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Sorry for the somewhat lame question, but is he always that still?

I'm 10 minutes in and I don't think he moved his feet once, and his right hand just a couple times.

It feels very weird for me to watch and I just noticed it now, is there something wrong with me?
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Toothident is more likely to be recommended by 4/5 dentists in a world where it is better than other toothpastes, than in a world where it is worse.

This is false and it is dangerous.

Dentists are not experts in toothpaste; they're not experts in the latest toothpaste research.

A dentist recommending toothident will probably have no idea about whether toothident is better or worse than some other toothpaste.

For a real world example of this see knee arthroscopy for rheumatoid arthritis. Doctors would recommend this surgery over other treatments until placebo[1] controlled trials found little benefit.

"X out of Y experts recommend $THING" would be a terrible reason to chose $THING over $OTHERTHING unless you have imformation about why they recommend it and how they made that decision.
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China is a big place.

Hong Kong doesn't have anywhere near the pollution of Beijing or Shanghai.
I doubt that Bret Victor would be critical to Sonic Pi given his love for Seymore Paperts "Mindstorms" which has a progamming language called Turtle.

Sonic Pi is just that the Turtle of music programming environments. It doesn't start with abstraction but with a ground in playability.
I am wondering: how would Oculus compare with this http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/09/19/sony-dreams-of... especially taking into account the obvious PS4 synergy...
The Ehrenberg Bass Institute has quantitative marketing/advertising/brand results going back to the 50s. If you're interested in the math, I recommend checking out How Brands Grow by EBI director, Byron Sharp.

[1] http://www.marketingscience.info

[2] http://www.amazon.com/How-Brands-Grow-What-Marketers/dp/0195...
The best kinds of these things are web pages where you can fiddle with the parameters to get your own ranking. For instance, I need sunlight, some warm weather, and places to go outdoors. Others could not care less about that and place much more weight on other things.
It's silly, the Randstad region is one of the largest and densely populated metropolitan areas in Europe.
In the linked article, the author points to an explanation of loop invariants. Click the link "Last Week"
Number of things written in a language isn’t really a good measure for its quality. There was a time when most things were written in COBOL or assembly. I think the main reason people write so much BASH is because there by default.
Worth noting that powder cocaine used recreationally is usually (or always? not sure) Cocaine Hydrochloride too (though cut with non-cocaine as well, of course)
Dump each user's data into a ZIP file with HTML content+all the images. Now you've reduced a "keep creaky web app running" problem to "host some static files with authentication" problem. Might even be able to stick it onto S3 or something and have next-to-no maintenance. Nobody needs to be fulltime to support that, just have an hourly sysadmin on retainer to fix issues that come up and keep on top of security patches, shouldn't be more than a couple hours a month tops.

Where there's a will, there's a way.
So you merge all the separate calendars into one to get the complete story?

This is fascinating stuff. Have you read the book "Experience Curating" by chance?
That would be an API for asset management. OpenGL doesn't do that. It does do textures and shaders though.
The total analysis is on page 13. The analysis on page 11 only covers "spatial characteristics", and TO doesn't do well on those, receiving a -7 adjustment.

I don't see any consideration of living costs and income, which is a really glaring flaw.
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I'm glad someone mentioned EarSketch. As it's more focused on teaching programming and computing principles by making music, as opposed to a general purpose computer music language/environment like Chuck, Pure Data, and Supercollider. I was involved with the project during Grad school when it was completely attached to a DAW (Reaper), but it can now run in a browser. I'm usually not that excited about audio applications in a browser, but I think this is a great use case.
I questioned this myself, especially since when Canadians rank their own cities, Calgary and Ottawa come out tops.

Most of the time.

Happy Ottawan here.
The comment that you are replying to did qualify the statement by saying that they were looking for employees not self-employed contractors.
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Fine, so still REPL but with built in stuff to get a performance going. I get the picture.
What would you say needs to change? Would you say if were in the US you'd have had a chance to work on the product longer and spend less time on fundraising?
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That is market rate in the UK. Tech people are not well valued here.
Commuting from Bristol to London on a daily basis is borderline ridiculous - by train it's probably a three hour trip each way (factoring in time to get to where you need to be in London and getting back from Bristol to wherever you live), and by car it's well over 2 hours with no traffic. Manchester is arguably slightly faster by train (but much slower by car) - and a 12 month season ticket would cost you an eye-watering £14,336.

