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I'm not talking about functional style, I'm talking about pure functions. Declarative style is an orthogonal concept.

I can buy the argument that a declarative style makes intent clearer, but it's not the "ultimate abstraction" because all abstractions are leaky and also even if one happens not to be, it's still open to misinterpretation due to human assumptions (ie. the whole reason laymen programming tools have never worked out).

Clarity and intent are beside the point though. I'm not talking about making life easier for the programmer. I'm talking about getting guaranteed correct results. I'm talking about bugs, and bugs live deep inside code. The easy bugs are ones where there has been a wrong declaration in the DSL-veneer. The only way to guarantee there is no deep bug is through a mathematical proof, and you can't prove anything without enforced purity. I don't particularly enjoy math, but it delivers by far the strongest guarantees you can get in software.
the firm, launched last month, has a pay-to-play plan that works like this: As many as 100 startups each pay $5,000 to compete for a maximum $250,000 initial round of funding. The runner-up gets $50,000. The rest get feedback.

This is a scam.
Here, I'll accomplish the same thing for you:

You give me $1, and I'll give you $0.60 back, plus some advice.

Here's the advice: You're a sucker.

You'd be better off playing Powerball, at least when the jackpot is over $200M or so.
Of course they could all be running windows on those macs!

WHO CARES!
Here is the original communications of the acm article:
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/11/48421-scratch-programm...

I've mentioned it before but I am a big fan of scratch, I showed it to my nieces (my own kids are too young) ad they showed it to their cousins and started a game contest to see who could build the coolest game.

The fact that you program by assembling blocks makes that whole idea of understanding error messages and dealing with syntax errors much easier than when I started programming.

The result are usually 2d animation programs, in the case of nephews and nieces: games. These programs have a look much like the flash games they like to play online, I believe that also has a positive effect. I like the fact they went from being "passive" computer and internet users to being much more active.
Interesting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examiner.com

Examiners are paid based on page views, or the "Gawker-model," made famous by the blog Gawker.com. The more page views an Examiner generates, the more they are reportedly paid.[citation needed]
I agree, it spent a lot of time on 3d interfaces and bandwidth sharing (yawn) and the health monitoring approach was poorly thought out.

I don't see this grabbing the interest of many futurists.
I think you are right. I was in the situation that I worked from home for 6 months and I found it very hard at the end because I got call only for problem to fix. So, the only interaction was from "negative" conversation. The mix of working home and to the office is the best IMO.
It sounded more of a conversation between marketers than scientists--or at least what we think scientists ought to do. In reality, even science does some PR and marketing, it's just where you draw the line.
If you lie/commit fraud to receive something it's theft. If they data was honestly misinterpreted then of course it's not, it's just a mistake. Also, this has nothing to do with current case, I haven't looked at it so I don't know what they did or did not do.
This: [RealClimate.org - A supposed neutral climate change website] was most certainly added by the author of the above linked article to explain the abbreviation.
Perhaps a better link here:

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/11/20/hackers-steal-in...
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Hey Wade, thanks for this. I registered and the site looks very good. I like the simplicity of the tools. Tried a quick test on one of my sites and liked the way voltmeter displayed the results. I'd be happy to provide more detailed feedback as I spend more time looking at the other tools. Cheers!
The auto-change is actually in the code, but the first beta-testers complained. Sounds like I may need to make it configurable, or redesign the was transitions happen.

Your ideas about "just one more" and updated percentages sound interesting. Definitely 1.2 material.

Thank you for the feedback.
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I understood the part in brackets as being an editor comment, not part of the actual email.

The quote is: "Anyway, I wanted you guys to know that you’re free to use RC [RealClimate.org - A supposed neutral climate change website] Rein any way you think would be helpful.".
I was only commenting about a global effect I see Google is causing to the IT industry. I personally do not have a problem with them, nor do i feel threatened. It's not about me, but the Tech industry in general.

[This causes companies that do provide similar services at a cost to improve what they do; otherwise they would do nothing and stay content with the way things are.]

I agree in a general sense, but in reality, in some sectors you are just not able to compete with free. Google can offer it for free, just because they pay it with the money they earned from another service (online ads). But, I don't say this is inherently evil or monopolistic, I just wanted to express my observation that this strategy causes disruption.
Sure, and if researchers are being forced to draw the line higher than usual due to external pressure from highly funded deniers, whose fault is that?
Interesting in how a one-man blog, originally a sideline activity, became an important media property associated with NBC Sports.
Obviously, I was talking FOR DEVELOPMENT, as was talking pg. Of course that for general consumers latops are more popular, as they should be considering their main use: communication tools.

