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Here's an implementation that I think is shorter, simpler to understand, easier to use, and doesn't require modifying existing functions for currification

function curry(fn) {
var wrappedFnMaker = function(accArgs) {
return function() {
var effectiveArgs = accArgs.concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments));
if (effectiveArgs.length >= fn.length) {
return fn.apply(this, effectiveArgs);
} else {
return wrappedFnMaker(effectiveArgs);
}
};
}
return wrappedFnMaker([]);
}

add = curry(function(a,b,c) { return a + b + c; });
Class war is also war. There is more to psychology than self-medication for the troubled, SSRIs for the moderately dysfunctional, and anti-psychotics for the very troubled. Isn't there? I couldn't help but notice that the little trick memory plays on our conscious minds of forgetting about trauma, kind of scabbing and healing is very like what happens on this site: We meet interesting people and get to sample their thoughts and then we immediately forget what we didn't know five minutes ago, or that we didn't know it.It seems to me that war-mongering takes advantage of these blind spots by hammering away at our attention It always seems to start with something new. Did you know they sank a patrol boat in the golf of Tonkin? Did you know...whatever, and builds from there. I have to thank MG for reminding us that we can actually get up, dust ourselves off and walk away. A lesson that doesn't require action or revenge, just awareness.
This is an interesting blog post on http authentication woes:

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=155252
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Dentist dropped tools down man's throat 
A Florida dentist is being sued for allegedly dropping tools down the throat of an elderly patient _ twice.
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So how do we remind ourselves to appreciate the usual and not just the unusual?
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Okay, sorry to hijack the topic, but I'm curious to know how many hits you get from *.gr versus from the rest of the world, if you are bothering to track geolocation that is.
I agree. Most of my sites have frame busting code in them, simply because most of the times, the frame spoils the look of my page. Also the frame sort of implies as though my page is part of the site that does the framing, and I find that annoying.

As regards URL shorteners, I don't mind them one bit. The only problem I have with URL shorteners is that they may be used to disguise malicious links, and even that problem is being solved (bit.ly provides automatic warnings).
The article speaks of excess hardware making the phones "surprisingly clunky", but really the phones don't have any hardware that you wouldn't find in a top of the line Nokia, and the software is more or less equally shitty to use. What the Japanese phones do have is software features that rely on carrier support (like iphone's visual voice mail) and widely available cheap data transfer rates, but the actual phones really aren't all that special. Japan should export the infrastructure first, then worry about the phones.

-The internet browsing thing is basically because a lot of Japanese websites have a "mobile mode", ultra simplistic layout as an option. It's not really a phone feature.

-TV receivers in mobile phones require a special signal to be sent for them (the currently available models can't deal with normal dvb-t, for example [AFAIK]), and there are different standards in use for this in different parts of the world. And well, it just isn't a terribly useful feature in the first place.

-Push email is used to replace SMS, which is pretty cool but that'd require a data plan over here.

On the other hand, Japanese phones generally lack stuff we take for granted: t-9 text input, spelling dictionaries, they use a slightly different network standard (FOMA vs 'normal' 3G),... all of which are possible to fix, of course, but then, it wouldn't be that hard for the competitors to copy their good features either.

I'd say that if Japanese phones ever become a hit in the west, it's because of the cool and different designs rather than features.
No, since it doesn't involve annoying everyone you send email to.
it's time, it's all about time! petroleum will stand 50 years at least, during that time, countries and companies are doing researches... they'll find something.

look at the new electric cars and motos? aren't they the future? maybe!
The only hope for DRM would have been if people never expected better. "This is just how it is."

Of course, through both unauthorized channels (for copy-restricted content) and normal usage (of personal and free content), people now know better. That means under any name, DRM will appear broken and backward.

There will still be novel and annoying attempts at DRM, but essentially, this battle has been won.
Yes, obviously. But that should not change your response to whatever he writes. You should look at the writings as though you do not know who wrote it and respond accordingly.

Case in point, I think it's funny that PG had to remove himself from the leaderboard here because everything he says - no matter how trivial - gets voted up quite high.
Hmm.

