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They're certainly getting full use out of the CSS animation support in Safari. Check out the Mac and iPod sections, and the animations when you move between the different groups of products. They've replaced the old horizontal scrolling display with some bouncy back and forth.
There's no reason for four diesel generators when two would do. There's no reason for multiple chemical volume and control systems.

So you are saying this reactor type is still safe even when both diesels fail or when the chemical volume/control systems fail?

I'm honestly curious (my knowledge about nuclear reactors is fairly minimal).
Perl 5.12.3 represents approximately four months of development since Perl 5.12.2 and contains approximately 2500 lines of changes across 54 files from 16 authors.

Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.12.3:

[...], Father Chrysostomos, [...] !!!

Good to see Father Chrysostomos cranking out the code in between delivering presents around the world with his team of flying reindeer. Um. Seems like there's at least one Joycean nerd Perl hacker out there, I seem to remember that this is a coinage from near the beginning of Ulysses and it translates from ancient greek into modern English as Golden Mouth?
I don't know if requiring people to enter & verify their e-mail address is such a good idea for anonymity... (it is for data quality).
I'm a computational physicist, and let me tell you: physicists make lousy programmers. (I refer less to myself and more to the folks who wrote the indecipherable code I have to work on...)
Me love you long time!
> There absolutely is no added value in having to wait for a week for delivery of something that could have been done instantly …

Agreed. I wonder how long it will be before they release Mac OS X upgrades through the App Store.
How long before someone starts a start-up that adds open / click tracking to SES for a small fee on top? Given that SES is an order of magnitude cheaper, there is quite a bit of room to play with.
I didn't get this one:

The Engineer - Killed a zombie with The Wrench

If this is a joke about Visual Studio, I must not be using it enough because I don't get it at all.
It wouldn't be associated with an authenticated user, though, so you wouldn't be able to show other posts by a given author...

Why not just use pastebin or something?
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Funny how Google wants to implement a curator instead of the obvious solution: an Android app search engine.

They tackle everything with algorithms, why not this problem?
reminds me a bit of gerhard richter paintings
XBMC remote needs that because it has a "show your texts on the TV" feature which you really, really shouldn't turn on. Trust me.

It's a shame that you can't pick and choose, as a user, because they can't remove that permission without breaking that feature for everyone [who?] that uses it. It's open-source though, so the good news is you could remove that permission and feature yourself if you really want it (you should: it's pretty nifty).
And think of all the murderers who can't be caught because the walls of private homes absorb the sound waves rather than recording them and sending them to the government.

But seriously, governments are supposed to enforce laws to preserve the rights of people to be free, not strip away the rights to enforce the laws. People's freedom is primal, privacy is an important part of freedom (it means you can do lawful activities without fear of repercussions, either from governments abusing their power, or criminal groups which have used the same systems), and so violating people's privacy to increase crime detection rates is a bit like rigging your house with dynamite to stop vandals.

Even if you trust your government and ISP employees, strong physical and computer security is hard, ISP data retention systems are complex, and if the data is retained, sufficiently motivated criminal groups can get access to it easily.
The parent is right: the boxes are more prominent, the old design looked much "cleaner" and lighter.

Compare the US page

http://www.apple.com/ipod/

with the AT page

http://www.apple.com/at/ipod/

This picture shows the US page details (above) vs the AT page details (under):

http://i55.tinypic.com/2wpnv61.png

(Please refer to the picture if the AT site changes to the new design before you read this.)
For data quality, you should probably provide definition by example for the level (director vs. Vp vs. Senior can be ambiguous in early stages)
I suppose it depends on what your goals are, but I would say that several fairly difficult yoga classes per week give a very well-rounded level of fitness.

You won't build sheer mass like you will with intense weights, and you won't develop tremendous leg muscles and lung power as with cycling or running, but if you just want to be fit, I highly recommend yoga.

A particularly great thing about yoga is that you're working on your breathing, posture, and flexibility. All of these are things we tend to neglect in tech jobs.
The Bank Fightback: something everyone agrees on
My opinion on the redesign: The difference in design between the old and new site is very analogous to the design changes between the 3gs and 4. The boxes are much squarer.
I don’t think that’s really the old design you are looking at. Maybe a caching issue on your side.

Archive.org has sporadic and broken coverage of apple.com but here is how the iPod page looked in September 2010: http://web.archive.org/web/20080613084354/www.apple.com/itun...

It has a different general layout and is much more cluttered. Product pages are, as I said, unchanged: http://web.archive.org/web/20080503193605/www.apple.com/ipod... I don’t know about shadows since images on archive.org are broken.

