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I'm hoping 2.0 (which will include the MongoDB query syntax) will bring CouchDB back from the dead. It's a great system.
I wonder if you and hengheng are on opposite sides of the country? My favorite physicist I've worked with had a fascinating viewpoint on how his life changed when the wall fell.
I hear that more often :) It was actually set at a reasonably fast clip in that bit of audio ...like you'd use for a novel. For speedreading I tend to go a bit faster
I agree with you on so many very painful levels. :/
Yeah, I actually know of at least one doctor who was on heroin (while practicing). Started with an opiate (painkiller) addiction and then led to heroin. Actually, it's pretty common for people who've been prescribed painkillers to start using heroin once they can no longer get their painkiller prescriptions filled/represcribed.
Anyone has an exemple on how to use the $scope properly ...? He only shows the wrong way of using it, but has no code for the right way.
Pretty amazing seeing stuff I did back in 1995!
http://artpacks.org/1995/fire1095.zip/SL-TST.ANS

I wasn't good, but those were surely some fun days.
I think one has a strong implied consent argument if the other party keeps talking after recording has been announced.
Look to Adium for a counter-example
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The central problem with Angular is what is says about the software industry in general - that a framework so fundamentally and ridiculously flawed could invite such wide appeal suggests that many people have absolutely no idea what they are doing.

I have yet to see an Angular project that doesn't qualify as tiny. For that purpose -- banging out some internal CRUDish app -- if it allows people to create working success, then it's a success. Instead people are busy arguing over the semantics of over-engineering a couple of text boxes, and that really is what leaves me boggling. Though of course, as is the nature of these things, there are over-dramatizing camps, and one month Angular is the greatest thing ever on HN, the next it's the demonstration of all that is wrong in the world. The reality, as always, is somewhere in between.

It wasn't that many years ago when people didn't even understand basic concepts like closures in JavaScript, or the power they bring. Now people are viciously arguing about the edges. It's all very surreal.

There is simply no way that you can say that you know Javascript and at the same time support Angular.

One of the most common features pushed by just about every framework (just saw it about React yesterday) is desperately, and leakily, trying to abstract Javascript into some sort of classic OOP language. Some of the most popular tools allow you to write in various compiled-to-JavaScript languages (TypeScript, CoffeeScript, GWT, etc). It's all very strange. But again, if JavaScript is treated just as a runtime, and if it works for a team, there is some measure of success.
And the carrier company will charge a fee for "handling the paperwork" or whatever the hell it is they do.
A large codebase is a pain if its not organized properly ...I like MVC a lot for that reason :) if people adhere to the conventions, its easy to find what's what
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No they didn't. If you read the document, at the bottom of the page is a footnote that talks about the request. it says until the commissioners decide, the enforcement bureau will continue to act in this manner.

So its up to the Comi$$ioner$ to decide. And as we've seen, in lots of cases money talks at the FCC.
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Isn't this just criticism of frameworks? If I want to do something a framework doesn't support I'm going to be in "a world of pain" but that's the cost of using a framework.
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This is a problem because you can get sued by one of the worst parent trolls out there, the guys that defeated newegg. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121109/02321120982/meet-...
Interesting, the title tells something about bad habits but as soon as I try to visit it I just get a "loading" message that never seems to complete. If something is a bad habit, that's how it looks like.
Ah, so it's not new regulation - but clarification on existing?
Does the "Support for real world document and page size units, e.g. millimeters" mean any mm dimensions are also stored in the file as mm?

For all the SVG-base CNC apps this would be great news.
Right now, there are a lot of billable hours for what Ross can do in seconds. I don't think it's unfair to say that this is replacing a substantial portion of _some_ lawyer's jobs.
The Register article goes on for a while about the "weakening" of copyright law that allowed this to happen, but never actually says what legal change occurred that makes this possible. Anyone know?
"However, Keating appears to have kept verbatim notes – strongly indicating that a tape was running"

Is the act of recording illegal, or just sharing the recording?
Audibly browsing through lines of code is something I do all the time, yep :) Also checking it using braille helps, its a bit more ...hmm ...direct in some ways. As for calling out functions and such, a lot of IDE's can already do that. Have a look at the outline view in Eclipse, as well as the annotations you can skip between using hotkeys which is useful for finding errors in your code
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Your (b) there means that people can upload all the licensed songs they want and no money goes to the artist and the artist has no choice in this except to agree to (a). (A) is a binding 5 year contract that forces her to release music on youtube as soon as it is done and cannot sign any other exclusive release deals on any music. Both choices remove all "choice" from the artist in regards to their own work. Imagine if github did the same to you with any code on their site, every programmer would leave for a new site the same day.
Again, we're looking for working technologies - not articles, movies or books.Its much easier to bullshit your way through a book than a working software - and comparing that to the state of the art and other commercial offerings.
> I'm not sure that is legal.

