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Indeed. A useful discussion on this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730019/why-not-use-doubl...
Read the link I provided. India middle class < America poverty.
It's their job, they're just not very good at it.
I've never disliked Kutcher as intensely as some people seem to do...is thought Punkd was quite funny and he's done far more experimentation and exploration than other people in his situation. That said, it's ironic to me the content of his speech, celebrating a selfless engineer, after he tried to besmirch Woz, who is perhaps the patron saint of engineers
Is this to do with when a certain strength of cryptology was catagorised as a weapon and there for not allowed to be exported from the USA? Does this mean that that was relaxed becasue the NSA, or whoever, eventually got a back door or whatever?
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"Real knowledge is gained from tinkering, trial and error. A degree from a recognized academic institution is largely a social credit that is earned through memorization and the ability to recall and recite those references."

I find that quite insulting. This may be true if you go to some shoddy university that teaches things by rote and memorisation. I did an engineering degree where we had practical laboratory sessions that required you to build experience to get a good mark and the exams were not about remembering formula, you had to apply the knowledge that had been taught.

Experience cannot be taught. However, a good teacher will teach you a lot of useful skills that help you acquire experience quickly. I have learnt foreign languages where I have done a lot of studying at home but with much less opportunity to practice using those languages. When I visited the countries where they spoke those languages I struggled at first but it didn't take long to recognise the differences between my self practice and the real pronunciation/way of using a phrase.

Frequently we see these posts that say you don't need a degree to code. It's true, but if you have a good degree in programming then it's so much easier and probably your code will be much better because you know why things are done a certain way and you do them properly.
Because the line one draws is "no server-side code at all". If you use a bit of code for that, you might as well use a bit for this, and for the other thing, and soon it's a CMS.

Besides, the hosts I want to deploy on don't have PHP (S3, stock nginx, Github pages).
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Version 1

http://cromonitor.com/screenshots/f09cffee-5b4d-11e3-88ec-002590d06c79/20131212024501.png

Version 2

http://cromonitor.com/screenshots/f09cffee-5b4d-11e3-88ec-002590d06c79/20131212014456.png

Which of these tests do you think should win?
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Not to forget Dan Brown's novel "Digital Fortress" which is entirely based on NSA and its cryptographic efforts! I coincidentally saw it just after Snowden's revelations and was surprised that such a topic was the subject of a popular novel. (I couldn't finish reading the book; not sure if the focus changes later)
Yes, insult away.

You do know D the language was written by compiler expert, right - if you had a point or just insult.
This[1] seems about right for the ECE people I know, none of whom are making minimum wage. Daycare workers without any certifications make minimum wage, certified workers make about 50% more and the heads make about double minimum wage.

1: http://www.livingin-canada.com/salaries-for-early-childhood-...

The minimum wage in Canada is about $10, +/- 50 cents depending on jurisdiction.
A good read would be "The design of everyday things" by Don A. Norman. It explains how brain works, and how to design by using map techniques and user tests.

A resume, when design:

1. Use both knowledge in the world and in the head.
2. Simplify the structure of tasks.
3. Make things visible.
4. Get the mappings right.
5. Exploit the powers of constraints-Natural & Artificial.
6. Design for Error.
7. When all else fails, standardize.

There's a lot of books in the matter of UI but they can fall either in the philosophy side or either the personal taste of the writer.

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
If you need money to buy it, it's not freedom, it's power.
>> only to find that mainstream Americans don't share his disability.

It looks like you just got down-voted by almost everybody that read your comment. I guess when you look at yourself you should now say "here is a man that went thermonuclear only to find nobody else shared their disability." (When a man makes one judgment upon another, he should keep the ability to judge himself likewise.)

FYI the article I read had him expecting to see grey and finding an ever blackening black - so in contrast to your own comment, you need to realise that you are communing with people that aren't color blind and believe that these shades of reality are complex and require discussion.
The problem is actually two or three decades old: radio broadcasting and tape recorders initiated it. After the failed attempts to copy-protect CDs, the industry should have acknowledged that fighting piracy is essentially futile, and should have prepared for a transition in their business model.

