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Please don't exaggerate. There are only 2 posts from the same user there where an author mentioned laziness and self-defence as possible reasons to dislike Scala.

Most posts are really about the existing problems and what can be done to improve things in Scala. In general I find this conversation very constructive and mature. I use Scala at work and see how things are gradually improving, and this conversation makes me more assured that language/community continue to move in that direction.
Refueling was only banned in 1984, it was allowed before that.

So using the historical argument, it's the refueling ban whose stint has been brief (1984 - 1993, and 2010 - ?)
A sushi place* I went to had an iPad on each table with an app that let you order stuff to the table, very handy I must say.

*Sakae sushi in Beraya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur.
Society was able to convince millions of LGBT people to suppress some pretty fundamental desired and wishes. It takes a lot of strength to overcome it, many people used to just kill themselves instead. And you think children are stronger than that when it comes to toys?
Easy - drop the JVM branch and continue the CLR branch. This way you could gain better performance as well.
>> "I'd rather see wheel to wheel action than listen to the comments about how this guy in a second place will have to save his tires and give up positions to score a few points."

The only reason he is in 2nd place is because he didn't save his tyres - and the reason he has to now lose places is because the guys behind did. In the end it usually works out the way it should be and we get some fighting on the last few laps. Even 5 years ago the last 15-20 laps were a procession to the line. I think introducing a bit of excitement towards the end is much better.
> It took Google, with a large chunk of the smartest engineers on the planet, about 4 years

Google didn't take people off of other projects, and turn every engineer that they had at the problem of "making Android competitive," so this statement is a bit of an exaggeration.
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Barbies are fun. But that's not the point. Marketing is about identity at least as much as it is about the product. You look at beer adverts, how many of them directly bear on the beer?

http://youtu.be/MX145Tu4MHY

That could be any beer, or a magic potion, you know nothing about it.

Or shower gel

http://youtu.be/DVm00UBdS0Y

Or cars

http://youtu.be/ox_uDBrkp-M

"You can have this car, and everything that goes with it."

"Now you can drive the story."

There's certainly an element of information there, at least when you start getting onto companies that have an advantage in a technical area. But often, you're being sold a role: Buy this and you'll get women, wealth, etc.

When I was a girl, and still to an extent now I'm older, I wanted the things I was told I was going to like, and which it was expected that I was going to. You look at something and you see someone like you, or with some aspect of life that you want to have. A lot of the pitch towards us isn't dolls, it's friendship, or fashion, or something like that - broadly speaking, group identity.

The problem is you don't see the comparisons. If there aren't people like you being forwarded as enjoying and having fun with something, you may never try it, and even if you do the chances are that few people like you will, so you lose a lot of the social enjoyment that goes along with a thing.

Of course you're right. If girls all really hated barbies, we probably wouldn't have played with them - though I've no doubt some of us would have out of a desire to fit in. But that's not really the point. The question is how closely that approaches optimal; the most enjoyment that we could have got from a range of options, only a narrow range of which are promoted to us and will allow us to still be accepted by our friends who have also had these identities sold to them.
I really appreciate that Scala has a mature, rational, even-keeled community.
Doesn't falsify my point.

If everybody was rational, then no advertising would perform signalling function if it wouldn't serve to maximize our utility.
But very definitely not give into the wishes of their sons who want pink. Parents apply pressure too.
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Thanks for the information, I had no idea there was such pointless hypocrisy going on.
The game is still fun, but their response seems nonsensical to me. The distinction is lost on me.
I wonder if it's a simple market differentiation factor, like why there are 100 different kinds of breakfast cereal. Creating two immiscible classes of toys effectively doubles the variety, and the floor space devoted to toys in stores. It makes hand-me-downs less appealing if you've got one kid of each kind. That factor alone would create a noticeable sales bump for toy stores, even if the differences were totally arbitrary. But the differences have to be strong enough so that the toys of each sex invoke the yuck response in the other sex.
It doesn't seat 7 adults. Look at that roofline! I doubt any one over about 4' 8" would be comfortable in that 3rd row.
Here's a BBC documentary about it from 1981: http://youtu.be/xxvcUnmBF8I?t=3m37s called Gentlemen Lift Your Skirts.
Compliment women (not only girls) "by default" on their looks actually drives me nuts. It's used even in situations where is totally irrelevant (e.g. radio show). It is really engraved n our culture.
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'@girlgeeks' has been suspended from Twitter again (for no reason)
Can we build up a bit of noise for twitter to reinstate her account?
This has happened before, she gets targeted for her great work in trying to balance gender equality in tech.
@girlgeeks,
https://twitter.com/girlgeeks, EDIT: she's the woman behind this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Geeks_Scotland
As you say "decades" I did a cursory search for a video (assuming perhaps at some point during that time someone thought to make one.) I found this interesting video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcPsSI4O2S0

but would certainly like to see an F1 care drive literally upside-down (normal to horizontal) if you have anything like that. I just searched for a second on YouTube.
> This is an area that has been slow to change over the years, due to the small amount of turbocharged vehicles available new. Most turbos are used in heavy machinery (garbage trucks, big rigs, etc.), a slowly changing industry.

