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For the record, and I am sure it's what you meant, a more specific description of Judy arrays is that they are a specific type of trie(though a trie is a specialization of a tree a trie is more rigorous.)
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This quote is a favorite of mine. Yearn for this, and your writing/coding will improve.
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This of i.e. as 'that is' and e.g. as "example given'.
Judy Arrays are all Tries are all Trees, but only some Trees are Tries, and only some Tries are Judy Arrays.
I don't see how this is any different from any other Blub paradox: these people don't see what's useful about the features Sass adds to CSS, because they think in CSS, and think the syntax is funny-looking, so they don't want to bother.
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I have a few questions:

1. Does Freshbooks do more than just Invoicing?

2. If somebody buys something from our website, do we have to send them to one of your landing pages to processes their payment or can we interact with Freshbooks via a RESTful API? Its very important for us to have full control over our checkout experience. No third-party vendor ever gets this right with their landing pages.

3. Why in the hell are so many "invoicing" services popping up, but nobody is stepping it up a notch and tapping into small business bank accounts, payroll systems, etc? Think "Mint for small businesses" or a "Quickbooks killer". What are your plans around this? You guys seem like you're just another web invoicing company.
SASS takes it way too far. CSS is for styling, it's not a programming language and it never should be.
LaTeX has LyX, but of course it suffers from the "few templates" problem (made worse by the need for two templates - the original and the GUI rendering), and it isn't a wonderful text editor anyhow. But if you want to compose laTeX quickly, that's the tool.
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I thought it was a pretty cool implementation (zero memory alloc is pretty hard most of the time), though I was disappointed how HTTP methods were hard coded in, so adding a new HTTP method (like PROPFIND?) would be adding a ton of code, though I think you could make a few macros for doing HTTP methods and keep the rest of it.
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This is why Apple's policy of not talking about unreleased products make perfect sense. Steve Jobs probably experiences this on a regular basis. For every iPhone smash hit, he must've gone through tens or even hundreds of duds.
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Sounds like red/green/refactor would have come naturally to her.
At this level, it's not even softball questions, it feels like at any moment, the interviewer is going to drop on his knees and give DHH a blow job.

Here is a more serious question: despite all the hype, Ruby on Rails never became mainstream and is dwarfed on job boards by Java and .Net. How do you explain this?
I guess both programming languages and operating systems are susceptible to the Blub problem.
I go to starbucks because they usually have a clean restroom.
the only public implementation is GPLed

Actually no. Here's a BSD one:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/judy
I think about 51, I haven't been saving the best so far. I'll tee it to a file from now on.

Edit: Oops, my random-restart code had an obvious bug. It's probably not very useful anyways, so I removed it.

http://pastebin.com/m63191b11
I think the cash is more symbolic than anything.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
Clearly English is not the author's first language, yet I felt the writing was clear and the points well-made, so I'm willing to overlook the lack of connotative preciseness.
I think it's a bit presumptive to write off the appeal of locally-owned businesses. Granted, it's easy and attractive to do since some people are so ridiculous about it. (Here in Austin, a neighborhood sued to try to stop a Walmart from coming in. They lost, but the process got delayed long enough for the recession to hit, so now an uglier, less-pedestrian friendly Walmart will be built than what was proposed. Progress.)

There is something palpably different when you're buying something directly from the owner of a business, or at least when the owner isn't too far removed for you to interact with them every once in a while. There's a Mediterranean restaurant I frequent that's run by three generations of a family, and something just feels different when I go there beyond just the quality of the food, which is amazing on its own. Perhaps they're just good at being friendly. I think it's more of a side-effect of properly aligned incentives. The better of an experience they create, the more money they make, and with a stronger, more positive correlation than a waiter has with tips.

Humans are social creatures. There might appear to be an equivalence between transactions with Starbucks and your local independent coffee shop, but there's more going on than just a transaction. It's an experience.

(Then there's the whole argument for keeping money circulating within your local economy, but that seems like it'd have the same problems as protectionism if it became a popular movement.)
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I thought this was always the point of Gears, as a stopgap for HTML5 features until browsers supported them all. But I don't really see why they need Gears on Firefox for local storage for example, when Firefox has had a local storage API since version 2.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Storage

Of course, I am not really a web developer or a Google employee so I probably don't have the whole picture.

