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In a startup world, it's probably expensive in terms of time. At this point, you may or may not have revenue yet. So you want to spend more time dedicated to validating your idea so you can pay the bills or find the next Facebook/Twitter/Google/etc.

I do agree that eventually everything should be self-managed to ensure service is never disrupted. It's critical to ensure that the service is always online for the customer and maintaining that control, in my opinion, is important.
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Sorry, perhaps I made the point badly: you're nodding at exactly what I was trying to say. The reason to get angry about the things people produce is for their actual social ramifications (like slavery), not for the fact that they moved technology forward in a way that discontinued the use of another technology.

Hence, it makes perfect sense to take pot shots at Microsoft if you think we actually and materially harmed society in the way that slavery did. But, and I could be wrong, it feels like most people are not critiquing not for actual damage but because in rising to popularity, other technologies did not.

Thanks for clarifying; I'm just a damn scientist, so things that are clear in my head don't always come out fully on screen. Truly appreciated.
No competition.
I'm cautiously optimistic. The Elite series has had a lot of misfires, but they do seem to have learned from them. And a lot of those misfires come from single design decisions that seemed like a good idea at the time, like using a true Newtonian physics model instead of the traditional "WWII fighter jet in space" physics model. If you could get past that, Frontier Elite still had the fun Elite stuff at its core, it's just that it was very nearly wrecked by that decision. I would still consider this a risk, but it looks like at the very least they have no intention of repeating that mistake.

Note I did not fund it, so this isn't just rationalization of sunk cost for me. And I do mean "cautiously" optimistic... while I continue to believe that procedural content generation is the way of the future, its continuing failure to manifest is making me wonder if perhaps it is the way of the future in the same way that, say, raytracing or voxels has been the way of the graphics future for about 10 years now, without ever happening. Still, we'll see.
I haven't made up my mind yet about whether or not I find Rust's memory management ideas convoluted. But the Rust people seem to be the only ones working on this important problem at all and contributing some innovative ideas.

Looking at this long list of programming languages, I see two approaches used by the vast majority of popular implementations: Conventional tracing garbage collectors that cause pauses up to minutes, and naive reference counting which is slow, concurrency hostile and error prone.

Obviously, don't know every implementation of every language on the list. So please tell me I'm wrong. I would love to be!
There's a parameter order bug in calls (or the definition) of retry.
With my life? If a security vulnerability would be life threatening, I would not trust anything on the internet, I'd keep it off the internet -- and maybe even keep it off computers entirely. (Although if they can get physical access to my non-internet computer, they can get physical access to hard copy notes too, of course).

Yeah, that's hella inconvenient. But not quite as inconvenient as being murdered or disappeared to a torture prison.
why no typescript?
> but hey, I was using VIMAGE/Jails back in the freebsd 4 days;

Yeah, sure you were. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes.html
Throughout the entire history of our planet the climate has been changing. It was changing before Man and will be changing long afterwards. To call it "Climate Change" is utterly useless and serves only to put up a convenient label that is completely impossible to disprove, because everyone agrees - the climate is changing.

What is not agreed, is the degree of change, its manifestation and the effect, if any, that Man is having on said climate change.
You are also worth more than 6 people with net worth of -$0.01, each of whom individually has more than you.
For me, WPF isn't the problem. I love MVVM, data binding, etc.

The problem is XAML. More like FML, amirite?
There is a disturbing number of jurors who won't convict the guilty because the evidence isn't as blindingly solid as CSI makes it seem necessary, or dismiss blindingly solid evidence because they expect some wildly implausible CSI-like theory is likely the truth.
Your statement is a non-sequitur. In no sense does that make my statement a logical fallacy.
With respect, I think attagart has a valid point.

Violence can also be confining someone to a jail cell, or confiscating (taking without voluntary consent) some or all of their property (e.g., imposing a fine on a person)

Your modern Australian courts must do this, to compel compliance with their decisions.
To make this poll more indicative of what each "like" and "dislike" means, there should honestly be an additional field that says the level of proficiency one has in each programming language. As in for each "like", it should be divided into "like: well-versed", "like: proficient", "like: passing knowledge", "like: have not used" and the same for each "dislike".

Of course, that does lend a large amount of bloat to the poll, but at least that information is more useful and useful data is what we should care about. This is not to say that this information is not useful, but I more interpret this data in a vague sense of what languages are used the most commonly and the pathos surrounding each language.

As an aside, I'd also like to point out that once one gets to know a language sufficiently well, they usually end up finding things that they dislike about the language and things that they like, further making this poll slightly more noisy. Ah well, I guess that's why new programming languages are born.

