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I wish we could consult a Dijkstra of today. He faced radically different costs of sitting a student in front of a computer. His opinions might change if he could do what we do today, both simultaneously, for what might as well be "free".

As I said, study still has its place, do not get me wrong, but I see no reason to hold the student back from a compiler/REPL even as we are formally educating them.
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> I’ve looked at what Arch Linux and Gentoo do, and they just use docker.io’s blob and redistribute that

That's pretty concerning. There's a reason Debian insists that basically everything is BFS…
Would this include Google's driverless car?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car
> Incidentally, the Windows 8 UI overhaul was terrible. Really terrible.

To be honest, I actually like it. Not enough to use Windows over Linux, but the Metro UI is really cool. Has search functionality, and every app is essentially its own self-updating widget. Very cool.
>> You can always get a proper job afterwards if it doesn't work out.

This is what I keep saying!

My mother (and my ex, too) would get very upset when, after college, I suggested building a business freelancing and eventually building my own products -- it's too risky, they said. But I'm a young person with no dependents or anyone else I'm responsible for, I have very few expenses, I have time to build something substantial that can be more successful than a job. Where's the risk? Worst case scenario, I get another job. Best case scenario -- freedom from concerns about money, location, and time.

Stay on this career path forever? I can't ever have those last three things. But hey, it's the easy way out, right? It's what everybody else does.
Worth reading for Richard Branson's story about the first Virgin Airlines flight.
We are working on a federated, protocol agnostic push server design here: https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-Push-Server/tree/ma...
Why do you want to include a huge library if only use is to check if page is ready?

Extra HTTP request has more overhead then few inline bytes.

if you put that code at bottom, you won't need jQuery to know if page is ready, and won't need extra HTTP request.
Google is making a play too, with Hangouts now handling SMS. Although the people I've talked to who try that hate it, because it often sends a chat message when they wanted to text the person. Texts are just seen as much more personal and immediate where are chat texts aren't much different from email.
If you were to start with a nearly blank slate in regards to your PHP knowledge + Laravel as a framework for example, throw in Composer, learning about Eloquent ORM and so on, you'd likely be facing the same reaction.

I'd like to also point out that if you want to do software dev by the book applying various sofware engineering principles and not just stringing something together that works, you're pretty much forced to use a framework. (either due to lack of time or lack of skills for building one the right way).

Sure, sometimes the most important thing is rolling something up quickly, but other times your project will be used by more than a handful of people, and/or you'll have expectations of producing monetizable value and anticipate regular maintenance/upgrades for which a different strategy is required.
That's actually good advice. I've never really taken amazon into account when launching on Android. I will now.
Genuinely made me laugh. I always crack a smile when I see someone use the "you probably wouldn't get it" cop-out (yes, I realise you're making a mockery of the concept) to avoid explaining something that they evidently don't understand either. I seem to see this fairly often in large, complex fields like mathematics or complex systems programming from people who either have an agenda or are trying to bullshit their way through a job for which they're under-qualified.
The problem is that in the age of TL;DR, nobody here is going to take the time to read "A Long Walk to Freedom". So they will listen to snippets of info, mostly taken out of context. Yes Mandela did create the "spear of the nation" but most people do not understand the background of this or the reason, instead they resort to reading a few snippets and posting here.

You get two types of people here, one group is liberal and support alomost anything against racism, women abuse, welfare reform, you name it, if it promotes freedom they are for it.These are called the Democrats. On the other side of it the people who love racism but deny it exists, they donated to george zimmerman, they hold onto their guns at all cost, believe all minorites are on welfare etc. These are the Republicans. A lot of people who are posting negative things come from this group and they are no different than Apartheid type whites, they even be worst, but this style of thinking has been passed down from their parents and they will pass it down to their kids, thats life. Don't let their lack of evolution sway your understanding of what Mandela stood for as most of them have not taken the time to educate themselves, but just read snippets and focus on something slighlty negative.

If Mandela had ceated a civil war, this country would not have been blessed with "Elon Musk", "Emmanue Dherman" and people Like "Roelof Botha" would not be living the cozy VC life even though his family were high ranking members in the apartheid government.
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Yes... Why can't people just download Trillian and stop giving Snapchat and Whatsapp billions of dollars. le sigh
Being unhappy with something and working on it are not necessarily related. You could work on something without thinking about it, or without expectations on the result. You could appreciate something as good but want to make it better. You can also be unhappy with something without working effectively on it.
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The attention-grabbing equals symbols come off as spammy and underhanded.
Redhat builds the binary from scratch as well:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/docker-io.git/tree/docker...

It was just released to epel stable, the docs are here:

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/docs/sources/...
The problem is learning PHP actually makes you worse at PHP.

