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Just noticed this. Agreed, although I think we may be working from different definitions of MVC.

I read it as a broad (but still useful) term describing a class of related architectural patterns designed to decouple presentational logic from domain logic.

While I've heard different people describe different (related) kinds of architectures as MVC, I've not actually encountered that much religious debate about which is the "one true" definition. So I'm not sure exactly which MVC variant is the one that you're reacting against as the dogmatic "pure" one.

You're more-or-less right about my client-server architecture - I have a split model, and my V and C are somewhat mixed. As the unit of reuse (outside the model) is the Widget, there's quite a fluid spectrum between "view-y" widgets and "controller-y" widgets, meaning you can make a decision based on the individual merits of the situation on how far to split the two. But still have a useful framework in which to do so. It's my favourite kind of MVC, but perhaps need a more specific name for it!
Ditto.

On another page he says that the feature on that doesn't work for IE6. I wonder if this is a browser issue. I'm running IE7 (I know, I know, don't ask) what are you running?
There are several departures from Smalltalk’s syntax and semantics. The most notable of these are: no explicit returns, 0-based indexing, no metaclass hierarchy, special syntax for instance variables.

I can live with no metaclasses. Special syntax for instance variables isn't that much of a problem. 0-based indexing -- this should be easy to take care of with your own collection classes.

However, no explicit returns -- this one kills me.

I guess this has to do with Javascript.

EDIT: JS has exception handling, so this could be used to implement explicit returns.
No surprise here. Good to have scientific proof nonetheless. The so called free market is a travesty in the current form of oligopoly capitalism.
I'm struck by how incredibly simple the software looks. It's admittedly a very unfair comparison, but when I compare the UI and ease of use in that demo to something like Blender, it does make me wonder if graphics software has fallen off in usability over the years as more and more "stuff" gets shoved into it.
Which is fine if you're considering general law making - the thing is that it doesn't matter one hoot to a parent, Ms. Dugar's mother say, that the chance of a car stopping at the side of the road and snatching your child is vanishingly small. If it happens at all it happens too often.

It's no comfort to know if you've been incarcerated for years with the threat of sexual abuse, torture or death hanging over you that very few people get kidnapped really.
Sacca is a mega impressive guy, when presenting on Google based material. I've seen him present his own lowercase capital stuff since he left and it lacked the wit and insight which he is famed for; infact one presentation was damnright lame, bring a horse to water nonsense. He needs to employ an script writer like his Jesus, Obama, if the Sacca-brand is to continue.
qwertqwert Ctrl-Enter is pretty short and works in most Windows browsers (such as you're likely to find in an internet cafe)

(ctrl-enter adds a leading http://www. and a trailing .com if either is missing)
according to this pdf:

http://www.ralphlgoings.com/downloads/j_parks_article.pdf

Your 'expectation' is dead on. In a way that's a pity! That way 'painting' gets reduced to painting over a projection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorealism

It's a strange use of the word 'painting', which to me does not bring an association with projecting an image on to the canvas with it.
My take on this:

1 - Patterns address (and are formulated using) the semantics of intent. They can not address domain semantics; that is addressed in the specific realization of a given pattern (which some would consider "redundant code" but that is not strictly speaking, correct).

2 - In a meta-reflective language (type i) (such as LISP) patterns are expressed as (reusable) macros. In languages that lack the ability to extend the compiler (type ii), patterns are expressed as specifications. So regardless of the expressive power of a type-ii language, there will always remain the possibility that a pattern can be identified that would require an extension to that language's expressive power.
> The question should not be who gives greater returns to society but the allocation based on need.

That kind of impractical, feel-good sloganising stifles democracy.

How are people supposed to respond? They know that generally people takes a more hard headed approach to issues that directly effect them and the sloganiser is probably being hypocritical. But complaining about the hypocrisy is to derail the discussion; switching from how resources are alocated within education to quarrelling about how one participant organises his private life ruins the debate.

One might try to argue in a loop, saying that allocation based on talent will expand the economy eventally allowing more needs to be met. But the slogan is a feel good slogan. If you are backed into arguing against a feel-good slogan you have to take the role of feel-bad guy in the discussion and that really does feel bad because you are pretty damn sure it is just a slogan: the other guy is probably pretty ruthless in his private life (just look at his debating tactics).