I'm pretty sure it is, considering the number of companies who have a "This call may be recorded" warning as part of the phone tree.
How much should you charge for design?
Movie theatres don't ban outside food and drink, so much as banning anyone trying to bring in outside food and drink. It's private property, and they have the right to do that. Is it moral? Maybe, maybe not.

But airwaves leave the property. I live beside a hotel, pretty closely. They certainly don't have a right to interfere with my wifi usage.

As for why specific regulations to target hotels and convention centers: because they're the ones who are violating the laws, claiming they aren't. The FCC could go around and try to enforce a law that is being debated, or they could lay down a new one that explicitly says "Hotels and convention centers can't screw with wifi".
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I'm looking for some writers to help me create an intro to javascript blog, they have to be technically literate but also very clear in writing. I have tried ODesk and reddit/r/forhire and am curious if there any ghost writer forums or things like that.
Wiki indicates it's the act itself, even if unshared.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#United...
I agree, and this article does not really help. I feel that part of calling yourself a senior developer is teaching junior developers how to write great software.
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I think so. Mariott made a request last year asking for permission to block "rogue" access points from inside their hotels. This is the response.
Might be a false positive on my part - between this and my phone, the thing is wildly inconsistent. Not sure this website is a great advert for the whole "everything should be a SPA otherwise you're a dinosaur" point of view...
An example of this is Travis CI. Most of their platform is open-source, still they are pretty successful with their companys SaaS and Hosted solutions.
I like this. The vulnerability lies with the verifying site, so it would need to be crazy secure. Know any seasoned web developers with some crypto knowledge?
> trying to abstract Javascript into some sort of classic OOP language

Which is wrong. And, I think, stems from the way CS is taught. Everyone starts with Java and learns that programming is all about knowing that a dog and a cat are just subclasses of the 4-legged-creature class, which is itself inherited from the mammal class. Wait no, that's not right now is it?

But it's how people learn.

JavaScript is a beautiful glorious language when you realise it's a weird hybrid between functional and OOP and is messy enough to let you do just about anything. It reminds me a lot of what I hear about Scala ...
now, nothing. In future, possibly raise some sort of (EM) shield? Of course nothing to for us/our kids, but I am sure within few millenia this would be perfectly feasible (at least my imagination wishing so :)
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We could launch 10,000 time capsules into space on trajectories that bring one of them back to Earth every 50,000 years or so. They would have to be designed in a way that makes re-entry spectacularly visible so they would be noticed and it would be possible to track them down. Not perfect, but at least there is some chance that one would arrive while an intelligent species is thriving.
It's hard to believe that articles in this newspaper are not generated by a markov chain or some other machinery.

Just look at the titles of articles published by this author: http://www.theregister.co.uk/Author/2578

What the hell does this means?

"MI5 boss: We NEED to break securo-tech, get 'assistance' from data-slurp firms"
Wow. That's the ugliest and most distracting responsive design I have ever seen.
We should probably ask Euathlus.
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Is it available for Chrome?
Looks beautiful. Which services are you pulling your data from?
It is a criticism of big monolyth frameworks.

We have had shit like this circa 2005 - when jQuery started hitting the mainstream.

And monolyths had to cede their ground to small specialized frameworks that would be built for fast deprecation and mixing with other stuff. Sort of the UNIX way.

Angular is causing just as much damage as GWT, ASP and others did in their day. IMHO.
Problem: the lack of:

(c) monetize some, but not all, content.

Not everyone wants to be all-in or all-out. Maybe she wants her best work monetized, but has additional content she wants available for free. Ad-stamped content can be really annoying and turn people off from watching/listening when there isn't sufficient desire for the content to put up with it. Free content, unladen of ads, can help draw in followers who become willing to pay. Kinda like throwing a low-cost concert for free in hopes people who otherwise wouldn't come will, facing low/no friction, come and enjoy the free content enough to buy CDs and pay for a more sophisticated concert.

Plenty of times I've stumbled across an unknown musician playing for free, I've stopped & listened for a while when I'd have not paid to, and then bought the CD. Google wants to slather ads on the "free" performance just so the performer can offer a paid CD.

