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> Additionally, a good template language does not require knowledge of coding

I don't think I ever saw an effective template language that doesn't require programming knowledge. The only exception is when you move all logic in tags, but even then logic gets mixed with presentation (just not in the main template), and the downside is that a tag is like a black-box ... if the scope is not clear, you have no way of knowing what it produces by not looking over its code (CSS files in ASP.NET end up containing general classes in most cases because of that).

That's because the presentation layer requires logic, for example ... if this happens, then show this, else show that. Or to show the breadcrumb, iterate through this list. Or is this DateTime value in UTC? Then show it in the user's locale. That's logic and it's a lot more then a template with holes in it to fill.

And where is this logic supposed to go if not in the presentation layer?

All the designers I worked with also knew a programming language (at a superficial level at least) and where quite capable of coding complex logic in Javascript (which is also part of the presentation layer). Our fear is that designers don't understand a more complex language, but how many of you worked with such people? (since web-design is all about the end-product, I can't imagine a good designer that can't handle logic). And even if the language guards against shooting yourself in the foot you can always find creative ways to fuck up.
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I think the original question is unanswerable, since Twitter is a different thing for different people, while the author focuses to just several use cases. I personally use Twitter mostly as a real-time search engine and it proven to be useful in this regard.
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It brings a whole new danger to the idea of a "disk crash" though, don't you think?
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Alas, our REPLs and compilers won't. Computers are demanding creatures.
I find it very interesting that adding an exosceleton actually causes the nerval system to accept these exosceletons and grows far more active again, even though the actual limb is not active and there is just this exosceleton working.

Go go duck typed nerval system, as long as one can walk with it, it's a leg! :)
The <ins> and <del> tags have always seemed weird to me in that they talk about the document's history, rather than the document itself, or what the document is talking about. The problem I've always seen with using them for version control is, what happens when the document you're trying to version control has <ins> and <del> tags?

I suppose you'd have the same problem if you put a diff under version control, but it seems like this kind of thing implies that there should be something different about those tags (I'd say another namespace, but those have been abused enough already).

I don't know how/if I'd solve this, I'm just wondering if anyone else feels the same.
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Maybe I'm missing something; if you're in the office 8 hours a day, what are you doing with the other 16 that leaves you feeling out of touch with the outside world?
This will probably not happen when there are too much regulatory barrier to start and too many rules to comply with.

The more improtant something is, the more likely it will be highly regulated, or monopolized.
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Hi Gents,

I've just created a blog and posted an entry regarding the "_why is Jonathan Gillette" path ...: http://whereintheworldiswhy.wordpress.com/

According to me _why is Jonathan Gillette.
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:P Look, I felt dirty enough just reading the C# code for an idiomatic usage of an iterator ...

Obviously, in a compiled language that you control, you could take that block and turn its contents into a method of a class for speed.

Conceptually, much easier to understand the base case: that you're passing in an anonymous function.

In ruby, since they let you pass blocks around as objects, suddenly, poof, you can understand and implement ruby's iteration, just by learning about blocks and seeing a snippet of code.

I like how, when they're talking about how to handle ITERATION, they say "we thought about coroutines; we thought about continuations; we settled on what we've got now" ... thinking about how I'd do it in CL (if I were writing a library to make iterator-style programming more friendly, perhaps as a macro), I have to say I wouldn't have immediately thought of using either of those. :P

Of course, I suppose for their target market, features that let you "roll your own x", for almost any x, are far too dangerous to allow. Ugh.

C# code makes mr_luc sad.
Please, please don't go into teaching if it's not something that you feel really driven to do. The education system is full of unmotivated seat warmers just there for the paycheck, and missing the whole point of how crucially important teaching is.
"I responded to the original, 400-person email in “Reply All” fashion, saying:"

ARGH.
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Pen and paper as well.

Or go reading about other programming languages.
Mar 1, 2002

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

And here is the coming-out: http://www.subtletechnologies.com/2006/symposium/Dan.html

Sounds like an artsy fartsy egomaniac to me.
Sounds like he wants to start a full-reserve bank: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Full-reserve_...

Not impossible - after all, banks were not always fractional-reserve, and it admittedly is a very secure form of banking.
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It only works if you live near some large body of water of course...
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Let's see - will the next article be, "To Startup CEOs: You Can't Outsource Sales"?
They are not supposed to be used for versioning HTML documents. For example they cannot indicate if you change the HTML head or if you change markup. What they can indicate, is changes in content.

I don't think you should necessarily store versioning history of content with INS and DEL tags. If you have a CMS you might have each historic version of content. If the user requests a diff, you can generate it automatically by comparing versions, but you can represent that diff for the user by using INS and DEL elements.
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Just in case like me you spent 10m trying to clone from it before it occured to you to check the site :D

This is the second time this year - for a similar reason. bah. And they're taking the opportunity to make some changes (again) - which sucks.

On the other hand they are good at updating everyone on status.

