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I'm sorry, I accidentally deleted instead of editing, reposted above.

That is a very reasonable assumption: code that is used by a dozen projects, with a few variations for each of them, is certainly less tested than code shared by a thousand different projects and developers using a standard API. It's not inherently flawed or bad, but a matter of numbers.

Also have in mind that frameworks vary wildy. Angular and Ember might be absurdly prescriptive, you have to do things a certain way, while Backbone and others are extremely flexible, merely a collection of useful patterns and tools.

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Why do frameworks exist? They allow you to speed-up development, offer battle-hardened code, a consistent API, good documentation and proven design patterns, plus developers can make use of their previous experience with it. It's a matter of choice, and of course there are trade-offs, namely flexibility.

It's not about being "the standard", just providing useful tools. I bet you end up using a lot of the same components over and over, right? Package them up and call it the 'Getify Framework' and you're in the same spot.

I don't get why you feel that someone is 'forcing' you to do anything? You say that you write your own code because

I already understood that (architecture) domain pretty well.
I’ve done similar “single-page apps” dozens of times. I’m
getting a little better each time I do it. I learn new lessons
about easier ways to mix the pieces together with each project.

Well, guess what? That's how Backbone, Angular, and all other frameworks came to be. From other developers that decided to share their solutions, and people adopted them because they liked it and it solved some of their problems, not because they were forced to (?).
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Every time in read about the Japanese "salaryman" culture, it makes me sad... And then wonder whether the West will end up somewhere similar in the future.

This article had that effect on me, but it also made me angry; taking it at face value, it shows that salarymen have it even worse than I thought :(

They do get interesting architecture out of it, but that's hardly a good trade off for geographic permanence and a lack of financial movement... Or is it? It's hard to grok other cultures, despite my best efforts. Maybe it is worth it to them?

One thing seems to be certain across cultures: no one is happy and everything sucks ;)
"Is interesting that..."

If a lawyer owns a company that needs legal work, is it so odd that the lawyer does the work? Seems no more odd than an owner that's also a programmer writing software for his business.
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I've heard a story that someone with a PhD couldn't find a job in his field after being laid off, so he started applying to other lower-paying fields. He eventually removed the PhD from his resume, because he realized he was not being hired as employers saw him as 'overqualified' and likely to quit.
Have a look at it now. That issue is fixed. Thanks a lot for the constructive comments.
+1. totally agree with that sentiment.
Seems incredibly buggy when you just type straight without waiting for any completions. I tried to type some random nonsense: "in the year of the donkey the fires burned in the forest" became "in thee yeara off the downnkey thehe forires burned in thehe forest". Safari 7.
What is the purpose of the opacity fade at the bottom? Stylistic? I'd really rather be able to see everything clearly. Looks like there is some good content otherwise.
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Well, but this is exactly what they are doing here - the letter claims that they required corrections in the marketing claims (which would be correcting information asymmetries / labeling requirements), this wasn't done properly for a long time, so they are now enforcing it.

For any reasonable requirement, if people/companies don't comply then it has to escalate to [threats of] harsher actions in order to force the reasonable thing to actually happen.
States are powerful. You are mistaken if you think bitcoin can somehow materially evade that power, you have to interact with the real world some time.

Putting aside the increasingly clear fact that network-attached computers won't be secure from state-actors for the foreseeable future --- and bitcoin transactions always have to hit the network --- states can effectively control bitcoin being spent or bitcoin cash-outs being transferred in country as well as any currency.

Presently the risk of losing or having stolen your bitcoin is far higher than the same for gold or conventional stores of value.
Fair enough, I guess it just strikes me as odd to talk about post-scarcity anything when we have poverty on such scales. I guess it can all be an outgrowth of the same phenomena.
Fair enough. You prefer the mainstream perspective to others. That is a common point of view.
I'd tend to believe that if you have a badass business deal that is truly worth 1B, you have know-how to get it off the ground, and have exceptional presentation skills (its all about the sell, at this point) a VC wouldn't say no because a person is black, female, gay, or all 3. VCs are their to make money, and they see white male harvard dropouts with no social life to be a safe bet. Convince them that you have a plan to net a return, that is, convince them based on your MERIT, and you'll be successful.

Meritocracy is based on merit, not "giving everyone a fair chance," even if that's what the author would prefer. Though, that's not to say that a bias doesn't exist.
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The future of modern banking is to return to physical transfer of funds. Instead of relying on modern networking, technology, automation, or websites... we will manually move money over a physical medium.