Birmingham is probably the biggest city in the UK where I would consider commuting into London as being something a sane person would just maybe think about doing on a daily basis, and that's still over 90 minutes on the train and a touch over £10K annually.
Jason mentions in his article that this applies after the first few million of ARR.
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It's not like in the US it would've been much easier for a foreigner: for an E2 Visa you're expected to have 100k-150k$
Could be, but also it might be the Apple/Akamai/LimeLight CDN have capacity constraints tied with their router interconnect with Verizon. By going via Amazon, you are likely connecting via a different router port.
Does anyone know of other similar apps - particularly ones supporting more languages? Specifically - Russian

Would be an awesome gift for my grandfather whose vision has deteriorated significantly due to age. He is 90+, so most of the documents he is actually interested in reading are printed or even hand-written. We've been able to teach him to use an iPad and the built-in voiceover functionality is great for helping read the books/newspapers we pre-load on the device. However it doesn't help much with printed documents - or even just reading the newspaper.

Something like this app really would be a game changer (assuming it's intuitive to use), however it looks like their current language support is only limited to the following: English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, and Norwegian.
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This is my understanding of homoiconicity. There's a good chance that I'm wrong. Comments and clarifications welcome!

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Is homoiconicity about concrete syntax? I think the answer is no , but I also think that this confuses lots of people because it's not explicitly stated.

Then is homoiconicity about abstract syntax? Let's say we have some arbitrary language, for which there's an eval function (input: abstract syntax tree, output: some data structure) whose job is to execute/evaluate a program in that language. Homoiconicity, then, is the case where the output data structure is also an abstract syntax tree, or conversely, that an abstract syntax tree is expressed in data structures of the language.

So for homoiconicity, the input and output of your eval function are of the same type (of course the type may be a complicated algebraic sum type etc.). Thus the input and output have the same domain. This means that you can take the output from eval, and throw it back into eval again without getting a type error.

If the input and output types of the eval function don't match, then the language isn't homoiconic.

Is this correct?

What I don't get is whether the eval function is available from inside or outside the language, or both.

I'm also unsure of whether homoiconicity is a property of a language, or of an implementation of a language.
Hang on, you are working in Australia from the UK, you asshole. There are few things more absurdly hypocritical than emigrants who complain about immigration.
Monocle is as close to a perfect ranking system as I've seen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_most_liveable_cities
I've spent years in Hong Kong and months on Phnom Penh. They're not even in the same league. Hong Kong is one of the most developed cities in the world, Phnom Penh is one of the least. I honestly can't understand where you're coming from. The pollution? The air can get horrible (summer 2012..ughh), but it's pretty bad in Phnom Penh's also. Plus, the water and medical facilities are downright dangerous.
And its where all the transport links go so you have a much bigger pool to pull employees from than if you set up in some out of the way place like say maidenhead as 3 did.
For a moment I thought this was a link to a Gabriel Garcia Marquez short tale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Pilgrims#Light_is_Like_...

I know this is off-topic but it's a delicious reading and one my favourites (non Macondo related )from him.
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Ah. Venturebeat. Never shy about hyping the future.

The power industry was saying that nuclear power would be 'too cheap to meter' in the 1970s.

Ray Kurzweil does not make that mistake but is he right about the cost curve going forward? It's not like semiconductors where you get cost-reduction driven by a physical effect.
Fair enough. The idea that all the people employable outside London, Cambridge or Oxford are all self-employed contractors who are not interested in salary positions is also total horseshit.
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I was for a while yes. Difference being that in Australia businesses are crying out for employees and there's enough money to pay everyone properly. In the UK the only shortage is the shortage of people willing to work for peanuts. I'm not anti immigration. I'm against business opening it up further to suppress already low wages.
I'm not discussing the US? I'm expressing my hope that the UK returns to its more sensible pre-2010 highly skilled migrant policy.
iPad are very useful in the kitchen! And easy to clean in the dishwasher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeA5xU2YjXk
When I worked in central London a two bed flat (ex council property) near the office was £750k Compared to ones a 60 min commute away at 120k annual season is £4k for that trip.

I remember my boss a director of a FSTE 100 company commenting that he could not afford to live in central London
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> Are there enough to convince government the spend the time and money to change the immigration laws

I'm expressing my hope that the UK returns to the pre-2010 highly skilled migrant policy. There was a reason for that policy; had they not stuffed around with it to make a particularly weak political statement, this situation wouldn't exist to rectify.
They also forgot Vancouver, Vienna, Geneva, and Zurich, all of which regularily make it into the top 10 in such rankings. They probably argue that Munich is a proxy for Vienna and Zurich...
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Most UK employers don't allow side business.
There are plenty of sci-fi movies with overly optimistic views on AI.