EDIT: link is obviously time sensitive.
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Thanks,
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I had someone send me a friend request via FB during a recent hiring round. My thought was, "Who is this person and why would they think I want to be their friend on FB?"

To me, FB is personal - it's not LinkedIn which is 'work'. FB is for friends and family. Hit me up on LinkedIn and, although I'll still likely ignore you, there's at least the chance that I won't whereas I'll never respond to something on FB like that.

I'm 38 so perhaps my usage is different from you younguns.
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FYI: Instead of writing a "Thank you", it's generally a common courtesy here to upvote. You can do both, of course.
"We take your money and put it in a vault"

That's not actually the job of a bank, is it? The job is to mediate lending and borrowing of money. By identifying the right people to lend money to, banks can offer the people whose money the take an interest rate.

I still agree that there is a market for a better bank.

I remember an example from the book "Why not?" where a bank (or something like that) offered to automatically adapt their customers to the best current interest rate and making a killing with it. No more "if you open an account now, you get 2%" and one month later "if you open an account now you get 4%" and two months later "if you open an account now, you get only 1%".
Yeah, I find it draining when working too long on the same thing and get distracted. I can (and do) work for long periods of time, but I feel it after and it makes me less efficient overall. I think working for many short bursts throughout the day lets me get a lot more done (and this is how I work on my own projects, eg during weekends: work for 1 to 4 hours (depending on the task), 1-3 hours off, 1-4 hours on etc and at the end of the day, I'll have racked up 5 or 6 hours of good, highly productive, efficient work. If I do 8 hours straight, I'm guessing only about 2 are actually efficient. When I was in uni, I often leave my assignments until the last day (BUT think about them before hand) and then sit down for maybe four blocks of 1.5 hours and get them done in 6 hours of work - compared to people trying to sit down for full days and spending a lot lot longer on them..

I agree - commuting means I'm tired before I even start. (Being a night person means I'm tired when I get up for the day job in the morning too, but thats another matter).

The full day off is important to me, but probably a lot less if I didn't get drained from doing 8 hour days.

PS: forgive my bad comment structure, its Friday, long and busy week, I'm pretty drained right now.. see above..
"Artists use her software, to manipulate video for live performance and installations."

Clearly she is going to take over the world next. Silly summer hole hype.
Where is the "rush to judgement"? Zed's post is mostly in response to Resig's "eulogy", which itself assumes that _why pulled his stuff deliberately. He's only agreeing with that premise (with praise) and disagreeing with the all-positive conclusion wrought from that premise. Again: the only unconfirmed assumption here is one that most people including the author being responded to have made.

Also, we're talking about something Zed posted to his own personal blog. Is Zed not allowed to post what he thinks to his own personal blog? What "reasonable justification" is required to publish your own opinion on the internet?
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This calculation only includes getting the data physically near to the cloud. What about uploading it into the cloud?Surely transferring 3 million GB at around 40 MB/sec would lower the average?

Edit: My calculations say it'll take 2.7 years to read all that data if you go at 40MBps. Hopefully they can parallelize that across a few dozen machines...
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I had a few run-ins with NN/antiorp/m9ndfukc back in the day.

To be honest I think that "artsy fartsy" is a meaningless cliché. It sounds like "artists are stupid because they take art seriously"

However - NN was interesting because as well as being absolutely infuriating she was very knowledgeable about the technology (DSP/CSound type stuff), was capable of being very poetic and profound upon occasion and genuinely made you think, often very deeply.

I know from my interactions with the Hafler Trio (Andrew Mackenzie had been hinted at as having involvement in the NN project - although that does not seem to have been the case.) that Mackenzie achieves a similar thing with his online interaction style. By being provoked, questioned and subverted you can be led to new thinking and ways of seeing things which are often hard won but rewarding. Like NN it does have the side effect of making people not open to it very angry indeed.
The he probably invested in banks (AIG?) and property and got recessioned down to $4M. Or something like that, anyway.
This article is very naive and poorly researched. Obviously there are less people with a net worth of over 30 million now!?!?!? Hmm I wonder why?

Obviously mcdonalds workers are not invested in large corporations, so when equities fall rich people get hit, but this doesnt mean the end of rich people.

I guess this is why the NYT might be going bankrupt soon itself.
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You could always buy a boat an live in it in your garden, I know someone doing that.
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I have an opinion I would like to share, from what am reading online, it seems that his last tweet was a bit angry at the programming world, us in a more specific term. Us developers whom have learned so much from him...
What I feel is that it's like an anger wave inside him, that like "alright, people are not thankful for what I do, let's see what happens when everything goes down... now what will they do without me" dunno, but I cannot find an explanation of why even his source codes are down.. really hope he's blessed by god somewhere feeling better and if that's the case, being angry at us, hope he feels better soon.
guys I think maybe we should do him a website, you know like a call for his return, who's with me?
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Thank you for the tip. Never needed it so never knew about it. Dully committed to BrainDB.
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I don't like this comment. At least give me a hint why it would be "nearly impossible". You won't be able to do it with three guys in a basement, but I can't see how it would be "more impossible" than any other large corporation. If there hasn't been some recent change in regulation, it is probably a lot easier now then 10 years ago.
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>> or did you mean that it disconnects you as soon as you type G ?