It's not like there were no warning, no signs. When Internet took of, the very first great IP battle was against software piracy. Even an industry that has the technical means to prevent piracy didn't really prevail, why would the music industry win it? Studying the struggles of the software industry could have learned them a lot on what was going to happen, and given them some leads on how to evolve: hardware protection with dongles can be translated in improved goodies and packaging; the shareware (ID Software, anyone?) model can be translated in crowd-founded music like My major company. They could even take a look at what the gaming industry is doing nowadays: subscription and micro-transactions.
Given the lack of mass outrage, I think people are still in some sort of denial. Or perhaps its seen as being too huge to really do anything meaningful about. In the UK, politicians are still mostly trying to sort of shrug it off. Even across Europe, there is not real outrage at the fact that the UK, as a sort of internet EU to US hub, is selling out the EU to the US. Its all too muted for my liking. Cant help thinking that behind the scenes the US is trying to broker some sort of deal. I dunno, intelligence sharing or whatever.
Can we expect any improvement in startup time so that it becomes a little bit more suitable for command line tools?
And I'm not so sure that recording albums really are a passive income stream in any meaningful sense. One would have to know how the album sales look for the average artist. If an artist uses 5 months to record an album, then it sells for 1 year until most of the fan base has bought it, than a little for the next year and then only pennies for the rest of the decade, then that album will not constitute any more passive income than me depositing some thousand dollars in the bank. Then that artist has to go back to recording a new album in a year or two to keep afloat.
I really enjoyed this recent article about the Coelacanth, its discovery and the mission to get one fresh enough to extract sequenceable DNA from it.

http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/features/anonymou...
Then how do you explain the obvious correlation between 2008's financial events and the oil price ? And all the previous times that happened ? Or do you think we've advanced ridiculously beyond what we had in 2008 ?
"Poorer" doesn't mean much. First of all, you should factor in purchasing power; second, constant expenses which are the killer.

In most countries, especially poorer ones, you don't have to own a car to be in the middle class. Neither you have to pay for gas, car itself and parking/garage. You can realistically move by foot and/or mass transit.

Disclaimer: I think I'm in top 5% in my country, probably earn more than USA median and I never had a car.
Are there not two questions:

1) Were flaws introduced into the technology which potentially reduce the strength of the encryption?

2) Did OpenSSL know about it?

It seems the answers can be yes and no without any real stretch.

If you are, say, the NSA, asking / paying for a whole standard to be implemented (a) gets the bit you want implemented and (b) hides what you're really interested in from anyone wondering and looks less suspicious. Once it's in they could either start pushing for it to become a default, push for people to voluntarily choose it (get people speaking at conferences to recommend it or whatever), or just leave it knowing that a few people would use it and that works for them too.

But the fact that OpenSSL probably weren't complicit doesn't change the fact that elements of the product need to be considered potentially flawed.
Granted. But still, symbolically, that's how it sounds, so maybe there's a problem with this system?

What I mean is that even if it's done at the request of the government, that's only a description of the political backstage, but in public it is expressed as the monarchy's doing ("royal" pardon).
Freedom to me in the context of earning great amounts of money is more related to an inner freedom. It's the freedom that allows your inner voice to say "ok we did this". And it's the one that allows you to feel like you're parents, friends, family, etc will know that all of the hours you've spent were actually worth something.
Indeed. I tried logging into the IRC channel, but nobody was around. Would be nice to see it with a great UI - it looks like it deserves it.
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I'm trying to write a better JPEG compressor: https://github.com/pornel/jpeg-compressor

IMHO JPEG algorithm isn't crude. IMHO it's actually quite brilliant—simple and very closely tied to human perception. The core concept of DCT quantization hasn't been beaten yet—even latest video codecs use it, just with tweaks on top like block prediction and better entropy coding.

Wavelet compressors like JPEG 2000 beat JPEG only in lowest quality range where JPEG doesn't even try to compete. Wavelets seem great, because their blurring gives them high PSNR, but lack of texture and softened edges make them lose in human judgement.
> All or nearly all of the functional aspects of Clojure have counterparts in Scala. On top of that, Scala provides [...]

Scala doesn't provide the syntactic macros, or the same simpler approach to concurrency.
What is Row and column store? specifically in SAP HANA
Perl 6 has proper types. If you produce a string, you are producing a Str object (well, technically it could be an object that does the Stringy role, but I don't think there are any other Stringy types implemented yet) and it will compare as a string, not a number, no matter what it looks like.

Likewise, if you produce a number, you have an object which does the Numeric role, and it will compare as a number.
> Is there a word which means a government acknowledges their laws were wrong and the people prosecuted under them were guiltless victims?

It's called an apology, admission of guilt, and usually some reparations are involved.
Using val King = 13; val Queen = 12; in Scala is not equivalent with using Clojure keywords, as their printed variant will be 13 and 12, not :king and :queen. Reading debugging output or logs would force you to manually convert those values.