Realistically AI is far more dangerous than presented in any movie. The author did nothing to address real concerns about AI. I suggest starting here: http://intelligence.org/ie-faq/
yes given that you have all the eu to recruit from there is no real justification for the skill shortage argument.
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How about the 'green space' per capita... How does Hong Kong rank there?
The data in my [3]rd link does not support your belief.
making api docs is a pain in the butt. any recommendations on "api to html docs" tools?
Oh man, I just spent a lot of time building a project that executes a bunch of shell scripts and feeds them into haskell pipes. I most definitely could've used this. Perhaps I will still port it since it looks so clean.
Valid questions - basically our main pain point was:

- we wanted to know why players are leaving at certain points but all we had were guesses, and stats didn't tell us why (bored? confused by a UI? difficulty too hard? etc)
- so we built a way to ask them directly and find out

it works well for us and our early adopters, and it's an ongoing thing - you're always trying to improve your game in this freemium/games as service world

other secondary benefits - being able to collect email addresses, being able to ask those who like your app to rate it 5 stars, giving extra virtual currency to people etc

Based on the feedback I think game developers particularly would find it useful and get benefit out of it if they used it..

but how to reach them effectively, educate them about it and get them to take the leap and try - that's what we're facing now..

some ideas we're thinking:
- revamp homepage to make it more about use cases and get them to select who they are and show content relevant to them (lot of web work)
- spend cycles on content marketing, writing articles on our site with content related to what we do, but not always mentioning us to try and get inbound traffic (though we're noobs at SEO)
- lots of commenting on developer communities, with our fresh accounts (we forgot to create accounts at the start on all those sites so we'd be coming in pretty fresh)

any thoughts?
Perhaps computer science graduates in the UK don't make the same kind of money that they do in the Bay Area, but do you really think those salaries are actually justified in any real sense? Should a junior developer fresh out of his computer science degree really be earning more than, say, a trainee doctor?
Every so often, after a particularly painful bout with interactive Bash, I find myself mentally designing some shell replacement based on some other language, sometimes custom, sometimes something like Python. And I always end up reminding myself of the same conclusion... nobody will use the resulting interactive shell, because the bash defaults and error handling and stuff mostly make sense interactively (I mean, I can quibble, but let's admit that most of us are pretty comfortable with them in interactive mode), and making everything more explicit in some hypothetical replacement will also make everything more annoying to use. It's hard for me to make anything that's more terse than Bash, and for an interactive shell that's a big deal.

However, the interactive use case makes one big assumption, which is that you, a human being, are sitting there, statement by statement, and looking at all the output. It assumes the "return codes" of commands are advisory, and not something you literally want to see on every command. It assumes that if you're having trouble with some escape sequence you can interactively work out what you're doing with "echo" or "ls" or something. It's fundamentally built around expecting to be interactive.

It is unsurprising that that assumption doesn't work out well when trying to program in it. Where it makes sense for interactive Bash to be somewhat sloppy with things and expect the human to pick up the pieces, and to be clear that is 100% true, not sarcasm, that's a terrible thing in a programming language. It takes a bare minimum of set -e (stop on errors) and set -u (stop if unset var used) just to turn it into a semblance of a safe language, and that's still just putting lipstick on a pig.

I'm not terribly convinced that a shell can be optimized for both interactive and programmatic use... certainly the two modes will be fighting with each other in the design even if you pull it off, and the whole will be more complicated than an interactive-optimized language + "just use Perl/Python/etc". Of course it's too late to remove shell scripting for bash or UNIX, but the more serious the task you're trying to do, the less you should be reaching for shell scripting to do it with.

Unless you're doing something in which you really don't care that the script hit an error halfway through and it's just fine for the entire script to keep blundering along despite having no idea what's going on at that point.
"The 1994 Los Angelos-Northridge Earthquake -- The above statement is not at all overly dramatic. It is a growing trend. The National Institute of Health's issue of the January 2009 Environmental Health Perspectives Journal included a story from the 1994 Northridge earthquake which had knocked out the power in Los Angeles. Apparently local emergency centers then had received numerous calls from anxious residents reporting a strange, giant, silvery cloud in the dark sky. What they were really seeing - for their very first time - was the Milky Way, so obliterated by the urban sky glow that it had become forgotten and had practically become an urban legend." [1]

[1] http://physics.fau.edu/observatory/lightpol-astro.html
Startup world outside Silicon Valley is still largely an untapped frontier
What other APIs would that be which offer this functionality? In D3D this used to be offloaded into a separate D3DX API, but AFAIK this is no longer supported in Windows8 (at least in the WinRT API) and has been moved into separate mostly personal projects (e.g. http://directxtex.codeplex.com/). A 3D rendering API should only be concerned about efficient 3D rendering and not burden itself with specific resource file formats. For OpenGL there's plenty of libraries to choose from, for instance:

- glm for math (http://glm.g-truc.net/0.9.5/index.html)

- gli for texture loading (http://gli.g-truc.net/0.5.1/index.html)

