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Granted, there are people who deactivate JS for whatever reason.

The intersection of "people who deactivate JS" and "The addressable market of Four Seasons Hotels" is likely small enough that the lost potential sales wouldn't even cover the cost of development.
There's been a lot of comparison of AWS's cost per performance compared to more bare-metal cloud solutions or dedicated servers.

It's been covered a lot of times...here's one that just appeared on HN a few days ago:
http://blog.carlmercier.com/2012/01/05/ec2-is-basically-one-...

You can easily get 10x the performance for the same cost.

I'm not saying AWS isn't awesome...I'm saying it's much, much more expensive, and I'm surprised that startups full of tech people don't manage their own servers.
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I would say that very technical books need editors more than very non-technical books. Most technical books are for learning, reference, or both. Therefore, tiny mistakes in technical books can cost the reader in very real terms, whereas an incorrect pronoun in the new twilight book still gets the same idea across.
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MLK's descendants have turned his speech and legacy into a commodity, sued each other, stolen money from his estate and setup businesses solely for capitalizing on the speech.

Something tells me they would not be interested in releasing the speech under the GPL.
She might have learned more if she didn't have somebody telling here the answers each time. Instead of a teachable moment, her friend tried to fix the experience to match HIS expectations.

I remember fooling with tiny BASIC etc as a young man. It was weird and wonderful. Nothing worked right; everything was a maze and a puzzle. I wouldn't have missed that for the world.
Most of the costs probably came from expensive consultants/contractors during the analysis phase. I'm going to take a punt and say that Oracle is probably involved somewhere down the chain. Whether it be Weblogic or OracleDB, I bet they had a whole load of consultants to come in long before development started
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FWIW, King's speech contains close to 40% repurposed or borrowed material (from the Declaration of Independence, the song "My Country 'Tis of Thee," cribs from previous speeches by Archibald Carey, etc.). I say this not to diminish the accomplishment, triumph, or historical significance of Dr. King's famous speech, but rather, to raise the point that it's a very nuanced copyright matter.

Am I allowed to copyright a work derived from a collage of other people's works? If I incorporated one of your posts into a blog post of mine, could I copyright the entirety of the blog post?

According to the letter of the law, King's estate should have been entitled only to copyright the portions of the "I Have a Dream" speech that contained 100% original material [1]. Yet these are not the most recognizable or famous portions of the speech, and they're not the portions King's estate has often licensed out to advertisers, etc. Almost all of the words most famously associated with the "I Have a Dream" speech are borrowed from other source material. And, unless I'm missing something -- I'm not a lawyer, so that's possible -- they should not have been granted to King's estate in the first place. Perhaps the current laws on the books took effect after that granting?

[1]From 17 U.S.C. SS 103(b): "The copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to the material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished from the preexisting material employed in the work, and does not imply any exclusive right in the preexisting material. The copyright in such work is independent of, and does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership, or subsistence of, any copyright protection in the preexisting material."
This is a really interesting read on algorithms applied to one of the great games of my youth...

Really makes me want to sit down and rip off... er... borrow liberally from this article and implement some of these algorithms as a learning experience

Thanks for posting this
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I'm surprised that no one yet said anything about the 18M being a fake number. These guys do this all the time. They spend 10M and release to the press that it was 20M.

I work(ed) for more than one company that uses this strategy. The whole idea is to get everyone to think that you are bigger than you really are.

Of course one can spend 18M on a bad project, but you guys covered it already...
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"Also, shrinking my browser window doesn't dynamically resize or shift the layout so -1 for unresponsiveness. I was on a sub page of the Boston location which may not have that flexibility but for 18M and 2012 ... it should."

Responsive design also limits design/ux decisions especially on their content pages which have a non-linear grid system and shouldn't be universal. I'm not for or against responsive web design but I think it should be contextual. I haven't seen many sites that have won me over.
They didn't receive a custom CMS. Actually, they used Adobe CQ5 for this.
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What on earth do you mean?

The entirety of NLTK is FOSS originally produced by a university. Even if NLTK had some sort of hosted version (and I was unaware that if they do, as your post seems to claim), you could always go D/L the whole source (https://github.com/nltk/nltk ) and use it as you see fit (it's even Apache Licensed).
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Try using it in IE5 and look at the page. For $18M i would expect something else.
"Search engines need a system of collectively flagging sites like Quora, so I, and everybody else, would never see it in their results ever again."

Not sure about the "everybody else" part, but Google already has this mechanism... Although I've heard sites like w3schools has already found ways around it (Someone on here posted an article about it once, but it's lost to me at this point, otherwise I'd post it as a reference).

As to his core point of requiring a login to view full results... It's annoying, but since it's free it isn't the end of the world. It's not the model I'd choose, but then again, Quora isn't really asking me for my opinions.

