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I can attest to the goodwill of the Drupal community circa 2010 my employer at the time was using Drupal for everything and the community where fantastic.

I'm not a big Drupal fan (as a product I find it had a lot of downsides though I've read that 7 and 8 have fixed many of those).
Interesting

In Chrome 32 there's a "Predict network actions to improve page load performance" config option, and here's what it does https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1385029?hl=en
Also, few people in Western countries got persecuted, ridiculed, bashed or killed because they were godless carnivores. In recent history.
Maybe your right but to my mind there's been a suspiciously high level of superficially praiseworthy pronouncements emanating from Strasbourg just lately.

Given the limited powers of the parliament do they carry any more weight than politicians' pre-election promises?

I don't know where you live 3 billboards on my way to work are now taken up with advertisements on behalf of our local MEP. She had been all but invisible previously.

As I said in a comment lately she has recently been on the radio here claiming credit for another measure that promises much but has been criticised for being easily sidestepped.
Aww that's sad. What I liked about the Nest smoke alarm was that I could check which of my various houses was on fire, right from my smartphone. Ugh, guess will have to wait for version 2.0.
Ok, so your premise is that comparing someone to McCarthy is like comparing them to Hitler or Stalin because he got leftists fired for beings leftists (and, occasionally, actual spies and soviet agents). But getting a guy fired for having socially conservative views is fine?
No - I cannot imagine ever being able to talk with the clarity and precision I can write commands.
I think the evidence of something being wrong is very compelling. But one of the problems I see is that if Facebook even attempts to fix the problem, their revenue drops by 30% and investors/advertisers sue for fraud.

They're in a tough spot. But they should at least start to turn the ship in the right direction before their total ad business collapses as "ineffective".
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/28/after-supporting-prop-8-bre...
>My point is that people who opposed interracial marriage thought that they had a rational basis for doing so (even though it didn't make sense); similarly, people who oppose gay marriage today also think they have rational bases for doing so, even though they don't make sense.

Not really, as I said before there’s no biological basis for refusing to accept an interracial relationship as a marriage.

I'm not going to continue defending views that aren't my own, so if you're interested in reading what exactly "traditional marriage" defenders are talking about then try this review: http://www.harvard-jlpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Georg... (pdf)
In the sentence I quoted above, you wished that anyone who donates to an anti-gay-marriage campaign (or similar) will be prevented from occupying an executive position of any company in the future. That sounds more like discrimination than punishment, even according to your own definition.
Well, as it turns out, that was just Microsoft's marketing. They did have a head start, but they dropped the ball on that one ever since .NET 2.0.
I've been looking at doing something crazy like building a toy kernel + lisp to sit on top of it for the RPi, and I've been looking at OCamL to do it in. Thoughts, as someone who's used it?
I had no idea. Thanks for the info.
My understanding is that it's temporarily disabled by the wave. Is that not the case? It's still an issue if a fire starts and you aren't alerted for 20 minutes but I'm curious.
Let's fix the title: "Facebook - Don't Waste Your Time or Money." Who wants in on the Facebook cash cow? Well, you need to be on the other side of this international scam. The click farms, the fake likes, the fake pages, the dark side that actually MAKES Zuck rich and he has no incentive to block.
I wrote this book over several months. It took a few days to get the courage to share it online. It probably took you about 20 seconds to not read my book, dismiss it, and post a comment telling other to do the same. If you think an alternative is better that's fine, but how about you take an extra 20 seconds to think about the situation next time you are going post a comment.
> Are we really going to replace the language-independent and highly accessible lift button with a voice operated alternative?

Not in Scotland: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cz5eC-U0Cc
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll open this option up if possible.
Plus it adds load to websites, so admins don't like it. There were a number of websites which blocked users using the fasterfox extension which used prefetching.
The faster the language, the more often you can afford to use it, the more you get to use it.

Projects like pypy lets me code thing in Python I would otherwise have had to do in C. How is that not an awesome thing?
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So you're saying a Walled Garden Monopoly is inherently a distopia. Please pass that along to Silicon Valley VCs and Wall Street.
Jesus Christ, man. On the one hand, thousands of people lost their status in society and their dignity due in part to Eich misusing his wealth. OTOH, this guy loses one job. Who's the real bully here?
Author here. A parser combinator library is used to do the parsing.
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> Mono clearly undermines that b/c it allows you to "easily" jump ship to a free platform.

