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> It's crazy that in these slides he says "I wanted a hipster language" -- most languages use [] for arrays so I used (). WHY!!!!? Just to be different? No actual real advantage? That's a terrible reason and a great way to make it hard for new people to adopt your language.

func<Future<List<Option<String>>>> vs func[Future[List[Option[String]]]]

Which one is easier on your eyes?
His writing there is pretty confusing. He started by complaining about a glyph that was missing until 2005, but was either fixed in 2005 or approximated by combining some characters 'ত + ্ + ‍ = ‍ৎ'. He doesn't really make it very clear whether ৎ is a substitute for a glyph, or whether it's the correct glyph and a case of an input system not making that easy to enter, but it seems like the glyph was added in 2005 and he's complaining about the input method. Assuming it is a case of a clunky input system, then pointing the finger at the Unicode consortium seems pretty weak, since so far as I understand it, various OS vendors/app platforms handle that implementation.
Sometimes I think that we should really reconsider the way we allow people to use computers. You need a license to drive a car, and IMHO perhaps it should be the same with computers - at least the more complex systems - this would solve a lot of issues.

Just my two cents.
They sold for roughly $250m to Salesforce in 2010.
Which will most likely be sent to you as a Word doc...
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You're welcome to view my github account (my nick = my handle) and judge if I am that person.

And now for feedback: the one thing that I don't miss is the Scala fanboys hateisms, such as that one. To improve as a platform, as a community, you must be willing to be open to opinions of others rather than mindlessly tag and bag honest opinions into stereotypes. When this comes into the Scala world, I'll give it another try.
I don't think that's publicly known. This was an article written around the time of the acquisition but it doesn't state any prices: http://www.businessinsider.com/virbcom-the-myspace-killer-th...
This is like complaining that Wikipedia has only 35K Bengali articles, while English has over 4.7M!


Why is Wikipedia not doing more to translate the 4.7M articles into Bengali? It does claim to be the world's encyclopedia!
Technically Twitch sold for $970m... Maybe he's referring to Quora (they joined YC late-stage)
Cool but probably needs to be updated. I do know that cloudant was acquired by IBM.
I'm not sure how a Google search for a series of loosely related graphs addresses either of my arguments. I assume you are thinking that their existence refutes them somehow, but I don't see anything on the first page that contradicts anything I said.
There is a whole class of memory leaks that is possible in C but not in Java. You can leak memory by forgetting to deallocate it. This class is not possible in typical Java code, because the garbage collector collects it.

Then you have memory leaks that happens because the application has data structures that grow unbounded. The latter one is not really preventable by automatic means, because the memory is still referenced from elsewhere in the application, and a garbage collector can't know that this memory won't be accessed again.

It does help that the most common source of memory leaks is eliminated however. That many Java applications are memory hogs is more a result of typical Java programming style than anything else.
Yet the title is solely about him.
Which company is from Turkey?
Don't you get the same effect (of a 'dead zone') by printing immersing the object rather than pulling the object from the pool of material? The top layer is exposed to the air directly.
It's all a question of fit/priorities, and doing what's best for you at that point in your career/life.
> I think Edison's test is trying to measure curiosity.

He is measuring raw ability to recall. He explains it here:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9906E4D813...
Namecheap. No frills, simple interface. No upsells. Customer service has been excellent so far.
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> Compare this with Linux, which is much more popular in its own right and even more so if you include Android, which itself is much freer than iOS in no small part because the kernel is GPL'd.

Is it? The Android userland isn't GPL'd at all -- I think the last GPL bit left when they switched from BlueZ to BlueDroid. I don't see any evidence as to why the GPL code in the kernel compels Google to release the Android userland in the Apache license, rather than keeping it closed-source.
That commenter is being a bit aggressive, but they don't appear to be trolling; their critique is valid. One of the oldest message board rhetorical tricks in the book is to use a grossly incomplete summary as an ambit claim, and then to retcon facts from the inevitable rebuttals into that argument. It shouldn't surprise you that people don't want to help you do that.
What about "successful private company"?
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I'd much rather the tools I use on my computer _didn't_ phone home to report every time I use them incorrectly or they emit an error for whatever reason.

Edit: you could say “record the error and give the option to report it” but that's a whole lot of extra complexity, both UI and code. Especially for a bunches of single-purpose composable tools.
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I want to share my code with everyone. That includes:

* (1st-order capitalists) People who want to make a buck

* (2nd-order capitalists) People who don't mind if 1st-order capitalists use their work

* (3rd-order capitalists) People who don't mind if 2nd-order capitalists use their work

* (Etc., nth-order capitalists for all n)

That makes me an ωth-order capitalist. Unfortunately, GPL is anti-ωth-order capitalist (Proof: Induction). I can't ever use it unless I'm willing to kick people under the bus who I'd rather allow to use my code.
LinkedIn just announced they were stopping to use Scala and focusing on Java 8 instead. Good luck getting a Scala job there :)
69% of U.S. parents believe their kids need a college degree or more
This is a fair point.

