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The sad part is that the trailer gives an impression of what I believe the movie is not at first glance. The title of the project would have been better if changed as well. The title seems like a kids movie and blue anoxeric smurfs do not seem like they would be enticing to adults; however, I really want to see this movie... not because of the trailer but because I like the idea of Cameron returning to what made his films special in the first place. Titanic was a terrible movie and should have been a dud. It was not enjoyable to watch for me, and it was the first and only movie I walked out on. (I returned around the time the boat started sinking.) However, Aliens, Terminator, etc. are some of my favorite movies. To see his talent is to compare his movies to their sequels by other directors. Terminator 3 was terrible. T4 was good, but it did not compare to T1 and T2. And Terminator 2 was one of the only sequels I believe that was actually better than the original. Anyway, I think this movie has promise but the marketing itself has been lacking. They should have focused on the epic aspects of the film in the marketing.
The input string appears to be limited to 100 characters in length.

Still very interesting though. I hope Google publish this as a more formal API.
John Allen Paulos seems to be very intent on increasing the numeric literacy (I think he calls it numeracy) of people in general. Its a laudable goal indeed.

This is the kind of example that we can give to grade school kids and have them work it out. It would be a great "ah ha!" moment for some of them.
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Reminds me of a good point made here: http://plpatterns.com/post/169380277/sending-an-im-via-gtalk...

If you think of your software as your co-worker — someone
you work with who helps you do your job — all kinds of
functionality just make sense. Would you rather your
co-worker emailed you or IMed you? Then the software
should do that.
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Rick Hickey's funding plead has been posted on clojure's website:

http://clojure.org/funding

There's a "donate" button in the front page: http://clojure.org/
I shelled out $250 for Rick. It won't feed his family for long but I'm only one guy and it's absolutely worth it.

Clojure is the most exciting environment I've used for years. I've spent most of this year learning to write and actually writing non-trivial programs in Clojure. It's been a fun ride, the best one for years!

With Clojure programming becomes, instead of fighting small but bugging issues with the system, following your curiosity instead.
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Another idea: A jobs posting site with a focus on Clojure jobs.

Training, with an emphasis on why Clojure matters and how it can help your org?

I thought Clojure hit the tipping point this year. I'm surprised Rick Hickey is hurting for money.
Why are Europeans the whitest people on the planet?
Never. Vim is all I use for editing.
Went ahead and threw in a share, will be curious to see how many throw in. There are enough people subscribed to the list that he could probably be fairly well funded if enough threw in.

Hopefully it turns out well.
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He is doing the pragprog training in Reston this year with Stuart Halloway, though who knows how many people will go to the east coast for training. I know I'm not, though I'd love to get in on one of those sessions.
I don't think the Clojure community is as large as you think it is. Pragmatic Studios are putting on a Clojure training course in March, but otherwise how would Rich have made any money on Clojure so far?

He hasn't written any books and doesn't charge for anything - all that has been available for him so far is the "Donate" link on clojure.org, but it's never really been publicized.
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As a sign of his commitment, Cameron agreed to give up his entire directing fee and any profit participation in the movie.

He showed his commitment by giving up a financial stake? It would have shown more commitment if he'd given up any flat fee in order to get a higher percentage of the profits.
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I thought so too, but Roger Ebert gave it 4 stars:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20...
What indicated that I didn't read the article?

I understand there are content grinders out there that are made to rank high for Google (but see, they are not made by Google nor are they Google itself). It sounds a lot more like giving a snake what it likes to eat--say rats--rather than a snake eatings its own tail, but since you say it's clear, please do enlighten me because I honestly don't get how the metaphor is supposed to work.
The most fascinating part of this whole thing to me is having the chance to see the movie after having read the 'scriptment' over 5 years ago. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/5/8/73755/86297 provided the link, though I'm not finding the document online any longer.

(BTW, the link is worth visiting for a few other interesting scripts--for instance, a version of "I Am Legend". http://www.horrorlair.com/moviescripts_a_f.html has more)
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I'm having major issues trying to view the page in Chrome(Windows). The page renders fine but the scrollbar is "Choppy". Something he's doing in the page is not agreeing with Chrome. Not sure if I want to take advice from someone that creates a page with such a performance issue.
Rich isn't asking for handouts, he's asking for funding for a project which users derive a lot of value from. I think we can all agree that software takes time to develop, and everyone's time is worth something. I think Rich's time developing Clojure is worth quite a lot and to call wanting to get paid for one's time asking for a "handout" is just totally unreasonable.