[edit: fixed a typo]
You don't? How many people do you guess were involved in the project? Divide the $600m by that number of people and you tell me if the cost is reasonable.
There is interesting book called "Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer" written by this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Cherkashin

He talks how KGB agents after the fall of the Soviet Union were in the best position to get into high power positions, plunder and pillage the best stuff available. They went from supposed devout communists to the most ruthless capitalists.

They (KGB agents) were really a different class of people. They had knowledge and understand of all the details, they were also selected to be the smartest, then trained on top of it.
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I FUCKING HATE when the trailer doesn't show ingame play, but useless rendered cgi.
C#'s namespaces also make more sense to me than Java's packages.
And I thought I was the only one doing this!
It's an excellent idea if your code evolves too much to keep up with approximate line numbers alone.
Almost definitely. Mono-develop is pretty good from what I understand, and Mono has a windows version for completeness. See http://www.mono-project.com/Using_Mono_on_Windows
The public reaction to the XBox One at E3 was catastrophic. Microsoft is making an all-singing all-dancing entertainment device while Sony is making a pure gaming machine - this allows Sony to charge less and have more to show off that interests their core audience.

Microsoft also made some DRM-oriented plans related to used games that they've had to intensely backpedal on, and this really hurt them.

Basically, Microsoft completely disappointed and enraged the biggest hardcore gaming fans. It's worth asking whether those fans represent the entire market, but they definitely have a huge marketing footprint. You might see MS recoup this loss when they start getting demo units up with their impressive TV features and home automation stuff and whatnot. If MS can really produce a killer app for the Kinect (which is integrated into the One) they could do some damage - Sony has completely backed off on their plans to provide a 3D Move camera as a bundled feature of the PS4, which allows them to whoop MS on price, but also means they'll be in trouble if something makes the camera a "must have" feature.
+1 for Railo!
The most important part of this post is the github repository: http://github.com/proletariatgames/HUGS

"This library includes Haxe externs for Unity and .NET frameworks, generated via the cslibgen utility. It also includes the HUGSWrapper "using" class, which includes various things to work around Haxe/C# translation issues, as well as make working with Unity easier."
The sad part about this is, from what I can tell, there's not going to be any fixing this any time soon. The company who wrote the code doesn't know what they're doing, and nobody else is ever going to be able to figure it out NOW. Sad state of affairs.
While I find this poll rather insignificant and pointless, I can't help being amused by the amount of downvotes Common Lisp and Clojure have received. Can someone(probably someone who downvoted) please explain me what is wrong with those languages? Not being a snark, just curious.
From the article:

"According to the latest data we have, 24.8% of American households had zero or negative net worth"

So basically if you have a net worth of more than $1 you are wealthier than ~25% of America.
Any insider theories why this particular project became so expensive and non-functional?
Yes, and more power to you, but your boss, and his boss, and your city manager, and the people providing the services you have are basing their decisions on something. If it's pseudo-science instead of the real thing, you're still living with the consequences.
This looks pretty cool, but for some reason I tend to like using the built in tools. Maybe I hate external dependencies or I have trust issues, but I'm way less likely to use this for that reason alone.
I'm primarily thinking about former co-workers.
"The projected timing of climate departure": http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/mora/PublicationsCopyRighted/Data....

Found via the Nature article. More data, less hype.
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And it's Levison making the statement not GoDaddy. He's perfectly free to state one thing in public and do another in private. I may just be reading too much into the quotes from GoDaddy but in my mind none of them point to them definitively killing the certificate on their own.
Nothing (or very little) about "climate change" is good science. It is the theory of economics, but applied to climate.

Take a bunch of measurements and formulas and curve fit it into a computer model. Ignore any inputs that cause outliers and keep on adjusting the weightings and inputs until what you perceive is the correct "result" is obtained.

This is not science.
TypeScript should be added to this list.
Rule of thumb: any headline which asks a yes/no question has an answer of "no".
No, but I've signed in to Facebook, Google, Reddit, etc. It's a solved problem.
Yes, combined.

25% of the US population has 0 or negative net worth. Combine those and the sum is well south of 0, so if you have a positive net worth, you're worth more than the bottom 25% combined (and then some, because the people with negative net worth would average out some of those positive net worth).
From the study[1] here is an image[2] of the comparison between flying, gliding and resting.

[1]http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3554/full/nco...
[2]http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3554/carousel...

