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I mostly do client-side Web development - JavaScript and Flash - and prefer to write in the native languages of the platform to leave less space for bugs to hide. (Even MTASC, the very good indie Flash compiler, turned out to contain obscure bugs after I abused it for a couple years.) And my server-side stuff is simple enough that Lisp wouldn't be a big win space-wise over the handful of PHP one-pagers that I tend to write. Lisp also loses to PHP on maturity, documentation and support - whenever I stumble on some exotic webapp-specific problem, chances are it's already covered in detail on php.net. It looks like Perl and Python have ecosystems of similar quality, and some of my friends swear by the Microsoft tech stack, but unfortunately I can't trust Lisp to the same degree.

If I ever encounter a problem where cleverness of programming is the limiting factor, I'll probably use some advanced language (yep, I can handle Lisps, ML/Haskell or even APL/K passably well). But such problems just aren't very common. On most projects I spend most of the time figuring out how to solve this user problem on that programming platform as directly as possible, not solving mathy type puzzles.
I think it shows great restraint - the headline for an article like this if it was someones blog would be "Why Microsoft is dead" or "how Apple won the windows 7 war".
On the other hand, they've already had to get in bed with the music industry through their Youtube partnerships.
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I doubt they would announce the tablet without a special press event
Though I haven't programmed in Qi (which runs atop a Common Lisp environment), I have read up about its extensible type system. It looks powerful and might be useful for what you're doing.
It annoys me, too.

However, here is one nice solution (that is nice for a lot of other reasons):
http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/
How about giving the paper version away? (Just leave it in the commuter train or so, if you do not know someone who wants it.)
Don't believe the tablet hype. The only people who want such a thing are the few people blogging about it all the time. (And of course hype is good for getting readers/attention/subscribers etc) (Or trying to justify their own tablet - crunchpad? "Best product of 2009"?!?? http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/4332415.h...)

The usefulness of a 'too big for your pocket, half a laptop that you have to hold' device are minimal. Maybe they'll surprise everyone and come out with a tablet, but I really doubt it.
But that's a link to a FF extension, not a search page.
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There is no irony. I am tired of government propagandists. I don't want to end up like that chick. I sure hope you put your money where your mouth is and take the vaccine.
I know some seniors who did this program. From their feedbacks, they seemed to find it enriching and practical.
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"It's time to show most passwords in clear text as users type them."

I stopped paying attention after that.
Believe me, many of us in the US do understand that. But its not like the major US carriers will offer us a discounted service if we bring our own unlocked phones. So if you pay for your own phone and then buy a standard US service plan, you still end up subsidizing everyone else's handsets...

This is why it's notable when Wal-Mart gets into the no-contract service plan game.
I agree - remember the "iphone nano": much talked about, didn't even make sense as a product and totally non-existant.

If it is true - the noises that do kind of make sense - like Apple being in talks with publishers make me wonder if they are going to compete with the Kindle rather than the netbook.
Thanks a lot! That will save me a lot of frustrations...
Every now and then someone recycles simcity or a variation on the theme and scores wildly, check this out on the 'maximum' length graph:

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You also have to worry about memory usage and runtime determinism - When restarting an engine at 10,000 feet or on takeoff[1] some things MUST happen at certain times as quickly as possible. GC isn't an option, and "oops out of memory" isn't an option either.

It comes down to it that lisp doesn't have the ecosystem behind it for life-crtical applications. I doubt it ever will.

What it is useful for though is analysis tools - helping keep people out of those life endangering situations.

1. See Diamond da-42 takeoff crashes.
> a long list of companies in the right place at the right time but lacking vision.

Precisely my point!
I wouldn't call it restraint - calling it war is still hyperbole.

Of course, Apple has really always been at odds with the PC industry, so making a play around the 7 release date comes as no surprise given that Vista tanked.
Someone needs to give them a lesson on exponents!
second that, and maybe repeat in top bar if graphic design looks ok.