I've been thinking about picking up Clojure in my spare time and if I find that it suits my needs you can be sure I'll be donating.
http://www.infoq.com/articles/flightcaster-clojure-rails
They are as deep down there as possible. Which can be a good thing if you take it as a sign that we're almost at the maximum.
Still seeing the trailers I'm not sure how I'm supposed to sympathise with them. Also the story doesn't seem overly interesting either. I guess we will see.
I had the same issue using Chrome.
Good luck finding investors without a business plan...

At some point in time you need to formalize your business and why you expect profit. It's inaccurate, everybody knows it, but the exercise is healthy.
I infer from the post that Rich Hickey still desires to spend the bulk of his time doing core development of Clojure. This is different from doing whatever it takes to make a living from Clojure.

Is seems the only "business models" for open source development, for the love of it, are akin to historic patronage systems.

The difference is that one can now have "crowd patronage" rather than court patronage. However that still depends on being both very lucky and very good. I hope Rich Hickey is the former, clojure speaks for itself on the latter.
Nice overview. See http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/ for more depth based on a much, much larger sample size.
This is a very interesting article - but has the author had any financial success to give credence to the doctrine he espouses?
Put my $100 in. Not an active user of clojure at the moment, but a huge fan of the project, and I hope to use it more in future.
He's just a guest author.

Drew McClellan is the guy behind 24 Ways (http://allinthehead.com/) and if I remember correctly this design is a couple years old now.

Sidenote, seems Chrome has now entered the "pompous Opera phase", wherein Opera users used to always ignore the fact that they're in the vast minority of web browsers and point out every browser problem they have like it's the designer's fault instead of Opera's for their random rendering bugs.
Tipping point in terms of visibility yes. Rich Hickey has spent 3 years of his life creating Clojure. He's watched the popularity of the language boom and commercial ventures using Clojure take off.

Rich knows he could probably do just fine consulting on Clojure. However that means he doesn't get to ... work on Clojure.

He's basically saying, "Hey guys, I want to keep hacking on this thing like a madman as I have for 3 years now. I don't want to do side projects. Let's make it happen".

It reminds me a bit about Benedict de Spinoza and Robert Musil. In both cases friends were fascinated by their writing, and they pooled some money together so the writer could - focus on writing.
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Khan did the obvious thing for someone trying to make good use of his time: he recorded his lectures so that he wouldn't have to repeat them. This allowed him to create lectures for most of the K-12 math and physics curriculum single-handedly and without government support in about five years. Khan is not a teacher by training nor, as far as I can tell, is he a member of the NEA (National Education Association.

How much would a government-backed program to deliver 35,000 lessons per day on any of 800 topics have cost? How much is government paying now to do the same thing? What would education be like if it was completely consumer driven with no government support? Khan is serving a market for free that is already being served by government for billions of dollars. In other words, an entrepreneur would have a hard time in education because the government is already giving away so much for "free".

My intuition is that there are great efficiencies to be gained in any industry that "benefits" from government support. Besides education, other industries that could benefit from innovation would be transportation (especially roads and bridges), health care, courts, corrections, and police.

The reason why more innovation is not happening in these areas is that government support is removing the incentive to be more efficient. The people performing these services are not rewarded for drastically cutting costs.

It could be the case that these industries are already operating at peak efficiency, but the fact that there is no obviously better way is not proof of this. Innovation is sometimes only obvious after someone with the motivation to look for it has implemented it. If someone had asked the department of education to make instructional materials for the entire K-12 math curriculum and deliver it to tens of thousands of students a day for 5 man-years of work, the dept would have said it couldn't be done.
He should really set up a 501(c) 3 as that makes it a lot easier to get corporate donations since they then become tax deductible.
But are there really only four of those?
Yeah, I am not very impressed, especially since there already seems to be a better one:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/25/htc-hd2-review/

So what they really should have done is an Android version of the HD2. Nothing but a huge, gorgeous screen and just a few small buttons on the bottom.
Kinda sorta - there's a lot of this that I learned the hard way from Dawdle, and there's a fair amount that I've had a chance to implement in my consulting work with others. The notion of "iteration solves all problems", in particular, comes from the leanstartup zealots who don't sit back and think before they launch into the iteration process. Turns out, as do many things, that it ends up taking longer to get to product/market fit than if you are more disciplined early on.
Yes, in this case the word is clearly used as a synonym for "technique".

