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Very impressive!

Some feedback:

Your cut points between summaries and full articles often fall at awkward points. Most notably, don't put them right after a sentence that ends in a ':'; instead, write the summary to stand alone. For instance, your declspec summary ought to end with something like "Read on for examples of when you might want to use declspec instead of auto.", and your summary of the new random bits should end with something like "C++11 adds a new object-oriented random number generator with many enhancements over the C library version."

Your article tags seem rather redundant to be as prominent as they are; every article has the "C++", "C++11", and "Programming" tags.

In your shared_ptr example, you should talk about when you might need to actually take away the reference from the shared_ptr, so that it outlives the shared_ptr.
You absolutely don't need a data plan - my girlfriend is on Rogers with a smartphone kitted out as a dumbphone. Just turn off packet data (in the network settings menu) and you're set. You might not be eligible for subsidies on some devices though: many carriers have a minimum monthly cost to get the full discount.
Then you probably wouldn't be interested in an Aston Martin. If acceleration is your top priority, you can always buy an STI for a third as much, boost the snot out of it, and leave the Rapide in your dust.

The Rapide is no slouch, to be sure, but acceleration falls somewhere in the middle of a larger spectrum of goals for that car.
But they're obviously not.

We've now has 5-10 years of this new batch of FP languages and none of them have 'stuck', they've still not caught on.

It's not cause we're all dummies, it's because, generally speaking, for most problems FP sucks ass.

And that's the obviousness of it. If it were better, it really would have serious traction by now.

Instead people are integrating the best bits of FP into OOP languages. And at that at least they've been a wild success, it's made OOP languages a lot easier to program in. And will make Java easier to program in. Poor old Java programmers. Java 8 will be like a revelation...
How is this different from Ruby?
A bit impractical, given that all software will bug out sooner or later. And even worse, fickle people will instantly 1-star your app.
The problem is that cheap hosts will often not support newer best practice libraries like PDO. So apps that are widely deployable tend to end up as a jungle of mysql_query().
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The weakness with such an approach is that it is not the browser itself pushing the apps through user discoverable means. You have to know about Pokki before hand in order to find it. I myself never knew such a service existed until now. In some ways Pokki is more powerful than Firefox on Windows but it nearly providing the same kind of functionality.
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shared_ptr: 1) It might be helpful to show an example with a bare pointer and then show the improved version with shared_ptr. 2) One good way to illustrate object lifetimes in RAII demos is to create a class that prints a message in the destructor. 3) In practice most people use a typedef for shared_ptr types. Instead of writing "shared_ptr<Class>" everywhere you would "typedef shared_ptr<class> ClassP" and then just use ClassP to declare shared_ptr variables.

auto: I think you can expand a bit on how auto interacts with reference and const qualifiers.
It's even dumber than that, because extraditing him from Sweden is harder, since it would at this point be subject to the approval of both the UK and Sweden.
In x86-world, floating point hardware was an add-on chip before the 486DX was introduced in 1989 [1] [2].

I think the BCD instructions were never intended to be used outside of software arithmetic libraries, but they provide speedups for crucial operations in such libraries. Sort of like Intel's recently introduced AES instructions, which will probably only be used in encryption libraries.

Of course, it turns out that BCD-based arithmetic isn't much used, because IEEE-style floating-point has a fundamental advantage (you can store more precision in a given amount of space) and is also compatible with hardware FPU's.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_unit#Add-on_FPUs

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I486
Third to a billion
There is, but only if you can place a manifest file[1] on the domain where the app resides. Any website can trigger installation of an app via an API[2].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Apps/Manifest

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Apps.instal...
The only true difference between a for-profit and a non-profit is the tax status.

Cosmic level blessings on Paul Graham for doing this. Badly needed. The entire sector needs catalytic infusions of entrepreneurial energy and expertise.

Only 150 non-profits have grown past $10M in revenue since 1970. North Korea has better business acumen. Love to see efforts like this.