The yardstick analogy was set up by the parent to be 'because the yardstick doesn't have marks less than an inch'

Then yardstick is always an approximation that is useful within a particular domain, just as newtonian mechanics are always an approximation that is useful within a particular domain. So far we are in agreement.

Newtonian mechanics always produces an incorrect result, however when the error is small enough to be neglected, because our measurements are noisy or we have no requirement for greater precision, then we can say that they are accurate for our purposes. This is pretty much the definition of an approximation.

It also must be pointed out that in order to know whether our application falls within the domain of values for which Newtonian mechanics are accurate enough, we must also understand something about relativity and quantum mechanics.

Newtonian mechanics alone can't tell you anything about when it is grossly inaccurate, and when it gives you a value that is indistinguishable from experiment. You must understand its limits in order to use in in the general case. It is therefore not 'perfectly accurate', but merely a good approximation based on limited data.
>I think the irony is that open source is empowering developers, not users.

And that's why copyleft is still important! We, as developers, have an abundance of awesome free software to build applications with, but rarely do those freedoms make it all the way to the user. Open Source gives developers freedom. Free Software gives users freedom, too.

Consider using the (A)GPLv3 for your next project.
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Skype is censoring links to 8chan
Skype will remove links to 8chan for the recipient.
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Ironic given how the rhetoric suggested the "walled garden" was an evil to be avoided. Over time Apple is being proven right.
Outstanding! This is wonderful news. I've heard people ask whether a given site or protocol really needs to be secure but I hold the opposite opinion: everything should be encrypted unless there's a specific and compelling reason otherwise. I'm thrilled that major organizations are coming to the same conclusion.
Computing a type level factorial can take more than 1 minute :)
I agree. I got my ECE degree from Rutgers, which is considered by many professors to be the hardest at the school. I worked very hard but I always had time to relax with friends and unwind every day. I never pulled an all nighter and have never needed to, and feel it's a study habit smell if you do (barring extreme circumstances). I just learned to be efficient with my time, partition my work, and plan ahead. I considered relaxing as important as studying itself and programmed it into my routine. And you know what? I got excellent grades and had a great time.
Yup! I used to work for PureVolume, then Virb, and then Media Temple via acquisitions. Crazy world.
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If you're caching your content properly and sending 304's when appropriate, this header won't get sent with every HTTP request. And if you're not using 304's properly, you're wasting a lot more than those 40 bytes.
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Their critique is: you're wrong but I won't tell you why.

I don't see how that's helpful. I don't know what you're suggesting we do either. You don't want to supply facts because they'll be "retcon"-ed? That's a new one.
It'd be overkill to submit a PR for this so: it should be "to the best OF our knowledge" in the first line.

I wish organisations would provide IntelliJ configuration files (or similar) when releasing such style guides as well... ;)
Very cool! FWIW, it feels more responsive to react on keydown rather than keyup, IMHO: http://codepen.io/runeks/pen/PwxdEm
Which incumbents do you mean? The millionaires or the people being displaced?
I work for Autodesk via a buyout of Creative Market, and Autodesk has been amazing. Creative Market has existed within Autodesk and is thriving.
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I used OCaml before switching to Scala professionally, and I must say I prefer Scala's type system. It makes almost no space for errors/mistakes when you do things conventionally, like putting types on public members.

The idea of cleaning up the syntax a bit (XML, procedure, etc..) is great, but I'm not sure to understand what's "A better treatment of effects" (slide 44)? What's intended?
Swords and Soldiers impressed the hell out of me, although it lacks online multiplayer. It's a very complete experience, as hand-held RTS games go. Also, I feel like "port from handheld device" isn't really too much of a port to complain about in the case of Civ Revolutions - a touch DS/PSP game is hardly a big jump to Android / iOS. That's more of a cross-platform release than a port.
I also wish I'd been able to make my mind take an interest in sports. On an intellectual level, I recognize there is nothing inherently less interesting about the exploits of Brett Farve or Kevin Youklis than Zhuge Liang or Joshua Chaimberlain... But I just don't know how to make myself care and it is really frustrating.
Wouldn't providing superior alternatives be a better way to incentivize people to stop driving? This seems like encouraging people to eat healthy by hitting them with a baseball bat every time they look at McDonalds.
Of course, I don't disagree with you, but think of it from, say, this angle:

"Hey, class full of young women with university aspirations! Don't be put off from entering science and engineering fields. Look, there are even famous women in tech such as X, Y and Z which are behind some technology that you probably use, like the instruction language understood by the chips in most tablets and cell phones. Oh, they were born men and even had wives and kids, but don't let details like Y chromosomes and functioning penises be a distraction from this forcefully convincing rhetoric which I painstakingly prepared last night in my hotel room, on the backs of these two crumpled restaurant receipts. I'm confident that you can identify with them as human beings with struggles in their lives---just like you!"