As I said, we too have laptops we use for browsing from the couch. We just don't write serious code on them
if you are used to procedural or object oriented programming, you may need to unlearn few coding styles before you can master a functional language.

2 better known apps built on erlang are ejabberd(jabber/XMPP server) and couchdb(a popular NoSQL datastore)
Perhaps make a "Lite" (aka free) version, and ask us to review that?

Or go the Canabalt route, and have the whole game playable (with slightly reduced functionality due to not having accelerometers, multitouch, etc) on a website and then a pay-for download on the App Store.
This is... pretty awesome. I've only tried the Voltmeter so far, but what I really like is the education that comes with the results. You guys have done a really good job of explaining each factor in plain English. It's very easy to understand.
Hey, I like what I think this site is supposed to be. I think I broke it though. I have two reports generating in my account somehow and so neither of them are coming through.

Edit: OK, one came through.
Too much for a blog's goal?

It's honestly the major reason I continue to write. No man is an island. My views suck in isolation, they get pretty awesome after sharing. That process of shaking down vulnerable thoughts is priceless.
Thanks for sharing this tool. Turns out I had a free account already, must have come up across it before. I'm particularly excited about Randal, which solves a (relatively) simple problem (keyword monitoring) that I haven't seen done well yet. The Voltmeter report took quite a while to complete, but other than that the UI seems intuitive. Look forward to getting a chance to play with it more, I'm working on the SEO efforts at Optask (http://www.optask.com).
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"Millions I can imagine. That's several peoples salaries over several years. But billions? Surely he shouldn't be making such an extreme claim without detailing how he thinks that value is broken down. It seems obviously nonsense just by rough order of magnitude estimates."

It will be billions if the new cap-and-trade bill gets pushed through congress. I might be more inclined to believe that global warming is man-made if:

1) There weren't so many companies and governments trying to enforce carbon credits, which means more money out of my pockets.
2) It didn't seem like a religion, where science goes out the door and man-made global warming skeptics weren't ignored and demonized.

Also, why the change to global "climate change"? I thought we were warming?
"to show that the balance of forces in this rig as the oars are pulled through the water"

If the oars are pulled through the water, the boat wouldn't move.
I'm trying to find out the differences. I don't know the answer. The entire post is a question with supporting information. Are there any important details I'm missing at this point?
Yea, my Nokia N95 (built in 2007) has this... it works perfectly for showing videos, etc. Mobile mfgs. are starting to build 720p HD-ready devices (ala Samsung Omnia i8910) but there's still tons of bugs and it's all very beta. Give it 2 years and we'll have phones outputting quality 720p, they're already recording at that resolution. With the latest tech like Qualcomm's Snapdragon (1ghz chip) on phones like the HTC HD2, I wouldn't be surprised if you could get some decent dev-work out of it.
That's the point of VMWare, so you can virtualize another system inside of your primary one, in effect "sandboxing" the guest OS so you don't screw anything up.
Checking it out now. One thing. When I click on the ? next to the "targeting score link" it just takes me to the top of the page. The tool tip is "How is this calculated?", but I'm not seeing the info after clicking the link.

I'm particularly interested in the keyword distiller.

edit: I forgot to mention that I really like the design. Nice and clean.
Does he mean climate scientists in general or Hadley Climate Research Unit specifically? Or some mix?

From http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220:

"Indeed, the success of climate alarmism can be counted in the increased federal spending on climate research from a few hundred million dollars pre-1990 to $1.7 billion today"

Billions of taxpayers money is no exaggeration for the general case.
I really like how you score each section seperatly. It inspires me to work on scoring better on these sections. I have used the hubspot grader tool before, but I do prefer yours. It seems faster too.
I was getting that too. I rebooted, then left it at the login screen for about 20 minutes, then came back and now it's working.
that's "because they are not evil", you know... People who are supporting Chrome cite they won't be 'locked in to Windows' as a key point, but they don't realize that the lock-in, in this case, will be A LOT worse..
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I think this is an excellent point. The issue is unavoidably political; scientists are being forced to respond to political arguments and pressure. Of course, when put in a political arena and forced to deal with political attacks, scientists start to talk like politicians. I'm a software engineer, and we talk this way at work sometimes. It's happens when we're dealing with sales or executive types who aren't amenable to technical arguments. Don't let these guys see that email, because then they'll replace all our Cisco routers with cheese wheels, ha ha ha except sadly not kidding!

