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If strategy A is buying lottery tickets at $5 and strategy B is buying the lottery tickets at $10, A is twice as good off. It doesn't matter that the earnings are dominated by one single winning lottery ticket; strategy A is always twice as good as strategy B. So getting terms that are twice as good for a VC will double their expected earnings.

Sure, if you just consider the winning ticket, it doesn't matter whether you are paying $5 or $10 for it. The thing is that you don't know whats the winning ticket, and it does matter whether you are paying $5 or $10 for each.
OK, so they have a bigger pool of investments to choose from if that pool includes founders who would reject lousy terms. I get that, but it doesn't change the math. VCs can still only invest in so many companies. Perhaps having a 50% larger pool allows them to raise the bar slightly on who they fund, but the difference that makes is still proportional to how well they can pick winners in the first place. That's probably a smaller effect than many other biases to which they're prone, and far smaller than the difference in what they get out of each deal based on the terms. Many small wins or few big ones, "2x is 2x" still seems like the guiding principle for a firm operating alone.

The argument that really seems worth considering, but which wasn't made, is that firms do not operate alone. Offering better terms is a competitive advantage vs. other firms who might vie to fund the same opportunities. Even minor changes such as paying one's own legal bills seem to generate substantial goodwill among entrepreneurs. When there are multiple firms involved, friendlier terms might be good strategy. That still does nothing for founders who struggle to find funding on any terms, though. Cases like those you cite are the exceptions; it's still "race to the bottom" in the common case.
Isnt that just fighting fire with fire?

The government, banks, big business, whatever pull out all the stops to manipulate "us" to force their view of the world. So, if the opposition are bland and straight up factual, the opposing view will not have the same impact.

I think of the political scare and hate ads that I (as a non US citizen) associate with US right wing politics, and that the US left (still right from a UK perspective) don't seem to do that, so lose out in the attention seeking stakes. People react to fear. Scare them and they will react. Sort of like with terrorists and how gov uses that fear to implement draconian policies.

But, when the non right, non business, non government, non banking people over do the emotive stuff, they get criticised. But I think they, sadly, have to play that game to compete in the information and ideas competition. You need to scream, manipulate, and scare to get heard.

Its awful, horrible and not what I want at all, but I dont see any other way. If this article makes people think, better still act, or at least wake up, then its done its job, IMHO.
PPCoin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPCoin
Another alternative not previously mentioned is MakeDoc by Carl Sassenrath (of AmigaOS & Rebol fame) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MakeDoc
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Android has peaked? It has 1.5 million activations per day now, from 1.3 million a few months ago. And iPhone's market share dropped from 20% to 17% globally. Android's potential for growth is so much bigger globally than iPhone's.
Using infix -> doesn't break homoiconicity. The program is still encoded as sexprs.
My bad, didn't know this did as well!
Often this just a matter of brand labels being slapped on whatever goods are available or manufacturable locally. The brand gets to enter a new market for cheap and the manufacturer gets to sell for a higher price without changing the product. The consumer gets...disappointed.
I did one for PHP a while back.

Not perfect, but here's the project: https://github.com/oneblackbear/phrocco

And here's an example: http://media.oneblackbear.com.s3.amazonaws.com/WaxUrl.html
The big reason to use something like Elixir, Erlang, or of course Node.js or other things of that ilk is if you're using a lot of web sockets, streaming, or that kind of thing. With Rails, a connection that stays open is (unless they've changed it recently) going to hog a whole Rails process, which is a lot of resources to tie up.

A secondary reason might be if you're doing pretty much everything in Javascript on the front end, a lighter server process is probably going to work out better in terms of resource usage. Myself, I'd probably still opt for Rails while developing, just because it's so fast to get something up and running with, and you're going to need to do stuff like authentication server side anyway.

If you want something that's vaguely familiar, you might have a look at Chicago Boss. It doesn't do as much as Rails, but it's fairly easy to get up and running, and the guy who built it is very friendly and helpful: http://www.chicagoboss.org/
Keeping it away from children was probably still a good idea. Little children have a penchant for putting things in their mouths.
The getting started (http://elixir-lang.org/getting_started/1.html) guide is pretty good I think and will take you quite a ways in. Elixir does not yet have the mature frameworks and libraries to compete with Ruby for developing web applications though it could be a pretty good choice for developing APIs. Today the main advantage is if you want the functionality of Erlang/OTP with more powerful support for meta-programming to cut down on boilerplate and polymorphism.
I don't think that Google has done a good job of explaining what it does. As of right now, it just seems like a second screen for my phone. My reaction to it reminds me of the reaction to the iPad, but in reverse -- the tech-minded folk were confused while the average joe was excited.

