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>>Swift is a start-over

For me, Lua+LuaJIT+C/C++ as a cross-platform solution to everything is a start-over, and it gives me all kinds of things I don't get from Swift, one of them is the ability to make decisions for myself about how the basic structures of the application are going to be managed and under what conditions, either in the VM as needed or out of it, and with whatever current frameworks you want to interface with (e.g. everything). Plus, LuaJIT for the win. Plus put it, simply everywhere. (On:iOS,Linux,OSX,Win,Web,&etc.)

Swift is interesting, but I will not again be swayed to the darkside of using platform-provider-provided-platforms to achieve platform nirvana, for that harness contains nails upon which to be pinned.

Planks can be assembled of many kinds, but mine is shiny enough without another dastardly developer-mindset-grab by a very, very serious cult.

(<<--MacbookPro'er)
I could do that. What would you like to know more about?
You're right. I can remember an example with something like:

dispatch_async(queue) { /* code here */}

That's an idiomatic adaptation to dispatch_async to support closures. I guess this internally might be converted to a block.
What is your stack for Desktop client? And would you be interested in client engineer?
That comment is a bit harsh; I'm sure Ubuntu is pretty relevant regardless of MAAS. For instance, it's the #1 OS deployed as cloud guests anywhere, and it's the #3 desktop OS in the world.

But you do raise an interesting point, which is that all the MDCs have their own homegrown infrastructure (which incidentally they will tell you they love to hate, or vice versa). That is definitely true, and they are not MAAS target customers. But it's also true that they are not the only places where you will encounter large deployments of servers, and if you believe that at least a segment of the server market will go towards more/many nodes (a.k.a hyperscale), then having something to reliably deploy and manage a bare-metal cluster is definitely essential.
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Religion is by definition superstition. It just depends on how okay you are with superstitious beliefs. Sometimes you can get benefit from them courage or art or motivation to live a better life, sometimes they muddle your critical thinking skills and do a sloppy job solving problems because you believe some higher power will take care of the details.

"Being outside the realm of human control and understanding" is not what superstition means.
Well, we strive for a better user experience than "try to build and install an old libjpeg without fucking up your whole system". Officially we only support certain distros, but we still try to make it as pleasant as possible on unsupported and old distributions.
The only difference between religion and superstition is societal acceptance.

I'm all for a "live and let live" approach for any religious belief or superstition that doesn't hurt people. I don't think this behavior by Dr. Radhakrishnan is worth any criticism (and plenty of other countries have ingrained rituals). But I don't like these distinctions we try to draw to legitimize religion over stuff that religion doesn't like but which outwardly appears to be the same.
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Since I'm being downvoted... please excuse my poor attempt at sarcasm.

What I'm saying is that I sometimes get the impression that language designers randomly change up syntax just to make their language look different, and thus superficially more appealing to users. Just like any other kind of product.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27677712
quite the opposite of psychosomatic actually. When SL came out every marketing feature was it was a lighter implementation of leopard. When the succeeding OS's were released, nothing about speed was mentioned and all of the new features seemed less useful.

It came down to: "This OS has no mention of speed, so it's probably slower." which turned out to be quite true out my five friends who have upgraded to Mavericks using 2010 equipment.
Imho, Windows Phone actually has the best approach to menus. Useful icons are listed along the bottom without text labels. If you want more info you hit the "..." button and that introduces the text labels and additional menu items. A best-of-both-worlds approach that means there's one place to click when you don't know what to do, and it's already tied into vague unlabeled icons giving you the options.
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The article's comparison of work vs college vacation/attendance policies is flawed from the start. The overlooked difference is that in college, you are paying the school. Of course they don't care if you come to class.

The fact that pre-college schooling has attendance rules is irrelevant; in that situation, pupils are minors and therefore the school is (in the USA at least) legally responsible for them during the school day (in loco parentis).