- assimp for general asset loading: http://assimp.sourceforge.net/index.html

- the STB headers (not OpenGL specific): https://github.com/nothings/stb

- GLFW as window system glue and input wrapper

- ...and more which I am not aware of or forgot to list

GPU vendors also have SDKs and especially debugging tools (e.g. NVIDIA nSight which integrates into VStudio). It's not in one place like in DirectX, but on the other hand, the OpenGL world has a lot more platforms and usage scenarios to cover then D3D or the various new-style APIs like Metal or Mantle (these are the actual motivation for OpenGL-Next, reducing overhead even when this means a lower-level API which is even more focuses and harder to use then before).
C4: The Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector (2011) [pdf]
Which was my point, other graphics APIs do offer such support.
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agreed I saw a job ad for an experienced ground worker that was paying a lot more than some development jobs.

Btw ground worker is he politically correct term for a navvy - so a gang boss digging ditches earns more than a devloper FFS
Thanks for the share. Much of this is not feasible due to lack of budget and being outside the US. We're trying to figure out what would be the best use of our cycles for the two of us to get more traction with no spend..
"At the time of writing the site uses 21 virtual machines (VMs) hosted at different providers. [...] All virtual machines are hosted with commercial cloud hosting providers, who have no clue that The Pirate Bay is among their customers."
But you are complaining about a suggestion to change the migration rules to make it easier for migrants to start businesses while here, which would increase the competition for employees and raise wages.
And cant move on intra company transfer
That's awesome! I wasn't aware C# had them.
The article gives the age as only argument for why it carries all that cruft, but it can never be the only factor. If it were, the 23 year old Linux kernel project would be rotten by now, especially with the 31 year old GNU toolkit.

Sure I understand that there might be some stuff that should be deprecated (much like with HTML elements, the old stuff can be supported while newer projects use newer and better stuff), but rewriting from the ground up also means that you have to re-educate every developer out there. They might as well go and release for Windows instead since they probably have some experience with DirectX too.

Rewriting something that many people use is a bad idea, especially when there are well-funded competitors trying to get developers onto their own platforms.
The bay area is a weird phenomenon, and I wouldn't want it replicated everywhere. However. I don't believe that software folks in the UK are remunerated in line with their skills and value, nor the money they bring in
Just what they have been lead to believe they are worth by business and by their own risk-averse, non entrepreneurial nature.

This is pretty much the definition of market value I guess!
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This paper on C4 is cited by a member of the Go development team in this interesting comment about the future of Go's garbage collector: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-dev/GvA0DaCI2BU...
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Unrelated, but your site displays an SSL warning, because you have mixed content. Might want to fix that.
Flux is an aesthetic thing. It just tints the screen reddish to match incandescent lighting. If you wanted to remove blue light, which is what affects melatonin production in your brain, your screen would actually look very yellow.
A navvy is less than a groundworker, and a ground worker is less than a gang boss.

> A ganger, or site foreman, costs approx. £100 per day, a semiskilled labourer £90 and a general labourer £80. In the Southeast, these rates may be up to 50% higher.

http://www.homebuilding.co.uk/advice/project-tips/builders/g...

http://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/ground-worker-salary-SRC...

shows about £15 per hour.
But most of them will commute to London out side of some really niche centres of excellence and non of those would be areas that tech crunch covers eg RBR and the other F1 teams near Mk and say Hybrid air vehicles out at Cardington
Yeah, but Linux is not afraid of removing cruft. Computers (and the x86-i386 arch) changed very little over the past 20 years, even with the 64-bit stuff

Graphical cards evolved much more in the last 15 years.

The first Direct3D versions were also bad, but they evolved and removed cruft and broke backwards compatibility.
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No, it's a physiological thing:

>Production of melatonin by the pineal gland is inhibited by light to the retina and permitted by darkness. Its onset each evening is called the dim-light melatonin onset (DLMO).

>It is principally blue light, around 460 to 480 nm, that suppresses melatonin, proportional to the light intensity and length of exposure... Kayumov et al. showed that light containing only wavelengths greater than 530 nm does not suppress melatonin in bright-light conditions. Use of blue-blocking goggles the last hours before bedtime has also been advised for people who need to adjust to an earlier bedtime, as melatonin promotes sleepiness.

>When used several hours before sleep according to the phase response curve for melatonin in humans, small amounts (0.3 mg) of melatonin shift the circadian clock earlier, thus promoting earlier sleep onset and morning awakening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin
I think iamshs was saying " If I build the product in my spare time, my employer owns it as it is directly in company's field of operation"

Maybe iamshs could switch to another job, perhaps something a bit more part time without the non competes and build the thing on the side then?