My point is that certain kinds of examples can detract from a thesis, by drawing focus to some other thesis or factors that may be perceived as confounding or whatever.
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> [...] CJK unification[...] has never been a point of contention in the communities concerned with it.

I am not very familar with the CJK unification project so take my points with a grain of salt.

> more than not opposing CJK unification, I benefit from it greatly.

I think think that is a different point of view. Isn't it? You are seeing your benefit whereas the author is seeing his. Here's an alternative solution: What if the search engine understood what you were searching for and returned results in all the languages? Unification can result in a lot of information loss the same way a photo can be compressed but it comes at the cost of loss in quality.

> so there is(to my eyes at least) no value in fragmenting instances of the same character.

But no-one is fragmenting instances of the same character. They _are_ different characters from different languages. To take an example from the article, I am not sure how I feel about combining B and β. You are either ignoring the whole of English speaker population or the greek speaking one. Given that you have complete flexibility to assign a code for both of them, why not do it(responsibly)?
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It put a calculator in a widget in the notifications area. http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/30/apple-no-longer-rejecting-c...
I don't understand Bengali at all, but the character ৎ does have it's own Unicode codepoint (U+09CE, BENGALI LETTER KHANDA TA). It was introduced in Unicode 4.1 in 2005.
If it weren't obvious to anyone who'd been following the case how superficial your summary was, that would be a valid point.
It would help greatly to add the appropriate accents (aigus) to the title of this submission, as I misread this to refer to "resume in C" as in "resuming a suspended continuation in C" :)
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I don't disagree with you, but the term "open source" predates the OSI by quite some time and was in common usage to mean "source code you could read" rather than binaries.

OSI may (and have) redefine it, but it is historically founded that it meant readable code delivered with the binaries rather than binaries only.
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Am I the only person who thought unifying the Greco-Roman language characters actually sounds like a good idea?
Ok, well if you can't provide any information then I'm afraid there's not much else for us to discuss.
Doesn't help the investors though, unless they pay a dividend.
Great! Now the FBI does not even have to arrest me to get my fingerprints and retina scanned!
The article is talking about elementary school kids. It's great to teach them to put together peeler beads, Lego, or IKEA furniture. But there is a bit of a safety constraint, at least as far as many parents are concerned.
And then point a projector at it to warm up the paper at the right places.

I really wish biometrics would quit claiming to be significant improvements over anything but writing your password on a post-it on the computer. They all fall very quickly.
I have a question: How do Rust and Go compare in terms of security? Or are they both very similar in terms of mitigating certain classic C vulnerability classes.
They're on the same key on my keyboard, but ` is a grave, ~ is a tilde.
Answers from the era. Would be interesting to note the changes.
Great example. In 2-10 years from now, someone will want to find that repository.

Does anyone know of an effort to maintain this, like is done with sequencing data at the NIH? Something like PubMed Central?

I have first hand experience with this on the biology side, looking for reagents or even protocols from a 10 year old paper...and coming up completely dry. It's kind of a travesty, but the world collectively shrugged.
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> some languages are insanely complex to implement

I don't understand this, is there more to implementing a language than creating glyphs for its character set? I wouldn't think the linguistic complexity would matter at all, only the number of glyphs in the 'alphabet' or similar?
Native Bengali here. The ligature used for the last letter of "haTaat" (suddenly) is not the same as the last ligature in "aditya" - the latter doesn't have the circle at the top.

More generally, using the vowel silencing diacritic (hasanta) along with a separate ligature for the vowel ending - while theoretically correct - does not work because no one writes that way! Not using the proper ligatures makes the test essentially unreadable.
Far and away Namecheap. They've been fantastic to work with.

Dynadot was also pretty good, though it doesn't have the community goodwill that Namecheap has been actively cultivating.
I wonder if one could use a shape-like spec to describe permissions for a user, similar to GraphQL itself?
Techstars published an official list of their companies status: http://www.techstars.com/companies/all/
Also Antiqua and Fraktur used to be seen as different writing systems (ſ, I and J being equivalent, tironian et being some examples where they differ), yet this is largely ignored by Unicode (except when used in mathematics)
You can actually just hit ^C to copy the text of standard Windows errors even though the text is not selectable.
If you dismiss people's interests as "junk" and as not "genuinely interesting", don't be surprised when nobody wants to have a conversation with you. Nobody wants to have a conversation with somebody so condescending.
Minoan script and Mormon Deseret are in there because somebody stepped up.
I'm a bit confused too. There's a principled argument in Unicode for when a glyph gets its own codepoint vs when it's considered sufficient to use a combining form. I don't know Bengali at all so can't comment on this case, although given the character now is in Unicode I guess the argument changed over time. Somewhere buried in the Unicode Consortium notes is an explicit case for the inclusion / exclusion of this character, it'd be interesting to find it.
There will always be something better. You can't play that game.

