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Your seem to be confused.

The point is privacy is not possible outside of free software.

If you'd rather have convenience and comfort over privacy, it's your choice and you're probably renouncing to your freedoms.
Yahoo has a lot of projects on GitHub: https://github.com/yahoo
They're fairly active and I find many of the projects quite interesting.
Are you serious? It's just like "renting" a model for a day.
"[...] and there's somebody in charge if not in control."

That's an interesting observation.
While it wasn't difficult to understand what the author was trying to say, I found this post jarring to read.

Surely Mozilla have native English speakers who can at least edit their blog posts? Anything that goes out to the public affects Mozilla's reputation, and should therefore be taken seriously.
Well, that explains why Fortran and Ada are such wildly popular languages today!
"actors don't fail in the catastrophic sense"

Bonus: if this language thing doesn't work out you can just pivot to selling the unlimited-resource and failure-free hardware and operating system you've invented...

Snark aside, a system that always assumes "clean shutdown" is going to massively simpler to design. It's also going to be unusable in real-world environments.
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Was it ever sane?
The alternative isn't having a single more complete package, it's having a few dozens of more complete, overlapping packages that each don't fully satisfy your needs.

The overhead is negligible: running `npm install` in production is considered an anti-pattern and because of how npm's dependency resolution works each dependency can have different copies of the same (second order) dependency. The likelihood that there will be version conflicts (and thus duplication) is far smaller when there are smaller more specialised packages instead of a few big ones.

It's not about package size. Nobody cares about package size (except for frontend code but it's fairly easy to pare those deps down to the bare minimum).

Also, nearly all of jQuery's deps are development deps not needed in production. Those deps are only interesting for maintainers -- building jQuery yourself is likely the wrong thing to do. It's only necessary because jQuery doesn't yet expose its "submodules" properly.
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Where can you buy Lanner products? I emailed them in the past regarding 7525, and they refused to sell me just one unit.
Thales.
Short of getting whipped, even the PM will learn to code. <sarcasm>
It is your employer's job to pay you a living wage that keeps you working there. Do you want a raise? Have you asked for one?

I would frown upon an employer paying you less if you were an equal candidate, but if you are a non-native english speaker and they have to sponsor the visa then I think it is reasonable to pay you less because of the additional costs.
Trains and boats carbon footprint are pretty low. It's trucks and planes that are bad...
... he didn't imply they did
One you want to keep around between invocations of the program?
once you have chosen one pattern, you have to keep this one till the end of the file or it'll throw an indentation error.

Only if the resulting indentation is an actual error. It's quite possible that the parser's interpretation of resulting indentation is a valid program with different semantics than you intended.
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Since they are a business and are not obligated to do anything for the poor is precisely the reason why internet.org will harm future Zuckerbergs. Internet.org will become a gatekeeper of sorts. This eventual appstorification of the internet should be opposed in my opinion.
Not a single word about Paul Steinhardt?

http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/paul-steinhardt/
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I thought that and then checked the numbers.

Shipping is negligible and when compared by energy per tonne per km, can be up to almost 100x better than road, so going 200km by road can compare to going nearly 20000km by sea in some cases.

Putting everything in one place could get savings from many factors, but transport doesn't appear to be that major compared to the others.
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That's maybe because he's the only US President in the last 110 years that didn't start a war. It's sad that he is frequently criticised as being weak. (most likely because of that)
Posted on his official Twitter account: https://twitter.com/leehsienloong/status/595166789660647426
(His original quote is a play on a line from "The Big Lebowski" - I don't think he means it.)
Yes. Absolutely.

Experience managing the resources of a population of 5.5 million, experience on the world stage, programming and problem solving ability, his alma mater include Cambridge and Harvard, and military service, able to maintain close relationships with important people (including the President of the United States.)

He would absolutely get a job in Silicon Valley.
From you site and your ideas you can built a great desktop SQL developer tools for developer thanks to atom shell for example: http://electron.atom.io/ and some node.js database drivers.
Not sure who downvoted you (I leveled you up) - I spent about 30 minutes researching seasonal variation of solar power in northern climates (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/16/us-column-wynn-ren...) and your numbers check out. "For example, aggregate solar power generation in the first week of January was only 7 percent of peak production in the final week of May

The northern climates, then, are a challenge for solar, even with lots of storage. Fair point, and something to think about.

