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The most interesting thing about this doesn't seem to be their cloud support. It's the inclusion of Xamarin in Oracle sales pitches delivered by their well connected sales force to corporate clients. Seems like a smart way to ease yourself into the corporate world.
It's just a hysteresis curve, which I believe is effectively the "mem" part of "memristor".
I don't think that avoiding mixins implies inheritance. The more common pattern, at least in React, is "higher-order" or "wrapper" components where the responsibility for managing the mixin's behavior is moved into a separate, composable component.

The main issue with mixins is that the origin of behavior becomes opaque. If I call this.mixinFunction(), it's not defined in my file or imported directly, so I have to know exactly which functions come from which mixins. With higher-order components, you can just look at the props and know where things originated.

I'm not a staunch defender of any particular approach, but I think that's the main argument against mixins. (And it applies to other languages as well, such as Ruby.)
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This circuit simulator has some nice memristor examples: http://www.falstad.com/circuit/
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I've been spending some time myself designing remote phosphor lighting and I'm wondering if they've really developed a new remote phosphor technology, or if they're sourcing a custom phosphor blend and substrate from someone like Intematix.

Also curious if they're using a film (like WhiteOptics White97) or having the cavities coated (I forget the product name). None of the coatings were cheap when I was researching them, but a % or two better than the films.

I'd love see the LED driver board on these...

But anyhow:

It's incredibly cool stuff, especially when you show someone the raw blue leds (blindingly bright), then drop a remote phosphor over it.

Kudos for going for it, and good luck. I wish I had your fortitude!
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Why the down-votes, I think this is a valid point. In case of real-time, e.g. video games, you want to render every ~15ms and doing that with a GC is really NOT trivial. I do not say, GC-languages perform bad, they actually are great for throughput, but doing low-latency stuff is still hard.
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It looks like the article was written in 2012 where the crashing behaviour was normal in Windows 8.0, this changed in Windows 8.1
I do like C# and I wanted to like Xamarin. But as someone who write mobile apps for fun, $600 per year for a dual-platform "indie" license is just too much. And I believe the pricing is also the reason the open source community around Xamarin is small. There are a few projects on github, but not much activity.

I doubt any of this will improve with a Oracle partnership.
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Others already pointed out that paragraph 1 isn't really correct.

I need to point out that your second point about the linker is totally false. The linker knows and does drop unreferenced code. The import strictness is a language requirement and comes from experience with large codebases at Google and elsewhere. Use goimports in your editor's save hook and don't think about it.
A modern company/corporate card sounds like a terrific idea. I wonder about the debit model both with its lower interchange revenues as well as company preference for post-pay (like Amex corp cards)?
I'm sure they'll get to it eventually.
In this instance I think it's perfectly acceptable...

1> this is the only Go hosting service I could find that has a free tier

2> we just announced official support yesterday on Heroku

The second comment adds value because it corrects the first commenter's understanding about the state of things. What's wrong with that?
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HN's affinity for marketing like this is an illusion, most company blogs only get submitted by employees and front paged with manipulated votes.
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And "The secondary purpose" was a protest, contradicting the claim protest wasn't one of their purposes.
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Sounds right, though it's confusing when many people use this notation differently. Is there any standard? though, I guess, it's off-topic.
The cover design is always an interesting part of a book. Did you got through a A/B testing phase before settling on this design?

Congrats on the launch!
If you already have a light-recycling setup for the phosphor - maybe you could additionally use brightness-enhancement films to use for light recycling in angular space. Just like in liquid crystal screens, BEFs could refract light rays with high exit angles back towards the phosphor, giving you a collimation of about 45° for rectangular, linear prism films.

But of course, conservation of optical étendue ('optical entropy' so to say) can't be cheated and absorption and scattering losses will be the trade-off for better collimation.
> Seems like a smart way to ease yourself into the corporate world.

Not really easing though; the majority of sales for Xamarin is in the enterprise space.
> Fortelus has “strong internal policies against fraud prevention” [lawyer Daniel Astaire] said in an e-mail.

That's an unfortunate slip of the tongue (pen?) given the fraud.
>Why can't the jerks learn to get along with people?

In some cases, wouldn't the answer be mental health issues (eg. autism)?
What you describe really sounds like functional programming.
Several reasons:

1. Apple and Google are (and were at the time of the Nokia acquisition) larger companies than Microsoft. Microsoft's usual tactics are to throw their weight around, which they can't do when they're the smallest dog in the fight. What's worse, mobile represents a huge amount of revenue for both companies, so they have both the incentive and the ability to outspend Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't have a lower cost base (if anything, it's the opposite) so they have no basis for a sustainable advantage. Mobile was never a huge revenue number for Microsoft, so they always have the option of walking away.