I'm not sure this is true in England - most diesel cars on the road have a turbocharger.
Ask HN: What's a fair price for an "app" website, and related blog?
I'm currently writing a music app ("Infinity -- the looper that knows your song") for OSX, and I'm at the point where I need create a website and blog. The website should be single-page, essentially displaying screenshots and/or screen capture as a banner, along with the typical 3-column "major features" thing below. Also, the site should have the ability to accept payments via credit card or PayPal (i.e. you should be able to buy and download the app).

I was thinking that both the app page and the blog could be done with Wordpress. So essentially, the work involved would be:

- designing a custom theme
- configure Wordpress so that I can easily upload new content to the main page (e.g. banner and feature parts) and blog (posts)
- configure the e-commerce solution

I'm interested in knowing a ballpark figure for a) the design and b) the implementation of such a site.

For reference, I've been quoted a price between 450 EUR and 1500 EUR ($600 to $2050, depending on time taken) only for the design, for each of the blog and site (i.e. twice the that range for total!). I think that's a bit steep, but it's the first time I've commissioned design, so I don't have a good reference point. At that price, I would have done all the Wordpress configuration myself, since it's not really that hard.

UPDATE: I had the wrong figures for quoted price.

Many thanks in advance!
I also don't think this is pedantry - it's one of the main parts of the article, and it currently doesn't make any sense.
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And your argument just presouposes a certain causality. Do marketers market pink toys to girls because that's what they want girls to buy, or because that's what girls want to buy? It seems the latter is much easier, than the former, No?

It's so stupid, because the arguments are always structured as, "society forces behaviour on girls and boys", when it seems pretty obvious it's more of a feedback loop. Tendencies trend in a gender, that "informs" society, which then reinforces them, and so on.
Another vote for this option. These guys are ace.
Which is not so great at 26,200 2012 pounds.
True :-) More people seem to be concerned about girls liking pink than about boys not liking pink, though.
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Lowest end? The Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One aren't exactly low-end, and those are the two phones everybody is offering now. The ones you get for free with low-end contracts are low-end, but you can get some pretty nice discounts on high-end phones too.

At least apparent discounts. You pay for them through your contract, and if the difference with a sim-only contract is small, that's because sim-only contracts are way too expensive.

Carriers are big, but it is possible to get around them. Most people get a phone with contract, but a lot of people really do go sim-only.

Fairphone is a nice example of a small Dutch organization that makes a revolutionary new phone (not available in the US). It's very successful so far, but also because they're not inventing their own platform; it's still Android. But the hardware is indie, so that at least can be done. (And a major carrier ordered a 1000 of them.)
I find infinite mathematical structures interesting from a philosophical point of view, because it’s not possible to reconstruct these concept in the physical world. In fact there is a mathematical-philosophical movement refusing infinite structures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism
That is a pretty ordinary structure in corporate life, just worded kind of oddly. Generally you would refer to the 70% as the base and the 30% as the bonus.

Bonuses often have 2 or 3 parts. Part 1 - has the company met its quarterly financial goals, Part 2 - has your department or business unit met its goals (financial or other relevant metric), Part 3 - have you met your personal goals for the quarter.

So it is not the concept but the wording that is odd. Your friend should make sure that he counts the 70% as the true base salary when deciding whether this job makes sense for him.
Plus, if you want to get good at doing burpees, I bet you'd get pretty good after a year.
Especially of that era. Carry On movies, On The Buses and all that. Doesn't necessarily make it right in the modern context but bawdy humour was absolutely the norm up into the 80s.

I watched the On The Buses movie a while ago and was actually taken aback by a scene near the intro where the two main characters basically restrain and grope a new female bus conductor. And that was the best selling British movie of 1971 and one for all the family..! :-)
I stopped watching F1 about 10 years ago, and these new changes just reaffirm that decision. It's no longer about best car + best driver. It's about mixing it up, making it random, to maximise viewer numbers. Not the kind of racing I go for.
> Another way to say near-tautology is "something that is true".