Edit: Those boxes already had shadows in 2008: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zurb/3045535592/ Must be a caching issue on your side that you are not seeing them. Here is also an old screenshot showing nicely how they de-cluttered the category (Mac, iPod) pages: http://www.mac4ever.com/images/images_full/new_imac_design.p...
Exactly! I'm not interested in Android precisely because I cannot sell nor buy Android apps from my country. There is also very little demand from clients (compared to iOS).

The problem for Google is that people from Romania have been able to buy and sell iOS apps since 2008 or so.

I do desktop Java apps on OSX so it would actually have been a smoother transition to do some Android coding on the side, but I learned Objective-C instead. Then I bought iOS gear for testing so I really don't see myself doing an Android app very soon or buying an Android device.

The International market seems to be a big problem: it's semi-amusing to read a new announcement and then look into the specifics to learn it is US-only or for a very limited subset of countries (the last ones I looked at were Amazon Kindle developer program, Amazon's new Android AppStore).
Yeah, that's one of the most valuable tips I got from the whole GTD thing: stop your email client notifying you when new email arrives. Productive email is asynchronous.

Closing it down is best, but when I accidentally leave it open I still don't want the message count visible. In addition to enabling the Labs feature to turn off the inbox count in the web UI, I also have a one-line Greasemonkey script to remove it from the document/tab title.
Translate simultaneously to different languages
Considering that most of the world is run through computers and you cannot use computers, how do you plan to do this?
Cloud Robotics FTW
Maybe someone from google is reading this: PLEASE ALLOW THE REST OF THE F*ING WORLD TO SELL APPS.this is killing me here in Romania. I have 3 cool, good looking games (angry birds competitors), just sitting and waiting.
That's what got me into it, too. Despite years of curiosity, I could never overcome the discomfort/social fear element.

To anyone else who is hesitant, remember this: yoga people are very non-judgmental. Everyone remembers what it was like just starting out, and nobody will be put off by your clumsiness, chubbiness, or ridiculous clothing.
It's not all about the money too. There is happiness at work, prospects, experience gain, distance from home, day to day...

At least that's what I found from the highest paying jobs I got.
I applied to YouTube and got past the phone screen but decided to focus on my own entrepreneurial efforts instead.
The data is meaningless if it can't be trusted. Email addresses are stored encrypted and will always be kept confidential.
Babylon Aims to Be the Quora of Translation
Apple's website has a long history of being superficially pretty, but seriously lacking when it comes to any form of professional usability.

To wit, it is typical of over-designed sites in that it is fragile when people use it at different resolutions, on different browsers or in different countries (e.g. when the iPhone came out, or rather didn't come out different international versions of the page had rendering issues because the big chunk of space for the iPhone wasn't there, and all of a sudden all the pretty little lines didn't line up.

Then there's the way they were so fond of grey-on-grey text - who's idea of usability is that? Put your hands up so you can be slapped. Repeat after me: "contrast is good, m'kay?".
That's one thing I've never got - the market has been out, what, years now and still they haven't bothered to sort out selling in other countries. What gives? Google is a giant multinational and even if there are legal issues, that's the reason they have a huge team of lawyers.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/a_re-introduction_to_javasc...

Another quick-ish intro.
Today is my birthday and Google is celebrating it for me :)
Although I thoroughly appreciate the intent of this introductory page, a really bad way of teaching something to the neophyte is to lead with examples of what NOT to do. If they are to appear at all the place for them is far, far down at the page when all the good examples of what to do has been understood and memorized.

Also, the author should probably put something at the top stating who the introduction is intended for. It is clear to me that it is not for newbie programmers, but that would not be clear to the actual newbie.

A beginner could very well set out thinking that this is the perfect introduction to programming for them. And then in the first paragraph discover the semantically very rich phrase "Javascript is a dynamically typed language". To a programmer that is valuable information but to the beginner it just confusing.
The coloured balls puts me off, but not as much as the 6 interviews.
The greatest motivator of all, time
Well, they are back from the dead and much more powerful this time, so it must be a sequel.
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What limitations are there now? I live in the Czech republic and I believed that paid apps would not be available there, but in the last week, I was able to buy anything I wanted, via google checkout, without any problems. Perhaps I've missed something.
I agree, it works well for me. I'm abroad 11 months of the year. This setup permits me to receive calls on a US number without paying international fees - even better it is now the number that all my contacts already have.