I do think it is cool tech and probably the next logical step in personal computing, I'm just at the wait-and-see stage. Mainly waiting to see if there will be competition and what everyone will do with it.
Can anyone recommend some good materials (books/articles/tutorials) about a new language implementation for Erlang VM?
I was surprised at how low quality the photos taken by Glass are. Is that the planned camera for rollout?
When it comes to discussing legislation being voted on in a countries legislative body, will you be asking, "And how many laws have you voted on?"
Virtualization removed much of the appeal of running a small, power-efficient physical server. If you want a low-powered server, you just take a slice of a much bigger one. And if you don't need to run it 24/7, you can simply stop it and "spin it up" later.
It seems like it would mess with macros, because you'd now need to parse the sexpr to make sure it isn't a ->. And what is the point of homoiconicity if you cannot easily rewrite any given expression? I dunno, it strikes me as odd, but there's also a high chance I'm missing something important about ->'s.
As I get older, I realize that the functional/imperative debate is far from over. To say that functional code is "more intuitive" is not only off the point but, I would argue, wrong.

Here's a reddit post I wrote about it a few months ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/14hhwa/program_...

Imperative code is much more intuitive in the small. That's why we lose when we make side-by-side code snippets of small toy programs and call it a case for FP. The 25-line imperative method is often more intuitive than the highly-dense 6-line functional one. The problem is that imperative code composes very poorly.
One Christmas we had some Hershey's Kisses from both the US and Canada. Both tasted different. It's been a while, so I don't remember which I preferred or what the taste difference was (i.e. if one was sweeter than the other).
Like most things the Ada Initiative does, this makes no sense once you scratch past the surface.

Even if women risk more criticism as newbies, the risk still exists for everyone, and solving it for part of the group only is discrimination.

If Github really cared about intimidation, they would offer a free private repo to new users as a promo, or perhaps have a $1/month micro plan. Instead they accept a small minority of users for free who wouldn't have paid anyway and score good will PR points.

And if the Ada Initiative cared about making women a part of the community, then they would recognize that those women will want to collaborate in private with men too, who should be given the same opportunity to experiment in private.

Modern feminists are the biggest sexists around, they keep acting like women can't compete with men on equal ground, even in a place as anonymous as the internet.

Have you ever noticed how the people complaining the loudest about online abuse are always the ones with the biggest pictures of themselves on their blogs? Featuring their lovely blue hair, tattoos, piercings, shot in their Pinterest-approved bedrooms? It's princesses all over again, and most women can see through the bullshit too.
Bingo; I already have, after trying to convince the author to at minimum make the license short enough to be less ambiguous. He's absolutely sure it's not a problem no matter how many people tell him it is.

This could also be a factor in the BODOL author's dismissal.
Worst. Petition. Ever.

Rather than a hysterical (and frankly, ridiculous) demand for an explanation, why not simply ask that the US follow the lead of the UK government which has mandated a preference for open source software.
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He/she is a great writer. Good advice too.

Break big tasks down into small ones, practice and train for each small task and then when the big tests (or the challenges of life) come you'll be prepared.

Learning how to study will help you learn how to live and deal with life in general.
Probably the best thing is to look at the existing ones: Elixir, and maybe Reia, although I think that effort has stopped.

I get the impression that the underlying VM is fairly Erlang specific, so that it's going to be difficult to do a language that doesn't come out looking at least something like Erlang, but I've never looked closely.
Without damaging anything? Do you mean lock picking? Or you live in a neighbourhood where people leave their doors open?
Your post pretty much summarizes my life concisely but I am still struggling to get the exercise part down. I'll be looking forward to see what you churn out!
1)
BNF [0] is a notation [1] for formally defining languages [2], e.g. the syntax [3] of programming languages like C [4] or Java [5], or in this case, the IRC protocol. Every BNF definition is a bunch of strings. BNF is not a data model [6][7], a serialization format or a language for representing IRC messages (as XML is for XMPP). You are correct in that IRC is a much simpler protocol than IRC, though.

2)
There is no difference between commands and messages in IRC, because to send a message, the command PRIVMSG [8] is invoked:

JOIN #channel
NAMES #channel
PRIVMSG #channel :Hello interwebs!

The fact that commands in IRC clients begin with a slash is a UI convention, and unrelated to the protocol.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_notation

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_(programming_languages)

[4] http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~gupta/teaching/cs4850/sumII06/The%2...