Something that is true, but has a completely different meaning from what a naive reading implies.

Your statement is only true if we include the extrema at the "somewhere in the middle" interval.
You are confused about the manner of "formal methods" Dijkstra was proposing. His examples given are all using "informal proofs." That is to say, non mechanically verified proofs.

If you create a program in such a way that the properties you claim it has cannot be, even informally, proved. Then you have no reason to believe it works as advertised what-so-ever.

He did also propose a research program in to more formalised transformations and so on to help the programmer - which is a separate thing. But we all know about the difficulty of this and it's failure to materialise in any significant way (yet) for the average programmer.

The reason that that is, or was, a tantalising prospect is that when humans construct correct programs using informal proofs, they are using the same very simple abstractions over and over again. Therefore a system to automatically transform specifications to programs or whatever need not have all the troublesome properties of completeness and such like and may, in fact, be quite tractable. It's debatable whether anyone still think's that that's likely.
And he posted some evidence that yes, it really does.

The diamonds marketing campaign shows that marketing really can completely change cultural norms
As with F1 races, the article seemed interesting at the start but quickly bores the heck out of you.
A color combination that works for a printed page may not work well for a luminescent display due to the inherent superiority of printed material in terms of readability and eye comfort.

I don't have any eye issues and am not in the "older folks" demo. I still found the page annoying to read.
Not enough power for the RF transmission; even if you go off-network while not in use (so you can't recieve SMS), then you still end up needing to do quite a few 2W burst transmissions to get back on and send the SMS.

Also, peltier requires a temperature difference; keeping it warm in your pocket is not enough.
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> Recently she asked for a pirate ship for her birthday, so it isn't all bad.

Hrm, Jake and the Neverland Pirates fan? My daughter likes izzy and I saw an izzy costume on Halloween. Pirates are getting popular.
I used to have an apartment where the heat didn't really work. I could run it all day and it'd still be freezing inside. Rather than fight it I just shut the heat off and went to get a space heater. Well the room was open so even sitting right next to it didn't really cut it.

So I went to Lowes and got a bunch of PVC pipe and angle couplings. I built a 5x5x6ft enclosure and threw a bunch of blankets/sheets on it to make a little room inside a room to hold my desk, me and my space heater. I was nice and comfy all winter.

Another time I needed a desk for my computer and didn't have much money to work with. This was around the time that whole "FedEx box furniture" thing hit the Internet. I worked at a little pack-and-ship place and we had a bunch of extra UPS boxes so I nabbed them and some tape and went nuts. It took some tweaking before it would accept the weight of my CRT, but eventually it did.
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> There are considerably more open gay people today than 50 or 100 years ago.

There are considerably more people having pre-marital sex, too. My pet theory is that with the increase of wealth and progress in technology, medicine, we can afford more risk including tolerance of risky behaviour.

With things like the antibiotics, condoms, hormonal contraception, abortion (that is not likely to kill you) and just generally low risk of destitution, people don't need to be as careful as they used to. Many religious taboos are guidelines for surviving in a harsh world, and the world just isn't that harsh any more.

But those are real, material changes. It's not a matter of perception.
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You might be referring to the Gordon Murray designed Brabham BT46 "Fan car":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46
Its a matter of taste I suppose. I did not enjoy this season. Maybe I'm too spoiled by MotoGP.
If marketing doesn't, then what does? Culture? But marketing is part of culture. In fact it has become inseparable from it.

When I was growing up the "I am Canadian"[1] rant was a super-popular thing in my school. But this is from a beer ad of all things! And yet in some way it helped shape what being Canadian meant for a significant number of people at the time. If you make the argument that your peer group influences what is normal that's still no escape from marketing as friends of mine were literally quoting this ad word-for-word.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a straight line between marketing and a specific effect. Ideas and culture don't work like that. But they do work, otherwise nothing cultural would ever change - fashion, as an industry, wouldn't exist.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMxGVfk09lU
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The "casual gaming" market of today is a lot healthier than the console market of the early 80s. In 1983, the world was enchanted by the potential of video games but the technology just wasn't ready yet. If anything, the great gaming crash scared off the companies that jumped in because it was popular but weren't ready to innovate and paved the way for the real innovators like Nintendo and Sega.

The casual gaming market is nothing like that. It's really just the long tail of the larger $70 billion gaming industry. Add to that the fact that smartphone penetration ramping up in emerging markets that never really saw significant console sales and you've got access to a lot more consumers.
So he built some stuff in the real world rather than digitally? Wow, that is very worthy of the word 'Genius'.