Google is demanding all-in or all-out on mixed-demand content...and is demanding adherence to those terms & decisions for 5 years, which can be a very long time for a performer.
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At least it ends on a hopeful note:

"We all took the vaccine after that. I had one shot, and I still took the other one and we had all our kids vaccinated, too. After people saw how sick people got, they changed their minds."
3. Google refused to stop advertising illegal pharmaceuticals after repeated warnings from the FDA and then eventually received one of the heaviest fines ever handed down by the US government (half a billion USD)[1].

[1] http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/google-forfeits-500-million-ge...
Does not really matter, since majority of solutions will work on all flavors. I can speculate that most of tutorials will by on Ubuntu.

But you can look here for basically on-liner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7586775
Also there is "full" solutions https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...
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>Many would not even see the problem here, and just as children don't know cars can hurt, juniors don't know just how destructive this anti-pattern can be to performance, separation of concerns and long term code base maintenance.

Yup, I don't get it. I guess not only am I eternally doomed to be a junior dev but also am being compared to a child, a monkey typing at a typewriter, but also someone who doesn't know JS at all. Feels good man.

Other than some horribly obtuse undefined checking, there's no explanation of what the problem is. The argument seems to be that the controller depends on $scope. I... I thought that was the point. From the first line of documentation on controllers:

>In Angular, a Controller is a JavaScript constructor function that is used to augment the Angular Scope.

If the idea is that this is a bad habit to bring elsewhere, fine. Some more explanation would be nice, but whatever. But the implication is that this is a trap within the context of Angular dev itself.
Writer of the article here. If you've got any input/experience/questions/etc. on how discounts affect sales, let me know! The post is intended to be a living guide, so I'll updated it as I come across more useful information.
But the same can be said about C / C++ with undefined and quirky behaviour. Even when the desire to replace them is there, it's near possible given the present situation.
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That download link seems to be broken, can anyone upload that cast somewhere?
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1: You shouldn't be using bootstrap, even though you can with angular.

2: What do you need to do in the front end that can't be accomplished the 'angular way'? I'm not sure you understand what monolithic really means. The beauty part of angular is that you can use it as little or as much as you'd like in your web applications.

3: Angular 2 is going to be preeeetty much only ecma6. Also, understanding angular means you understand AMD, digest cycles, etc... totally applicable to other frameworks.

4: What are you even talking about?
Avant-garde is a perfect description of Guix. It is an experimental OS that pushes the boundaries of the status quo.

What negative connotations do you think this has among hackers?
The article reads like a pro-copyright/pro-SOPA hit piece, I would take it with a grain of salt.

I don't see anything too evil here, just reasonable business decision forced to them by the ridiculous copyright framework.

Google came with a simple solution: their way or the highway. Sounds harsh but anything else would require massive man-hours of development and lawyer-vetting. They rather pull your stuff rather than risking the money with very little chance of recouping the investment.

Zoe Keating, on the other side, disagrees and wants google to actually expend tons of money developing her "special case" into the system...

Edit: removed redundant sentence
it breaks my heart to see so many "adults" making "informed decisions" about NOT vaccinating their children. They should really go live in undeveloped countries where vaccines are scarce and unavailable to experience first hand what lack of vaccinations actually means, what the implications are for the general population.

I grew up, fortunately with out any problems, seeing so many kids suffering from polio, handicapped for life, limping, wondering why they got this disease thats so easily controlled; saw many kids die from cholera, typhiod, TB, bed ridden for months with measles, viral fevers .... and here we are in the most advanced country in the world with access (ok ... I know healthcare in the US is not easy access to everyone) to vaccinations and parents CHOOSE to not vaccinate their kids .... and risk so many lives.

sad does not begin to explain what I feel.
Just for web browsing or even a lightweight VPN-like experience I'd go with an SSH tunnel and the socks5 built into openssh. Much more flexible. Actually in countries (PRC et al) that do DPI it could be the only thing that reliably works.
Why should the final price tag remain the same? Free market economics says that if we introduce efficiencies, the price comes down, and/or fewer people produce the same output. In general (exception is music, as far as I can tell) that's the case. Other labor markets have suffered horrible, drastic shake-outs, why not Law?
That simply explains the truth behind the words. Re-type-ing basic types into other names gives us the ability to share intent without commentary. A function returning 'bool' is intended to be treated as having two valid return values. A function returning int might be intended to return any of the large rage of values that int can support.
An extremely simple reactive programming library using Knockout Observables
Cern Courrier are a threat to eyes.
You can use bootstrap with it, at least the HTML/CSS part. But for the JS part, you don't really need most of those tools most of the time. I worked with a few different companies doing SaaS, and we have always rolled a custom solution because of the designs. We never needed anything from bootstrap.