Thank you Y Combinator!
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It was a clash of TV cultures. In America, there's an implicit expectation that your "sponsorship" will elicit positive things, tit for tat. In the UK, they get away with all sorts of blasphemy- they are free to bash the cars that get provided for reviews. If you watch Top Gear UK much, you'll notice they criticize plenty of cars, even ones that were on loan from the manufacturer.

(This is part of why Top Gear America is but a shadow of Top Gear UK)
It's interesting that the parent comment came up in the context of the chip used in TI calculators. I know the TI-83 series floating point format is BCD [1], but I'm not sure off the top of my head whether the built-in floating-point library actually uses these CPU instructions.

[1] (PDF link) http://education.ti.com/guidebooks/sdk/83p/sdk83pguide.pdf see pages 22-23
Appurify's mission is to help app developers make apps that will "not bug out sooner or later". That's our main point, debugging and testing tools for mobile are way behind where they need to be. When an app is really buggy/crashy the number of genuine 1-star reviews far outweighs fickle people.
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> But they're obviously not.

They are obviously not for a substantial subset of the people who started programming with other-than-functional languages, which includes most current programmers. That's not the same as whether or not they are easier to read and write and debug and reason about in general.

> It's not cause we're all dummies, it's because, generally speaking, for most problems FP sucks ass.

Examples?
Apple is really a phone/tablet making company (as far as revenue & profits matter). Their laptops are really a rounding error now.
Imagine that you're heading out to a restaurant for dinner and getting a nice plate of nachos. However, at the start of your meal, you pull out a big bag of tortilla chips. You then tell the waiter that you've brought your own chips and don't want to use the restaurant's chips. I've known a couple of friendly restaurant owners who would agree to something like this (e.g. for allergies), but not one of them would have given a discount for it. The meal comes with chips, even if you don't want them or eat them. You're going to pay for their chips, even if you bring your own.

Most of the US phone carriers have the same attitude towards phones. Your cellular contract comes with a phone. If you want to bring your own phone, that's fine, but the price is going to be the same whether you use their phone or your own.

Thankfully, some of the smaller carriers are moving away from this attitude, but bringing your own phone can still be a major pain. After all, the only thing better for a salesman's commission than selling you an expensive contract in exchange for a phone is selling you that same contract and not giving you a phone.
If you had invested in the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index fund in January, you'd already have seen a 13.5% return so far this year.
I had recently given up 4-years of living with OS X to get back to Linux - elementaryOS, to be precise.

This is a product that has been long due, but for some reason never gets built. 5-6 years ago, driver support etc was the main reason, but it is no longer the case. If this has to work, it has to work exceedingly well for all the possible use cases out-of-the-box.

If it can't do what it is meant to do at the first go, make sure you put up simple and clear instructions as to how to go about it.

The moment you hit the legendary "show me your lspci output" point you would have lost the game, no matter how good the specs are.

That said, a week of fiddling and my dev platform is the same as the one that I had on OS X. So, it is not like it can't be done.

Good luck :)
No. In the US, you continue to pay your original contract fee (including overpriced handset payment) even after the contract expires. The handset cost is not broken out. After 2 years, the telco expects you to re-up a new 2 year contract and get a new phone.

Consumer mobile telecom in the US is fundamentally broken.
Actually the whole point of Firefox OS is that you don't target the desktop anymore. So the answer is that you can't do that in Firefox without actually releasing an app packaged to run standalone. Some other service that don't contain the full packaged app create a glorified bookmark which redirects you to the website's service like SoundCloud does.
It's compiled and type-checked.
Dunno about your experience, but mine and everyone I've talked to seem to think IBM ThinkPads had top notch build quality (minus the gripe about the screens). The keyboards, even on the 12" X-series are as good as any full-size kb save the Ergo 4000. Trackpad with 3 buttons is amazingly useful. Then again, ThinkPads are in another realm, and aren't cheap for good configurations. So Lenovo certainly could pull it off if they don't screw it up.
I generally don't like double posting in a thread but...

