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Haha, that's a lot of questions. Let me try to go over them.

I say SolScript is "duck typed" and "scripted", because that's how it feels to program SolScript. However, under the hood, SolScript is a statically typed, compiled language.

About the "spreadsheet" idea, that is exactly what the SolScript IDE (Solide) is going to be. There will be a spreadsheet mode, which displays the source code as a spreadsheet. The last chapter talks about Solide, if you want to know more. (The creation of Solide is going to be my job, and I've been watching Bret Victor videos, all day yesterday, for inspiration.)

We have no "deep copy" of the data. The data is simply mutated in place, for performance. The compiler knows in what order it has to update the datacells, so SolScript users don't notice any of this. If I say `b = a`, then `a` will be calculated before `b` uses it. (If you want the value of `a` before `a` is updated, you say `b = previous a`.)

The whole "plain text" argument is about the fact that companies can die. So can (UN)MANNED, of course. The difference is that plain text files will always be readable, in contrast to Word files. You don't need our software to read plain text documentation.

Releasing the source is not something we plan to do (for now). We are not against the idea, but right now we have other priorities. There will probably be a gratis version, even for commercial use. Only that version won't be certified.

Yes, SolScript is written in an "unsafe" language: C. This makes it extremely cross-platform. We can run on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, VxWorks... The coding standards of our C code are extremely strict. Avionics style.

And about Markdown, yes that could be applied to other programming languages. BUT SolScript integrates with Markdown on a whole new level. For example, sections in Markdown are the scopes or namespaces of a SolScript program. Markdown is built into SolScript, not tacked on.

Edit: Circular dependencies really make no sense, in a declarative programming language. Defining `a = b` and `b = a` has no clear meaning, so the compiler will throw an error. However, you can define things recursively using `previous`. For example: `a = b + 1 initially 0` and `b = previous a`. In this case, `b` is 0, 1, 2, 3... and `a` is 1, 2, 3, 4...
Right. These places do exist. San Francisco isn't one of them. Most cities in the US aren't like that. Let's stop comparing apples to oranges. When SF gets a reliable public transport system with supermarkets on every corner and bus stops that are 150m away, then you'll have an argument. Right now, you're just proving the point you're calling 'ignorant'.
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Weve had them in Cambridge MA for a while now- You have to have a special case to use the wireless charging station. I predict this getting a lot of press but wont be practically useful. If youre on the street going about your day and need a charge up, it is unlikely youll have the required case nearby.
I'm not a fan of Apple, but down-voted you for the fact that your comment isn't relevant in the chain. Yes, Apple's use of patents sucks and I too hate that, but it's not a contradictory point to the opinion that they "try to control their own destiny", so all you've done is chuck in an anti-Apple issue where it wasn't needed.

Comments like that don't do anything other than push Apple fanboys to champion them even more, followed by Apple haters to criticise them even more.
I know nobody that would uncheck the option unless they were very sure of the source, and then turn it back off again.

I've been to websites that automatically trigger the download of an apk to your phone. Without that setting it is only one or two wrong clicks and you've got all sorts of malware on your device.

It's not about competition, running a phone with that option switched off is dangerous.
Moving goalposts, are we? First of all, this article is about San Francisco, and second of all, you complained that the described world can't possibly function in real world. The described world does exist, as mentioned by myself and other people in this sub-thread. Whether it exists everywhere or not is inconsequential. A single instance is sufficient to prove that your statement was in false. I gave one example, other people gave their own examples, in reality in Europe you can pretty much chose any German or Austrian city to pick your examples (I'm sure it's good in other western countries too, I just pick on what I know).

Second, you are wrong. Medium cities are just like the big cities except without the metro system. Trams and busses are just as good and effective, and the metro is not needed (I hope the reason why not is obvious). Also, here in Austria at least, the trains are really good, really fast, and really, really frequent, and you can just take the metro to the big city center with the same ticket (something you can't do with cars, because cars are not allowed in the center).

Very small towns and don't need public transport because it takes 10 minute to cross them by foot.

This notion that you need a car to move around town or buy groceries is an american concept and seems preposterous to us, europeans. Cars have their uses, obviously, but these are not their primary use here.
Do you have anywhere that I could read up more on this? It sounds interesting.
Adventured was saying that the US is a counterexample to the proposed statement that meant non-restrictive or non existent patent systems will be bastions of innovation.

In no way was Adventured arguing that because of the patent system, the US became a bastion of innovation.
Milton Friedman believed that there should be an increase in monetary supply, irrespective of business cycles, etc:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman%27s_k-percent_rule

Most mainstream economists agree with a steady expansion of the money supply (which does not necessarily lead to inflation unless the monetary supply grows faster than demand).

