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Sorry for replying again, but I saw it too late: Eurucamp (the event that was quickly organized for everyone that didn't get a ticket for EuRuKo 2011) will be continued. I would be surprised if the ticket price would be above the price of EuRuKo. http://2012.eurucamp.org/
The most interesting numbers to me:

$30,957,952 Sheryl Sandberg, COO
0.089% Sheryl Sandberg

The second most important person at Facebook takes most of their compensation in cash - with her stock in the company being worth roughly 3 yrs salary.

She's older than Zuck, no reason to think she'll ever be CEO. I have to believe she has career aspirations beyond Facebook if she's willing to work there for less than defectors Moskovitz and Parker are making on the IPO, among others.
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> The word and character etymologies are also treated abominably poorly in the Memrise story. I never advocate filling one's mind with junk just to have memory hooks for learning new information.

Etymology is a complex and often convoluted topic, particularly for a language learner who may not be able to understand etymological information in the target language. Do you think there's no value at all in simplified memory aids, such as James Heisig's approach?
It would have to be very close to as powerful as deploying code in an APK, in other words few limitations on what kind of code can be run via the REPL. There are two big limitations with Android here, as far as I understand it: there's a fair amount that you're not allowed to do dynamically (like create new Activities), and Dalvik has limitations with dynamic class generation. To be honest I haven't experimented with it much, but I was disappointed that the Clojure and Ruby REPLs didn't quite deliver what I was hoping they would (no fault of the project authors)
You're probably not terribly wrong there if you're specifically speaking about software companies, but the largest employers in the area are multi-nationals.

FedEx is headquartered in Memphis, as is International Paper, AutoZone, etc.

Of course, they aren't exactly software companies.
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Already have it and already visited the place in Ireland and many of the places in England based on it :-) Visiting Bletchley Park was a true formative experience for me and Alexander Fleming's lab also really hit a chord with me, recalling me reading and learning about him in my childhood. Thank you for a great book and guide (and the science explanations inside are very nice as well) :-)

In my last trip to Germany I truly enjoyed Konrad Zuse Museum[1] in Hünfeld. Many descriptions are in German, but I can truly recommend it, especially if you're with a German speaker (but even without, there are models and artifacts). Not many people (me included) know about the dawn of computer science behind Britain and the US, so it was very interesting and refreshing.

[1] http://www.zuse-museum-huenfeld.de/

edited for more information.
Talking about validation, I've started using standard HTML5 input validation (with polyglots on the client) as the only validation client side, and then backup mechanism to display errors from the server if the data invalidates there.
It has to pass the "resonable" test Jurys and some times Judges are much better at working out when some one is "taking the piss" which is the point that jerf is making.
http://www.boozallen.com/ they start you at 16 or 17 days PTO after 5 years it's bumped to 21, but all the other benefits stay the same.

PS: I know plenty of people who work insane hours there. But, it's not 'required' just useful for promotions etc.
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So is it just Skype?
Thanks for the nice review.

I really must visit the Zuse museum. When I was working in Munich I saw some of his hardware in the Deutsches Museum. Very interesting.
Ah, I see what you mean now.
In Ireland, it's only 5e less. So a 30e plan becomes 25e
Erm, money to try, rather than guts to try, and we can all benefit from sitting back and watching to see if it works. It looks likes an interesting experiment.
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I thought he meant that they were provided BMWs for transportation.

Thank you so much for that clarification.
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Australia-based Joe Albahari who wrote it is the author of the free 'LinqPad' tool.
Thanks -- I've used difflib several times but hadn't seen the difflib.get_close_matches() helper function.
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Having not been to a conference for 10 years, is there anything I'm missing.

I gave up after seeing no value and crappy hotels too often.
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What about destructors? I guess only using the GC on destructorless objects could work.
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How would you maintain consistency when it came to selecting text when the keyboard wasn't present? I like it otherwise. As everyone knows, selecting/etc text on iPad is a pain.
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I had expected a small, opinionated book on CSS.