You know, I tried that. I've tried to run about 3 .NET programs, written for Windows, under Mono on Linux. They all have had some library that was never part of the "open spec" that, therefore, ruined their chances of running on anything but Windows. The experience(s) put a nice, neat pin on the board as to what "open" meant when it came to Mono. It was a lot of double speak. And it's exactly this long-suffering characteristic about Microsoft that makes people like me take these current announcements with a large grain of salt.
That's more of an accident of history, really. In his own words, Netscape told him to come up with something, anything, quick, and lo JavaScript was born. Had Netscape known that he was a closet homophobe, would they have hired him in the first place?

It's also much easier being an homophobe engineer rather than a homophobe CEO, because of the nature of the role. His technical achievements can be as impressive as you want and have no relation to his homophobia; being CEO is a role built on public relationships inside and outside the company, relationships that would be severely influenced by his (perceived) homophobia.
> Let's say you're given an offer letter, but it has a binding arbitration clause (meaning that you can't sue).

I would negotiate that term out of the contract. If they won't negotiate, I decline.

> I shouldn't have to go out individually to get onerous terms like that stricken.

Why not? I'm happy to negotiate my own contracts, but if you are not then you should hire an agent to negotiate for you.

History has shown us that unions almost never perform the way you describe. They introduce overhead and confrontation into the contract negotiation process, turning a cooperative relationship into a confrontational one. In the long run, they rarely benefit either party, let alone both.

No thank you.
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Yeah, I'm always cautious about pirated pdf's floating around the net, since they frequently carry malware. Probably not an issue for Linux systems, but I prefer not to take a chance.

I'd definitely pick up a used copy of the Dragon book if I could find one for a reasonable price. Unfortunately, this book is used frequently in college CS courses, so the demand for used copies stays high, and so does the price.
This is a good stuff. 4 years ago, I wrote a Lisp in 500 lines of C in one day after finishing SICP. Typing it out did made what I learned more concrete.

https://gist.github.com/sanxiyn/523967
ASV is entirely separate from the Vatican Apostolic Library. The former is the archives of the internal actions of the church; the latter is an archive of publications obtained by the Vatican.
The thing I had to realize is that there is no web framework that I will like everything about. It sounds like such a simple statement, yet it took me a long time to come to grips with it. So find the one that you can "think in" and build your code in it. For me, I recently dusted off PHP. I'm currently building a product in with no framework or ORM, and I am honestly more productive than I have been in a long time--which probably says more about me than I care to admit. The point is, it's the framework that gives me the least resistance to accomplishing what I want to accomplish. If MVC isn't your framework, then switch, but just do it knowing that your new home will have just as many warts as your existing one has. The devil you know is often much easier to deal with than the devil you don't.
I'm a big fan of fundersclub.com. With a single investment (min 10K) you can hit 10 or so of the best companies from the winter or summer batch of YCombinator.

You need an invite to join, and you must be an accredited investor. If you need an invite contact me and I'll refer you.

By the way, this is very risky and very illiquid. I don't recommend investing more than 5% or 10% of your net worth. And don't expect to be able to cash out on anything for 5 to 7 years.
Many unions made a huge strategic mistake in tying themselves to the defense of every member accused of an offense, which hurts their reputation every time it turns out that the allegations were true — particularly since there's a well-funded, concerted effort to widely publicize anything bad as representative of all members. I wonder how much different it'd be if unions had vocally insisted on what's basically due process – support and representation, making sure policies are consistently followed, etc. — but weren't afraid to distance themselves from isolated bad actors.
San Franciscans View Tech Boom as Benefit at Cost of Diversity
Doesn't Microsoft offer a free, feature-limited, version of Visual Studio?
>As a result we now have - JRuby, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Jython, Kotlin, Rhino, Nashorn (as a new Java 8 thing).

Speaking of those, if anyone wants to try those languages on the jvm for web app development check out HiveMind (crudzilla.com)...I am the developer, it is the easiest platform so far for using JSR-223 to build web apps.

here's a quick gif demo: http://bit.ly/1k7nG2n
So. to be clear, you're saying Brendan Eich is a homophobe?
Well mine was made of magic smoke apparently :)
Albert Einstein said something along the lines of if you can't explain a concept to your grandmother, you don't know it well enough. I'm sure he didn't have a molecular biologist with a Ph.D. kind of grandmother in mind.

You can explain everything if you have the patience and will to break it down to pieces for others to understand.
I agree completely. The motto is, "Come for the software, stay for the community." That perfectly sums up my experience. I no longer use the software, but I'm confident that the years of work that channeled through it can be put to good use with better tools.
Sorry but I think the world is better server by younger generations learning that C is not the only way to do systems programming and there are better, safer, alternatives.
No, it doesn't: http://opensource.org/osd

> Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:

Tarsnap also doesn't claim to be open source: http://www.tarsnap.com/about.html

> While the Tarsnap code is not distributed under an open source license,
F# could potentially get a module system in the future (a la OCaml or SML). I've put together some proof-of-concept code to show how modules could be implemented on top of the existing .NET type system, so at this point it's just a matter of refining that representation and then implementing that in the language/compiler.
"I'm for peace after we kill or imprison all the bad people."