I periodically google search with site:news.ycomb..
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Look at that subtle off-white colouring.
The tasteful thickness of it.
Oh my God, it even has a watermark.
Yes but this one is from Dr. Comer a well known computer science professor. http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/
preferably the same thing - search field top and bottom that does a google site:foo closure over Ycombinator.com.
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I see it in Chrome, but not in FF3.5.

Browser detection.
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1) I doubt that a Google-distributed phone would eclipse the phones distributed by carriers, at least in the US (because of the subsidy model). With new Android tablets, netbooks, phones, and more esoteric devices being released every month, I think a single handset model sold by Google and probably without much marketing (it's against Google's DNA to run television ads, for example) will be just a drop in the bucket.

2) Some of this is already an issue (and already partly addressed). Android handset makers have the option of branding their phones with the Google trademark (like the "T-Mobile G1 with Google"). If they do, then they get to distribute Google's proprietary apps (GMail, Maps, Google Calendar/Contacts sync, etc.) but they also have to agree not to change certain parts of the user experience (e.g. can't restrict access to the Android Market).

My parents already call my G1 "the gPhone" but as dozens of Android handsets come out from every carrier and manufacturer, I'm sure they'll get the picture that it's more like Windows Mobile than the iPhone.

3) Google and the hardware manfacturers already have agreements in place (via the Open Handset Alliance) where the manufacturers can work with Google under NDA on not-yet-published Android releases.

4) I hope that Google's motivation is to sell a device that's more open than the ones from the carriers. Actually, they already sell such a device (the "Android Dev Phone 1" which is the same HTC Dream hardware as the T-Mobile G1) but it's slow and clunky compared to the new generation of hardware. It makes sense for them to offer an Android Dev Phone 2 soon. Right now the ADP1 is the only phone with a supported way for customers to upgrade the OS (i.e. without using a root exploit to jailbreak it). A rootable phone is mostly useful for developers, but just look at the iPhone jailbreaking scene to see that certain consumers want it too.
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There's a related article in current issue of Wired [http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_twitter/]:

The company’s revenue will be a modest $4 million or so this year. Even so, Twitter reportedly turned down a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook last November and seems perfectly happy to burn through its roughly $150 million in investor funds...

Though the company held a discussion earlier this year called “What Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up?” the mission statement is still a work in progress. “If there are three sentences I’d use to describe Twitter,” Stone says, “one of them would be ‘I don’t know.’”
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I can't really say whether the ui is good, because I created it, but here you are anyway

http://gambolio.com/#/library/

The ui and animations were done entirely using Javascript (with help from jQuery), HTML and CSS. The actual games are flash but the ui is all done using standard web technology.
Well, maybe you do. But I was wondering where apple would get their harddrives, screens, processors and other bits and pieces if they declare war on the entire PC industry. The only thing that differentiates a 'mac' from a 'microsoft windows computer' is the software, and the design.
"But that openness stands in sharp contrast to arcane U.S. immigration policies that discourage young scholars from settling in the U.S."
I am an immigrant. Whether I am a "scientist" is debatable but the above statement is disingenuous. I think, sometimes people mix-up the highly talented pool of immigrant with IT works... I am yet to see Ph.Ds refused visas and what not (not to say one need a Ph.D. to do something useful).
What is the article even talking about? Netbooks are destroying things? Netbooks are the best thing to happen for ages.
Swapping the drive on my aluminium MacBook requires removing one screw. I wonder why Apple's new designs don't include this?
I have a Sony eBook reader and I have to say that I would welcome a display that updates rapidly for everything else than the actual reading, i.e. menu navigation, searching, preview of the next page etc.

eInk is great to look at (and I prefer it to a lit display for reading), but it is still painfully slow.
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I'm not talking about the performance of the function itself, I'm talking about the overhead incurred. That can't change in C.

Also, just adding a virtual destructor (without any functionality) adds cost. And unfortunately, you need to if your class happens to become a base class.
This might just be the next version of the Android Dev Phone. It makes sense for Google to provide a reference for both of its new operating systems, but it that doesn't necessarily mean they want to compete in the retail market.
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It's impressive technically but it's a terrible UI.
From the article:

[Netbooks] are cannibalizing Windows PC sales at an alarming
rate. By comparison, laptops commanded higher margins and
average selling prices when their popularity started to
increase. PC manufacturers -- and even Microsoft -- benefited
from notebooks' reversing the trend of falling computer ASPs;
for a time. By comparison, netbooks are a plague, because
they dramatically lower ASPs and margins and pull away sales
from real laptops.
"2009Q3 uses up to 930% less memory than the 2009Q2 release."