StackOverflow definitely has the reader-model correct, although many people are unhappy with their answer-model... So no one is perfect.
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I suppose only the client can decide wether that's money well spent or not. And while I think the price is high, it's certainly not the worst hotel website I've seen, and is probably one of the better ones.
ahh, yes - that makes a lot more sense.
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How? I've just started experimenting with web development and I can't figure out how it could possibly cost that much. Maybe there is a whole world I haven't seen yet, but if they had used the latest open source libraries/frameworks that do half the work for you, would it have cost that much?
It is a case of going overboard. Initially they didn't care probably. But then they saw someone making money off it. So they didn't just go and stop that particular instance but went further and made sure nobody would be able to do it. They saw how money could be made from it, and decided they should be the ones profiting from it.
It's one thing to say there's no set hours, it's another thing entirely to be in a place where you're surrounded by workaholics and your performance is measured on what you produce -- think about it: if you don't burn yourself at both ends, you'll be on the low end of productivity.
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The best way to kick the hornets' nest over at HN is to mention lots of money exchanging hands (i.e. color.com). Nothing brings out the self-righteous geek in us than hearing about other developers getting paid.
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I'm a big fan of nginx and gunicorn, but haven't played around much with uWSGI. What does it give me that gunicorn doesn't?
these kind of headlines are easy, the actual story behind it determines value for money. For example, this title is about as insightful as - BP spent £136,000,000 on a "new logo" ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1350238/BP-attacked-o...
I wonder if photography was rolled into that cost? I'm sure some shots are reused and rights-managed stock, but for those that aren't, the costs of planning, lighting, rigging, stylists, talent, etc. would be significant. And it looks as though each location has 30+ photographs: http://www.preview.fourseasons.com/find_a_hotel_or_resort/
I own the paper version of this - just a heads up, it's written primary for Language Scientists rather than developers. You may find yourself constantly pausing and looking up concepts and their meanings / practical uses on linguistics websites when returning to the book.

It's a great resource, but don't expect to get started quickly.
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Researchers are already paying to get their articles published. Given how much journal subscription costs, that cost is a fraction of the taxpayer money that is spent buying back the articles for the university libraries the same researchers use.
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Many of my clients have English as a second language. They use me for post-translation localisation - in other words, they draft their documentation or website, and I fix the English so it looks as if it's come from a native speaker.

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Indeed. I thought I was a good writer, one of the rare software types who enjoyed writing tons of documentation in addition to code.

About five years ago I got a good editor and realized how miserable my output was without one. This person took my stuff and made it focused, consistent and fun to read.
Why would you base a business on artificial scarcity?

Torrents, and the distribution is solved.
“no later than twelve months” means publishers can still get rewarded for rent-seeking.
"conversations happened when I was actually in college"

Oh then...that makes sense. From the sounds of it I thought you were talking about say...a month ago over lunch in the cafeteria.

"Mmm...this Bruschetta is pretty good"

"Could use more diced tomatoes. BTW, I got 1573 on my SATs, you?"

"oh...1590, ain't that weird?"

"pass the pepper please?"
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Nuclear weapons are not an immediate threat to the internet and Wikipedia's existence. SOPA/PIPA is.
Catching deactivated JS is not really big, in terms of development costs. But especially companies like "Four Seasons" are usually the ones that live by "Every missed customer is one too many".

And i dont think that money was an issue in this project.
Wow, there's a lot of insight here. While you mentioned not to take this too seriously, my gut reaction is that you take it more seriously than is advertised.

> it just doesn't matter all that much.

In the real world, it doesn't matter at all. Finding cause/effect correlations between SAT scores and lifelong behaviors is folly.

> Everybody has their 1600 SAT or Ivy League degree or IMO gold medal or past startup or open-source project, and so you can't measure yourself by your accomplishments. And so, if you're smart, you start measuring yourself by whether you're pleasant to be around, or whether you make the lives of the people around you easier, or whether you can understand & make users happy.

This is both refreshing and sad. Refreshing because you've recognized that life's qualities are much more important than life's quantities. But, it's utterly sad, because my kids can explain this concept to anyone who asks, and they're in elementary school.

In my world, "not being an ass" or "helping others less fortunate" is considered an accomplishment. You should certainly measure yourself with your accomplishments, just make sure you're measuring what counts.
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Language changes and the world changes, the students need current examples and language they understand. Thats why revisions and new books and new examples are needed, but not at the pace which publishers lash out "editions" today, just to run after short term profits.

Its a last run by publishers to it milk as much as possible before their market dries up from the influence of the digital world, where editions are a wikipedia changesets.
> The only thing e-book readers have going for them is e-ink

E-book readers also have a sub-$100 price point. And e-ink includes readability in direct sunlight, high resolution, and eternal life for batteries.
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Or far simpler - Akamai

Torrents are great, but most people don't know what they are and won't want to download a torrent client just to get the supplementary materials for a textbook. Using Akamai, or other similar services, means they'll just have to stick their code in and click a link.
It's simple - when you are working, you aren't free to take long and/or frequent calls from family/friends; or go fetch grocery even if you are working from home. When you are at home, unless it's a serious outage, you don't take unnecessary calls relating to work.

This, of course, is good advice, and fits well to any sort of individual endeavor, being programming, painting, or wrenching on your bike.

I think many people react negatively to articles like this one because they read it as prescriptive (that is, this is how you _should_ work as a programmer) rather than _descriptive_ (that is, this is what works for me as a programmer, taking into account my character).

