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I like that attitude. Someone wrote religion is like genitals - its ok to have it, be proud of it, use it, but just don't go waving it around in public.
USB3 is an entire different can of worms. Plug one into Windows today to see all the juicy details.
Actual book referenced - Stephen Briers "Psychobabble: Exploding the myths of the self-help generation"

http://www.amazon.com/Psychobabble-Exploding-myths-self-help...
At the RSA Security Conference, Things Get Testy and Then They Get Awkward
> I'm fairly familiar with functional programming techniques - I use a lot of closures, immutability, and map/reduce patterns in my code

i think that's the minority of c# developers though.

> I'm not really willing to sacrifice even more performance just because some FP fanatic thinks C# should go away

why should that even be question though? now think of a web application. suddenly f# reduces the amount of cruft you have to a great extent. why do people always think it's an either or? why can i not like html5, and still want it to stay outside of my desktop application?

> it's a far more inconvenient language to use for someone that hasn't been living and breathing ML for years.

yes, you may be right. but i think most programming is really copy and paste programming. when they know where they can find what they need to write their program it doesn't really matter what language it is written in.

> even if I don't like some of the shitty design baggage that comes with it

:D

> It's already a struggle to get the community engaged with my project, JSIL - if it was written in an obscure language like F#, it'd be nearly impossible

interesting project. well, i would argue that it's because your project is not really playing to the masses. vsvim for example has more forks and stars than your project, 33% of it (the core) is written in f#. but it has also been around for much longer, and addresses a need people have.
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Servo is a new web browser engine. It is designed to be more memory safe (far and away the #1 cause of browser engine security bugs!) through use of the new Rust programming language, and also to take advantage of modern hardware by implementing the Web Platform with support for parallelism and concurrency.

We’re looking for some very senior people to join us and provide technical leadership and mentoring for major areas of this project. In particular, if you have a deep background in either the implementation of layout of the Web, the implementation of the DOM and its integration with JavaScript engines, or with systems programming (particularly in the spaces of graphics, networking, and mobile), we’d love to talk with you.

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This is Mozilla, so our development and roadmap is completely open. You can learn more at our project at its GitHub page:

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Or you can just drop by #servo on irc.mozilla.org and ask us questions.
That's not really buildbot's fault. You have a lot of control on how your project builds.

Our build system created a chroot each time it went to build - so that got us the clean environment we needed. Buildbot had no effect on that, it just ran the build script.

If you really wanted to you can have buildbot coldstart a machine from scratch - we coldstarted machines for testing, but it was definitely doable for building as well.
"but c# advocates in microsoft have been quite parasitic in their behavior of pushing the language(inside of microsoft)"

How could you possibly have decided that "parasitic" was the best word? Is C# hanging off the back of F#'s success?

Not really. .NET has succeeded to the degree it has because C# is a credible, robust, general purpose, accessible but powerful language.

This whole submission is a desperate, misled, confused attempt at elitism, and becomes particularly ridiculous when it's talking about what are trivial syntactical sugar changes.

Particularly bizarre is this confused notion that F# is being ripped off, as if there aren't many languages with most of the same rudiments.
Agreed. I live in NYC, and every corner has been completely mapped, and it's a level playing field for almost every mapping tool that's out there. Google isn't competing on completeness of maps, but rather on transportation data. Subway schedules, route changes/delays, traffic, and construction data all matter a lot more to me than actual geolocation. And in NYC, streetview is enormously helpful.

In many parts of the world, basic mapping data is incomplete, and one tool will have fresher data than the other for cherry picked examles. In another 10 years, we can imagine that mapping will all be relatively similar, and integration is what we'll compare against.
Productive doing what exactly? Nevermind that, money!
Printing a direct PS file is not straightforward in most (Windows, Mac) operating systems, since they convert it to PDF (Mac) or wonder what the hell it is (Win, at least last time I tried). But agree, nifty... And dangerous!
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Are you unaware that the first time this came to a vote in the House, it was rather close, and critically it didn't break along any boundaries?

Not by party, by region, or by anything else I could discern. Although the leadership/establishment of both parties are not on our side, e.g. Boehner and Pelosi (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/pelosi-boehner-nsa_...)

The political answer is pretty clear: elect enough non-establishment politicians, President and VP, both houses of the Congress, and we can get this fixed.

As for who, I don't watch the Democratic party at this level (but note the ones already elected in the Congress who are fighting this), but on the Republican side perhaps Ted Cruz, not Rand Paul, who's stances on drones showed he is poser, in general "Tea Party", we want to be left alone types. The latter aren't Republicans per se, in fact they're an existential threat to the establishment GOP, which is why the latter has been complicit in their suppression.