NASA: 17.6 Billion.
TARP Bailout: 700 Billion.

Your tax dollars at work...

I'd love to see what a company like SpaceX could do if they had a yearly grant (qualified by demonstrable successes) of 25% NASA's budget.
Flash support?

Actually, I hear Slingbox has a pretty decent app for it (WiFi only though).
I lived in Japan from 2002 to 2005. I have to say, one of the first things that struck me was how crazily advanced their cellphones were. Not only that, but _everyone_ had one.
While your Python advice seems sound (as far as I can tell in my ignorance), it's obviously not true that "code generation with dynamically-typed languages is dead". These two things are orthogonal. Dynamic languages can be, and are, compiled.

It's true that in less powerful languages, you need code generation to do what more powerful languages can do with higher-order functions and reflection. But it's also true that code generation (along with other techniques from compiler and language development) remain quite useful for writing shorter, clearer programs in environments that support this.
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Sorry, but browsers absolutely support arbitrary HTTP methods, and have since IE6. XMLHttpRequest, have you heard of it?

Also, REST != PUT + DELETE. Don't get hung up on it, they're just surface-level niceties. The real point is to not mix up GET & POST, to be careful about state and idempotence.
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What would you do with HD video on a 480x320 screen?

Anyway, it'd need an extra chip to work, which would make the phone bigger, and then it'd kill your battery when you used it (receiving signal, decoding video, playing sound and keeping the screen lit), so it would be useless in all but a few scenarios, like riding the bus to work (but is there anything worthwhile on at that time...).

I used to have a TV-tuner for my Game Gear. Used it maybe three times. It's a useless gimmick 95% of the time.
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I am confused by the little science that was quoted in the article. For example, it reports that college students are studied that are survivors of child abuse, and it is found that the effects they suffer as a result are small. There are two problems with that:

First, these are college students so there's a giant selection effect in action: they are by definition the child abuse survivors that were functional enough to have gotten to college.

Secondly, a lot of the problems with problematic childhoods don't express themselves until the children become parents; in other words, I don't care how well enough these kids did at college if they went on to abuse their own children. (Not that they all would; but the issue is more complicated than how it is presented).

Overall, the whole point of the article is that experience is not destiny; some people can survive the most horrific abuse and come out of it; others are completely destroyed by the experiences. This is not news. The fact that as a society we may want to worry more about the latter than the former is not, IMHO, a problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer...
I work for a non profit whose purpose I believe. It adds an element of fulfillment and influence to my work that I otherwise find absent. (keep in mind professionally I'm a low level worker, while in the non-profit I am exclusively an executive or administrator)
I see no mention of UDP in this article, which is what 99% (if not more) voice and video traffic is transmitted as (omitting stuff wrapped in HTTP). Can it also detect flows of UDP?
There is no actual technical need for certification, though. Only the GSM modem needs to be certified for technical reasons, the rest is just so AT&T can get its advertising all over the phone.

But honestly, Japanese phones are not that amazing. They have pretty cases and nice incremental features, but they are not that different from US / European cell-phones. The "internet access" is not the real Internet in many cases. Japanese phones can also avoid ugly and big QWERTY keyboards because Japanese, in general, has shorter words than English (and therefore multi-press input works better).
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No, his status validates his comment. He's been on the inside of Digg, more than anyone else really, so I'd trust his assessment. I doubt you'd really respond the same way if someone who created their account a week ago with 10 karma made the same comment.
In 1969, a high schooler thrilled to Apollo and wrote the 1st Lunar Lander game.
China just doubled in size from 2006 to 2008.

Very interesting, the Internet field is still booming...
Well since US, Russia and the EU are not going to be spending billions on space tech with their economies in shambles, I'd still think it's upto India and China to innovate.

India might not have the tech required now, just as India did not have the tech required to make nuclear warheads once. Any country that has sufficient monetary and educational resources can most definitely innovate.

