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Not sure what being a static language has to do with having a REPL. Haskell and OCaml are static languages, and they both have REPLs. Scala too.

Also, if Java had just gotten a REPL, I can see someone saying "If this would have come 15 years ago then maybe I would have been excited."

I can't speak for dev360, but the way I read his comment makes me think that what he meant is that he's moved on to other languages at this point, so C# finally getting a REPL isn't really that interesting anymore.
After the large discussion about .io being delegated as a gccTLD by google[1], and the subsequent purchase of every single two letter (as in, a-z) .io domain[2], I figured I would put together a list of all free two character .io domains of the form f4.io. The linked list contains all free domains of the form [a-z][0-9].io (as of posting, of course). Enjoy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5661993

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5663755
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> While none of the criticisms are necessarily false, it seems bizarre to me that the only way people would use C# is if it came in first in every single category.

It seems like a leap to say that they expect C# to come first in every single category. From the categories you've listed, it doesn't come in first in any of them.
He's alluding to frame buffers.
Events did not play out as straight forward as you describe them. If your only source is the 6 o'clock news then yes that really is what you believe. But if you had followed the conflict closely and relied on a variety of independent sources you would have a much different picture.
Exactly. Using the best tool for the job.
He's referring to the utility of immutable data for solving certain parallelism issues - rather than attempt to coordinate all the code that uses a data structure, you can double-buffer it and queue up the write events for the "next frame" instance.

This is a hugely successful pattern throughout a number of aspects of gaming, graphics being one of the most classic examples. Double-buffered graphics don't suffer as much from tearing and other display artifacts.
The reason Enterprise Software sucks is customization. Customization makes it expensive, harder to test and impossible to upgrade.

However - Customization is what every Enterprise asks for. Sometimes they need it, sometimes they don't. Customers and vendors are notoriously bad at picking the difference.

SaaS offerings tends to be militantly "vanilla" with no customization. Customization kills the margin for SaaS vendors. Whatever you think of Salesforce in terms of their tech and approach -- this is the area where they excel.

You can blame the "Enterprise" as much as you like, but these are structural issues.
By putting it in aperture priority mode, you can let the camera choose the optimum shutter speed while guaranteeing that the aperture stays at what you set (presumably the highest - f/1.8)

In order to make sure the shutter speed the camera selects for you isn't too slow and causes blurriness, boost up your ISO to as high a value as acceptable (acceptable is subjective here).
This is good to know. I've just started using it with redis.

I never really saw the point of that part of celery anyway. Cron's perfectly adequate on its own (and installed just about everywhere).
>>Right, so they'd rather have companies incorporating in other countries for the sole purpose of being able to collect money from their customers! Seems legit.

Software companies != Entire Indian economy. Software is relatively recent and accounts for a little part to move economic conditions of larger Indian masses.

Also at a time when every one is coming to India to set up shops here, no one is going to move out. That was a good Idea probably in the 1980's. Not any more.

Given say 20 years of future from now. The Indian market has more room to grow that the US. I would even go to extent to say, any one who is moving out of India now is making a very big mistake.
Can't get enough? For even more fun visit http://www.holylandexperience.com.

I know, it doesn't seem that bad at first. But. Imagine finding yourself here as a 10 year old and realizing suddenly that Disney World is less than 15 miles away and you're here. dayum.
This is so useful. Will it be free indefinitely?
Check out Share/Tweet options under "Share" on the graphing toolbar. Here's a log-log graph my colleague shared, for example: https://plot.ly/~alex/13/
Or even better, a PBKDF2/bcrypt/scrypt certification.

Something like "Site X has been verified to to be using per-user salts using scrypt at 200ms and 1MB memory."
> I merely said, in a lot more words, that competitiveness should not be the BE ALL END ALL factor in considering regulation.

Who was making that point?