Oh, I guess the Firefox 2 storage isn't actually HTML5 storage, according to http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/html5.html#localstorage . But then, I don't quite understand where that lies in relation to HTML5.
It's kind of lame that Microsoft Seadragon opens this massive picture up in a 680x330 pixel unresizeable viewport on my 3520x1200 display. At least it links to the original.
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Saying you despise Starbucks gets you anti-corporate kudos. Buying coffee in Starbucks gets you expensive but tasty coffee, well made by practised staff. Hypocrisy is a win-win.
definitely. Once they get gcal integration going, that will just take it to the next step.
I've been a "beta" tester for this - it's pretty useful!

Congrats Mark!
Yes, a complete end to end would be nice.
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At one point, Starbucks was a local coffee shop. One of the reasons it was successful was because it made its drinks unique-- it puts a tiny amount of caramel into Mochas, which give them a distinct taste that people feel they can't find anywhere else.

The coffee is only just decent, but 99% of people don't know or care about that. Most people wouldn't know what good coffee tastes like. They assume -- and, through the power of placebo, taste -- the coffee is bad because of the undertones about Starbucks in society.

I don't think this is about coffee or brands directly. This is about perception. The perception of localness is what Starbucks was hypothesizing to be powerful. They either failed in their experiment (likely by mentioning that it was inspired by Starbucks) or discovered their hypothesis was incorrect.
she wants me to remand my statement. Apparently I did not adequately express her perspective (Professors...).

Anyway, and I quote: "I'm not an idiot, I know Vivace is the best coffee in Seattle!"

Sigh.
I haven't seen any real data. I think that Starbucks has the data, and knows to a tenth of a percent how many people would prefer an independent shop, all other factors being equal.

It also seems that the appeal of the independent shop varies by location. Certain demographics will value authenticity, local ownership and funkiness.

We should beware the temptation to generalize from our own preferences, or from those of our friends.

From personal observation, when a Starbucks is near an indie shop, they are usually doing about the same volume of transactions. It may be 65/35 or 35/65, but I haven't seen 90/10.

Has anyone?
I don't know about this. The point of writing something like it out, that is. Either people want to "get it", or they don't. Either they're curious about computers, or they're trying to get a job done (for whatever reason). Articles like this are preaching flying to birds and fish - the people who understand you are already there, the people who don't, aren't going to care.
really cool -- hope they open up an api
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Actually no. That's only a binding if you look at the source code.

The sole C source code is only about 2-3 lines long with a "#include <Judy.h>" which isn't even included while the haskell source is littered with foreign function calls.

I discussed this issue with Don on my website a couple of months ago:
http://www.codexon.com/posts/why-arent-functional-languages-...

and believe me, he would have told me if he really did have a completely reimplemented Judy array.
I don't know about the "standard interpretation"... the first picture is usually expressed with all of the "squares" of equal size (it's a matrix), and an "x" through each digit at (x_n, y_n), n being positive integers.
Those aspects of the syntax are not there because you're supposed to use them to design a website. They are they because frameworks need a very basic level of programming in order to build simple abstractions. You're supposed to use selectors, properties, and mixins to design your website.

Occasionally, you might see an opportunity to make your own mixins to simplify your site and make your design easier to maintain. When you do, you'll be glad that the mechanisms for abstraction are there for you too, not hidden away from the "designers who have to be protected from code".
I grabbed the pages that were in the Google cache (about 100 pages), which was much more current than Archive.org, though possibly less complete.

I'm not sure what to do with them now though...
That what CSS is, but that doesn't mean that's the only way to style a website. Use your imagination and stop accepting the constraints that have been placed on you by those who got here first.
I agree that thinking algorithmically about things is a part of what divides techies from non-techies, but I think a part of that is what information an algorithm has access too.

This is what I think the author is saying. With the TiVo example, techies know that the only information available is 1) when the show was recorded and 2) if there is some flag about saving on the show. Take that information, and we quickly come up with the most natural algorithm (FIFO + check "save till" date).

I don't think the TiVo example is a good example though. Here, the problem is the data to use exists, but isn't being populated. The example with the picture is better. Think about explaining how google images comes up with pictures. Lots of people think its searching the contents of each image so when you search for "Saddam Hussein" it comes back with pictures of him. In reality, its searching what the author calls "meta data" and just doing it extremely well.
FTA: "Jones was not in charge of the CRU when the data were thrown away in the 1980s". What part of that makes it sound like this data was lost more recently than the 1980s?
Starbucks has always seemed self-defeating to me. The original goal was to introduce coffee art to a consumer culture that was, at the time, fixated on Folger's. They've succeeded in moving people to believe that there's a lot more to coffee which has seriously expanded the market for the kind of high-craft coffee possible at smaller, non-franchise shops. Today, Starbucks doesn't really have the brand to move into that niche, everyone knows their secret is just sugar and milk, so they need to stealthily make inroads.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, franchise and craft don't go together that well.