The bottom line is that the real science happens in labs and in scientific journals, and the climate change debate is perforce dominated by people who have never been closer to the science than reading a book or article written by somebody with an agenda who talked to a few scientists who keep up with the climate change literature. (That's the only way the debate can be open and democratic.) That's the closest people get to the science, but scientists are forced to deal with their questions and complaints and flights of fantasy anyway. Of course scientists don't sound very scientific when they're forced to do this job, because it isn't science.
However, the way Al Gore has presented Climate Change has not at all been like scientific discussion, it has been portrait as a topic where the discussion and debate is over. That is my problem with individual such as Al Gore because statements like this,

"Land warming since 1980 has been twice the ocean warming — and skeptics might claim that this proves that urban warming is real and important."

show me there is still room to discuss and debate the evidence.
I've got this baby on preorder, can't wait to see if Maemo lives up to the hype.

Personally I've never been an iPhone fan either purely because you can get phones with far, far better technology for the same price. iPhone wins hands down in UI right now (I still hate touchscreen-only phones though), but that really won't be an issue for long with Nokia/Samsung/SE/HTC working double time to improve their OSes.
I'm more likely to lose Internet access than one of my computers. I typically lose Internet access a number of times a day. I lose computers once every 5-6 years, and backup the important stuff in multiple locations.

I hear ya though, it's nice to be able to see the same desktop everywhere I go. Maybe a little more offline support?
Yes, we can run multiple reports, but doing so doesn't make the first one complete any faster. ;-)
I do most of my arduino and processing development on a tiny eee pc.

The key thing that makes this easy is a compact programming language I think. Plus I'm usually making embedded software so it's small and cheap enough to leave lieing around running sensor logging scripts etc.

Another commenter said:

it's pretty rare that I'm out somewhere and wish I could develop something but haven't brought my laptop

Perhaps hacking embedded "internet of things" type software where there world around you is a rich hackable environment is what will drive handheld development machines.
But some are blatantly:

"I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline."
I have no problem with your disagreement and I certainly appreciate that you took the time to say something.

The issue you highlighted is interesting. We have someone who has been accused of a crime, but not convicted yet. Is it right or wrong to post their photo and info? Is it worse that it was turned into a game? Part of this experiment was to test some of those assumptions and I won't try to persuade you one way or another. I will say, the photo and text came from a source that posts these bookings online, full name, age and date of arrest.
Even if you are a climate change skeptic, apply typical journalistic investigation here. Perhaps the apparent damning statements are taken out of context. Science is not about certainty, and there is always debate about what the data really means. Also, those reporting the leak may not be politically neutral, and may have their own hidden agendas.
Yes. I do that all the time on Windows and Linux.

Frankly, I am the one that should be doing the blessing as a consumer who is free to choose in a free market of apps. I will reward developers of good apps and bring bankruptcy to developers of bad apps.
There may be room for debate, but is there time for debate?

Is there a plausible case that we cannot afford to wait?
Looks great so far. I love the UI on the Voltmeter. I love the idle detection too ;). Everything seems really well laid out. I can't wait to start running this on our other domains.
Could you explain to me exactly what that sentence means in its original context, because it's certainly not clear to me that it's "blatantly" anything.

Sure, it looks like it's pretty damning. But what is the context, and what did he actually do?
This is true, and a fairly good point, but then again, you don't have nearly the precise control that you do on your desktop.
I do agree here. As I mentioned the first version of the class was both security and programming. The projects were intermingled giving students A great overview. Unfortunately in the 10 weeks of the quarter it's hard to cover both in great depth giving only a cursory understanding of both. There is a separate great intro to security class cs155 (which I also TAed). I believe the professors were thinking of creating a class entirely on web security at some point.

I will add however that as security gets baked into frameworks, students are not at least pickng up bad habbits.

Wow this is hard to write on an iPhone :-)
The leaked files are available here at least: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=75J4XO4T

If there's a better place to get/post it, please advise.
The problem here has always been the nature of the debate, not the nature of the science.

