krichman

I, too, think Rust is going to be revolutionary in the video game industry. Were I a game programmer I would start learning now. In two years at least 51% of all new video game code will be in Rust.

It's either to be able to sue a rival in the event it scoops their features or to exercise power over their serfs.

The GP wants to limit the betas to what I will refer to as actual developers, measured by those who have submitted an app, so you both want it to be more restricted than it is.

Well, or it could be that the people that don't get responses are louder so we think they are lax and you are lucky. Xcode still sucks, despite all our bug reports, though, so I am inclined to believe they ignore most requests. (Were your bugs security-related?)

Slipping in an extra paper is not the same at all; you are adding terms to the contract that the signer could not possibly have seen. By changing the small print you are being sneaky, but they had a chance to fully examine what they were agreeing to and were lax in that.

Do they still send cards in the mail? It would be interesting to see if something they sent as an unrelated advertisement would be covered by your contract if you can prove they received the contract and the card was mailed after.

This could be a whole new era of spam prevention, by being personally as full of it as every EULA. Just send out contracts, "by contacting me in any way you agree to the following...". Companies would be terrified to send anything at all to anyone.

I signed up because of their Clojure articles. I clicked the little stealth bomber and they let me use it without signing in through Twitter, Facebook, or Google.

They are doing a good job, but not a great job. I find interesting articles, but also some celebrity gossip will sneak in there. For example, I learned yesterday that Jennifer Aniston looks fantastic with or without makeup.

I like it, though, they find some articles that don't seem to be on Reddit or HN but which are still kind of useful.

It's like Catch-22 but horrific instead of funny.

Planck length and time are curious; but incompleteness is a mathematical construct, so it's true for all universes, simulated or not.

The original assumption that the joke is sexist relies on presuming that the joke makes women into objects used only for sex, but not vice-versa for men. So by claiming that the joke is sexist I think we can reasonably assume the person making the claim believes the engineer and the mathematician to be male.

Yes. Why just yesterday I read that male time travellers are pigs for abusing their information advantage to start relationships with women. That's sexist and also no woman would ever do anything like that even if she were allowed to time travel as the principle protagonist.

I mean text that approaches natural language if not natural language. I think something like Inform 7 is far more likely to be adopted by that audience than a visual graph that is just an abstraction of loops and functions. I think the benefits of a textual language matching a domain are much greater than a general-purpose visual programming language.

If it targets, say, a visual learner, I think a graph language won't help unless they are already visualising the program as a graph.

I always use a single exit point in my functions and also a goto to get there from the middle.

p(The NSA is lying|we've already witnessed them lying to Congress)?

Visual programming is not going to solve this unless the visualisation matches their domain-specific notation instead of a visual graph that has separate edges for "then" and "else". At that point, why bother with the visual notation instead of just putting it in text they understand equally well?

And visual programming solves this how? People will have to learn how to connect arcane bricks instead of writing arcane text. Programming isn't going to be democratised until we approach natural language interpreters.

I don't think what he did is ethical and I would be happy to see him jailed for an actual crime.

But talking to a webserver isn't like entering a house. It's like making a phone call. "Hi.. my name is Firef--, I mean, Mobile Safari. Can I have your email?"

I think creating a precedent for prosecution when accessing a number of web pages after spoofing a header is far, far worse than making an example of a troll that exploited a loophole to grab information that he shouldn't have. When talking to a webserver, without a clear separation between public and private with something like an API key or username/password, the only possible convictions we should allow is over DoS and that is only if there is malicious intent.

Ugh, I hate these. Instead of disabling it at the OS level, where they should do it; they create a "let's give unethical companies another bit of information" option.

This is absurd. If there's no access controls, but it's still a crime, we're going to have to determine if we can legally access all web addresses beforehand. But that's what 403 status codes are for.

On the contrary, if I see someone writing in Clojure or Scala it is a good indicator that they can be taken seriously.

It's like how more Americans are killed by police than by terrorists, but we "need" PRISM and more SWAT teams instead of better police training. Children are in far more danger of living in a nanny state than having their lives ruined by online pornography.

If the USA was really interested in saving the most lives possible, it would use War on Terror funds to do cancer research instead. Instead, it likes having the excuse to issue legislation such as the Patriot Act.

The only way to be sure is to conduct an experiment such as an A/B test.

> doing open calls

I like gittip and your philosophy. I think you've convinced me to sign up.

Microsoft does have incredible R&D. If they did some serious culling of whatever bureaucratic cancer has infected the company, they could probably make some compelling B2C products. I bet their B2B products will sustain them for a while, though.

Can you not use a TLS connection?

"I pledge allegiance to the wealthy of the United States of America, and to their police force that beats and lies, one Nation under God, unaccountable, with liberty and air travel for few."

The problem is that half the population is below average in terms of mental ability and education.

A bigger problem: the state's attorneys and judges should know about the Bill of Rights, and they are the ones with the actual power here. With such a high bail it appears this particular judgeship was granted erroneously.

Yes, and I wash my hands also. But consider that you don't often shake penises as a greeting. I presume the GP's theory to be that a penis doesn't need to be washed regularly because it seldom contacts foreign bacteria.

It may not be broken but it definitely has been co-opted.