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Who doesn't go into the implementation with the solution worked out?

I think that's not the problem. I think it's just that different things have different levels of complexity, and your representation should match what you want to do.

There is a lot of "real world" computation where it makes more sense to do things the "mathy way" rather than representing them with objects.
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Turntable.fm was the first site I watched from the very inception of its hype cycle, which appeared white-hot. I had just checked in with them the other day, "yep, still alive," but I hadn't heard zilch about them in years.
Yes really. We asked Apple during telephone conversation to tell us which application they are taking about but they did not tell us.

So they expect us to take action but don't provide neccesary data.
> The loophole in the first part, of course, is that once you've spied on them, it's often straightforward enough to backtrack out a legal vector to investigate the target, and "discover" the information you already knew.

I agree that that's a problem with the original decision even beyond taking the government's representation at face value (and, really, a fundamental problem with the general approach that the exclusionary rule is usually the exclusive remedy for illegal search and seizure, which goes far beyond just the NSA electronic surveillance issue.)
I agree completely. I've been thinking about this a lot, and non-quoted strings strike me as an absolute requirement for anything that aims to replace the bourne shell and its descendants (as opposed to complementing them in the way that Perl/Python/Ruby do it). But obviously it's hard to have non quoted strings in a programming language.

I need to play more with TCL (the one non sh-like language I know that does this) but I think even it has some very strange features that grow out of treating ordinary text as strings.
Knowingly entering into an agreement before declaring bankruptcy is fraud. Debt incurred through fraudulent acts is likely to not be discharged through bankruptcy.

http://www.bankruptcylawnetwork.com/bankruptcy-discharge-and...

You could collect a lot of money through Groupon, declare bankruptcy, Groupon could object to the discharge of the money you owe them, the judge could refuse to discharge the fraudulent debt and then you would find yourself having gone through bankruptcy but still be in debt.
The people who play tournament chess rarely deviate from proven opening sequences as well. As such, publishing move by move accounts of Chess tournaments for documentation and study hinders creativity. See what I did there?
I don't want a software based solution that compresses my current display and streams it to a device on the local network.

What I want is two HDMI dongles that literally function like wireless cables. Plug one dongle into one device. Plug the other dongle into the other device. The result should be exactly the same as if I had an actual HDMI cable. No software configuration. No wifi setup. Maybe a light on each device to indicate if the signal is strong enough and if they are connected to each other or not.

It's not complicated. That's all I want. Someone, please make this!

For that matter, there's a huge market for all sorts of dongles of this nature. Wireless audio cables that transmit digitally, for example. Basically, I want to just do away with wires and replace them with bi-directional dongles of some sort on each end.
Quake 3 was pure perfection. That game never crashed. And I was playing on Linux in the bad old days of the late '90s, when sound and graphics drivers were spotty at best. I don't think we'll see anything like it again. It's a FPS that plays more like an action arcade game than a simulator. It took some of the elements of Quake 1 and 2 but placed them in a Snow Crash cyberpunk world.
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That's definitely worth looking into, thanks. I hadn't heard of it before, have you had any experience (on either side of the transaction) with it?
>whenever a new business idea pops up in the consumer web arena

Happens with cryptocurrencies too.
There is an important category of near-zero-marginal-cost businesses that rarely or never lose money on deals. Think lawn care, Lasik, massage, leg waxing, haircuts, and so on - businesses with airline-esque cost structures. They are also the most profitable for the deals companies.
I'm not so sure.. when you consider the ways that exist of converting BTC into your local currency, most of them have reporting rules for transactions and aggregates over a certain amount.

I really wish the IRS would concern itself with USD only.. BTC is going to be a nightmare to tax, let alone enforce.

Hoping people are conscientious, here. The recent hearing about Bitcoin was positive, it does not need the association of being a tax cheat's friend to ruin it!
some of my tests, including even stuff such as
gruber's own pages about markdown, didn't work.
so you'll need to make this thing more robust.

but the example that did work looked very nice,
so you are definitely on the right track here,
and a web-app that does this could be very big,
so i definitely suggest you keep working on it.

-bowerbird

p.s. even if markdown _is_ considered harmful! ;+)
> https://medium.com/the-future-of-publishing/495ccfe24a52
I had one of these too! I finally caved and got a Nokia N9. Before that, I had my F3 and an iPod touch together. All in all, sadly, the convenience of a smartphone beats the ridiculous durability and talk time of the F3.
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Nice job, bspace and team!
Gold isn't just shiny, it is the most unreactive metal.

