Part of the social contract in most societies is that the police are the only members of society who can use enough force to kill or injure anyone critically. The governments of these societies create laws to ensure that it is only special well regulated instances when an ordinary citizen can use deadly force (hunting of lower animals and self defense being two examples in the United States). Anywhere these guns can be manufactured successfully thwarts the old laws and contracts.
This means that it will be a "Problem", but no one can say for who. The big gun manufactures are going to be pissed and are already probably already preparing legislation to bitch slap any one who tries to produce these guns. The liberator people are working on making the guns not explode and hurt anyone. The police are scrambling to figure out how to reclaim their sole ownership of force. The people are waiting to see what happens.
You obviously are not above average in terms of height. I'm 6'5" and planes are a nightmare of cramps and bruised knees. A single inch can mean the difference between being able to sleep comfortably on a long flight and staying awake while stiffening up for eight hours.
If you're interested in using Titan from Clojure, then you'll probably want to take a look at Titanium[0] and Ogre[1]. We've been working hard to make these libraries as useful as possible. If you have any questions about how to get started, then please get in touch! My contact information is in my profile. I've been immersed pretty deep in this stack lately and it's been pretty rewarding so far.
The author is is almost exactly the exact opposite of the ideal customer for any startup. He is a venture capitalist and an ad man. He is in the business of buying the startup instead of buying from the startup. He sees orders of magnitudes more startup websites in a month than a customer ever will in their lifetime. He will be looking far more closely at the advertising side of things than a customer and will probably over apply his expertise. Therefore, I don't think his advice will probably be all that useful to founders. Ad hominem is a logical fallacy, but a bayesian's crutch. You can logic it out for yourself, but I don't think this guy knows what he is talking about.
Or it could be that YC knows Mathematica and/or matlab are thinking about launching a cloud computing service. Mathematica definitely is and it will most likely ROFLstomp whatever these guys and other competitors are coming up with. Computer algebra systems and numerical analysis aren't just topics you can sprinkle with "Cloud" dust and have it come out right. Unless these guys have years of experience, YC probably made a prudent decision.
Did the speedup of script execution have other costs? One would imagine that using Clojurescript would incur some other costs somewhere. This feels like a free lunch somehow.
From an earlier comment on here:
>Do I honestly think that there is a whole team of engineers sitting around charting out menstrual cycles for 50% of their users? Nope. Is there a nonzero chance that it might be happening or could happen soon? Yeah I think so.
I'm not so sure that they are doing any of this. I have no proof at all, I don't think anyone outside of Facebook could have proof of anything. The point of the article isn't that I think they are doing this right now, but that they might have reason to do so in the future. Like you've pointed out, they would be fucked if they tried any of this, but it doesn't mean they won't try something similar in terms of data mining and selling your derived personal information to interested 3rd parties.
I'll bet on each tweet I sent out once. I've already got somebody to take me up on Facebook predicting sickness. Send me an email with the bet you want and we can work out the terms of the bet for the tweet you think is a stinker.
For you and I, it's enough to say "I don't trust them". For the normal users of Facebook, people like my classmates, friends, and family members, they have no way of knowing what I mean when I say I don't trust Facebook. They cannot imagine what you and I know to be possible, if not highly improbable. The first question they ask after me saying I don't trust them is why? I've had to explain some variant of this many many times lately and so I've written it up as something I can send them.
And yeah, I'm worried about google, my bank, my phone operator(no smartphone though), and my ISPs. Just because all of these other companies do it doesn't mean it's alright for them to do. I hate that there are hundreds of files out there that have data along the lines of "Zack Maril, Male, 21". I'd like to find ways to prevent companies from collecting all of that information about me. (Using DuckDuckGo and cash only would probably be a great start.)
This means that it will be a "Problem", but no one can say for who. The big gun manufactures are going to be pissed and are already probably already preparing legislation to bitch slap any one who tries to produce these guns. The liberator people are working on making the guns not explode and hurt anyone. The police are scrambling to figure out how to reclaim their sole ownership of force. The people are waiting to see what happens.