Generally, I work best at home, free of distractions, but there are times when collaborative work at the office is also productive. YMMV.
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Sure, it's different in terms of why it's not reliable, but the outcome is the same, so why does it matter?
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> BTRFS on Windows?

Sorry. Editing accident. Can't correct it anymore. I meant Linux servers, of course.
Is there an older story on the internet than a software project overruns budget or doesn't get finished? I'd be more interested to see something like, software project costs $18M and here's where we went wrong, or software project costs $18M and here's why the client got their money's worth.
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Colin, Thank you so much for your wonderful work.

I'd add that "jails" are a very cool, under appreciated feature of FreeBSD. It is especially useful for packaging up and delivering applications as a single unit. While it may seem that they are in competition to virtual machines, I think of them as being a complement.
In general web developers seem to kowtow to the most to ridiculous compatibility requirements--how many still fret about IE6 and IE7 compatibility?

In no other industry do consumers get that kind of luxury. It'd be like the music industry putting new releases on cassette tapes for the people who haven't upgraded to CD or MP3 yet.
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> Being ruthless with your code means you make commits that fix whitespace, fix indentation, ... --whatever needs to be done, you do it without a bit of regret.

Given that current tools are not advanced enough to properly merge these kinds of changes, you end up learning not to mess with whitespace/indentation (at least not commit these changes) because it will generate spurious conflicts.

Bad indentation make bugs slightly more likely. Conflicts make bugs much more likely. It's a sad tradeoff to have, but until our tools mature, this is the case.
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Every now and again I see book Python 3.0 on the shelf and somehow can't get myself to use it.
Do you guys think 3.0 has a foreseeable future?
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I perused the documentation briefly and was left with the question: What does this allow me to do now that was previously impossible and/or extremely difficult.

Not saying anything bad about the language itself, as I've not used it, but the documentation that is linked does not give me any idea as to why I might want to try it.
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Your undergrad degree is just a noisy and expensive proxy for your SAT score anyway. And that's not taboo to discuss. Paradoxically, it's less declasse to mention the subjective measure that takes four years and costs a quarter million bucks than the objective measure which takes two hours and a number two pencil.
I'd like if someone could please explain why NHS don't negotiate a job price (and maybe even a 20% contingency fund) and then pay that price for the job to be done. 50% up front, waymarked payment points and a refund for failure to complete.

Given the budgets here it seems we should have a MP as minister for NHS IT systems.
If you're interested in natural language processing (NLP), but don't have a linguistics background, I would suggest reading Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct. It will introduce you to the necessary terminology and concepts for NLP in an easy-to-digest way. (The NLTK book has been free online for quite some time as well.)
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Each SPE has a tiny amount of memory (256K, IIRC), severely limited connectivity to other SPEs and a downright cruel instruction set. A friendlier ISA and Transputer-like connectivity between the nodes would alleviate some of these problems.
I think that comment just about sums up the absurdity of the entire "intellectual property" regime. A leftist crusader for equality and advancement of humanity who risked and gave his life in the service now has a bunch of corporate leeches jealously guarding access to and profiting from his most famous speech. I shudder to think what world culture would look like if the intellectual property regime as it now stands were in place from the beginning of recorded history.
so, is this a joke i'm not getting?
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We're using this library in class (Foundations of Language Technology) at the TU Darmstadt. From my point of view as a student, who hasn't done much Python in the past, it's pretty easy to use and works well for learning about NLP, hiding many implementation details and letting me focus on solving fairly complex tasks on data/algorithm levels.
I think you both make good points. I hadn't even considered the possibility that this could be related to some kind of post holiday head funk. Back when I just coded for my own amusement I was much more likely to write network utilities in C or screw around with assembly language than make webpages though, so there may be some truth to both viewpoints.
I agree e-ink has advantages over LCD screens, but I don't think those advantages are enough to sustain the e-book reader market. I think tablets are becoming mainstream (they've "crossed the chasm") and I think to most people a tablet is an acceptable substitute.
Also note that it would be out of copyright now according to the law at that time.
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affect it. Speaking as a Brit, I can't wait for Wikipedia's advice on how to contact my local Congressional delegation.

(Footnote: Wikipedia points out that 55% of people supporting a blackout wanted it to be global, and its true this option had the plurality of votes. It's also true that the majority of people participating voted for something less than a global blackout. Not sure it would have been the Concordcet winner!)
If the website redesign results in 1% more direct conversions on their website (versus discount "Hotels.com" outfits), then $18M is probably a fairly decent "investment".

Perhaps the developers were smart and made a value proposition rather than a pure hourly / salary proposition. Others on HN have talked about this distinction extensively, so try to avoid that little mental roadblock when considering the amount that they paid for the redesign.
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Can somebody elaborate on what "No garbage collection" means? What are the implications?
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Here is an in-depth report on how the Netherlands is a tax-haven for multinationals: http://somo.nl/html/paginas/pdf/netherlands_tax_haven_2006_N... . IKEA (the world's largest charity) is an egregious example. A participation exemption allows corporate income and dividends to be channelled to a country with very low tax.