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There are a couple of key points here which a lot of you are missing which are:

* The JSON -> XML conversion is done on the server rather than in the client. Browsers are surprisingly bad at xml (one of the reasons buddycloud chose to move the xmpp layer out of the browser), and xml dom manipulation can make for overly complex code (we should also bear in mind one of the philosophies of xmpp which was simple clients, complex servers), and this leads me to my second point:

* It's really simple. This opens it up as a no-brainer solution for web devs who would otherwise just throw up a proprietary silo system based purely on socket.io or similar. Sure, if you really want all the complexities and nuances of xmpp then use an xml based library, but if you just want to send simple messages between users then this is really simple, and hey - what would have been a silo system is suddenly federatable at zero cost.

The point here is that this library is not aimed at hardcore xmpp devs, but devs who would be put off by anything other than json. Make this library as easy to use as socket.io on its own and suddenly you've got more systems running on xmpp which wouldn't otherwise have been (which is great for everyone)!
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Cynicism not necessary. It depends on the culture of internal communications and the purpose of the memo. Are these weekly update memos on activities to be discussed at the staff meeting? Is it asking for permission on something? Is it just informational? Receiving dozens of these a day can be daunting, and forcing limits on length force articulation of what's new and a clear question being asked. Sounds very basic, but lots of memos are poorly written.

Google and other companies are known for very brief updates (may be called memos in your organization), as short as a single line, sent per week. No need to send multiple pages of details: http://blog.idonethis.com/post/16736314554/silicon-valleys-p...

These memos are different from the author's post, which is really not about memos, but rather an alternative means of presenting all of the information required to get to the key discussion in a meeting. I don't think is anyone is suggesting that 6 pg emails should be the memos, and something is wrong if the 6pg emails are replacing decks that are being sent around via email.
We have similar times being reported on a codebase of 17,482 lines of code.

: time go build -a

real	0m3.980s
user	0m5.012s
sys	0m1.140s

But that is unrealistic, in dev we skip the -a flag:

: time go build

real	0m1.854s
user	0m1.760s
sys	0m0.332s
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Then your doubts are not limited to 6 pages either. How do you determine the right number of pages then? 6 pages may be summarizing thousands of pages of information for all you know. How is this enough ?

In the end what really matters CAN and SHOULD be summarized, and if additional details are needed there is always a place for sharing and discussion with management.
There is quite a lot of gamedev activity in Go and quite a few bindings to GL, SDL and the like. I've written a (bad) game in it and am currently working on a better one. I know of at least one commercial game being written in it. There are lots of emulators written in go for some reason too.

I'm finding the multiplayer aspects of my current game to be an excellent fit for Go, making good use of concurrency and networking.
They've cut expenses enormously, and the amplifying effect on growth is 1.6 (that means that the government saved 17 billions and it cost us 30 billions in lost GDP). Cutting expenses in a recession is stupid.
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Maybe it's just being on a team that's more focused on nontechnical users, but I still see plenty of PowerPoint. Product, sales, and business process people seem to swim in the stuff.
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I'll just bask in the irony of having my drawing professors presenting some of Tufte's work to a class full of architects... in PowerPoint.
Take a look at
https://github.com/coocood/jas
I'm using it to build my web application.
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From another point of view, the lectures are purely focused on giving an intuition behind concepts in modern theoretical physics, which is only a very small part of what is taught in an undergraduate program.

Lagrangians are a difficult, and abstract concept, but they doesn't mean that they can't be communicated in 3-4 hours by a skilled educator.
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That's something TCCBOOT demonstrated quite clearly isn't a major problem of C itself but rather an issue with common C compiler implementations, given the size of the Linux kernel and the time spent on a CPU which is by now ancient history.

Yes, you need to pre-process and potentially parse them again, but in practice most C include files use include guards and are low cost to process if done even remotely properly.
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Well, yes, actually they do show up in a balance sheet - that's why it's a good thing if your balance sheet is an entire population without the difficult cases jettisoned.
Edward Tufte's article "PowerPoint Does Rocket Science--and Better Techniques for Technical Reports"(http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...) has a wealthy of information about why and how to avoid Powerpoint.
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Totally agree, I'm the same. I have a real feeling that the years spent between 10/11 and 15 when I was mucking around doing a really bad job in C have given me a foundation to build on which many developers have to build in their twenties.

