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That's because Swift, Ceylon, Pyret, Rust, Nimrod make (relatively) small changes in syntax and semantics compared to Python, Java, C and friends - this is the Algol family of languages if you are old enough (and the "C" family if not).

Can you read Prolog (assuming you're not fluent in it already)? It is a little farther along from Algol - it is generally verbose, but control flow is implicit (by failure, and negation IS failure), except where you make it explicit by saying '!' (read: "cut"), which means "never backtrack through this point". And there's no assignment, but unification plays a similar part - except it is much weirder (to the uninitiated).

K is of the APL / J mold, which is much farther away from Algol and Prolog. It's mostly functional. It takes orthogonality beyond where Haskell does. Examples that might make you look again:

"flatten" (convert recursively nested list/tree to one-level list with the same order as a DFS scan) is written ",//"

"decode run length decoding" is written ",/#/'" (courtesy of https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/examples/run...

Now, these 3-char and 5-char examples are not predefined in any way; They emerge from composing the semantics of the individual characters that make them. Let that sink. Are you aware of any other language in which a straight concatenation of 3 primitives generates a "flatten" function? 5 primitives generates a "run length decoding" function? Something about K/APL/J is distinctly different. And if you believe that it looks different becuase it's "the way it's meant to be", you're missing out on a lot.
It does get a mention:

> Good exits happen when you’re “killing it,” your company hasn’t killed you yet, and another company comes along to buy yours. (See possibly, acqui-hire.) Bad exits are another way of saying you failed to disrupt much of anything besides your VC’s portfolio performance.
Using this train of thought, you probably don't even have a lock in your door - burglary is illegal!
Ask HN: Paypal alternatives for vendors outside the US?
As a digital vendor who lives outside the US, I don't want to be at the mercy of PayPal's psychotic mood swings. What alternatives are out there to process payments and accept payouts from gumroad, paddle, Leanpub etc?
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I went back and read both the LA Times article and the Wiki entry and, you're right, it is a fabulous story. The two articles are complementary, LA Times has the human interest story, Wiki has the dry facts.

Anyone who is interested in this topic shouldn't be deterred by this squabble over titles.

BTW to answer the title, the tree was cut down 50 years ago because a grad student who was "studying the climate dynamics of the Little Ice Age" asked to have it cut down. Because in retrospect this act became very controversial, the exact reason(s) might have been retconned. One general reason was to study the core rings.
This is not real life, this is a workflow, one of many. It happens to mirror mine though and, perhaps surprisingly, I can easily achieve the same workflow with centralized VCS by using branches. It would be a major pain in CVS but works just fine for me (and others) in Perforce. So it can be done.

What's interesting is what "it" means" and that you're proving one of the points author is making: your workflow doesn't rely on the fact that your VCS is decentralized. It relies on the fact that branching/forking is easy. Painful branching is quite often a matter of legacy since CVS and SVN were architected in different times when our needs were mostly different and technology was very different.
At the same time you're not grabbing a local copy of The Internetz to search them and your searches are sufficiently fast. This is not a problem of centralized (from the point of view of the user of course) VCS but quality of a particular implementation.
"What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."

- Andy Warhol
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Composability.
In Dutch (and German too), you can take 2 nouns and glue them together to form a new noun (the order determines the semantics). It's very powerful and allows you to create new words "at runtime", at the very moment you need them. As a side effect, the number of nouns in Dutch is infinite, and you can quite easily build infinite words; for example it's easy to suffix "plan" or "fabriek" or "verkopersassistente".

This feature does not fit google which seems to support only languages with finite dictionaries (I wonder how well google search performs for Finish or Hungarian)

(In case you were wondering; Yes, scrabble is really easy )
I don't see why it's funny. It's not that ISDS is good for America and bad for Europe, or good for Japan and bad for America; according to opponents, it's good for big business and bad for ordinary people.
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What I feel is lacking in rust tutorials is when it's ok to use unsafe code. It's very hard to get a feel for that.
This incident - amongst many others - only shows that most companies don't give a rat's ass about our data or privacy.

They are happy enough if their systems actually work and run. That's enough for them.

This incident won't cost Uber anything. It won't matter to them. A few appologies here and there and that will be the end of it.

Maybe, maybe there is some trivial fine to pay, but that will be a rounding error on their balance sheet.
It's stupid to see this as US companies vs. EU consumers and vice versa. It should be seen as gigantic companies against small companies and consumers. American or European makes little difference.