> Moreover, I said that this kind of "competitiveness" while great for the company that benefits from it, it's not that great for the country that hosts the company and its general population, and it can be a race to the bottom.

How do you know? Would countries that employ child labor be slingshotted into the first-world because they adopted effective regulations? I speculate they'd be unemployed and go hungry.

> It means that the "benefits of a globalised economy" are mainly for company owners, moguls, managers, golden boys and the like, and more often praised than seen in reality.

Again, how do you know? Did Michael Moore tell you?

> Samsung (or Apple) can make billions in the US market, but that doesn't mean you get to add those to the GDP and be happy about it.

What? How does Apple not affect the GDP? What aren't you happy about?
That's actually pretty funny.

If there were owners of VH's IP who were opposed to this kind of casual use, I'd have no problem using a different handle. Unless the name is also generic French name, I'm not sure if it is or not.
>It seems like a leap to say that they expect C# to come first in every single category. From the categories you've listed, it doesn't come in first in any of them.

No, but I'd argue it comes close to second in each category. If you were choosing whether or not to use Python or C#, why on earth would it matter that C# lacked the OOP abilities of Smalltalk and the functional capabilities of Haskell.

To me, it doesn't make sense to compare one language to four other languages. It certainly feels as though C# is held to a different standard than other languages.
I had the exact same experience. I just moved back to the DC area and I've been hearing about him again.
While this philosophy is what sustains the entrepreneurial spirit, I think most people get int the game because they got an itch to scratch.
What I'm saying is, try writing some valid, compilable C#2-era code in a REPL and see what a good experience it is.

Saying 'haskell and ocaml are static and they have REPLs' is totally missing the point; the way you write code and express types in those languages is different. C# is one of those 'fully formed type with methods' languages, where you have to define an entire type and its members up front. Not particularly REPL-friendly, especially in 2.0.

Now, with the newer features added in C#4 and later versions of the language, it's possible to actually use it in a REPL because you can create instances of anonymous types and write lambdas with result/argument type inference and variables with inferred types, and you can define classes in multiple stages ('partial' classes).

A Java REPL would have all these same problems, even now. (Or did lambdas ship?)
ScriptCS implementation of a C# REPL is just perfection! Extremely excited to see how ScriptCS continues to progress and improve! I see improvements in the project every day!
UX: The user is drunk [video]
I am fairly fluent with django class based views and tastypie, but i can't help but feel this sort of OO design has a painful learning curve. you basically need to dig through the stack of classes, mixins, etc pretty comprehensively to get a sense of how everything fits together. once you understand the flow, it's fine. But I find myself wishing there was a map (and one embodied in the code, not external documentation). Does anyone recognize this feeling and if so do you have any thoughts?
Isn't IPython essentially RStudio for Python? I'm greatly enamored of IPython Notebook's general approach to organizing data analysis (see http://ipython.org/notebook.html), although 1) it currently lacks interactive plotting tools and 2) I think it's targeted toward a more technical audience than this.
Haskell/ML families bear only the slightest similarity to C#. Saying 'Haskell has a REPL, so why doesn't C#' is like saying 'C and GLSL both have structs, so why doesn't C run on my GPU?'*

Furthermore, like I said in another comment, a C# REPL in that era would have been nearly unusable. The language is not designed for incremental authoring or compilation.

* CUDA notwithstanding
I love these graphs with no scale on the y-axis.
The only ethical action is to ignore copyright. Publish under CC0/public-domain. Share with your family, with your friends, with everyone. Download to your hearts content.