It has a lot of other potential uses that other industries avoid because it is so expensive. If the price ever falls it will be kept up by those uses.

http://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml
We would love to work with them but they are not responsive. Also I would like to terminate particulate app but Apple doesn't say anything which app.
The Fedwire transaction better be instantaneous -- interest on intraday overdrafts accrues by the minute.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/psr_policy.htm#...
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"Slope of Enlightment" assumes that the peak excitement of the technology is already behind us. I don't think we've seen that peak yet. VR in the 90s never came close to living up to expectations and was a dud.

The peak is yet to come in my opinion. When the oculus consumer version comes out, people are gonna go crazy and predict that we're all going to live in the virtual world very soon. That won't pan out in the short-term, but we will slowly get there. That's when the Slope of Enlightment will hit.
It's interesting to note that the question was "how to design a class", which to me sounds like a question about static structure, e.g. what data members and methods will the class have. Most of the discussion on this and the SO page mixes in OOD, OOP with the original question and then throws in some inappropriate OO vs. FP tangents.

It's important to remember that there's a lot of, for lack of a better word, "class-oriented design" which typically tries to model the static structure of the physical world or some artefacts of the programming environment.

In a completely separate world there's what I would call OO design and programming which is more concerned about the interaction of actual objects aka. instances of classes. Coming from the statically typed world the distinction is often unclear but for the original Smalltalkers and other OO purists object orientation was never about classes.
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I was hacking at for 4 days. Here were my observations about the whole event. I echo op's concerns.

Day 1: Monday

Came in early 10am-ish. 2nd floor, Moscone West, Hackathon area set up. There was a table. This is where we checked out team in. Room capacity <50% filled.

Nightclub lighting. Imagine walking into a nightclub and turning on your computer to work. That's what this setup was like for 3 days! Someone briefly turned on the lights on Wednesday. I am thinking this had to do with Marc and Jim Cramer stopping by.

There was a camera crew with really expensive gear filming some people on day one. Not sure what this was all about.

Day 1 Overnight
Food truck around midnight. Dead. You'd think more people would stick around overnight to work on their hacks. I'd say there were at most 20 people. 2 dudes were noticeably snoring towards the sponsor tables in the bags. First red flag.

Keynote day. Hacking continues. Hackers are free to watch the keynote on their laptops despite having "keynote" designation on their badges. Security ridiculously tight everywhere.

I started to get a weird vibe about the whole event. I've been to a few other hackathons (angelhack, disrupt, launch, startup weekend, paypal etc). This one seemed less organized and hacker friendly. They had food (think pizza, soda, and ice cream), but as far as wiring (wifi - shoddy, powerstrips - stationary to long desks, lighting - think nightclub-like, flashing blue, green, purple circles, and mainly event production staff present).

Re: Hack submissions.
Instructions were to submit hacks to Challenge Post by 6pm Wednesday. Submissions must include link for a video and meet the rules and requirements. No information was communicated about judging, how finalists would be selected etc.

Waste of my time, money and overall bad vibe from Salesforce.
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Today Turntable.fm announced it's pivoting and shutting down its awesome yet struggling social music service. http://blog.turntable.fm/post/67777306411/turntable-live-tur...

I wrote this essay of why it was struggling in March of this year.
I know humor is forbidden, but I laughed out loud at this anyway. I felt compelled to comment because this is a difficult joke to setup in every day conversation.
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1. I don't believe you received 7,000 legitimate signups in 4 hours. Not even startups which launch on TechCrunch receive that kind of engagement that quickly.

2. I would not recommend making another thread, since that is bordering on spammy.
It's not perfect, but it's close enough that a halfway decent musician can correct its mistakes. I've used Chordify plenty of times to help me learn songs on the ukulele. It takes less time than guessing the chords by ear.
I have a theory that I'd be super upbeat if I had achieved massive, world-class success doing something I love, that was game-changing, in about as pure a form as it gets.
I think that's totally missing the point of the article. The license plates are being used to track where every person goes over a long period of time, which can uncover some very private information about people, like whether the person is cheating on their spouse, or sees a psychiatrist on a weekly basis.

And yes, you can find this out just by physically following someone wherever they go, but since that's impractical to do on a mass scale, it's not likely to be done for people who aren't targets of specific criminal investigations. License plate scanning collects this personal information indiscriminately about totally innocent people.

And this information is likely to be abused by people in positions of power, just like existing records about people are. I can't count how many times have I've heard about cops getting in trouble for running unauthorized database searches on ex-girlfriends, etc. Detailed data about a person's every movement would be even more tempting to abuse.
when you consider the ways that exist of converting BTC into your local currency, most of them have reporting rules for transactions and aggregates over a certain amount

I've bought most of my bitcoins from Craigslist handing cash to local bitcoin sellers.