It's still an affront to democracy that commercial entities with enough political clout can sue whole countries because those countries dared to believe in their sovereignty.

I understand that it is a mechanism to reduce risk and therefore incentive wealth creation but when you have to make exceptions to democracy and sovereignty is when I say that your pursuit of wealth creation has become a bit too fanatical.
Unfortunately, they only make the frame harder to steal. Wheels will be stolen and they are more expensive to replace. To protect a bike from theft, one shold lock the wheels and the frame to some fixed anchor.

See for example whet bike guru Sheldon Brown has to say about locking bikes: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html
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In Massachusetts the driver's license number used to be your social security number. This was changes but are there other states that have not done so?
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Query: that movie where jim carrey plays dad to three black men

DeuSu: https://deusu.org/query?q=that+movie+where+jim+carrey+plays+...

Google: https://www.google.co.in/search?q=that+movie+where+jim+carre...

For me queries like these is why Google wins. NB: Duckduckgo and Bing seem to do fine on this query as well. Bing does better than Google[0] when you omit phrases like 'three' or half-spell phrases like 'carrey' as 'car'. Surprising since it has often been the case that Google is better at returning/ranking results for most of programming related queries I try on daily basis [1].

[0] Probably, because Google takes into account the fact that the user ignored the type-ahead suggestion (car -> carrey) for a reason and omits all 'jim carrey' related results from the list.

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AmIReallyADeveloperOrJustAGood...
You can get lightboxes to have at your desk to help counter this - my mother has one and finds it helpful, though I haven't used them myself.
And they don't do as much as send you a letter first?

Seems hard to believe.
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In Japan, they'll write C code with printf("Hello, world!¥n"); (This may be less common today.)
What are the reasons of NewRelic's exponential growth?
NewRelic is one of the finest software as a service companies today. They filed their IPO last year in November. I really want to know about how they accelerated growth and how they accessed a very difficult consumer base aka developers and won their hearts. Obviously, their product is awesome but there must be some key growth factors.
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What are you selling?

I'd say Stripe, but it depends what you're selling: https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses

If what you're selling in any way touches any of the things on that list, then you should get your own merchant account and handle it directly. It's messy, it's work you don't want to do, but the list of prohibited businesses put on you by your bank is much shorter than the list put on you by Stripe, PayPal, etc.
The valuation thing is silly, but there are many silly things around, so why just bother with that and not something else?

But the fact that a company with ~ 50 employees (not talking about AirBNB but generally about the IT sector) generates a revenue comparable to a company (in the 90s or 80s or 60s) with 500.000 employees is a very real problem. If the modern society doesn't make to overcome this somehow, I see dark times ahead.
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There are some good SPEC numbers on GCC and LLVM here:

https://vmakarov.fedorapeople.org/spec/

The latest runs are GCC 4.9 and LLVM 3.4:

https://vmakarov.fedorapeople.org/spec/2014/2014.html
I'm asking on behalf of completely legitimate businesses who provide typical digital products and services.
Zend now has a much larger, better-funded competitor with better engineers -- Facebook. I agree that it was a bad thing that Zend was trying to dominate the PHP community, but there's no longer a monopoly.
Poor use of the term MITM.
Is the device replacing certificates (public keys) used to authenticate the mail server to the client?
MITM'd typically refers to an active TLS attack where server authentication public keys are substituted allowing a MITM to terminate and reestablish a TLS session to a client.
This is just esmtp inspection.
Because I was not aware that there are exactly the same concerns in the USA. In Europe TTIP is - as far as I can tell - mostly seen as a one-way street, empowering US companies over EU countries. The article kind of suggests the same view for the USA and TPP, empowering foreign companies over the USA.

It would now be interesting to know whether these are just one-sided views ignoring the potential damages EU companies could do to the USA respectively US companies to the other TPP countries, or if these agreements would really turn out to be one-way streets, Vietnamese companies hurting the USA and US companies hurting Germany because there is a very real gradient with regard to the relevant standards.

So can somebody tell what the US view on TTIP is? Are there the same concerns getting hurt by companies from EU countries?
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While I understand the need to pile on the subject to be counted as one of the enlightened, this kind of stuff stopped being interesting a long while ago.
For European businesses Paymill might be an alternative. It works pretty much exactly the same as Stripe, just available in more/different countries.

http://www.paymill.com
Well, the main feedback mechanism that I can see being a major influence in the beginning chaos is that of albedo. In short, atmospheric warming causes more water vapour higher in the atmosphere, causing higher and denser clouds - which will reflect most light and energy and prevent it from reaching the surface. This in turn could cause snow and ice cover on the ground, due to lowered surface temperatures, which would feed further into a cooling system.