Does that math make sense in some way I'm not seeing?
I think there are two main reasons we hear these depressing statistics:

1. It validates most people's default decision to pursue a "normal" career path.

2. It increases the psychological barrier to entry in starting a business, so that people don't often attempt it if they're not highly determined.

Reason #1 is a strategy for coping with laziness or fear.

Reason #2 may be a good or bad thing. On one hand, the people most likely to succeed are those who have a high risk tolerance and are determined to make it despite the odds. On the other hand, anything we can do to further lower the stigma associated with business failure and encourage more people to start businesses is probably good for society.
So, are you legally obligated to tease us mercilessly or can you tell us what you do use? This does not sound like a job for PHP. ;)
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They are "a plague" for hardware manufacturers. For the ordinary user - a great many of who only really use their computers to read email, access facebook and watch youtube clips - I suspect they are ideal.
It is a touch screen. It is used for user interaction. You can swipe it to scroll through your books, but I'm sure it can be/is used for other things. Display keyboard to enter search terms, etc.

Apple detailed the many benefits of this when people complained about the iphone not having actual keys. It makes the device more flexible. Want to use the device in English and Korean? No need for a different device, just display the different keyboard.

My only negative thought about it is that the color screen has got to be a bigger eater of battery than if they had gone all hardware, ala kindle, but I don't know if it is really an issue or not.
Translation: "those consumers! We used to force them to accept a bundle of all the unnecessary extra features of a laptop with their netbook-level compute needs. Now the sneaky bastards are un-bundling it and ruining our sweet scam! The cads!"
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These terms come from 80s and 90s when PC meant Intel/Windows and Mac was Mac. I had not seen this usage for some long time now. No wonder the newer generation who missed the PC/Mac war will find it very confusing.
What is DX? Just a larger screen than standard Kindle?
It's unconventional, but 9.3x less memory can be seen in some sense as 1/9.3=10.7 percent as much memory. Not defending it, just trying to interpret :P
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I think that statement is tainted by survivor bias.
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Is it noticably faster than regular Python yet?
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What are the chances of getting into YComb if no one on the team is a programmer. We built a prototype with an outside firm...
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From their benchmarks
rietveld:
$ ./perf.py -r -b rietveld --args "-j always," --track_memory ../q2/python ../q3/python
Mem max: 575116.000 -> 55952.000: 927.87% smaller

This 930% basically means that 2009Q3 can use as little as ~1/10 of the memory of 2009Q2.
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OK, the source of my confusion was not knowing what "cannibalizing" meant in this context. Turns out they mean Netbooks are taking sales away from PCs.
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Yeah, I'm slightly skeptical as well, but at the same time excited, because a little competition never hurt the consumer.
Those terms come from the 70's when PC meant 6502, 6800, 6809, Z80 or other 8 (and later 16) bit small computer which was meant for a single user instead of the time sharing minis and mainframes.

No wonder newer generations who missed the transition from minis and mainframes to personal computers find it very confusing.

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They seem to agree
This article reminds me of the "sample bias" Phil Greenspun wrote about in his career guide for women in science

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

When our policy makers think about PhD's in the sciences, they form their opinion by talking to the dean of MIT and/or nobel prize winners. They don't see how underpaid and disappointing many of these careers really are, or that "Adjusted for IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States."

It's not just greenspun, of course. CNN listed "Research Scientist" as one of the "Big Jobs with Low Pay." A RAND institute study recently concluded that the low interest of US students in math/science research was the result of uncompetitive pay and work conditions.

I do think that the US should make an effort to retain top talent in these fields, but I have trouble taking an editorial seriously if it completely fails to acknowledge how uncompetitive research science careers have become with law, medicine, mba, and other paths available to very smart people.

