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On a marginally related note, I so wish Microsoft would offer free Spoon'ed IE6/7/8/9/10 executables instead of those humongous Windows VMs they have on http://modern.ie now. Spoon is perfect for solving this problem, and even if you only directly help Windows devs with it, I bet many devs on OSX/Linux have some Windows VM lying around somewhere. (Spoon actually offers this, but at a steep price)
This means the system of using human labor to keep an economy going is nearing an end. I can't wait to see what replaces it.
Don't agonize over it too much. Be generous. Are you paying him a salary as well?
I think what would be interesting is not in bringing the web to Emacs but rather Emacs to the web; a web browser that exposed everything right down to the rendering primitives in a decent (well, better than elisp or Javascript) language, allowing users to customize how they interact with the web in the way that Emacs users customize how they interact with text.
As I understand it, these techniques are oriented towards producer-consumer queues where there is only 1 producer and only 1 consumer. My software does IO in this manner. What is confusing is that these schemes don't scale beyond multiple cores for obvious reasons (1 consumer, 1 producer).

I understand that I can reduce the few ms latency when acquiring a std::mutex, and perhaps this is valuable for high frequency trading, but I am not sure if this will improve performance in a palpable manner.

Does anybody have any good uses cases for lock-free programming where the goal is to scale beyond a single producer-consumer scheme?
Apple app store have roughly 100% market share of distributing software to IOS devices.

Safari rendering engine has 100% market share of ios browsers.
More and more websites now reimplement loading the page in JavaScript. Just thinking about it makes me angry.
In my (probably limited) view, SF homeless are primarily
the folks around Tenderloin that seem unfortunately
abandoned by the society.

Couldn't be more wrong IMHO.

I lived in the tenderloin for a year, most if not all are by choice. I had also the opportunity to talk with few (the friendly and not too crazy one) and they wouldn't take back a "normal" life.

I'm not saying that for ALL is the same, but from my experience I can say that probably 60% are drugs/alcohol addicts 8% do that by choice, 30% totally crazy (most seems from abuse of durgs), 2% left back.
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Mou isn't abandoned. The creator has recently started an IndieGoGo project to fund 1.0.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mou-1-0-markdown-editor-o...
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2 years from now 20% of all goods will involve 3D printing?

Seems unlikely. 3D printing is still in the "gosh wow" phase.
If you're looking for a good place to donate, try Greensboro Housing Coalition: http://greensborohousingcoalition.com

GHC is a non-profit in Greensboro, NC that my stepmother founded 25 years ago. They dedicate their lives to the idea that everyone deserves safe housing, regardless of their income level.

They are able to commit over 85% of their their funding to their mission, which is absolutely amazing and only possible because of the tremendous and often thankless efforts put forth by the entire staff. You will not be wasting your money.
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I actually disagree. Once you give equity, you are stuck for better or worse. Make sure you have a vesting schedule in place and pay more salary and keep as much equity as you possible can.
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I learned to solder at that age as well. I even had a side-job that included soldering :)
Just yesterday, I tried it the other way around with a terminal emulator in the browser using FireSSH [1]. However, I’m not sure whether it is particularily safe to have a SSH connection to localhost in Firefox. It also needs some key-rebinding to be of any use which I haven’t done yet.

[1]: http://firessh.net/
I have to admit I had not given the performance differences between Linux and OSX much thought, but I am quite surprised. One might think that Apple, building both the hardware and the operating system should be able to make the two work together rather well.

(There are of course issues the benchmarks do not measure, specifically battery life, it would be interesting to see some numbers on that.)

I switched from a 2009 Asus EeeBox running Ubuntu 12.04 to a MacMini with an i7 about a year ago, and I had planned to install Debian or Ubuntu on it, but so far I have postponed that. Maybe I should reconsider.
There are many things I have come to like about OSX, but some things I do miss about Linux, especially the poor integration of XQuartz into the desktop is disappointing. Cygwin's X Server on Windows integrates into the system a lot more smoothly than XQuartz does on OSX.
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Legacy tools, IMHO, is the biggest problem. This article got it right -- you can't just get rid of them.
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As a cyclist, I can't count the number of times I've had to slam on the brakes to avoid a pedestrian jaywalking without even looking for traffic.

Here's the reality in NYC. Pedestrians ignore traffic laws. Cyclists ignore traffic laws. Cars ignore traffic laws. Everyone does whatever they want 24/7, and focusing on one group isn't going to fix the problem. The problem might even be unfixable.
Noscript and ghostery (for the less hardcore) do similar for Firefox. Don't browse without them! It's like a condom for the internet.

I cringe every time I load up a browser on the iPad and wonder what information sites are gathering.
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Time to improve your self service support?
You're using the Post as your source? You might as well link to The Onion.
I once had a vision, but now I see rust, once matured, as the best contender here.
I think this is a simplification of the problem.
I don't think (yes I'm one that thinks most are by choice) is a problem can be solved easily if not at all.