Many people use https://localbitcoins.com/

There are definitely at least a few ways to buy and sell bitcoin without leaving a paper trail.
I am not a tax expert, so take this with a grain of salt, but I believe these are accurate answers.

1. Once you mix your coins the value of a coin from your perspective becomes the average cost of a coin. So if you paid $1 for a coin and $100 for another coin, put both into something that made the distinction impossible, and then sold a coin for $150, you would have to pay taxes on $150 - ($100 + $1)/2 or $99.5 of income.

Note that turning into non-Bitcoin is the event, type of Bitcoin does not matter, but anything but a Bitcoin does.

2. Technically you would have an income on your gains of xxx-w%. I don't know offhand if you could write off the expense, but I doubt it.

3. You are talking about bitcoins being bitcoins, so no taxable event. Whether it counts as an expense for writing off purposes is another point I don't know. This would likely be a loss so could be deducted.

Your edit: Assuming you account for the value of the bitcoins gained at the time you gained them as income (which you should have) then you can consider that as the cost of the bitcoins. If you never counted the value of the bitcoins when you gained them then your cost basis is $0, so the entire value of the cash out is income. There may also be penalties involved in that but they likely won't care for small amounts of original value.
I don't think the president has blanket immunity. Rather, he has immunity for things he does as the president. This type of immunity is not uncommon. For example, judges have immunity for everything they do while acting as a judge.
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>In the end, it turns out that sometimes the optimists are right and sometimes the naysayers are, and it's really hard to tell who's right and who's wrong for quite some time.

Or: Both parties are right for their own reasons and are simply talking past each other.
My only problem with the Julia language is that it requires code be written without vector notation in order to be fast:

In general, unlike many other technical computing languages, Julia does not expect programs to be written in a vectorized style for performance. http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/arrays/

In Fortan, MATLAB and Python, the opposite is true: vector notation is fastest.
Microsoft's rumor to purchase Winamp appears confirmed
Central banks moving gold reserves is very different from everyday financial transactions because reserves have a special status tied to their physicality. They act as a form of physically controlled collateral.

Corporations and individuals generally do not move wealth via physical assets.
Two words: inflation.
Both are positive things, the best Doom has already been made and Winamp stagnated for years now.

Time to stop being lazy, learn foobar2000 and buy an Oculus Rift.

Too bad IdTech6 won't be as awesome as it could be, but again VR will be so much better instead.
Why not link to the official blog post? http://blog.turntable.fm/post/67777306411/turntable-live-tur...
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I get approached all the time by recruiters who supposedly love my work and want me to interview with their clients. It's getting harder to tell them that I'm not interested in a job. My consulting is doing okay and I'm actually starting to hire out some work. Why would I give that up, for a dice roll with a good chance of losing on whether or not my new boss turns out to be an asshole?
About 10 years ago he talked to some of us guys writing 3D drivers for Linux, he is all kinds of awesome when it comes to code skills and spent a few hours geeking out with us at Siggraph. About a year before, I got to see his coding in action when we were first bringing up the first Matrox G200-GLX driver. He would accomplish so much in just a few days when he donated some time to helping us get the MGA-G200 working with Quake. He would accomplish in days what most of us at the time would have taken weeks to do. He just naturally understands 3D and 3D hardware and is a geeks geek. I will bet he is spending most of his day to day coding and hacking.
I'll look into that, thanks. It obviously has a much wider reader base than Leanpub where I'm currently publishing, although it has lower margins and more "competition". Of course there's nothing stopping me using both if that looks promising.
Is there any specific guide for ranking better on kdp that you would recommend? I've just found a couple via Google and they seem to have conflicting (and slightly inconclusive) advice.
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wow - 'turntable live' looks really lame...
Bitcoin is considered a property since it is not specifically categorized otherwise, so it works a little different than currencies.

But answering that question is very complex for business, you probably don't need to worry about small gains as a person.
It isn't harder to add operations in languages that don't confuse class and object, e.g. if you have a dynamically typed language you could just add whatever operation you needed for a specific object without worrying about hierarchies. The question is whether that just replaces one problem (brittle hierarchies) with another (method-not-supported errors).
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I don't think its clear that the President has immunity for offenses committed while in office (I think the general consensus is that he does not, though ISTR seeing contrary arguments), but it is pretty clear that the President -- as the holder of executive authority -- can't be prosecuted for federal crimes by the US government while he is in office (because the President holds the executive power, thus a criminal action against the President would be the President acting against himself.)

This is not so much an issue of immunity as of a requirement for the prosecution and defense to not be different parties.

> Seems like it would violate the concept of rule of law...