[5] http://www.cs.au.dk/~stm/RegAut/JavaBNF.html

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_data_type

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure

[8] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1459.html#section-4.4
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It sounds like pressure to give an answer very quickly. Just answer it later!
I can't believe that this was from CNN. I think I would have expected a more thorough analysis. That graph in particular is hilarious, starting at 2013 and going forward. The theory also that "since Apple users have stayed with Apple all these years, that they will do so forever" is fundamentally flawed. Just look at what happened to the Blackberry in the past (and Palm and Winmo6 before that). I suppose there hasn't been a compelling reason to switch from iOS in the past, but that is changing fast. Apple hasn't released anything really special in the last iteration, and they need to really scramble to keep up with the Galaxy line.
In the long run there is probably room for even more than two crypto-currencies, as long as each of them is unique enough to have its own set of advantages and disadvantages.

Litecoin however is merely a fork of Bitcoin with changes to a few trivial properties, I can't imagine it ever gaining as much traction as Bitcoin itself.
Well it doesn't exactly rely on a central exchange. Unless you're trying to day trade with Bitcoins you don't need to trust a central authority for very long with your Bitcoins. Due to the small size of Bitcoin a popular exchange is attractive but it's not like everyone can't switch to Bitfloor if MtGox closes today.
Upvoted for solid analogy. No idea whether it is true or not.
Focus on "compromise", splendid or not. Shen is less functional than Clojure; the author has absolutely no interest in making SMP systems sing, last time I checked he's going down the actor message passing route.

You could create a more functional version as long as it had a switch or default to the normal behavior and it was blessed by the powers that be (see comments on license), but you'd be "fighting the system" and all that.
I agree, I don't think it's crazy to think of them selling this at a $200 price point. They've shown time and again that hardware is just a way for them to spread their software, and this is just an extension of that philosophy.

As for the author's point about google moving away from advertising, he's nuts. I think google realized that advertising in this setting would be way too intrusive at the get go, but I'm sure they'll work it in over time.
Time to start hoarding.
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This is a bad idea. Makes bitcoins seem less legitimate as a form of currency.

Also as far as I can tell this only helps out people mining coins, which is not at all the purpose of these currencies.
It doesn't really matter. A phisher could write an entirely different message with a link in it just as easily.
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Apple has reminded everyone in tech, that there are better routes to mountains of profit than "free" products. When the Scoble's of the world are willing to drop 2000+ dollars (including cost of phone) for the ability to take a picture faster, or more likely, just to look cool to friends, then why not.
Who wants to be hostage to advertisers anyway? That unpleasant road, just involves turning all your users into controllable lab rats.
If Google is trying to make a shift, I say high time and all the best.
I work a private university, and I somehow doubt a private one is remarkably better in terms of politicking.
Even though MOBAs are inherent breeding grounds for trolls due to the captive nature of the game, Riot has done themselves (and everyone else) no favors in how they've dealt with things. For a game that was released in 2009 they've done an astonishingly bad job at working from the start to prevent things that _anyone_ who had played multiplayer games in the past 10 years could've predicted.

Even now they seem more interested in allowing and studying the behavior than preventing it. Combine that with their poor-to-completely-dysfunctional matchmaking and the total lack of incentive to even play when your next 20-60 minutes are held hostage by a troll (whether it's on your team, the enemy team intentionally provoking things since forcing opponents to rage or afk is a valid "strategy", or both) and it's hard to take them seriously on toxic players.
Errm, from the Readme:

"What's with those non-ASCII characters?

If you're discouraged by the curious absence of λ and ƒ on your keyboard, you can substitute Clojure's fn and defn or Common Lisp's lambda and defun respectively."

ADDED: Lambda and the define function sugar are so fundamental to Lisps and commonly used that I see little harm in allowing substitution with single special characters.
Nutritionist Criticizes Bacon as Dangerous and Unhealthy while praising Gluten as a staple food.

Honestly, he could have accepted that he doesn't know anything about Soylent because nobody really does.

After doing keto, all nutritionists seem untrustworthy Monsanto slaves to me now.
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If someone is looking for fast, free group chat for your team, I cannot recommend Partychat[0] enough. It has a hubot adapter, which allows you to do cool stuff using a bot which you can program.
Please avoid reddit-style extremism.

OP said: "They should .."

Emphasis on the "SHOULD". He didn't say "nothing but breast milk, and I don't give a damn if the babies die"

Creating a straw man for your someone signifies only one thing. Your bias, extremism, and inability to treat your "opponent" as human.
On Linux, I prefer the MPD/ncmpc for music. I love the idea of decoupling the player and the interface.

On Windows, it's Foobar2000 all the way.
I feel like I could have written this post myself. Patterns like this are also something I've notice in my life but have yet to get a handle on them. There is like a catch 22 with exercise. You skip exercise so that makes you feel tired or lazy. That laziness makes it even harder to get back into the exercise phase. Rinse. Repeat until you pretty much give up.

