calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

The Worlds concept, as far as I can tell, is actually more general than STM and what you described

Where in my comment did I describe Worlds in a limited way? I just gave one small example of one possible application of them, in reply to a comment specifically about their relationship to transactions.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

You're missing the point. Here's the basic transaction paradigm for remote resources:

    try:
        remote_resource.start_transaction()
        #dostuff
        remote_resource.commit()
    except e:
        remote_resource.rollback()

How do you do the same thing when modifying a local variable? You might try making a copy, modifying that, and then assigning back, but that's boilerplate, and it's easy to get wrong. Worlds are a more primitive mechanism that would be baked into a language, such that building a generic transaction api for local actions on top of worlds would be trivial. The fact that it could look exactly like the transaction api that you currently know and love for remote resources is a feature.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

Dumping the current state with deepcopy is probably prohibitively expensive for real world use. Toss in some copy-on-write, and I think you've got something simple and usable...

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

Don't worry, my comment was intended to be fun. Apologies if that didn't come across.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

Standard British usage is punctuation inside only if part of the quotation itself

The period is a part of the quotation itself.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

Ignoring that it's not actually a sentence:

3. Use a pair of commas in the middle of a sentence to set off clauses, phrases, and words that are not essential to the meaning of the sentence. Use one comma before to indicate the beginning of the pause and one at the end to indicate the end of the pause.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

While we're being pedantic assholes:

I was with him until he said, "I could care less."

Couldn't, dammit, COULD NOT. This irks me to no end.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/01/

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=damnit

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dammit

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

He would probably love nothing more than to get sued by Apple, honestly.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

s/ice cream/samsara/g

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

I have developer sandbox access, but I haven't seen anything about this rollout, nor have I gotten any invites to hand out. If/when I do, I'd be happy to share a few here.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

So you're saying your mind isn't blown? Hmm, might have to start shaving my head...

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

as far as I know they already are for some categories.

The fact that CL is already doing the thing that Godin just descended from the sky to tell us CL should do is, to you, evidence that this isn't 'unbelievably weak'? Will you start reading my blog if I promise to fill it with gems like "What if Google started matching ads with searches?" or "What if Amazon started up an affiliate program?"

For the record, I think Spolsky can be pretty unbelievably lame, as well. People have been talking about how CL should monetize for years.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

Gosh, all that sounds amazing. Let me blow your minds, though: what if CL cost two dollars?

This is unbelievably weak. Godin's not exactly on a hot streak right now, is he?

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

I guess my point in saying he's not a people person is to reiterate that folks should just kind of ignore him when he says something like this. Getting personally offended by a Richard Stallman comment is like getting personally offended by a young child wetting the bed. His role is 'tireless proponent of a powerful idea', not 'personable leader'.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

Have you met Richard Stallman? Not exactly a people person, anyways :)

To be clear, I have nothing but mad respect for Stallman, even though my personal beliefs differ from his. He can be extreme sometimes, but his firm adherence to his beliefs is important. Calling him a traitor is completely out of line.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

After looking at the actual site, the worst thing about it turns out to be the logo. Seriously, the two squids holding tentacles is one of the most disturbing SFW images I've seen in a while.

Anyways, I don't see anything about this that's as horribly unethical as the picture the article is trying to paint. It's certainly not as bad as the Get Satisfaction fiasco, where GS was doing everything short of directly claiming to be an official support channel for companies that had no affiliation. This is just a lame aggregation with a lamer business model. I'm more disappointed in Seth for a lack of creativity, style, and value.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

Do MS have history of vaporous hardware announcements?

No, they have a history of promising breakthrough innovation and then woefully underdelivering.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

You're right, I misread it as "The prisoners get the Warden to label the boxes randomly", with the same implicit assumption as anigbrowl, that the prisoners don't have enough information beforehand to assign an order to the boxes.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

It was a funny reference to Federer blowing it against his final opponent at this year's US Open, despite dominating the whole tournament.

calambrac

17 lat temudiscuss

I'm all for thinking outside the box, but the whole point of a puzzle is to set up a set of constraints and work your way from there. The solution to #1 seems to contradict that spirit - without spoiling it, it's true the description didn't say they couldn't do what they need to do, but it also didn't say they couldn't riot, kill all the guards, and just escape to avoid playing the game altogether...

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