Edit. Its a shame there no technical details of the sensor, I'd be interested in seeing how a device like this kept functioning over a year.
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This was easy:

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Nice.
That's an interesting claim, but I can't bring myself to upvote it unless you add a citation link.
I don't think I've seen a patch as a Reddit comment, but grab a command line json parser, add a json extension to the URL and away you go
So what? Those people are still part of the economy. e.g. if 95% of people had net negative wealth it wouldn't mean that they could be discounted and you'd only look at the remaining 5% for any meaningful view of how the wealth that society produces is distributed.
Basic binding works wonderfully, and the MVVM pattern is a good idea, but it just doesn't seem to work that well in practice. Some basic things seem overly difficult to do. I feel like there's a WPF way of doing things, but there is no reference for what that is.

For example: I had a DataGrid, and I was trying to figure out how to respond to the KeyUp event on a specific row, but only when it was the Delete key. I ended up having to create a custom dependency property in order to do that. 80 lines of code and a new class with 7 members later, I was able to reference that in my view and connect it to a method in my viewmodel. It works, but my lord it took me hours of googling and trying different things out for what seems like should be very simple functionality.
Not at all. I love Python and I don't like CoffeeScript. I think CS superficially looks like Python, but conceptually is more like Ruby/Perl.
There's something really wrong in Africa :P
> "because we generally get these contracts, we were an obvious choice"

There are good reasons a government body might want to give a contract to someone they worked with before. There's a previous track record of success, and they know that the company already has expertise/solutions for their specialized requirements (i.e. section 508 compliance).
I honestly don't know how to reply to that kind of argument, in that it feels like the evidence both overwhelming and widely available that Microsoft has, in fact, provided innovation. Look at the sheer number of patents the company holds; we can debate patent law until the end of days, but in the meantime, it is worth looking at the things that Microsoft brought to market. And then look at Microsoft Research, which produces literally thousands of peer-reviewed academic papers every year, dealing with numerous advancements in technology.

Ford is an interesting example. Arguably, without Ford's advancements in manufacturing, automation, and mass industrialization, we don't get the modern car, which unquestionably has made nuclear power possible. In a very Civilization way, you can't get to nuclear power without modern transportation.

So what you seem to be suggesting is a counterfactual world where some other software (let's say Apples, for argument's sake) rose to prominence instead of Microsoft. It is possible that they might also have done an amazing job of putting a PC on every desk. But we have no way of knowing that and what we do know, in the reality in which we currently live, that Microsoft did an excellent job of pushing computing out of the lab and into the home.

And there seems to me to be decent evidence that we'll continue to make those sort of innovations that push technology forward. While you're welcome to call me "silly", I think saying that Microsoft has introduced absolutely no advancements to the marketplace is silly. So maybe we simply can't come to a place of agreement because we're not working from the same set of facts?
My thought exactly. Actually I was think - "geez, these people are such hipsters". Everyone loves the "cool" languages - Scala, Haskell, etc. But of course the lame languages suck (Java). Though I was pleasantly surprised to see the love for C#. It's a very nice language and you'd think being from MS it wouldn't be "cool".
Should have got Harper Reed and the Obama campaign tech team to knock it up in Rails on AWS.
He's saying that if you add up a bunch of negative net worths, eventually the sum is going to be very negative, even if each individual number was small. In particular, he's talking about the case where each of those numbers that you add up is individually smaller than your personal debt, but their sum exceeds your personal debt. Therefore, it looks like you are wealthier than all of those people combined (since your worth exceeds the sum of all theirs!).
I still use GoDaddy for a couple of names because they support DNSSEC DS records. I'd like to move them out, but my other providers don't even have a roadmap to implement DS/DNSSEC.
Ah, the usual VB hate... likely from people who've never even used it.
I think you'd need to cite other examples of me, specifically, relating that story to qualify it "as oft regurgitated" and anecdotal, and as my anecdote doesn't set out to present the case for less choice being good, I'd argue relevance :)
Why is Karel not on there?
Console:
function loadAudio(e){}

Much better.
Are we voting language or implementation? Go: love the implementation. Scala: nice language.
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Fixes a non-problem.

Ok, so Javascript has a bunch of gotchas but it's an interesting language which I both like and dislike but I don't dislike it enough to add yet another layer to my dev platform.

Also, as someone stated elsewhere on this page the true solution is to make a browser virtual machine and use any high level interpreted language you want.
your analogy is wrong, it'd be more like "should the cops be able to get keys to your house".

In fact , it isn't even that, it's "should the cops be able to see who is coming in and out of your house, and searching them when they come in".

