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I hope so. Once I'm done my exam I plan to add a super small lisp interpreter.
I'd play it. If for at least an hour. Looks like you can play it here:

http://pope.jeffsys.net/play.php?g=ppl
While you bring up quite a few valid points, I strongly oppose that "the complexity related to its implementation is immense". These so called complexities has to be weighed against the cost of keeping patching IPv4 networks into still working as functional networks. And that job gets more complex and costlier for every passing day.

With IPv6, most issues you have in IPv4 space would be the solved the instant you enable IPv6. All the hacks goes away. It's a nice, clean network again.

The cost of getting IPv6 capable routers should be negligible as anything worth the money bought the last half decade already supports it. Chances are if you haven't replaced it yet, you will anyway, due to stupendously increased bandwidth requirements we've seen the last years.

I'm not saying it's a free ride, but I'm saying it's a no-brainer. Because keeping patching the rugged IPv4 landscape we have now is not going to stay viable. And then you might as well invest in the proper solution right away instead of wasting money, time and resources on a stop-gap solution.
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> This post should be called "Go 1.1 old broken crypto performance" ;-) If you're designing a new system, there's no sane reason to use MD5, SHA1, or RC4.*

I think your post is being downvoted because it seems to conflate cryptographic primitives with tools that you can use without modification to safely store a password.
As a British taxpayer, if it's legal, I don't see the problem. If our government (i.e. the "tax man") wants to make a deal out of it, perhaps they can get to passing some sane tax laws or just tell the truth and explain these situations have come about primarily due to EU tax regulations we can't get out of (although that would play right into UKIP's hands.. aha!)
But it's not just the profile picture, it's replicating your tweets too, right? That's got to count for something.
A major artery ripped open in her head as she was preparing to go to bed. The blood, now unleaseh, flowed through the brain reaking havoc. She wasn't very old, but she knew this migh happen to her, as it did to her brother and sister. This was why she emailed her daughter every morning, to tell her she was okay. Until that last morning. When we awoke we rushed to her home. A neighbour had already warned the ambulance. He heared her slowly bang on the door in the early hours as he was walking his dog. The police broke had down the door. She couldn't move het legs, or talk. By the time she was rushed to the ER and they had made a scan of the brain she was already slipping in to coma. There was nothing anyone could do anymore. We had to wait until the blood reached the part of the brain that is responsible for your breathing. We waited by her side as she was slowly, very slowly dying. The nurses said "it wouldn't be long now" Her breaths were becoing slower and shallow. After a full day of waiting we watched her face become blue, grey and blue agian. I once read the ability to hear is the last thing to go, so we told her in kind, gentle words it was okay, she could let go, she needn't worry about anything anymore. She could let go... Finally after eight hours of painfully taking short breaths her body gave in. She had passed away... Would a dosis of morphine been a bad thing? I don't know but I would have fucking wanted it if it was me on that bed.
I lived in the Deep South of the U.S. for some time, and witnessed first hand the horror that is a local government run by radicals (in this case, right wing religious nuts).

I'm not an idiot. I recognize Ayn Rand's novel Atlast Shrugged for what it is: fantasian philosophy. However, I read it to understand people influenced by it. One tiny part of then novel kind of explains radicals to me.

Mystics of Spirit: Right Wing Religious nuts who want to force you to suspend reason to placate their moral world-view by modeling all your actions according to their deity, evene if these actions are, in your mind, considered wrong/evil/etc.

Mystics of Muscle: Lefty nuts who want to force you to suspend reason to placate their moral world-view by giving money to others who are quantified by the group as "needing" it the most. "Need" is never straightforward or clear. It is something that, like fashion, shifts over time and often is imagined.

In this case, the "need" is for San Francisco to never change, and for people in houses to never have tall buildings block their view, because........ well, they have no real reason that isn't in some way imposing their unquantifiable need above the very quantifiable problem of too much demand and too little supply.
I don't actually think that's difficult, there's 'commercial' botnets for hire for an X amount of time for this kind of coordinate attack.
I would think that would be an interesting prisoner's dilemma gambit. Get other traders to follow a bad (or better yet: good but sub-optimal) strategy that has a side effect of making one's own strategy better. Of course if every trading trader follow this strategy and expects others to be engaging in it as well, what useful information or strategy will they pursue?
Because I use open source i feels its only fair to give something back.
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This list summarises some of the most important lessons I've learned in life.
One part that's missing here is that a bunch of people following a suboptimal strategy may have the mass to overwhelm those following an optimal strategy (but who don't have enough capital to move prices in their direction)
Unfortunately, you can't just claim that Aspirin (ASS) is safer than Tylenol (Paracetamol).