I remember reading an article about a certain kind of highly engineered coffee maker. It combined the grinder, water heater, mixer, and press all into one and thus turned perfect coffee into an exactly repeatable formula. A trained operator can never fail to please and Starbucks bought the company hoping to put one of those devices in every franchise and revolutionize the availability of the "perfect cup".

In pilots the baristas still fill them with stale beans.
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So, can someone shed some light on why Oracle is still interested in developing VBox further?

Sun was doing it to sell their hardware but Oracle can do that without the need for VBox, purely with the popularity of their database.
That doesn't have the same feature set at all. It's a 7'' screen.
I agree. The author has an interesting theory, but he needs to dig up some real facts to support it.

As you point out, his solidest fact undermines his theory.

I wonder if there is a "brand backlash"? And if it's temporary, and linked to the recession? I think that within an individual's life, the power of brands goes down over time. Maybe as the author and his friends get older, they are feeling less compulsion from brands?
No, no, no! NO!

Ruby meta-programming uses runtime flexibility to do cool things, but has_many is just a method, like any other method, which is passed arguments (at runtime), and can do super-cool things with them because of the late-binding architecture of Ruby. This a concept originated from Smalltalk. It's super cool.

Lisp macros do something completely different: they let you extend the parser of the language. They literally let you write code that edits your code, at compile time, before anything is run. It's super cool, too, but in a very different way.

Here's a hig-level view:

1) You write code.

2) That code is translated to a data structure which is interpreted by a computer.

Lisp macros are ways of extending what the translation rules are. Ruby, on the other hand, has lots of neat design decisions which let you write code that interprets instructions at runtime in interesting ways. Very different.
We're working on it, judging by the amount of emails we're getting about an API, I'm thinking we're going to drop all our other upcoming features to get the API up and running for everyone.

The only thing that stands in our way are all the bug reports we've gotten also.
If you want a cup of approximately coffee-shaped liquid in the morning, Starbucks is great because it's the same coffee anywhere. It's not inspiring, but it's nearly always edible. For a very large number of people who drink coffee, this is the goal and starbucks delivers, anywhere, anytime.

If you want a coffee shop experience, with young bohemian college students or starving artists or something, starbucks tends not to deliver. Being standardized lends an air of inauthenticity, and depending on what you're looking for it's a bit too busy what with everyone ordering coffee all the time so they can get through the day. There's usually some people on a laptop, and there are a few that have managed to become havens to the right type of people, but it's less "coffee shop" and more "a shop that sells coffee."

So basically, starbucks is servicing a niche market. Fortunately for them, it's a large niche, and they've self-selected for high-functioning addicts so the business model is sustainable.
See my reply lower in the thread - I worked out the numbers using Bayesian inference to find the exact probability that B is better than A, subject to a number of assumptions. The benefit of this approach is that it's exact so you don't need a certain number of samples to properly approximate a normal distribution. The answer is that B is almost certainly better than A. Here's the calculation I plugged into Wolfram Alpha:

2835 2837 choose[2834,6] choose[2836,24] NIntegrate[(f^6) (1-f)^2828 (g^24) (1-g)^2812,{f,0,1},{g,f,1}]
While we don't have full integration yet, every page does offer an iCal feed so you can at least subscribe to your Plancast feed in Gcal to get a one-way stream going.
Honestly, I think that is the best part of the article, much more important than the divide he discusses. When trying to explain why something works the way it does, say three things:
1) Some people might want it the way it works now.
2) How should the technology know you want it this way.
3) Show how the user can tell the technology what it wants.
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Well, the LaTeX approach is one extreme, the Word approach is the other extreme. Pretty much everything that somehow fits in between tends to be mostly one or the other. What's really missing is a plausible middle ground. What makes Word so attractive is that you can open it and start typing, and you can format things as you think of them. That sort of control feels nice. For LaTeX, what attracts me to it is being able to not care about format. Knowing this is someone else's problem feels nice. What's really missing is the middle ground. How about something where you type in text and format at will, then apply styles to (that actually work and make it look nice, unlike Word styles) and then apply tweaks to in word processor mode? And no, LyX doesn't do this. It does both sides of the divide badly. The closest I could think of is Scribus and the like, but those lose on the "just start typing" side of things.
Was the book you saw perhaps this:
http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Basic-Japanese-Grammar/dp/4...