Implicit in the above advice, and observation of that first vote, if this is really one of your most important issues, forget about parties and PC, vote for and donate money to individuals who share these values.

If, on the other hand, voting for or donating money to a "Republican" is unthinkable, then you've demonstrated this is not actually a very important issue for you.
> imposing a cost on RSA provides an incentive

Exactly. And that's the potential effectiveness of boycotting US businesses, and infrastructure like undersea cables. Of course the NSA can get at data almost anywhere in the world. You can't stop their technical ability.

But you can hurt US business by not using them. If that loses US business serious money, then the "heavily lobbied" Congress will change the NSA. Harumphs will be heard throughout the halls of Congress.
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I'm not the person you're replying to, but if you compare https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/48.2444/16.3255 and https://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.2444,16.3255&z=15 there's a lot more data shown on the first map. Or compare https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.5122/-0.1201 with https://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.5122,-0.1201&z=16

Personally I like maps that have a lot of data on them, but I can see why people might find it a bit overwhelming.
The problem with this line of thinking is that if you take it to it's logical conclusion, you need to stop listening on port 80 altogether, and train users (or search engines) to only key in https:// URLs.

If you listen on port 80 and respond with a 301 Moved Permanently (pointing to the https:// URL), that can be MITM'd also. Just proxy to the real HTTPS site and rewrite all the links (using absolute protocols) to be HTTP. Or, if users are trained to look for the lock icon, proxy through an HTTPS server under your control with a convincing domain name.

Even if you do block port 80, it requires users be educated to never access the http:// version of the site, because a malicious network operator could just operate a forwarding proxy and rely on users hitting the http:// URL. After all, HTTP is the default protocol used when I type in www.website.url to access HTTP. (aside: Perhaps browsers should attempt HTTPS first and then fall back to HTTP?)

I don't know of any public websites that aren't vulnerable to this. It's currently too user-hostile to require https://, so everyone helpfully redirects.

The only saving grace is that most non-technical users today don't actually use URLs. They access Facebook by typing "facebook" into the Chrome URL bar. That's a secure search, which gives a secure link.
My point re: engagement is that for anything that isn't utterly mass-market, it's a fight to get users and other developers engaged, so every quirk that makes your project harder to contribute to ultimately makes it less likely to survive.

It's not simply a matter of deciding to build software for the masses. It's essential that we have software that aims at small niches because bigger mass market software can be built on top of it.

LLVM is a great example. LLVM is only useful to the tiny subset of programmers who do compiler/JIT engineering, and it requires a lot of domain expertise. Regardless, its existence has enabled a huge set of new software to be built - clang is a great compiler, emscripten is one of the first real options for running native apps in the browser, etc. None of those would exist without LLVM. Imagine how hard it would be for people to contribute to LLVM if it were written in an obscure functional language instead of in a ubiquitous one?

As far as cruft goes, yeah, F# is less verbose, but it's also harder for me to understand and harder for me to debug. A few years of practice might solve that, but it doesn't offer me enough advantages to justify that huge investment, especially since during that time I'll be writing worse-performing software whether I like it or not. The same applies for any new language, really, and I don't think new languages are a bad thing. I just think the idea that a widely-used language should be replaced with a niche one is pretty out of touch.

If you're really just doing copy/paste programming, I don't think the language you use matters, and F# offers no particular advantage for that. It seems most useful in scenarios where you are writing code from scratch, and the more robust type system and expressiveness can let you do that faster with less mistakes.
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Use the slider at the top.
Russia approves use of military in Ukraine
FYI, Colin charges $175/hr. I have no idea how anyone has the gonads to charge that rate for Rails work. I'd love to see some discussion around the age-old sales-man technique of "It's too expensive, you probably can't afford it anyways [scoffing]"
The Tech Industry Is Completely Ridiculous. Let’s Hope It Stays That Way
Set Dynamic Custom Variable in Yoast’s Google Analytics for WordPress
Seems to me like Google simply can't or couldn't get the data.
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Why isn't this on the front page?? facepalm
Cant google use OSM data? It looks like the license is pretty liberal.
Then leave it out or make a new post. This is not somethingawful or 4chan. We should be above doxxing people because they have opinions.
>but you talk about it like that market didn't exist.