"I'm for democracy after everyone agrees with me."

Soon in order to have a referendum on the ballot it will need to be voted on (to get it on a ballot) of which a simple majority must approve it. But, if "it should be illegal to do that if the vote were straightaway against someone's basic rights" were implemented then the referendum vote to get it on the ballot would become illegal too.

By the way, who defines "basic rights"? The majority? A minority in "power"? The who get to define "rights" are the ones that can defend their claims. Those that can defend their claims require weapons. This is what Kings did. They made claims to rights. Like, "I claim the right to the land you live on!" To which another king or the people would say "Bullshit!" Then if they couldn't amicable resolve their claims they went to war and defended their claims (whether their claims were moral or not). The outcome would speak for itself: the victor's claims were correct because they were able to defend their claims.

Our country was founded on protecting minorities not the majority. The greatest minority is the individual. I think we should be protecting individuals from tangible HARM not protecting "rights" and privileges which change over time depending on the whim of the majority or society.

Yes, we all have the right to choose to be sexually monogamous with another individual, pool our resources, and take care of and raise our offspring. We don't have a right to demand tax breaks or that third parties take care of our spouses and children. Get government completely out of marriage.
Less than I would have if you had spoken about marriage rights.

The difference being that to deny a group voting rights, it means you have something against that group specifically.

Whereas for marriage, it could just be that your notion of marriage as a custom (how you think marriage should be) is incompatible with the group performing it.
problem is you're being charged for those relationships, in most cases at a relatively exorbant rate

its not obvious what the replacement value of those relationships are

but you can probably meet and matain relationships with people without paying tuition dollars to do so

in different words: "I met a great cofounder and wife at college" doesn't seem to logically follow to "you have to go to college to meet a great cofounder and wife"

so is seems like a stretch to really give the college (full? much?) credit for those relationships
If you aim for feature parity with a product from a company that can devote orders of magnitude more resources (and influence external requirements) than yours, you'll always lose.

The only way to win is to redefine the criteria by which your products are measured in a way that your product becomes the superior one and your huge competitor's can't immediately follow. In this case, you'd have to redefine what an IDE is supposed to do by building one that's much better in a significant scenario than VS.
Individuals only have power against large organisations when they collectivise. That's why big businesses are (often) anti-union.

If the imaginary Christians-Against-Internet-Explorer decide to boycott IE10 because they believe the new MS CEO is Muslim, no one is being forced into joining their misguided crusade, are they?

So, what is an organised boycott? It's individuals using strength in numbers.

The myth we're sold is "one man can make a difference." That's rarely true. Many people, acting as one, are what makes a difference.

There was nothing organised about this current situation. I don't remember anyone forming The National Committee Against This One Guy We All Hate and then asking me to pay dues.

Nope. Just a bunch of individuals expressing their collective economic might.

You're right, organised members of the KKK aren't going to eat at "Hamza's Hummus Hut" - but neither are individual racists. If they want to run him out of town - I'll take a stand against that. If they don't want to eat there, I won't force them.
Wow. I'm so completely amazed by his technical expertise.
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Why would you send mobile FB clicks to your website? Send them to a mobile app on mobile (!!!)

You can target only desktop users, if you want to send people to a website
OP deserves scorn for poor linguistic imagery when revealing what could be an amusing Friday HN story.

TL:DR; "Pervert" that likes "raping" compilers throws the D compiler in the trunk and sadistically torturing it in the woods before dumping its bound body in a lake after cutting off its fingers, hair, face, and other distinguishing marks.

There is no lulz area in this use of language. You may be technically interesting, but socially bankrupt. You may just be hunting for chest-bump points from your bro's.

There is nothing added by couching your experiment in the language of sexual assault.
Yes, its called Visual Studio Express.

You can get web, windows (8.x) app, desktop, TFS, and windows phone versions.

http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-exp...
There are still people out there arguing that slavery might be an ok system. That landowners or taxpayers should be the only ones with the right to vote. That the slaughter of other peoples is the natural way of things and has some benefit and that workers should have zero protections.

All of these things, to you and me, seem obviously like backward movement in terms of general well-being.

We don't hear about these extreme views because they are abhorrent to most people and the people that hold them get ridiculed. Can you not see someone losing their job is they publicly support a return to slavery? Would that be repression of that idea?

