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It's cute that you're both naming your products after New Zealand's national bird.

Both of your products sound like dating sites dedicated to meeting New Zealanders. That's....a niche market.

Kiwi != kiwifruit, if you talk if eating a nice juicy kiwi in the rest of the world you're either salacious, a cannibal, or undertaking some kind of illegal feast (main course: roast bald eagle perhaps)
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For a long explanation, Pete Hunt gave a talk [1] as the extended justification for using React.

[1] http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3221-mwjs-be-predictable-not...

Flux is just Facebook's internal usage pattern. Doesn't really have an Angular equivalent other than the somewhat nebulous Angular best practices.
Many of Ruby's standard higher order functions came from Smalltalk, such as collect, detect, inject, select, and so on. I expect to see fewer for-loops than in JavaScript, but I'd be more forgiving than with Ruby due to having less familiarity with the language.

For-loops and if-statements have their place, but too many of them (especially after a couple levels of nesting) makes code hard to read. Different languages have their own answers for this. In Ruby you'd use polymorphism and higher order functions, while C++ would use polymorphism and iterators.

Mind you, all of this is based on your self-professed experience with a language. If you tell me you're an expert in Ruby and proceed to write for-loops all over the place then I'll be severely unimpressed. If you tell me you're mostly a Java developer, but you're going to do the interview questions in Ruby because it's easier to whiteboard with (and more applicable to the work you'd be doing at my company) then I'd be a lot more forgiving.

Come to think of it, I think this may explain the perception that older developers have a hard time finding work. I get very excited when I see 20+ years of experience on someone's résumé. I assume they're going to know all sorts of programming paradigms, algorithms, data structures, languages, techniques, and so on. The problem is that the human brain discards information if it goes unused for too long. As a result, a lot of older devs have a fantastic grasp of the fundamentals because they use them every day, a solid understanding of the one or two languages they use now, and a hazy remembering of a bunch of things they used 5+ years ago. In other words, they're a lot like a developer with 5-10 years of experience, except they're marginally more well-rounded and have better war stories. That would normally be someone I'd really want to hire, but it falls so far short of the unrealistic demigods I'd imagined them to be.
After two years and spending 300 million for a 51 percent stake, HTC sold their (now) 25% stake for just 265 miljoen. And a year later Apple buys it all for 3.2 billion. Wow... (edit: spelling)
Action<object> print = Console.WriteLine;

I mean, it's not perfect but you can also create a .Dump() extension method for all objects like Linqpad does. It comes really handy.
A great opportunity to revive the iPod Classic.

iPod with Beats Audio
I would have been great, if more cities here in Germany followed and supported Munich...
Paying for a service as a "fan" and paying for it as a consumer are two entirely different things. For example, I like Pinboard but I won't $10 pm for it (I mean the current Pinbaord - especially with the founder's "you want this feature/app? Build it - there's an API"). So the price is just fine.

On the other hand for a consumer web-mail service, or something like a DigitalOcean, I would definitely pay an amount like that.
Wine is pretty good, and supports a surprising amount of windows applications. I am not sure why you call it a configuration nightmare. Have you tried Wine lately?
I was going to mention JWM and IceWM bit did not because these are window managers not desktop environments.

But this is partnof their strength - one thing done well, and allowig the user to add everything else they want.
I want this, but with nuget support. LinqPad seems about the best option, but i don't need all the SQL/Database stuff that comes with it.
So what I gather from reading the article, they switched to Linux because of "security" as MS wouldn't tell them what software was "calling home" and to foster the local IT economy as opposed to sending money overseas.

I may be alone in this, but those don't seem like compelling, or even believable justifications for switching an entire region to Linux.

Are we to believe that MS flew Balmer all the way there to try to convince them to stay, but wouldn't disclose to them what aspects of Windows called home?

Also, where is the data that shows how the switch to Linux has helped the local IT economy?

Love Linux as much as the next guy, but it seems many of these decisions are driven by staff IT geeks who have it out for MS irregardless of the actual issues at hand.
This architecture describes how data affects presentation and vice versa. Your question is a bit off, it involves implementation, not structure.
12 hours after being posted:

Ctrl-F: user acquisition

Zero results.

Look at the last couple of massive acquisitions e.g. Facebook buying companies that made little revenue which made even less sense. Most of the big ones I can think of were for user acquisition and not product/technology. This seems like the same type of play.
'entire name' -> 'entire time (married)'. too late to edit directly.
Just a subtle prod in the right direction :)

I actually went and looked up 'dearth' just to be sure it meant 'lack of'.
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IMO the seemingly minor detail that there are local software companies providing support for Linux desktops is actually the key to their success...
This is big. Although to be honest I'm still trying to understand how a company that sells quality stuff is buying the headphones that most audiophiles think is meh.

