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I think what he is really targeting is enterprisey enterprise frameworks that are checklist compliant. Those have every feature you want, even if they support it only half-heartedly.

And because they try to be everything to everyone, they suck.

Truth is, for a medium to large system, you either use a framework or you write something that approaches a framework or you have a complete mess on your hands.

Targeted frameworks that solve real problems (like Angular.js) are simply great. Bloated messes like JEE are not so great.
I ended up switching to T-Mobile for their $30 prepaid plan - 5GB of data (not at reduced 2G speeds either, actual data) a month, plus a reasonable amount of voice minutes and the ability to text. Way cheaper than what I'd pay on AT&T or other carriers, really simple to set up.
Very nice - even managed to duplicate the demo with a bit of effort (once I got 32bit gl librarires installed in my 64bit ubuntu and got the standard 3.0 image/vm to start...).

Now, it appears one can do/print with ctrl-d/ctrl-p -- and that it will work for the current line, eg:

1 + 1 <ctrl-p> "prints 2"

But how about blocks? Is there a reasonable alternative to either selecting with the mouse, or with shift-arrow? As far as I can tell even simple "two-liners" force my fingers off of home row...

Also anyone happen to know if there's a usable vim-like interface/editor/thing for pharo (other than just starting vim and copy/pasting)?

For the curious, I got this to work (just copy-paste into a Workspace. Note that I had to change getGif with getJpeg -- but I'm not yet sure how to "live patch" that properly, for now I just abandoned the stack trace, fixed the code and evaluated again (the last line):

Gofer it
squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
package: 'ConfigurationOfXMLSupport';
load.

(Smalltalk at:#ConfigurationOfXMLSupport) project latestVersion load.

Gofer new
squeaksource: 'XMLSupport';
package: 'XML-Parser'; load.

"Get the data, you can try and print this, if you want"
data := 'http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all?q=puppy' asUrl retrieveContents.

"parse it"
doc := XMLDOMParser parse: data.

"split up"
entries := doc
allNodesSelect: [ :n | n name = 'entry' ].

"pick one"
entry := entries anyOne.

content := entry
nodesDetect: [ :n | n name = 'content' ].

url := content attributeAt: 'src'.

(ZnEasy getJpeg: url) asMorph openInHand . "Opens image"
You make some good points, but I'd disagree that it's too late when you're 45+ to regain your creative spark. Regaining your creative spark requires being honest with yourself, tolerating the frustration that comes from your output not living up to your vision, and being willing to try new things to see what sticks. The social disapproval aspect you pick up on is secondary, creativity doesn't have to be shared and even if it does it's unnecessary for your audience to know who you are, if you choose to release your output without disclosing your identity.

It really annoys me when I see people trying to limit what others can do based on the number of times someone has been around the sun. If you are physically and mentally able, then it's all just time and effort.
The answer might be "no way in hell", in which case a lawyer would be nothing more than a waste of money.
They are not necessarily "old" articles. They are constantly updated essays. The article is last modified "05 Sep 2013".
What’s a “Shark Tank” Appearance Worth? A Top Spot in the App Store.
He clearly has no idea what problem a framework solves.

Framework is exactly designed so you don't have to build an entire factory yourself, you let other people do that, and you can concentrate on the specific challenges for your problem. In my eyes, a framework is the good old hammer approach. See frameworks like the different kinds of hammers. Different hammers for different jobs, just like a different framework for different jobs.
Wow! That make us wonder how Sweden(and Germany?) are advanced and sophisticated in technological policies over the rest of us;
They got people from the pirate-party elected to the congress already? look at the all the issues they are discussing, and the high-level of the discussions..

Meanwhile, our governments or are in bed with the corporations or are unprepared to deal with their lobby
in a way that dont hurt people, innovation, fair competition and democracy..

She has an X ray vision to this complicated issue and make someone who understand all the danger that come from this evil game of monopoly, feel more safe to have a good and prepared parliament to defend the interests of the people the way she is doing..

I think that is an example of what our democracies need to breath a new, revigorating air, and get stronger again with the faith and trust of the people
Regarding #2:

I thought the Israeli approach worked because it uses layers rather than one big scary wall between you and the airplane. Educated guards (educated anyone!) certainly would help but it seems layers are the key.
- "unwanted pregnancy, but solves most other sexual hazards":
The failure rate for condoms is "18 or more pregnancies
per 100 women in a year"
http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/UnintendedPregnancy/PD...

- flu, most of the common diseases wiped out:
"Threat of flu pandemics has increased recently"
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0983_article.htm

"Common Infectious Diseases Worldwide"
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903696.html

- "People are using binary logic to program bacteria to kill disease."

Are you? I'm not. Anyone else here doing this and using it to help any population (white mice don't count)?

