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> I've got addicts and alcoholics in my family.

Me too.

> My cousin died from overdose.

Mine too (and my wife's).

> I've got close friends who killed themselves with drink.

Thankfully this doesn't apply to me, though not for lack of trying in some cases.

But still, this is something to celebrate. Even if it only reduced the impact of drug-trafficking and related gang violence in one South American country, it would be worth celebrating. If it allows countries to de-militerize their police forces, it's a good thing. If it allows countries to save or raise tax money and spend it on social services or return it to taxpayers, it's a good thing. If it stop the selective enforcement of petty laws against outsider groups, then it's a good thing.

Getting back to those who themselves suffer from drug dependencies, if legalization of cannabis defunds black-market dealers of other drugs, then it's a good thing. If a users dependency issue is brought to light and treated earlier (which is an explicit aim of the Uruguayan experiment), then that's a good thing.

I'm not particularly interested in celebrating "new ways to get a buzz on", but as both our experiences testify, there is nothing new about "people getting a buzz on", even to an extreme, debilitating and deadly extent, what is new is how we deal with that existing reality.

So yes, let's celebrate, and support this movement to a more evidence-based response and hope we can move society's approach to these problems forward, even if only one little step at a time.
Pope Francis named TIME person of the year.
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For crying out loud! What difference has the Pope made to the world (and do remember, the world does include non-Christian countries...or roughly 5 billion out of 7 billion people...and I'm not even getting into Catholics vs. non-Catholics here).

Colour me cynical, but any publication that declares anyone other than Edward Snowden as the Person of the Year in 2013 has to have some pretty BIG reasons for doing so. And the Pope's just don't cut it.
Nice!

"That would be a huge difference in affordability for everyday use."

Very true.
What does "Delphi mentality" mean?

I'm genuinely curious, not having been exposed to that ecosystem at all.
On the 3rd of january 2009, satoshi nakamoto did an extraordinary thing. He put online an invention unlike any invention before in the history of mankind. The invention is a solution to a supposedly intractable problem that defeated the brightest minds of the information era for more than 30 years. The invention is about how to keep an accurate accounting ledger, such that no two accounts can end up deriving their balance from the same source twice or more, yet have it be run in a fashion that does not require to trust anybody to keep it accurate. Those are already two intractable problems down namely the problem of double spending and the problem of counterparty risk. But satoshi didn't stop there, he also combined this core idea with a protocol and software of extraordinary quality where it mattered, making it possible to use this system in a secure and decentralized fashion. That are two more problems taken care of, which are security and centralization. But satoshi didn't stop there, he also made sure to squash another intractable problem that is how an essentially worthless representation of an account can be protected from the centralized issuance of the units of account. Trough the ages all societies have struggled with that problem where governments invariably started to mint/print their own currency issuance into oblivion to the great detriment of the society they where to "govern". But satoshi didn't stop there either, he also made sure that the rules of the system incentivize people to provide the network to keep this accounting secure and running and provide the necessary resources to do it.

Now, I understand when you hear things that seem to sound like "this time is different" that it makes you suspicious.

But that's not what what most people who know bitcoin say. What they say is, this is a thing, unlike anything that has come before or since. There's no comparing it to anything that existed so far, because nothing like it existed before it.

You should be drawing your own conclusion about how significant an invention bitcoin represents. You might be of the opinion it isn't worth half of the valuation of twitter, which is essentially a non invention to begin with. Or you might be of the opinion it's a substantial invention, worth more than google.
@codez: the intro modal had me confused as well so I realigned a few of the elements - http://imgur.com/a/FQkUm - to make it more self explanatory...yup, having a slow day at work :)
I would treat this as a great bug report. Aphyr has done a lot of work, showing that a (reasonable to me) formal interpretation of your gist produces catastrophically bad results.

If you're unhappy with the formal interpretation of your gist, publishing the formal interpretation you intended (or, better yet, code) would allow others to build the system you actually intended.
Define harder drugs. There are many many prescribed drugs today from professionals you can buy.
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I liked the UI because it is compact. I know they are not the only alternative, but I hate default padding and margin values of Bootstrap. Not everyone has retina or 4K displays. It is more suitable for desktop application where you need many components to be displayed, and you have a mouse to navigate. Bootstrap is good in the other way around.
I understood the "open" comment to mean "open to modification and extension", independent of whether it is dying out.
You may find some stuff here: http://docs.python.org/3.3/reference/datamodel.html
Well, we all know Time, Time/Warner and the media in general in the US is owned in the worst definitive way. So, of course Snowden can't be Person of the Year.
It is: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18392248/366332
I doubt it. Think of the difference between someone who's unfamiliar with vim, versus an expert. I'm the former, so it ends up feeling too meta. I.e. I'm thinking about how to enter commands to do my work, instead of just having the work flow with no perception of tooling between me and the work.