2. Apple and Google also have the vast majority of the market covered from a value proposition standpoint. Apple goes after the high-margin top end, and Google uses an arms-dealer model to go after the middle and low end. What value proposition does Microsoft have that is substantially different? If you can't differentiate your product, and you have the disadvantage of being smaller in a market with strong network effects, you have no basis for a sustainable advantage.

3. The market had already started to mature by the time Microsoft bought Nokia. While you can get in early in a growth market and out-grow the competition, it's an uphill battle if you're as late as Microsoft was. Your competition will still outpace your gains even if you outspend them by a significant margin.

4. Building a niche product (i.e. if you can't be #1 or #2) can still be a profitable strategy, but it is a bad idea for a company like Microsoft. If nothing else, it's a distraction from their core moneymaking activities. Their first instinct would be to leverage their existing platforms to build user share, which would be a negative thing for Microsoft's existing platforms by creating opportunity for competitors as Microsoft's users search for alternatives (see Office on iPad). And because Microsoft has a decentralized power structure, there's not much they can do to prevent this. They're better off not playing in the mobile space at all than aiming to be a niche #3 -- let a smaller, more focused player with a lower cost base take on that role.

At some point, Microsoft will realize that mobile is a game they will never win. While they would be in a much better strategic position if they had a strong mobile presence, wishing that will happen won't make it so. IMO their optimal move is to get in bed with both Apple and Google and make BYOD really awesome if your company uses Microsoft as a back office. Apple would do it because they have little to no presence in the enterprise tech space, and Google would have to do it because otherwise Apple would become the de-facto standard in corporate mobile phones. That position leaves Microsoft with other options and leverage over the industry, which they currently don't have sitting at the bottom and looking up saying "me too!" It's also very hard to do any of this if you're in direct competition with Apple and Google on the OS/handset side.
So wrong. The author has probably never tried RubyMine (or IntelliJ with the Ruby + Rails + etc. plugins).

I was hacking with Pharo Smalltalk just yesterday, so I get what the author means by the niceties of Smalltalk, but Ruby tools from Jetbrains are very nice.
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* Amazon Dash

* API Browser for OS X (kapeli.com)

* "The easiest way to pay at restaurants and bars" (getda.sh)

* Smart driving app (dashby.com)

* Dash Dashboard (thedash.com)
> They merely provided some very useful observations.

Except they're false. False claims + Heroku promotion in a GAE announcement thread. Stay classy, people.

There are lots of bad things to say about GAE without peddling nonsense.

They won't let you run any python module with C code... which means you can forget about using BCRYPT or SCRYPT, for example.

Their image manipulation and edge caching service won't handle any photo wider than 1600px.

Domain name management is shit... you have to use Google Apps if you want that.
The internet didn't kill the "rock star," but it did provide niche "musicians" (i.e. service providers) with a platform to serve niche audiences by drastically reducing cost of entry. Anyone with a camera phone can start up a YouTube channel and become a content creator with almost no resources, but there are still "rock stars" like PewDiePie making millions of dollars with millions of fans.
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No, nor have I missed the particular function described working with Ruby.

But, OTOH, I am aware that its possible to do good-enough-for-many-uses implementations of things for which a complete, general solution is impossible, including the function described.
- I have to search for oAUTH and use it . And having used django user authentication, something similar would be really useful.

- mail : send email on behalf of app users : not supported. Need to integrate with sendgrid or third party libray . native support would be good.

- Image : I could use the blob earlier, but now blobs are deprecated, and need to use google cloud.

I am not regular web developer, so other people may have valid points.
We're trying to build a system where companies feel comfortable giving cards out to all of their employees and then adjust the limits upwards as they build trust internally. The ad-hoc requests features from this example might be best for new/temporary employees or large purchases. Over time I'd hope that most employees will actually have a monthly budget and thus a greater degree of autonomy.
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Just as it was important to people in the pre-1960s southern US that their children only go to school with children whose families they were "comfortable with." Somehow, they've since (somewhat) figured out how to adjust to their discomfort.
> I doubt any of this will improve with a Oracle partnership.

Considering the partnership is around Oracle's cloud offering yeah the partnership isn't going to do anything for their licensing prices.

Honestly I was hoping Microsoft would buy them and improve upon it. They already have some integration but it would be cool if they bundled in the licenses too. Then I'd imagine indie dev would be free.
I think the animation turns it from one of the worst visualizations I have ever seen to one of the best. Its point is ultra clear when you see tiny red dots become huge swathes of overvalued crimson. Texas is amazing. Look how even intra-state, cities crush rural (for now).

