of "programming Java in Python" coming from another client library to Angular.
Simple sollution:
Only grant patents on real sollutions.
If you can solve the same problem in another way it is a independent work.
Do we realy want a world with 1 browser 1 OS and 1 pragramming alnguage?
May be one reason is that they had a lot of cool only for Japan market devices? It is more difficult to make different devices for different markets, Apple on the other hand made one device for all the markets.
disclaimer: I work for Bitovi, and I'm a CanJS core comitter

Short answer: yes, people do build real apps with these frameworks.

I stumbled upon JavaScriptMVC (CanJS was extracted from JMVC) 4 years ago when I was building application with a lot of front end code, I think we had around 10k lines of JavaScript in various modules. Trying to build something like that without a framework was a huge pain, and JMVC helped here a lot.

In last few years (after I started working for Bitovi) I worked on pretty big enterprise level applications, and besides being able to build things in cleaner way, a huge plus was ability to allow less experienced developers (from the companies we did consulting for) to implement stuff with familiar structure and without needing to care about memory leaks, zombie events and similar stuff.

IMO CanJS is the best framework currently available, but I'm extremely biased. In the end I don't think it matters which framework people choose because they will get a lot of value just by using any of them.

That said, I would never again use a DOM-centric approach for frontend apps. Live binding is a huge game changer and data centric apps are (in my experience) less buggy and get stuff done with less code.
Yeah, I am thinking about the Trueman show, around him the simulation is very detailed and polished. The further he is away though from a part of the world the less simulation effort that is being made.
Ember.js is a framework for writing web applications on the client side. This experience, and the end result will be a lot different that the type of web apps that you might be used to writing from the server-side.

I've created my share of Java-based server-side generated web applications, and when it comes to writing applications that run well on the web, JavaScript MVC frameworks are the way to go.

I can't comment on how it might affect your career on either the short of long term, though. That said, I expect that the demand for these types of rich webapps will become larger as we move forward.

I'm turned 22 ten years ago myself, but I think making that statement you made is unfair.
I don't think it's an issue with "emotionalizing the subject", nor one of people getting offended, but rather one of professionalism.

That sort of language, in a context like that, reminds me of a Zed-style rant. It makes it harder for me to take it seriously, you know? The whole project ends up coming off as an amateur effort, even if that may not be the case.
Patent attorneys and patent offices should be very different in these views. I'll give a pass to patent attorneys trying to get everything patented, but the patent offices (examiners) should be the gatekeepers. They're the ones that need to apply the test for obviousness.
Because everyone is a racist.
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People seem to prefer a more common location. Let us meet here at Barleyz instead, http://www.zomato.com/bangalore/barleyz-the-brew-house-koram...

I also created a facebook group for contacting people coming for this meetup. Please join the group, if you are coming.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/482115068527962/

@grease, thanks for the pizza offer. maybe you could sponsor appetisers instead? :)

I'm looking forward to this!
Your library looks great - thanks for releasing it!

S3 is an incredible offering, but since I'm working on tus.io, I'll focus on what's wrong with it : )

- Multipart chunks need to be 5 MB at least. An interrupted part cannot be resumed. This kills the mobile use case.

- Throughput to S3 is bad from outside of EC2, uploads often start at very slow speeds and won't reach the capacity of the connection in many cases.

- S3 does not let you stream/access an upload in progress easily, so you can't start to transcode a video while it's still uploading.

- The S3 API is the opposite of RESTful.

- S3 is a proprietary service, their protocols are not intendent/documented for adoption, and IMO they don't deserve great people like you making free contributions to their ecosystem.

edit: I'm not trying to say S3 isn't a good choice for many people. But our goal is to bring resumable file uploads to every iOS, jQuery, Wordpress, Drupal, Rails, etc. application in the world - S3 is not the right starting point for that.
Is there a way to see all 7 without watching a video?
Those wondering about the multiple ways this could be biased, keep in mind that by far the easiest way, in which everybody thinks that they are being honest, is by publication or "reporting" bias.
I've dropped Knockout simply because it is the easiest way to paint yourself in the corner. Its magic is ok for the simplest cases.
Went with backbone, less magic, but solid foundation.
Thank you for you comments. This is one of the goals that I am trying to achieve through my book-in-progress Ember.js in Action (Manning Publications).

And I do agree. Examples of large-scale applications built with any of the MVC-based frameworks is lacking.
Do yo uhave any links to places where people use it as a verb?

And your third point - that something isn't suitable for discussion at that point in time, although is debatable, seems to be a weird choice for a discussion forum name.
> in other words, a subatomic particle with kinetic energy equal to that of a 5-ounce (142 g) baseball traveling at about 100 kilometers per hour (60 mph)

Similar energy but, luckily for us, completely different impact dynamics: a myriad of small interactions along its path in the atmosphere and in the Earth (I don't know the maximum depth, maybe it's even possible for it to traverse the planet), releasing energy a bit at a time, instead on one single sudden crash.