But why have this discussion at all? If you have a job and a family you don't actually have time to waste on a "from each according to his ability, to each according to he need" neo-Marxist bun fight. You want to have a adult discussion about educational priorities. So when some-one kicks off the bunfight with "allocation based on need." you are effectively disenfranchised.
Facebook is not anonymous. That is enforced

I'm an over-fifty user of Facebook, and I've noticed that a lot of my friends (some over fifty, and some not) have figured out how to fake their names in various ways. Among my friends, it is more often women than men who go by fake names, for the usual Internet security concerns that women have about cyberstalkers.
"background checks .. [don't] make you safer, [...] more paranoid"

That will be true in most cases, but not all. Some people revealed in a background check will pose a significant risk and indeed some criminals who would have appeared in a local register have reoffended (sex crimes and otherwise) and killed, raped, mutilated, etc..

If a check reveals no known risks, would that make you paranoid? I suspect not. If it reveals only one of your neighbours was convicted of a sexual offence, you check the court records and find that the offence was underage sex when they were a minor - wouldn't that assuage your fears somewhat?

Knowledge is power but you do have to use it wisely.
You don't need to worry: does change X make you more profit? Forget the details as to whether it reduces your profit from men and increases your profit from women.
Java has always had the ability to reference Class types, and, to instantiate instances of that type using a standard method:

Object makeOne (Class fooClass) { return fooClass.newInstance(); }

You are missing the point of a factory pattern, which is informed by the non-accidental pattern name: 'Factory'.

[edit: using generics it is even type safe]:
<T> T makeOne (Class<T> clazz) { return clazz.newInstance(); }
First of all: what an awfully well designed site!

Awful, be cause it looks awful. Well designed, because that's gotta be one of the most clearly laid out sites I've ever seen on the Internet. You can find everything you want and that is of relevance to start getting involved in Perl 6. The download button is right there, but surrounded by things you ought to know first (about the Perl 6 community, documentation, and current efforts.) All in all, the site looks incredibly inviting to new people, and represents a nice 'odd-one-out' from the typical stuff you see on the web. You know, stuff that tries to look fancy, or cramp as much irrelevant information as possible into site.

Given that what Perl 6 now needs is new guys to work on the project, this site is nicely done.

Congratulations, Perl 6, if the language looks anything like the site, it will still look just as awful as Perl 5, but it will be much nicer to read and understand.
It would be interesting to see some of his works in greater detail, eg. using Gigapan zoom (see http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=27105 for a photographic example).
This is an opinion piece that manages to go from start to finish without offering the slightest grain of evidence that its claim is true.

I will grant this entire criticism of the article (which nonetheless seems to address an issue I have observed in real life, interacting with people I know in person) but point out to your kind response that this makes the article much like most blog posts. It was a guest opinion article (by a college professor who has known college students over a generation) rather than a news story by a journalist or a research report by a scientist

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

but I think it suggests entrepreneurial opportunities. Actual science on this issue with carefully gathered evidence would be interesting to see.
You're comparing a simple 2d traditional (cel) animation software with a full blown 3d modeling/rendering/video editing/game engine suite.
http://www.pencil-animation.org/
The problem with using exception handling for explicit returns is that you'd need to put a try/catch block at the top level of every function. That seems yuck. Or am I missing something?
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"I'm actually quite confused as to your saying "before any such claims are made"—I have made no claim that such a thing does exist, only that this site could be used to achieve the existence of such a thing"

I am challenging the claim that "this site could be used to achieve the existence of such a thing". The claims on the site itself are (imo) not worth challenging.

I am saying that languages are different across multiple dimensions sequential vs concurrent (different types say threads, vs message passing ), paradigms - objects, vs functions vs imperative, many kinds of type systems, memory management strategies and so on) that the "automatic translation to get a standard library" is a doomed effort with today's technology in spite of the advances made to date in operational and denotational semantics.

At best, a lot of research needs to eb doneto make such a thing possible.

Is it possible? I guess, eventually. Is it probable in say the next five years? Imnsho, no.

And with that I have said everything I wanted to and this thread is getting too large, which is always a sign that it is time to stop.

Good luck with any effort you make to write such an automatically translatable collection of algorithms. If you can pull it off, I'll be the first to admit my error.

Over and out.

EDIT: I see you added "I'm talking about a completely hypothetical future thingy"

and

"in other words, making your compiler an AI".

OK then, I withdraw my arguments. Sufficiently advanced technology is, after all, indistinguishable from magic, as Arthur C Clarke said.
I left the site as soon as I typed in quicksort and nothing came up.
On a single page:

http://www.i-programmer.info/history/8-people/300-gene-amdah...
This is of course not true. Most college students will have a relatively high paying job in a couple of years, so there is plenty of services that want to get their attention while it's still cheap to do so. Internet advertising is also much more direct, you can show different content for different groups of people. Much like Spotify does.
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The Amiga was really ahead of its times. It came out in 1995 (just a year after the first Mac) and it already had preemptive multitasking, custom audio and video coprocessors (with 16m colors, stereo sound) etc.