When this thing's on the market you'll be all "Oh, but the second generation one prints 4x faster and can do color! I'll wait for that."
It's one thing to say English will be the international language of trade and commerce. It's another thing altogether to say we won't bother making character sets that represent other languages, because it's too hard.

Since when has "too hard" ever stopped an engineer? That should be catnip for us!
1) Some of the investing co-founders already lived in Switzerland

2) Some of the non-investing co-founders lived in Switzerland before, or would not mind living there in the future.

3) Switzerland, as bizarrely my phrase might sound, is more free than US, with laws regarding corporations easier to understand, and less crazy problems, for example no extremely stupid patent and copyright laws like US have.

So, in case US corporations get sue-happy against us (like they always do against each other), the best they can do is sue us in Switzerland, and there the law will be usually in our side (instead of siding with copyright/patent/whatever trolls)

Also we did check how much would cost us, including hiring the appropriate lawyers and accountants, to setup our stuff in Delaware vs Switzerland, and Switzerland was cheaper.
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Being able to use dots and parenthesis or not has a very good reason for being: It makes the concept of operators disappear. In a custom class, a + b is the same as a.+(b), instead of doing it the Java way, where blessed Java libraries can do things that are impossible for my own extensions. The C++ way of supporting such a thing relies on very specific sequences of what can be an operator, and what cannot, making things actually harder.

At the cost of making writing in-language DSL easier, like the one in ScalaTest, the language lets people do really ugly things, if they don't like other people reading their code. It's a tradeoff. I like to be able to have an assertion that goes " myVal should contain("A")", and that be valid ScalaTest code, with very good error handling, but I see how others can disagree.

Undescore is overloaded in a few more ways that you are listing too, as a wild card in case statements and type definitions. My favorite is how we can turn a sequence into a vararg by using the Punched-In-The-Face operator, :_. That nonsense really means that we are providing a type annotation (:), and the actual type to use should be whatever it is(_), but as a vararg (). If you know the exact type, you could go : Int, but really, :_ works the same way.

Now, as you go through Scala, the darkest realization is not that it has too many features, but that it's possible reach a point where you think it doesn't have enough. I have spent most of the week bemoaning the fact that shapeless' HLists are not anywhere near as easy to use as I'd like because the type system needs even more power.
Hebrew (and I'd guess Arabic and other right-to-left languages) work rather badly in Unicode when it comes to bidirectional rendering; however, to the extent that it's a result of Israeli/Egyptian/Saudi/etc. companies and/or governments failing to pay $18K (the figure from TFA) to pay for the consortium membership, I kinda blame them and not the consortium. I mean, it's not a whole lot of money, even for a smallish company, not to mention a biggish state.

Also this bit was just amazing: "It took half a century to replace the English-only ASCII with Unicode, and even that was only made possible with an encoding that explicitly maintains compatibility with ASCII, allowing English speakers to continue ignoring other languages."

Seriously? Nobody forces anyone to use UTF-8, and even if it were the only encoding available - by how much the cost of these extra bytes reduces the standard of living in non-English-speaking countries, exactly?

It is in fact unfortunate that the pile of poo is standardized while characters from languages spoken by hundreds of millions are not, however. A pity that a good and surprising (to some) point was mixed with all that "white men" business.
GoDaddy is one of the worst. My current go to is Namecheap but I've also recently used MyDomain and Hover, all are much better.
Yeah, I thought that "No native English speaker would ever think to try “Greco Unification”" was a poor argument. In seems like a reasonable idea.
> It's just internally represented as multiple codepoints

And in fact it is not, and even in the article it is U+09CE. One codepoint. If his input method irks him, he's as free to tweak it as I am to switch to Dvorak.

Also folks, there's no "CJK unification" project. It's Han unification. Han characters are Han characters, just like Latin characters are Latin characters. Just because German has ß and Danish has Ø doesn't mean A isn't a Latin character and not, say, a French one. Not to get all Ayn Rand-y, but A is A is U+0041 in all Western European/Latin alphabets. It makes sense for 中国 and 日本to have the same encoding in Chinese and Japanese.
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The most important line in this standard:

> All browsing activity should be considered private and sensitive.
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Next to being expensive it also feels a bit invasive. Not to be the paranoid one, but a company basically controlling laundry, food, has access to my house or apartment sounds a bit creepy.
Does anyone know why Google is so bad at this?
blue-cross on the way.

Never felt pity on cockroaches until today, it was really heavy, overweight.