With work, the company is paying you in exchange for your time. You've agreed to come to work every day, and the company pays you a salary in return. A vacation policy is a negotiable benefit for the employee, just like anything else in your compensation and benefits package. If you have a no-policy vacation policy, you are basically at the whim of your employer (some handle these non-policies well, others not), but if you have a real policy, you are entitled to take those days, just like your health care, paycheck, retirement contributions, etc.
Filled. Thank you all for your replies and encouragement!
Its pretty much:

http://www.gandi.net/

or

NameCheap

At least for me.
> Also, if you read the Namecheap promotion page, they explain that they are donating $0.5 to Fight for the Future for every purchased certificate

I don't trust Fight for the Future. Too many times I've gone to the page for one of their causes, and found a prominent form asking for my email, sensationalistic claims about the issue that included outright factual errors, and no link to the actual text of whatever bill they were up in arms about.

Why not donate to the EFF instead? The EFF is occasionally wrong, too, but I never get the impression when the EFF is wrong that they are deliberately being wrong in order to stir up more interest. Also, EFF donations are tax deductible.
Yes, it is. In certain cases it might be harmless superstition unlike the kind of militant superstition that prompts people to oppress others, but superstition it is.
Is there ever a time when you don't want a weak/unowned self in a block? Perhaps this should be made the default in Swift? (I understand that the Blocks spec requires all captured variables to be strong unless otherwise specified.)
When I looked at such things last, Python had about 29 terminals & nonterminals in its grammar. Ruby had 110. (These are numbers I remember from playing with particular parser libraries, so YMMV.) By contrast, a commercial Smalltalk with some syntax extensions had 8. I have no idea about Perl, but I'd guess it's about the same as Ruby.
1976 --> 1 + 9 + 7 + 6 = 23

O__O
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I don't even see the point of karma. It's like fake internet points that mean noting. I have a karma of 583 on HN. What does that mean exactly? What can I do with 583 that I couldn't do before? To me, it's just a pointless scoreboard for how popular my opinions are. It gives me incentive to post a karma-baiting comment once in a while, so I get a burst of dopamine whenever the number jumps by 10 or more.

But back to my main point: When everything is majority rules, with no checks and balances, society collapses into mob rule. Why would it be any different with upvote/downvote?

We're not going to solve this by asking users to think before they click downvote. We should consider removing the upvote/downvote altogether.
Is Swift not under the usual Apple beta NDA terms?
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Having been looking for some ARMHF images for Ubuntu I stubled across this. Looks like Ubuntu is all over this (as well as RHEL including Fedora, and Monta Vista:

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/arm

Links to "Project Thunder SDK":

http://www.cavium.com/thundersdk_access_application.html
This is awesome, Bruce. Looks like you were up before Apple!

So, what are your plans?
Is this a route to a good Python stack for mobile?

Any interest from the Kivy team or related projects?
>>mammalian brain

Woof woof! I got one too. My view of Swift is: not a good enough reason not to continue using Lua for the same problem.
"I don't remember Catholics being eager on self-proclaimed wonders."

Isn't seeing images of Jesus in toast and other silly stuff like that somewhat common? I feel like I see that kind of thing in the news in _America_ from time to time typically associated with Catholicism.
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It's probably because the author needs to describe complex mathematics and DocBook is unable to describe mathematics[1]. I can't speak much about Publican however.

1. http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Math.html
> It makes one yearn for the day when superstition is ended once and for all, and people can live in the real world according to the best evidence of their senses.

A problem with that statement is peoples' senses differ. Whether you believe in extra senses or not, you would need to have everybody agree with you. There's also intuition & emotional motivation.

It's easy to imagine a dystopia where only mainstream "senses" and "intelligence" are recognized as truth and people who have abilities that are not mainstream are shunned and persecuted.
I suspect a lot of them grew up in families of a strongly religious bent. Families can't be "escaped" from when you're a kid. They then impute this to the town as a whole. But on the whole, as an adult, I don't see small towns in the US insisting on religious observance from a given person. You might have to "tolerate" a cross on the city hall's lawn, but considered on a global scale that's not exactly asking for a lot. (That is, considering that some sort of big imposition is, in its own way, pretty parochial.)

There's certainly other ways of getting on the wrong side of the rumor mill, but, then, I think a lot of times the answer there is that one must often seek out a community that accepts them. Many of the small townies that go to the big city and find some community that accepts them would find those communities just as hostile to the people they left; it's not that they're "more accepting", it's that they accept you. The big city is "more accepting" because there's more subcommunities to be a part of, not because it's full of magically superhumanly tolerant people. And small towns simply lack the size to have a wide diversity of niche communities.
Pascals wager is an extremely flawed argument. It boils down to the idea that whether there is a god or not, you may as well believe because if it turns out that if there is a god you win infinite reward, and if there's not then what's the loss?