Is all this really just for the name?
Ok, I also don't quite understand if the Store has any relation to the server-side database.
Can anyone shed some light on what the goal here is. I am all for messing with people for no good reason in subtle ways they do not understand but the author clearly has a purpose here? Is this to teach the FCC about net neutrality?
And how does cost compare?
Interlisp is older than Smalltalk.

a) the MIT Lisp Machine did not run Interlisp, they ran Lisp Machine Lisp, which is based on Maclisp out of the 60s.

b) Interlisp is a renamed BBN Lisp, which started in 1967.
BBN Lisp was based on L. Peter Deutsch's PDP 1 Lisp from the early 60s.
L. Peter Deutsch later worked at Xerox PARC on Smalltalk, too. He developed the virtual machines, etc.

Smalltalk was influenced of earlier Lisp work like BBN Lisp and Planner. Lisp Machines were influenced by Smalltalk - but they were developed roughly at the same time: starting early 70s.
It's interesting that an article about misreporting in the media is doing such a good job of misreporting (or at least being rather selective in its presentation of facts) itself. The reality is that all media

My single favourite bit of misreporting came from the UK's Sky News back in 2000, during the anti-globalisation protests in Prague. They had a reporter live in Prague talking about the protests and stating that the whole of the centre the city was in lockdown as the citizens were barricading themselves against the protesters. I may well have believed him if I hadn't been watching it sat in a coffee house in the centre of Prague at the time.
This confused me too, but the quality of the headphones that come with Apple's products is not reputed to be great either. (I can't say whether this is true. Hearsay at best.)
Can you ever imagine a government enforcing a country-wide switch? I think it would make sense from a purely strategic point of view (even if not just financial) but I can't help but cynically suspect the lobbyists would not stop at anything to prevent it. I've no idea why MS dropped the ball with China.
Apple close to buying Beats for $3.2 billion
Quality of product is unimportant. Vast market of "gullible fools" proves this.

Currently there are a lot of different headphones that have very similar specs - I suspect that some company is mass producing drivers and other companies are iust putting these into fashion shells and selling them at large profit. (WESC is an example of a company that I think is doing this).

In this market - not very good headphones sold with large profits to people who care more about looks than sound quality - Beats headphones is exciting buy.

Don't forget that many people will be listening to poor quality source material - poorly ripped; weird dynamic compression; etc.
The United States allows dual citizenship if you naturalize to a non-hostile foreign country without renouncing your US citizenship, but only because of a supreme court decision over US citizens who became Israel citizens. I am dual US/Australian via this route.
The old Apple headphones were average (for their price), but overall the newer EarPods are much, much better.
> So what I gather from reading the article, they switched to Linux because of "security" as MS wouldn't tell them what software was "calling home"

In light of all the recent links and the sheer cosiness of American corporations with the US intelligence this starts to look prescient.

> and to foster the local IT economy as opposed to sending money overseas.

I could easily see a local government selling that to it's local workers.

> Are we to believe that MS flew Balmer all the way there to try to convince them to stay, but wouldn't disclose to them what aspects of Windows called home?

Microsoft won't disclose that kind of information to anyone, there is still not a clear picture of what various Microsoft products (including these days Skype) do and do not do.
MS lobbyists probably don't hold as much sway in China.
House of Codes, just because Norwegian dudes imitating an American Southern accent is pretty awesome.
It's about the streaming music service:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/beats-music-vs-spotify/#...
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All FB and Instagram content seems to now be deleted. Probably learned from 50cent's Twitter stock-ramping faux-pas a few years ago [1]

Probably makes it more likely to be happening.

If true, this makes sense framed as an acquihire.

$3.2bn to bring in Dre, a music industry genius and Jimmy Iovine, a highly influential label boss. iTunes is at risk of aging - kids' parents use it. It may be that Apple recognises the need for a brand for a younger, cooler audience who don't want to buy an MP3 file. Apple has the money but pulling labels (and artists) over to a viable subscription business model is going to take clout, influence and reputation.

I expect Dre will shortly be rapping about his unforgettable journey.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/jan/11/50-cent-ramp...
Why didnt they just change OS as they bought new PCs?
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This stood out, a quote within the article:

>“In 2008 we saw that Debian was clearly stable, a good thing, but not the best if you want to use new hardware. They are always a few years behind. //

Surely they could get a manufacturer to spec them out a new machine that would run on Debian based on an offer to buy ~10k of them and with the potential - should it go well - of selling similar numbers to other major cities.
you know 'post' here means 'after', right?