Also, the porting option works too. Again, for me, being setup with google voice means I can land in the US and see which provider will give me the cheapest PAYG sim card for the next week, buy it and not have to maintain a relationship (i.e. minimum balance, usage, or monthly bill) with them to keep my number when I leave again.

I don't think it is for everyone, and you need to think if it's right for you. Alot of the upside (voicemail transcription, etc) can be had without moving your number. For those of you who do decide to go ahead with it, it's a fairy easy process from my experience.
Hello All,

The current translation sites on the web require you to set the "from language.." to "to language.." settings, even for word counts extremely less. To do away with this, yet use the good translation features of Google translate, I decided to create this one where you don't have to worry about the "From language.." and "To language..." settings. Just type a word or a sentence that you would like to have translated and hit on Translate! and that's it. You would get the translated text in all languages supported by Google Translate.

This has its drawbacks though. If one word is present in more than one language and it means different in each of the languages, then I do no know how Google translate identifies which is the "From language.." aspect of it. You still get a translated text, but the translation can be entirely different from what is correct, based on what language the original text has been identified as.

Regards,
leomyster
Yeah, discovering new content is really not very enjoyable.
"There's no reason for four diesel generators when two would do"

I remember one senior Scottish Nuclear bloke telling me about one, rather important, bit of equipment at Hunterston B plant (another AGR site on the west coast of Scotland) - the Reactor Shutdown Safety Sequencing Equipment (RSSSE) (not my recall of the details of this acronym are probably a bit off). This shuts down the plant in a safe way if something were to go badly wrong.

Apparently when the AGRs were being designed in the 60s/70s they, understandably, to use tried and tested technology for this module. However, what tried and tested meant to these engineers was that stuff should have had multiple decades of production use before they would consider it - so the technology in the RSSSE was essentially from the 1940s - worm gears, relays etc. At the time I was working on research projects that involved Scottish Nuclear (the early 1990s) they were rather proud of the fact that there was no safety critical software in any AGR plant (there were plenty safety related systems).

So I think it's safe to say that the designs of these plants were, when it came to safety, quite conservative - even if the overall design goals of the plants were actually quite ambitious. As Charlie says, the abiding impression I got of the design of the AGRs (and I am no nuclear engineers) is that they had a design decision that would impact safety they always played safe - massive redundancy in systems, a vast amount of instrumentation (my estimate of the number of signals fed into the control room was off by a comical factor) etc.

We have in Scotland an excellent example of what could be called "conspicuous over engineering" - the Forth Rail Bridge - which was designed in the aftermath of a rail disaster where a bridge over the Firth of Tay collapsed with a train on it, causing great loss of life. With the Forth Rail Bridge not only is it a fantastic bit of engineering the whole spirit of the thing asserts "this is safe".

To me, my experience with the people of Scottish Nuclear and the design of the AGRs themselves gave me a huge amount of confidence that not only were the designs probably as safe as they could be but they were operated in a way that was quite amazingly safety conscious. Given that the UK is rather small and very crowded - with the Central Belt of Scotland being particularly densely populated and neatly bracketed by AGR plants at Hunterston in the west and Torness in the East I'm actually rather pleased that these systems were also conspicuously over engineered.
Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Mine was affected, too.
Google opens Malaysia office, aims to strengthen SEA presence
So first it took over a year for us in Sweden to get paid apps.
Then it turns out that there is some bug which prevents "google for my domain"-users from buying Android-apps. Google Checkout with the same account works on a regular computer but not on my phone even though all other features work.

So I have to create yet another GMail address and associate my credit card with it just so I can buy apps which I've been to lazy to do.

Result: I've bought apps on my iPod touch which I never use but not once single a Android app even though I've used Android since the launch of the first dev-phone (2008).
Hipmunk has a great interface, though I'm afraid I don't always trust it to find the cheapest flights just yet. Frinstance I asked it for a flight from Sydney to Melbourne on Feb 10, and the cheapest hipmunk could get me was a Virgin Blue flight for $241 -- rather expensive for this route. Checking directly on the Virgin Blue site I found fares as low as $81 on exactly the same flight.

I've never had similar problems with flights with at least one end in the US though.
It may be pretty hard to compare US and foreign offers. For instance, in France, you'd be earning 36000 euros in cash --what's landing on your account --, however it would actually be nearly 48000 euros with charges (that's what you're taxed for): social security, retirement, etc. Then the company will actually pay some 20000 more euros in other salary charges. That means that 36000 euros in cash in France translate to (36000 (cash) + 32000 (charges)) * 1.30 = about US$ 90000 ...
Meh. I set my IDE to only keep 10 files open at a time. It's such an easy thing to jump into a file nowadays I don't need them all piling up in the background.
here you go:
http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl...

don't believe the "we're working hard to add more..." bs at the bottom, that list has been the unchanged for a long while now.
Menlo. It's like Monaco with all the sucky bits fixed.