You'd expect to see this effect most prominently in continental rain shadow areas, particularly at altitude.

Frankly, the outcome is unknowable, there are too many variables, both known and unknown. The only element which does seem inevitable is that there will be major changes to human civilisation.

Oh - one thought I did have was blanketing the Arctic in artificial icebergs - just big white floating plastic platforms, millions of them.
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I think you're right for now but in future we could get used to those naming conventions. Think about the evolution of web urls in print:

http://www.company.com

www.company.com

company.com

company will be the next natural step. Maybe the step afert that will be naming the company after the domain name (some domains have hyphens in place of spaces in the name of the company now).

If it were not for the huge cost everybody could have its own gTLD. We could end up being surprised that a given company still has the .com suffix. "It's a small one, they don't have money", we'll think.
Stripe is kind of limited on what countries they support (as merchants).
I strongly disagree that developers are a difficult consumer base. They're actually one of the easiest, and I'm constantly on the lookout for something to sell to them.

Why? They're smart, inquisitive, and have money. In very few industries do you get all three of those things.

Most importantly, great developers are also lazy. Someone who pathologically tries to automate things hates doing tedious work, and profiling, reading logs, and setting up alert systems is tedious, mindless work.

In fact, when developers find something that seems like it could be tedious or repetitive, they'll generally Google a solution, rather than just doing it. That makes it much easier to market something to them.

New Relic simply identified a need for this nearly-perfect market, and they weren't "schlep blind"[1]. If you don't know why it's a schlep, try scaling a system like theirs. It's a nightmare.

Edit: If you don't believe devs are a great market, look at some of the other meteoric rises in recent years: Stripe and Slack. They did something that many other companies had already been doing, but they did it in a much more developer-friendly way.

1. http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
Oh, this really isn't going to work in Europe or Rest of World where iPhone just isn't dominant.

Shame, looks like a good idea. But no web site, and no Android = no use.
I really wish all of these similar ideas were to happen on Ruby and Rails.

Ruby need something similar to HHVM, progress on the RuJIT sponsored by Ruby Association looks like stalled. IronRuby ( or something similar ) on the new Microsoft CoreCLR will take years.

And Rails Core team, or DHH seems to be against the Rails API ideas.
Go see how Reddit did their registration. You don't even need an email.
I think social login is fine as long as you give people a bunch of options (twitter, gmail, fb etc) If you give one option at the beginning it should be non-exclusive
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Like many others have suggested see a doctor ASAP.

Based on what you've written, it would appear that you don't get much exercise and might be overweight and eating too many processed foods, carbs, etc.

I've been a similar situation and the diagnosis was pre-diabetes due to poor eating habits, lack of exercise ... and depression. Depression is a real disease - not just a mental state.

There's far more to life than technology. Take up a sport or some outdoor activity. Enjoy the fresh air and company of others.
I don't use services with a Facebook login. They know enough about me as it is. Regular local logins should be an alternative.
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I see no such option (Windows 7 x64) and indeed VLC does not resume playback. Probably not a high priority feature for them.
I've been hoping a "small Meetup" would be created one day. Congrats!

One thought: allow people in their profile to list a few interests, then when someone with those interests is nearby, it pings you with the suggestion to do something now or set something up with that person soon.
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Huon (dbaupp) has a nice overview: http://huonw.github.io/blog/2014/07/what-does-rusts-unsafe-m...
Cheers!

Good one ;-). Will discuss this with the team. Let us know if you find anything else: ismail@fourandme.com
Tariffs are already quite low and it wouldn't make much of a difference (between some companies, like the US and Europe). Regulations just have become the more important factor hampering trade and thus have to be a focus of trade agreements if you actually want to increase trade. In a few cases, countries do use regulation as tool for protectionism (the french do fun things to keep german trains out of France). In other cases, consumer preferences lead to different regulations, like Europeans hating GMO.