Then there is the argument about blindly learning to code from BAD code on the internet, whereas we had to learn from books! :)
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And this is why privacy is important. I think we should give the people from the AP a little basic surveillance avoidance tips. Like say... don't use your office, personal or work phones for confidential informants. Use a prepaid card from a location you wouldn't normally go to and trow it away. (single use)
this reminds me of a quote from the opening for "this week in startups" hosted by jason calacanis http://thisweekinstartups.com, he quotes ruby on rails founder, david heinemeier hansson, "if you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong."

ideas are a dime a dozen, but think about the one idea that you'd be willing to lose sleep, money, time, life, over. the fact that you're passionate about it will probably justify all that.

there are always exceptions, but i think it makes sense, life is short.

on the flip side, i think experience gained doesn't hurt one bit.
I'd rather compare Rust to Erlang, than Go. At least conceptually. However the fact that languages are young shouldn't stop people from writing servers in them.
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Rust is written in Rust.

(The compiler currently makes heavy use of `unsafe`, in my understanding. At least for now.)
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Why not int x? :) No confusion there! Except what that actually is underlying it all. I'm actually shocked that Go even has pointers given coding C++ at Google was all about passing by reference, although at least they put a lot of sane constraints on them (no pointing to arbitrary memory addresses, no pointer arithmetic, etc).

Google code style guidelines are anti-one liner, so that's not surprising to me that Go's formatter tries to enforce that.

I also employ one-liners but judiciously. It can be easy to miss the condition or side effect, particularly with returns. I waffle on whether it should or shouldn't be allowed. But there's something to code compactness on large projects...
Can anyone in the know give an opinion on the claimed proof? I see Wikipedia has already been updated:

Considerable work has been done on the weak Goldbach conjecture
culminating in a 2013 claimed proof by Harald Helfgott.

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbachs_conjecture#Rigorous_r...

For the casual reader, there is a great novel by Apostolos Doxiadis based around Goldbach's conjecture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Petros_and_Goldbach%27s_C...

(Doxiadis's "Logicomix" is also recommended)
> "6 pages is a bit too long, though..."

It does depend on the structure of those 6 pages. If I had to do these regularly I can easily imagine settling on a (largely) routine format, e.g 1st page is overview, 2nd page is problem detail, 3rd page is solution/implementation, 4th page risks/mitigation blah blah blah.

Note that the article says the first 30 minutes of the meeting is reading the memo. It doesn't take 5mins to read a page so there's ample time for people to formulate an opinion/questions before discussion actually starts (based on enough info in the memo). This is already an order of magnitude better than any powerpoint talk I've been in where people just shoot from the hip.
If the WTO treaty was a one-liner saying "No tariffs, no subsidies" you'd be right. But in fact provisions for films have been in WTO treaties since at least 1947 [1] and France just doesn't want to remove them.

Weird-but-legal tariffs and subsidies are nothing new - look at all the agricultural subsidies that are permitted, for example.

[1] http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/gatt47_01_e.htm#ar...
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doesn't matter, most artists have come to the conclusion that live concerts is where the money is at and are touring much more frequently.
As was explained to me by a friend who founded a recently-acquired to-do list company, the opportunity is to monetize intent. That is, if my to-do is "take clothes to dry cleaning," the app might be able to suggest a better/closer dry cleaner. You can also imagine many similar opportunities around travel.
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I clicked the Tweet button and it wanted to oAuth me. Why not just open a pre-filled Tweet box? No offense, I'm not giving you oAuth access so you can send 1 tweet.
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Great design. The last two options in folding dropdowns are not clickable for me on Firefox.
Have you tried Prezi?

http://prezi.com

(I work there.)
Personally, whether or not I superficially find a language unreadable has a remarkable correlation with how likely I find I am to like a language once I learn more about it. Go does not do well on that measure for me either.

In Go's case, I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt, and went through a couple of tutorials, but while there were some nice parts of it that just reinforced my initial impression.
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I guess swedish visa is not included.
Yes. Actually I wonder if they will make it to C++17 even, but I keep looking forward to it.
Do userland utilities like this have the potential for big scary security holes? Or is Windows 7 / 8 better than that now?
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Just curious, how causality between government savings and GDP losses is established? Since there was recession in the first place?
There's a difference between being lonely and being alone.