Consider that artists have already become experts at sketching, at visual design, etc. For them, a pen or stylus or 3d program doesn't feel like tooling, but give them an unfamiliar tool and it will totally get in the way of creative expression.
Why are these "Person of the Year" stories still relevant?
>Well, this Pope has been remarkably liberal and transformational

Has he? I know that he has been saying a lot of stuff, but has he actually changed anything? I get the feeling that either he is full of shit, or that he doesn't actually have the power to carry out all the reforms that he says he will.
DHH, the author of this post and Rails itself, is and has been actively campaigning against client-side applications, as they clearly undermine his server-side ecosystem.
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Soon they will have an almost perfect copy of the SunRay system...
I await news of the handset specs excitedly - I'm going to be upgrading sometime next year and I hope Ubuntu will be a viable alternative.
I've always been fascinated by TCL, so I second girvo's request. I'd like to know more, with possibly some links to in depth resources, or some insight (as TCL is not that "in" nowadays).
That it was largely irrelevant to my work. University is for life, not technical knowledge.
Obama has been person of the year twice in the last 5 years and there seem to be other countries than the USA last time i checked.
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Greenwald:“I intend to publish Edward Snowden’s documents to the very last”
I like to see a salary range. Just putting "Salary: competitive" means your probably aren't.

I like skill requirements broken out into "should have" and "nice to have". Even better are the jobs that list "nice to have but we know you can learn our stack".

Totally hate any job board that wants your email to see their jobs. I use their own email address (info@topjobs.com) when they ask. Let them spam themselves. :-)

Could care less for the "We were voted blah blah. With more than three decades of experience and innovation in the sales, use and value-added tax (VAT) tax-compliance arena, Bloatware stands as the leader in providing automated solutions..."
It also depends on what you are calling management. Is it someone who doesn't any actual work, or is it someone who tells you what to do in addition to doing their own work? Small companies tend to have a large number of the second group. Your IT may only have two people, but one is managing the other.
This is kind of neat.

Here's what I'd like to see: libvim. Vim has already been ported to iOS, so it's obviously embeddable. I'd like to have an instance of vim running inside my program, and to be able to scrape the tty/screen.

That way, if I want to make a fancy Oculus VR editor, or any other IDE experiment, I don't need to re-code basic editor functionality. Yes, I know about Scintilla.
Right now there are high hopes that the Pope will make a difference. Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize nine months after his election. For what reason if not high hopes?

To a huge number of people on this planet the problems around the NSA are rather insignificant.

EDIT: Typo
Not going to happen. Our bipolar government means that at any given time, at least 45% of the nation tacitly approves of the way things are going, just given the political party in power. Of those that disapprove, most don't care all that much and only a very small percentage would actually be willing to fight for real freedom. Pit that number against the current military and police structure that exists basically to maintain its own power (hint: it is rare they actually protect and serve the American citizenry) at the discretion of Government, and what do you wind up with? Not any sort of real revolution. We're already screwed before it begins.
I figured they wouldn't give it to Snowden. They're too scared/docile to do such a thing. They gave it to Zuckerberg - in 2011 (why that year?!) - instead of Assange, too, so whatever. To me Time POY is useless.
Yes please, make this choice least interesting/controversial as possible to make it even more irrelevant. The interesting question is: would it be someone else if Time wasn't US media?
perhaps the rest of the world are not computer nerds
Well, Delphi was very interesting phenomena. I fought (and lost) a great fight trying to convince coworkers that it is a dead end and that no one will support future development or adapt it to modern versions of Windows, because no one would pay to this huge effort which must be done right on time. In other words, it was a naive blind faith in so-called desktop apps (built on top of a wired third-party toolkit), while it was obvious that a browser is the proper way of visualizing an information. This is the Delphi mentality. Now they have a dead codebase and whole project is in ruins. The irony was that it was some in-house a-la ERP system.)
>Francis is merely extremely conservative...

I think it was sarcasm.
Sure Snowden opened up a dialog when it comes to privacy etc. and that's a big deal for us because we live on the internet.

This pope however is so transformational he could seriously do a lot to bring peace to the world. Potential wise, this guy trumps Snowden on every level.

Take a moment to think about how powerful this guy really is.

P.S I'm muslim.
Here's some info about the poll. It reports a few (too few) numbers. I suppose the editors didn't want to overwhelm us.

http://poy.time.com/2013/12/05/egypts-sisi-wins-readers-poll...
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"Person of the year 2013" isn't "person we're hoping will make a difference in 2014", it's "person who has made a difference".