Cryptocoins are an interesting example of rule-based monetary policy, I hope economists will learn a lot from them.
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Erik Meijer is actually one of the main guys responsible for the popularization of 'reactive programming' with his Rx extensions for .NET [1]. It's probably a fair assumption that he knows more about this topic than most people.

[1] http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-B...
Europe is very different to SF. In Europe the term city planning is somewhat different. Most cities were built for horses and carts at best.

Berlin has a fantastic public transport system, but 70% of is less than 70 years old. Istanbul's public transport system is truly terrible, but it's a nearly 3,000 year old city that gets nearly a +/- 50 degree C temperature range over a year.

Paris has an ok metro, but in general public transport isn't that great compared to say, Berlin, London or Barcelona.

London has a ridiculously overdeveloped public transport system that will get you from a to b but it's massively oversubscribed and the roads are rammed most of the time. To be fair, London is generally oversubscribed and rammed most of the time.
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> And what about when it's not school? Or are young kids expected to never go anywhere?

My dad was too lazy to drive me anywhere so he bought me some bus tickets and a bike. Problem solved.
What's learned in the 4th grade curriculum about "$5 a day" is about as accurate as what I learned in 4th grade about "Columbus proved the Earth was round."
That's kind of odd as Europe (the Continent - 10,180,000 km2) is actually larger in area than the United States (the Country - 9,826,675 km2).

I take it you mean the EU - which covers less than half the area of Europe?
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I live in Europe, and the reason I use public transportation 95% of the times is because there's a healthy network of taxis (which is essentially what Uber is) when I need something that falls outside of the daily routine.
In the case of a perfectly selfless person playing with a selfish person yes, that is a place where game theory ceases to be useful. But real altruists are imperfect, and have somewhat different notions of utility and planning horizons. Some games cease to be interesting but others turn from pure conflict to interesting games.

In fact, most of the examples I remember from The Strategy of Conflict are among groups that generally mutually altruistic, like parent and child or soldiers fighting on the same side in a war.

Of course, games played among roughly altruistic players tend to have much better outcomes...
being knocked out is related to the brain hitting the walls of the skull, it has very little to do with what caused that. Slap, Fist, head-butt, concrete, car crash etc.

But I was responding to the claim slapping is equivalent to punching.
Ultra low-tech: thread. One could conceivably let thin thread wind up around the blade's spindle during a timed run. Measure the wound string length and work your way back to the RPM of the blade.

Not sure how various materials (say, sewing thread vs thin vinyl fish line) would hold up at 10k RPM, but there might be something that could survive at a proper tension?

EDIT: Reading fail. Someone had already commented on this. Still seems like a interesting challenge to attempt.
How is this nicer than a configuration file template?
Yes, I'm sure San Francisco is not one of them, otherwise we wouldn't have this argument, and this thread wouldn't exist.

But I didn't comment whether San Francisco is like this or not, I commented on the idea that this places can't possible exist.
One case where I use Uber/Lyft over a regular taxi is when I am at places/times where/when taxis are not readily available..Uber/Lyft works well in those situations as the drivers know the exact coordinates to show up at and do so relatively fast.
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Yes, but public transport is going to have to cope with elastic demand, so you can't base carriage sizes on the average number of passengers.

Here in Barcelona, it seems that the metro starts off quiet at the ends of the line (easy to get a seat), then as you approach the city centre it fills up (difficult to get a seat near these stations). Then it starts to empty on the way back out.

Electric bikes makes sense though.
It seems like this guy built an awful lot of functionality by hand that is available in any number of libraries...but Ruby and Go? This site, sometimes...its like the moon compared to what most people are doing.

If someone came to me and said...hey, I'm thinking about building a piece of a large app in go I would tell them to shut the fucc up. You guys do way to much of this "latest hotness" bullshit.
Did he ever travel to the South Bay from San Francisco? I have to doubt it, because I never saw the word "Caltrain."

By US standards, yes, SF has good public transit, but its incredibly shitty by the standards of the civilized world. I'm as progressive as you can get, have relied on Bay Area (VTA, Caltrain, MUNI, BART) public transit since 2008, and I'm the first to admit there are major problems with it. I don't think he's lived in SF (or the Bay Area in general) long enough.
It's not the size of the city per se. that's the problem in the US, but that very few people live and work actually in the centers of those cities. They're all dispersed out in the suburbs. Take an avg 50-80k population city in the US and draw a circle, centered in the middle of town, that encompasses say 60% of the cities population, now do the same with a European city of the same size. The circle for the European city will almost always be much smaller, meaning it's much easier to cover a significant proportion of the population with a reasonable public transportation network.
> we live in a country, where things like perfection, attention to detail mean nothing

Is this actually true? Seems like a kneejerk generalisation. If it is true, then surely this is a huge opportunity.
I appreciate the polish of making this into a small book. When educating kids, the 'take away' of having things in a format to take home and play with / show parents makes a big difference (as it does for adult learners).
The web, services more than 3 devices. There is added complexity when you do that.