The only possible way to program PHP is to be pretty much ignorant of everything in which case PHP will actually do kinda what you wanted. If you learned PHP then either it's not actually doing what you think it's doing, or some config variable changed and would have done what you thought except it didn't, but don't worry just add some code to change that config variable for a while, and then change it back.

PHP is zen.

There is a story of a young, but earnest PHP student who approached his teacher, and asked the Master, "If I work very hard and diligently, how long will it take for me to learn PHP?"

The Master thought about this, then replied, "Ten years."

The student then said, "But what if I work very, very hard and really apply myself to learn fast. How long then?"

Replied the Master, "Well, twenty years."

"But, if I really, really work at it, how long then?" asked the student.

"Thirty years," replied the Master.

"But, I do not understand," said the disappointed student, "at each time that I say I will work harder, you say it will take me longer. Why do you say that?"

Replied the Master, "When you have one eye on the goal, you only have one eye on the path."
> You're making the mistake of conflating PHP the language with Rails the Framework.

I've heard someone call PHP "the C web framework". I thought it was fitting, and in addition, it seemed that even as a C web framework, it was a failure.
Thanks Adrian - big fan of SoundSlice! :)

In my case I was initially just trying to leverage the vast trove of ascii tabs out there on the interwebs and see what came out of it hard-coded or not - first step was normalizing the format and storage (done, but always ongoing) - next would be intervals and pitch/tonality normalization (including various weird tunings if detectable) - but you're dead on right.

Also looked into doing some pseudo-tab to audio tones - then I could possibly compare it to inputted audio playing, etc. I haven't looked into the details - but it seems somewhat feasible...
Bitcoins isn't going to preserve your purchasing power contrary to your claims even if it preserves it more than USD.
If everybody has Google Glass on their heads, is there a difference between whether it's a drone buzzing above our heads and whether it's face-mounted cameras?

Mobile phones are already used as spy devices -- do you really think the camera and microphone are off? How do you know?

Most people plainly place their phones on tables after sitting, but would it be so shocking for them to carry a tape recorder everywhere?
Yup. And either way, you can solve the problem with capital. (Having a bunch of money laying around to cover the shortfall in the case of A/R, or having a very large burstable uplink with a small commit in the case of overselling bandwidth.)

Of course, burstable uplinks all suffer from the 'best effort' issue... if you go beyond your CIR, well, there's usually headroom, but not always.
You may enjoy Paul Brians Common Errors in English Usage http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
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The "original image" linked to on this site also does not contain the plain-text "TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR" etc. described, according to my hex editor.
So, Google is thinking your safety more than you can think for yourself. How is this different than Google taking responsibility of Governments?
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> Coverage of Mandela is a testament to the prevailing powers' ability to rewrite history.

I agree. It's quite amusing to see politicians that were definitively not on his side coming out after all these years in favour of him: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/06/follow-...

In response to the rest of your comment: wow such edgy.
I read it as saying that "enlightenment" of Zen Buddhism is at heart a deep surrendering. This can only come from within yourself. So, the practice is not designed to teach, but instead to simply facilitate that surrender by exacerbating the issues that contribute to it. The carrot of "enlightenment" is dangled before you until, finally, you say, "fuck that carrot, I'm tired of chasing things". Then you are enlightened. :)

In a way, I like to think of it as aversion therapy applied to hopes and expectations.
Again, I'm not disagreeing (at least completely) with you. Research is necessary.

I would like to try this for those times when I'm short of time to cook and resort to ordering a pizza for example, not as a complete replacement. And I think it would be advisable for the people interested to do that as long as there's not serious research.

However, currently there are serious studies about the bad effects of fast food on your health, it's not an unknown. The way I see it, you are more worried about something that could be bad than about something we know is bad. It doesn't add up to me. Sounds like neophobia. And I'm sorry in advance if I seem rude.
How would he feel if someone flung a dung through his open window or doors?

Drones are so fragile. I can imagine lots of possible countermeasures. Hacking, jamming, shooting (slingshot will suffice), throwing a net over it spraying it with water, glue or abrasive powder, EMPing, blinding with laser, burning with laser, deploying counter drone.

Than again what can you do about flung poo?

I thing we should ban people from excitement handling. Let corporations wipe your ass.

One might wonder what kind of neighbors Eric Schmidt has.
Your wikipedia link would include my bank account as part of the deep web, since it's hidden behind a password login. Good to know I'm keeping company with human trafficking rings and terrorist networks.
I'm not familiar enough with physical sports to know: do professional sports organizations generally do this kind of restriction? Worldwide? Is there any kind of cross-sport prohibition? I could believe it, since I've never actually seen or heard of players showing off without a contract of some kind... and yet, that might simply be because I don't hear about it.
Your #2 would be monumentally awful for the economy. The individual might like it if they can let their money just sit there and hold value, but if everybody can save like this, then there is very little incentive for anybody to ever lend out their money. If nobody wants to lend, then nobody can borrow either.