The current solution is put a "Twitter" in a bad area and construct new buildings around. So far seems is working.

I can say that people here are the most friendly ever seen so far (I'm european and I traveled a lot Europe, can't say about others places in the us).

So, I fatigue to think that San Franciscans are "bad" and they left most behind.

IMHO part of the problem is an heritage of and old lifestyle (especially with drugs).

What really upset me a bit is that here these people have no social care for their mental issues. Some are quite dangerous and I got really scared few times when I lived in tenderloin.
Important == Enjoyable

We're all just optimizing our happy chemicals. http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Your-Happy-Chemicals-Endorphin/dp...
It might, I don't know the origin of i, j etc. in math....
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Well, I was immigrating to USA from Iceland to live with my girlfriend who was studying at SF-State. She had only a room that she was renting, and her landlord didn't want an extra person staying there. We decided to by a VW van simply to avoid paying rent. It was a really good decision. We didn't have much money, but had enough to live comfortably. In fact it is really easy to live in San Francisco without spending any money. I cooked for food not bombs, we dumpster-dove at Rainbows, got more fruit and veggies at The free farmstand, and went out to dinner every Tuesday at Curry without Worry (I recommend it for everybody). I even acquired my tech skills at Noisebridge.

We had a kitchen in our bus, so we cooked most of our food. We even made homemade jam and tried to make granola in our van. We had a french press, on sometimes invited friends and our neighbours over for coffee. We even had internet most of the time (donated by friendly neighbours at the pipe organ factory).

We had planned for me to successfully immigrate (that is legally, we got married and all) but the bureaucracy and the money and uncertainty it would have taken was overwhelming (marriage is not enough if you don't have money). So we just decided for me to stay there illegally while she finished her school.

We moved to Reykjavík before I had overstayed for too long (6 months have no severe consequences for a white boy like me), where I work at a small startup as a web-developer and designer. It was really wonderful times. In fact the freedom of owning your own place (that is our car) was awesome. Of course there were difficult moments, not being able to shower frequently was one of them. But all in all the experience was good.

As for whom to help if you care about the homeless. In my view just general good manners are always the first thing that I thing of. Not to call the police on people would be a good start. Oh yes, and if you have a business that throws away food don't lock the dumpstes. Organizations like Food not Bombs, and Homes not Jails are really helpful. Of course my experience is radically different from people that become homeless out of desperation, and in fact their experience is radically different from people that become homeless out of drug addiction or mental health problems (which is also a really varied group).
Firefox is already pretty heavily customisable through XUL and, of course, is open source so you can modify every aspect of it...
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SF had "normal" bath houses before that.
It's not nearly as powerful as Org itself, but I've knocked up an org-a-like at http://yipgo.com that might interest people.
Using it for code auditing is a great idea. I use it heavily as my "issue tracker / task manager" for projects tool w/ bookmark capturing for issues (that combined with git-blame-mode is pretty amazing).
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Sharding can scale queues horizontally just like with a database.
I like the design. I'm working on a similar service to bring org-mode to more people other than Emacs geeks (similar to how Slack brought IRC to a wider audience).

Current productivity tools fall quite short in comparison.
I know, they could have rolled Azul tech into the UltraSparc and made truly amazing hardware platform for the JVM that was a _couple_ orders of magnitude ahead of the competition.
There are a bunch of jobs in Vancouver, BC, Canada, there is also bunch in New York.

The jobs are there. It is true that Front End is moving to JavaScript frameworks and this is something worth learning. Our knowledge will always become obsolete.

To help you practically here are some recruiters looking for Rails/Ruby Developers:

craig.ferguson@rht.com
skhanna@edgrp.com

And a couple jobs:

https://angel.co/wealthbar/jobs/43161-senior-software-engine...
Sage one are looking for rails dev in both Atlanta and Vancouver
http://www.freerunningtech.com/careers

San Fran
http://socialchorus.theresumator.com/apply/YJtfIc/Senior-Eng...

To note also that I feel that people are moving away from Remote, maybe its time to gear up those people friendly skills?
URL is broken, has an additional "." at the end of the URL. Removing it loads the PDF for anyone who wants to see.
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AFAIK (and it would be interesting to hear of counter examples) that's never been done for a mainstream language before (of course, Rust is far from mainstream -- yet -- but if it never becomes mainstream than it can do whatever it wants, including break backwards compatibility).
How helpful of the author to begin with the word "Iverson", showing an astonishing level of respect for other people's time.
To give you a kick start; things I would consider for Yipgo 2.0:

* Lots of people understandably don't trust an unknown company/person with their potentially secret TODO lists - add dropbox/drive support from the offset. Also means emacs/vim users can hack the files directly.