- "If any organ in my body has a problem it can be replaced with a donor version."
"Each day, about 77 people receive organ transplants. However, about 18 people die each day waiting for transplants that can't take place because of the shortage of donated organs." http://www.womenshealth.gov/publications/our-publications/fa...

So your chances in the USA are about 81% that you'll get an organ transplant. After that how long will you live (w/o regard to quality of life)? Well, it's organ-dependent. Kidneys might last 20 years, but for hearts the 10-year survival rate is 55%:
http://www.nmh.org/nm/heart-transplantation-overview

-"Humans without legs can compete at the Olympic level against humans with healthy legs."
The only person I know of who has benefited in this respect from technological advancement is Pistorius. So make that "one human (Pistorius) without legs, in some running events,..." and I'll agree.
Other disabled Olympians made it on sheer determination (no high-tech required):
http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/08/11-disabled-olympians/

"Quadriplegics not only survive, but can have a surprising level of autonomy."
I'd like to hear quadriplegics' take on this. Remove the government support system and they're all gone in 5 days. Is that autonomy? This isn't technology; it's determination and the charitable nature of our society.

"Yeah, with the right kind of funding, we can have that in 10 years":
Well, then, how's the "war on cancer" doing, other than sucking taxpayer's money down a corporate drain, paying for doctors' Mercedes and Rio trips and creating a government bureaucracy that will have people voting for politicians based on the state of their gall-bladders instead of on their personal freedoms? "Give me a heart transplant or give me death!" hardly seems an appropriate political slogan, but that's where we're headed.

Sure there's been progress but lay off the sugar donuts.
The word "project" has meaning, as does the word "task". Not everything you want to track is a task and not every grouping of tasks is a project.

People argued over whether or not a particular sub-project should be a project or a section. People argued over when to use sections vs when to use tags. People were uncomfortable creating "tasks" for things that don't have a singular notion of "done". People argued over when to use subtasks vs top level tasks. It was just silly.

Ignoring my complaints about Asana's UI/UX, simply choosing more abstract words, such as "boards" and "cards" alleviates a great deal of cognitive dissonance when creating organizational systems for new teams and domains to be organized.

Joel wrote a great article about how this sort of thinking leads to a very different product design, and Trello's approach specifically: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html
The idea is a bit preposterous. There are tons of papers the author has not the slightest chance of understanding in under a week (considering he has to write about it, too). Going from paleobotany to financial economics to law to number theory in one month?

I suggest you divide your year into quarters or thirds and select a theme for each. Spending three to four months studying papers from a certain subject would give you a better chance at understanding, I think.

Good luck, have fun.
I was using that plan, but I was finding that I didn't really have enough voice minutes (100 was less than I'd need). T-Mobile does throttle after 2GB on that plan, though that wasn't a big deal for me. The big problem for me was that T-Mobile's coverage area sucks; there were whole areas of Boston and Cambridge where I got absolutely no signal.

I recently moved to the $45 unlimited-everything plan on Straight Talk, which uses AT&T SIMs, and I'm pretty happy with it. (I don't know if they too throttle over 2GB, but I rarely hit it anyway.)
the neighbor becomes an insider with a fiduciary duty

Wow, that's the stupidest thing I've read all day. Is all of investopedia this broken?
I love the service I get from T-mobile, as far as the human element goes. I've been with them for a long time and they treat me very well when I need them to.

Unfortunately, I can't tolerate the service the network itself provides anymore. It used to be fairly functional inside city limits here (Chicago), but now it works poorly downtown, often shows max signal on HSPA+ but doesn't actually have a data connection, and if I leave city limits to go for a drive, I'm looking at probably 20 minutes outside the city before I'm on a non-data or roaming connection.

I just started a new job that provides smartphone service, so I'll probably move my t-mobile account to a minimum amount per month and get a little nokia flip phone for when I'm not doing work related things. - Another big plus for t-mobile is they'll be happy to change my monthly plan without some badgering renewal bit, I've done it twice and they always accommodate me.
>The result would be exactly the same, right?

Nope, like regularfry rightly pointed out.

>The only difference is that you still can use your local git repository if your server burns down, but you can't do that with svn.
Even then I can `svn relocate`.

Look, I am not defending SVN for software development, I am a happy git camper. But git for technical writing is simply the wrong tool for the wrong job.
The IRS 1040EZ form is one page: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040ez.pdf

The IRS 1040 is two: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf

Both require no more effort than copying values from forms that are mailed to you, and some addition/subtraction-level math. I guess they could still be simpler, but come on, it's less work than opening a bank account or filling out your medical history every time you visit a new doctor.
That's why I decided not to :-)
You and I and this topic are thinking about progress and innovation, and we have something in mind. But our terms mean nothing to the people enacting "innovation."

