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Even the most developed countries are very much quilty of the same. Just a week ago we had a thread about deforestation of the Pacific temperate rainforests.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20546288

If you're interested in how this could be automated, check out Polly[1]. There is also similar framework in GCC[2], but as can be seen from the blog post, there is room for improvement.

[1] http://polly.llvm.org

[2] http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Graphite

In Finland, there hasn't yet been a vote about a petition in Parliament. The first petition with enough signatures was submitted in October, and the signatures will first have to be verified.

Yes, according to the author of Bacon, it is heavily inspired by the JS flavor of Rx, RxJS.

We're pragmatic about FRP and also rely heavily on Backbone. For some cases, the MVC approach seems better, for others Bacon is a better fit.

In Flowdock, there is a form that automatically validates parts of the data in JS while needs to confirm other parts with server. During server-side validation, a loading indicator is shown and success enables the submit button. Using Bacon, it has been easier to focus on the logic instead of handling state. But the logic is quickly quite hairy, indeed.

Japsu pointed out that there is a TodoMVC implementation with Bacon and Backbone, but it'd certainly be interesting to see/do a pure-FRP implementation.

Bacon.js[1] is another functional reactive programming library for JavaScript. Many similar concepts to RX.js, but the library is much smaller. While Bacon.js might not be the most mature library around, I've used it successfully on (almost) daily basis for few months.

[1] https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js

It's proven that people have become very good at ignoring banner ads. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness.html

There are libraries to handle stemming and Unicode equivalence which are easy to add into this kind of boolean search. If ranking documents would definitely mean that some other approach, e.g. vector space model, should be used.

https://github.com/aurelian/ruby-stemmer http://unicode-utils.rubyforge.org

As a user, i've been occasionally fristrated with the decentralized nature of Maven. The isn't any single repository which would contain all packages (especially rc/beta versions). And in my experience repos and which repos are used to distributed a package tend to change fairly often. More often than not, I have to hunt for new repos when building from scratch.

Maven is also very slow when your project has ~10 repos and you need to download multiple dependencies. Having your own repo might be a necessity.

The fund should probably be marketed as startup decelerator.

They smelt aluminium and generate electricity from geothermal sources. Because of abundant source of energy, Iceland is potential location for many power-intensive industries.

I don't mind the mouse lag in normal use, but it's very annoying in FPS games. I've actually spent a day or two tweaking OS X mouse acceleration curves and whatever settings I could find. At the desktop I could get more "windows-y" feel, but always when I tried new settings TF2 the feeling was still wrong.

The lag author described is a plausible cause for my experiences.

I sometimes listen to ambient-ish classical music while coding. Ólafur Arnalds and Jóhann Jóhannsson have been recently on my list.

Emoji code points (including the pile of poo) have actually been in Unicode since 6.0, but now they've added colored "emoji style" variants for the characters. Previously the standard only defined black and white "text style" glyphs.

The corporation is a separate legal entity from it's owners, and thus is taxed separately. In step E the good being exchanged is money.

Either that or wait until last version of IE which doesn't support it has died. Might happen in time for HTML5 becoming W3C recommendation in 2022.

Even though Growl 1.3.0 was distributed via App Store with the same price tag, the source code was published at http://code.google.com/p/growl/source. Seems like that practice has stopped as well.

https://github.com/lautis/lisp-prolog/blob/master/lisp.pl

Tiny lisp written in Prolog in exchange for some course credits.

git rebase

http://progit.org/book/ch6-4.html

Numbers in commit messages don't really make any sense. I don't understand what value they might have. The narrative of your codebase is hard to follow when large number of your commits don't have any message explaining what you've done.

I like to commit (quite) frequently when working on something, but later I feel that work-in-progress commits are just hindrance. When looking at project history after two year, I'll be glad if there is a single, larger commit "implemented feature x". Rebase is your friend.

More comprehensive data about income distribution in Finland over time:

http://www.stat.fi/til/tjt/2009/tjt_2009_2011-05-20_tau_002_...

Statistics Finland provide data about income distribution, but not much about wealth.

Wealth distribution did become more even from 60s to mid 80s, but after that the trend has reversed.

Military discipline developed from the necessity of training reliable soldiers who don't question critical orders.

Military discipline was a necessity to get a company, a battalion, and larger units to work together at all. Strict organization is necessity as chaos is unmanageable with traditional communication means.

Modern organizations have moved on from rigid, hierarchal organizational models to network-centric models. Even military organizations have moved to this direction (discipline and military courtesy is still maintained).

Success is hard to measure, but Israel's high tech industry is some indication of the benefits of military discipline.

High tech industry has been proved to benefit from military funding. Israel spends larger portion of its GDP to (military) R&D than any other nation.

I would guess that China will provide infrastructure to some african countries in exchange for raw materials. Political stability will also improve as China will support the regimes regardless of lack of democracy.

When Chinese labor becomes too expensive, (some of) it will be outsourced to Africa. Chinese economy seems to be in pretty good shape for this, but political instability could ruin it.

Jobs moved to China are likely to be lost forever. Automation is still far from autonomous: some human interaction is required.

Factory automation was a trend long before China become "capitalist". If other costs are more important for some indistry, they wouldn't move to China in the first place. Besides, for most production transportation costs using container ships are neglible.

No. The scope of plugin seems to be to enable audio and video tags, not to provide JS API. Html5media basically just replaces each video and audio tag with FlowPlayer (swf video/audio player) instances if browser doesn't support HTML5 tags.

REST known by everyone and what Roy Fielding described are quite different beasts. There should be a different name for "plain old HTTP APIs" using JSON or XML.

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...

Foobar2000 should have this functionality.

Norway is a very secular society. While majority of people do belong to the state church, they do not practice religion regurlarly. In 2005 poll only 32% said that they believe in existence of God.

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

I believe the most popular website is essentially an interface for this collection of hyperlinked documents. Document browsing is still one of the killer features of web.

HTML is not a bad layout engine for GUI apps. It may not have been initially been designed as one, but after 15 years of development it seems to be pretty pleasant to work with as there are people who want to build their desktop apps with HTML.

Obviously, the standard request-response model of HTTP is limiting for interactive apps. Bi-directional communication within request isn't possible and handshaking is a bit too expensive. But hey, this problem is actually solved: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/.