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No, because Haskell's type system (ignoring certain relatively experimental extensions) is actually quite simple. Many people may find it difficult to learn, but only because it is so different and alien and not because it's some baroque monstrosity.

In some ways, Haskell's type system is actually simpler than Go's: there's no sub-typing and hence no real casting. Haskell also tends to eschew special cases in favor of more general solutions; for example, Haskell does not need any magical notion of multiple return values built into the language because this is naturally subsumed by tuples. Similarly, Haskell has generics instead of baking a paltry set of data structures into the language.

Also, algebraic data types are actually very natural. Tagged unions (also known as variants or sum types), unlike normal union types, are dual to product types (structs and tuples). This means they are actually just opposite versions of the same underlying structure: very symmetric. And just like in physics, symmetry usually means you're onto something.

Haskell has an extremely simple and elegant core; just because it's difficult to learn for some people does not mean it's a particularly complex language. It's certainly simpler than Scala, for example! Certain extensions add quite a bit of complexity, but the most complex ones are not super-widely used so you can reasonably get away without ever dealing with them.
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I have exams tomorrow! But screw it, I'm gonna try this out
"Never promise dates for a feature launch" - Gem of a point.
It depends on what kind of application you are developing:-
Go Native if-
1. Need to access platform specific features example camera,gs,etc
2. Need performance intensive app
3. There is enough time for you to develop native app and can afford different native app developers (if planning to go cross platform)
4.You already know java/C#/Objective-C and it's a pain for you to learn HTML5

HTML5 if(you have some knowledge of HTML5/CSS and...):-
1. You need to build something quickly and cross platform
2. You can't afford different native app devs.
3. Performance is not that big an issue
4. You have/are a designer who can quickly conceptualize and build prototype using HTML5/CSS
Neither, but Air.
Getting started with Spring Data Solr
I pessimistically see a much worse future. A kind of cross between:

- Orwell's 1984

- Aldus Huxley's Brave New World

- Philip K. Dick's Minority Report

- Andrew Niccol's Gattica
Proof of Existence: Storing Hashed Files in the Bitcoin Block Chain
View UMLet diagrams inside GitHub with Chrome Extension
technology will overcome all problems, solve injustice and everyone will be happy. sure.

no mention of climate change, ever-increasing debts, failing antibiotics or social problems because of differences between people who can buy these "cybermedicine" / body-parts-replacements and those who cannot.
7 Black Friday rules for maximizing your site’s conversions 
The simple rule for improving the profitability of a site is to find a way of converting casual browsers into actual paying customers. When you start to offer your site visitors a very comfortable, enjoyable and efficient shopping process, then you can count on improved conversions. After all, your customers will reward you for what it feels like from their perspective to peruse the goods and services on your ecommerce site. To make the best ecommerce site around, it must be designed from the point of view of your target shopper.
"If you're really interested in your subject you don't need people telling you what to learn and not to learn."

Only if you don't mind spending 5 year on what could have been done in 1 if only someone had told you what to focus on, where to start looking and every now and then points out some connections that you missed yourself. Of course it's possible to learn the same thing somebody learns in university on your own. Whether you can learn it as efficiently - that's another question.
This is not a free market experience. Coca-Cola et al would not be able to afford to deliver to remote areas with the huge subsidies they are receiving. There are taxes then subsidies then taxes upon taxes you've already paid..

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/65373/
if you mean "what does the universe expand into?" then the answer, as far as we know, is that "it doesn't work like that".

another way of saying the same thing is that the maths used in the physical models doesn't "embed" the universe in anything. there's no need for an external reference. you can do everything internally, consistently. it's quite neat, actually.

that doesn't mean that there "really is" nothing. just that nothing extra is needed for the theory, and since nothing extra can be observed, it's simpler to not have anything.

in other words - you can mathematically describe a universe that expands, but doesn't need anything to expand into. since that fits observations (within reason) and is simpler than a model that needs something extra "outside" that also needs explaining (and how would you explain that?!), it's preferred.
Yes, the release has not happened yet. That commit is just the penultimate step.
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Listeron will modify the reply-to header of mails before forwarding them on. So you just reply to a message and it goes to the list. The from header is left alone so you can still see who each message is from.
The "send your password scan" perhaps, the "to some obscure web services" though is not.
Black as well
>> Or did programmers really only start to have social lives, dislike permanent crunch mode and plan before coding in the last 20 years?

Yes. Powerful hardware is tolerant of normal people and their normal code. You had to be a little "off" to get the camel through the eye of the needle in times past.
No. It reuses the check that was already being done for stack growth.
I absolutely agree on every item. Notes:

2.: Couldn't agree more. I tried it a few times, could never make it, because something came up. So I don't tell release dates. I hardly tell about new features. Nobody cares. Perfect.

