Online purchases would be great, now how about an ISP that sells me the bandwidth to do it at a reasonable price that isn't Comcast/Cox/Time Warner/At&t? There's a reason I buy physical media.
I think you raise a very interesting point. When you read stories about trading, often people bring up the question, "What value does it provide to society?" Much of the commentary I read wants to apply that judgement to trading, but nowhere else. Are designer jeans a benefit to society? Is fast food? Are casinos? Does everyone's job need to be beneficial to society? And if so, who makes that call?
This is a totally brilliant way of illustrating the cost of social media. It's interesting how many people are calling this blackmail and completely missing the point.
What do you mean by that? Scala supports closures, currying, immutable data structures, recursion. I'm failing to see how these concepts are less obvious in Scala.
Check which ISPs offer service there. For example, if you intended to get DSL, the new apartment might be far from the central office or you might only get a service that the apartment management has an agreement with.
I don't agree with that approach. It sounds nice for a sysadmin, but as a programmer I don't want to have to wait for you or the distributor to approve and package the libs I need to work with.
I had an idea like this a while back, but as far as I know there is no shell support for it. Basically, you would install decorators in your current shell instance. The decorator could act as a filter for all stream io. Then you would not need any special commands or aliases, just configuration for how to highlight patterns.
Youtube denied the ability for UMG to pull content that UMG does not own, but Youtube provided no evidence of why that ability doesn't exist. UMG cited portions of a particular contract, which makes me wonder if the contract has ambiguities in it or Youtube has been caught with its pants down.
If you didn't have some leverage over the company, it would not be wrong. If you were, say, lead engineer, and knew that training a replacement would take quite some time, then it would be wrong.
For me, Scala has a couple killer projects going for it that should greatly help adoption: ensime and simple-build-tool. An IDE and a build environment that doesn't suck. When you're just starting out with a language, being able to get going on a project quickly is key to not losing interest. And these two projects fit that need perfectly.
Seems like a cool idea, but doesn't have enough fare data. If I leave from Chicago Midway and check non-stop flights only, I can go nowhere in the continental U.S.
"It is my firm belief, and I say this as a dictum, that all these tools now at our disposal, these things part of this explosive evolution of means of communication, mean we are now heading for an era of solitude. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal — be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever — human solitude will increase in direct proportion." -Werner Herzog
I have used it. I like it quite a bit. It's very simple and integrates nicely with Scalate, a Scala templating library.
Scalatra + Scalate + development using simple-build-tool (using ~ prepare-webapp) is a pretty killer combination, in my opinion. The feedback cycle is every bit as fast as rails.