I still have my Amiga 1200 (although my first one was an A500).
The Netflix Zenmaster Revisited
The fact that a single entity acts on behalf of tens of millions of ordinary people does not detract from the fact that it is a single entity that can exert that kind of influence. If that single entity abuses that power, then smaller entities loose money and the (extra) earnings largely end up in the pockets of the entity itself.
Inside Iowa's $80 million NADS-1 driving simulator
goatse'd by the economist?!
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...
"Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment."

Its probably the most expensive intellectual endeavor known to man (assuming you place a premium value on your time and life.)
Humour is an act of aggression
I'm sorry to beat a dead horse, but I had a couple of arguments against your initial post that I still find valid, and that haven't been made yet. So please, pardon my late and probably obsolete commentary. My points are two:

1) While you were arguing for the 'safety of your children,' you don't see that the only threat against your children is being abused by the neighbours. They could just as easily be abused by the state. Given your (hypothetical) 15-year old daughter posts nude pictures of herself on the Net (as it is pretty common, I hear) your (hypothetical) 18-year old son decides to have sex with a 16-year old class or school mate or any other relatively innocent action. You would consider the first a 'parenting problem' I guess, but not the police officer/judge. They would put your children on this list, and that's were their names will always be. Googleable, on the list. Is this protecting your children? Maybe they won't be raped, but they will carry a mark of shame — their entire life long.

2) As a European, I am so totally shocked at how Americans can villify people on the sole basis on their past. Say, a person has some sort of mental disorder, or any other kind of illness or social circumstance that played a large part of their decision in, say, raping a woman. They've been to jail now, they're on meds now, they're trying to immerse into society. Trying to be normal people. The sex-offender list is the best way to prohibit just that. They won't get a flat in a decent neighbourhood, they will have a hard time finding a job. But without these two premises, how they ever going to change? Living in a shoddy neighbourhood, working on a shoddy job, how are you going to not believe that you are a social outcast, that this society has done nothing for you, and you owe it nothing in return? In essence: this will make rehabilitation for them so much harder. Thus, instead of becoming functional members of society, they stay sick; maybe their mental disorder will grow worse, and then they're not a time bomb in your neighbourhood. They're off the leash in your entire town.

The key to safety is rehabilitation of ex-criminals, and making them feel like a member of society again. Not demonizing them and putting them on a social landfill.
I got the same error on Camino 2.0b3.
Knock Knock

Go fuck yourself.
As an academic field, economics is completely underperforming. It's no suprise interesting research comes from other areas, such as physics in this case.
> Internal Server Error

For Firefox 3.0.

Take home lesson: don't promote your website at HN if it's broken.
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"The research, which was published in the Journal of Pragmatics, suggest that the role of humour is not to make other people laugh as much as it is to make others know who is in charge."

Please, really. So, everytime somebody asks for a joke we are now to interpret this person as being subordinate ?

Humour has since time immemorial been a way for people to relieve tension and to deal with the hardships in life.

To reduce it to 'an act of aggression' suggests the author should take some of their own medicine and laugh a little more at life and take themselves less serious.

The study, which has apparently been conducted in Germany by an 'expert in genderlinguistics' (is there such a thing) according to this page:

http://www.gender-in-gestufte-studiengaenge.de/expertin_beis...

makes me feel sad for my neighbours to the east. Too many jokes have already been made about the Germans not having a sense of humour (in spite of an enormous body of 'witzen' and the general German traditions), no need to fuel the fires.
Ugh, who cares. There are plenty of real reasons why $9T deficit is a problem.. Instead of that, people focus on these ridiculous spatial comparisons.

I hate when people talk about stacks of bills to the moon, football fields filled with gold, gaza pyramids made of money. It's completely meaningless.
I think the data won't be so easy to collect. I think about 2/3 of my 'friends' have just stopped using it. Their profiles are still up, maybe they sign on once in a while to see if an old friend is trying to contact them. Frankly the article corresponds exactly with my experience.
Heard an interesting point once regarding teaching the gifted. Apparently we devote tons of time and effort teaching kids that are at the left side of the intelligence curve. But the equal number of gifted students on the right side are supposed to make do with whatever they get. It might be reasonable to think that this latter group has unique educational requirements just as does the former. The current system has gifted students just surviving, not thriving.
I did laugh myself when I saw it was a German study.

That said, Germans have a fantastic sense of humor - it's just a bit different than the English-speaking Western humor. It's more dry and more casually draws attention to something that's a bit funny anyways - so you get your attention drawn to it... not sure why for a second... then people start laughing.

