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"It's pretty ironic watching all the anti-government comments on this site while most people here are ignorant about where Silicon Valley came from."

The fact that one of the biggest investment of resources of all time created silicon valley, or the nuclear bomb, does not mean that if a similar amount of resources have been spent privately a bigger advance could be made.

In fact, the fact that the nuclear research was directed to the creation of a bomb, and not towards energy creation, is a huge problem today, when alternative fuel research that did not created plutonium were severed.

The creation of Silicon Valley has more to do with the emergency of the situation that with being public or private.

In peace it is very difficult both for public or private institutions to agree on a single place to centralize everything.

Only China have done it, in Shenzhen, because it is a dictatorship, but when Germany wants to do it in Berlin, France wants to do it in Paris, and UK in London. They could not agree on a single place to centralize everything for all Europe. The same happens in South America with Chile, Brasil, Argentina, Ecuador, they all going on their own makes them weak.
Cynic in me would say that if we jailed all top-tier politicians, we'd have less than 5% false positives. I honestly don't believe that in an established democracy (as opposed to freshly formed) you can get to the level of a minister or above without doing something illegal or immoral. The dynamics of the system clearly shows that.
It's not like we are using a dial-up modem anymore. We have plenty of bandwidth.
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Smart and useful! And if there are issues with the GIF format, surely others could easily be added. Nice work.
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This sounds like a hit piece to me. Too much generalizations that seem to be thinly disguised pre-props for proganda.

We all know that the Danish has one of the best social welfare systems in the world and it is a system created by a government that has one of the highest rates of voter participation in the world. So seems to me that they like what they have. However, some self interested big wigs might have a different idea.

The idea that there is no creativity or inventiveness seems dishonest to me. For one, we are talking about a region that is a small fraction of the population of other nations. It is statistically correct that they are not the "most" innovative region in the world. Yet in fact, they are one of the leaders in software innovation and other tech industry movements. Seems to me they they are statistically ahead of the curve.

Also, all the Danish I've ever met (well the few that I have) are awesome people in general. I'd say that I've had probably the best conversations and times with my Danish friends and the same goes true with many other people from that region. So the rings to me that they are not just happy because of the "welfare state", but because they, unlike the author's narrow reporting, do have a thriving culture.

With that being said, I don't trust the intentions of this article. But that's just my opinion, I guess.
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It doesn't even have to be about good or bad marketing, but just how something is marketed and/or commonly used. Take, for example, celery. You're probably used to seeing it like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Céleri.jp... right? Well around here they're sold like this: http://www.varbak.com/galeri/kereviz-b3194.jpg . The flavor of the root is far more intense as well, and makes for a really great soup or stew.
Perl 6 is a spec, and different implementations are possible and encouraged. Rakudo is an implementation, and targets a few different VMs, including Parrot, MoarVM and the JVM. A lot of effort is being put into making MoarVM a good VM for the intermediate language that Rakudo uses to implement Perl 6, but AFAIK the JVM is kept up to date as well, and Parrot is also where time and expertise exist.
It is a new wiki, it was created 3 months ago.
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Gifs like this can be pretty slow and gigantic, even with lots of bandwidth, since there's no compression. Other video formats just perform a lot better.

Also, think about viewing this on mobile networks, etc.
That iPhone allows us to see the video only is a good feature actually.
I have a fondness for Perl 5, as it was the first general-use programming language in which I became proficient. But let's not kid ourselves: Perl 6 is the Half Life 3 of programming languages.
The people most likely to be early adopters of such a platform would distrust a solution hosted by a 3rd party. Why? Because if you don't control the system, it can still be used to spy on you. Even a decentralized system with Wordpress-like companies that are federated are not immune.
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Have you been checking it out at all again, or are you considering it?

No. I have my doubts about yet another announcement and nothing I've seen since I stopped contributing suggests that the project will provide anything I need that I can't get better elsewhere.
Google is on C++11, or was when I left in 2014. They may be on C++14 now.
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did you read the actual piece? It's far from self-serving... it's basically a road map of how to hack social media and silicon valley to become really well known. It's working for a lot of folks and I'm giving the playbook away for free.... since it worked for me :-)
I'm interested in why you removed "stagnate and die" from that quote.

I have strong opinions that people in situations similar to mine had no intent of contributing to "stagnation" or "death". Quite the opposite.

When the process of change and renewal is shut down or nobody contributes to it, everyone starts wandering off and the project dies.

Certainly. I also think that a project which actively chases away contributors ought to account for that eventually.
The first libraries such as?

The libraries at Pergamum and Alexandria were, AFAIK, state run affairs basically sponsored by the rulers at the time. Scholars from far-and-wide were invited and given a wage and services so that they could focus on scholastics. The rulers donated the [cost of] books initially but also it seems taxed all ships entering Alexandria; books being retained and copies produced and returned to the original owners.