There is no copyright.
Is this a thing? I've found myself falling asleep around 10PM (when i normally sleep around 3AM) and waking up about 4 hours later and staying awake for hours on end. I can eventually go back to sleep around 5AM but then i feel like shit for the rest of the day. Now i make a conscious effort to not sleep too early.
Android app for Keto diet
Ah yes, Harvard: bastion of political correctness that excoriated Larry Summers. I hope Professor Ferguson gets better treatment than President Summers got.
The words are similar because these are some of the first sounds babies learn to make.
This looks great so far. I'd remove the drop shadows on the zoom box, and remove the context menu. If you click and drag a box, it should automatically zoom in, and reset zoom when you double click (as it currently does), with zoom out as a separate tool or shortcut.
Your broader point is a good one, but my understanding (though IANAL) is that while copyright does protect the expression of an idea rather than the idea itself, exactly where to draw the line is a bit of a fuzzy area (see "substantial similarity"[1]). It's not just a work exactly as it was expressed - a written work might infringe even with different names and wording. One test that has been proposed is if "the ordinary observer, unless he set out to detect the disparities, would be disposed to overlook them, and regard [the] aesthetic appeal [of the two works] as the same". On the other hand scenes that are required by the genre generally aren't protected even if they're copied pretty closely (according to scène à faire doctrine[2]).

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

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc%C3%A8nes_%C3%A0_faire
I pay taxes, too.

In an ideal society, I wouldn't be opposed to those seeking copyright enforcement paying the costs, although the costs would presumably eventually be passed on to the infringers. We will never see such a society in our lifetimes, though, so it's a somewhat moot point.
Returning to PHP land afterwards feels like you're taping your code together with duct tape and bits of string.
I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?
I've also had a few interesting discussions. One was also with a cashier, who I discovered had graduated from my alma mater with a degree in geological engineering. She was now working on poetry and other writing and she seemed genuinely happy with what she was doing. More power to her.

Another was when I visited New York for the marathon. Ran into another fellow at the airport who recognized I was from Canada because of my MEC backpack. I then noticed he had on a ring and turned out he was a professor who had once taught at my alma mater.
Only google drive and dropbox so far. Just curious, why not dropbox?
Ancient Earth crust stored in deep mantle
linqpad is great. scriptcs is more than a REPL, it provides an end to end experience for authoring full apps as C# script.
WinX HD Video Convertor Software Review Neat 
Here is a short review of the software WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe I love it:
This video software enables you to convert between all mainstream video formats, including High Definition video MKV, M2TS, MTS, AVCHD, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and regular video AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MOV, FLV, RM, RMVB, WebM, Google TV, etc. Moreover, it features unique technology to support Multi-track HD videos available in BDAV, M2TS, MKV, AVCHD, HDTV and MPEG-TS formats. Thus, without a second thought about format compatibility, you can play your videos with all Windows media players, Surface Tab, iPhone/5/4S, iPad/3/Mini, iPod/5, PSP, Android and DV.
That's probably a reasonable description for why most macroeconomists don't work on these models and wouldn't advise a student to start working on them, but if the models were giving new insights or understanding, people would pay attention.
I was thinking about developing something similar, nice work! an extension of this idea to 3D plots using WebGL would be awesome. I'd love to have more interactive plotting features for presenting scientific results on the web.
Wow, I feel old! I remember stumbling upon this site back in the day when I was getting educated about CSS and separation of presentation from content.

It was a great inspiration and led to much self-improvement and learning. Some good times, for sure. OTOH, I don't miss IE6 and box-model hacks one bit.
Buy into weakness | Sell into strength. Hello profit.
If there are some people who are considered "un-hire-able" by most existing companies due to what the internet says about them, why doesn't a new startup just break the taboo and hire them?

If too few startups want to take on the risk, why don't the un-hire-able create their own businesses and work for each other?

Why don't we give capitalism a chance to solve the problem before we jump into regulatory solutions?
I was trying to remember where I'd seen that and just couldn't put my finger on it. And there it is! thanks.
For me, this is a book that did not age well. After having loved it as a youngster, I recently picked it back up. Perhaps my perception has been tainted by Card's sad slide toward wacky politics: http://www.salon.com/2013/03/07/end_game_for_orson_scott_car...
I'd go further than that: most books probably go out of print after a single run, and will be unavailable within a single year.

