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You have to understand that no comment is about describing reality as it is, but rather someone's attempt to make reality conform to their own ideological prejudices.

If you just want to learn about the features introduced in C++11/14, I wrote compiler-specific books about those: http://cpprocks.com

I think it might be OK for one-off payments, but I couldn't find anything other than manual setup of recurring payments on their web site. Price wise it's comparable to Paypal though. The trouble for me is that it doesn't integrate with my shopping cart (getdpd.com).

Aside from merchant account setup, last time I looked (4 years ago), Payment Express worked out to be really expensive when charging in USD. I think it was in part due to merchant account/currency conversion charges by the bank. It was significantly more expensive than Paypal. I don't know if the situation has changed since then.

If you already know C++ and just want to get up to speed with C++11/14 features, I wrote several books aimed at specific feature sets supported by different compilers (GCC, Clang, MSVC). Check them out at http://cpprocks.com.

What are you using now?

I wonder if Stripe is planning to launch in New Zealand any time soon - it's very close to Australia :) I'm really keen to stop relying on Paypal for accepting payments.

Great quote! Job creation is such a short-sighted goal, when we should really be looking at an organised transition to less and less work. Things are going that way anyway, but in an entirely uncontrolled fashion which will lead (perhaps is leading already?) to a lot of social problems. Instead of attempting to go down that path, Y Combinator just wants to prop up the existing system it seems?

This is a very interesting project! I backed it.

I've only tried Xiki in a semi-broken state for now, via the SublimeXiki plugin and with Ruby 2.0 (which mostly doesn't work).

One question I have is how are you planning to handle navigation? E.g. when a command produces large output, it isn't very convenient to scroll around in the file. I didn't see this addressed in the videos.

I'm confused, is there a WebGL version of the framework as well? It would be really great to have that!

If you squint in just the right way so as not to see any of the braces, semicolons and parentheses in the first example, then naturally we are going to disagree about the amount of noise :)

I think generic lambdas provide for this in C++14.

I see what you mean. Yes, the if in a macro is a problem. I haven't addressed macros, that's a whole different can of worms.

This seems to be missing backslashes. I haven't considered how to deal with preprocessor macros, but the if statement converts very simply:

    if !__allocation__.IsRetry()
        __object__ = __allocation__.ToObjectChecked()
        if __object__ == (ISOLATE)->heap()->exception(); RETURN_EMPTY
        RETURN_VALUE

This isn't ambiguous like the example you suggested before.

My goal was to make the code remain recognisably C++, but remove some of the noise.

I'd make this parse as "if (a) { if (b) { c; d; } }" and leave it at that. One of the reasons for significant indentation is to discourage this kind of code layout because it's hard to read.

I think uniform initialization needs a lot of work before it can become the one and only mechanism for initialization. Currently it isn't anywhere near uniform enough. But aside from that, I think it would be fine to use curly braces for initialization as long as they are freed from the burden of delimiting code blocks.

You could do it by separating the body with a semicolon:

    if something_is_true(); log("warning!")

I haven't really considered the preprocessor as I prefer to avoid it as much as possible.

As somebody posted in another comment, it looks like it's already been done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7444459

Interesting, thanks for the link. This does look quite similar!

Well I've written quite a bit of CoffeeScript, and while I had a few issues with incorrect code translation to JavaScript, I don't recall ever having problems with mis-indented code.

Yeah, I expected a mixed response. The "missed tab problem" always crops up and is vastly overblown. C++ of course has the "misplaced semicolon" counterpart to it:

    while (i < 100); //loop body is empty
    {
        // random unnamed block instead of loop body
    }

Oh, and it's kind of difficult to get a bigger screen on a laptop.

Well, I didn't say that Python is the pinnacle of minimalism :) However, it's hard to reduce C++ to Lisp syntax without completely changing the nature of the language.

Any specific reasons why it's error-prone? I've just seen someone post a link to SPECS in the comments to the post - it's interesting but takes a very different direction. I wanted the code to remain recognisably C++.

Obstacles could also be incorporated into the race.

As somebody else mentioned elsewhere in the thread, get involved with 350.org, or alternatively Greenpeace. AFAIK, these are the largest and most effective organisations in the climate change area.

We're well past the point where changing individual behaviour will be enough (and also, this strategy has been promoted over the last 30 years and largely failed - emissions are still rising). We need protests and actions that will lead to policy changes around the world and the shutdown of the fossil fuel industry.

So... you're saying there wasn't enough government control then.

SharePoint isn't a good product, but I'm pretty sure it's successful: http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/11/12/claiming-66-enter...

Thanks, I haven't heard about multicast delegates before, and I need to learn more about FRP.

I think you make a good point, but there seems to be more to the OP's events and operations than you suggest. The 'events' are implied to be broadcast versus 'messages' which are sent to a particular object (i.e. point-to-point) in languages that I know.

The OP is also suggesting a hierarchy of 'operations', with sub-operations communicating with the parent operations. I don't think this maps directly onto language features (again, in languages I'm aware of).

I'd be interested to hear which languages you had in mind, and some more detail on how you envisage the mapping to language features.