For most practical purposes, it didn't. What existed were either inferior to rPi and more expensive (>4x) or approximately equivalent and much more expensive (>8x). It has had a significant positive impact on the way instruction is given.
Self updating newspapers, who needs history with an economic engine like that!
I can think of few things more frustrating that Apple Maps and Siri built into my car. I'd prefer one of the lame DVD based nav systems because I can always use Apple Maps on my own if I want to get lost, but the existing systems work without data access (useful for rural situations which is usually when I find myself needing navigation).
Imagine the beauty of it! Before making an in-app purchase, you'd get to fill out as much paper work as you do for a mortgage. Disclosures, acknowledgement.

We could make Candy Crush as exciting as opening a bank account!
> Around San Francisco this week, some were seen sporting Electronic Frontier Foundation T-shirts featuring a retooled N.S.A. logo with an eagle using its talons to plug into the American telecom network, symbolized by AT&T. Asked about the T-shirts, one AT&T executive, who asked not to be named, said they had a chilling effect.

> “There are many of us at AT&T who are disturbed by what we’ve been hearing about the N.S.A.,” this person said. “But when you see that,” he said, pointing to the T-shirts, “a conversation becomes impossible.”

When you see Person C over there wearing a Tshirt, it makes an easy excuse not to have a conversation with Person B who has nothing to do with the Tshirt.
There's a disconnect between what I think of as Gold investment and what you're talking about... Perhaps you're referring to Gold stocks, or notes or something?

What I'm talking about: In India, my family buys a small amount of Gold every 3 months or so. Gold coins, each a few grams in weight. I know exactly where they are -- I have a safe deposit locker at my bank, and some of them have been converted into jewelry for my wife.
The second "esteem" is "aktning", which have a bit different connotation. They got a "no" added in the translation, which inverted the meaning. What is meant, i believe, is that it is better with a real basis for your view of yourself, e.g. that you think you have reached something that needed hard work in some way (the "work" I use here could be just thinking inside your head).

The second quote from the author is, I believe, about getting to where you're able to be expectant and happy to see your true self.

Edit: To me this seems like a literary author trying to obfuscate a simple point: "It is better for your ability to work to be someone that is happy by trying to see who you are, instead of following suspect gurus." That this was made poetic and hard to understand is imho a really fun irony... But perhaps I've known too many literary/idealistic people which were so good with language that they could rationalize anything to themselves.

Edit 2: Tried to make what I believe this means clearer.
EVidence – demonstrating easy test case generation
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I think the saying goes

--Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Ask HN: technical cofounder won't use version control and dismisses refactoring
I have a technical cofounder who refuses to use version control and who is strongly discouraging me from redesigning and refactoring bloated multi-purpose objects. My efforts to broach these subjects are greeted with an angrily and aggressively uttered, "WHY?" and "that's in the category of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.'" This is to say nothing of introducing tests (some agreement there, at least in principle) or anything as ambitious as continuous integration. I'm limping along and am inclined to fork the project (my components are in version control anyway). What do you do in the face of implacable intransigence?
"A CDC report in 1998 estimated that the occupational fatality rate for commercial divers was forty times the national average for all workers, at an annual rate of 180 deaths per 100,000 employed divers."

Yeah, I'll keep the desk job, thanks.
The object lesson of another RBOC's CEO, Joseph Nacchio, gives me a lot more sympathy for AT&T and company. Was it wise to fight this way back then if the cost was a Federal felony conviction and prison?

Now things have changed, and it's starting to be appropriate to pressure AT&T and company to Do The Right Thing.
This seems to me to be something of a hipster argument. I use Google Maps (1) because it is usually better than the competition, (2) it usually integrates well with everything I have, and (3) Doesn't show me a bunch of useless information (such as walking paths).

Basically, Google Maps works better than OpenStreetMap from what I've seen (I tried using OSM, but it was hard to tell what things were being clustered and what not).
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I don't quite understand the use of it. iPython Notebooks I get. They really give you something you don't get in a terminal widow, but I take my yakuake everyday before a web based terminal. It integrates better in the desktop environment, has global hotkeys, can be scripted via D-bus, doesn't need a server to run and has no potential security issues a web server based terminal has etc.
Suitey (NYC) - No remotes.

iOS dev, Front-end web dev, python dev and design intern.

But if you are a really solid backend, db, scaling wizard we will probably hire you as well.

More info on the jobs here:

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For these things (embedding audio etc.) I think iPython is better.
'credit card acquiring' :)

You mean black-hat hacking?
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Religion is fascinating, if nothing else it tells you how people throughout history thought about the universe and their role in it.
How about a child adopted at a young age. Trying to teach the kids something you are not is a different proposition altogether.