Also, you seem to be contradicting yourself: You say India has the brains but not the tech to go to the moon???
Yeah, the features in the Japanese market are mostly due to the ease of expanding infrastructure. I remember getting a plan with Au that only had the good features in the Tokyo metro area. That was fine, as I never left that area. Millions of other people were in the same boat. Maybe they left the Tokyo area once or twice a year, but other than that, never.

In the US, that would never fly. The people that are willing to pay for the features need them to work in all the "large metro areas", which doesn't mean "Manhattan" but rather "suburbs of Phoenix" and so on. This makes infrastructure roll-outs very expensive, and it's why they never happen.

(Incidentally, people in the US and Japan have similar commute times, but the population density in the US goes down a lot faster as you move away from the city center. In Tokyo, it's densely packed until you get to the mountains.)

Population density has its advantages; look at everything Japan has that the US doesn't (100Mbps internet for $20/month, interesting cell-phone features, amazing rail systems), and population density explains it all. But then, they don't have 5 bedroom houses for $150,000, either.
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Definitely! I feel more productive when there is less clutter in my real life as such clutter seems to translate to mental clutter for me. That's why when PG wrote his essay a while back called Stuff (i think?), and I was in the middle of moving, I chunked/sold/gave away a lot of the stuff I hadn't touched in a while. Unfortunately I moved to a larger place so I had to buy more stuff to fill it up, sigh.
We need a permanent presence in space, not a series of one off jaunts. Mars is too far and our technology too limited to colonize. It would just be a flag plant. However the moon is within our reach.

Spending resources on Mars now will only delay our permanent presence in space.

Manned missions to the Moon to set up a colony. Robotics for the rest of the solar system. It's the only way.
I would hope that someone in your position of authority would be less willing to reinforce the uncivil and dangerous group-think that pervades our society. Viewing those that disagree with you as evil or stupid is the strongest symptom of thought-ossification. The act of "condemning the other" can summon powerful forces to your side. But in the long run it is harmful. We would be better off if people were less comfortable using it as a tactic.

Seeing Eliezer Yukodsky use it himself does not set a good example.

Hell, I'm on your side on the particular issue at hand. It just turns my stomach to see people use such cheap rhetorical tactics, even if I agree with them. Especially if I agree with them.
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I suspect that the battery life woes of the iPhone and Android is not because the batteries are worse, it's that the UI is so much better that you can actually use it more.
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This is old news. why post it again ?
After doing some checking, the only people to have died in the Apollo Program were those in the command module of Apollo 1 when a fire broke out on the launchpad. Apollo 13 could've ended in tragedy had the service module's oxygen tank exploded after LM landing or on return after the LM jettisoned.

Collins' concern from the article was the ascent module's component would not work correctly to separate from the lander and reach the command module again. Videos of that successfully occurring in Apollo 15 and 17 are here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBcLg0DkLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKRkvCKri8

The problem for Collins was that this stage of the mission had not been tested in prior Apollo test launches.

In hindsight, Apollo was a great success with 6 lunar landings and 1 aborted mission. Whoever knows if they were just very lucky each time, or that the craft was quite reliable. Collins may have, or still might think the former, yet he might have been fairly safe all along. We'll never know.
And a major cost factor.
And ever more tragic: This fallacy was (or is) often used in favour of wars.
You THINK you value your work more until you have to make the choice.
I say just live your life, and don't worry about stuff that didn't happen yet.
If you plan too much you lose all the fun.
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Despite the powerful mechanism, TTT has become a feature of diminishing value. Why? It’s simple:

Twitter’s Trending Topics Promotes Group Think.