Among the NSAIDs, aspirin is the strongest anti-coagulant, and the anti-coagulation effect can last for weeks. While small doses of ASS are beneficial for people who are at risk for thrombosis, they significantly raise the risk of eg. brain haemorrage.

You could of course take something like ibuprofen, which affects coagulation less. But all NSAIDs attack your stomach, so after some time you'll have to start taking something like pantoprazol to "protect" your stomach...

AFAIK, paracetamol doesn't affect blood clotting and it doesn't attack your stomach. It's dangerous if you take doses of more than 3 gram per day, and you really shouldn't take it if your liver is failing. Alcohol can also cause severe side effects when taking paracetamol.

There is no "perfect drug". If there was a drug that would only have positive effects on our body, evolution would have made our bodies produce that substance on their own.
I love these articles and seeing alternatives to mainstream solutions but focusing on alternatives for a single company is not the end goal for me. You can go with Apple, Google or Microsoft and get a nice packaged solution for email, calendar, contacts, music, storage, etc and the end goal for me would not be switching to separate packages. The end goal would be to have a self-hosted easy to install and solution, OwnCloud is almost there for 90% of what I want but it doesn't maintain my email. There is no solution for me unless it's easy and all works seamlessly together, like Google and the rest have.
Please follow this advice. I love you; you pay my rent.
Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating
As others pointed out, this medical tourism niche definitely exists and so does dental tourism. Getting a root canal while taking a mexican or thai vacation.
Nearly 20 Years After Windows 95, Microsoft Is Lumbering Toward Cool Again.
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Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' breaks Spotify streaming records, tops iTunes charts
Fidus Writer was recently features on the adobe developers blog

http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2013/04/17/fidus-writer-f...
The way some people seem to see this is "Google contributes merely £6 million to the UK economy", which is obviously not true.

Like individuals, corporations want to pay the least possible tax. If they're paying the legal minimum, what's the problem? If the British people want them to pay more tax, then elect a government which would change the tax law. At the moment, we're electing a government which hisses at corporations to make good headlines.
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You know that the current EU tax regulations have the UK as one of their major backers ?

I'm really sick of always hearing everybody (and the British in particular) blame everything on the EU.
> How is this any different than saying "Avoid the + operator at all costs, because behavior is non-trivial and varies from language to language".

I never ever remotely said that. You are putting words in my mouth and I don't like it. I just rightfully pointed that there actually is a semantic difference between the two mentioned lines. I never implied using any of them was wrong. I didn't even emit a judgement of value on either construct.

Now, I don't have problem per see against the conditional operator. It's just not as simple as some people like to pretend and it makes your code depends on some non obvious and not broadly known language feature for what is usually a minimal gain. So, yes, I do tend to avoid it in anything which is going to end in the hand of others (in the same way I try to avoid any un-obvious language idiom as much as possible). It's like nested comprehensions in Python, the slightly shorter code produced is just not worth the added complexity.
Our Internet privacy is at risk -- but not dead (yet)
It's also possible they have such a low cost basis (remember that it wasn't that long ago when BTC was less than 1 USD) that 30 represents s massive profit
Sounds like someone really wants us to all sign up for BitStamp.

Completely unsubstantiated theory: someone figured out how to compromise BitStamp user accounts, but not enough users yet...
I finished the beta over the weekend, it's very playable (both Mac and PC) despite an unbalanced Oregon Trail-like mechanic that's ancillary to the job-mode (keeping your family alive).

It's incredibly well-polished for a one-man side project, apparently he did all the music, graphics, and writing himself. I think it's a telling sign of how effective he was at making bureaucracy "fun" that gamers are chiming in with how to make the game even more of a video game...though I think that's probably not the author's main intent. Definitely a work of political art, though.
I think it's unfortunate. We had used the service for the Clickbank Powered platform and users loved it. I didn't see much value in the product they pivoted into, but the initial one was superb. Here's to hoping they open source it...
Autistic Workers Can Thrive In High-Tech Jobs
How would they buy on MtGox anonymously?
Is that even possible though? i.e. is there a party that has pledged to change the tax law to eliminate this sort of loophole?
Do you think we as a community should be pushing for a potential rewrite of MRI to get rid of the GIL? I feel as if the GIL is what is limiting true ruby performance.

It also seems like Matz and ruby core team don't really give a shit about performance.

It is very possible to achieve a high level of performance on an interpreted language!!
humor set aside, it may be fun to listen to the music generated by various activities (do the dishes, play tennis, run...)
I love stories like this..

I personally know of a similar story on a smaller scale, where a consulting team was developing custom web solutions for client after client (in the CRM space), and one day decided to turn their product into a SAAS offering instead.

