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Japanese and Korean are actually not phylogenically related. In fact they’re both generally considered to be language isolates, which means they don’t seem to be related to any other languages. This may not be strictly true and there are proposals that there could be a link through a hypothetical language family called Altaic—they’re usually considered unrelated, though.

The “difficulty” of learning any particular language in relation to another is a bit of a meaningless comparison in my opinion. Ultimately, it appears to be the case that all human languages operate according to a common underlying linguistic mechanism—the seeming differences between particular languages are in fact probably actually just different surface realizations of the underlying mechanism with particular options twiddled in various combinations coupled with an idiosyncratic lexicon (i.e., a relatively unique but ultimately arbitrary vocabulary). The nature of the underlying mechanism is the subject of debate, as well as the list of the particular options available, but it seems pretty clear that all languages are utilizing a common underlying cognitive architecture.

That being said, it would seem to me if you define a relative acquisition difficulty metric as something like

D(x, y) = a*O(x, y) + b*P(x, y) + c*L(y) - d*C(x, y)

O(x, y) = cardinality of the set of differences between the language “settings” of x and y
P(x, y) = cardinality of the set of phonemic distinctions present in y but not x
L(x) = cardinality of the lexicon of x
C(x, y) = cardinality of the set of cognates shared by the lexicons of x and y

where a, b, c, and d are scaling factors, then that might give you some semi-reasonable rough correlation in the form of a “distance” between two languages along various axes. The exact definition of O(x, y) is far from clear, however. And even just having knocked this out I’m realizing that there’s almost an infinite number of other things you could throw in here that you would arguably need to know to claim to have “learned” a language: phonological processes, knowledge of and relative productivity of morphological processes, pragmatics, etc. This is why I’m of the mind that any such measure is of dubious utility, because you would need to take into account a lot of factors—most of which we still don’t fully understand.

There’s probably work done on this somewhere but second language acquisition isn’t my area of expertise.
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Why is this haphazard? If you don't want reads to change your data structure shape in a well-defined manner, use 'exists' or make an immutable hash with Hash::Util.
This occurs with dietary reporting too. Deficiencies in a population are reported as if alleviating the deficiency is an unnatural enhancement. I'm glad you mentioned this.
Since I saw the post for the unofficial dotfiles guide: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3881075 I decided to post some of my projects for the first time to HN.
Windows Phone definitely didn't come out of nowhere. A good friend of mine was one of the PM leads there. We used to have conversations on the bus every evening— him sweating decisions, fighting for inches, and showing off slow weekly progress on his debug unit.

Windows Phone was a lot of hard yards by some talented people working too late for too little. I long since left, but I expect it was the typical herculean project where 80% of the team left after it was out the door.
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3 year old (non 'pro') macbook here, 5GB & 7200rpm drive, avg uptime is 30+days or whatever the time between service packs is. No issues at all.

Came with Leopard, upgraded to Snow Leopard (not a fresh install) and them app store upgrade to Lion

machine is snappy as, unlike my coworker who has a brand new quad core i7 w/ 256GB SSD that runs Lion like a dog. no idea why, but my humble old macbook is faster in every way than his shiny new mac mini
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I wouldn't say that there's much of a funding barrier in this, many of the people involved have more money than has been transmitted over kickstarter in its entire history :-). I think if you want to really help with this, you should offer to work on the project with them. I'm sure they're going to need a large amount of code written, research done, mechanical widgets made, and so on, depending on your specialty.
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"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." - Oscar Wilde

Like it or not money matters. It matters more than you think, even if you take into account this statement.

While you are young you can go sleep anywhere, eat two minute noodles and go from hand to mouth without getting much into the rougher side of life. As you age, you get a family, you get kids, you fall sick, you need to tend to a thousand responsibilities and bills.

Want to put a dent in the universe? good! Sure do it. But before that ensure you have enough cash before you are 40-45 to not worry about getting up every morning and run to make ends meet.