Capitalism is risk averse and progress oblivious. The figure of merit in capitalism is one number: profit, and you can tweak the margin factor and cross your finger on the sales factor.

There are so many possibilities out there to spring a 2X better plan that won't cost a bundle, but capitalism isn't interested in that kind of better. Merit in capital is about how big a paycheck you can slice off.

I think there are huge amounts of innovation and progress that are easily within reach, radical ways of putting us societally in gear to be able to at any turn provide for ourselves without having to draw from afar. But my merit for progress- tooliness and sustainability for the individual- isn't shared and it's not the kind of progress this world's evolved systems march towards.

Progress requires a definition of a figure of merit, and this world today has lost any sense of what it means to progress except for raking in cash. We need bootstrapping progress so people can be free to unlock new value-systems for themselves.
I like how you slipped in the use of 'doodly squat' there - very fitting.
This is ok because it's google and they are generally benevolent.
"companies sit around trying to figure out what customer charges they can get away with"
That is so true! I used to work for a US telco and I've read all the stories about the "mystery charges".

Also, I must say that telcos, and even banks, in India are to an extent like this. Had one bank put a 1.5$ on my credit card statement for an analysis that they did on my spend the previous month - which indicated that 100% of my card spend was towards airfare. I used the card only once, EVER, and I did not ask for that analysis! I ended up spending 3$ (counting just travel cost) fighting the 1.5$ charge, but I absolutely wasn't going to let them have it!

Imagine telcos making an extra 1$ on some random charge on some 10 million customers. Even that is a lot of money!
That's remarkably clear thinking on your part...for a "Brooklyn Hipster"
> As somebody who is about to start grad school, blogging about papers publicly sounds like an excellent idea.

Eh, maybe. Publicly criticizing the work of others in an informal venue where you don't have the benefit of editing/peer review could potentially make you look foolish while also alienating potential future collaborators/colleagues/reviewers.
What set of keywords do you think is going to garner attention? It might be fun to cry out that the FBI is monitoring the internet for people searching for bomb, but they really aren't. They might make a note of it if something else triggers an investigation.
Both of the swiss federal technology institutes are very good and almost free (about 500 euros per semester) but life in Switzerland can be quite expensive.
Math is satisfying in that you can study it either for its own sake, or in order to better arm yourself to understand the world.

To each his/her preference. I like both.
Asana's vocabulary is concrete, but the UI is abstract. In contrast, Trello's terminology is abstract, but the UI is concrete.

You need the abstraction somewhere in order to build a general purpose tool for a large variety of teams and use cases. Realize that as a bunch of hackers, we're great at linguistic abstraction. Average people are much worse at it, but are pretty decent at abstraction of physical, spatial things.
Ask HN: Making something without a use case
So, I've been working on something purely because I think it's neat, but I really don't have a valid use case for it. For the sake of making money, is it a valid hope to just say "Well, I'll make it... and see what people think, and then go from there."? I guess I could just be wasting my time, and that's perfectly fine with me if I enjoy the work (which I do). Does anyone have experience with this?
I think the two thing that matter are reception and price. T-mobile clearly wins on price, but in many areas its reception is not as good as AT&T or Verizon.
I would agree with your goal but disagree with your method in that taking a story and having a computer run an extensive search and replace algorithm to jargonize the story and make it less accessible makes the goal of new and interesting thoughts less achievable.

Since you're familiar with the book, and it comes up as a classic of soft sci fi vs hard sci fi as the ultimate soft sci fi example, there's a specific part of the plot where the author search-n-replaced "plain old rotary telephone" with "videophone" without altering the plot which uses shiny to distract from the story, and confuses the reader because it makes a little hole in the plot where the videophone users act like telephone users who can't see each other or their surroundings.

You can't turn SiaSL into a better contemporary hip urban drama merely by adding a bunch of slang and S+R the videophone as per above into "iPhone". Or turn it into a better medieval fantasy by S+R the videophone into a crystal ball. If he had just written something like "Be not content" as a contemporary 1950s/60s/70s hippie adventure without the interference of soft sci fi jargonizing it would have been an even better book.

TLDR is usually search and replace soft sci fi jargonizes and obfuscates without adding any depth to the story, and usually causing some damage to the plot consistency.

Usually this is where examples like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or the TOS star trek Doomsday Machine episode get brought up as great examples of sci fi where S+R was not used and the applied tech cooperates with the human story in a consistent manner instead of being shiny but conflicting with the plot. Would it have been a better story to S+R the trek episode as a medieval adventure, no it would have sucked.
As a mobile platform company, it is important that your website has a mobile (responsive) site. Also, it does not say if I can build an app and host it on my own.
Interesting. I've never been treated badly by any of their support staff, but I definitely have the "doesn't work in my own home" problem with them, as many other friends do. It perplexes me because AT&T works just fine inside my apartment, and I believe they are on close to the same frequency. Weaker signals perhaps?
I've read a lot of reports of people who maintained dual fluency. They say you just have to switch back to it for about half an hour a day and that will keep it fresh. I think that you can do much less if you're concerned with basic competence rather than actual proficiency.