They went from selling 3-4 sites a year to having several hundred clients in about 3 years, and even spinning the SAAS business out into it's own separate company that is now 10x the size of the consulting company (which they still run for other types of custom work).

So it's definitely true that sometimes the pivot is in the approach and not the product.

And isn't that basically the 37 Signals success story also? They took their custom products and turned them into SAAS offerings..
So is this a North Korean-style of preemptive attack, tell everyone when you're going to attack and what you're going to do?
EXACTLY. If you want all the taxes, make laws that exact all the taxes: don't just make laws that exacts some of the taxes, and then whine when people find ways to obey it that don't result in as much revenue as you'd like. Only don't be surprised when people respond to the tax by changing their behavior (possibly by moving their operations outside of your jurisdiction).

Oh, and another thing. Could we begin to assume that when you make money, it's your money first, and that (absent actual lawbreaking) it's not some sort of theft from the Glorious People's Republic if you actually keep it instead of giving it to Fearless Leader and his bureaucracy to distribute? Yeah I know, bridge too far, but a body can dream...
If you're going to break compatibility by changing the fundamental address-size anyway, what does it matter if you future proof it by a factor of 256 or something ginormeous so that we wont have to go down this road again ten years from now?
Go has no way to abort a goroutine so if you tried multiple algorithms you would use total CPU time for all algorithms. Unlike actual threads Go gives no assurance that goroutines are preemptively scheduled, so doing so might take worst case time anyway. Even worse, there is no guarantee that new goroutines run next so doing so could introduce a scheduling delay.

So basically it would be a terrible idea to do this in Go. With C/pthreads it might have some use in some really exceptional case.

These are all reasons of course why goroutines are a bad idea. They should have just used threads, but apparently they wanted to support 32-bit architectures or some archaic OSes where threads have a high unit cost.
Most people seem to flock to the reference implementation of a language rather than alternatives. Which is why most people use CRuby even though JRuby is faster.

Guido should just take it like a man and accept a pull request to merge PyPy's JIT interpreter into CPython.
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Note that you can often get jabber/xmpp from your email provider: e.g. https://www.fastmail.fm/help/features_chat.html
Another analogy: Mechanical watches. There are no good reasons to own them besides just liking them.
Eric Schmidt has defended paying just £6m in UK corporation tax.

If they didn't pay what was required of them legally take them to court. Otherwise STFU, they paid their dues. Change the law if you don't like it
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Documentation generator templates which split the comments and the code help with the scope problem of solution 1. E.g.:

http://reload.github.io/phing-drupal-template/

The trade off being that the vertical spacing of the code is now inconsistent.
NNTR is great! Thank you!
IMO "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" is awful.

My main criticism is that it simply assumes the point it sets out to make (SPOILERS: basically that if you can't die and anything is possible, life would have no meaning). It really doesn't do anything to show why that'd be the case.

It also really fetishises extreme violence and, to a certain extent, incest. (My beef is not with the fact that it involves those things, but with the way that it handles them).

If you're looking for something with similar machine-intelligence, fairly limitless possibilities, and the like, I think Greg Egan's Diaspora is a far superior treatment.
http://www.amazon.com/Diaspora-Greg-Egan/dp/0575082097
Decrease in productivity while multi-tasking has been very well documented in Book 1 of the Wealth of Nations more than 200 years ago. I think every software entrepreneur should read this Book 1.
Did you RTFA? It had nothing to do with personal productivity...
Why People Buy Things
Hey Noel,

Thanks for the kind words - you were one of our earliest adopters, and I'm sorry we couldn't make it work out. There's a few people who have reached out that are interested in the technology, so we'll have to wait and see about open sourcing it.

Best of luck with Happy Tables and give my best to the folks over at ClickBank!
> And isn't that basically the 37 Signals success story also? They took their custom products and turned them into SAAS offerings..

Not quite; they spun out their internal tools into SaaS offerings while doing custom dev.
It's getting to the point where there are so many cool open source projects that I can't keep up. When you add in the currently battle royale of JavaScript projects that are basically just hip sounding words with ".js" added to the end, it's a little overwhelming. Seriously, just pick a word out of the dictionary at random and that's the name of an up and coming JavaScript library.
If Google is complying with the law, and if the public perception is that Google is paying too little taxes, then the public should push for a law change.

It is not Google's task to pay taxes. Google's task is to comply with the law. Without putting itself at a disadvantage compared to their competitors.

Obviously, since we are talking about international issues here, there must be some kind of international agreement for changes in the law to have any kind of effect. But, as we have seen in recent cases regarding european fiscal matters, (or banking regulation, or executive pay, or, or ...) Britain opposes any kind of agreements in international taxation issues.
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The artwork of the book cover and your dynamic background looks like it was 'inspired' by Fez.
"If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood."