Life can be a lot more rewarding if you have a financial comfort pillow to rest on and not to worry about getting fired, or loosing a job, or a market crash or you kids leaving you to stay away from you.

Just have enough cash in you pocket, you will be a lot more happier. Even if you are not, you can be comfortable sad with money than without.
I went through Code Academy class one in the Fall of 2011. I was a little unsure how it would turn out but Mike and Neal seemed to have everything under control.

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I would recommend this program to anyone interested in working at or starting their own technology company. No more excuses to 'find a technical co-founder' - build the MVP yourself.
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Hi, one of the reason I still use Firebug is we have a multi-line enabled script editor, not just multi-line support (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=35487), and the script is retained after page refresh, no up arrow needed.

I hope Chrome will have this feature in the future.
This is correct, so it's not likely inherited (though we don't completely understand everything about inheritance such as the possible inheritance of miRNA). If you think of DNA as code, genes as specific programs, you can think of expression as how often those programs are run. "Running" in this sense means that the gene is copied to messenger RNA and send to the ribosome to synthesize proteins. Those proteins start as long chains like the dna/rna but immediately fold into complex shapes with unique properties that do various interesting things in the cell.
>It's a pretty antagonistic interpretation of his aggressive attitude

I find it ironic that his overly aggressive attitude makes me antagonistic, but I will concede that i get more emotionally heated about such things because i have contempt for his delusion of authority or power.

>I do some street photography on occasion

A while back, while doing some street photography of a homeless woman feeding some pigeons, in an alley not far from where this guard was, a guard emerged from some building telling me I was not allowed to take pictures.

I challenged her saying 'why?' - she said it was a federal law. I asked her if she was a federal employee or guard. She reiterated it was 'federal law' - I said 'but the building behind you isnt a federal building.'

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She realized she wasn't going to get me to stop, and left.
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I would never have navigated to the Google homepage if it wasn't linked here.
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You're right. It will be supported indefinitely through the gem - so neither officially deprecated or going away.

However, since .sass is no longer the primary syntax (nor default for Rails), and it's not supported by any new development efforts, it's safe to say that it is not the favored child.
That's OK, because I don't see any evidence to support a claim that .NET development does not support a significant culture of early adopters :-)

My point wasn't actually that Microsoft shops embrace Microsoft products quickly. You said that .NET doesn't have a vibrant ecosystem, but in the same breath mentioned that Monorail was implemented well before Microsoft created ASP.NET MVC. Ecosystem does not necessarily mean "vendor supplied", if anything a healthy software development ecosystem allows for alternative modules and frameworks. You have sort of proven my point :-)

As for IronRuby and F#, you seem to be asking a question to prove your point that very few people have adopted these technologies. For myself, I guess I'm not sure either - I would be curious to see if these technologies have been adopted by many .NET developers.

Also, you are contradicting yourself a little about the WCF technology. You can't say that there is no real cutting edge stuff being done, but then state that there is cutting edge work being done on REST, but that it's just an exception. "Cutting edge", by definition, is exceptional...

As to whether there are many early adopters: I guess we'll agree to disagree!
This is so unreal my brain has trouble deciding it's not a prank.
Idea: keep clientside js in localStorage 
client side javascripters aim for minimal code, to optimise load times; but what if you didn't have to worry about that? My idea is to store slowly changing assets in localStorage and then just have a tiny js that loads them into the page.

has anyone attempted this before?
It's not just about performance and hardware access, it's about UI toolkits. Web-based and cross-platform apps just feel different. Even PhoneGap, Titanium, etc. haven't been able to solve this problem.

Right... because the browsers aren't there yet. They absolutely could be, though. Maybe Apple will stop Safari from being able, but they're actually yet to show any indication that they would do that.
"Vacuuming" your Firefox profile's .sqlite files also helps.
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I found this book unusually good for a popular nonfiction book, in the sense that it actually had a decent insights/page count ratio:

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Shoot-Dog-Teaching-Training/dp/05...
I suspect that the reason that a large number of people screwed themselves over is because sometime in the past some smaller subset was protected from slightly screwing themselves over.
My inner ten-year old is leaping up and down with excitement right now. I've got visions of OMNI magazine illustrations from the 1980s in my head, with watercolors of mining ships and stylish orange-suited astronauts.