5.: My PHP application without any fancy technology makes me close to 100K euro in revenue per year. It delivers, it keeps delivering, there are no problems.

I want to add one more thing:

6. You hear critics' voices the loudest, if you don't do anything against it. I changed pricing once and about 50 people complained. I tried to justify myself (won't do this again) and the 50 people became a mob with the respective mentality. No chance to say anything. I might have lost another 50 users because of the discussion. In my mind, I completely forgot about the other few thousand people who did not complain.

Happy people hardly contact you, only the critics and haters. Don't let it sink in too deeply. Or use an easy mitigation strategy: If people reach a certain goal, ask them for feedback by writing a personal sounding email (that you send automatically, for sure). You'll get mostly positive feedback. This is important from a psychological point of view: You see that people are happy with your product and you can handle the critics in a better way.

Most emails I get are like:"There's nothing to improve, thank you so much for this product". Nice :)
The assembly sample he is showing has nothing to do with games but in fact is as generic as it can get and is, at least if you have never seen assembly before, a pretty good way of explaining what it is and how it works.
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Thanks for pointing me to your blog post, that's very useful. The points about what are great about Scala also very interesting. I really like scala, despite the hard work it takes to get going.
Did you use any parallelism/concurrency? There ought to be a way to speed up the Go version with parallelism. This is fair as that is one of Go's strengths.
So long as you never want to sell anything.
Of course, but we've all heard the message a million times and we get it: bigotry is bad, OSC is a bigot against gays, and hence he is bad.

No argument from me about those known truths. But does it have to be repeated every time the man's name gets mentioned like we don't know it?
I shouldn't have to implement this from scratch though. It's not like this problem is unique to my program; programming languages should have some support for solving this kind of problem in their standard libraries (or a readily available library)
Linkbait much? The meat of the article:

Today I was mapping out some mining operations controlled by people I
believe to be fraudsters. I saved a Google map and by default Google
made this public.

Note that this is a static map. Google+ does not broadcast one's current location. This article is pure attention-grabbing extrapolation.
These blogs are not in any way game programming specific. They are just about the low level mechanical underpinnings of C/C++, using win32 examples because that's what most people have access to.
you can't access things like the camera with HTML5 only

Just a small point of clarification, you can access the camera on Android using the Camera API. You can access accelerometers / gyroscopes and location in both Android and iOS.
I use sbt for the moment. I may figure out how to get sbt to autocompile with changes. Intellij, while a very good and powerful IDE, can't really replace vim for a vim user because vim users learn vim esoterics by infusing the commands into muscle memory.
In a dull corporate environment, the equivalent is "No ETA yet".
Mean!
I have an IPv6 ISP in Canada (Teksavvy), and quite happy with it (except for the lack of reverse-DNS). I'm too cheap to pay for a static IPv4 netblock at home, but IPv6 works fine to manage the ton of publicly-accessible VMs and other services (wifi mesh network) I run from home.

When I'm working from outside home, I use a tinc VPN to access my IPv6 services, and also redirect my IPv6 traffic through my home network.

Other fun experiment: if you are ipv6-enabled, look at the percentage of bittorrent peers who are in ipv6 vs ipv4. IPv6 is growing.
I knew a little Java, mostly from working with Android. I didn't feel like I was able to do anything within minutes. The very first thing I tried to do though was parse JSON and getting a JSON library working with sbt took about 2 days working part time.
On your (6), if only.

We have about 8 million end-users use our service daily, between our 100 or so clients. We have about five folks at clients who complain, vociferously, continuously, at all hours of the day and night, and it's unbelievably demoralising, as it's not so much "you mostly hear from the haters" as "you only hear from the haters, and you'll hear from them 10x a day for years on end".

I'm pretty close to jumping off or under something.
Html5, because easier to prototype and iterate. Clearly native once you have the right idea and funding for it.
Native, but with the use of C# (Xamarin / Mono).

And I don't think native takes more time. Debugging is much easier with native apps (imho).
Thanks for the link to my app and for citing it as inspiration!
Shuttle software: "the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors."

http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
Well, I think the difference is that now, the beards, awkward glasses and brown trousers are fashionable. So what was once ridiculed and avoided, is now praised and desirable.
Actually them being separate and distinct things is the right and proper way of the world and better than a confused blurred mess of "intellectual property".

Truly innovative ideas: Patent and 20 years protection at some cost and significant paperwork.

Duplication or derivative of an expression (whether source code or binary files): Copyright and a long protection (too long but that is a separate topic) of that expression and derivatives of it.

Creative and unique design: Registered design (Design patent in US) fairly weak and narrow protection, not sure of the duration.