Yes.

>> Is your DNS working properly ?

Yes.

Thanks for all the replies. It was a peering problem in the end. I guess they didn't like the pink slip idea in the end. That or the thing broke other more important things for them.
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Consider also that the weight of just the hard drives is about 9,300 pounds (7.2oz * 20704). Expect a spectacular impact if that van is even capable of carrying such a load. ;-)

But this does beg the question, why choose 160GB drives? Even doubling it to 320GB shouldn't hurt the bottom line much. Density per dollar is going to be very important for the Van-based Data Packet.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

Translation: "Anything said in Latin sounds profound."
I'm starting to sympathize with http://xkcd.com/386/ more and more. I wish I could just stop doing this already.

Umm, ok, let's recap, shall we?:

1) His sister. This ( http://www.advogato.org/person/whytheluckystiff/diary/14.htm... ) says she was 14 in 2001. That makes her ~21 today. "Jonathan Gillette from Utah" has "Kristin Gillete" listed as a relative here: http://www.intelius.com/search-summary-out.php?ReportType=1&... . She's 21.

2) His wife. This page ( http://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/scene.org/music/groups/starving_but... ) says Jonathan is married to Kylie, or at least was in 2004. She makes jewelry, and has a site hosted by _why: http://74.125.93.132/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=c...

3) His band. See http://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/scene.org/music/groups/starving_but... again. He plays in a band called (both) "Starving but Happy" and "The Child Who Was A Keyhole". See http://www.myspace.com/thechildwhowasakeyhole . Compare picture of _why (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottlaird/31366517/ ) to http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewIma... and http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewIma... -- the guitar is pretty easy to identify as the same.

4) The why@rysa.inetz.com thing.

5) This site (http://members.tripod.com/soccer_riot/ ) was made by _why (pre-why, as far as I can tell). If he is just close friends with Jonathan Gillette, it's apparently to the point that it didn't seem relevant to point out that he was producing the audio clips for the site. Open dolphins.ram in pretty much any media player and you'll see "Jonathan Gillette" as its author.

6) Why did jgillette make several very informed posts to ruby-talk, then completely quit developing ruby (apparently...)?
It's harder than many other large corporations because banking laws vary from state to state, and there are federal laws restricting banks operating universally across several states. Also, as a 'startup bank' you are initially reliant on your incumbent rivals for clearing and interbank transactions (unless you do literally leave cash in a vault at 0%).
I agree technology has made it much easier recently though.
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I'm quite impressed already. The tutorial on the <canvas> element is highly informative despite its incomplete state. This has great potential, and I'm looking forward to its completion and release.
One of the comments reads

Historically I’ve approached big projects with the nonstrategy of “let them overwhelm you in your head, then put them off till moment when the fear of not finishing exceeds the fear of starting.”

This is well put, and exactly how I handled all of college. It worked OK there because project size was generally reasonably bounded.

The "fear of starting" is pretty insidious. A project often looks hugely different on either side of "started working" line -- it can be a really quick change from "I'm not really sure how this is going to work" to "I'm in a groove, this is going great!"
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"Yes, I know you can create your own tags..."

Yeah, this is usually the response you get when you mention stuff like the missing ifelse, and it's totally ridiculous. Why should I go about reinventing this stuff? The whole reason I'm using a framework is to speed up development. You also risk everyone inventing it on their own in their own way, so now if you go try to work on someone else's project, maybe they've implemented it, maybe they haven't, and even if they have, it's probably not going to be the same way you implemented it, so now you're re-learning again for no added benefit.
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This is really sad news...we had the pleasure of working with them to integrate the TipJoy API on an experimental project called MightyTweets. Even though our project didn't go anywhere, they were fantastic to work with.

I wish them the best of luck in whatever they do next!
How does this even begin to make sense:

Among them is whether harder times for the rich will ultimately benefit the middle class and the poor, given that the huge recent increase in top incomes coincided with slow income growth for almost every other group
That article was published a year an a half ago and refers to declarations of a guy who's no longer the CEO of Seagate. I'm sure the "news" in news.ycombinator.com is not to be taken literally but come on!
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I will often do this when I am drawing a blank. Write psuedo-code, or code that is how you would like it to be, if your language / macros / libraries supported it. Then you can worry later about making your language support what you just wrote. This eliminates a whole set of mental blocks to writing code.
I don't write anything longer than a page or two of script, but sometimes I'll walk away from the computer and scribe psuedocode onto a few sheets of paper, because I'm talented enough at becoming perplexed to be able to do it in that short a script.
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Despite being an old article, I've seen few references to it in the wild, and thought it was very relevant after seeing http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=777283
Unfortunately the image referenced by the article isn't on this page. Can anyone find the original article?
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Yes, but that would only enable them to make YOU follow and unfollow other people. How can they make people who might never have heard of the app follow and unfollow?
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