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I've heard all of these arguments in support of Lisp for many years, but I'm still not convinced. Indisputably, Lisp is remarkable and holds a special place in the pantheon of programming languages. Every argument in it's favor makes sense, a lot of sense. Reading these arguments in favor of Lisp is not like reading a blog touting the benefits of Javascript where even the positive points don't really sound so positive. The arguments made for Lisp are persuasive.

Lisp is different. It's really quite unique; it has an elegant simplicity underlying its implementation and a deep connection to the foundations of computation. Think of this, Gregor Kiczales's book Art of the Metaobject Protocol was published 23 years ago! I learned to program in Lisp 40 years ago. What other languages did I use back in those days? Assembly language (IBM 360, CDC 6600, IBM 1130, etc), PL/1, Fortran, APL, COBOL. Nobody, argues today that we should be trying out PL/1 or we should give COBOL a try. (Are there any projects on Github using these languages from our hazy, distant past?) Lisp's beauty and power have kept it alive and vital all these years. But, there's something wrong with this story.

If Lisp is really so great, why hasn't it triumphed? I use Lisp all the time: my editor needs it during periodic tune ups. However, I can't think of when I've reached for it first when I've had a choice. Python is just easier to get things done in. If my programs don't run fast enough I don't think of Lisp, I think of C or C++. Haskell is where it's at as far as programming language research goes, not Lisp.

The important observation is that it's not just me. Lisp has had time to prove itself. It made it to the finals, and it deserves the lifetime achievement award. We can honor it's beauty, it's longevity, it's power, and even it's fantastic reincarnations (Clojure), but this isn't enough. If Lisp really was the language that we should be programming in, it would have demonstrated it by now.
That isn't the Google way. The need someone tapping the right data on audience feedback, with the right internal priority to execute on solutions.

Because failing your customers is basically evil. We already have enough faceless companies.
I agree. I think you should start with basic HTML/CSS/JS. Otherwise you will never learn the basics and figure out what/how the frameworks actually work.

Take Bootstrap for example. A beginner starting with frameworks might think: "Cool, if I add class this and class that, I get styling and layout". When in reality you need to know that class name means nothing, it is the CSS in the back that is doing everything.

Start basic, otherwise you will never know how exactly the frameworks work. Plus, you will never be able to write your own frameworks/libraries/code since you didn't learn it!

PS: The answer "just use a framework" = add a whole new file to use 10 lines of code and bloat your website with extra files and slow load times.
the dyno routing algorithm now routes requests to random dynos

That's not a change; that's how routing on Cedar has always worked.
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I'd shut it down and give the products back to the engineers.
Thanks, i cant take all the credit i am using twitter bootstrap for the ux
I would use Open Street Map, except that I find aerial photographs are often an invaluable aid to navigation because they provide a more complete model of facts on the ground. Aerial photographs allow better recognition of landmarks - how wide is the road, how big is a building's parking area, does the address resolve to a football pitch?

The level of geographic information just isn't there to make it a viable first choice for me because orientation is more difficult.
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I think the worry is that instead of "having" to initiate interaction with other humans for the non-boredom you're praising, everyone will just open their cellphone.

The above solution at least allows 2 random people to interact while waiting, which counteracts the isolation tendency IMHO.
The "MapQuest Open" layer seems better for a comparison to gmaps:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/43.5883/39.7263&layers=...
On your register page you have "27/7" support. Is that meant to be 24/7 or is "27/7" something which I'm not aware of?
Forgive my ignorance, but what are your greviances with clojure? It seems to me to be a very practical LISP.
Does "nontrivial changes" include updating the version number?
Because if you open a trapdoor like that, everyone will do it.
Not entirely the same, but I really wish the concept of compulsory mechanical licensing that exists for music would cover more creative endeavors. I'm kind of OK with creator of the original Duke Nukem character getting royalties for uses of his character, I'm less OK with him being able to forbid anybody else from ever making a 'cover' of his game.
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The local news station talked about this today. They described it as a group of "lawyers and computer hackers" suing the government. I get what the CCC is, but I'm thinking the average member of the public is rolling their eyes at a bunch of criminals suing the government of surveillance.
I agree. Why doesn't every organic company just label their food as GMO-free. Then people can assume all others may have GMOs, because most do. The GMO-free business can stand out to the customers who are needing them and thrive.