Here's the original text:
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=154&filen...

Even if "hide the decline" was considered to be referring to something dubious, the use of "trick" would still clearly mean "technique".

It would be like if a student was breaking into a school computer (i.e. "hacking") and used a tool in an ingenious manner (i.e. a "hack"). Someone could say "That's a cool hack" and it would be clear from the context that they're not complimenting the lawbreaking, but on the creative use of a tool.

Maybe if you were later prosecuting that student in court then you'd take that "cool hack" phrase and try your best to sell it to the jury as referring to breaking the law to bolster your case, and maybe they'd buy it, but it would still be obvious to someone who understood the context and culture that it didn't mean what it was being purported to say.
Easy rooting.

• open unit.

• remove microSD card with OS.

• mount elsewhere.

• remove the comment character in init.rc that prevents "android debug bridge" from starting.

• reassemble.

They also don't remind in the instructions that anyone on the planet can also be root on your nook when it is configured this way.
I'm just a student, but I feel it's still my responsibility to donate. My research project next semester is going to focus quite a bit on Clojure, and I feel lucky to have access to such a great environment. Thanks, Rich!
Open source software is a textbook example of a public good. It seems blindingly obvious that it should be taxpayer funded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
I see most of the comments are about aesthetics, I must say I for one am happy that they didn't try to make a fashion accessory and probably worked on creating a useful phone.

I don't need a cool hip phone, I need one that works really well and does everything I need, hopeful this is what google has done.

(It looks rather sleek to me as well but to each their own)
This is a duplicate post: Original found here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994284
Wait, so you have achieved product/market fit with Dawdle, then? Congratulations! Is the promised land just as wonderful as it is promised to be..? :)
It has very good support for sparse matrices (package Matrix) and also for serializing big data structures and loading parts in memory sequentially (like SAS). See packages bigMemory, and ff.

Actually, this view is probably the best entry point:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing...

Where it's not so strong, of course, is in terms of web frameworks. Nothing that I could find, and, considering the scope of the language, it's allmost unreasonable to expect it.
It does look more complete than most things that claim to be "Erlang-style", including the idea of "links" and the ability for messages to go between machines, two things typically forgotten when a language tries to wrap itself in the phrase "Erlang-style". Can't speak to the quality itself since I've never tried it. I just wanted to post this since claiming to be "Erlang-style" while not implementing any of the functionality that actually makes Erlang different (links, automatic cross-machine serialization, OTP) is becoming a pet peeve.
Ultimately this is the sort of thing that is utterly fascinating to me, but since a) it gives me no reason that I _shouldn't_ believe it (corollary: mentions no competing viewpoints), and b) I have no expertise at all in the field, I have to assume that I shouldn't go around telling everybody that I know why Europeans are the whitest people on Earth, just yet.

The one presented fact that I'm _not_ totally solid on is, I'm not sure that prehistoric and ancient art are sufficiently solid to provide a date by which we can assume Europeans were white.
"... it appears that there was actually very little progress made last week on the key issues needed to deliver an agreement. That means the heads of state, who will arrive and begin to speak as early as Wednesday, are left with the bulk of the decisions and a lot of hard work on fundamental issues like emissions targets, long term financing, a shared vision of the agreement and even the legal framework of the final document.

Marcelo Furtado, Executive Director, Greenpeace Brazil, said on Monday morning that negotiators had done so poorly last week that they left a crime scene for the arriving heads of states, and that developed countries had clearly failed to do their homework. Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the current drafts from the developed world on the table would deliver an increase in emissions."

You don't send leaders to a conference to sign agreements until the agreements have already been debated, written and agreed to in advance.

Sheesh.
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The best thread on the Go list about exceptions IMO has been http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thr.... In particular see http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thr... where I tried to explain the strengths and limitations of exceptions.