</sarcasm>

Without automation, how the hell is BTC supposed to be any better than cash?
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total strawman. language abstractions are not even remotely the same as framework abstractions inside of a language. apples and palm trees, at best.
I don't think they're about to let the yuan float totally, soon. I'd be surprised. If they did, suddenly their output would become less attractive to Western markets. We know they want to have their economy rely more on (internal) consumerism than on the export market, that that's a long transition.
I don't really work remotely but at home for myself for the last year. The biggest challenge for me in a given day is lack of social interaction. It is nice to have a quiet place to work, but hard to deal with (some days) not speaking to a single person all day. Frankly my last job had many downfalls, but I did enjoy some of the people I worked with.
He did not include expenses for insurance, property damage, paying tax and so on. And he still was only able to turn out a healthy profit in one of four locations.

Does not look like a viable business idea to me.

However it may be a good way to lower rent or afford an oversized appartment.
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If you aim to reach opensource developers (they are great components for a new language community) I could add to that nice list:

9) Mailing list
10) IRC channel

With convenient support.

But on a more abstract way... I think... just focus all your marketing in the stuff that makes your lang desirable, for users of currently available languages. From all the view points (technical, management, guarantees, etc).
The point of the article was that we're pretending it's an almost pure meritocracy though; which itself is hampering efforts to improve on the current situation.

More than anything else it's about the tech industry being in denial about this.
I'm curious why the company didn't attempt to contact the band before using their song claiming Fair Use. It seems obvious that the Beasties aren't against the message of the commercial or campaign, but it is their intellectual property, and MCA's last will prevents use of their compositions in commercials. Monster Energy had the same thing happen to them in the same circumstance when they used Sabotage.
Well, the net is your friend, e.g. this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22east+texas%22+or+%22rocke...

Lead to this first article: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/east-texas-courts... from the beginning of the year that adds a lot of details and nuance to the story. E.g. it's not a Rocket Docket anymore, not defense friendly in that summary judgement is seldom granted, trials are quick which can present difficulties in multi-defendant cases, but plenty of plaintiffs are losing big, like in the Eolas case. 4 day trial, found invalid, game over.
There's a very deep rabbit-hole of feminist studies...
What about all the lives lost when it takes first responders up to 8 minutes to respond to a crime because of false positives?

I really believe that this would be a more efficient system on the whole.
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I started the development of tracemalloc at Wyplay, but I rewrote all the code for the version included in Python 3.4: complelty different API, you get different data, new implementation, etc. The old code:
https://github.com/wyplay/pytracemalloc/

The PEP 445 (malloc API) also allows to plug hooks on memory allocators at runtime, instead of having to recompile Python for that.
The only way to know it actually works is to do the necessary science, which unfortunately isn't cheap but them's the breaks. Stopping bad medication from being on the market saves lives, even if it prevents the occasional good one.
Not surprised with the police response. In India, that kind of apathy is routine and 'expected' of each and every governmental organization.

Surprising would have been hard-hitting investigations and solved cases.
It seems weird to be shocked that success in a startup depends on luck. Of course it does; we already know that from seeing how widely the returns fluctuate. But that doesn't mean successful startup founders aren't smart. A good way to put it would be that, while your chances of success are random, if you're smart and determined your chances are higher. If you aren't smart or determined, you don't qualify for the lottery at all.
The writer's overuse of bold text really tarnishes his credibility.
I'm in a similar boat: my brain just doesn't enjoy chess. I tried studying it, and it bored me to tears. Go feels better to me because it has far simpler rules, but significantly greater depth. (Or maybe I recognize the patterns more readily.) Poker feels better to me because making decisions in the absence of perfect information models real life.
Why is it offensive? You seem pretty aware of the history there.. if it's foreign spies, ISI has to lead the list of possible suspects, right? They've got the motive, means and a history.

I'm American and I wouldn't be upset at speculation that the US was killing Iranian nuclear scientists. I'd be like "Well, yeah, it's always a possibility".
tracemalloc is the first user of the PEP 445 (malloc API), but I wrote another toy:
https://bitbucket.org/haypo/pyfailmalloc

"Debug tool for Python injecting memory allocation faults to simulate a low memory system to test how your application handles MemoryError exceptions."
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Well, actually, I don't. At high levels of play, white does win more often than black, which points to an imbalance of sorts [1]. But if the SC2 patches were frozen right now, and the game enjoyed 500 years of popularity, with reams of books written by top minds throughout the ages about analysis of the game, do you really think that there would not be one race that would come out ahead? I find that to be implausible.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess
> You wrote that the parser insists on -key=value, but that's not true. Because all flags are "long names", all of these are equivalent:

> -key value -key=value --key value --key=value

> If you prefer one over the others, use that one.