Being around after death sounds pretty successful to me. Especially if it involves lots of quaffing and hairy Vikings.
> Austria is a notoriously conservative and very bureaucratic country

I would generally agree with this, but just for the record:
the city of Vienna has been governed by the center-left Social Democratic Party since 1946. And for the last four years they have been in a coalition with the Green Party.
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> Love Linux as much as the next guy, but it seems many of these decisions are driven by staff IT geeks who have it out for MS irregardless of the actual issues at hand.

I did not downvote you.

I suspect that IT geeks have very little power in the purchasing decisions of local government IT software. I suspect that there is a huge bureaucratic structure of tendering and selection. I could be wrong though.
I'm planning on doing a more in-depth write up on how NER/NLP in the tweetosphere is different that general NER/NLP which will by me technical explanation of what I did here. That should be up sometime later this week.
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Under Scala 2.10 there were bugs in the reflection system that made those almost unusable; is that now all fixed?
If your language has you type more because it has a static ype system then it's just poor at inferring types and/or it's syntax has you write out things that it could infer anyway. You may have to write types in C# from time to time, but often you don't have to:

// This an array of integers.

var x = new[]{1, 2, 3};

// This is a list of integers.

var y = x.ToList();

// This is an anonymous type.

var pet = new { Age = 10, Name = "Fluffy" };

Zero type names there. Not all types can be inferred by literals though, most annoyingly dictionaries:

var myDict = new Dictionary<string, string>{
{ "test", "test" },
{ "test2", "test2" }
};

although I'm sure that could also have been created without typing out the name if you really wanted.
1. Because the Java ecosystem usually gives you an API to everything: you can configure things to work exactly as you want. Everything is programmable and easily hackable.

2. Because everything is standardized, which is a lot easier than stitching together lots of pieces, each has to be deployed upgraded, configured, monitored and managed differently.

3. Because some Java libraries are used to do very sensitive stuff (performance wise, or correctness wise, or security wise), Java libraries, on average, tend to be of very high quality, at least relative to almost everything else (well, except maybe the Java browser plugin, but we're talking server-side here).

4. With Capsule there is no need to use a custom class loader, it's not any clunkier than Docker, and it's cross platform. It's just a cross-platform Java executable, which is stateless and requires no installation.
Where should I start to clean up my code?
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That video seemed to be a confirmation.
Someone print them :-)
Apple's iPod division was always more fashion-based than the rest of the company. Now that iPod sales are declining, maybe the fashion aspect will live on in the headphones?
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> But most of the people who has given the rating have not seen the movie.

In the (paraphrased) words of Andrew Gelman:

"I can't knock this guy for slamming my book without reading it. For example, I have never read the autobiography of Uri Geller, but I'm confident it's full of crap."

If you don't think Gonojagoron Moncho is lying to these people about the point they're taking offense over, how is it relevant that they haven't seen the movie?
"Power signs and street lamps"? As long as you don't mind if they fail to work much of the time. Solar power being unreliable in foul weather and seasonally.

Its a smart idea to use existing large surfaces for solar collection. Some issues: when you want the power (e.g. to charge electric cars parked at work) it'll be mostly covered up by those same cars.
Where did you find part 3?
Can someone ELI5 this? Why would the FCC visit your site?
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They probably should, if they could afford them and weren't going to be blocked by the competition commission.
What people aren't getting in this thread is that modern pop and hip hop is engineered to be played on systems with a lot of bass (sub woofers). Ironically this forces the engineer to limit the amount of bass in the mix, so there some truth to the claim that a headphone with exaggerated bass will produce a sound closer to the intention of the artist.

I think they sound horrendous (I'm an audio engineer) but I have a 9 year old friend who is obsessed with getting the $300 version and can't be persuaded that this is waste. So I would say Beats has a powerful brand. The margin on the headphones has to be unprecedented...
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Inferring types is cool, if it doesn't create bugs. But it does. Its not a lot of work to just say it outright, and it can save your life.
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Initially such a project should cost more, surely. It's a long term saving and the fact that, once established, the software being used can be freely replicated across other cities - they all need the same tools in most situations I'd expect.

How many projects has Limux fronted and donated to the FOSS community that can now be used in other cities - venue booking tools, or street maintenance apps, or payroll systems, or CRM, or ...

How many local developers are currently working in their LiMux eco-system?
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I didn't specifically take the time to make code that would break in python, obviously, I could, and it would be trivial to do so.