If you love cocoa so much you should checkout: http://www.cappuccino-project.org/
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I have been using PyCharm for few months after using Sublime Text 2 for years. It is very well engineered tool and has greatly improved my code quality.

Just came to know 'Python code compatibility checks' option. Will definitely be helpful as I am starting to write Python 2/3 compatible code.
Author misses the point that transportation in SF/Bay area sucks for two reasons:

1) Mismanagement of the infrastructure. MUNI couldn't manage its way out of a wet paper bag, AC Transit tackles increasing ridership by replacing transbay buses with smaller capacity local buses. To get anything done you have to organize across 30+ agencies. Lack of investment in the public infrastructure verses the increasing population. The list goes on...

2) People want public transit just not in their back yard. Witness the central subway debacle of it not going all the way to North Beach/Fisherman's Wharf. Witness Marin voting not to extend BART to their cities. Witness the Marin SMART line first phase not ending at the Larkspur ferry terminal. Witness the high speed rail link mess and the fact that it's impossible to take a train from San Francisco to Sacramento without having to transit through about 3 different systems.

So it's no wonder that companies are running their own buses or people are looking to alternative services like Uber or Lyft because it's their only option for getting around, and as a wise man once said "There ain't no getting 'round getting 'round"
There is also a microcoded Java CPU [1] that runs in an FPGA.

[1] http://www.jopdesign.com/
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How does it matter for seller of BTC? Once you sold it, it can be owned by anyone, how is it your concern?

What's important is how many people own it. Not who exactly owns it. Today Coinbase/Bitstamp are doing good business by connecting people who want to buy BTC and sell BTC. As more people will get paid in BTC, more transfers will go directly from customer to employee without exchange intermediaries. But the real adoption does not depend on amount of transfers. That's secondary. Real adoption of money as money is in how many people hold it at every single moment of time. More people -> more demand -> more liquidity -> more value -> more trust.
David Binetti did something similar ($1k/10k/100k/1000k) when starting what eventually became Votizen: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/david-binett...
"I'm a young master engineer"

I'm an old engineer (electronics and software), and as I age and gain experience I realize I still have a lot to learn. I don't think you can be a "young engineer" and a "master engineer" at the same time - and I think those who truly master engineering have become MORE adept at questioning their abilities.

I think the attitude conveyed by his tag-line is repeated (several times) in the article's body ... one mind-set, one "best" and everyone else must be wrong. His ideal seems to be centered around Madrid's transportation systems, but if your (singular) goal is what's good for the environment, I've seen many Asian cities that easily beat buses and trains (with walking and bicycling).

If you're living an unhurried continental life, walking to the local market and carrying home your fresh-picked vegetables might be an alternatively to taking the bus/train to a larger grocery store. If you're a hurried SF-based founder, a door-to-door service is optimizing for a limited amount of time. Why does there have to be just one "best"?

Here's an example ... suppose Elon Musk flies around the country in a corporate jet while working to promote solar energy at prices that will ultimately lead to a significant decrease in emissions. Should he instead bike across the country so his jet isn't polluting the skies? Or would the duration of each trip simply make it impossible to accomplish his goals?
> First of all, this article is about San Francisco

My comment wasn't. These rants about getting rid of cars are evergreen, and they always ignore the same issues.

NY for example is exactly like your comment - you can do just fine there without a car. But there are only about 10-15 cities like that in the US.

> Medium cities are just like the big cities except without the metro system. Trams and busses are just as good and effective

Only if the population density is high. Otherwise there is not enough demand for constant service.

> Very small towns and don't need public transport because it takes 10 minute to cross them by foot.

Have you ever been in the US? It can take 20 minutes by car to cross a small city because they are very spread out.

The whole reason to live in a small city is so you get a lot of land. No one is interested in living in a small village type city which is small (in population) but you only get small piece of land - cities like that are dying constantly in the US because people don't want to live there.
Firefox OS is yet another example of Mozilla apparently thinking that ideological purity alone will somehow entice users into adopting an otherwise average-to-bad software offering.

That isn't how reality works, though, obviously. Out of necessity, most users must place software usability and capability above ideology. Software like Firefox OS and Persona will never see serious adoption when they can't compete with long-established and more functional offerings at the most basic levels, even if these competitors may not be as "open".