Thank you, I had no idea! I support this design choice now.
So you're saying that a library that has no side effects but performs a complicated data transformation "doesn't do anything"?
If the US government decides to take this approach, I am sure that a few of these guys will do the exact opposite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_haven#Examples
but it is the most meritocratic of any other place in the world

Really? I think most pro sports leagues would give SV a run for it's money in terms of meritocracy.
This is simply the result of the medical lobby. This pressure is being put on them simply because it takes power from the gods of medicine. If I order my own bloodwork, (from the same labs that my medical foundation does), somehow the same bloodwork costs me 20% of what it would otherwise. This is about taking away the ability to monitor your own health, in order to enrich the medical community.

This will simply result in this type of testing to move beyond FDA borders. Great job FDA, you're helping kill a successful and profitable US company. Un-F-ing-believable.
This argument compares apples to oranges. Your game was not the same as World of Warcraft. It had completely different graphics, different marketing, distribution, gameplay, etc. Facebook is not Google+. Windows is not OS X.

Lottery tickets are apples to apples. Yes, the problem domains for these start-ups may overlap, but these are not apples to apples. Your MMO was not the same as WoW.

The differentiating factor between your MMO and WoW was not just luck. They're different games.
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Says you, but we don't live in a society where everyone gets to make their own rules. As a country, we've decided we do have the right to boss you around, so we do. :)
Any lab test is going to have those two parts, a lab procedure and an analysis. I would expect both parts to be governed by the FDA to ensure reliable results.
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Indeed, the fact that divergence from a standard for divergence's sake is shocking was my entire reason for starting this thread.
The bold text all appear to be links, just sayin'. I agree that it's obnoxious though.
My itch is that outdoorers and outdoor clubs (climbing, kayaking, caving, etc.) are still living in the 90'. They have shitty portals and forums. There is no worldwide directory of people and, especially, clubs and events and it sucks (especially if you are an expat like me and change often city).

There you go. How would you go about this? Social network? Forums? Magazine? All of the 3 and more? What about monetization? Don't worry, just being a bit rant-ish, I know those are tough questions.
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Just wanted to mention that this console is available in Safari as well, presumably a consequence of webkit.
To put a little finer point on it, what if successful startups have enough randomly-uncontrolled and untracked things happen to them to make them successful as to be not reproducible?

So you do all the right things, and you still only have a 1-in-20 chance. Or the other guy does all the wrong things, and he sells out in two years for 20 Million. A third guy does some good things and some really bad things, still manages to grow and flip, then he writes a book on "How to have a successful startup" that claims to know the answers.

As far as I can tell, this is pretty close to the state of things, and that's okay. It just means 1) you can't give up, and 2) you need to choose your strategy based on this state of affairs.

What you don't want to do is to acknowledge there is randomness, then throw in the towel. Or to go on some jag where you hero worship Zuckerberg or some other rich schmuck simply because the startup lottery hit for them. The truth is much more complicated -- and involves a lot of hard work.
You do know waterloo is where some of the builders/inventors of colossus ended up post ww2 and has along history in computing.
While using a framework limits you to that framework. I know this isn't a huge setback, but there are times when it is intolerable, ie. framework forces design patterns that you are not using. But that also works both ways. Sometimes you want to enforce design patterns, and then the framework helps you... Although I would sum that up to a lazy programmer IMO
Well yeah, they could totally get rid of the health part of their product and only report on ancestry, and I think the FDA would be perfectly fine with that.
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To be fair, that's just beginning to change because of analytics.
Great blog Vianney. I just attended a conference last week full of silicon valley's best and brightest (http://warmgun.com/). I don't think that things are totally random, but I was struck by the million different ways to success (and failure). Chance definitely has a lot to do with it. It allows the really hard work to pay off.
The classic definition is what most people think of: socially liberal, fiscally conservative. These two ideas are coherent because they both require minimal intervention on the part of the state. But libertarians are often attacked for not supporting equal individual rights, which does require forceful intervention by a state. This dichotomy is what non-libertarians have trouble understanding. And when something is poorly understood, it is often vilified.