That book more than any other helped really solidify my japanese, precisely because it did what you say: it functioned as a foundation reference to the core of the language.

As for people with very basic modes of thought that are so different that their expression of logical statements would be different... Logic is logic. Its english grammar is a thin abstraction over its mathematical form, so I would be surprised if non-english-conceived programming languages would be dramatically different (aside from syntactic ordering perhaps).

Actually writing that sentence forced me to think of one such way a Japanese-inspired programming language might differ dramatically: since the subject of each verb is often left unstated in conversational japanese, you might have primitives that set the current 'variable context' and then all messages after that yet before the next 'variable context' change would go to that variable. something like:

foo(a, b, c){
talk_to(a)
bar(b, c)

bar would implicitly actually be bar(a,b,c) (or a.bar(b,c) if you prefer).

This example seems pointless, but there might be other worthwhile ones.
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Uh, the software industry may have a long way to go compared to where one might want it to be. But it has gone a ways compared to one person writing batch scripts or (the example from the article) one person writing spreadsheets.
There's a balance. Too few protections or too many are destabilizing.
A touchscreen PC with no keyboard is extremely limited

I don't know about you, but when I browse the web, I actually don't type that much.

Mike Arrington was specifically referring to the need to browse the web from his couch. In browsing mode, you like to explore and click. Type? Not so much.

And intensive use of my iPhone has shown me that the screen is just a bit too small to seriously browse the web for more than 10 minutes at a time.

So yes, there might be a market there.
This was already submitted when it was published back in the spring: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550719
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Well the bad part about Sass is that designers won't work with it. Unless you work on a team of 3 and you've got a programmer that does the CSS, there's no problem, but I think most companies that have 8 or 9 people on staff probably has a full time designer that may or may not like sass.

At least with CSS, everyone is speaking the same language. Also, most big websites end up having CSS in other places other than a central location driven by sass. You'll probably end up having some element level css, maybe a few scattered in various jquery plugins, or one-line jquery hacks for modifying css classes or changing colors etc.
I did the graphic design.
http://developers.freshbooks.com/

Looks like a simple XML-RPC

/i am not related in any way to freshbooks
This is why I nearly always have as close to 100% ownership or involvement with my projects as possible, even if it means keeping things small. Other people can be idiots, or they can be great, but it's a helluva risk (to me) to waste my time to only find that out years down the road.
Yes, TechCrunch is great and has a substantial position in our vague industry. Arrington has almost single handedly resulted in a spotlight being cast onto us that simply didn't exist before. I'm not saying someone else couldn't have done it, and maybe perhaps better, but Arrington was the one to step forward to the plate and TC has done a lot more good for our industry than bad.
Probably not a market for us programmer types. But there's a huge segment of the population that just surfs youtube all day long. My dad just likes sitting in front of his computer watching crunchyroll, the only time he uses the keyboard is when he's doing his taxes
Is anyone or any company really totally impartial or without bias? Even the BBC, which tries to live up to such ideals on the taxpayer's dime, can't quite get there.
What the hell man? What's with the downvotes.
Music is nice too. Helps to focus.
Yes, there's a distinct pleasure in doing business with someone who is a part of your tribe, notional as that tribe may be.
It's also worth noting that in places where reliability is worth the massive decrease in productivity (e.g. robots on mars, avionics, etc.) tools like formal verification and multiple implementations for verification of behavior are used.
Right, he has apparently solved and proved a short list for OBS3 with the property that X is 3-colorable if and only if X doesn't contain anything from OBS3.
I was. It wasn't that I assumed science was always right, but I did assume that scientists who works on something as important as climate change wouldn't cheat.

Just another example of why people shouldn't be trusted.
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Some constraints are good. If it's not for constraints, you'd have cats marrying dogs and so on. Putting programming logic in a stylesheet language is asking for more complexity, not less.

I agree with the author. CSS is universal. SASS is entirely different language with far less "speakers" and far less support. It may be superior to CSS, but that's only part of the equation.
I find it interesting that Starbucks would want to throw away their branding and open up coffee shops under a generic name.

That said, this is a negative and contentless rant. Blue jeans are very practical in all seasons. It's not fair to compare a fashion trend to a franchise rebranding.
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And notice how no one does standup routines about having a restroom across the hall from a restroom, or the fact that one of them has a line out the door and the other has no wait.