It's an approach that doesn't work for Mozilla's offerings that are already well-established, either. Firefox has been hemorrhaging users ever since its developers stopped focusing on truly improving the user experience, and instead focused solely on copying the worst aspects of Chrome (the UI, for example), while neglecting to address the performance and resource usage problems that have long plagued Firefox.

Users need software that works. If that means using software that's "less open" or "closed", they'll do it without a second thought. Mozilla just happens to often be on the losing side of this reality these days. While "openness" can be beneficial, it needs to be in conjunction with software that's at least comparably good to its "closed" competitors. Firefox OS, Persona and Firefox are good examples of where this isn't the case, and how they're either seeing limited to no adoption, or how they're losing existing users.
Exactly, the US transport issue is primarily urban sprawl, a planning problem: http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/you-cant-set-shop-sid...
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Bikes can be public too. I've been recently to Budapest, and their public bike networks that was about to open seems excellent. Cheap, with stations everywhere around the city and renting bikes with just a cellphone.

If you live in a small place, and you just bike around the city, I'm not sure it's worth buying your own.
I much prefer the (equivalent) code:

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if not check2(): return false

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This guy gets the wrong impression because he doesn't understand that uber is growing to something totally different:

1.Uber recently started to offer it's uberxl suv service, which carries upto 6 passengers and in sf costs $5 base fare + the lowest of ($0.45/minute or $2.15/mile)[1].

2.Given enough demand, uber can offer a highly efficient personalized route service, which builds optimal routes needed to transport 6 people. Let's assume such routes can be only 25% longer than normal routes , on average[2].

Combine both of those, we can replace 6X30 minutes car trips , with a single 37.5 minute suv trip, which will be charged $21.87 for 6 passengers, or $3.64 per person.

If we wanted to have a similar trip in public transportation, it would probably take around 1.5-2 hours , but might cost $2.

And if we compare this to a normal car trip, the uber experience could be much better - you could watch a tv episode on your tablet after a long work day and unwind, instead of the stress of fighting traffic. And it's priced pretty closed to the cost of personal transportation.

And the secondary effects from shifting so much traffic to highly efficient forms would greatly decrease traffic jams and further increase speed.

TL;DR - with it's new offering uber is evolving to be a much better, new mode of public transportation, both cost effective and a great experience.

[1]https://www.uber.com/cities/san-francisco

[2]research of "demand responsive transportation" talks about similar efficiencies.
> I commented on the idea that this places can't possible exist.

Which was not an idea anyone (except maybe you) had.
So are you arguing vanilla js is the better option?

Or that the web is a flawed platform and should be avoided?
I seem to recall reading that the city of SF (or another municipality?) had conducted a study that found, perhaps counterintuitively, that improving taxi service would actually end up increasing transit ridership and decreasing overall vehicle miles traveled. Improved cab service, it was claimed, would let people get rid of their own cars and begin using more convenient, more sustainable modes of transit for most things, resorting to a now more reliable taxi service as a crutch when necessary.

Taxi industry bullshit? I don’t know, because unfortunately I can’t find reference to this study at the moment—does this ring a bell with anyone?
Public transport is never going to win simply by being a cheaper option, you have to appeal to other motivators, such as sense of social responsibility.

Yes, that's what the author is doing: "If we want to live in a walkable and clean city, we have to start acting the same way we think. And in this case is by taking public transportation."
Is there much difference between this, and if the DEA had busted some meth dealers who had a bunch of gold sitting around? Or if the FBI had busted some mafia family with billions in property?

What are the precedents here? Does this style of US government confiscation / sale have any analog in realms outside the net?

I'm honestly curious, I know that governments are completely within their (self defined, but generally accepted) rights to profit from these seizures, but what are the implications of profiting from the proceeds of crime, and has this raised it's head in more "traditional" areas before?
You should add [2010] to that.
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HostGator what are you doing, the only time I know a website is hosted by them, is when that website fails to function properly. Not really a good way to be recognized for hosting. Oh and the link is down.
So... they are selling off "illegaly claimed" BTC now?
Ah but of course, they have been doing the same thing with everything else for years... (supporting their own departments, making them able to buy tanks, cars, houses and plenty more).

Nothing new here, carry on, carry on!!!
When have you been in Istanbul last? They've been expanding the public transport system a lot in the last few years (new subways, metros, a train running the marmara sea). I was there just a few weeks ago and had no problem getting around.
Sure, it is harder without a car, but it not impossible. Somehow we have survived for a long time before cars.
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At the risk of repeating myself about what agile is...