I code in 9-point Menlo (antialiased, of course) on a pair of 30" 2560x1600 displays, and it is awesome. Before that I used Consolas. Before that I used Bitstream Vera Sans Mono and often googled for programmer fonts. But none of those could ever go for hours at 9-point size without bugging me. (I prefer Menlo at larger sizes, too.)

One interesting thing is that the font looks noticeably better on my Apple 30" Cinema Display (from 2007) than it does on my Dell 3008WFP (from 2008), both hooked up to the same Mac Pro. Not sure if that's just a coincidence or whether Apple really did some kind of freaky font-tuning for Apple gear. But anyway, coding font has been a kind of personal holy grail for me for years and years, and Menlo is my #1 favorite thing they added in Snow Leopard.
I suspect Devilboy meant SOAP web services.

However, json.net is awesome - I'm using it to get my latest personal project to talk to CouchDB - so its json all the way from the client, through the server through to the database.
That actually sounds like a really neat idea - throwing together a PhantomJS script that scrapes the content of a particular div containing Raphael or Flot and then renders as png.
"February 10" isn't that U.S.-specific. When writing out dates numerically, the mm/dd/yy is very American, but when writing out the month in words, there's not a lot of international consistency between whether people from various countries write "February 10" versus "10th February" or "10 February" or even "10. February" when writing in English. Here in Denmark it seems to be pretty evenly split (when writing English). This University of Copenhagen page uses both on the same page!: http://www.math.ku.dk/english/

"February 10" to mean February 2010 is pretty uncommon in most countries though, isn't it? Maybe February '10, but not February 10.
Looks like CRAP in Opera. Sheesh.
Amazon SES doesn't have an SMTP interface.

You can, however, configure an MTA to deliver through SES by delegating delivery to a Perl script (e.g. http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/...).
It's not a PR problem. People have been trying to fix the "PR problem" for at least half a decade. If that were the issue they would have made headway by now.

The real issue is that a new programming language can be quite an investment. Some people learn lots of languages but many people actually stick with just one. Perl has nothing compelling over the other languages. You don't really lose anything buy picking e.g. Python or Ruby instead. So people tend to pick a language based on what cool new thing is written in it and that cool new thing is never in perl. Perl always rushes in later with a "me too" copy but it's never where a new breakthrough happens.
As a (poor!) Computer Science student I want to give you much props for making a free version available. Just skimmed through a bit and the text seems very readable (good citations too). Hopefully this will finally help me close the gap between knowing the theory behind some AI techniques (especially neural networks) and actually implementing them. I'm certainly adding this to my list of books to get soon-ish.
Looks like quite a serious flaw. Better change my account p/w sharpish.
I doubt if FOSS will even make a dent in Facebook, as the Free Software web2.0-apps-ecosystem is very different from that of FOSS desktop/server-software:

0) It is harder to raise money for FOSS, especially in the startup-phase (so if competing endeavors are closed, they will have the financial edge, which could be an important disadvantage if you're doing something innovative...).

A) If it is a centralized Affero GPLed app:

1) There is a barrier to installation on local/development machines (try getting your first time hesitant developer to install MySQL, ruby and a host of gems). A barrier that is smaller / nonexistent for desktop software, because to use it at all, you have to install it.

2) There is a barrier to updates, a fix somebody applied to his local copy still has to be checked and deployed to the server(s) before he even can use it (if it is a feature relying on his data on the production-server).

B) If it is a GPLed P2P web-app:

1) There are critical mass issues for updates of social functionality (how to get most people to to update? and how to coordinate different version). If updates are automated or even go through a package manager, you're back at A2.

2) The required architecture will be much more complicated compared to centralized apps with the same functionality (at least while the centralized app is small enough to run on one server / cluster).

Not that it is absolutely impossible, but I tried (option A, a forum/wiki-type app) and was, to say the least, not wildly successful :) (though we/I did get a decent app completed, and I'm doing fine otherwise) (could just be the things I was building, ymmv):
http://foundation.logilogi.org/

Oh, and naturally, for social networks it is even harder, as there is an additional critical mass effect in the network itself (not useful as long as most of your friends are still hanging out on FB, and unlike us programmers / geeks, they generally don't care that much about code and FOSS-freedoms, and at best mildly about data-freedoms. They are mostly happy about not having to worry about software and updates at all...).