Oh wait. That is how our food is labelled at the moment. Now we can save the millions of dollars on the cost of regulation of labeling, that could go to say, education. Phew.
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This is a problem of energy conservation: the cue ball starts with E = 1/2 mv^2 kinetic energy and, no matter what, that same amount of energy has to exist afterwards in some form.

But where will it go? In an elastic collision, a negligible amount of energy gets converted to heat (through inelastic deformation), and only a small amount will be converted to sound.

The only other place the energy can go is kinetic energy distributed between the balls. This means that there's no way to cause the balls to collide such that they're stationary afterwards.

Hypothetically, you might be able to completely convert the linear motion into rotational motion and have the balls spinning on the spot afterwards... but that's about it.
This has been talked to death, but for the general case, for applications that can handle concurrent requests (like Rails with a rack server just a tiny bit smarter than Webrick), random routing works just as well as intelligent routing with far less coupling in the routing later, making it more robust and easier to manage and scale.
Because its maps are offline, I've used it on a plane to track flight progress
Another really interesting tidbit in that comment: 2.6 apparently supports multiple indexes per query (!)

Somehow, it seems like the change list [0] doesn't indicate that at all...

0 - http://docs.mongodb.org/master/release-notes/2.6/
Updated. Thanks for the input.
But then the point becomes trivial. He does say "(Sometimes even to the point of excluding something you find out later would have been a much better choice)".
It's not a generic "Google Maps" replacement but CycleStreets is a UK-based, cycle-routing/maps app that draws from OpenStreetMap for their map data.

I'm guessing there's a bunch of other niche apps, that do the same kind of thing (e.g. I'm vaguely aware of Wheelmap for wheelchair users).
Rails servers like Unicorn can still only support ~4 concurrent requests on regular dynos (roughly 1 per virtualized core), lessening the problem but not solving it if you have many requests per second.
Instead of telling us your feelings are hurt that Clojure is being called a lisp, you should explain why you think Clojure is not a lisp.
Yeah, I don't buy that. The build packs are open source. Clone them and use them to build your app. It's no different than Heroku. Yeah, you have rebuild some of the stuff they were giving you for free, but that's the whole premise behind their business. They handle things like deployments, etc. so that you don't have to.
What are other obstacles for smartphone powered peer-to-peer ridesharing in the former Soviet Union republic?
What I believe low-level computing teaches you is that fundamental computation hasn't changed (architectural or system-level) for decades. We've had Lisp (and its associated software improvements) since the late 50s, protected memory and multitasking since the late 60s (OS/360), virtualization and security since the early 70s (VM/CMS, Bell–LaPadula Model), GUIs/networking since at least the mid-70s (Xerox PARC), and formal computer security models since the mid-80s (Rainbow series). In the last few decades we've seen some dramatic improvements in semiconductor miniaturization, a couple architectural improvements (just off the top of my head, ASLR, W^X, and the Pentium's RISC-to-CISC design, though there are some others), and then mostly a lot of integration (computer+phone, computer+car, computer+plane, etc) and software craftsmanship based on principles developed decades ago. I'm not knocking craftsmanship (we all pay the bills practicing it), but due to design decisions made decades ago (such as the security nightmare that is Von Neumann architecture) we base software quality on how few mistakes individual artisans make rather than design systems that prevent artisans from making mistakes.
From a copyright perspective, when a work is published, the clock starts on that work. Even if the work is software and subsequently gets modified, if you retain an older copy, it will expire on schedule. You won't get rights to the new stuff, but you could still, say, extract textures and use them elsewhere. Merely endlessly permuting a work does not give you exclusive rights in perpetuity. You keep building rights to the new stuff, but not the unmodified bits.

Of course this point is entirely theoretical at the moment since it will be many many decades before any video game ever created enters the public domain.
Hmm, right :/ What are some things you guys need help with? Maybe we could pitch in.
Yes, it's one of the best shows ever made.
The point of OpenStreetMap is that we provide the data and you provide (or you use services that provide) an interpretation of the data that's useful to you.

The rendering style you picked is certainly different than Google's. MapQuest Open's rendering style is pretty darn close to the Google Maps link you pointed at [0], and other map providers like MapBox let you build maps with styling how you like it in just a few clicks (including picking English labels when known). I made one just now [1].

We don't do a great job of making the point when you arrive at osm.org, but we aren't competing with Google Maps. We're competing with Navteq/Nokia and other map data providers.