However it presupposes that the Christian ideal of a god holds true, one that will reward you for belief and not reward you (or punish you for disbelief). There is a multidimensional spectrum of other options available. What if there is a god but (s)he created a mechanistic universe deliberately left behind no evidence, and so rewards those that use their critical thinking and form no belief? What if there's a benevolent god that rewards everyone regardless? What if you picked the wrong god and the real one hates wrong-believers more than atheists?

So it really only works in a situation where you have a binary choice, and that doesn't model the reality. In other words it's an exercise in apologetics written by someone who had already decided to believe, based on other criteria (or no criteria), trying to persuade others through a pseudo-rational argument.

I don't mean any of this as an attack on you, or as justification to look down on others' beliefs, but Pascal's Wager kinda grinds my gears :)
Indian judiciary is mostly good and most of the persons can go out on bail and easily get the case dismissed.

It's the religious nuts you have to fear.
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I'm sure the fatigue that sets in after (say) 15 hours would be a serious factor in accident risk. I mean truckers are required to stay under a certain work day/week and get enough sleep for safety reasons. Sure if they drove 24 hours straight they would get there faster and in theory be more productive but there are serious safety concerns both with the driver and with the truck (less time for maintenance or inspection)
I pretty much only know Java and shell script. Could someone perhaps explain what this "double duty" is? A small example would be really helpful.
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The CRL file(s) could be hosted on any CDN worth their salt for less than the price of 4 people regenerating certs. SNI is also an option for newer clients.

It's pure profit/rent seeking. That same $25 applies regardless of the reason. OpenSSL compromised? Fuck you, pay me. Miskeyed the CN? Fuck you, pay me. Want a different type of cert for the same domain? (XMPP instead of web?) Fuck you, pay me. You get the idea. It doesn't cost $25 for a few byte fingerprint to be automatically appended to the end of a file.

In some of these cases they don't even need to revoke the other cert, just delete the erroneously created one from their system because it was never used anyways!

Never mind the fact that their UI would have been an embarrassment a decade ago, and they absolutely require certificate-based login to get into the UI, which is a huge PITA.
I'm trying to find a reference (it's out there, I promise) I learned recently that sassafras is no longer the primary precursor, and MDMA produced using it is actually somewhat rare these days.
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To be fair, it is very easy to get in a position where you have no work in some small town. Which is okay if you can work remotely...

I am aware that folks getting lynched where I live is generally more reserved for racial rather than religious or intellectual minorities, so I am well aware that it can be worse, so much worse even where I live for different kinds of minority populations.

But it is quite possible that the real outcome of being publicly atheistic or gay in a rural community is that you can't practically run a business or hold a local public office, and that is not hyperbole.
Probably but at some point you get diminishing returns. The human body needs rest to recover.
As a Rails newbie (~3 months), I found this list very useful. I'm very mindful of the difference between doing something vs. doing that thing correctly, and even when I write a piece of code that works, I often stop and ask myself, "OK, but is this the best way to do it?" I try to avoid dirty hacks, and if I'm on a time crunch where I don't have time to figure out the right way, I postpone the feature to the next release rather than putting in a temporary dirty implementation.

One thing I've been having trouble with as my project gets more complex is when to refactor. I guess I'm not yet at the stage where I can accurately judge the benefits of refactoring a code vs. the cost. To use an analogy, am I just re-arranging the furniture to change the look-and-feel of the room (superficial), or am I actually making it easier for the guests to make themselves comfortable (real benefit)? I've read books like Pragmatic Programming [1] that advise refactoring whenever possible to avoid technical debt build-up. But it seems to be that there are times when working on a new feature would result in more value-add for the project as a whole.