The timing/pacing is a bit different too - for me, it seems like the German pacing is frequently either - "ok, I'm telling a joke" (like a traditional standup comedian's pacing). Or it's dropping a joke into the middle of a seemingly serious conversdation without switching tone to convey storytelling - so it kind of sneaks up on you sometimes.

From my limited time in Germany, it seemed to me like there's less sarcasm and irony in German humor, and more highlighting nonsensical or tense situations. I didn't really "get" it at first, but once I did I had a right good time. Very nice and friendly people too, once you acclimate to the cultural differences.
Turning back the clock: Fasting prolongs reproductive life span
they just track the indices

I don't think that's right. Only the specific funds (e.g. the Vanguard 500 Index Fund (VFINX)) that say they track the indices do that (and generally charge a lower 'management' fee). Most funds (e.g. the Vanguard Capital Value Fund (VCVLX)) try to beat the indices, charge higher fees and have a range of things they are allowed to buy. There's the control.
Shocking stats, video on texting while driving
At the risk of coming across as agressive:

q: How often does an Englishman laugh at a joke ?

a: Once, he laughs out of politeness, he'll never get it

q: How often does a German laugh at a joke ?

a: Twice. Once when you tell the joke, out of politeness, the second time when he thinks he gets it, but he'll never get it.

q: How often does a Jewish guy laugh at a joke ?

a: Not at all, he already knows the joke ;)
Ask HN: Why 85% of Spam is about medications?
I found that 85% of SPAM in mailbox is about drugs I have never heard of. Most of the times it is Viagra or its variants and rest of the times unpronounceable words like Zepidne.

I am wondering if this is SPAM for the sake of SPAM or really a marketing strategy of the manufacturers (genuine of fraudsters).

Or is there something more profound beyond my understanding?
I do not have cable, satellite, or any other tv subscription. I get maybe two broadcast channels. I bring this up not to be "that guy" but to say that I do watch hulu. Especially because my viewing is such that it's after everyone is asleep, so it's just quieter to be at the pc with headphones anyway.

What I don't get is why they haven't figured out that less is more advertising. If I'm watching tv somewhere and a commercial comes on, I wander off. On hulu, it's only 30 seconds so I might as well sit there. Itwould be nice if it wasn't the same commercial repeated over and over, though.
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Alas, I cannot think of a satisfactory answer to any of these questions. I believe the answer to number 6 is still no; yet I fear that a yes answer is continually becoming more and more appropriate, as month upon month goes by without any significant change to the status quo.
I'd say TC got hoodwinked on this one. Must have been a really slow news day. +1 on getting press, though :).
That explanation still leaves some questions open, like: is there a reason to suppose that a drive with 'bad sectors coming off the line' actually has a higher expected failure rate? Or is it actually more like what happens with CPU's, where a batch may 'fail', but will still yield CPU that can be sold as 'lower' CPU's than the batch was originally supposed to deliver.

Marking something 'enterprise' grade is often a placebo and has more to do with service, contracts and well-marketed expectations than with actual differences in the goods involved.
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In fairness to economics, it's one of the most politicized fields. Back when hard sciences were a threat to some religious dogma, there was lots of trouble even doing astronomy. Economics is up against something a little similar to that right now.
Rob Pike wrote a good analysis of the situation in 2000: "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" (http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/).
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I think i hate the fact that everyone finds their behavior perfectly acceptable more than I hate them. I don't know about where you live, but around here they act like children. intentionally blocking cars, running full speed through intersections causing cars to slam on the brakes, and worst of all taking pride in all this by vilifying people who are just trying to get to work with annoying slogans. I ride a motorcycle, I know exactly how annoying people in cars can be, but If I did what they do i would deserve to get hit.
This article didn't make that much sense to me until I read this paragraph at the end:

"Nurses and midwives tend to tell jokes about patients but not when the doctor is present. And when someone initiates a joke they tend to be ignored if they are in the presence of someone of a higher status."

I've seen this played out countless times from both perspectives (not literally in a doctor's office), and it always smacks of a power struggle.
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There's still a lot of talent there. It's not easy to coax that level of realism out of oils, but it can be done.

However, he's doing a lot of those in watercolors, and getting watercolors to do that convincingly is (in my experience, anyway) quite a feat.

With that said, I'm usually more partial to more expressive artists--I'm not fond of the "human Xerox machine" approach to art.

But when the artist does it with this level of technical skill...oh, man.
this isn't just a problem with sex offenders, that's just the most egregious example. our entire legal system revolves around a puritanical, deontological justification rather than a rational, consequentialist distribution of resources where it will help prevent the most harm.
The site he linked to (dialabc) doesn't seem to work - http://www.phonespell.org/ demonstrates what he's talking about though.
This is an excellent idea. If the letters were OCR'd as well I could spam filter them.
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