* "Normal" people like the agenda and wish they could interact with the items from it - defeats the point, but after yipgo was on lifehacker, I picked up a new type of non-technical user who now make up the majority of my users.

* Make sure it's mobile friendly (turns out the editor I chose doesn't work properly on Android, or at all on IOS).

* Possibly a Yipgo 3.0 thing, but people editing at the same time, ala docs, would be great (something I've wanted).

Actually, if you want to get in touch to see if we can combine forces drop me a mail, phil at apiaxle.com. I'd quite like to monetize the service if possible.
Who the fuck cares if you burn rate is "normal." The only question that matters is is it higher than it could be? Where can you cut costs and get away with it? If your startup is perfectly on the median, that means half the startups out there are doing better than you. 9 out of 10 startups fail. Are you sure you want to be in the 50th percentile?
I guess XUL is the stumbling block for me there. And of course, the browser itself can be modified, for which yay! but really I'm looking for a small set of primitives exposed in a high-level language that can be combined to create web browsers specific to certain tasks; perhaps something like this could be retrofitted onto Firefox, in the way that Emacs was an macro-extension of an existing editor.
It is not deeper cooling in the global average temperature but periods of intense cold during the winter.
There is debate in the scientific community with some arguing that melting sea ice causes an increase in frequency of polar vortex events while others think these events are controlled by pacific ssts.
It is the subtext that is anti-Hindu here (i.e. you have to read between the lines). Doniger seems to be forwarding the narrative that Hindus are violent Others, driven by their holy text. This is similar to the established(?) narrative that Muslims are terrorists, being motivated by the Quran, never mind that it is not true. You may say that it is only my interpretation here, but this sort of narrative-building is all too common - in the past, the word "savages" would have been used.

Words are the tools of Doniger's trade. It is extremely unlikely that her choice of words is inadvertent.
Yes, that’s awesome. They’ve always been doing that. I love that too.
Any chance that you can write a little bit more about this? I've dug my old Emacs config files some time ago and now when evil-mode gives such an awesome alternative to Vim (at least at my skill level), I'm using Emacs for most of my daily text editing.

I've used org-mode previously and even though I didn't had a chance to dig into it, I've seen a lot of potential there.
Erlang has micro-heaps, each process has its own heap so GC pause times are minuscule. Having too much address space is a liability, so limiting the reach of piece of code has GC advantages. I think as memory limits increase we will move to something like tagged heaps, a melding of GC, memory regions and static allocation. One can already get this by running multiple emscripten compiled programs in a JS engine, esp if one pushes tasks into web workers.

You don't necessarily have to serialize data between services if one uses something like capnproto or flat buffers.

Why have one heap?
Cutting a cost simply to cut cost is myopic. A better way to look at it is to shop for value where you can get the biggest returns. Being anal about every little minutia, as the CEO at least, is a massive waste of time.
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The only question I have is, how much work is it to create a C based ruby without a global interpreter lock.
I really dislike how a lot of multi-page navigation (i.e. getting results 51-100) is now commonly done with AJAX. It's not really faster than loading a new page, but it breaks the back button. "Oh you clicked on the 287th link and hit back? Here are results 1-50." So annoying.
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VCs are your customer. You are trying to sell them your stock. Do retailers make their customers do all the work? Or do they serve up buying opportunities on a silver platter?

If you don't put effort into selling, don't act surprised when you don't sell.
Even if that works, it may be subject to all the usual problems, such as filter clog. This is a big problem with hydrogen fuel cells, which require extremely pure hydrogen. It's a general problem with materials whose carefully constructed surface structure has some unusual property. The surface structure may be fragile.

A good example is NeverWet, the ultrahydrophobic coating. It repels water because the surface is composed of tiny spikes, and water's surface tension keeps the water supported on the surface of the spikes. This works so well that mud will run off of shoes treated with it. The effect, though, doesn't last long; even slight wear on the surface damages the micro-spikes. Reviews of the product on Amazon agree: great at first, useless within hours to days of use: (http://www.amazon.com/Oleum-274232-Never-Multi-Purpose/produ...).
I wonder how many experimental deployments we're missing out on due to the pay-to-play mandatory SSL CA regime.
The grandparent is responding to the article, which is talking about general purpose computation. There's no question that your application is a prime use case for an FPGA.
S/he should get the right people and pay them what they're worth. Trying to under-pay people results in sub-par people or good people leaving. 80% of nothing is a lot less valuable than 60% of something successful. Great people are absolutely vital at an early stage.

I'm not making things up here, either. Every successful entrepreneur I know agrees with that sentiment, as does the prevailing philosophy of investors[1][2], thought leaders[3], and serial entrepreneurs[4].

I have never once seen anyone successful say to hoard your equity, especially if you're bootstrapped and cash-flow positive. Greed is a great way to kill morale.