I would argue, no, its not. The discourse has reached a societal consensus that slavery is bad. Why? Because it violates some very fundamental rights of human beings. I think we have reached that threshold with the rights of people with various modes of sexual choice.
Just to be clear, all the images aren't available for free. These are all copyrighted and we negotiate with rights holders which is expensive and complicated.

Artsy does have a number of images available free in the public domain. Please see https://artsy.net/post/christine-downloading-images-on-artsy.
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>Explaining something like gravity doesn't try to justify why it is that way, it only shows that we understand it in depth.

So clearly there's some disagreement here about what "explain" means, so I'll avoid that semantic argument and skip to the point:

Understanding something "in depth" is not necessary for science. As long as a shallow understanding makes accurate predictions, it is scientific. Trying to make more detailed rules would just be violating Occam's Razor.

To get back to the original point: If we make the hypothesis "Ketamine cures depression" and find no evidence to the contrary, then it is a theory which is sufficient to describe the world, and speculation about the mechanism is a pointless exercise, just as it would be pointless to look for a more complicated theory of gravity to describe things adequately explained by GR.

However, if we were to find (as is more likely) that in some cases Ketamine doesn't cure depression, only then is there a reason to delve deeper to work out why.
I don't know enough about your business to know whether you will ever get a positive ROI on Facebook ads, but a clear call to action and more targeted copy will have a world of difference in terms of conversion.

Compare the author's: "Easy to use, free online budget" to
"Scared of being in debt? Get your FREE budget report instantly. Click here to request info."

I'm not saying that's the ideal copy, but you have to get people's interest and explain more. Make it specific to a location like "Virginia" or "Sydney" or "Melbourne" or "Kentucky" and target those specific places you'll get a higher CTR and conversion. The mobile vs. desktop part is a whole other discussion.
No, there are no thought police. There are, however, consequences among your social peers and professional colleagues for public statements. There is no reasonable free speech protection you can put in place to change this.

Throughout history, groups have always sought to stifle alternative thought. The moral difference is in the tactics they use, which have ranged from censorship to violence and bribery to peaceful protest and civil disobedience. I, for one, prefer and even encourage peaceful public outcry of this sort. Say what you want, but if your customers (users, friends, coworkers) don't like it they don't have to buy from you. In fact, they probably feel a moral obligation not to. This doesn't only happen on the left - remember the Million Moms (or whoever) boycotting JC Penny for using Ellen as a spokeswoman?
There will always be bugs: there are currently 1504 open issues on the repository. Those 48 represent the backwards incompatible changes that still need to be made. And 1.0 has 108 open issues in total.
For licensing purposes, they'd need to be able to associate ranges of IP addresses with a specific institution. So if they want to, it's easy to block that whole license for one violation.
No it sounds perfectly consistent to me. Anyone who discriminates against any class of people should be rightfully suffer the consequences of their views.

If they recant their discriminatory views, I have no problems supporting them. Gay people do not have the same luxury of changing who they are.
Reminds me of this xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/937/
It was not, that's actually only about a week old.
Or King's C Programming: A Modern Approach, which lacks the conciseness (and affordability) of K&R but is probably the best single text out there, and unlike K&R is updated through C99.
In an ideal world, the same way the person you responded to did (hopefully via Nest themselves). "Nest is not aware of any customers affected by this flaw though they stress/admit that this is potentially due to the relative rarity of home fires."
N=1, but yeah fixing my sleep pattern, while getting a work an exercise routine has pushed my depression into "remission" for the past two years. The problem was, I couldn't do all that when I was depressed, so I used Lexapro as a band-aid, I went on it for 4 months to stabilise while I sorted the other stuff out. Now I'm doing great! I'm wary of going on the medication for long periods of time, as the last time I was on it for more than 6 months the mental and physical side effects became horrendous. But it did help, and I'm glad I'm here today :)
I don't understand how you got to that conclusion after reading the parent comment?
They'll have prepared material already explaining the purpose of the trial for the purpose of obtaining informed consent. The text for the result will have to be written up but even that will be mostly boilerplate.
From his twitter it looks like it's a coop.

https://twitter.com/davidgraeber

It says he wasn't on the original occupancy as he wasn't born when the paperwork was originally handled but was one when the building was finished and moved in. He claims when he tried to get on it in the past via his mother the coop stalled until she was dead.
And what are the artificial limitations of VS Express for C# projects? What can this alternative do that VS Express can't?
It would be useful to watch someone (you?) step through this process.
Link to the deleted thread or it didn't happen.