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less ads, less tracking, less lightbox modals, less hover context menus, less elements that move when you're trying to click something and make you click something else, less stupid "intelligent" tooltip helpers, less weird fonts, less frontend gimmick of the week, acceptable page load time. Basically I hate everything on every webpage except the text and maybe sometimes a picture. Most content should degrade gracefully to text, because most sites aren't doing anything truly special enough to be an exception. When a site doesn't do this it makes me mad. Am I entitled? Yeah probably, but it's my explanation.

I also suspect that a lot of people, like myself, still consider the WWW a linked document system rather than a fat client application terminal, we just want documents with links to other documents, and sometimes simple forms.
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Nice! I'm convinced now.
You and I are math students, and we both have this sort of reaction when we see such articles. The important thing is to realize that not everyone is a math student.
In your post what is your definition of pixel?
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In that case, the cop is already detaining you on suspicion of wrongdoing, and they already have significant discretion in what to look at. Sure, when it gets to trial, "alright, maybe I wouldn't have bothered checking for weapons if he hadn't immediately invoked the fifth", and you get a gold plated legal victory.

Or you could be on your way in ten minutes and avoid the charade.
The SGML/XML rant is a classic topic of his, and he ranted about it constantly. And lisp was the perfect forum for this. Everybody was with him on this.

But you need to know some context: Before the simple WWW there was the better web, with consistent client editing tools (Amadeus), where all your links and pages were in (HTP Hyper Text Protocol) database. The server part had builtin search, was stateful (sessions), and was overall just better.

The markup language to create those new rich formats (i.e. with links and media) was lisp based (DSSSL), and formatted down to the stupid formats we know now. Everybody thought who can you be so stupid to reinvent the wheel in such an insane way. But insanity prevailed, as usual.

The machines and SW environment were rich and good, he had a Sparc, and not so simple as the typical Windows 3 environment,

That's the world which was destroyed by the web (stateless simple servers without any features, stupid clients, stupid inconsistent "loose" markup) and its new language XML. The technical SGML and XML groups were considered the problem of the whole IT industry to Eric.
LISP expressions were not only superior, condense, readable, we also had all the tools already to work with them. XML was a huge throwback. It was a political battle we lost.
That's why he loved to go on and on like this on every occasion, when ever he found someone who seemed to be fond of the web, html, xml or those likes. Those stupid people destroyed our better LISP world.
Drivers aren't much of a threat to the Windows hegemony because since Vista they've needed to be signed. If you don't mind taking the risk of running with driver signature verification turned off you can get FSDs for XFS and Ext4.
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The word "reified pixel" is only being used by you so if you want to talk about it you need to define what that means.
One barrier to developing drivers for Windows is the driver signing policy https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff... which requires you to pay for a software publisher certificate.
Uh, they have moved their entire development workflow to GitHub pull requests. Fully transparent and out in the open.

Work has commenced on getting CoreCLR (the official.NET run-time) ported and running on BSD and the following PR's were merged yesterday which add initial support for NetBSD and OpenBSD:

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/pull/453
https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/pull/470

The "port team" is organzing work via the following issue:

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/455#issuecomment-82...

We are looking for more people to help out, if this is of interest then please goto above and say Hello ;-)
Thanks, but I'll continue to report crimes and assist canvassers looking for anyone who saw a suspect.

"But he obviously didn't mean that!" Then why the extreme repetition of "never"?
It's also a shame this article made no reference to the open hardware foundation (http://www.oshwa.org) who've been doing an awesome job promoting open hardware.
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I suspect every new country you want to add personal data from has a significant cost barrier in compliance costs.
I just want to say thank you. VB was my first introduction to programming. I was in fourth grade and I asked my parents for VB6, and they thoughtfully also bought me "Visual Basic for Dummies." I was quickly hooked - I especially remember writing side scroller games with it and making the image sprites with Photoshop in my school's computer lab. I don't think I've written a line of VB since middle school, but I will always have fond memories of it.
This * 10000.
I haven't heard about "it should only be used for pattern matching." Is there a performance reason or something more stylistic?

I use them all the time because of all the convienence associated with them. I'm not really aware of the downsides except for the ~22 parameter limit (I hit it when deserializing JSON that represents many possible Option(al) keys... And named parameters are awesome).
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V8-based projects can benefit from this as well: http://www.hashseed.net/2015/03/improving-v8s-performance-us...
Seemed interesting until I got to the part where it won't be free, and there's no pricing or licensing information. Why isn't that on top?