But, as to your second point, about how we shouldn't get the whole world up to current western consumption levels - I don't know about you, but I like hot water in the morning, air conditioning on a hot day, clean clothes from the washing machine, baked goods at home, and and a warm house on a cold winters day. I agree that efficiency is important (all of those things can be delivered more efficiently - same value with less energy), but I certainly wouldn't suggest that everyone in the world shouldn't have access to them, and more.
These Chinese landlords are treating objects like women, man!
I agree there is no widely accepted and formal definition of "functional".

Thanks for the link! I didn't know about Unlambda.

A couple of remarks though: by the author's own admission, Unlambda is not a purely functional language, when using the accepted terminology. The author then goes on to introduce what he acknowledges to be nonstandard terminology, so I'm not sure what this says about closures being functional or not under more mainstream definitions. Furthermore, Unlambda is a purposefully obfuscated language! Not sure how it is relevant for the purpose of my post or the OP's :)

Thanks anyway for the link, it's interesting.
...unless you have somehow acquired a CA's private keys, or are in control of the clients' certificate stores.
He also gave at least $100 million to Ebola, $500 million to charity, and funded several health science and general science initiatives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen#Paul_G._Allen_Family...

>Paul Allen has given more than $1.8 billion towards the advancement of science, technology, education, wildlife conservation, the arts and community services in his lifetime.[28] In 2010, Allen became a signatory of The Giving Pledge, promising to give at least half of his fortune to philanthropic causes.[29] In December 2014, Inside Philanthropy named Allen as their "Philanthropist of the Year;"[27] Allen's direct giving in 2013 totaled $206 million.[30]

People are not one dimensional creatures.
At the cost of having to practicaly rewrite it if the control flow changes even slightly.

If you don't know the exact control flow when you start it's a lof of busywork to modify it each time you change your mind.
Right to the moment where someone mounts a bunch of mirrors and your offensive laser gets briefly reflected somewhere it really shouldn't go (random eyes, flammable stuff, ...)
How about hiring strippers for a funeral?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/24...

(the reason is that the funeral is regarded more as a goodbye party for the deceased than a mourning ceremony for the ones left behind)
I feel that the grid of icons works great for the TV but the problem is the unimaginative remote control. Instead of a plastic remote with arrow buttons, a better solution is using a phone or tablet which shows a UI based on what is on the screen. You tap through apps on the phone and pick what you want to watch. Then, you hit play and it starts showing on the screen.

TVs aren't really great for interacting with - so a better approach is not to interact with them at all and do the interaction on a different, closer touch device.
Well, I guess Apple liked it as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIClAanU7Os
Indeed, my very first thought was "lol racism".

There's no need for cultural sensitivity here -- shit is straight-up racist.
Does your code use division, and do you have unit tests for at least those parts? Because the same code will compile and run in either version, but you'll get different results, depending.
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perhaps ==== operator must reserved
Anybody else have an issue with Microsoft starting out using Harvard's computer to develop their first product (for free)? Theft of services to me...
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It's not a specific package manager. It's the package manager. You use Node.js (or io.js, which is effectively the same as Node.js) to build jQuery, the Node.js package manager is NPM. jQuery is an NPM package and uses NPM's package.json to define its development dependencies.

This isn't really up to debate. There are other package managers for JS, but they aren't replacements for NPM. And no, Meteor doesn't count -- Meteor is its own strange quasi-incompatible microcosm. In fact, some projects which aren't node packages use NPM just to manage development dependencies.
C, C++ and Java generally don't break backwards compatibility in new language versions (or at least not as much as other languages), so upgrading to the next version is usually easier.
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Because we're instinctively tribal. See: friends don't let friends drive Fords.
I do not agree 100% with Tony, it was just an interesting counterpoint to the blindly asserted notion that "naming identifiers help". Make no mistake, he does knows his stuff; he's just a bit extreme about it.

By the way, I wouldn't use an argument "by laziness" to argue in favor of naming things. "Type signatures induce eye glazing in most programmers", and "it takes more time"? Well, most programmers also write most of the bugs :) Not sure what this says about the relative merits of naming vs types/structure...

In any case, this was a tangent. Since FP doesn't preclude naming things if you wish, I'm not sure what the OP was all about.
Please remember that Signapore has no free speech. I am kind of angry we're cirlclejerking about a PM whose a criminal according to my view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Singapore

Can we please just ignore this dictator and be amazed about code of other people instead?

It just feels wrong.... I think freedom of speech is a very very important part of the hacker community. I think no sane person would want this person in charge of his country. Coder or not.
I think `dedupe` is now (i.e. in the most recent version of NPM) part of the install process, actually. So the only situation in which you end up with two copies of the same dependency is if two of your dependencies depend on incompatible versions of the same sub-dependency.
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I bought my TV just before smart TVs became popular and am dreading having to replace it, with - from what I can tell - all of the good, high end TVs now being "smart".