7 lines to 30 lines, with a never-ending call stack of despair if anything ever does go wrong.

That imo, is really shit code.
It doesn't attempt to be different from Ruby at least in its looks and feel. Crystal strives to be as similar to Ruby as possible. The creator stated some reasons why they created Crystal on the github repo.

https://github.com/manastech/crystal#why
You are right; I should have said "there is less __financial__ incentive"
Lisp used to be the lingua franca of universities. So, please, let's cite examples...

But seriously, state is inherent in most enterprise apps, which is to say, 95% of apps in existence.
Come on, most of those houses are either in the middle of nowhere or 'needs updating', 'needs work' and so forth. You can buy houses for <$1k in the US if you go to where they're priced at that, but there's a reason why they're that cheap, and they certainly don't represent anywhere near the usual experience.
In the Bay Area, you can join BMW drive now for $20 one-time fee and pay $30/day for rentals (zipcar style) of BMW activee 1 series. (Use TECHSF as the code)

I was going to go pick up one in a few hours to see how it handles. Benefit being free HOV lane access.
Non-profit management consultant, foundation CEO here. Could not disagree (respectfully) more. The social sector badly needs business culture and acumen wherever it can get it. Lack thereof is the #1 choke point on tens of thousands of great ideas.
Plus a 32-bit ARM processor @ 48mhz, and 128k flash.
I want gorgeous text and the option for more screen real estate. "150%" scaling (if it worked properly) would be a nice tradeoff. But I'd settle for the specs of a T/W530 on a X-series chassis.
I don't really care about the smartwatch, but the Mirasol display should really get more attention from other OEM's. It's probably the best compromise between e-ink like battery life, and having colorful animated screens (nowhere near the color richness of the latest IPS LCD's or AMOLED's though, but it seems good enough for something like a smartwatch).
Sounds good, and I will redo my calculations when they deliver it.
I like it so far.

Is there any sense of ordering, or is each article self-contained? I wouldn't encourage shared_ptr as the smart pointer of first resort, unique_ptr is preferable where it's suitable.

I would also suggest going ahead and giving more guidance on when and when not to use various features, C++11 has a lot of redundant features. This is gonna start shading into matters of opinion, but somebody's got to do it, and for a novice any sane advice is better than nothing.
I love linux and this idea. Could you record video in a better environment?
Republic wireless offers a $19 per month, all you can talk service by using wifi. Maybe amazon can offer this cheaper. Say at $10 a month with no profit. So it makes more sense to offer service.

I have seen some phones in Chinese retail sites for $90. For amazon it's cheaper say $3 per month over 24 months.

Now consider the revenues for content, apps, increased e-commerce sales, ads and better profiling and maybe some profit from the phone service - amazon have plenty of ways to earning this $3 per month.

The only question - what about people getting the phone and not using it at all?
RootMetrics shows airport mobile options dominated by Verizon and AT&T
I boycotted TechCrunch since the quality of their journalism has dropped (circa 2010). Then Arrington leaves and now its an empty shell.
I have a AT&T-mvno Straight Talk plan here in the US that costs 45$/month for unlimited data/talk/text - it's vastly cheaper to just purchase the phones outright. Too bad straight talk quit selling AT&T compatible SIM cards a few months ago.
These blogs are one way how people tell each other.
CircleCI (https://circleci.com) offers this right now. We automatically partition your test suite and run it across multiple machines.

Except since it's in the cloud, you don't need to own 10 Mac minis to make this happen. And if you decide you want to split it 20 ways, not 10, you can do that in about 2 clicks.