The most productive times in my life were when I was lifting 4-5 days a week and able to run 2-5 miles every other day or so. There is something about exercise (serotonin release?) that offset much of the natural imbalances I have. The problems seem to start when I let outside influences get in the way. Working late one night, wifey telling me we nee to get something done around the house, family commitments, etc. All of these lead to a downward spiral.

I don't know why I'm typing a wall of text. I guess I just want you to know that this is something very interesting to me and I can't wait to see what you come up with.
Contact with lead leaves it on your skin, and people tend to pick up food with their fingers. It was always mentioned to me at school to wash my hands after handeling solder (which is tin + lead), and I assumed that the same would apply here. Without doing any more research into the stuff, I would much rather just spend a few more dollars and get one that is not going to poison me.
you remember the geiss plugin? awesome memories!
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What you say logically makes sense, but I still don't believe it.
Not my experience at all, having hitchhiked quite a bit in Europe and the US. Same with my friends, some of them female.
This is pure speculation, but maybe these "homeless wanderers" we're too easily spotted as potential victims? If you are young, fit, smart and confident the risk of hitchhiking is totally, OK in my opinion.
What I also like about hitchhiking these days, is that there a few hitchhikers but many car drivers who hitchhiked when they were young. People like to give back :-)
The main reason I prefer car-boards, trains or planes these days, is that its faster and much easier to predict when you will arrive. I have more money and less time. But if it was hitching or not travelling at all, I would choose the former.
I've had no problem with gapless playback on moc, cmus, and mpd. Or are you talking mainly about GUI players?
> Matt Taibbi is not a reliable reporter

That is 100% your opinion. I have read more than a couple of his articles and they are very, very well put together. He is an excellent journalist and one of the few who is willing to cover all the corruption going on within our financial system.
What's the OP is talking about is commonly called a 'pepper'. Some fixed secret in your application code that impacts the generated hash.

Since salts are random, and unique per password, you shouldn't be storing them in a config file.
If you like logstalgia, you'll love gource[1] which visualises source control change history. It's also available as a brew recipe on the Mac for easy-peasy install.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/gource/
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Agreed - when there is a comment for every line (or so it seems), it's a bit of comment overload, especially when looking at docco output.
This is why all of my friends that I talk to don't even want to try anymore. We've watched this happen for so many years and it just feels hopeless... what can we even do anymore? Banking cartels are just gonna keep doing whatever they want because no DA or law enforcement official will stand up to them.
1) Where is the language documentation? The "Docs" section only seems to address the libraries. Libraries are uninteresting if you're designing a new language.

2) How does Elixir address the problems that Javascript-style metaprogramming (i.e. first-class definitions) cause for automatic program analysis? Erlang has some great analysis tools (e.g. Dialyzer) precisely because it's simple.

3) How is Elixir's first-class definition approach more useful than multi-stage programming (such as MetaOCaml: http://www.metaocaml.org/), principled syntax extension (such as CamlP4: http://pauillac.inria.fr/camlp4/), or second-class higher-order modules (such as OCaml's functors), each of which are inherently more amenable to automatic analysis?

4) Almost every "old" computer language has slowly moved away from unprincipled metaprogramming precisely because it's difficult to reason about, for both humans and computers. (C, JavaScript, and Python, to name a few, all have unprincipled metaprogramming facilities, which have been, over time, relegated to specific use patterns to maintain coder sanity.) What do we hope to gain from a new language whose raison d'être is based on this feature?

(P.S. All these points seem to apply equally well to Joe Armstrong's "erl2".)
Not to mention, with faster (easier) confirmations you need more of them to form the same cumulative proof of work. If anything, Litecoin is magnitudes weaker due to the slower hashrate compared with Bitcoin.
escaping makes parsing too complex. i'd rather just be forced to use %29, which is the closing parenthesis URL encoded.
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Let's say you started a company and named it after a technical concept from computer science (for example a higher order function that computes the fixed point of other functions in lambda calculus) would that be an example of this signalling?
Is breastmilk generally better than formula? Yes.

However this is not a black-and-white issue, particularly in the Developing World. Some mothers cannot produce sufficient breastmilk for their offspring. Others cannot always be available to feed their offspring (and a care giver must do so) - as they must work to feed and shelter their children.

There are many and varied reasons why formula is actively needed to better, and even save the lives of children.
What are you struggling with in terms of exercise, if you don't mind me asking? I had a lot of trouble getting into an exercise routine until recently, so I might have some tips, but different people struggle with different things.
You could get a job in a foreign country. Depends on your situation but for many programmers this is not a difficult option these days. Then you could make money while traveling instead of spending money.
Imperative code looks like imperative code. Most Haskell code isn't though.

Also, a 5 layer transformer stack is typically wrapped in a newtype, so it looks like an ordinary monad with the operations you need.
Isn't everyone like that? (either that or I suffer from exactly the same problem.)