(Technically, the price of lending/borrowing, i.e. interest rates, would skyrocket until lenders were willing to lend, but then almost nobody would be able to afford to borrow anything unless they had something with the potential for monumental returns)

If nobody can borrow, then how does anybody start or expand a company? If starting and expanding companies gets massively more difficult, then who will employ that 30 year old in the first place? How would any new product or technology ever get created and distributed?
Developer Evangelism... What does it mean?
I would encourage you to look at OpenVZ for anything Linux-based. Starts faster, uses less resources than KVM.

The gain might not be much however, given how powerful today's CPUs are.
really? because the people i know that dropped out at 16 just did drugs and played guitar hero.
"It's interesting that the author grouped Ruby, Python and Node with frameworks for his comparison to PHP sans framework."

Mainly because people rarely talk about pure Ruby/Python/Node CGI development. They're almost always run through an app server.

I realise there are indeed some excellent PHP frameworks nowadays, but to my knowledge, most can still be run in a basic CGI environment. And more to the point, probably the majority of quick hacks in PHP are still done without any framework.

[BTW I meant Meteor, not Metro.]
OK. Adult. Got it.
War is terrible, no matter what.

The laws Mandela broke were not the same ones he thought were unjust, at least, it seems he broke a superset of the laws he thought were unjust. He did this as a means to an end.

I'd like to say I believe in non-violence, but it's one thing to say it, it's another thing not to punch you after you've just pushed my wife.
I taught my daughter starting with fist, so zero was natural.

Then, when we started playing board games there was an issue playing games like "Game of Goose" because she started counting with 1 in the occupied space. We "fixed" that starting with 0.
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Unfortunately, so do people with bad working habits.

Success is a fine line, people.
The above is an example of exactly what's wrong with politics: A person who defines his side as "anything good" and the opposing side as "anything bad". Obliviously, he insists that the millions on the other side believe things that they do not believe, and gets angry with them for denying it.

Now imagine that you are on the opposite side of this person. How do you feel? Would you even remotely consider switching to his side, when his argument for doing so starts with the presumption that people on your side cannot possibly have any good intentions at all, even though you know that you yourself do?

Exactly.
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Would leaving jail under those circumstances have helped his cause? If not, then doing so would not have been pragmatic.
When will mercurial learn that these things should be default. One of the only reasons I moved to git was I didn't have to hand hold people setting up all the extensions.
I will have to check (I think it is found in "Village Swaraj" but it may be "All Men are Brothers" which would make more sense thematically) but Ghandi specifically talks about his experiences in South Africa and how it finally opened his eyes towards his own prejudices.

He writes about the experience in Pietermaritzburg and how it took this experience to realize that all men are brothers and deserving of equality. This is not to say the guy was a saint, but to mention that I believe he came around.
This might seem outrageous today, but we will probably have this power in our mobile phones within a few years.
Did anybody ever figure out what the twitter user googuns_prod was?
Analysis: worth of a picture vs. a Tweet
A little bit of both. The product database is populated with posts from several sites, including reddit.com/r/TheBestofAmazon and reddit.com/r/thecoolestofamazon. You receive a random gift from the product database.
You can easily interpolate the colors between the previous tick data point and the next tick data point.

On some mobile devices this had a profoundly negative impact on responsiveness as the device struggled to animate the color changes.

However good points.
>Maybe the successor to C++ will be C++

True that. I really like where C++ is going. C++ is getting almost as expressive as ML.

Thanks for linking the libcppa library. As a fan of Erlang and a former C++ day-jobber, I find this fascinating.
Ghandi may disagree. Maybe not, I'm weak on history.

I don't agree the end justifies the means, maybe you do, it's far too easy to get into a debate on morality in these topics. :)
"And yes you get the benefit of version control and not editing the live version, but my point is most projects don't even need that."

Lolz.
I never thought of it that way. Your comment has enlightened me, funny enough. :-)
getting x>0 is now worse than getting x=0? No.

When they repay the debt, you're not "stuck with none of it" you're stuck with indeed a x>0 portion of the company's value. Strictly speaking, you are just stuck. What escapes you is the upside of an investment that you <did not make>.

The right (but not the obligation) to make that investment on pre-defined terms is the defintion of an "option".
So I might be missing something but please show me how Docker packages are being distributed via official repositories in Arch and Gentoo?

EDIT: Not to mention that packages mentioned at http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/ no longer even exist..