I really wish the trend was TVs becoming less smart, more like a monitor than a computer, especially now that TV "pucks" like Apple TV, Roku, etc are gaining popularity.
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In case of (a), you can use MITMProxy[1] - a handy tool especially for debugging traffic from mobile devices.

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This happens all over the world: not just China. Take Abercrombie & Fitch for example. The only difference is that, when only "white people" won't do it, then go for fit models, sub-celebrities, etc.
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Yea, seriously! Harvard should sue. If it wasn't for Harvard providing that computer (FOR FREE!!), Microsoft wouldn't even exist. These guys man. They just show no respect. Harvard deserves at least 10% -- maybe even 20% -- of M$ for their seed investment of a (FREE!!) computer to hack on. And if you tell Harvard this and they go ahead and sue and get 20% I'm gonna sue the shit out of you if you don't somehow get Harvard to give me some of that percentage because they wouldn't have even thought to do it if it wasn't for this (FREE!!) comment.
Love the business plan. Also love the format in terms of interviews. I have over the years learned more from interviews and just watching someone's workflow and them doing day to day "mundane" work than offical teaching sessions.

I am always surprised how experts in fields under value their own mundane work. If people would just share the studpid day to day stuff people would find great value in that even more than their more advanced work.

Experts are the one's true genious is the things that are easy for them and not neccesarily the advance stuff.
Pay is slightly below average for my area, and benefits are extremely poor by any standard.

Frankly, none of the other stuff matters to me as much as this. Look for a job while you still have one and move on if you think you see yourself there for a while. One short stint won't matter, but two in a row might.
Indeed. The problem is they are saving photographic data as PNGs instead of JPEGs. I wish more CMS's had a "Are you sure about this?" dialog when giant, improperly sized, or unoptimized images get uploaded
(I'm not able to reply to ghshephard, so I put it here.)

My point about not getting everyone up to western consumption levels isn't mainly about the things you mention. It's more about the use-and-throw-away culture, plus the general inability of people to make stuff themselves. Imagine the impact if people started mending stuff and clothes, cooking their own food, taking the bicycle with a trailer to the local market to do the weekly shopping, etc. Not just on reducing direct and (mainly) indirect energy consumption, but on public health and general happiness levels! There's so much of our energy consumption that doesn't improve our lives in any meaningful way.
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We're in the U.S. (East Coast) and are bootstrapped, and the hardest thing to do is keep your eye on the ball and off of consulting. There's easy money there - we get asked to build software by other businesses, and most in our circle look at consulting as the thing you do to save a failing business while you figure out what's next.

That said, it's probably the thing that can be counted as the final nail in the coffin. While consulting can halt a failing business from total wipeout, in reality it's a softens the landing, but I've yet to see a business recover and hop back in to the product game.
No. Dynamic linking is possible, for example with C libraries. 'No loadable code' means that a programs code is not modified during runtime, nor extended with new code (for example like java applets or RMI applications). We have been looking into hot code loading though.
"...to cover every square km. We dont have that many..."

One does not have to rake every piece of soil in order to wipe out the entire life. The oceans would get the radioactive lavement of the soil and cycle that back on the land over and over though radioactive rains. This affects especially the bottom layer of the food chain, which cause chain's partial (if not total) collapse. In the end there is the possible nuclear winter that may render almost the entire planet inhabitable for all life forms. (Spores, bacteria, algae or other microscopic life forms may resist in hibernation to thrive again someday, but that is not called "living" through the event.) The reality is that there wasn't in our planet history any extinction event that involved nuclear contamination of every available living habitat (among other hostile-to-life effects), and speculating about it and about if it would or not be destructive enough, feels to me a little bit like playing with madness here.
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Those are best understood as two separate statements. Re. remote, we'd prefer to hire in the cities mentioned as those are where our current team members are located, though will definitely consider remote for someone who has the right skills to do this successfully (experience doing it, great communication skills and flexibility, above all an exceptional portfolio).

Separate to that, we are only able to hire within the jurisdictions mentioned, so for your situation you would have to reside in the UK (by my understanding). If you were willing to relocate, great, please do apply!
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But... wouldn't you expect that?

I mean, they AREN'T the same value really.
Bought a smart TV (not exactly on purpose, just wanted a new TV) - ended up being quite happy with built in support for Netflix as it means one less "box" in my living room.
sure, everything should be done perfectly or not at all ...
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It's not exactly the same thing but there is a similar kind of attitude in Japan, where foreigners are kind of used to promote products or services - giving it a "cool" factor that a Japanese person would not have (presumably, because I find that silly in the first place).
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Which article did you read - I don't see any of the claims you are suggesting they made. I even did a search for the word, "library" - it never appears.