And then there's Phillip Morris suing Australia and Bolivia for trademark infringement, because they require shock images on cigarette cartons...
The opinions are not all that simple, I just focused on that because the article also focuses an it. But big US oil companies vs European tax payers compensating them because they are denied to use fracking techniques does obviously not require many words to explain and therefore opinions are certainly dominated by simple arguments.
Anybody care to reverse engineer the meaning of "Serial Hackerpreneur"?

https://angel.co/jawad-ansari
Half a year ago I watched Continuum - a sci-fi TV series, which feature a dystopian Earth ruled by so called Corporate Congress - corporations bought out governments and created their own. It was an interesting concept to watch, but I haven't really expected to see it forming in front of me, in the real world...
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> Could this be tapped as a resource ?

Methane is not a very useful resource, combustion results again in two greenhouse gases: Water and carbon dioxide.
I started writing the software a LONG time ago. As far as I know Solr/Elastic Search didn't exist back then.

Query logs are preserved, but they do NOT contain the IP-adress of the user. So all I know is that someone of the billions of Internet users searched for something embarrassing. :)
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And people are surprised there are so many silly movements appearing and gaining popularity, like anti-vaxxers, pro-organic or anti-GMO folks. They are all symptoms of the very same thing - that people in general got fed up with being lied to and constantly abused by corporations and governments, who are often in bed with them.
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So is a startup company that hasn't disrupted yet said be be "preruptive"?
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I strongly believe that developers and development agencies are a great market. But to market a product to them needs a little more care and expertise. Usually, marketing departments are filled with people who only knows marketing as general.

In my opinion you need to have a team of devs who can communicate to their native communities. I believe you tend to trust people who are somewhat similar to you.

What I experienced myself that NewRelic customer service is just amazing. People are so happy that they get help like a blaze.

I think user experience has become their forte. Plus, how they market Data Nerd T-shirts. Its just great because its highly relevant. Everyone wants one!
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> "It’s really about science."

Where all samples are unique and uncontrolled, no matter what you do, any consistent results are basically meaningless.

Once you've got samples size big enough to be statistically relevant, well, your growth problem is probably already solved.
We use Paypal, Stripe, GoCardless (UK only I think), and Bitpay.

Although we are obviously aware of Paypal's mood swings, we haven't been the victim of any. So far all of the above have worked well for us. They've all been easy to integrate.
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I'm a guy who hasn't written that much ruby, I'm mostly writing python these days but I understand a lot of the concepts have written a bit of ruby and wish that some python things could be more like ruby.

Also I'm a guy who took a Smalltalk class taught by a passionate teacher back when I was getting my degree.

Smalltalk is one of the main parents of ruby. It's less practical then ruby in many ways but its more pure/simpler.

To me ruby's blocks/yield is one of the ugliest of parts of ruby. In Smalltalk just about everything is objects and messages. In Smalltalk Blocks are just special syntax for BlockClosure objects that you evaluate by sending the 'value' method on them and they don't have to be passed at the end, you can pass multiple blocks(if you want ideas of why you might want to do this see some of the c# linq overloads: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.... (or some thread/future like thing with a run action and an exception callback) although I admit many of them can be done with an extra map function.

Ruby Blocks aren't objects, yield is not a method, it's harder to assign/store closure to variables and pass them around.

I may be wrong but I was under the impression that blocks are the way they are because they are a speed hack, the original ruby being a simple interpreter and blocks allowed the common pattern of defining and passing a closure to the method calling the closure without overhead of allocating/initializing/gc a block closure object.

Other objections ruby doesn't seem to be a language that the number of arguments in the function declaration doesn't bear resemblance to the number of arguments you can pass ala javascript I don't see why blocks should be special, I don't want to glance at the body of the function to see if it expects a block or not.

Also if you want to overload on block_given? you can use a named/default argument at the end defaulting to nil.
I know new routers like the D-Link AC5300 DIR-895L/R are forthcoming with faster processors and more streams, but I wanted to take a look at the home wireless router market as it stands today and size up what I think are the best routers for specific uses with an eye towards firmware capabilities and ability to track network usage by-device over time.

Nearly all vendors fail on this, but TP-LINK provides it, ASUS comes close, and ASUS with DD-WRT and YAMon provides it really well for the R7000.

I'm interested to see if there are any devices I'm missing. A nice MIMO 802.11ac device with firmware capability similar to the Pepwave Surf SOHO would be great.
I have a SaaS that processes payments with PayPal since 2011 and I never had a single problem. I know about the horror stories, frozen accounts and whatnot, but maybe it's also worth considering where your opinion comes from.

I also use Stripe and accept wire transfers.
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