As far as I can tell they do as good of a job as Debian - they don't package it all.
That looks like a cool app, but it is not a new kind of calculator: see also Calca and Soulver for previous work in this space.

I think adding a grapher is a real advance, however.
I think it's safe to say that both John McCarthy and Dennis Ritchie lived full, rich lives. They did much to change the world but Mandela is in the stratosphere when it comes to that. I say he deserves a black bar.
"Government for the people by the people" implies the democratization of power; such as drones. Maybe its a bad idea.
In game development .NET/Mono is becoming seriously cool now - look at Unity and MonoGame. It's hard to walk away from C# because it's one of the best languages combining most paradigms and both static and dynamic type systems. If you want to hack social start-ups using languages that don't do basic checks before run time in an editor without basic intellisense/autorefactoring then you are welcome to switch.
"Time isn't wasted, when you're getting wasted."

-- Asher Roth
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and Google self-driving cars would become a niche product - for trucks only - once drones will en masse appear able to carry 200kg, i.e. 2 persons. eVolo is just a humble start. Self-flying versions of it, especially considering their roots in RC drones, is different tech than cars.

Considering that Bezos understands drones and Google is competitor to Amazon and has been missing the quiet revolution coming, this isn't a surpising salvo.
I love stuff like this.

It brings back a bit of the serendipity that we've lost on the web due to the quality of a certain search company's algorithms.

See also: Random Shopper — http://randomshopper.tumblr.com — and the Random Amazon Product Generator — http://thanland.com/projects/random-amazon/ (disclosure: my site)
Uh, that's exactly my point. We are surrounded by devices that can be and sometimes are abused for this kind of surveillance. We've judged them useful enough that it warrants using existing systems to deal with abusers, even while acknowledging that many of them can be used so surreptitiously that we're not going to catch everyone who is abusing them. Drones have so many uses I would say they fall in that same category.
Agreed. Anybody can make a molotov cocktail at home. Does that mean war is "democratized?" We have all sorts of means for surveillance too. Honestly, Eric Schmidt strikes me as a luddite. What's to stop a motivated individual from making his own drones illegally?
Actually... it's not really about capitalism. I like capitalism. It's flawed, yes, but everything is and I believe it's the best we've got.

In fact, capitalism, by design, rewards the most entrepreneurial. Our current school system punishes those sorts of people -- its goal is to produce worker bees who do what they're told (I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the education system in the U.S. was designed by a rich business owner specifically to produce workers for his company and others like it... although I'm not entirely sure about that)

Now, that's not to say the school system is inherently evil, either. I do wish it had promoted more creative and entrepreneurial ideas, but it is what it is. I felt pretty aimless throughout school simply because the vast majority of what I was learning really didn't apply to anything in my life until I started learning CS in college (and even then, if I was designing my own curriculum, I'd have done it a bit differently)
Exactly. If you are under 35, there's a good chance you have literally no idea about anything bad Mandela ever did and believe that he was imprisoned for doing something Rosa Parks-like or something.

The fact that history can be rewritten like that is disturbing regardless of how it's used.
College Sports have some strange rules regarding what they can do concurrently. Of particular note is the case of Jeremy Bloom[1], who was an excellent college football player and an Olympic skier. The NCAA really seems pretty anti-students-rights anyway, though, and I can't speak to more professional sports.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/30/sports/college-football-ol...
Nice work, pg and gang, and keep things sane and simple for everyone.
Singapore is like that too but we don't seem to single them out for it do we?
From knowing nothing to building a simple web app, PHP is faster.

If you already know RoR and have your dev machine and deployment environment all set up, then it's not hard to get a Rails app working. Rails has a significant advantage with the use of gems (and bundler, etc.) for easily adding complex features.

I still use PHP for my home projects most of the time because I haven't bothered to set up Rails on my VPS, so the effort it would take to do so just isn't worth it compared to how easily I can drop a PHP app in place. (I am using a framework in PHP too.)

But then, the author was talking about PaaS not setting up Ruby on a VPS. So in that case it's probably just about how comfortable the developer is with each language. I'm a bit more comfortable with PHP because I don't like debugging Ruby GEMs that use instance_eval black magic for DSLs and/or have to be inserted as Rack middleware. Not unless the project is large enough to make Ruby gems worth it.

(Eg. if I want good unit and integration testing. For home projects I rarely do integration testing. E.g. #2 was rack middle ware for REST API.)
They are the same product. People live for many months on Ensure when their jaws are wired shut and for other health issues. Ensure is just smart enough to properly label and market their product without opening themselves up to damaging claims. Soylent is still in the phase where 23andme was where they put whatever they want on their web site and haven't been smacked down by regulatory agencies yet.