1. http://hunterwalk.com/2014/11/26/one-founder-told-me-he-want...

2. http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-retention

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8109

4. http://jamesaltucher.quora.com/The-Ultimate-Cheat-Sheet-For-...
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Not allowing custom images, not allowing certain formats, not allowing the use of a URL (which Glance then d/l and manages), not allowing uploading and simply not configuring the endpoints to be advertised AT ALL.
Why does that make you angry? Sometimes, reimplementing how loading works can make your website more performant, for example. If JavaScript gives developers the power to make their websites better, why shouldn't they take advantage of that power?
I use w3m from Emacs all the time. It is not my primary browser, but I do like it for reading documentation while hacking. It is ridiculously fast and uses very little memory when compared to Firefox.

It is very convenient for copying snippets of code and pasting them in whatever file you are editing (or a REPL), too.

The same, to a lesser degree, goes for Dillo. It is amazing how Dillo can have dozens of tabs open and never use more thant 50-100 MB of RAM... :)
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This is my opinion as well. I know C is the only option right now. I'm amazed that we still find ourselves in that situation in 2014.
> Ten Angstroms is equivalent to a billionth of a metre.

I love completely misleading explanations for the laymen. And I bet they'd get a much more impressive figure if they comapared the ten Angstrons with a light year.

The important detail here is that ten Angstrons is several times bigger than sodium and chloride ions. The researchers want a filter that allows for desalination, but all they got is one that allows for purification.
The example is well chosen because the Common Lisp Hyperspec is actually nicer to view in a text browser than in a graphical one ;)
Sure. Thank you for asking. No, it was directly addressing speculative conversation.

I'm aware this might be a contentious statement, but frankly I'm tired of the same old conversations about the value of Bitcoin compared to traditional fiat. I much more appreciate conversations about the value of the technology behind the blockchain, and the challenges we can surmount wielding it.

Conversations that incite conflict, including (perhaps) your original comment, make me bored and sad when I think about how people approach and understand crypto currencies. As the 'technical luminaries' for the the less technical in the world, I think we owe it to ourselves to not incite FUD here in this forum and then carry it out with us into the world.

It's the holidays as well, so it's a time when families gather and tell stories. If we are having a good time bashing on Bitcoin value or relating it to some two bit drug market that the FBI knocked down, we aren't educating on it's value. You are just catering to the fear that is always present with new technologies.

Anyway, you are allowed your own thoughts regarding the matter. I apologize if I came off overly aggressive about it. It's important to me!
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You hippies are worst , seriously. If you were homeless why did you not contact any other your relatives .

Then you keep girlfriend on top of that ? No home but want can't live without fad of gf ?
It mentions Rubinius briefly (it doesn't have a GIL).

Slightly of topic, but can anyone with better knowledge then myself of ruby implementations and internals explain why it hasn't caught much of a following (what it seems anyway, I may be wrong here).

To me it seems like a pretty good idea to implement Ruby mostly in Ruby, since it makes it easier to get contributions (especially to less performance-sensitive parts of the language, e.g. parts of the standard lib).
If they haven't benchmarked their site on my computer, they don't know whether it's making their websites more performant. But years of experience with JS disabled by default (and only enabled when necessary) makes it very clear to me that using JS, at least on my system, is almost never a way to make any site more performant. On the contrary, it increases load times, cpu usage, and memory usage. It might also force me to use bloated crappy browsers like Firefox or Chrome where I could otherwise use something like w3m or links, which will display the page in a fraction of the RAM, much faster.

I wouldn't be disabling JS if it weren't such a pain in the ass. Or maybe I still would, just for security.
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I use Windows 7 at work, and I have to admit it has kind of grown on me. For once, Microsoft got a couple of things right. Aero Snap is great, and the search field in the start menu is very useful, too.

But otherwise, I agree, they had a good thing going, and then they went and ruined it. I am not opposed to change, but if it is change just for the sake of change, I do not see the point.
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Org-mode can be used without being an emacs geek though. The wife of the friend of mine who first showed me emacs and org uses it as a self-management / note-keeping application, and whilst she might be at least slightly geeky, she's not really a tech person.

Once I found out how much you can really do with it, I went on a prosetylizing spree and got a couple of friends as well as my little brother into it. Whilst they're somewhat tech inclined, they're by no means emacs geeks, but they got into it after me showcasing and explaining at least some of the features.

Personally, i think that the only thing that's really essential in getting people into it is a tutorial level to it, similar to interactive tutorials for programming languages (I recall a marvelous ruby one from a year or two back, but I'm unable to find it). Org-mode already scales beautifully regarding complexity, and i think the main thing that turns people away from it is that the manual is a literal textbook and only silly people study it back to back. Or that they're using vim and don't want to switch to emacs, but that's not likely the group of people you're targeting.