Meanwhile: http://www.instructables.com/
I wrote firmware (~20kLocs) for a power (electrical) supply that's part of one such power train.

This kind of development is very demanding, because you can't afford to leave any bugs in your program but at the same time you're always shipping late because of tight schedules and often blurry specifications.

On top of that hardware and software development cycles are concurrent, so no target hardware available when you're writing your code.

In these conditions the only way I found to have something that works is to keep it very simple:

1. Simple algorithms
2. Simple data structures
3. Few abstractions
4. No dynamic memory allocations

Also, no compiler optimizations.
Well, maybe they shouldn’t do that, then. If they don’t want a web site that wide, they shouldn’t make the web browser window that wide.

(Oh, I forgot that the web browser is not an application, but a platform and an OS in its own right, and has replaced the native OS. Silly me.)
Huh? Tires have always been one of the most strategic elements of F1.
> I don't buy it.

There's an entire branch of social science that spends a lot of time on marketing, sociology. I recommend reading up on it from an academic perspective. Marketing is very influential but it isn't mind control. I'd say it shapes expectations more than create demand for particular products. And from an anthropological perspective I'd say marketing actually reveals more about a culture than it creates.
My Niece's pink obsession began as soon as she started school - I think it's a mixture of peer pressure and subtle clues (e.g. the grandparent's "aren't you pretty" comment.)

It's actually amusing in her in particular - she must wear pink, and mummy must do her hair nicely, but then once that's done she's outside climbing trees and getting muddy. It seems that once she's put on the "girl uniform", she can go be herself again.
I thought it was more about the perks.
Copyright prevents OP from doing so.
I guess NSA could run a much, much more accurate version of such service.
Wow, that's a thorough article. Thanks for sharing!
Sony sells over 2 Million PS4 units in 2 weeks
Maybe when analysing the stats it helps to distinguish between the intention of the one implementing the transcompiler (e.g. fun, proof-of-concept, research, money, actual need in a project, ...) and the size of the user-base of the transcompiler (in relation to the user-base of the language that is transcompiled to).

Lets say JS's user-base is pretty huge in relation to other languages (which is not an argument for JS). The stats show that a lot of languages transcompile to javascript, so I would indicate a real need for such projects, otherwise there would probably just exist a few as fun/proof-of-concept-projects.

Similar situation for C/C++ (maybe due to lack of high-level features) and Java (due to lack of practical features).

On the other hand: languages that only have a few or no transcompilers that compile to them, does not mean, they are better useable. There could be other things that make writing transcompilers very hard.
Pink as a girl's color and blue as a boy's color is a relatively recent cultural assignation. Maybe she likes it on some genetic level, but your wife obviously doesn't, and the way you interpret it is based on marketing that assigned pink to girls.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-St...
Have a look at Ceylon, my first impression was that compared to Scala, there's much more focus on readability, regularity and productivity. Ceylon is one of the 2 languages (the other isbJulia) that I find almost perfect.
Agreed.

I am still waiting for the Facebook Phone. They already have a fully customized Android Home Screen. The biggest problem is probably that Facebook has no experience in selling physical products.

Anybody could slap together an Android customization. On the other hand, what is the point? If you do not profit from selling the hardware (like Samsung) or the software (like Google), then why sell a smartphone? Maybe Salesforce could sell enterprise smartphones bundled with their software.
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Sony Sells Over 2 Million PS4 Units In Two Weeks
Couldn't this code:

def inner(func):
def nothing(*args, **kwargs):
return func(*args, **kwargs)
return nothing

Be simplified to:

def inner(func):
return func
You don't need another watch. Except for this one.
Sure, but doesn't that mean that we agree there is no genetic disposition towards liking nail polish/lipstick? The reason people like lipstick is not that they have a genetic disposition to like lipstick, it's because lipstick fakes a sexual signal.
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Dammit I'm so eager to see the whole collection now !

Please find a way to make it accessible
I think Tim Allen invented the Santa Clause.
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6840157
From the few that I've seen ES6 will bring order to the universe.
Look at the gigantic sums that companies spend on advertising. They can't all be throwing their money away. You can either assume that all these companies are complete fools, or the marketing works.

In fact it's getting easier to prove nowadays, with so much more data from the likes of adwords, loyalty cards and so on. Marketing has more 'real numbers' behind it to give confidence in spending the money.

Everyone likes to think that advertising doesn't affect them. But, it does. You are not immune to it.
Ethernet port on its own is thicker than most smartphones. Having said that, I had almost all of those things you mention on my Toshiba Libretto back in 1998. Wouldn't fit in a trouser pocket but would fit in my coat's inside pocket.