[0] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/43.5883/39.7236&layers=...
[1] https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/iandees.h675i5pf/page.html?sec...
When working on big applications (> 1 million), this wouldn't work. You need to think about it and you need to know how stuff works.
The NSA can just crack into your servers abroad, if they want to; no warrants required. Admittedly they'd have to work a bit harder if it's not in a jurisdiction friendly to them, but breaking into foreign servers is basically their job.

If people running the company in question still hold US citizenship or keep money in the US, the US legal system can still reach them unless they never want to go home.
Something like https://www.mapbox.com may help
Because the strike through is applied with a CSS class (done).
It doesn't really matter - as long as someone keeps hold of what was actually released 20 years ago, they can use that, and it won't matter that the release from 19 years ago remains under copyright.
When in Tokyo lately I've used OSM and found it suprisingly good. What I did miss compared to the Google Maps app is the direction the device is pointing towards.

Routing would also be nice :-)
OP here... here's my reply from the comments:

Yep, I'm aware of the Church-Turing thesis and the relationship between TM and the Lambda Calculus. I originally had a mention of it, but I removed it because I was really more focused on the RegEx -> CFG -> ? chain and I couldn't find anything that made that connection with the Lambda Calculus. Any sources that make that connection would be appreciated!
IANAL, but in that case can I make an animated film about Cinderella? The story is in the public domain, but Disney have recent films.
By making a Cinderella film did Disney gained the right to block subsequent works based on it?
Thanks for pointing that out! ill fix it :D thats a typo or is it some kind of new age support
Then you would not get rights to the new version number, but you could get it to everything else... excepting that that is a bad example as version numbers would not be copyrightable as a brute fact, but more realistically, if you merely add one creative paragraph of flavor text the clock would start anew on that paragraph, but the protection would not magically flow backwards back in time to the entire rest of the content.
Does Amazon's android app market have broader more EU friendly rules?
Using the transport layer is a bit of an odd choice for this comparison. The regular layer has the one-way arrows, as well as a wealth of other details: foot paths, parking areas, bus stops. I suppose that does makes it look a bit cluttered, but still to me in this instance OSM is clearly superior.
I'm not sure the trapdoor is necessary. If the changes are in fact trivial (whatever courts decide), people will just copy/use the public domain version.
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TeleNav sells navigations apps to smartphone users. They use OpenStreetMap data for some of those apps (and presumably want to use it in all their apps), so they're interested in seeing OSM prosper.
Yes, I would like to play the original Final Fantasy. I would download that probably right away.

Someone could easily take Myst, (maybe Microsoft or Sony?) and put a good, updated version for ps4 or xbox one or even wii u and sell it for maybe $9.99.

Do you know how cheap classic books are at the bookstore? You can get books by Charles Dickens for like 5.99. If prices go down for video games, an Xbox one compatible set of classic games like Myst from that era would be insanely cheap. I'd buy instantly. I wouldn't have to buy another game for like 10 years, I'd be so busy.
He said it already, JUST for the compatibility. No other reason compared to push nowadays.
Most are designed to snap off when hit. There is actually a real LOT that goes into roadway sign engineering and we have learned that it is the safest option. It's called a breakaway feature.

http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/roadway_dept/policy_guide/road_ha...

>Roadside signs, utility poles, lighting structures, traffic signals, railroad warning devices, motorist-aid callboxes, mailboxes, and other rigid objects can become deadly roadside hazards if placed where run-off-the-road vehicles can strike them. While it is preferable to maintain obstacle-free roadside clear zones, this is not always a practical option. When rigid objects cannot be removed or relocated, potential crash impacts can be mitigated by specifying breakaway features, or by shielding the object with a longitudinal barrier or crash cushion.

And here's a video of a light pole breakaway feature being tested. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbg5NkbuN6I
The point is not to be bored, but to appreciate each and every moment for what it is, not merely as a vehicle to another more important moment.