With regard to the latter, it's one of the fundamental insights of human life to, at some point, realize that you've always been and you always will be alone on this planet. There's only one you that is unique and nobody, I say nobody at all, will somehow match you perfectly, or make you fullfilled, or complement you essentially somehow. The only thing you can rely on is to always have your own company so it's better to learn to be friends with yourself.

But being lonely is another thing. Human beings aren't meant to be lonely. Heck, even most animals aren't meant to be that way. The worst kind of loneliness is the one that you experience among a group of people you call your friends. The loneliness may not be obvious until you find the first person who really becomes your friend.

As for "combatting loneliness", I suggest don't. In the worst case you're not only lonely but you're lonely and failing your social goals. Learn to live with loneliness, if not for anything else but for the sake of if you ever must. When you're content, perhaps not entirely happy, but content with loneliness then it's much easier to approach people and make social contacts. That is because you have nothing to lose and you know you'll be just fine even if it doesn't work out. Starting from this context prevents you, out of desperation, from selling your soul for the company of people who don't make you feel good.
One of our design goals was to make sure terra could execute independently of Lua. So everything that you describe is possible. For instance our simple hello world program (https://github.com/zdevito/terra/blob/master/tests/hello.t) compiles a standalone executable with the "terralib.saveobj" function. You can also write out object (.o) files that are ABI compatible with C. For instance, gemm.t (https://github.com/zdevito/terra/blob/master/tests/gemm.t) our matrix-matrix multiply autotuner writes out a .o file my_dgemm.o which we then call from a test harness in a separate C program (https://github.com/zdevito/terra/blob/master/tests/reference...). Once you have the .o files, you can use Lua to call the system linker to generate a dynamic library.
It's odd how tied some folk are to slides even when it's a completely inappropriate tool for the situation at hand.

On the viewing side as as well as the presenter side.

I occasionally workshops on various things. Some (not all) of them <gasp> don't have any slides.

None.

On the grounds that the point of the workshop, as far as I'm concerned, is to pay a lot of attention to what I'm telling you - and do the practical exercises. You learn by doing - not by reading. A slide deck just gets in the way of that. It's a barrier between me and the class.

Every time there's one or two people who really hate that and complain about the lack of the deck. Not the quality of the workshop - that they're fine with - but the fact they don't have a slide deck.

Occasionally it's because they want to take away the deck and run the workshop inside their own company for free (and hey - I don't mind about that. Honest. It actually helps sales ;-).

But more often folk seem to need "a thing" to take away and look at again. Not so much as a learning tool, but as token that they were there.

I'm seriously considering making some physical "things" for folk. Maybe postcards with the key learning points on and a reading list. Just to see if that'll help.
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I was under the impression and correct me if I'm wrong that the French revolution was much inspired by the American revolution.
This is very interesting

As someone that has studied physics in an undergrad course, and who has learned a lot, but is disappointed that these courses don't go very far, this is very interesting.
Very interesting. Is this "new" language in direct competition with Go ?
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They already raised the price for storage. But at least they kept the old plans for existing customers. I pay $5 per year for 20 GiB.
your story is basically about a guy who quit a job which doesn't make him happy. adding the unlikely possibility of making $200MM by selling the company and starting working for charity doesn't really change anything?
Maybe, but what kind of manufacturing are we talking about, and how much is really privately-owned and not state-owned or state-subsidized? That is the real question to determine if it is comparable with US or Japan for that matter.
Little by little, Google are building that mobile phone based surveillance system from The Dark Knight.
Yeah, but there is also a limit for the minimum wage, so the flexibility in terms of salary is... narrow.
Oh trust me, the end user of experience of Windows 8 is not something that can be significantly more damaged by OEMs
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also here on the Raspberry Pi website: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3890
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But the compiler does not know the guards are there, so it needs to read the files anyway.

This is why Plan9 C compilers have the strict rules that header files don't include other header files and you as a user need to include them all.

I need to look into TCCBOOT in more detail.
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Only smug, assholes get to decide what is high quality culture these days.
> Cutting expenses in a recession is stupid.

First, they are not cutting expenses "enormously" (enormously would be halving the yearly deficit, they haven't even started to stop its growth! So they are still digging further into debt every year), and then you need to spend less when your budget goes to debt repayment, if not you are going right in the wall while accelerating.

Having a huge debt means the population / the whole country is living on credit, and therefore ABOVE their means. It's natural a recession would take place, whether you like it or not. Take it as a reality check.
Had a somewhat similar experience (except that my (college) friends lived across the Atlantic).