This is exhibit A on how animation can transform data visualization.
While we're trotting out anecdotes, I have heard and experienced only the opposite.

One friend in particular who was given a windows phone by his large, seattle-based employer (ahem) had no end of trouble. The UI was great, but basic functionality was terrible. The thing could never handle SMS--we had to call him constantly, just to let him know what was going on, then we all would sporadically receive 4-5 texts from him that made no sense out of context. It was a nightmare.
That doesn't jibe with the map data - land prices in that county are anything but affordable, regardless of how many people live there, right?
askhistorians is one of the only counter examples to my point, specifically because moderators have domain knowledge. they are nowhere near as easily replaceable. iama mods are not expert interviewers, they are trash collectors and coordinators.

something else you will notice about askhistorians is that it doesnt have the usual guard. you dont see greatyellowshark, britishenglishpolice, klyde, krispykrackers, manwithoutmodem, maxwellhill, agentlame. the same reoccurring 100 people have taken control of a large portion of reddit (measured by subscriber)

I think part of the reason askhistorians works so well is because it exists outside the influence of that cabal. They come to their own decisions instead of blanketing policies over hundreds of subreddits at once.
How are the landlords greedy?
Facebook made generics for Golang
Adobe Flash is terrible and it’s time to kill it
The discussion and complaints are mostly about Linux filesystems.

It would be interesting to know how well BSD FFS does and how well ZFS does. Not a whole lot said about Windows either (my anecdotal experiences with NTFS have been pretty good).

The article does touch on one very serious problem faced by all filesystems, and that is the underlying hardware often lies to the OS. That problem will probably get worse before it gets better. Specifically, flash devices have very complex firmware that is often buggy. Also flash devices do so much more to data (e.g. moving data around for wear leveling).
The new GC reduces pauses to the single-digit milliseconds. Rendering every ~15ms seems reasonable under those constraints. Plus I don't think a game engine will typically put a lot of pressure on the garbage collector.

I don't think the new GC precludes Go from being suitable for writing games. On the contrary, I think it is now more suitable, and look forward to using Go for writing games myself.
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Yes, it was interesting from our perspective also. For some participants, the use of the tracking protection feature brought attention to tracking. Further, at least two of the participants described how they researched tracking as a result of using the tool.
> mail : send email on behalf of app users : not supported. Need to integrate with sendgrid or third party libray . native support would be good.

Could you explain this? You want to send outgoing email with your users email addresses in the FROM field?

> Image : I could use the blob earlier, but now blobs are deprecated, and need to use google cloud.

Could you please explain how this is a bad thing? Doesn't google cloud make things easier and faster?
related blog post:

https://blogs.bing.com/search/2015/07/06/plan-your-next-outi...
> This map is measuring the land value within a county. Land values are dependent on population density.

Not strictly, though population density is certainly a factor (and, since its total land value in each county, so is population, which -- as counties are not of uniform size -- is a separate concern from population density. And, probably more directly than either of those, Gross County Product.)
Seem to be true, even mentioning JS in a FP thread means downvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9826659
Some animals sleep the majority of their lives - some bats for instance

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Thanks, that's what I meant.

Re: that list, about 1/3 of the words aren't in any English language I know.
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Heh. Nearly the same thing here but on a personal projects level, no company stuff. I really wanted it to be something I did or for there to be a solution because migration is never fun, but I finally had to bite the bullet.

EDIT: had no idea about the planned downtime. Maybe that explains the random chaos issues I had.
Prices are lower all across the board in Bend. We were looking into some townhouses in Boulder, and they're still several hundred dollars more than what we pay in a nice part of Bend within walking distance of downtown.
Exactly, Xamarin's value proposition is enterprise and medium-large software vendors already on the .NET stack that don't want to have to learn Java and Obj-C and have two codebases.
> "If you look on Google Trends for Xamarin, it's the No. 1 mobile platform now in terms of mindshare."

First of all, Google Trends isn't necessarily the best way to determine that. But second, it doesn't seem to be true? Unless "mobile platform" means something surprising?

edit: Maybe it's just an inaccurate quote? This other quote and text also look puzzling:

> "Every company today is building an average 30-40 mobile apps used by employees, customers, business partners," Friedman says. That stat comes from the company that uses his service

30-40 new apps for each company..? And which is the "company" referred to in the last sentence, as the source for that puzzling stat?
>Folks who can’t afford to live in those places don’t get to take advantage of those labor markets. The demand to live in these places is soaring, but the desire among incumbents to accommodate newcomers is low. Hence NIMBYism, high housing costs, severe inequality—the whole shebang.