Once more information is available I'll probably be interested.
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Google is sometimes doing the same to me, but the picture is of a younger, better looking guy, so I'm not complaining.
MSBuild is great and all but seriously why bother when there's better alternatives available - i.e. Fake?

https://github.com/fsharp/FAKE
This is precisely why in Poland (and likely more european jurisdictions) lying as an accused is not a crime (even if you muddle stuff completely), only as a witness. It's a bit shocking this is not the case in America
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All of the Microsoft technologies which have been open sourced over the last couple months have been under MIT which is really strange actually as Mono is licensed under LGPL2 which is actually more restrictive!

Fancy that, how times have changed.
Hahaha that's pretty awesome.
This * 10000.

Better alternatives include: https://github.com/psake/psake & https://github.com/fsharp/FAKE
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I also missed that at first, and was disappointed. Hopefully the pricing will be reasonable enough because I'm very excited about this - just waiting on VS integration
A small anecdote:

I was diagnosed with myopia at around 7 years of age. I had -1. I went and got prescription glasses. The guys there fudged it up and gave me +1. I wore those for more than a year, but I could not, for the love of me, see with them. My parents were FURIOUS I did not wear them. I kept telling them I couldn't actually see anything with them. They made things worse. But no dice, they thought I was just being stubborn. Anyways, I get another checkup after a year, they realized the error.

On the second checkup, I had -1,75. Either the +1 glasses exacerbated my myopia, did nothing for it, or actually helped curve it, I could not say. I think it made things worse. And it was a pain in the ass having to wear something that made things worse and have people lash on me because they thought I was just being stubborn by not wearing them.
>"Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualized," Faizal told Phys.org. "This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science.

Just want to comment on this sidenote. Those many worlds interact with each other through interference. For example instead of saying that a particle went through both slits and interacts with itself, you say that it went through one slit in one world, the other slit in the other world, and that those two worlds interact to produce the probabilities giving rise to the distinct interference pattern. In that simple setting it may seem like an unnecessarily complex way of viewing it. The advantage is that you don't have to hand wave about wavefunction collapse - a process which afaik doesn't actually happen.

That is my understanding anyway, but if I got something wrong I would much appreciate if someone corrected me.
Omg so does that mean plv8 (v8 inside Postgres) isn't caching the jit'd js functions that might be executed thousands of times a day??????!
A very special high school friend of mine also died of this. He was super intelligent, a very depressive computer hacker, very insecure with other people, almost never left his room after high school and that's how he died eventually. Alone in his room. He wouldn't go to visit a doctor or call someone or tell anyone.
One thing that is very important to know about this behavior, is that while it works in the US in your favor, it will not in other states of the world. A good example is Austria where refusing a statement generally works heavily against you.
The Top-40 pop song probably has quite limited shelf life. It gets lots of plays for now, but some other track can make money for next 20-50+ years.
I really don't think people put much weight on what post-docs will be like when choosing their career. People just pick a career that interests them. Reproduction is not a concern for a typical 18-year-old.
Probably not. The filesystem API Microsoft uses, Installable File System, has been in place and used by a bunch of people since the OS/2 days. Support for filesystems like zfs is lacking more due to apathy than anything else.
interesting sound choice in the video...
Is it any different than the Apple iOS developer license?
What is a "rational subdivision"? Last I checked any reasonable screen doesn't have overlapping pixels, so I can't think of any reasonable definition of pixel that does what you say they should do. If your pixels disjointly cover almost the whole screen, you've got to have finitely many pixels or pixels of varying size. (Or uncountably many of them.)
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Can someone explain why the whole thing isn't simply the abuse of the universal quantifier? It SOUNDS like there are two "alls" here - ALL[0] is a proper subset of ALL[1].

If set theory is an obscene tool for this subject, I promise to rend my garment and heap ashes on my head. But only in an aphysical manner...
It's free at the moment, so feel free to try it. We will announce pricing and licensing in advance, so there'll be enough time to decide whether or not to keep using the tool.
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Why not take it one step further and throw medical records up there too? I'm sure the world would love to hear about that yellowish discharge you went to your doctor about.
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Maybe it wasn't for you, but for someone who was actually thinking about having kids it is a big deal.
I must say, I'm very impressed with all of the open source moves that MS has done lately. I wonder if that will drive more adoption of C# and cause Oracle to open up Java. I'm not a fan of C# because it's basically only used on windows systems, despite xamarin and et al.
I never understand the confusion between "criticism" and "rudeness".