It's been so long since the future felt like it would match up to the optimistic sci-fi of a few decades ago, that I'd nearly forgotten. I know this is just one announcement of an intention, but I don't care, I'm going to go ahead and start dreaming again about seeing space elevators and terraformed moons and planets in my lifetime.

Great story to read before bed.
I expect most users of Tor fall into that category.
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I have a "~/.hostclass" file on all systems, created manually, which contains some string identifying which confiv variant to use on that machine. EG, "home", "work".

Then, my config files are "make"'d by concatting three files:
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This lets me split out specific parts into a hostclass-specific file.

Generally, I set variables in these files that gets used in the $1.end file.

It works pretty well for me, since my hosts are generally pretty close to each other.
I would save the last computed value so that you can repeatedly do a function. i.e. 10*5 = 50 = 250 = 1250 = and so on.
You should see whether you can get a copy of RoboRally in Dutch, or at least in German if that would work. If not, consider translating the cards, each of which has an arrow and a direction, such as "turn left", "back up", or "move forward 3".
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Is this really necessary when you already have browser caching? Which is fairly robust/mature across the market.
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Why would this be preferable to an application cache manifest?

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/appcache/beginner/
One advantage of the "how to train your robot" activity is that abstraction can occur more than in RoboRally, such as creating repeatable subroutines (eg, turn around then say "I'm dizzy" 100 times).
Mechanical Turk will have an endless supply of two-bit tasks...
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I'm surprised at how invigorated this news is making me feel, like a weight has been lifted. SpaceX is great, but until now they've mostly been talking about missions that would have to be paid for by the government and subject to the agonizing budget-cutting that seems to happen every time an exciting mission is planned. If these guys succeed, it will emancipate the future of space exploration from congressional budget meetings forever. I don't think I realized how depressed I was about that whole situation until now. This is almost absurdly audacious and I love them for it.
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Forked this project from github. We all know the pain of installing each components that this project provides individually. I'm doing a lot of devops work using ruby, chef, puppet, and VMs and this project makes it straight forward. I did a hack job of building my dev box out of a fresh install Mac OS Lion so I decided to stream line it. I reinstalled Lion and bootstrapped my machine with kindness and I'm back in business in no time.
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I think we use this: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chishop/

You just set it up on a local server, and upload packages the same way they are uploaded to real PyPI.

python setup.py register sdist upload

You can specify alternate PyPI server with a ~/.pypirc. There are probably other ways to do this. What's nice about this is you can upload your own private packages or your own personal forks of packages. We do both.
There's a nasty double standard here - just because it's "software", people seem to be complaining that it's not free.

However, I'm sure the same people will happily spend $100 for a book that teaches some open-source tool. Or at least they would never complain that there's a price for it.

Why?
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One of the reasons they added even more of the Apple ID password dialogs is because of issues like this: http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-sued-over-apps-luring... Basically, without repeated re-authorization (generally via password), accidental or unintended purchases were causing them issues.

I'll agree it's not ideal.
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Canada does that. They actively seek out highly skilled foreigners and offer them opportunity to immigrate to Canada. It's out of necessity since there is a shortage of highly skilled professionals in Canada.

Here's a recent article about new initiatives the Canadian government is taking: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Feds+plan+hand+pick+ski...
I initially planned to pursue an MS in computer science after undergrad, and had gone so far as being accepted into a program, and attending classes for nearly the entire first semester.

I bailed out at the first semester when I considered the opportunity cost involved. I'd be spending an additional two years (or a little more, depending on how much I could afford all at once) in a program that was 95% theory, while missing out on two years of learning practical work through employment.