After years of using Colemak (and not practicing QWERTY regularly), I've found that QWERTY is actually getting easier again. I'm not fast with it, but I no longer have to think hard to recall positions or look down at the keyboard. It feels like my brain said "Oh this is how keyboards work now" and rearranged the QWERTY structure in my brain to do Colemak instead. Now after years of having to occasionally use QWERTY, my brain seems to have built a semi-competent second typist, so to speak.
Seaside. B2B stuff. There is no big deal using this in production. Even works on AWS if you want. There is no big difference in doing java <somejar> and pharo <someimage> at the end of the day.

So, load balancing and monitoring you can do with things like nginx and monit.

Of course, I am no in the league of doing the next Twitter. It may keep up tough.

I am tying everything together with RabbitMQ, so scaling is doable.

Storage for blobs etc is in Riak.
What happened to the proposal for always releasable Debian by the way? (https://lwn.net/Articles/550032/)

Was there anything done to implement it? Months long (or even more than a half a year long) freezes are really annoying in Debian.
Strange! Compare to: http://www.mazda.co.uk/buying-owning/maintaining/service-sch...
This brings back some memories. :)
From your link:
>> Keepod is the first standardised version of a bootable OS for those of us without acomputer science degree.

I really don't see how it is to download a bootable version of any linux distro on a USB stick. Really, I don't see the point.
The deal failed, and AT&T was forced to pay T-Mobile a $3 billion break-up fee, which TMo has used to build out their network.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/02/t-mobile-takes-3-bill...
I had a shot at Aida-Web, not my cup of tea. Does the job though. Amber is another beast, and is a very good option for single page web apps. Can do proxying of JavaScript objects, so you can harness whatever you like in your code and use the JS API the Smalltalk way. Which is kind of cool. With the Helios IDE, it is a killer. Needs a while to master but worth the time.
You are basing this whole rant on a misguided premise. Your quote is what he claims "books seem to be saying". The article is in fact about how cliched and unimaginative TED talks on "creativity" are, proving that you never read the article (or didn't understand it) and that pretty much everyone else responding up on your comments didn't either.
The reason I brought up Joli was the focus on Web Apps South first-class (ish) citizens.

I used to run Slax on my school computers. That was fun
It's also possible to have a large and clean non-spaghetti codebase that does not rely on some framework, be it pre-existing or ad-hoc. For example, Linux.
The deal failed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_purchase_of_T-Mobile_...
> This is silly - the poor are not unemployed, structurally or otherwise. To be unemployed one must be looking for work, which most American poor are not.

You're not accounting for those that have given up looking for jobs. Additionally, the report mentions that children are also included in the 46.2 million people below the poverty level. Also, if you know anything about the workings of Temporary Assistance for Need Familiies (TANF), the main federal block grant for welfare as defined under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), then you know that 1) welfare recipients must work for 24 months to continue receiving welfare, and 2) that there is a 5-year lifetime limit on being in welfare [1]. So, though your report mentions that most people below the federal poverty line, there's plenty of evidence to assume 1) those who aren't working are also not on welfare, with the possibility that 2) those who aren't looking for work have simply given up, as is the case for many, many Americans post-2008 recession.

> Your source [2] also disagrees with you.

Clarification, if anything the source disagrees with itself since the entirety of my use of it was within quotation marks. That said, I don't think it does disagree with itself. 1) We have no idea what the welfare/person spending was, as you note, so it's "silly" to assume that there were obvious net savings when we simply don't have the data. If you're not willing to trust the source on that, then at least trust the numbers for Arizona and Utah. Secondly, you say that "the actual number in Florida" was close to 2000, that 2000 people withdrew their applications when reaching the drug testing stage. You're obviously implying that they withdrew because they were on drugs and wary of not passing the test. You fail to mention the financial aspect to the drug tests--the welfare applicants themselves had to pay for the drug test according to the source you link to [2]. It was highly plausible, as noted in the article, that the ones who didn't take the test couldn't net that amount of cash.

As to Florida's program itself, it was deemed unconstitutional and stopped since it "unconstitutionally mandated searches without suspicion."[2] This was for the same reason you note that the Arizona program was "less effective"--namely because it didn't assume that just because a person was poor, they were using drugs.

[1] http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0258.pdf

[2] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/story...
No, this is about whether it's okay for you to remember how much money is in the account, and act on that in some manner in the future.

Nobody is stealing anything. They can have the pieces of paper back if they want them.
Qwerty vs. Dvorak: Dvorak cooked the books
Reposting with a better link.