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Wasn't the java configuration what spring wanted to replace in the first place? The idea was to follow the inversion of control principle. Here's how wikipedia defines it:

>In software engineering, Inversion of Control (IoC) is an object-oriented programming practice where the object coupling is bound at run time by an assembler object and is typically not known at compile time using static analysis.

Cross-platform tools often have a single user interface that tends to look foreign on every platform (sencha touch), or they force you to code a different ui for every targeted platform (titanium?).

How is the ui problem is usually tackled with haxe? I tried googling a bit, but didn't come up with a conclusive answer.

Does anyone have an idea what kind of programming jobs lend themselves best to part-time work? The author doesn't mention the kinds of projects he works on.

I'm unemployed since last week and I've been trying to find a part-time programming job for more than three months in Geneva, Switzerland. Part-time freelancing sounds great, but I have no idea where to look for clients.

> value truth over the ego of some lesser being.

This sounds better if you just say

> value truth over the ego

If the discussion is about someone being a lesser being, you're no longer talking about truth.

It's good to stay away from an organization that rewards lying. You're lucky to have found this out before working there.

This proposal is not just an attack against Hollywood, it aims to replace cinema with something else. It's about actively working to destroy an art form. It sounds just as over the top as shutting down the internet to curb piracy.

If you really want to devote your life to destroying something, please don't just jump on the latest annoying thing. Make a list of the most evil things you can do something about, and see if Hollywood's political influence really makes it to the top.

The claim that Hollywood was created to evade Edison's patents is dubious.

According to "A history of narrative film" by David A. Cook "The reason why a full-scale Eastern-based industry moved its entire operation to southern California during these years has never been completely clear, but the general contours of the phenomenon are obvious enough". He then lists these reasons:

- the type of temperate climate required for year-round production (most shooting was done outdoors at the time)

- a wide range of topography within a 50 mile radius

- the status of Los Angeles as a professional theatrical center

- a low tax base

- cheap and plentiful labor and land

And this other study comes to the opposite conclusion: "People are least happy in their 40s and early 50s. They reach a nadir at a global average of 46".

http://www.economist.com/node/17722567

Yesterday I was trying to make an ebook out of a comic I made, where there is one image per page. The designers of epub and mobi apparently didn't think it useful to be able to put an image in the center of a page, it has to be glued to the top. That seems so idiotic that I'm still hoping I didn't look well enough.

I'm also trying to find an easy way to make a book into an android and iphone app. O'reilly packages some of its books as apps using the aldiko reader, but I haven't found any explanation about how to do this.

It looks stunning.

It hadn't occurred to me that phones could be used as sophisticated remote controllers. What technology do you use for real-time communication?

Yes. You could also say that the study shows how students behave when you tell them they're average. I believe there was another study that showed how a good music student could be turned into a bad music student just by telling him he was bad.

I overlooked the name of the site and went there expecting to read something about people who start religions. It turns out the evangelist metaphor does not hold up very well.

Word and Excel had an unfair advantage over Wordperfect and lotus 1-2-3 because Microsoft had a quasi-monopoly over the operating system. At some point a judge had even decided Microsoft should be split into an os company and an application company.

http://www.economist.com/node/593691

The situation is very different with android, but the analogy is obvious.

My guess is wacom managed to improve the quality enough to make it usable for artists. The other pens seem to be mainly useful for ocr, and are marketed as tools for taking notes.

The automatic vectorization of the drawings is also nice.

Thirty or forty years ago, people apparently had much stronger identities, according to an old french psychologist I heard on the radio. People were much more inclined to think of themselves as 'a communist' or 'an artist'. It's true that these thoughts are prisons, but not having them sends people to the psychologist for other reasons. Unfortunately I don't remember what he said about these new problems.

I guess one problem with discarding your identity as a father is that you are also questioning responsibilities that are vital to your children. Another problem of going without identity is that having a sense of belonging to some community becomes more difficult. That's something I have been missing personally.