Copyright should be narrow protection as this case supports. That doesn't mean that no other protections should be applied to creative works.
Billionaire Bunkers: Beyond the Panic Room, Home Security Goes Sci-Fi
I'm sticking with HTML 5.

Of course, I don't have a deployed production app, just stuff I've fooled around with. If I had real customers on the other end, I could very well go the other way.

The problem here is walled gardens. From a strategic standpoint, frankly, I've had my freaking fill of vendors trying to lock down platforms and own everything in them. So I'm all for sticking with HTML5 and letting the performance issues work themselves out over time.
Out of interest, what is your SaaS?
Why the Finnish language gives Finland an advantage in PISA tests.
>>The communist blacklist was merely a list of communists published the Hollywood Reporter

Merely a list! You might feel a little differently in 1950s USA with your name on that list. A list that meant the end of your career, blacklisting by friends and family (even sympathetic for fear of association.)

You're the second person in 24 hours to downplay McCarthyism as no big deal and it's left me scratching my head in wonder. Either y'all are ignorant about history, or y'all are stupid, and I'm not sure which I'd rather admit to if forced to choose...
It hurts to read this. How did we lose the freedom, the idea that everyone is an equal peer?

Was it just the realities of money, that an end user would rather pay a tiny fraction of the real cost of being truly on line and pay instead with their freedom?

We used to laugh at AOLers because they weren't experiencing the real internet, because they sold themselves out to an online service.

Are today's ISPs with their filtering and port blocking and packet shaping, really any better?
I'm using Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android for a modest app. I've already spent about half a year on the Android version, with special care to have all logic in a separate layer. The iOS version had catched up in 2 weeks, from scratch.
We hired a second guy for that, who had no C# experience (but more on iOS) just before I went on a 2 week holiday I just got back from.

Needless to say: Xamarin is the perfect mix of cross platform and native for us.
Medellin, Colombia: 20 Years After Pablo Escobar
How The Death Of The Notorious Druglord Pablo Escobar Sparked An Urban Renewal Renaissance In Medellín Which Transformed The Former Murder Capital Of The World Into A Vibrant World Class City While The Futile War On Drugs Continues
Can you expand more why it is quicker? You have to do so much reinvention of the wheel with html that I really don't get how can it be quicker.
Personally, I try to avoid looking at it. It reminds me too much of late 90's Geocities HTML.
Sorry, won't tell. I decided to keep a low profile on HN :)

It's consumer-oriented, it costs 2 euro a month, it has several thousand users.
I really like the music on your Soundcloud! Would you share your current hard- and software setup?
tl;dr: radical ideologues have no clue what's going to happen and begin sort of freaking out, ideology-wise.
> HTML5 only apps are not available in the market/store

where exactly does the cut off line exist? native/html5 is kinda gray.
How it is easier? At least on iOS you can prototype extremely quickly and almost without writing any code: drop your views on controllers, wire them up and there you have it.
What I find fascinating about this talk is that almost every point was true then, but not now. Between tablet computing, and the popularisation of dynamic languages and scaling / big data problems that came with web 2.0, everything has changed.

I think the talk shows how much can change in 10 years.

What would a talk like that today look like? What field would it be about?

And also, while he was writing this, what theoretical research was crystalizing that shaped today?

There is a problem with academia - it often is used by the government to answer industries inability to invest for the long term, rather than fixing the economic/legal system so that it is incentivised to. All this life sciences research oriented towards medicine going on at universities should be privately funded. Same with the other current booms in accademia like renewables. That they are not shows that something is broken in our version of capitalism.
Fibonacci in Budapest
Black Friday crowds may not kill you. That doesn’t mean they’re a good idea.
There are many people on this planet who are brilliant, but flawed. If you disregard all the brilliance because you dislike the flaws, you miss out.

Tom Cruise has made some fantastic films. But Scientology...

The Scopes Monkey trial eventually lead to evolution being taught in (most) schools... but Scopes was apparently pretty okay with Eugenics.

Mel Gibson was Mad Max... But he's a racist.

Fred Phelps won some important Civil Rights cases in the 60s... but Westboro Baptist Church, wtf man?

Card is a tool in his personal life, and I'll fight him tooth and nail on those issues. I still loved Ender's Game, and I still found this article cute and fun to read.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
I already try to do these things but not with complete freedom because I have to make money and that takes my time. But if I had complete independence, then in order:

1. Spend time with my family and friends as much as I can.

2. Travel around the world (with family/friends again)

3. Teach for free whatever I can.

4. Get really good at few of the things: Guitar, Martial Arts, handyman at my house etc.
Hands-on with Jolla, the Nokia that could have been
Charlie Brooker teaches Jon Snow to play video games
It 100% depends on the use case, if there is a ton of interactivity in your app then native is far better. If your app is primarily informational, HTML5 is generally easier for most folks.