If anything, based on my read of the article (twice, I had to read it a second time after reading your comment) - I think it's actually written by a Perl advocate who is ruminating on the future of Perl 6, and just using Python as an example of a team that shipped code fast and limited the amount of stuff they broke.

Are you sure we're reading the same article?
I tend to agree that AI today is a long way from what the founders of the subject imagined – it's become something more like "Applied Computer Science". But what's now called "Artificial General Intelligence" isn't dead, and people are still working on it.

Also, it's more tricky than you'd think to narrow down what counts as intelligence. There aren't really any hard lines between an I/O program and an intelligent agent, even though they seem pretty far apart.
In his early days he was. But then who of us was/is a mature adult at that age?

Read the two Jobs biographies and especially Ed Catmull's book on Pixar and see how he changed.
When I made the bet with my friends, predators/reapers were just starting to come online and it was clear to me that they would be the wave of the future and eventually pilots would be out of the loop.

We certainly aren't there yet but my long term bet is that humans will be pushed further out of the loop for all things transportation - space travel being one of the main ones I would expect to transition first as it's basically there today anyway.
yes but what is going to protect your head from that drone with a freshly caught small droner losing control?
These things suck. I want a robot with sensors, the ability to move and an arm that can be programmed with a language that is appropriate for AI. That doesn't sound like something technically difficult.
It's hard for newbies who want to master the language. It's not hard for people who have no interest in learning a programming language and just wan't to make the thingy in their HTML do some stuff.

Register globals,

<?php
if ($category == 2) {
echo 'Foo';
}
?>

and be done.

We have to remember the PHP origins and audience from way back to understand why this was considered easy to use.
He would, sure. But does anyone care about the thousands that have been dismissed due to their age?
Absolutely, to be fair to JS, Eich admitted it was an horrible mistake, and tools like JSlint enforce the use of === .

I didn't see any meaculpa from the PHP team yet.Would like to read about it.
So what you're basically saying is that the "standard" variations and APIs which people will find and use are broken, and the ones actually working are hidden somewhere in the documentation. And you're saying you think this is just fine?

In that case, I have a hammer to sell you, and I think you know which one.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/
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Amusingly enough the Puppet current parser does this too because it has some weird form of type juggling. This has been fixed in the future parser, which actually has a type system too :).
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You might be wondering why you got down-voted. I'll help you out. To create something is to give birth to it kinda like how I imagine you have parents who birthed you. I imagine with all your success and hard work, you don't really feel like your parents "own" you but you wouldn't say to them, "you didn't create me" because that would be illogical. Same thing for Paul. He created Microsoft with Bill Gates. You can't take that from him.
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Slightly fuzzy still on where the data actually lives.
> a better solution is using a phone or tablet which shows a UI based on what is on the screen. You tap through apps on the phone and pick what you want to watch. Then, you hit play and it starts showing on the screen.

This might be the former TV-addict in me speaking, but would you be able to change channels and adjust the volume without taking your eyes off the TV screen? Because remote controls in their present form are just perfect for that, and have been since at least 20-30 years. In other words, don't get rid of physical buttons unless you really, really need to.
Ahh PHP, the language where true == false

php > if ((true == "foo") && ("foo" == 0) && (0 == false)) echo "yay!";
yay!
Its fun to see Cady on here. She lives in my little village of Shelburne Falls, MA and sometimes plays in a free Sunday morning celtic jam session in a town.

Here is Cady doing a duet in space with a member of Jethro Tull:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC4nqBB5BM
Yes, Tony's claim is a bit extreme, and I don't think it's standard practice in general. I just thought it was a nice counterpoint to the OP's claim.

Note, however, that this "do not needlessly name things" does show up in actual programming. In standard Haskell practice, it's common to write very short, abstract variable names whenever the function is general, and in turn you're encouraged to write general functions whenever possible.
They forced a weird impression to portray jobs body language. In my eyes it backfired.
It's interesting when you read the biographies of Steve Jobs. He continued this behaviour all the way up until his 30's of putting business ahead of personal relationships. It wasn't until he started a family with Laurene and his time with Catmull and Lassetter at Pixar that this really changed.

It's a shame that no one spent more time trying to probe whether the fact that he was adopted had any influence or it was just pure ambition.
not the usual story , == should be deprecated and a warning should be displayed. PHP has explicit coercion features, devs should use them alongside with === .