Yes, it's just leading spaces that are different in Python, I know. I actually like python, but the space indenting is fragile.
It seems that typed actor support it somewhat incomplete. Once you wanted to use typed actors with routers and resizing, there was no documentation. There were some mailing lists posts with suggestions that don't work. I don't know if anything changed in the meanwhile, but this blog post suggests that it's still not well-supported:

http://blog.codacy.com/2014/01/29/typed-actors-with-routing/

One thing that I dislike about the Akka implementation of actors is that they can't block, because this would block a thread in the thread pool. Quasar's implementation of actors allow you to block on e.g. I/O, because Quasar can preempt fibers that are parked. This makes Quasar's actor framework much more powerful and more Erlang-like.
Probably not? 10k units is peanuts for building a model of computer. And by the time it got made, its already old and costly.
The video in question skipped ahead to the important piece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guMFKBXp544#t=46
I will write a blog post about it in the next days.
When Windows 7 came out I hated the new menu bar. After using it for a few years I curse Windows XP every time I have to use it.

Sometimes change is good. Just because we do something one particular way (in the world of desktop environments this is often down to a decision made in the early 90s) doesn't mean that it's the most productive method of doing it. Often initially unpopular changes in user interface prove to be more effective.

The problem is that change for changes sake is different to change for UI improvements sake, but the two are often hard to distinguish between. How do we know that a new UI implementation is better or worse than the old one? You don't really until it's being used in the real world. There's not an easy answer, but I don't think that grinding innovation to a halt is the right one. I guess the beauty of the open source world is that there's room for a minimal non-progressive UI as well as a number of innovative ones.
Maybe when Dre is an Apple employee they can force him to finally release Detox ;p
pretty sure the hardware isn't the problem then! could be your internet connection?
Also, I like Scala REPL's automatic labels for the results.

scala > 7 * 7
res0:Int = 49

scala > res0 - 9
res1:Int = 40

Saves a lot of typing.
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This is epic stuff.
Every time I try LXDE I switch back to XFCE. XFCE is a lot more rounded and integrated. LXDE always feels just like a hodge podge collection of tools, that don't really work together.
The whole story is enjoyable; especially the Ballmer Visit part. It's surprising to see the city council reacting that way to his visit. Something that is hard to understand in many parts of the world.
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NS10s are so popular because they're so non-complimentary. Yamaha (and I've read conflicting accounts) either deliberately created a speaker that was so non-flattering to any audio, or accidentally released a product that became a studio mix engineer hit for the same reasons.

I've heard producers and studio engineers say that if something sounds good on NS10s, it'll sound good on anything.

This is the same reason professional mastering engineers will sometimes insist on listening to mixes on average car stereos, ipod headphones, and cheap consumer audio systems. It doesn't matter how good it sounds on your $100,000 studio system if it sounds terrible to 99% of the population.
I got that understanding from this website:

http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/...

<quote>
"Interlisp-D was a real system with about 1000 users and was influenced by Smalltalk: it was an object-oriented
system."
</quote>
Not to mention that it's been voted as No-1 in living standards in the world, the last 5 years in a row.

Not that you can't always get better but saying that Vienna is not properly managed, as Greek, makes wanna commit suicide.
Audiophiles already think ipods sound meh. Which they in fact do, it is a fact that the DACs aren't great. Neither are the headphones that ship in the box. Apple products are not marketed on their audio fidelity.
I loved this idea! Check out the Lisp machine that ended up implementing a parallelization similar to what you are describing.

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

Is there a way to get in touch with you? I'd be happy to help with the software. Or at least, the definition of a Lisp that's shorter than the current Lisp.

I also noticed there are tools that can convert from C to an FPGA (in Verilog?) Does this mean that if someone where to write a short Lisp interpreter in C one of these tools could convert it into a hardware specification?
Don't know of any particular blogs/articles but you can e.g. Google "OV5647 datasheet" and read the datasheet for the RPi's camera chip. There's not much that could be a security concern on the camera module itself, since it's relatively dumb; it's what controls it that's a different issue.
They subscribe to reddit.
I'm not surprised. I work with a variety of NGO's that work in the fisheries and they're first rate scientists who are incredibly passionate about conservation. They understand the pushback from people fishermen, but take a long view of fisheries management-if we let you fish as much as you want now, with modern equipment, you'll have a few seasons of incredibly high yields which means your catch will be worth nothing, then the fisheries will collapse and you'll be broke and pissed that no one told you it was a bad idea.
this article is very sad. it's about elderly people who have noone to talk to, but also Brazil is poor country with a growing demand for having users speak English.

so this "chat-roulette clone" has a lot if impact.
While PDF is a great tech demo in practice,unless one is using it for short documents,it doesnt work very well.That's why google did what it did with doc,render the pdf as an image them put a transparent text over it. It's a better approach if one has good servers. because frankly one cant expect the browser to behave like acrobat reader and be as performant as native applications when trying to render 20MB pdfs (and a lot of books are that big,this is not an rare use case).
I have, it wasn't pretty... For simple apps, It seems to do well.. For anything complex, it's painful.