Remember that when you go into a big chain bookstore, all the books you are seeing have already outperformed most by getting shelved by a major retailer.
If you have any questions you would like added, please email info@drivingtests101.com.

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Riak, Protocol Buffer Encoding, and You
No, but I would like to hastily assure you that it is solely because I am a coward when it comes to NDA issues.
So the trick here is to intercept the request to cloudfront. The URLs seem to be one-time usable (with a nonce?) so you can't just curl the file ("AccessDenied").

I thought you might be able to extract the file from the HAR file but it doesn't contain the audio/mpeg data.
I'm a big big supporter of this. I had one thought [1] I wanted to add to the excellent linked article.

I'm not sure if my thought is obvious or insightful, but I like it. I try to write all my new general/reusable code as pure functions whenever possible (which is almost always).

[1] https://twitter.com/shurcooL/status/327249579189870592
Do a lot of other objects read the "front" frame buffer besides the video output?
How so? Isn't a double spend only possible if the attacker's blockchain fork endures for the customary 6 blocks it takes to confirm a transaction? A single block fork would be ignored by the majority chain and thus the attacker's chain transactions would be useless.
No, you don't. There are certain conditions which the states have to meet before they can start requiring collection. One of which is to certify one or more service providers which can be used to determine the appropriate sales tax to be collected. Currently 24 states have already certified 6 service providers including one free one. It is expected that most states will certify one or more of the existing 6 providers. If you use a certified service provider to determine the tax to be collected and the service provider makes an error you are indemnified from liability. Many e-commerce platforms already have integration with these providers. Besides determining the tax rate the providers can provide reporting regarding taxes collected and automatically file your tax returns to the states. For more info regarding the law go to http://www.marketplacefairness.org/
Awesome, Thanks for the feedback. Seems HN has consensus on this one.
We're working on the same approach at FastCompany--we've already started loading all our Labs posts into github, and soon we'll allow readers to fork articles to correct them, argue with them, edit or create their own versions. Github obviously wasn't meant for dealing with rich text articles, so it's taking some hacking, but we agree that it's a positive experiment. --chris dannen, tech editor, fastcompany
As an amateur photographer who dabbles primarily with black and white film in my bathroom... I resent that!
I just realized I have been doing web development for at least 10 years.
"Thou" is recently deceased, and while it hasn't been thoroughly documented, it's as likely as not due to a combination of the over-extension of the polite form of address and the use in early English typography of the "y" from Latinate typefaces for the thorn character. ("Ye" of "ye olde" is an alternate spelling of "the", and not related to the second person plural subject pronoun "ye".)

The polite plural is common enough in European languages; there are French dialects (in Canada, at least) where a good rule of thumb is "don't use tu unless you're sleeping with that person or are their parent". With the second person singular restricted to intimate use, it's not hard to imagine it falling away.
Jason and the Argonauts: Battle with the Skeleton Army https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXmRuJByoVs
Enterprise software does not put a huge priority on attractive graphics and "discoverable" functionality, because people who use it very often tend to perform the same transactions over and over and over. Efficiency in this use case is far more important than e.g. something like HipMunk where someone who's never seen it before should be able to figure it out without any help.

I was recently at my insurance agent's office updating my automobile insurance coverage. The agent worked on a mainframe character mode interface and could absolutely BLAZE through the various options and quote different insurance options instantly. No dragging and dropping, no pointing and clicking -- her hands never left the keyboard. Looking at the screen, nothing really looked very pretty or intuitive. The system clearly would require some training or at least some instructions to learn how to use it. But it works really well once you invest that learning.

Then there are people in the enterprise who have to use this software occasionally... e.g. people who have to file an occasional expense report, or update their tax withholding. For those people it sucks, because there isn't a lot of hand-holding, and the software feels clunky and arcane.
MMO's are fairly simple projects. They take a fair amount of code, but most of there actual cost is content. Most importantly there basic requirements are fairly well understood from day one. Which is why that code often costs far less to develop, And most of it can be reused for multiple projects.
No it does not. A lot of it lands in the inbox, though majority does goes to the spam folder.