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* group topics
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* more filtering mechanisms
* more diversity
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The PR effect of manned one way missions would be interesting.
I was honestly surprised to see that email was only 6% of internet traffic. Also surprised to see gaming at only 2%.
Wouldn't the academic equivalent of a Pyramid Club be academic journals?
Other than live sporting events, can you think of anything that broadcast TV would provide that can't be served by the download/sync model? Given the additional chipsets and battery drain from heavy network use I can't see how Apple would view this particular desire as anything more than a need to break the populace from this idea that you watch video programs when some TV network thinks that you should watch them. If the content producers offered Apple access to their content at the same per-subscriber price point that they offer the content to the cable networks then your desires would be met in a much more interesting and appealing fashion.
I think that Moon is much important milestone than mars in the shorterm. The main reason is that Moonh is the huge resource of Helium-3, which should be a main energy resource of the next centuries. Who dominate the moon will also dominate the energy of the future. This is the main reason, why Chine, USA and Russia take a look more at the Moon than Mars.
I doubt anyone is going to use these instructions directly inside the application code; it will be in a library that falls back to the normal way if the instructions aren't available. Like video decoders do now (or even 3d rendering that falls back to software rendering).

If anyone is locked in, it will because this significantly speeds up their app; in which case it's not really lock-in, it's just a good solution to the problem.

In conclusion, I disagree.
I never said the workers weren't happy then - I said the company was a different place. People externally were less happy about Microsoft, because it was, as you note, more aggressive.
Very nice. But how come Brazil has more internet users than Germany and India but it shows as having a smaller percentage of the world's internet users?
Since you mention that market size isn't a factor for you and since you don't seem to have a preference for one phone (though you've tried both), I'd suggest Android.

I wrote a prototype app with the Android beta last year, The Android beta platform was fairly rich in functionality and had a lot of stuff (background process, advanced location-based functionality etc.) that iPhone 2.0 did not have.
Java programming on the Android will be closer to the (managed code) C# experience you currently have. So your overall rampup time with Android will be lesser.

Btw I myself chose to focus on the iPhone because I liked the device (as a user) and because there is a much bigger market for iPhone apps.
Ok, that's a good point, but you have to admit that that post does not come across very balanced and should be judged on its merits rather than being accorded automatic credit based on the history of the poster with the company, or in this community.

Note that the OP himself already builds in a disclaimer: "I wasn't going to comment on the first story because I've been accused of being persistently negative about digg"

and then ends with:

"Don't read digg, techcrunch, mashable, etc, etc. and you'll more informed and a better person."

That's not very classy, standing or not shouldn't factor in to it. There has to be a more professional way to handle this whether you've been taken advantage or not is not an issue though I very much understand (having been in the same boat at some point) how hard it is to let go of that.

It clouds the view of the OP and that is a pity because I think that if the comment were in a more moderate tone it would get much more traction.
You seem to indicate that Japan's carriers has less strict certification process than AT&T's.

My personal experience with NTT DoCoMo (one of the largest carriers in Japan) has been exactly the opposite. Certificaiton has been a very difficult and long process.
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Quoting Paul Graham:

"...'Systematic' is the last word I'd use to describe the way good programmers write software. Code is not something they assemble painstakingly after careful planning, like the pyramids. It's something they plunge into, working fast and constantly changing their minds, like a charcoal sketch.

In software, paradoxical as it sounds, good craftsmanship means working fast. If you work slowly and meticulously, you merely end up with a very fine implementation of your initial, mistaken idea. Working slowly and meticulously is premature optimization. Better to get a prototype done fast, and see what new ideas it gives you. ..."

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Nice to see the way it's 'supposed' to be done, but really that's a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Most APIs can get away with "HTTP requests that do stuff".

As an example, here's how you create a new meeting with Twiddla's (evidently RESTless API). One POST over SSL:

> POST https://www.twiddla.com/new.aspx
> username=billy
password=iLikeRainbows

< HTTPS/1.1 200 OK
< 109232

Now, here's how this author suggests people do it:

> GET http://api.twiddla.com/

< [XML packet full of endpoints comes back]

> GET [endpoint you parsed from that list]

< HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required

> GET [same endpoint after jumping thru crypto hoops]

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< 109232

As an API publisher, I can see absolutely no value in making my users jump through all those hoops just to use my API. The API exists so that people can get things accomplished on my site, and I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be just as usable as the site itself.

Please, if you're putting out a simple API, don't make it overly complicated just to please this author and others like him. Make it exactly as complicated as it needs to be to perform the task intended and no more.