To address your comment about knowledge not carrying over to the next framework down the line, what framework isn't like this? You always spend time learning the nuances of a framework that are never transferable.
If Youtube wants to make people choose between two options, that is Youtube's choice. That doesn't mean those two options are the only possible ones though. They could have gone with a new contract that was much like what they have today, with slightly modified terms. Instead they are throwing their weight around to force musicians into unfavorable terms. That's what the scandal is.
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Really it's bizarre because the service they're offering on its own is quite valuable, so they'll get user adoption eventually I imagine - maybe not 100% but that's greedy or unreasonable at minimum. Far more damage is done with an aggressive/controlling stance, future long-term revenues and negative mindshare.
can this finally be the app that let me surf trailers, click like and send me push notification when the movie is out ??

(or available on itunes or netflix)
Pretty interesting. Good work!
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A movie theater is private property. The radio spectrum is a public resource, even if it does radiate through private property.

This link is about a Consent Decree, where is the talk of additional regulation?
I think it's generally because the balance point isn't a stable equillibrium. There's no force that encourages balance - it would have to be serendipitous. That's unlike the extremes, where a thriving interstellar civilization likely leads to mass colonization or that life is hard and typically goes extinct before then.

The time scales in these sorts of estimates are enormous, often tens or hundreds of times the span we needed to rise up. So if we even have an inkling to be expansionary (and we do), and aliens are like us in wanting to thrive comfortably (with enough space per unit being), then it's likely they too would have at least a mild drive to expand. Over mnay millions of years, even a very mild push out would fill a galaxy.
BTW, she says she took notes with shorthand, so recording laws don't apply.
The Register originally aimed to parody the style of headline writing in British tabloids.

And the irony has slipped into being just a house style now - one which is rather uneven in quality and appropriateness.
"Blindly overusing most features in frameworks or libraries can cause performance problems. Which memory leaks?"

Binding to event emitted by an object on another object, then deleting the receiver, can cause a memory leak if you don't unbind first.
Have you built any production apps with Angular?
Mostly TMDB but we also pull showtime data from another source. We're looking at augmenting our ratings data from other providers eg Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB
Trying to pin the blame on the Amish doesn't seem right. Sure they weren't vaccinated but they are also less educated and have much, much less access to information on health than us. The 'informed' members of society who choose not to vaccinate are the real problem, otherwise the disease would have been contained to a small community of people. These informed individuals have no excuse. Take the latest outbreak for example [0] in Disney land.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31034379

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I think there are multiple types of GRBs and some can be spherical. Two that I have read about are neutron stars colliding and large solar mass > 100 exploding and leaving no remnant. I've read that these types of bursts can blow the atmosphere off of a planet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypernova
It's a theregister article. They are deceptive and dishonest and haven't been able to produce quality journalistic pieces in about 6 years.

I don't even bother reading them anymore.
Sounds exciting. When is the source going to be released? Also, how much of the app logic can be implemented in cross-platform JS versus native code?
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I will believe Angular 2.0 cures cancer when I see it[1]. Ok?

Regarding your other statements - you are saying the same things I am. I can do everything I could do otherwise, just at the expense of a lot of overhead I would not have if I didn't use Angular in the first place.

[1]: When it materializes.

Edit:
> understanding angular means you understand AMD
This is a load of bullcrap. __Nobody__ understands AMD, it is a cargo cult. Just like the SOAP was. And yes I think Angular (in its present form) is a cargo cult. That's what I meant with the SOAP thing.

For the record I use RequireJS on pretty much every project nowadays, but not because I like it - merely because my clients want to use it.
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You can surf trailers right now - there's a whole trailers section. Notifications are coming in the next version - with the use cases you mentioned (when the movie is out in theaters or available on itunes etc)
agreed, some explanation on what's actually wrong here would be nice
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> 1: You shouldn't be using bootstrap, even though you can with angular.

Why in the world would you say that
seriously, the website design sucks.
In other news "How junior developer was able to quickly ship their first SPA using Angular, satisfy client requirements and get paid."
I am happy to see more high-quality native mail apps on iOS.. Competition is good.
Several years back I worked with a team that had a blind developer. The team was transitioning to Java. The blind developer told me in a meeting that she was having trouble doing something in Eclipse. I told her that I would go with her to her desk to help diagnose the problem. Watching a blind person use Eclipse with a screen reader was simultaneously awe-inspiring (the screen reader part) and horrifying (the Eclipse part). Needless to say, Eclipse was not well suited for the blind.
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