In particular you'll find an answer to your silly claim that exceptions are something that most sensible and experienced people agree foment bad error handling practices AND you'll find an explanation of why they are reasonable to omit from Go.
If you read enough articles like this, you'll find the following to be the rule of thumb: Do and avoid doing everything possible.
I don't think it would be in Oracle's interest to do damage to MySQL. In the past MySQL attempted to grow up into Oracle range and largely failed. Likewise, nobody uses Oracle when they're throwing together the first many dozen iterations on a web app. Where I see the opportunity is using MySQL as part of their funnel to larger Oracle solutions by providing a smooth upgrade path.
It requires at least 3 lines for every function call unless you ignore errors. Exceptions allow you to catch them without boiler-plate for each function.

if result, ok := func(arg); !ok {
// handle error
}
// process result ..other stuff

On the other hand channels & goroutines allow in principle less verbose mode at the cost of additional parameter to every function in a stack.

errors := make(chan Error)
go handle_errors(errors) // read from errors
// ...
result := func(arg, errors) // write to errors in case of an error
// process result ..other stuff
He cites multiple investors that say not to do a business plan; that's an explicit part of his argument.
These articles always make me think of this Eisenhower quote: "In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable."
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I've tried working with recruiters in the past. They have never found me a job that was better than the ones I found on my own.

Am I unusual in this?
How is this different than Dan Webb's lowpro?
Donated $100. Rich Hickey is amazingly prolific; even if this only supports an hour or two of his work, that translates into very real improvements to Clojure.
Unfortunately, the second would ensure rising health care costs as there would then be more patients. Also, overpopulation would then be a much larger issue than health care and as such we'd have to find creative ways to cull the masses. Darwin Awards or not, the numbers would rise indefinitely.
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I'm not sure I'd like to restrict myself to investors that don't require business plans.

If you look for excuse to not do a thing, don't worry, you always find many.
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It's not just men, it's high-class men.

Lots of hackers think that good work wins, but it's good work marketed well wins, and it turns out that people are incredibly biased towards high-class men, and a name like "James Chartrand" is a prime example.

I challenge her to see the results when she chooses a name like "Tyrone Jackson".
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This is off topic in my opinion.
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He's arguing against this argument.

There are a number of VC types who say you don't need a business plan, but if you're getting funding from business associates, family, friends, or friend of friends, they will say "can I read your business plan".
Yes and no. We never were able to technically integrate with the partners that I did the bizdev on, so we never got their inventory on board. Without inventory in a marketplace, you have a nice little side business, not a main one.

If there's a PHP/Python guy out there who wants to save Dawdle, I'm all ears.
It can already be partially taxpayer funded if it gets set up as a 501c3 charitable organization.
Their mouth movements are more natural and human than the creepy marionettes in Robert Zemeckis's "performance capture" movies.
I think these arguments are weak.

1) "Never mind that while you can build a phone that supports 3G on three carriers, I've never seen a chipset that supports all four."

Maybe (or maybe not) all carriers, but netbooks are already sold that let you choose from several major carriers, GSM and CDMA. A phone could do the same, and even let you activate the device on multiple carriers simultaenously. Use whichever has coverage where you are.

What, you don't like having 3 phone numbers? Just give out your Google Voice number and have it ring them all, with a single, unified voice mail.

2) "If Google releases an unlocked GSM phone in the U.S., it's unlikely to sell many units, because it will be seen as prohibitively expensive."

...unless someone finances it. Seriously, if carriers can finance phones, why can't manufacturers, or third parties? They can, and they would if it looked profitable. And as phones becomes more central as computing platforms, it will look profitable. Just a matter of time.

I don't know whether Google will do this first or not. It would be a good theatrical move for Apple to do it first - and make all their fans who hate AT&T pee their pants with joy. But somebody will do it sometime, and it will be a great day for phone service.
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This item :
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=985965 :
brought home forcefully not only that not every hacker is as old as I am, but actually that very few hackers are as old as I am. The result is that there are stories I take for granted, but which the hackers of today don't know.

So I've started to write them up.

I'm commenting here because this introduction doesn't belong in the generic item - it's really specific to Hack News.

I hope you like the account - there will be more as fast as I can get the time to write them.
We ( http://snowtide.com ) are sponsoring Clojure, and we'll be able to simply treat it like any other expense. I'm sure we could figure out (or, have our accountant figure out) how to get the same benefits if the same amount were being dispersed as a donation to a nonprofit, but I personally like not having to figure that out at this point.
They may have just added that feature to the spot instances the command is called: ec2-create-spot-datafeed-subscription

This is the description: "Creates the data feed for Spot Instances, enabling you to view Spot Instance usage logs. You can create one data feed per account."

I havent tried it yet, but if anyone has can they post their impression?
Do we know if he explicitly gave permission for his papers to be published?
It would appear the author is an amateur scholar; he provided a very interesting point of view and I enjoyed the read. It would have been comprehensive had he supplied opposing arguments, references, and fleshed out his writing a bit more.
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