Alexandria was apparently public access, eg http://unllib.unl.edu/LPP/phillips.htm.

It seems pretty close to the modern conception of a public library to me - paid for by the state, directed towards scholarship, open to the public, run for non-fiscal profits.

A corporation to me says 'a closed group seeking it's own ends', whilst these state sponsored institutions were probably primarily for the purposes of the rulers I'm not sure equating that to corporations is helpful. As part of the Mouseion it seems the library at Alexandria was much closer to a public work than a private enterprise.

I'm not a historian, just someone who's read a few articles on this particular [first?] early library (there's some good AskHistorian threads on it).
... because I wrote it for folks that want to get ahead. Did you read the piece yet?
There could be a misunderstanding. The editor indents the code and keeps it indented properly whatever it happens, not the programmer. I don't have to worry about which indentation level is the right one for the code I'm writing and the bugs I'll create if I get it wrong. I press tab and emacs places it where it must go, if it's not already there, which is the case unless I'm doing copy and paste. At least this is my experience with languages that have block delimiters.
That query works better than just looking for hospitals.

At a glance the rest look okay, but I converted one of the results into a 24 hour clinic (which is a better semantic match for urgent care than hospital+emergency=yes).
Travel definitely, but also explore your hobbies. Always wanted to hike the pacific crest trail? Go do it. Always wanted to make handcrafted musical instruments? Go find an apprenticeship. Think taking a class on woodblock printing sounds interesting? Do it. As someone married with three kids and on the cusp of 40 who never took that moment to explore anything outside work, I'd strongly encourage you to go explore those hobbies and creative interests - you might find you don't want to come back to development.
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Wow. I wrote that article on LtU last night, after going over there to see what the language theorists were saying about Rust. (And after, for the third time in three weeks, having my Rust code fail to compile because the Rust crowd changed the language again, after the "alpha release" and its claims of stability: http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/12/12/1.0-Timeline.html) I wasn't expecting it to be picked up on Hacker News.

Rust is going to be very important. The ownership system is a major step forward in language design. It's a huge improvement over C/C++.

It's not easier to write than C++. Rust may feel clunky for people coming from Javascript, Python, Ruby, and PHP. Having to think about lifetime issues for mere strings is a new cognitive load. The big win with Rust is that most of the errors are caught at compile time. This is Rust's big advantage, but alien to scripting programmers. The Rust compiler report errors in three phases. First you get all the syntax errors, and until the syntax is perfect, that's all you get. Then you get all the type errors, and until the type issues are perfect, that's all you get. Then you get the ownership errors. Ownership is a global analysis; ownership problems involve at least two points in the program. The compiler produces good, but very wordy error messages. (Hint to Rust developers: put in a line length limit and word wrap for long compile time error messages.) If your ownership design is faulty, the result is likely to be "fighting with the borrow checker", because the problem isn't local, and just fixing the compiler-reported error will make the problem pop up elsewhere. The cleverness of the ownership system is impressive, but some programmers are going to feel like they're being hammered by it. Successful C++ programmers won't have a major problem with this. It may be tough on the Javascript crowd.

Rust requires some advance planning, which may be incompatible with "agile" development. It's also difficult to port code from other languages to Rust without rethinking the ownership and bounds logic. There is a port of Doom to Rust. It has a lot of unsafe code, because Doom's internal memory structures are not directly compatible with Rust's. Such problems will recur as big packages with delicate internals are ported over to Rust.

This is partly a documentation problem. The current tutorial (http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/hello-cargo.html) is relentlessly upbeat and glosses over too many of the hard problems. Once some third-party books have been written, that situation should improve.
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This page is proving that Maxwell's equations _predict_ that the speed of light is constant. This prediction is dependent on assuming that the vacuum permeability and permittivity are constant numbers. This is an axiom of classical electrodynamics, specifically that free space is homogeneous and isotropic [1]. Therefore, measuring the speed of light is a check on this axiom.

[1] homogeneity means that translating your experimental setup to a different location will not change the results of your experiment. Isotropy means that rotating your experimental setup will not change the results of your experiment.
Must be terrible

Oh wait http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-...
By the way, is there anything special about that STM32 programmer, or is it just a neat ST-LINK/V2 clone? Ever since the original ST firmware leaked, everyone seems to be building them.
> If you have money, use it to reduce your dependency on future money.

Spot on.

People talk about the rat race. Just like any race, the idea is to finish first, but that doesn't mean working your arse off until you pop your clogs, it means stopping running first, or at least that's how I see it.