The pope can pretty much do nothing that will affect me, but the bullshit the NSA pulls affect me every day.
And in Obama's case, that turned out to be extremely premature. So learn from history? Then again didn't Time give this award to Hitler, too? So yeah, they don't exactly have a good record of learning from history.
Well, Rust is your best bet for now, seeing that Go screwed it.
Err, yes. Not really news.

The UK Government also regarded the ANC as a terrorist organisation, given its fathership of the MK which had a close relationship with ZAPU through the 1970s.

But behind the scenes successive UK Governments negotiated between the ANC and the SA Governments. That was the nature of the times; one thing in public and another in private, just like in Northern Ireland.

As an odd aside, the SADF prized the Swedish-supplied rations that were supplied to ANC and SWAPO; Sweden covertly supported those groups from the early 1970s.
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"Some egghead in the UK has no business weighing in on what America's laws should be, and vice versa."

Well, except by honestly convincing American voters.
what delphi have to do with extjs? what i knew, when old days the code come from yui ,extjs something around 2006 started
There was nothing in your comment that made sense to me at all.

>> Oh my, that "Delphi mentality" in 2013..)

What's "Delphi mentality"?

>> ExtJS, if I remember correctly, is 5 or 6 years old already?

Why do you bring up ExtJS?

>> Is there any info which "startup" they have acquired or in what third-world country it was outsourced?

UI5 was developed in-house by SAP - not sure where it happened, but I think that particular bit of your comment reeks of arrogance and chauvinism
I did yum update on my 6.4 Centos VM, rebooted when completed, and now it will not boot. Here is a screenshot: http://screenpresso.com/=XotMc.

Any ideas?
I like this idea of first-mover to market not being a real force nowadays, fluidity let the structural value of a system emerge by ~itself.
Why do you assume the roof rack is part of the rented car? You can just buy a rack and put it on the rented car.
Our first obligation is to keep the foo counters turning.
I'm continually amazed at the frequent and detailed coverage, by every major news organization, expended on every snore and snuffle emitted by this one weird cult.

I'm almost as amazed by my own persistent naivete: I went to Time fully expecting to see Snowden.
The difference between crack and marijuana to me is because crack was made to replace another drug by using and implementing a different making system. Tomorrow another drug with non-controlled chemicals will hit the street, and it will be there because it will be cheaper and easy to manufacture than cocaine or other sustitutes. Those hard drugs aren't designed to provide a new experience, they're designed to jump the system and to have maximum profit.
Interesting comparison. The NSA will never need the Inquisition to assert its power though, they already know.
Knowledge is power.
Maybe Snowden beats Francis in the race for the next Nobel Peace Prize ;)
You can start with wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine_addiction
You are doing the same thing by assuming that Snowden's influence is as vast as that of Christianity. If you compare the percentages of people on the internet VS those who are Christian (at this point in time) you get approximately the same amount sitting at 32-34%.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/dec/23/...

Now I know that the internet is going to continue spreading to the point that it is at a much higher population than this, however, we are talking about 2013. Snowden did something awesome, and deserves to be up there in the finalists, but I don't like this sort of attitude that anything Christian has no relevance.

Francis has had a huge affect on many Christians and non-Christians alike because he is attempting to depolarize the Catholic church and better integrate them with the rest of the world. Both people deserve renown for what they've done. So lets not diminish the work of either Snowden or Francis.
I'm not saying Snowden or the Pope should or shouldn't be the POTY... but the narrow mindedness here is pretty silly (yet predictable). Maybe it's hard for atheist technologists living in the tech bubble to fathom, but the Pope is unbelievably influential to not just the millions (or even billions) of Catholics around the world, but even those who are not Catholic/Christian. I'm not sure whether Pope Francis will/has inspired policy change, moved political waves, etc, but when one person can potentially inspire perspective change in billions of people in the way they treat others and view many of the hot button issues in the world today, that seems worthy enough for POTY candidacy.
Roger Horn is one of the best linear algebra and matrix guys around, and I was, by wide margins, the star student in his class, effortlessly.

That's good, because you clearly wouldn't have been the star student in English class.
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I know that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, and that given the awesome work they are doing, this is worth the hassle. But I'd like to make a comment concerning the payment method. Last week I make my very first donation to Wikipedia. How did it happen? I saw the usual banner, and then, one of the payment options was Amazon. So I entered an amount, clicked the "pay with amazon", and was done. No entering my credit card, filling out forms, or anything. Zero friction. Amazon style. At this moment I realized that the reason why I hadn't donated before isn't that I didn't think the cause was worthy, but simply that the perceived hassle outweighed my desire to give. They removed that friction, they got my money.