I would argue that the President being immune to prosecution for crimes committed while in office would be a bigger violation of the concept of rule of law than the President being subject to prosecution for such violations but only after leaving office.
This is a wonderfully designed system. Just looked at the website, beautiful design and a great project.
> Programming is the critical thinking aspects of developing software and a skill that everyone should master: starting with children.

That's pretty much the opposite of my point: programmers want everyone to think like programmers (per your
definition). In my opinion, this kind of "critical" thinking is not necessarily a positive: there are other ways to think critically that don't map well to programming. This seems like the typical HN view that everyone should think like I do. Some people don't get math, or symbolic logic, and that's not stopping them being a value to society.

Looking at your profile, it seems like you have a horse in this race. Personally, Visual looks very slick, but I don't think visual representations are really appropriate for programming beyond toys (or maybe data modelling, but not procedural programming). It gets very hard to lay out a large program in 2D space, and the toolbox required to enumerate all the built-ins and libraries seems like a bit of a handicap compared to just typing them.
It's one thing to be identifiable in the here and now; it's quite another to have your movements recorded and kept on file for an unspecified period of time. That creates the same privacy problems that collection and analysis of telephone and email "metadata" create.

http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metada...
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What I see is an obsession with getting it for no marginal cost. If you're already paying $70/month for 20 Mbps, of course you wouldn't turn down gigabit for the same price (even if Web pages or Netflix won't load any faster).
I left turntable for plug.dj almost exactly a year ago. Honestly, I'm not surprised.
> there's frankly no reason to get them to replace a CFL except for mercury

Isn't that enough? I try to keep things that can kill me to a minimum.
It's 46%. And, there's no comparison to other years. Maybe "46% regret" is a record low for the industry.
Vídeos, videoconferencing, uploading data, backups, peer to peer legal/other. Usually the proportions are 8mbit downlink and 100k uplink. Sharing data from nodes is hard.
Cloud sync for your entire hard drive. Thin clients. Faster spin up of environments that are sourced from the Internet (virtual machine configuration, bundle install, docker images). High(er) definition video. Multi-party video conferencing.
I can't speak for all of history but at least in the US West gold panning was used to locate rich ore veins upstream. The idea is that you pan for gold, steadily moving up the stream until the relative amount of gold flakes drops, meaning you've gone just a bit too far and you probably now have a great idea of where a lot of gold is.
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I feel like the quality of sites aren't too great on flippa. Additionally, it generally takes quite a bit of time to manage and upkeep a business. What you're looking for is a passive income generator and stocks/REITs are probably going to be the most accessible form.
The problem being discussed is individuals lying to the supreme court. Congress (to my knowledge) has never authorized anyone to lie SCOTUS. What is happening is that is that these institutions are getting away with lieing to the Judicial branch, because the Judicial branch is letting them.

If there happens to be something in the law authorizing people to lie to SCOTUS, then I suspect SCOTUS could strike that part of the law down.
You are right, just like developed country. Your comment reminded me of this very interesting video that compares the US, Cuba and Chile: http://www.gapminder.org/videos/gapmindervideos/gapcast-6-ch...
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Actually believe this would be a good plan. I listen to live music in Second Life (Don't laugh) and I've found live music works well when streamed live both audio only and video.

For musicians, its great to perform live for people but having to tour and go from gig to gig, lugging equipment around, and most of the time only being paid beer money and travel expenses.

Being able to perform for an audience but not having to leave your doorstep saves you both time and money. You can reach more people worldwide than you can in a small pub holding fifty to a hundred.

I understand people love turntable.fm but the labels have pretty much killed innovation by the licensing so to me it isn't a surprising that streaming companies are having problems.

Maybe the new turntable.fm can be the Twitch.TV of the live music world. Who knows but anything is possible!
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The Quake games probably never exposed any driver bugs, because they were the games the driver authors used to decide which code paths to test, optimize, and (in some cases) even which bits of the driver to actually write in the first place. I wouldn't be so quick to infer anything either way, from the fact they never crashed ;)

(I used to have a PowerVR PCX2. Its OpenGL driver did exactly what Quake II needed - and absolutely nothing else. As I recall, they didn't even bother to get the OpenGL screen savers working. I believe the Voodoo GL drivers "worked" along similar lines.)
I got it, but talking to a complete stranger on the phone when you are not looking for a job, so he keeps you in mind for an undefined later? Maybe drop in an example, because I don't see how could it work better than just dropping an email which you either delete (and post an obligatory rage-tweet about stupid recruiters) or tag for later if the offer/company seemed interesting.
Because those are really poor substitutes for Associations, though one can make do.
Feels weird to be in a world without Carmack at iD. What's next? Winamp at Microsoft?