Ideally suburbia should become a thing of the past (and it might, with rising energy prices). But for now I'd say the best thing you could do is move back to the (inner) city (or back to uni for a post-grad).

It may be a hassle but being unhappy is a drain as well.

I can also highly recommend most European/UK cities, as their cores are where people actually live and thrive, rather than that odd mix of blitz corporate office guests and sniffling economic outcasts.
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Yeah ok, but then a) the software should probably not run under root. In fact it should probably not run at all, if you haven't done any kind of audit on it/the developer.

And b) assuming you have done your due diligence on the developer in the first place, why not trust him with access to your machine? And again - you shouldn't grant him root of course, but a shell account with privileges similar to the application would be fine.

But really - Purchasing a script from some back-alley developer you have no knowledge of and placing it on your production server? That's the reckless part.
At least they kept their old plans for existing customers. Of course, upgrading means no more cheap storage.
Wait, I didn't say "genetically predisposed"!!

I didn't give any reason for cause.

In my opinion (and this is just me guessing) it's exactly because society dresses girls up in pink frilly stuff and every toy is pink and sparkly.

So it now becomes a self-reinforcing loop - they like pink and sparkly, people buy pink and sparkly, toy makers provide pink and sparkly, there are no other toys[1] to buy so they keep getting pink and sparkly.

[1] I remember when Lego was unisex. It was just blocks. Now it's STARWARS blocks, or pink and sparkly stuff blocks. Obviously boys and girls can play with whatever they like, but peer pressure is weird at that age.

There's a big niche in the market (it's being filled now) for toys that are great and unisex. You'll have plenty of examples, but check the age ranges, then check against the total toy supply.

There's also a need for clothing that doesn't say things like "Here comes trouble" for boys or "little princess" for girls. Something aspirational and fun and gender-neutral.
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Orchestra raised a bunch of money for their todo app. And then they pivoted into Mailbox.
We also set longitude and latitude for tweets to inside Russia. Promise though - we don't do anything but tweet it, but guess you'll have to trust us on this one.
They have an internal Linux client.

Which makes me unsure we will ever see one released externally, it must be the support cost that holds them back. Internally, they only have to support one distribution (their own) and some very smart users.
Please, don't compare the french influence in Japanese to the French influence in English. The french influence in Japanese is a best anecdotal, while French's influence in the English language was phenomenal. Look at what the English language look like in Beowulf and see how much french vocabulary has been borrowed from French since then. Now there's probably between 30 to 40% of words derived or directly taken from Old French in English. Nothing common with Japanese in that regard, and I speak Japanese myself so I know this matter fairly well enough.
All the meetings I do are voluntary. Most of the people who attend work with the problems in some way.

Your time is incredibly valuable. If you're sitting there for 30 minutes while someone reads your memo, if you're getting everyone together in one place to read your memo, with all that implies for their schedules, then that's a waste of a lot of extremely important time for a lot of people.

Meetings are for discussions that you can only have with everyone together. They're so that people who don't understand something can ask you questions, or so that you can work with others who do understand the problems. Not for reading groups.
I manage an entirely node.js http server and note these pests snooping for various logins and what-not. I created a page that targets them that basically streams forever, so the connection has to be ended on their end.

I manage a gist to track which of them manage to stay connected the longest: https://gist.github.com/scryptonite/5324724/raw/log.md
Why are they giving a presentation in the first place? It seems mostly habit as this point.

The article itself supports this as they don't just skip Powerpoint, they skip the presentation entirely in favour of a 6 page memo.
Terry Tao's comments on this: https://plus.google.com/u/0/114134834346472219368/posts/8qpS...

Mathoverflow discussion: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/130545
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> I occasionally workshops on various things. Some (not all) of them <gasp> don't have any slides.

Or verbs.
Instead of moving kernel functionality inside user mode, another way of shortcutting this "expensive calling convention" would be to run your code in kernel mode (kernel module, or with something like kernel mode linux). (Possibly implementing most of your code with tools/languages that makes screwing up with global memory difficult or impossible)

Security and isolation might be provided by other means like virtualization.

Not saying it's a better way, it's just an alternative to writing time critical drivers in user-space as TFA proposes. I suspect that if you have to handle 10 million connections, you don't really need a full featured multiuser desktop system and you can manage this component to have specific deployment requirements.
A noble idea and a great site. May I ask you, how did you achieve the dropdown effect?