There is already too much rudeness and this should be downvoted (and flagged if needed). It's weird to call such downvoting wimpy.
The author argues that the women's prize helps to perpetuate the inequalities of men and women in mathematics. I think that is completely wrong. Its existence certainly acknowledges the existing inequality. But the prize encourages greater female participation, so works to counter the inequality rather than further it. The author seems to think that if we all just stopped talking about sexism it would go away. That is simply not how it works.
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Oh, I am on HN :)

Okay, point taken. I didn't know about this name. "pperf" maybe then.
Note that this is still work in progress, I just had to finish another project, and will come back to this one soon.

EDIT: I've renamed the frontend to "pperf" now https://github.com/rurban/Perfect-Hash/commit/b475886f37d9

But the memcmp trick with unrolling of the comparisons beforehand for constant keys is already usable, and I believe someone already considered that optimization for gcc and llvm. If I remember I even saw a patch already.
It should be used for switch statements with constant keys.
I've basically done half a cs major already. My part time job is some stats programming work for a mining consultancy company and I was a strategist intern at Goldman over the summer so that is very good to hear!
Excellent. I'll take it :)
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The number of nodes in your tree is countable. The number of paths in your tree is uncountable.

In the infinitely subdivided pixel case, a node in the tree corresponds to an x,y position at a particular depth (or, even better, the set of pixels within the square at x, y at that depth). That node, though, does not correspond to a pixel because that area is subdivided into many, many more pixels.
Umm, where's the fun in that?
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This is like having a separate IQ test scale for male and female. Seriously think Oscars is similar to this case?
We will most likely have a subscription model, so the tool will be very affordable to start using without any significant capital investments. We didn't put the pricing section on top because there's no pricing yet. The section is right next to the download one, so hopefully those who download - see it.
Yes. The certificates Microsoft requires use the standard CA system, and are pretty much bog-standard code signing certificates, so the key you need can also be used to sign other windows apps you make, java apps, mozilla add-ons, etc.
>LEOs - especially Feds - will do everything they can to intimidate you, make you uncomfortable, lower your confidence, etc. It's literally their job to make people like you make mistakes. It sucks, but that's what you're up against.

I don't know why we tolerate that. Imagine if doctors used such techniques to get people to participate in medical trials. We'd reject any claim that the subjects gave consent.

Or imagine if any interested party used those techniques to get you to do something that every competent professional would advise against? Again, not good enough to be consent.

But if law enforcement does the same thing? "Just good ol fashioned police work".
> XML is horrible for that kind of thing, and the declarative, task-based paradigm simply isn't flexible enough.

Of course! That's why the Java world uses maven

It makes no sense, but hey, it's XML
1) It's a typo, yes. Thanks!
2) Well, they are lossy in the sense that pronunciation is context-sensitive. The number of cases where you actually turn the word into another word is very small: http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/german2/stemmer.html has a discussion.
3) You are right, I'm wrong. ß, ä, ö, ü are considered part of the alphabet. It's not tought in school, though (at least not in mine).

Thanks a lot for making the effort and fact-checking better then I did there :).
They got me hooked cause they use DANE. Seriously, wake up, email providers, the Internet is broken, start doing SOMETHING! IMO: All providers should use DANE. Period.
Also:

- asynchronous/event-based programming

- importing C/native code from a DLL is trivial

- fantastic documentation (so good you don't need the Internet)

If you want a button that does something, you literally draw the button on your form, double click it, and write the code for that event. I agree - one day we'll catch up.

Also VB6 autocomplete rocked.
After ~3 years of learning Lisp, I find the second style extremely easy to read.
I'm interested. Robin-Hood optimization was on my TODO list.
Dmitry Chichkov from XAMBALA? I couldn't find your email.
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I think that's fascinating. You both knew you didn't really want the glitterstone, and yet acted against the knowledge.

That makes "cultural expectations" just another euphemism for peer pressure.
Random side story: when I toured there when I was 18, my tour guide was severely depressed and told me not to go there. Before showing up we got pulled into a gas station and quickly left when we realized it was being robbed.

I never attended so I can't say if this is indicative or not of the school in general, but it's funny how much these first impressions completely changed my decision to apply!
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> "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"

The only responses you should use in such situations are:

'No comment'

'Am I free to go?'