Another thing is motivating myself to write test cases. The Hartl tutorial taught TDD, but when I started my project from scratch I quickly realized that TDD would slow down my progress significantly, and I didn't yet have enough experience to assess how a feature should work to be able to write tests for it. This did bite me in the ass just last night though, as I spent three hours troubleshooting a bug that a test case would have caught. Oh well, live and learn, right? :)
I mostly use Namecheap, because, well it's cheap ;) (and also a good service). But for the domains I really care about I use https://www.pairnic.com/index.html . PairNIC provides free phone support staffed by technical folks (during business hours in Pittsburgh, PA). It's $19/year. And I use http://www.gandi.net/ for the esoteric TLD's.
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> Superstitions which do no harm anyone are not something to be looked down upon

It depends on the superstition. In some cases, the non-harmful variant provides cover for harmful variants. Many peaceful sects of Christianity and Islam, for example, fail to criticize the actions of their violent co-religionists. It's hard to do when the extremists can just turn around and say "You believe the same things we do, you just aren't committed enough to our faith."

Taking a step back and saying "There's no evidence for any of what you're saying, so you certainly have no justification for shooting doctors / stoning adulterers / etc." makes the point more clear.
From a company that funded Khronos for OpenGL ES and shared canvas/webkit with the world, this would be the wrong direction. WebGL success is largely hooked to OpenGL and its use on mobile as OGLES and WebGL are based on the same base spec. The OpenGL battle was just won with mobile, why replace that?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition

> Superstition is the belief in supernatural causality

But then the influenced people become the causality of their actions. These root "superstitious" influences would then exist in concept and have a real effect. Note that conceptual existence is enough to influence intelligent beings who can recognize these concepts.

There's also effects that aren't explained by science, yet. That is a playground for all sorts of possibilities.
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I was born, raised, and have retired to "small town America" (and a rather Pentecostal part of it). As drzaiusapelord points out, it's nothing like this.

Especially the further you get away from the Puritan Northeast, America has something of a live and let live tradition, reinforced by a very well armed population.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819245

Other sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7839688

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7839234

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833979

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832945

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Ever since I first talked to Bruce about this(and other Om/React users), I've thought that this type of approach could lend itself really well to visual image based regression testing.

The other cool thing is that with Om you can serialize record Om state transactions. By doing this you could see how people are using specific components. Perhaps you could cycle through the last 10 users or the 10 most common interaction patterns of a component and view those interactions on a card.

This could be a boon to interaction designers looking to see how people are using disparate components/pages within an application.
This person makes my point. As I said, American students are more apt to know about what happened longer ago and farther away in Beijing than what happened more recently and closer to home in Los Angeles. When and if it is brought up, the military being unleashed on the poor and working people of Los Angeles is defended, the civilian population is called criminals etc. This is a fairly normal reaction for a typical American professional.

As far as being "peaceful" in Tiananmen Square, policemen and soldiers were killed, vehicles were set on fire injuring and killing the occupants - there are plenty of pictures and videos of the violence the police and military faced when they tried to peacefully clear the square, as well as in other parts of the city.
Very of those few are taken seriously by anyone. The Vatican is supposed to confirm miracles, and from what I remember it's not exactly an efficient or easy process. In this case I sincerely doubt they'd call it a miracle.
wonders never cease, thank you for the information.
In sum, it must makes you feel more of what is good and most pronounced from within. For deep psychotherapy you may need a guide, but to simply explore it you don't. That said, you do want some friends (and a record player) around because, well, that's what its for :)
A very small minority of HN readers can propel something to the front-page with ease, with relatively few votes: Right now, two hours in, this has earned the arrows of a miserly 59 users. Undoubted thousands of others have browsed it and moved on, with by most measures is the opposite of the up arrow.

I'm not speaking to the specifics of this submission, but the "it's on the front page therefore it has merit" argument is not reasonable. Topics that are particularly contentious (and feelings about UI is one of them, particularly when people are motivated by disagreements with co-workers about UI direction) tend to make the front-page with ease.

Tomorrow - Why "hamburger" menus are the bestest. Also, TDD is the best, and so is NoSQL.
This is great work. The video in particular sold the idea to me.

Projects like this are really making me want to build something substantial in ClojureScript.
Yes they are actual issues : I had to renew one of my domains today and I'm really frustrated with the UI. I also realized I didn't checked namecheap for a while because I had same issues when i used namecheap last time.

I don't know why others didn't reported UI issues but in my case : Opening a support ticket didn't seem to be a good option, it was an UI issue and wasn't related to billing or some technical problem.

I'll check ssls.com
I was disappointed to learn I can't RESTfully request the Sepultura-like cover of George Michael's "Careless whisper" that keeps playing in my head.