You can make a good case that these are just scientists blowing off steam in informal e-mails -- or you could make the case that this is evidence that scientific integrity has gone in the crapper.

I take a third view: the problem here is that people do not want to have an honest debate. This is evident by the emotional content of the emails -- "idiots", etc. If you view yourself as the annointed and people who criticize you as stupid rabble, then it becomes very, very difficult to correct course when you screw up (as you inevitably will)

Getting emotionally attached to something and viewing yourself as an expert are potentially intellectually crippling things to do, whether it's climate science or database design.
There is plenty of room for debate if the skeptics stop polarizing and politicizing the debate.

Also, if anyone in this debate can be counted on to change their mind, it's the scientists: we do it all the time when shown evidence to the contrary of the current belief. I sincerely doubt that your average skeptic walking into this debate is actually willing to change their mind if shown evidence. Their mind is already made up and it won't change.

So yes, plenty of room for debate, but it needs the right mentality.

BTW, I once convinced a very creationist skeptic that evolution just might be correct in like 3 hours. How? He was willing to listen and see that there just might be an alternative explanation to the things he's seeing. He was willing to accept a different point of view and my job was to present my case. Luckily I did OK.
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Might be. If trick means what you think it means. If hide means what you think it means.

I have often seen people use "trick" meaning "useful change" and "hide" meaning "doesn't show incorrect results". Without context there is no way to tell. Such a statement is somewhat worrying, but not exactly blatant in any way.
Obliviously computing over encrypted data has a lot of potential, but there are still many technical barriers to overcome before it's practical on a large scale.

If you're talking about Gentry's fully homomorphic encryption, that's not going to be used in practice any time soon.
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Looks really polished. I'm really impressed when a site can come out of the gate looking so good.
Hadley is presently the only place where proof of tampering has emerged, which IMO casts serious doubt on any work emerging from Hadley if it cannot prove that its work is not being tampered with.

IMHO I doubt this is an endemic problem in climate research, no matter how much I despise the many statisticians claiming they're scientists. Statisticians show correlations, scientists prove causation. However with literally billions of dollars on the table, it certainly makes me curious of the validity of other researchers work.

With a $1.7B cake on the table, are people lying so that the host of the party (the federal government) gives them a slice?
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> As we all know, this isn't about truth at all, its about plausibly deniable accusations.

It also fits if you read this as a take on the attacks the climate scientists are facing, not on their own case. There's just not enough context in the article to determine exactly what these correspondents mean by the snippets quoted from what they've written.
thinking critically about the evidence and data interpretation

NOT trying to start a flame war, but I think there's a parallel here between science and Biblical criticism. In both cases, if you start with the preconception that the data has one simple and obvious message, then you will project your own biases onto it. Real analysis starts when you acknowledge that it's very difficult to tease meaning out of data that has very complex and partly unknowable context, which speaks directly to only a small number of situations, and which must be extrapolated to cover situations that have no direct analog in the data.

Yet popular science, like popular religion, must engage people by offering meaning and understanding that is accessible with much less effort. Popular science is therefore (unavoidably) guilty of encouraging blithe and simplistic interpretations of data, because that's the only way you can encourage people to think.
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i hear you about the ram. i routinely get Jruby to crash with 'out of memory' errors even with min and max heap set to huge sizes, when YARV doesn't break a sweat.

Edit: I'll add that I'm not talking about rails, I use ruby for heavy data crunching. For general use jruby is great and I love that threads truly run in parallel.
Agreed.

You can pull anything out of context and make it sound like anything.

Almost.

At some point it becomes very difficult to say it's all a trap, however. If the size of the data is as large as indicated, it should be fairly trivial to determine this one way or the other.

If the discussions did proceed as indicated, this data might make a great study in how science is carried out behind closed doors, so aside from the political squawking, there could be something here of real long-term value to science. I bet you'd never get these guys to publicly admit what their internal discussions were like.
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There's really no smoking gun in the linked post. They highlight quotes that look damning out of context, but even just taking the surrounding sentence as context they seem a lot more innocent.
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Not much to see here. It's the Chrome broswer, filling your screen, and nothing else.

Can't change screen resolution. Can't change keyboard layout. Can't even find those "cards" they showed in the demos.