Ordering for free is valuable, I guess, but it sort of depends on the situation. Sometimes face cards are worth 10, other times they are worth 11, 12, 13. If you use val King = 10;, then it suddenly is impossible to distinguish between face cards and tens.
Definitely true, but it's a small and not enough to make up for a 20% reduction in purchase price.

I'm seeing 0.49% on new cars and 1.49% on used cars from USAA, and several other banks/CUs are all showing 1.99% or better rates. Even if you got 0% on a new car as an incentive and paid 2% on a used car loan, over a 5-6 year loan, you'd pay about 7% more with the loan vs the "free" financing on the new car. (Nevermind that a 5-6 year car loan is insanely long, IMO; buy a car you can afford for cash or on a 3-4 year note. With money at 2%, that's less important than it used to be, of course.)

There are also programs where a captive (or semi-captive) credit agency will finance people who couldn't qualify for a used car loan. It frustrates me when I hear car ads touting exactly this, which I view as borderline predatory.

"With my credit, I couldn't afford a car, but FooBar brand got me into a new car for only $95 a week!" I believe that such practices should be legal (because you don't generally make someone better off by legislating away their choice), but it's not helpful in the majority of cases. If it's the difference in being able to keep your job vs not, it's helpful. If it's the difference between being able to brag to your friends that you're rolling a 2014 Camry instead of a 2005 Corolla that you could actually afford, well neither they nor you are doing you any favors...
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The screen size looks wrong because the app is running in pillar box mode — it's only been compiled to run for 640x960 screens (i.e. iPhone 4S and older).

The keyboard is iOS 6 styled because the app hasn't been compiled for iOS 7.

Nothing out of the ordinary here.
I can't imagine why you'd ever want to represent a card rank as int-or-string.

I think this illustrates the author's point that languages structure our thinking. The value of a King as 13 and the Queen as 12 is determined by the rules of the card game, not the number of elements displayed on its face as is the case for the non-face cards - e.g. the face cards all have a value of 10 in blackjack.

Some languages better allow for the messy details of the world and allow the programmer to treat the partial and occasional isomorphism between names of and the values assigned to cards in a particular context uncomplected.

None of which is to say that strong static typing does not offer a particular set of advantages, only to suggest that it can become forced at a certain level of abstraction where real world objects are represented without a specific context for interpretation.

Imagine a program which begins by asking, "Which game do you want to play?" and includes a card guessing game, blackjack, Uno!, go fish, and crazy eights. We want the values of the cards to lie in their use within each game, not where we shuffle and deal and discard from hands.
How are collections broken? Views are deprecated/set to be deprecated, I don't really use scala.io, I find java io sufficient for my needs, scala.xml is being split out in 2.11 and macros will let people use a third party implementation, scala.actors is also deprecated, having been replaced by Akka.

Paul has definitely found a lot of "bugs", he has certainly contributed a huge amount to the cleanliness of the code base, and has been a big pusher for removing certain levels of unsoundness in the type system, but if you were looking for bug-finders + fixers, Simon Ochsenreither is probably a better bet.
Well, imagine if you could represent all your data as JSON, rather than a complex hierarchy of objects and methods, and the language was designed around making that kind of data super-easy to work with.

Then imagine that you could represent your code as JSON and also that a database existed that let you store and build queries on JSON directly (i.e., Datomic).
Make sure you click around and explore. Lots of strange animations of elves and presents and stuff.

Edit

Found this really weird present drop game: http://www.google.com.au/santatracker/#/village/presentdrop
Do you think law enforcement aren't included in there customers? I know for a fact in the UK at least that they are.

As for being arrested by a corporation - that will change. The UK government for one are beginning a process of outsourcing some elements of front line policing.
I'm just gonna throw this out there, even though it's wild speculation...

They've burnt Geohot's exploits for a 7.1
jailbreak, as the release timing means that
they will be patched by Apple and be completely
useless in the future.

The jailbreak they released is worthless for
the moment due to them not bothering to include
the proper Substrate releases from saurik.

This all comes through at a curious moment, when Apple announces a massive deal that opens up a truly vast Chinese market for them.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/23/us-apple-china-mob...