NYC has had a massive residential construction boom (see Williamsburg, downtown Brooklyn, Long Island City, &c). Almost all of the housing that goes up is luxury and seems to do very little to bring down the city's extreme housing costs. Maybe severe inequality is driven by factors other than just NIMBYism? The new condos seem to attract wealthy outsiders.
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I rolled with CS5 for so long until the burden of asking clients to provide backwards compatible source files became too large.

It's both remarkable and a shame to see how far the suite has come since the days of Photoshop 1.07 on my old Apple.

Regardless, I'll stand by Rami for the decade it'll take for competing software to mature.
How to STAY FOCUSED AT THE TASK AT HAND
uber?
I'm British and this is the first time that I've seen that spelling.
Why would someone do something irresponsible like handing out new rights? You can't monetize that!
I hate it when I code the solution when I'm sleeping, then I wake up and am forced to code it again for real. It's like the ultimate failure to Ctrl+S
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Yup, I just did a tutorial on using MVM's: http://pokstad.com/2015/07/29/golang_and_docker_on_gae.html
Can you give some examples like the ones he gave in the article but in react+coffeescript without jsx?

edit: Someone else posted that https://github.com/jbhatab/middleman-backbone-react-template...

Everytime I see people saying bad things about coffeescript I really wonder why. This looks way nicer/clearer to me.
> Luckily I decided to do this exactly a year after I started the account, because apparently the terms that I signed up for stipulate that if I cancel before that, I’ll be charged a service fee

There's no cancel fee after 1yr+ membership. To be fair you have the option when you sign up to either go for a year's contract or a month-by-month. The latter as you might expect costs a bit more
> We know from the physics of the brain and of human sensory receptors that it is impossible for a person to have direct access to the knowledge stored as neural connections in someone else’s brain.

Do we? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
what does this have to do with go
science is just a tool that discovers patterns , its not the force itself that is behind the scientific patterns. Evolution is just a stage and is part of the creational process and not the creator itself that triggered the so called evolution in the first place.
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Eventbrite looks so old compared to SUARAY.
I'm not saying that every language is the same. I'm saying it's very difficult to define styles of programming, but if you have a particular style (in this case functional), you will gravitate towards languages that facilitate that style. At the boundary, where a language doesn't have a particular leaning, the style that you will adhere to is going to be influenced much more by the community around the language than its features.
Okay, I know someone here is trying this... success or failure?
Here's what I didn't get from your website: there are typically two wavelengths you're interested in for growing plants, depending on the phenological stage: a red and a blue (I can't remember the exact numbers, but the band is quite narrow). How can it be that your lamps have higher efficiency despite providing a complete spectrum? I don't know anything about light physics, hence my question; intuitively, I'd say you could have higher 'yield' by focusing all energy you put in to one wavelength (or at least, a narrow band).
Reminds me of this post on Medium from a while ago: https://medium.com/funny-stuff/the-fine-art-of-bullshit-c09f...
Cool, hadn't seen this tool. We're using wercker and generally loving it but there's occasionally a problem with the github webhook integration. That said, you can't really beat wercker's price (free in beta for the last few years).

In theory, the prevalence of docker will be good for consumers because we'll be able to swap between this type of service really easily -- just like moving a git repo from Github to Bitbucket.
UDP and TCP include echo ports (port 7 just like ICMP) and many tools that can run in non-privileged mode actually use the UDP echo instead of ICMP.
The map shows total land price in the county. It doesn't measure anything like affordability of land (which would be measured by something like price / unit area of land) or residential affordability (which would be measured by something like price / unit area of home.)
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You have got to be kidding.

You are worried about air miles, but are willing to accept artificial light?

Do you just want to feel like you are being environmentally friendly, or do you actually want to be environmentally friendly?

I've been surprised at how many people only want to feel that way, but don't actually care about being environmentally friendly. (A good example of this is locavores.)

> of tuning the light to suit photosynthesis by using phosphors, I am surprised that has not been possible before.

It has been thought of before, people have been doing it for decades. This is just an incremental improvement.
Bravo! The question that comes next is: how to get the FBI to believe it's doing wrong? The FBI is in Department of Justice, vs the NSA in Department of Defense, so I think that the FBI will be easier to reform. Once that happens, the even the NSA can be reformed by pointing to the FBI as a model.

I think the CIA is hopeless. It's become an NGO effectively.