Yes, baseball is still more dangerous than an "Oh my God!" particle :-)
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This makes an amusing contrast with the frequent articles decrying the loss of manufacturing here in the US/UK.
Might want to give HackerNewsers a try: http://hackernewsers.com/users.html?User[city]=moscow&Us...
I worked on a Hitachi based coal plant in college. The Japanese were the originators of high precision engineering, and it shows. TI's OMAP program is going the same route: pursuing long term, more stable business instead of consumer facing chips. I suspect that wages in Korea are much lower, allowing them to manufacture ripped off designs at a much lower price.

Sony's problem is that they're an engineering driven company in consumer markets. While they often win the spec game, they aren't vertically integrated enough to give the same consumer experience that Apple can. Ars has covered many of their missteps in depth.
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Voting up because I can't log into gmail for domains and I came here hoping other were having problems and that it just wasn't that Google locked me out.
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Looking for hacker/s for health start-up
I'm a M.D. with an idea for a health start-up. I don't have talented hackers in my network; I belong to a different world. This should signal opportunity to you; this would not just be a "tech-start-up".
I'd be happy to pay you a salary if that's what you prefer; but hopefully I'd find the one or two hackers who are ready to work their asses for to take over the web when it comes to health.

Contact me.

Åsa Wihlbeck
asa@wihlbeck.com
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I think the experiment as designed could show you that you are inside a simulation, but would make it hard to show you were real.

Think about time-lapse photography and simulated photons. As we get better at doing time-lapse photography (more FPS), we might see movement along the predicted course become step-wise (rather than a smooth function). Barring some weird physical phenomena, this could show we were inside a simulation.

But it's also possible that the simulation's FPS is far higher than what we can ever measure. That doesn't make it any less a simulation, but we also can't assume it's reality.
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There was an article I read a while back that pointed out that the exact same thing happened with the American Auto industry before things started to go to crap.
Ok:

> Is Ember.js actually worth learning?

Yes.

> Will it make me a better programmer (like learning Haskell will)?

That depends on whether you've learnt the concepts that Ember introduces before or not. If you're stuck in a Java shaped rut, then yes. It will make you a better programmer.

> Will it enable me to get a pay rise from my current £480 per day contracting fees?

That depends whether you find someone who wants an Ember app that is willing to pay more than £480 per day. If you don't bother looking, then you're unlikely to find it. That said, if money is what you're after, there are many better avenues to go down than learning Ember or doing Java contracting.

> Is there a more diverse and active job market than there is around my current main language (Java)?

JavaScript is growing in popularity very quickly. If you wanted to switch to it from Java you wouldn't have any problems finding an interesting job.

> So the idea is that Ember may serve to fix one particular problem in my company... I don't see how it's any better than anything else. Just because I can knock out a basic web app in less time doesn't mean it's worth learning, especially when you add learning time into the development time and compare it to the Java equivalent.

You don't see how it's better because you haven't bothered learning it. By comparing it to the Java equivalent, I assume you mean GWT. In that case, yes. It's much better.

Ember isn't really designed for basic web apps. It's designed for big complicated web apps. I wouldn't recommend Ember for really basic web apps at all - it imposes a lot of structure that you only really see the benefit of when your app becomes larger.

> I wish I was still 22 years old and didn't need to care about earning decent money...

Never wish for something out of the past. It's gone. Look to the future instead.
So you think that client side JS web apps are 'the way to go'. What's wrong with server side MCV web applications?

How does Ember.js in the clients browser scale when you have a a lot of data that needs marshaling / unmarshaling or generally processing and moving around? Surely it's more performant to do this on the JVM on the server rather than relying on the clients computing power (or lack of). Ideally you wouldn't do a lot of data processing in the MVC part of an app anyway but it seems like you're telling me the whole web app needs to be client side?
Is there an article somewhere which goes into more detail about this point?
I think you meant incidental, rather than unintended
"Mechanical failure" typically refers to things that are... mechanical in nature, e.g. not software. They are most likely interpreting this under the unforeseen events clause of the ticketing agreement (not sure of the exact wording) to see if they can get away with not paying anybody. If enough of the passengers raise a fuss they will likely offer everyone some sort of voucher, but 90% of people unfortunately will forget about the whole thing 30 minutes after they land.
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Book looks interesting - I'll have to dig into that. Thanks!
I don't consider professionalism and the word "fuck" to be mutually exclusive, but at the end of the day we'll focus on what attracts people. Our current choice of words clearly fails at this goal, so we'll consider replacing it.
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