So, like, what if Apple and the Communist Chinese have colluded to prevent jailbroken iPhones in China, as part of the deal? Mostly because we're already talking about buy-offs and leaks with curious timing... So, somewhere along the line Xi Jinping and Tim Cook have a little sit down, and shortly thereafter, members of PLA Unit 61398 approach evad3rs on IRC all like:

"the people of china need iPhones, but the chinese
government, needs them to be 'safe' [wink]...
if we give you certain... packages, mr. hotz is uh...
known to have, maybe eh... well ...listen, i'm just
going to come out and say it... geohotz needs to
take a fall. here's a retainer, see what you can do."

</hand-wavey-magical-thinking>
Come back to me when there's a standard for JSON schemas so my data can be actually strongly-typed + verified.
The headline should state Renderings at the end :)
I think that Renderings raise false expectations and are like the airbrushed models of the magazine industry. They always depict a perfect, majestic false reality that convinces companies to invest massively, yet in reality they look different.
Yeah, but the entire .uk domain system? That's really odd.
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Due to the formatting and the use of Perl I had to check the date of the article as I thought it perhaps was a 10 year old article. But it was from last week.

But that is current me being a slight code snob as I did use Perl as my prime language for a few years but that was 13 years ago.

As someone who have worked with many payment and billing systems I can see some of the pain addressed. But also reinventing the flat wheel is something I try to avoid and keeping things simple so for example these days I use BigDecimal, BigInteger datatypes and similar in more modern languages.

Ps. as someone who just ordered cards from moonpig.com, the name was initially confusing.
Fair enough.

I switched our team's website to a completely static site a few years ago, they were using joomla (vomit) for essentially a broucher site that changed once a quarter.

I wonder if there would be a place for a 'json search as a service' thing - where you could upload your static content (as markdown, rst, txt, whatever) and then use their servers for full text queries which return a json list of matching page URLs and titles...
This is an average Malaysian internet connection.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3185041626

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Download: 1.33Mbps
Upload: 0.53Mbps

It's around RM140 = 40++USD per month.
In theory you would be right. In practice, not so much. Can you go about those obligations you love without having obligations imposed upon you by society, by governments, by life in general, whether you want them or not? I doubt it. Freedom the way the author describes it is still a significant proxy to happiness, the ability to exert options with your life. Money in turn is the nearest proxy to such freedom, as it extends those options and your ability to apply them.
I mount a directory from the host machine as a volume. It works great, though I've only been mounting the volume to one type of container where the UIDs are persistent. Just need to chown the directory once correctly on the host, or include a chown in your dockerfile. It can become problematic if you have multiple containers with variable UIDs, though.
The autism piece is very interesting, it follows a family that's busy turning the traditional theories of autism on their head.
There seem to be 4 primary programming paradigms available on the JVM...

Clojure - concurrency (immutable by default), macros (lisp-style)

Scala - object/functional fusion, lazy evaluation

Ruby dialect (JRuby or Groovy) - "methodMissing" meta-object protocol

Java - low-level OOP (but functional lambdas and lazy streams coming in Java 8)

COMING SOON: Javascript (Rhino or Nashorn) - functional with prototype-style OOP
Yep, that's true and made it worth it for me (plus VW throws in the first 30k of maintaince, which saves another $2k or so)
More like John Ralphio.
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It's interesting to see the differences in design decisions they used vs. the "ledger" program that I've used for a while (http://ledger-cli.org).

Specifically, that ledger internally uses an arbitrary precision library to store data, then only cuts down or rounds numbers at the display level, and the use of libraries and a database vs. a file format and highly optimized code.
As I read it, millicents made the billing math simple and easy to explain. I bet most people can understand millicents more easily than arbitrary precision integers...
JSON was used in the original article as a placeholder for Clojure forms. You can (optionally) get strong typing using Clojure records[1] (see defrecord) or using core.typed[2]. Datomic also lets you specify types[3].

I'm not "coming back" to you, as I don't appreciate your snarky, know-it-all tone. I'm replying for the benefit of others reading who may not be familiar with Clojure.

[1] http://clojure.org/datatypes

[2] https://github.com/clojure/core.typed

[3] http://docs.datomic.com/schema.html
Have we ruled out the possibility that the UK government is more desperate to legitimize code breaking than to exonerate a mistreated war hero?

I don't think that's the case, but these days it's getting harder to be sure.
As much as I like what's happening in version 2 (more description and a nice callout with dark sidebar), I definitely like version 1 better overall.

Arriving at the page cold, the second version is just far too dense. Having a link or two out to more info is a great idea, but keeping the main sign-up page simple is critical to users not just hitting back or getting overwhelmed.

Perhaps create a version 0, with even less text and more whitespace than version 1.