Hybrid approaches can be nice: build the interactive sections natively and then display the results in a web view so you can re use things from your mobile website, if that use case makes sense to your product.
In the US, it boils down to: you are free to be as much as a bigot as you like in your personal life (there are some special laws about renting and employment) but as long as you are not combining your bigotry with another crime (assault, harassment) you can let your hate flag fly.

I think this helps society blow of some of its racism and bigotry in a safer way than just repressing it, but it's an ongoing struggle between too much freedom and too little, like everything else in America.
What you're describing here is a problem of culture and a problem of incentives. You're defaulting to a pretty extreme solution - isolate from their culture and threaten with starvation. It seems likely that there could be more humane solutions if only it were politically palatable to address the underlying issues.
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Sorry I return to this thread a bit late. Consequentialists, at least, often advocate their position in tactical terms (read Jeff Miron for example), so I'm not sure this divide qualifies as "deep" or "philosophical". Maybe it's simply the case that consequentialists see the divide as tactical while natural-rights enthusiasts see it as deep and philosophical. A disagreement the very nature of which inspires more disagreement seems... robust.

Since I have long been "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" I did for a time wonder if I were libertarian. However, enough libertarians have subsequently explained how my opposition to most military action, to drug prohibition, to immigration limits, and to financial bailouts is counter to their libertarianism that I am left confused. (I occasionally call myself anarchist but that seems to annoy "true" anarchists even more than "true" libertarians!)

Thus my skepticism of libertarianism's coherence. I certainly don't intend to "vilify" anything, but up above I tried to correct what I felt to be a misrepresentation of even the amorphous understanding of libertarianism I do have. That is, it's clear to me that libertarians don't "support" all business interests without question. Any particular business might be objectionable or simply uninteresting in any number of ways.
The masses.

We lost because of the great masses, the eternal october but on a much major scale. The same people that still watch TV and who become numb from their everyday medium to low-wage work, all those who are fighting against each other to climb the ladder just a tiny amount up.

See the original internet users were scientists, officers, business people, those early adopters who have the resources and curiosity to use and shape it it.

Todays internet user is any modern slave whos interests dont stretch out further than facebook and easy entertainment. Most people dont even have a concept of what the internet is. They just kind of randomly click buttons and call their laptops "plaything".

Ive seen people pay for 4G but their modem only by default runs on 3G. Meh.
Is it a spreadsheet written in PHP?
Indeed, and Haskell itself is translated into the (very simple) Core language:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6121146/reading-ghc-core/...
I tried to make a simple calendar with swipe gestures with PhoneGap and Sencha. The performance was horrible on my iPhone 5 (!). Wouldn't use HTML5 again, except maybe as a wrapper for some static HTML5 content without much user interaction (exactly the kind of app that Apple doesn't like btw)

However, here's an idea: I recently bought the Impact.js game engine. It comes with Ejecta, which is a hardware-accelerated "browser" for iOS that supports only the canvas-element. If you can manage to implement your HTML5-app in canvas only, this might be an alternative for apps that feel almost native. However, it might be too troublesome to go down that path.
> How did we lose the freedom

Money came into the picture. And I'd say we're in worse shape now since even in the AOL days, you would still know that this isn't the real "internet". Now, we've been lulled in the false sense that we're getting unfiltered (un-throttled) access, when in fact, it's just a carefully crafted image.

I look forward to the day "Internet Service Provider" has been completely replaced with "Ubiquitous Wireless Mesh".
an Illinois family of one mother and two children receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF; Medicaid, food stamps, Women, Infants and Children, or WIC; public housing; utility assistance; and free commodities (e.g., milk and cheese) would have a benefits package worth $19,442 per year. - See more at: http://illinoispolicy.org/the-work-vs-welfare-trade-off-in-i...

Now, I am not sure whether this is a high enough level of benefits or too high - but I don't think it's laughably low
Thanks! This is actually very important as I do use them for my 'important' domains as well. Even though I can't foresee any problem like this, it's something to keep an eye on.
An HTML5 app is a lot easier to make cross-platform than writing separate native apps for each platform. It depends on the type of app though; running inside a browser is definitely a step away from native APIs, even when you have pass-through access to them.
In this case, the new website design was sort of "donated" by one of our former GSoC students, so it's not like it took away development from Octave itself. The student's GSoC contributions were to another website project of ours.
Can't you just use AdBlock..?

I haven't seen a YouTube ad in years.
And yet, nobody has improved it..
Transient ideas and Learning
Bitcoin bubbles but will it burst?
Have you looked at Cloudant (https://cloudant.com/)?