But, I think a 5 year BS/MS program is different. Finishing in five years even with just a BS isn't out of the ordinary anymore these days. You haven't graduated yet, so you still are 100% within the "in school" mindset. And it's only a year out of your life instead of two.

I don't regret dropping out of the two year MS program, but I do regret not having pursued the 5 year BS/MS package when I would have had the chance. I would have gotten the additional education, but it would have cut that opportunity cost in half.
These desire engine articles make me wonder if similar ideas were circulating around the tobacco industry in the 60's.
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I hate to admit it, but my brain initially processed the headline as:

"Google execs have backed an asteroid mining venture. In other news, James Cameron has been unveiled."

Then, after that horrendous attempt at comprehension, it came up with this, which was only slightly better:

"James Cameron has unveiled an asteroid mining venture that is backed by Google execs."
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That last part is patently false. Many clones of software projects are developed entirely to get a piece of that other project's pie without any thought to being better, in the same way that Louis Vuitton counterfeits exist solely to capitalize on the design and brand cachet of the real thing.
Cute, but the inability to use keys before "collecting" them makes it painful to use as an experienced vim user. I'd love to have a mode that just unlocks all the navigation keys immediately. That would allow users to fly through the early levels, and then get slowed down by the first thing they don't know.

I found it particularly clever how the game forces you to use better navigation, by allowing you to skip over rocks that way.

Also, teaching capital HJKL early on seems like a good way to make it through the maze more easily; hitting the same key repeatedly (or rather, leaning on it until hitting a wall) seems like a bad habit to teach.
I'm contradicting nothing. Saying that .NET is largely a culture of old-school thinking, isn't the same is saying it's all that way. Relative to the overall software development community it has always been a good few steps behind and lacked in true support and adoption of open source culture and the benefits it brings. While more recently this has started to change for Microsoft, many have seen moves like Nuget as undermining open source through taking over fledgling projects rather than simply supporting them.

While the .NET open source eco-system is arguably decent, you've completely ignored two implied, but obvious points. The open source eco-systems outside of .NET are much, much stronger and people outside of .NET embrace open source, and leading edge far more easily.

That's really the whole argument and you've said nothing to contradict it, but feel free to ignore it. As a former contributor to Nancy and one of the rare .NET devs who's contributed a patch or two to almost every .NET project on Github I've used, I feel pretty comfortable making these observations.
Well why is this surprising?

A lot of people working in factories, plants and other shops undergo the same treatment with time. The issue isn't exactly with software professionals but with any job. Young blood is preferred, because they push longer for lesser money. They don't have families, they can take failure gracefully, they have tons of time to fail and recover.

As we age, we get families, we have kids, we need insurances for ourselves and family. We need to pay college fees, We need a home to settle in, we have mortgages, And then of course we always have bills to pay, food and clothes to buy. All this means everyone tries to settle down at some time. Instead of running a marathon at the speed of a sprint, we just like to push things as they are. This means we get held back, we play safe, we like to have permanent jobs.

This is what millions of people go though. They hit dead ends by 40. Because the expenses keep rising, and the corporate pay structures seem to reward only promotions on managerial levels. And if you don't get to be a manager you are basically done for! That's with every one, not just software professionals. And what remains after that is struggling to be employed based on skills which are very commonly available else where especially in a pool of people who are younger.

Clever people make their financial planning while they in 20-30. Get themselves enough cash to give themselves enough freedom to not worry about getting fired, non getting employed, being replaced, old age or never ever going to work again.

Get yourself enough money to not worry about money. Regardless of what ever profession you are in.
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How insightful.
I hope we can learn to integrate computer literacy topics gracefully in with other forms of communication (such as math/puzzle solving, writing/composition, the arts, and the sciences) in a way that motivates and interacts synergistically with those other topics, rather than squeezing them out as outmoded forms of only-historical relevance.
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Totally with you man. Let the nay sayers nay.

It's activities like these that inspire the Human race as a whole. I don't even care if it's successful. Just to attempt such a grand idea is a great achievement.