[disclaimer: I work at https://circleci.com, if that wasn't already obvious]
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People can no longer claim that the BMG cartridge has no legitimate hunting use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_BMG
> if the government hires a lockpicker to plant a bug in an embassy then by definition they now have the technical ability to pick locks

This reminds me of a conversation I had with a locksmith in the spring: he is essentially a full time contractor and goes around the city drilling out locks to which the military custodians have lost the combo. Your tax dollars at work.
What really keeps me from signing up to a new movie rating site is the work I have to put in again. I rate my movies on IMDB for the last 8 years and I do not want to rate > 500 movies again.
Maybe you could find a way to import those ratings (IMDB lets you export your history as csv).
and is there a list of children murdered by Muslim extremists in the Middle East? in the world?
Why is Disqus a thriving though flawed comment platform and Livefyre a seemingly dead and flawed comment platform?

I don't bother commenting on sites with Livefyre as do most people, it seems.
I thought it was every three lines, but yeah.
As someone working for a nonprofit this makes me very happy. The world of a starting non-profit is surprisingly similar to that of a startup. :)
It's a point I don't agree with. The scope grows and shrinks. Up to 10 years ago, there were parts of this country where two men having gay sex (or indeed, any two people having the 'wrong' kind of sex) were committing a criminal offense. This only became legal because a man who was arrested in Texas in 1998 for doing so in his own home appealed the case up to the Supreme Court (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas#Arrest_of_Law...).

As of 2013, the Federal government is required to recognize gay marriage and no adults engaged in consensual sexual relations can be hit with criminal charges in the US. That's a significant shrinkage in the scope of state power.

It's a two way street. Just as the notion that government is always benign or correct (a subset of the just world fallacy) is flawed, so is the libertarian trope that government is always oppressive and encroaching (a subset of the mean world fallacy). In the context of this conversation, I agree that the NSA's reach is overbroad, which is worrying because of the potential for government blackmail or overprosecution; but on the other hand I note that things you could have been blackmailed with or prosecuted for up to quite recently - and which had been considered serious crimes going back to ancient times - are no longer criminal, which is an enormous step forward for individual freedom.
Can it use Ruby libraries? People use Ruby mostly because of its ecosystem.
this line of reasoning seems like the least of our concerns in a discussion centered around firing ammunition into the clouds

Well you'd use birdshot, obviously. How does the author think people hunt ducks?
By itself at can't do those. If you connect it to a WiFi or Zigbee module using SPI it can, but for WiFi you'll probably want to buy a more powerful microcontroller board anyway.
It's not the best experience. When you install an app, you don't really know where to go to use it. Atleast in Chrome, you see it pop into the apps screen.
We had $299 Windows computers from eMachines over 10 years ago. About that same time, Wal-mart sold a $199 Lindows machine.
BTW 'they' as used above refers to the United States. Sorry for the poor grammar.
You might want to correct the spelling in the title.
People who get paid a commission to sell you X are motivated to sell you X. Preferably the biggest X possible. As opposed to determining whether X is best for you or even remotely applicable for your situation.

For example, there's a saying about whole life insurance policies, that they are not bought, but sold. Meaning that no one goes looking to buy them (because they often perform poorly compared to traditional investments), but agents will often push them on people (due to high commissions). Note that the high commission rate is not unrelated to poor performance as an investment!
Which also implies performance benefits over Ruby. I think another way to view it is Go with Ruby syntax (although Go has its own runtime overhead). Their introduction document [1] is a pretty concise overview.

I think it's an interesting project. But not being a Ruby focused coder these days, I can't see myself choosing this over other compiled languages at this point.

[1] https://github.com/manastech/crystal/wiki/Introduction
I hope Claro follows, for people that would like to break off their contract of a i9300 or any top-tier Android phone. They charge $600 even if you cancel on the last month with them.
Read Kafka's The Trial.

Also, I'm surprised not more is being made of the massive security problem in Utah: who's defending the NSA perimeter?
It should be noted that LiveFyre has a "SocialSync" feature which syndicates comments from the owner's Facebook page, which may inflate the comment count.

It is a terrible feature.
It looks even more inspired by the DigiSpark: http://digistump.com/products/1
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Why not put RFCs in a special issue tracker?
I grew-up somewhere along the way.