The financial game is rigged. Consider, a bank wants to lend money to help you start a business, because it thinks you'll be successful. The benefits to itself if you're successful are twofold, you pay back the loan with interest, and the money you've used to pay off the interest has come out of the pocket of savers, so less interest to pay out to them too. A term you'll hear in the banking world is 'liquidity', which describes how easily money flows through the system. The goal isn't to make other people rich through savings, the goal is to get everyone spending, and make sure they get their cut. If their plan backfires and people stop spending and start saving, we have a deflationary recession, governments start implementing austerity measures, and all that's really happened is people being more careful with their money.

Then there's the whole game of infinite growth on a finite planet, but I imagine that's backwards enough for everyone to see.

There will be another economic revolution, within this century I'd imagine, Jah knows what it'll look like but we won't keep our current system forever.
If I'm writing a code base that will likely have a >5 year life

... then don't write it in a language with negligible documentation, negligible tooling, barely-there library support, nearly zero users, and a roadmap based on the promise that, after almost fifteen years of working on the "It'll be ready when it's ready!" principle, sufficient volunteer mindset will change to "Let's ship a production-ready release to meet a hard deadline!"
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the seed for random number in CL:
(make-random-state &optional state)
Has the mystery of Shakespeare’s Sonnets finally been solved?
Thanks, my intention in asking the question was to see if there is any willingness to speak about what will ship. I don't need a pedantic explanation of the runtimes, I want to know if a decision has been made to get behind one of them. I've been waiting 15 years to hear some actual details about what I can expect when I install this thing.
What supplanted the wiki – and why?
About 2001 wikis were all the rage; popular and pointing to a sharing-future.

Sure we've got big wiki sites (Wikipedia, Wikia) but they haven't gone mainstream in the way a blog or CMS has. Why?

Was it because companies found they can make more money from users when the information is shared differently (Facebook)?

For corporate websites, for whom collaborative editing was never needed (no thank you, I don't want the public altering my site) other systems might have made more sense -- but the wiki's flexibility and ease of expansion are useful features.

There have been newer developments, such as the federated wiki [0], but checking around again for a platform with collaborative editing, an audit trail and an approval process, I felt I was back in 2003. Nothing has changed. Why?

[0]: http://hapgood.us/2014/11/06/federated-education-new-directions-in-digital-collaboration/
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That's called celeriac in English. It's not common, but there should be a few bulbs in a British shop with a decent range of vegetables.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeriac
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kentonv, any chance of getting a nice extended (eg, support for more than just text; file formats like images etc as well) (or even just regular) pastebin app added to Sandstorm? Perhaps something like bepasty ( https://github.com/bepasty/bepasty-server ) or Hosty ( https://bitbucket.org/xrstf/hosty ).
Well, it's not that bad - the side-effect from learning Prolog is knowing a bit of Prolog, which is definitely much more useful than being hurt in the foot...

No, seriously: Erlang shares some features with Prolog and learning Prolog lets you learn those features in isolation, without unnecessary distractions (like, say, processes and sending messages, or gen_server/gen_fsm/supervisors or rebar, applications, releases...). For example "=" not being an assignment, and pattern matching in general, starts making a lot of sense. Looping via tail-recursion (only), single assignment variables, and even some of Erlang syntax stops seeming intimidating quickly.

I think the best metaphor for this would be learning to swim via jumping into a deep water, nearly drowning but learning the most important parts (like don't try to breathe underwater) and then going to shallow water to leisurely practice swimming there. It's certainly not for everyone, but for me it sped up the Erlang learning process by many weeks, if not months. (And also, I learned a bit of Prolog along the way.)
The difference between the vortex engine and the downdraft or solar tower is that you don't have to build a 1000 meter high tower. I'm not a believer in it but it's important to realise the difference.
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Oups, Resume link is wrong and I can't edit my comment anymore, here it is : https://careers.stackoverflow.com/marcofiset
lawyeard, you seem to be dead.
There's an unsupported assumption here: we don't know that raccoons and fox have the same crime rate. Without data, I'd say that the larger animals probably have a larger rate, so it shifts more in that direction.
I'm the developer of the MoarVM JIT (but not the developer of the MoarVM bytecode specialisation framework, which is typically seen as part of the JIT).

The weakness of Parrot VM was it's ambition - to be an efficient VM for all dynamic languages. This may have seemed possible in the past but recent work (i.e. v8, luajit2, etc) has invalidated that; it's much better (and much easier) to build a VM for a specific target than for all possible targets, as there are simply fewer points where you need abstraction. (For instance, NaN is false in javascript boolean context, but not in Perl6). More importantly, MoarVM has been designed and developed by a small set of developers applying all the lessons learned from parrot, while parrot was in many ways an experiment by committee.
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I can sympathise with the Patriot Missile floating point issue. A bug like that would be next to impossible to track down and address, especially when dealing with specialised embedded hardware.

The Ariane 5 issue however is pants-on-head retarded. Converting a 64-bit floating point number to a 16-bit int is something a first year computer science student would be embarrassed about.