Thirty years ago, when I was still a novice at Tu Hieu Pagoda, washing the dishes was hardly a pleasant task. During the Season of Retreat when all the monks returned to the monastery, two novices had to do all the cooking and wash the dishes for sometimes well over one hundred monks. There was no soap. We had only ashes, rice husks, and coconut husks, and that was all. Cleaning such a high stack of bowls was a chore, especially during the winter when the water was freezing cold. Then you had to heat up a big pot of water before you could do any scrubbing. Nowadays one stands in a kitchen equipped with liquid soap, special scrubpads, and even running hot water which makes it all the more agreeable. It is easier to enjoy washing the dishes now. Anyone can wash them in a hurry, then sit down and enjoy a cup of tea afterwards. I can see a machine for washing clothes, although I wash my own things out by hand, but a dishwashing machine is going just a little too far! While washing the dishes one should only be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing the dishes. At first glance, that might seem a little silly:

Why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point. The fact that I am standing there and washing these bowls is a following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions. There's no way I can be tossed around mindlessly like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

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Yes, and lawyers go into these hearings anticipating being interrupted with questions.
Routing is provided by external tools like http://map.project-osrm.com and http://open.mapquest.com/. On a mobile device you can use OsmAnd to navigate.
...and not one picture of someone actually WEARING the shoes.
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You should be able to.

See the regular launching of "Sherlock" shows, and the multiple on-air concurrently.

Edit: Though Sherlock does have some limitations. Elements of the Sherlock stories introduced after 1922 are still copyrighted, but things from the vast majority of Doyle's stories are public domain and usable by anyone.
Like I said its an experiment. CL is a great piece of work forged by decades of engineering _consensus_. Feel free to take a look at ABCL if you want to know where the man hours of clojure should have went into.

Its just like ruby, a trend that a lot of effort is wasted on, because the fundamentals are plain wrong.
It's not really pessimistic at all. It's realistic. Putting video screens at hand level in public is just begging for vandalism. Doesn't matter how much chemically treated glass you layer on top, it will get punched/kicked/keyed/stabbed. Repeatedly. Look at how bulletproof the simple microswitch behind the "Press For Walk Signal" needs to be.
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I think it's less that you can't and more that most people won't. The reason I know I can provision a new server for app x without hassle is because the chef setup to do it gets used regularly, it's part of the workflow of developing the app. If it breaks I know it's broken because next time me or someone in the team spins up a staging enviro, it won't work.

If you're using Heroku sure you could write that cookbook but in 90% of cases it's going to end up being unmaintained because it's there as a contingency that no-one uses in their everyday workflow. What's more for it to have real value it needs to be tested regularly to make sure it actually functions as expected.

So it's definitely possible to avoid the dependency as long as you don't mind adding a big chunk of devops work. At that point you've got to ask why are you paying the premium for Heroku if you're maintaining the devops expertise and codebase to deploy to a VPS alongside?
You might like Thue; it operates solely on replacement rules and is trivially an unrestricted grammar:

http://esolangs.org/wiki/Thue
I strongly disagree. When so many people don't have any idea what the issue is, the most useful resource is something that approaches at THIS level, with links to deeper coverage.

If you dive super deep you don't have a summary in plain language, you have a competing explanation.

There are already a million of those; this isn't that.
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That's not really a good estimate... Just submissions in codeeval
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Well, the goal of the post was to also demonstrate that frameworks, libraries and web development platforms are often called "Frameworks", which they are not.
"(open source so it cannot be compromised)"

Open source is necessary (or nearly so) but not sufficient.
It's _a_ Lisp. It's not _the_ lisp and not a particular good one either.
The FIDO alliance is the other major industry standard that is being started.
http://www.fidoalliance.org/
They don't reduce piracy (or if they do, it's not relevant). What they do is mitigate the effects of piracy by lowering the risk of development. If your Kickstarter or early access game is successful enough, you may end up paying for the entire development of the game long before you finish developing it. And if it's not successful then you stop development and move on to something else.
I think it varies by language and country too. The UK had to start from zero (and this prompted the creation of OSM) but may have left a cultural impact on the kind of person who joined the project, whereas the US had freely licensed Tiger data that was really created for an entirely different purpose and created a lot of problems and stopped a community forming (or at least that's the common storyline, I think it's more complex than that).

Whereas some other countries seem to have had better sources of data available and got on with the job of figuring out the best ways to import them without making a mess.
Fixed ;) thank you for pointing that out.
admin.css - Line 6846.

padding: 20px 10px; which firefox obeys and pads in from the edges meaning the actual "viewport" is none-existent.

If you reduce the padding down to 2px the text will come back but the vertical height on your inputs will reduce (I leave that to you) :).

http://i.imgur.com/Ap7fA6r.jpg
Wow, this is awesome. Just dumped most of the links into my UX instapaper folder to read through on the train. Brilliant work, and what I've read so far is really interesting. Cheers for sharing.
For the sake of comparison -- Yandex (Russia's top search engine) http://maps.yandex.com/-/CVfuFU67