Getting God to talk is more adult.

Let's ask God about Spartans.

God says...
Observe promised hair threads hale -and helpful resisteth
natural null don't_push_it bark despairing do_over

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Did Spartans shave?

God says...
heathen torments allotted slaves diseased creatures- err
you're_nuts Poland shipwreck hello unreal Greek INDEMNITY
off_the_record confessing leave presumed forthwith intimate
breasts manifold kindled zip refuse invited godly Moses
overcome settling XIII harder_than_it_looks evolution
oh_no replacing position forsake profit scattered reposing
right waking cheeks altogether loveliness absetively_posilutely
intensest pierced att Times undo lover announcement createth
forethinking necessarily trials presidest constellations
lump eunuchs torrent Otherwise deceitful fantasies sorry
sex tcosa10 din scantling forward undo canst offences
Thinkest faith horrendous phantasm natural

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At least not B.C.E/C.E. common era.
There is a typo: foo2.ord in the first class Foo(T) example should be foo2.value.ord.
To be fair, most companies accelerators invest in never turn a profit, so they're already living the dream.
Given the working definitions of "shill" and the cannons of "journalistic integrity" (namely objectivity) are at literal odds... I would say no; you cannot be both.
This is true, but the program can't adapt due to the regulations, so it tries to play a Nash equilibrium strategy.
> It seems like you're implying that these non-profit founders put a lot of weight in salary as a consideration to whether or not they pursue their vision.

I was implicitly assuming founders of non-profits care about salary. I think it's very admirable that there are people willing to forsake salary for a greater social good. It sounds like this might describe the Watsi crowd.

I am only intimately familiar with one non-profit, whose founder spent years launching her non-profit --- with the financial support of her spouse's salary. I have heard anecdotally of other non-profits whose launch was only possible because the founder was financially supported outside of the non-profit.

But it doesn't have to be this way. I don't think it's intrinsic that potential founders must choose between salary and launching a non-profit. For example, founders could make a salary working part-time for for-profit companies and spend the rest of their time running their non-profits.

Maybe YC could help facilitate such work relationships. I think it would grow the pool of people willing to pursue non-profit endeavors.
How long is your test suite? I expect you'd find https://circleci.com much more affordable (our "build agents" are beefy, and you're unlikely to need 229 of them!)
Dude, what are you rambling about? The same can be achieved in Apache with 2 config lines.

Nginx has taken over some of Apache's market because it's lighter on resources, i.e. with the same amount of resources it can process & deliver more stuff.

Regarding functionality and configuration there is not much difference, actually I think Apache still has the edge here.
I read php-internals every day, and.. this is totally understandable. There's a lot of opinionated people on that list with totally different visions - nikic, stas, that one guy Lester who is convinced 5.3 and E_STRICT was the worst thing in the world... PHP just appeals to too many people to have a consensus. Possibly the point this was made most clear was when the property accessors RFC was declined on a hairpin vote despite having a majority (and the time that switching to an actual AST-based parser was a non-starter).

Your contributions and voice will be missed.
Thanks for the link! So there isn't a specific number, but it is "material" if the amount is enough that a reasonable person relying on a report would change his opinion based on the inclusion or omission of the disclosure. So a $70 billion company buying a $100 million startup is probably not going to change any opinions, but that same company buying a $12 billion company will.
The last link you posted has this though; "PHP is an incredibly popular scripting language which makes up the majority of our code-base. Its simple syntax lets us move fast and iterate on products." Not sure if I believe it though.
That's why so far from all the smartwatches being announced out there, this one grabbed my attention. Though to be honest, I'm still disappointed in the design aesthetics.
The Crying of Lot 49 contains IMO one of the most hilarious sustained passages in all of modern American Lit. It's a parody of a typical Jacobean revenge like Webster's "Duchess of Malfi." The parody is pitch-perfect. It mocks every convention of the genre, including -- especially -- the preposterous violence.