Loosening out immigration laws for these folks and allowing the percentage of foreign nationals in our PhD programs to rise even higher (and it's already very high) will allow the US to fill some science positions without addressing this discrepancy for a while longer... but not forever.

Someday, maybe I'll get to read an editorial by an MIT dean that acknowledges how unattractive PhDs in science have become for Americans, and what to do about it that doesn't amount to "more visas for foreigners."
This sounds like an Animal Crossing MMO. That seem right to anyone with more knowledge of it?
I don't think this is an axiom of capitalism.

It might be an axiom of some models of capitalism. It would be very hard for an analyst to reason about a transaction if you were required to take imperfect information into account.

Interestingly, in a different model you might factor in the cost of obtaining information about the transaction; and still determine that it was more efficient for you to pay £75 than find the free Firefox.

You would still be rational. Just very rich, or perhaps extremely lazy. But you are not required to be omniscient in that model, only able to estimate the cost of obtaining the information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information
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For what it's worth, Xichekolas's Greasemonkey script adds such a field and button, as well as doing several other useful things.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
Why are netbooks only the problem of the PC industry? Surely they "cannibalize" Mac sales just as they cannibalize PC sales. Except for the people who would buy Macs no matter what.
That's not a 'not ideal solution' that's not a solution. If you have to remodel your house because the manufacturer of the screen put a mirror on it in stead of a piece of anti-glare glass why bother with it.

These 'glossy' screens are the biggest set-back in display technology in years and I really don't get why people put up with them.

Even with 'no issues' try looking at a screen that is partially black and partially high intensity (like a terminal screen), you'll still see yourself sitting in it.
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1. Why isn't there a duplicate filter that catches this?

2. Seems like a partial consequence of the higher churn rate modifications.
For more technical information, look at the page Randall linked to: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
Or just use Bluetooth and eliminate the need to physically dock it. You can basically do that now provided you get the right phone and netbook.
Their first release (2009Q1) consisted mostly of patches to mainlines CPython, which improved performance for everybody by roughly 10%. They've added about 10-15% performance on each of the last 2 releases in Unladen Swallow-specific code, but it's unclear (to me) how CPython performance has evolved over the last 6 months. They haven't compared explicitly since 2009Q1, which may or may not be revealing.

From the release notes:

Lowlights:

* LLVM's JIT and other infrastructure needed more work than was expected. As a result, we did not have time to improve performance as much as we would have liked.
* Memory usage is still 2-3x that of Python 2.6.1. However, there is more overhead that can be eliminated for the 2009Q4 release.

The last 2 releases have been mostly building up infrastructure; hopefully most of that is behind them and they can work on getting the 5x performance they're after.
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Yeah, I tried Evony for a while recently, and it has the same effects - it starts to interrupt your sleep because you don't want to risk not being there and someone attacks you. That is when you know you shouldn't be playing it any more. Even then I bizarrely caught myself spending several hours taking down my cities to ensure there was nothing left to steal after I stopped playing (conversely this is a deliberate tactic to use to stop yourself being tempted back so maybe it was a worthwhile investment).
have margins on hardware ever been that high in the world of the commodity PC?

Given that most netbooks now run XP, (and shortly should be shipping with Windows 7 given the focus on performance) how can they be "cannibalizing Windows PC sales". The whole quote makes no sense, unless the low margins on netbooks are being passed on to Microsoft.

edit: despite the title the actual premise of the article is that Apple are declaring war on Windows 7. Given that netbooks will shortly be running Windows 7, how are they a disadvantage for Microsoft - in reality, mass produced, low-margin cheap netbooks must surely be a huge worry for a high margin retailer like Apple.
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MS is missing a huge opportunity. While Apple may be reaching the tech savvy and elite, MS needs to market to the "everyday average normal guy". Look at the Chevy "Like a friggin' rock" commercials. Is that guy going to buy some namby-pamby macbook if there's a real man's alternative somewhere?

Instead of two nerds making passive-aggressive beta-male comments to each other in the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials; imagine replacing the nerd with a Brett Farve type of guy. Not only is he an alpha male, but he's intelligent enough to be successful.
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