So again, given the work they are doing, that's no excuse for not donating. But still, I wonder if that would boost the donations..
I think that some of you guys are missing the point by being a bit too America-centric. The new Pope is a gamechanger for a ton of people and has effected more lives directly than Snowden has (at least in those peoples' perspective).
roughly 6.7 billion out of 7 billion people are not in the USA.
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>> "The pope can pretty much do nothing that will affect me, but the bullshit the NSA pulls affect me every day."

So Time should have checked with you first? I don't really care who they voted as person of the year (it really doesn't matter) but being annoyed they picked someone who doesn't effect you (but can effect millions of others) is pretty dumb and selfish reasoning.
As an example, much of FlightAware is written in Tcl.

http://wiki.tcl.tk/15990
Hitler was MOTY in 1938. Since he had a rather large effect on history, it seems as if they made a good call. Remember, this is not supposed to be an honor, it's supposed to identify someone who influences things.
>I give the United States a maximum of 10-15 years before it will collapse due to massive civic unrest

Have even been to the US? Or did you just see it on TV?
You can even use the same templates on the server and client with python server side using Jinja2 and Nunjucks.
It's feels great to be able to blame managers when something goes wrong, but that's the only real difference between having or not having your 'accountability chain'. And if your company is structured to have someone to blame when things go wrong, you're not really building for success.

I get that everyone is afraid of prioritization going out the window without managers, but in my experience (and ymmv), managers are no better than productives at prioritizing. Grown-ups are used to taking responsibility.
Indeed. Miley Cyrus was robbed.
shameful. although he has certainly had an impact, what a revolting choice.

to pick such a wicked and corrupt individual, especially one who is deluded into thinking of themselves as righteous...

gah!!!

still... at least it wasn't Snowden.
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I think Wings3D[1] is a better fit for 3d editor with Vim-like semantics, with a much more intuitive UI/UX for 3d modeling.

[1] http://wings3d.com
So lame...
> Why do you bring up ExtJS?

Because it is an JS UI library of the very same kind which were around for years, isn't it?

Not sure about arrogance, but yes, I do hate SAP because I have seen it in production.)
For crying out loud! What difference has Edward Snowden made to the world (and do remember, the world does include people not connected to the Internet... or roughly 4.5 billion out of 7 billion people... and I'm not even getting into people with not enough to eat every day here).

Colour me cynical, but any publication that declares anyone other than Chuck Norris as the Person of the Year in 2013 has to have some pretty BIG reasons for doing so. And Edward Snowden's just don't cut it.
my reason: he only enlightened very naive people with massive blinkers on their vision.

although i'm inclined to agree he is a very good choice...
>>Take a moment to think about how powerful this guy really is.

Symbolically yes. But the world has moved on. Power these days comes in the form of a well developed economy, powerful armies, weapons, lobbies etc.

Spiritual power by and large means nothing in the current world.

Its all power, wealth and interests that move around them.
This is as big a cop-out as choosing Giuliani over Osama bin Laden as Time Person of the Year 2001.
This unlike the nobel price is given for influencing the events of the year, not so much for being good or great. Even Hitler and Stalin were selected.
These days it just seems to provide something to keep 4chan occupied for a week.
1) The thing that Aphyr tested is not the gist.

2) There was never any plan for it to go inside the Redis implementation. This was just an argument in a mailing list to show that synchronous replication as implemented by WAIT is dependent on the rest of the system.

What bug report we are talking about?
You think people will consume more, I think right now people is consuming with or without goverment approval. You don't need a law to consume, you just need a dealer, wich is really easy to find nowadays.

By making a good law about this kind of drugs, you just taking out lot of problems and saving lots of $$$$$ in survelliance and law enforcement wich, clearly by long proved stats, they don't work at all.
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Well, sure, you can't predict future with 100% certainity. But sometimes you have to make an educated guess. If you have a million dollars to invest, you have to speculate - put that into dollars, into some "safe stock", into properties, or at least a small part into Bitcoin?

At least this guy sets himself up to be accountable, compared to a bunch of experts who give vague statements like "Bitcoins are tulips, they will crash!", and then, once Bitcoins fall from $20k to $5k apiece 5 years later, they'll say: "see? I told you!"
I like this pope, but anything coming out of Vatican is essentially white-noise when it comes to national and international policies. No world leader actually cares.

So how does he bring peace to the world?
Looks like UI kits from 3 years ago.