Edit: this should have been posted under the post above, but I meant to take issue with your comment on the division on economic issues. The only division I've seen is tactical, not philosophical. Can you provide an example of a deep philosophical division?
Things are nuanced rather than binary.
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Good list, see this video for more discussion on the topic for those confused:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AivEQmfPpk
tl;dr silicon valley isn't the liberal utopia and therefore not a meritocracy.
Is it a compiled language? is it something like "a framework"?

Are you seeking to make a spectacular launch to build a startup around this language (support, consulting, etc) ?

Otherwise, just push your code to github, blog about it (or use the repo wiki), and treat nice to people willing to use it, or work with you to improve it. If it´s about money, you should make an strategy first, right. Else you can just "go" with it, no fears.
My recommendation would be to compile a Lisp. See: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf. Easy to follow tutorial for compiling Scheme to x86.

This advice is especially true if you think syntax and parsing are the boring parts of writing a compiler.
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My essay on the subject, cast in terms of climbing a fitness landscape and getting stuck in local optima:
https://plus.google.com/u/1/+RayCromwell/posts/5bhdU8hF68t
How is a response which is basically "such things" just happen in India any more insightful than the police response?
It says enough that when thinking of what would overcome the obstacles of being black, female and gay you come up with a "sure-thing 1 billion dollar deal."
Regardless of your sex, you're going to have a tough time as a startup founder if you can't embody those qualities. As of yet, there is no affirmative action in startups, so it's put up or get an easier job.
Well, I would extend that and ask. Has anybody completed implementing the Lexer/Parser phase? Once you get the Syntax tree or IR, the complexity is more or less (if not exactly the same) similar to other languages.
It's a style of writing that is supposed to make texts easier and more interesting to read. I don't see any correlation between the quality of journalism and the use of bold text.

Edit: Also, they're links. As pointed out by someone else.

One shouldn't be so fast to question an author's credibility, especially if one is only a random nick on an unrelated site making unsupported statements.
I'd tend to believe that if you have a badass business deal [...] a VC wouldn't say no because a person is black, female, gay, or all 3.

But what data causes you to 'tend to believe'? That assumption is kind of at the heart of the article - not that SV is a pure meritocracy (I doubt many places in the world really are) but that people's perception is that it is a lot more meritocratic than it is - and no-one ever checks to see if their perception is backed up by fact.
See other comments here about NIH. To attribute my post to NIH mindset is laughable. You obviously didn't read it fully.

I use all kinds of public OSS'd libraries and tools. I just don't use frameworks that prescribe an exact way those should be glued together, nor do I stick my own opinions about how the glue should work out "there" to try and convince others they should do it exactly like I do.
OK, challenge accepted. I've only just noticed that this thread continued, and to be honest I doubt anyone will read this - but seeing as Mr Martin's responses aren't unreasonable I think they deserve an answer. I'll have to collect my thoughts, so more later...
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People in SV who have some success want it to be a meritocracy so they can feel that they succeeded on their own internal merit.
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>Helene Ahl found that in business discourse 70 percent of words used to describe entrepreneurs were male-gendered — these included “self-reliant”, “assertive”, “forceful”, “risk-taking”, “self-sufficient”, “leader”, “competitive”, and “ambitious”.

What a load of feminist rubbish on the front page.
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You mean those with rich sugar daddy's funding them as a vanity project as most top tier football (soccer) clubs are or do you mean the socialist closed shop NFL where they only penalty for failure is the pick of next years best players.
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I'm trying to shift my habits around myself. Going from the problem/solution perspective, my problem is that I need to work in time for my startup around my dayjob hours. If I wait until evening to work on startup, I'm already tired and it's conflicting with life stuff. So I'm trying to have at least two hours a day before dayjob starts.

The blocker is that I often just drone late at night, surfing/shopping or watching tv. It's not productive time. So I'm kind of forcing myself to go to bed early, 11pm at the latest, and using a silent alarm (Fitbit Force) to get myself up and avoid the snooze button.

The hardest part has been dealing with when life forces me to stay up late anyway, not breaking the habit.
The transaction is propagated through the network in a few seconds. The bitcoin wallet will allow you to spend the funds received, even if they are not confirmed by the network[1]. You simply add the risk of a double-spend attack against your balance, if an attacker also sent coins to someone else.

It is up to miner discretion which transactions to include in blocks. If the fee included is zero, then many miners will pass on your transaction, and it may take longer to confirm the original transaction.

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/3288#issuecomment-...
Why do you wish that? Every news source on the planet localizes currency amounts to their audience. Are you actually making some weird political point about BTC value, or are you surprised that a news source is localizing currency values?