Plus the statutory minimum ( name, address, DoB according to your local legislation ).

Psychologically it is very, very difficult. One way to try to handle it is to pretend you're responding to Emacs Eliza, which will always try to turn your words back onto you.
Taking an intellectually lazy passive-aggressive jab at people who support in free (as in freedom) software falls under the heading "being a jerk".
Both of which are well worth considering. There was a UserVoice suggestion for Microsoft to support PowerShell as an alternative to MSBuild in Visual Studio [1] but it was declined, which was a disappointment.

Personally up to now I've used Python for my build scripts given the choice, but more recently I've been using Grunt/Node.js, and I think that's likely to be my go-to tool going forward. Its ability to watch a bunch of files and run targets when any of them change (e.g. Less/CoffeeScript) is one particular thing that's got me hooked.

[1] https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...
This reminds me of the JSON license, which includes a clause stating that "The software shall be used for good, not evil."

That particular clause has caused quite a bit of headache for PHP package maintainers, because technically it makes the license a non-open source license, even though the rest of the license is just your bog standard MIT/BSD-like license.

Long story short, don't write your own licenses.
I can live with this. Buggy software drivers wreak havoc and security vulnerabilities. I routinely use expensive industrial equipment without signed drivers, and the problem seems to be a warning from the installer.
Thank you. So far haven't had time to see more than the opening minutes, but this looks like something to refer to further down the line.
It was actually worse for me. The logo filled the complete vertical space so I thought maybe the page was broken until I scrolled down :D

Kind of funny from chrome blog running in Chrome or is it a little sad.

Edit
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I guess mobile version in desktop causing problem kind of make sense I guess.
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If Mary is never allowed to actually see the colour of objects in her room, she is being deprived of a physical fact regarding colour vision, and premise 1 doesn't stand. Put another way, how is Mary's later epiphany to be induced in her but by physical means? She must physically experience (photons in eyeballs) colour.
Heh. Yea no offense taken. I made the account specifically to comment on this topic.

Myopia.org is not pretty, but scammy, I dunno. And gettingstronger.org, look around there. It's not even a site about myopia, but he has some very relevant insights. Forum with a zillion posts discussing the topic. Also he sells nothing on there. So where's the scam potential? And Frauenfeld on "about myopia" has a ton of clinical research references. There is a giant PDF on that page with just about everything worth knowing about myopia.

If it matters most what the sites "look" like, sure. Not Apple.com, no quick fix answers. This topic does require some reading to find meaningful insights.
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Taking off the developer goggles
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Always loved to put some epic music in my demos :)
Please do not use OwnCloud. We just got through several months of hell trying to pin down an awful issue with OwnCloud: It eats files. Somehow the server loses track of files and then syncs this state to all the other clients. We went through months of trying to track down what was happening to our business documents, only to be totally shocked in the end that it was OwnCloud itself. This is also a rather open secret among the OwnCloud developers and community. It's just something that happens sometimes, and the "solution" is to use another form of backup (thereby effectively negating the original purpose of using OwnCloud).

If you value the data you are storing, do not use OwnCloud!
OwnCloud eats your files.
Yeah, especially since you need to pay a regular fee to use Xamarin, and it's not libre software either.

If a free Xamarin came out I'd jump on the C# boat in a heartbeat, which I guess is what MS is trying to do with all this open sourcing (free software-ifying?).
That was an awesomely formatted webpage! Which toolkit did the author use, and what were diagrams drawn with?
On a similar note - how do we attract more males to pursue careers in humanities?
IANAL, but I believe you may find this is more trouble then it's worth. I like the idea, but if you add such a clause to your software's license, then your software won't be able to be included in other software that has the same license as your's unless they also amend their license (Which may be impossible to do).

IE. If you license your code, project A, with 'GPLv3 + no-stupid-software', and project B wants to use your code but they're licensed as 'GPLv3', legally they can't because the licenses are incompatible. Project B would have to amend their license to add the 'no-stupid-software' clause to make it compatible with project A (But of course doing that may introduce other license incompatibilities with other pieces of software, and projects with a decent number of contributors probably don't have much of an option to change license at this point).

I don't know if there would be any incompatibilities going the other direction: You want to use project B in your software, and project B has the license 'GPLv3' but your software has the license 'GPLv3 + no-stupid-software'. I think that should be ok, assuming that clause doesn't conflict with anything already in the GPL, but again, IANAL.