How did Lavabit's system work? I mean at one point there's an entry point, and the FBI wanted the info for the metadata, so just checking at the entry point for who's logging in would do it. You're going to have to convince me that it's non-trivial to implement something to scrape the metadata at the door (as in more than a couple hours work at most).

I don't know how to feel about it because $3500 is way too much money for what is asked, if this were a contracting job, and I think that if the police have a warrant for something they are reasonably entitled to what they're looking for. But asking people to do work without compensation.... I feel like there must be a precedent somewhere. At one point things become obstruction. I don't know what we should consider to be reasonable in these situations.
The problem comes in when you factor in the danger of ever changing political and project climates. In this case if the Republican party had been successful in revoking the ACA whatever work the contractors were doing was now completely wasted through no cause or fault of their own.

In your analogy it would be like you're successfully installing the panel and suddenly there's a massive tree completely shading the solar panels or the power company suddenly refusing to accept feed-in power from residential structures.
The same reason everyone was down on Javascript 10 years ago: The development tools, APIs, and runtime were unpleasant. Unfortunately for flash developers it doesn't look actionscript will be following in Javascript's footsteps.
Non-sequitur.

That others got other contracts is not relevant to the point that this contractor got this $60M contract without a bidding process when there was no reason to not solicit bids from others.

(As others note, seems it was a lot more than $60M.)
Also, the goal is the make the Mono VM binary compatible with .NET apps compiled on windows. At the very least I'm able to get basic ASP.NET projects up and running by compiling on windows and copying the bin directory to the Linux machine and starting XSP4. Like i said though, i was unable to get forms authentication working due to a few methods not being implemented yet on Mono for forms auth.
And who can't love VB for getting shit done (at least back in the day). Though I can see if we are just focusing on the language.
Classes without any kind of type checking are worthless imho. I would have prefered implicit interfaces instead of classes.
"I haven't read the book; I'm taking this example from a review in The Wall Street Journal by Christopher F. Chabris, a psychology professor at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y."

Well, come on then. This is just blogspam in that case. We have already discussed Chabris's review (in its longer form from Chabris's blog) here on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6510996

We should stop believing ANYONE just because of their name or their previously published writings. We should read anything we read with our minds active, ready to disagree if the facts warrant. And that is what Malcolm Gladwell himself has said in interviews: "I'm happy if somebody reads my books and reaches a conclusion that is different from mine, as long as the ideas in the book cause them to think."
I may be naive, but I don't see why he would state such a thing rather than not saying anything if you were right. I also don't see why GoDaddy would put themselves in the middle of a court affair with the feds for nothing.
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To be fair, I'd only actively recommend CFML if it fits your requirements -- if you want something hackable like PHP, perhaps the flexibility of being able to load and use any old Java library, and don't want your language to be opinionated on client side frameworks.

Otherwise I tend not to recommend, mostly because there's a lot of old bad CFML code out there, and it's frankly embarrassing.
Haha, yeah, I spend hours across two days on those government health exchange sites (the US one and NY one) just trying to get a quote. Kept erroring out and forgetting my history and other problems.

Meanwhile Freelancer's Union site was great:
http://freelancersunion.org/

I got a quote easily before I had to do any quizzes. The gov ones were not like that. There were a few documents that had to be emailed in for verification, but they took care of that promptly. There was one bug related to zip+4 not being supported and not being changeable after entering, but they answered the phone immediately and fixed it in a minute.
Anything which helps people learn something necessary is welcome. I cannot but support it. What I intended to say is: sometimes abstraction helps explaining things. I just tried to abstract what led him to say so many things. The problem with rants is that people usually do not realize they are the object of it.

As someone told me time ago, if you want to say something to someone who is misbehaving, do not use a public medium: everybody else will get the message but he won't.
I'm not sure you're disagreeing with him. His point is that the US government has a history of creating huge expensive projects riddled with inefficiencies and which, quite often, yield a disappointing final product.

Saying that one of the causes of that is corruption is not exactly refuting the claim.
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Since Haxe looks like it was made with cross-platform gaming in mind, how does it deal with GC issues? How hard is it to use when you have to go into that "no create or destroy" main-loop? I assume this varies depending on target platform.
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It only takes ones reading every four minutes, which probably pushes the duty cycle for the processor and sensor chips down enough to make the energy budget.

Assuming a slow 3 seconds for each cycle of "wake up, initialize sensor, take a reading, store it to flash, set timer, go to sleep", that's a duty cycle of 1.3% which is pretty nice.