Here I got this one, for example:

"Barr. D Salim <atmcad21@embarqmail.com>

May 3 (5 days ago)

to undisclosed recipients
you are been compensate"

============================================

Another:

Dianne Yak <yak.dianne@yahoo.com> May 5 (3 days ago)

to undisclosed recipients
Hello dear

I am Dianne, I am a young girl, i was wondering if we can be friends, who knows may be it might grow in to some thing deep, i want a friend i can share something with. seeing your email, I have the confidence in contacting you. I know this mail will come to you as a surprise but treat it with care, we can share photos, to know each other more. I hope to hear from your respond soon.

Yours faithfully

===========================================

There you go! High quality spam that beats Google hand down. :)
I guess hammock was being sarcastic ...
Absolutely. This is just snobbery. Good photographers can take beautiful pictures even with shitty equipment. Poseurs (for lack of a better term) chase after high-end equipment pretending it will make good photographs (and yes, I also lust after high-end equipment and imagine that it will somehow make my photos better). Professional photographers 50+ years ago were taking amazing photos with lenses that were worse optically (to say nothing of autofocus and image stabilization) than current kit lenses. Current kit lenses are very good, though higher-end lenses are better still.

I would say, however, that if you're going to buy an SLR just to use it in "green box" (aka fully automatic) mode, you're probably better off getting a high-end point-and-shoot. If you want to use your camera as a point-and-shoot, then get a camera optimized for that use case, and it will likely do better than a camera optimized for semi-manual operation.
What would it take to watch Super Bowl XLVII in 4K Ultra HD?
I think this is just a matter of training and motivation. I am waking up each morning at 5:30am. I love the silence in the morning and the fact that i can do whatever i want, with no interruptions, at top concentration power.

I could be at work at 7 am if i wanted to, but i am a programmer and most of my colleagues get there between 9 and 12, so 8am is just good.
> E.g. the exchange occurs as soon as the two parties agree. Although this eliminates counterparty risk it poses significant (insurmountable?) problems for the way automated trading currently works today.

Could you elaborate on this? I'm interested to understand why this presents a problem. Isn't it a good thing for both parties?
South of Market, an area of San Francisco.

...but it's usually "SoMa", like SoHo in NYC -- not "SoMA" like MoMA in NYC.

Folks who have lived in SF for longer than the current tech wave will tell you that it's properly "South of Market", not
camel-cased anything. :)
Assuming the declaration is true, great job! There's a "but", though:

I get a (rather ugly) 404 error if I click on my state without selecting a country first. It wasn't obvious to me that I had to select United States in the first dropdown since the second dropdown already had the fifty states loaded it. You should disable the second dropdown until a country is selected, or better yet don't even show it until the user selects from the first one.
And yet Canon's 70-200 f/4 IS is very highly regarded, as is their 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 IS.
We're slowly churning out 3d. Here's a preview: pic.twitter.com/jVaZsDOv7x
I actually don't "know" either. But I suspect it has to do with knowing which python to use (system generally) and if the user wants to use global packages as well.

checkout virtualenvwrapper (http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.h...) as well for handling virtualenvs.
You can absolutely shift your number off of google by paying $10, but since the real value add of Voice is not in the number, but the associated services, there is not much point. Skype doesn't even come close. Is there any other for personal use?
The Game of Numbers (like VIM Adventures)
I'll add an obligatory plug for F# if you're looking for a fully supported .NET language REPL (as opposed to a side project like scriptcs, not that there's anything wrong with it). As a bonus, F# is now fully supported by Xamarin Studio if you want to use it on non-Windows platforms, which means that in addition to a REPL, you have full IDE support for free on each platform.