Someone please put this in the fortune file for all eternity. It describes my life as a scholar, and the life of every professor I've ever known.
I'm really torn by articles like this.

On the one hand Google benifits massively from our education, university, health and infrastructure spending. All of which is paid for through taxation and all of which isn't perfect and more money would help.

On the other hand, Google employs a lot of people and pays them well, it sponsers a lot of community efforts and just having their knowledge pool in the UK should spin off a number of projects employing more etc. They bring a lot to the table.

My gut feeling is that the UK is at a net loss but things like this are very hard to quantify and I would not like google to leave the UK even though I'd personally never work there.
Any thoughs on this? Since this is my first release of this kind, feedback of any kind would be very valuable to me.

Thank you all in advance :)
Improving success and productivity using Right Inbox as a (college) student
has anyone had success with an html5 game on ios? it seems viable for android (v8 yay!), but i haven't been satisfied at all with javascript performance on iOS. maybe for something that's turn-based and doesn't require slick transitions?

(edit: this sounds a little negative... what i mean is, pointing to a really slick html5 game on the app store would make selling the book a lot easier)
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Usability is the new “spec”
Not color, but format. Some newspapers will format a comic with two rows of panels, whereas another newspaper will format it with three narrower rows, etc. So the syndicates wanted comics with panel divisions that allowed that reformatting, whereas Watterson wanted to simply have his block of space to do whatever he wanted with.

He ended up winning that battle. But to hear him tell the tale (IIRC in the 10th anniversary collection), while it opened up creative possibilities, the toll it took on his psyche probably helped ensure the relative brevity of his career.
My worry, though, is how do you know you're reaching a local maxima? What's the tip off that the slow-going is a sign that you need to change directions and not just work harder?
It's not a rumor, SpaceX has stated publicly that they're working on LOX/Methane engines. There are two big reasons for this. On the one hand, it's just a good idea, liquid methane is a pretty decent compromise between LH2 and kerosene in terms of Isp vs. density (both of which affect overall stage performance) and since LCH4 exists at a similar temperature to LOX it doesn't add any exceptional problems into vehicle design or operations the way LH2 does. But perhaps more profoundly, methane is actually shockingly easy to manufacture on Mars with a very small amount of industrial equipment (we're talking about mere kilograms, provided there's sufficient power available). So the development of methane fueled rockets is also very much a way to build the systems and technology necessary for facilitating exploration and colonization of Mars.
or just unusally longer twinks
Yeah, this was my thought process too (although I do use an iPhone unfortunately). The only point I'd add is that it seems unlikely that Google will move to be more open and more privacy conscious; any change seems likely to go the other direction (for obvious and understandable business purposes, not, as you said, maliciousness).
Many things inspired me during the process - but yes, I won't deny that there is also a little bit of "Fez" in there :)
While I understand the spirit of this proposal, I vehemently oppose it.

In social interactions you DO NOT tell the recipient how to answer. You are talking to another sentient being, not a computer. VSRE comes across as an imperative, which is simply not work well for healthy communication. It basically tells the recipient (or recipients) reply my way or the highway.

It also depends on the question or how it was understood. With VSRE you are working under the assumption that your phraseology and verbiage is flawless and universally understood. Specially in a field such software development with tons of people from a ton of different cultures, VSRE will invariably cause more harm than good.

In fact, you could even suggest to your recipient, in a more amicable way to answer briefly.

VSRE, in my opinion, is the antithesis of what communication and technology should be about.
Shouldn't everyone pay their fair share? Google is using public resources but then shifting profits around to other countries that have a 0% effective corporate tax rate through shady accounting practices and just falling behind the defense that "This is how all multinational companies do their taxes." What happened to "Don't be evil"? Just because something is legal doesn't make it right.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/03/15/what-money-...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-10/google-revenues-she...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/google-tax-dodge_n_...
Gun rights vs. public safety
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Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You
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Hey Cameron, it's sad to see Kera shut down, there were some really neat ideas in there. On the other hand, I'm pleased to see that you guys have seen an idea through until it either succeeded or failed. There are too many long-running projects in Toronto, ideas on never ending life support, never allowed to succeed nor fail, kept alive by either consulting or government support. I think if we took bigger risks and cycled through a variety of ideas faster (even if they fail fast), we might have a better chance at attracting more money to this city. Getting clueful investors here is very difficult, as I'm sure you have learned.

I would love to see you guys write more about your story. Good luck with your next idea.
You are probably right! Good point, I should probably add that to the page.

There are some CocoonJS games in the store, you can see some here: http://ludei.com/games
CocoonJS will give your HTML5 game native performane.