Ward Cunningham disagrees with your interpretation of his metaphor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE&t=4m18s

He explains that technical debt is code written before you have a complete understanding of the problem to solve. You repay the debt by refactoring it when you have a better understanding. This only works if the code is clean enough to be refactored.

There is a way to install the old plugin in firefox 4. Look at the post by sergueybloom in this forum: http://support.delicious.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID...

Freedom of religion is something else than making exceptions to other laws because of religion.

Freedom of religion is the right to believe whatever you want and not be discriminated because of it. There needs to be a freedom of religion because there is such a strong tendency to discriminate against minority religions.

Similarly the law needs to be the same for men and women, but the tendency to discriminate is so strong that there needs to be a law against discrimination based on gender.

The french did pass a law about using french in official government publications, in all advertisements, in all workplaces, in commercial contracts, in some other commercial communication contexts, in all government-financed schools, and some other contexts:

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

The french wikipedia page mentions that this law was later substantially watered down by the constitutional council.

I was referring to this sentence:

Deeper, more meaningful systems yield lifelong hobbies, not disposable media

I like how he opposes lifelong hobbies to disposable media. It's completely natural coming from a game designer, but to me it also sounds like he unintentionnaly questions the meaningfulness of art. This inspires me sentences that are not entirely clear, late at night.

I like the opposition of lifelong hobbies to disposable media.

Next time someone asks if games are art, dismiss art as disposable media. But seeing art as a consumer product is sterile. It's healthier to consider it a lifelong hobby. In the end, conclude that the artist is the one who plays the game, not the author.

I wasted so much time playing the first Steambird, it's great, a masterpiece! I really hope the second one won't become my lifetime hobby.

As a developer I don't write anything I submit anywhere, but I have had some experience with rejection letters when trying to publish my comics. Most publishers have a standard polite rejection that says the comic doesn't fit in any of their collections. But my favorite rejection letter was actually a checklist. It was a pretty devastating list of everything that could go wrong in a comic, but only one item was checked. It was a relief to see that while I didn't meet their criterias I still had most things right.

This was a relatively small publisher at the time and I suppose that they had started by writing a letter for every rejection, then found that many of these letters fell into similar categories, which allowed them to rationalize the process when they started getting more propositions.

You're trying to help someone who lost his self-confidence by making him feel ridiculous. It can't work.

Advising someone lonely to "Go meet some people" is a bit like telling him to be happy. How do you do that? If he has trouble speaking to other people, a good start could be to talk to a psychologist or a priest or anyone whose job is to listen.

I'm surprised he writes selling yourself sounds almost noble. To me it sounds literally like prostitution.

Ask how to make friends and everybody will tell you to have a hobby or join a club.

And when you do, you indeed meet people who only do these things because they enjoy them, already have enough friends and no time for new ones.

Or maybe it just looks that way to me when I'm in a bad mood like now.

I was talking from a theoretic point of view. In standard economic theory an outcome is considered good if it makes all participants better off. Economists consider that people can agree on this.

Economists don't even try to answer the question of which distribution of wealth is fair. That's why mainstream economic theory does not concern itself with this question. All the economists say is that everybody should be richer if markets work well, they have no opinion about how rich the rich should be.

However the distribution of wealth is a very relevant question to a great number of people. If a majority thinks the outcome of the market is not satisfactory, they can correct it with politics.

Markets can't work without property rights. If people agree on property rights, they have implicitly created a law.

The market is created by laws, laws are created by politicians, politicians are elected. That's how a democracy should work, anyway.

City planning is something complicated where I'm not so sure a pure market-driven solution would be optimal. Markets only allocate resources well when there are no externalities. They do nothing towards a fair distribution of wealth. A good example of poor city planning caused by the market is the housing bubble.

I don't know the situation in New York, but if hotels were in fact crowding out the poor from the city, it would be perfectly legitimate to ask if this is desirable.

There are countries where people are not used to having conversations. I've heard of a wedding of a cameroonian to an american, where the cameroonian guests thought the american guests were crazy because they spoke so much.

"Talk less" is only good advice for those who already talk a lot. I had to learn to say things without caring too much for their relevance. It helped a lot with conversations.