Instead, there's a decent article.
From the article, it's clear that more than Google, inktomi killed itself.
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I think that the trouble is that high school teaches people how to follow, so they are conditioned for that. When people get to university-level education and, even more so, complete a masters degree, they have access to all sorts of information which the average person will find very difficult to obtain. The other aspect of this, which I would argue is far more important, is the social connections which are available at the "upper" end of society. It's all an old boy's club and semi-closed culture which most people simply don't have access to.

Leading is a skill just like mining or programming are skills - they can all be learned. Given the recent evidence of life-long brain plasticity, it's reasonable to assert that this is more a problem of nurture than nature.

In short, we train relatively few people to lead, hence the low supply.
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The way I do it is to compare the costs of the no phone plan to the phone plan. The difference times 24 is the cost of the phone.

I've heard that in other countries (like the US) there is not much difference between phone and no-phone plans, which I find rather puzzling.
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While I'm not a "fan of expensive conferences" per se, I thought this was a bunch of junk. FTA:

"I’m a huge proponent against expensive conferences, as I feel that the point of these conferences in the first place is to get the community together to learn and meet each other."

As The Dude once famously said, "Well, that's just like, your opinion, man."

I don't think that at all; I think a conference that I pay for should be a learning experience. I think that, for $1000 or $2000 that I should be able to get vicarious experiences from attending the sessions/demos/labs that I would either (a) not have been able to receive elsewhere, or (b) not been exposed to. It should replace my time at a training class, for example, except that it should be broader experiences.

Networking is fine but dude - you simply have it wrong if that's what you think programming conferences are all about. And you have it wrong if you think that tech conference attendance fees are paid for by the individual programmers/devs who attend. Oh sure, there are some folks who pay for these huge costs out of their own pocket but, by and large, this is a "job perk" or a "job training" event that is, thus, paid for by their company.

Sorry but, for most companies, there is no "networking" budget for the programmers/devs.
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It's interesting that you presume that narcissists motivated by personal validation are a bad bet.
Well, it's a 3-minute introduction, and it's specifically focused on character mnemonics. Of course it leaves stuff out.

But my real complaint here is the notion of a "royal road", an ideal path that works best for most students. This goes against 50 years of experience at the US Foreign Service Institute. Let me quote them:

Lesson 3. There is no “one right way” to teach (or learn) languages, nor is there a single “right” syllabus. Students at FSI and in other government language training programs have learned and still do learn languages successfully from syllabi based on audio-lingual practice of grammatical patterns, linguistic functions, social situations, task-based learning, community language learning, the silent way, and combinations of these and other approaches.

Let me back this up with some personal experiences. I currently speak French at a level between CEFRL B1 and B2. In other words, I can carry on a social conversation or follow a science documentary on TV, but I can't watch movies or function as an educated adult.

And I didn't even look at French grammar book until recently. Instead, (1) I overlearned hours of French audio and text with help from English translations, and (2) I spoke with native French speakers. I learned a huge fraction of French grammar from context and occasionally reading a footnote in Assimil New French with Ease.

So when I first read a grammar book that claimed, "French tends to avoid the passive voice," I thought, "Well, yeah, because I can always use an impersonal subject with 'on', or a reflexive thingy like 'il se dit'. After all, it's nicer that way."

So if I were going to learn Chinese, I'd begin by working very hard on tones and pronunciation. But after that, I would try to pick up the basic grammar from context. If Chinese strongly favors stative verbs to copulas, I want to figure that out by reading Chinese, not by reading grammar books.

This isn't to say that the "Beginning Chinese Reader" isn't excellent. I'm sure it works wonderfully for a great many people. But there's a half-dozen good ways to learn any language, and Memrise or LingQ or full-time conversational immersion might work better for somebody else.
http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2011/09/theres_a_lot_of_non...

This conference listed that they paid each speaker $2000, plus travel and hotel.

I understand the dilemma they're trying to avoid. By paying this rate, they're trying to ensure professional speakers of presumably high quality. They contrast this with other options:

"Should all conferences be a single day long and only feature unpaid and inexperienced speakers? Should they all take place in second tier cities in low cost venues and force attendees to bring a packed lunch? Or should they be scrapped altogether, in favour of paid for content on a tutorial site..."

There's definitely room for middle ground in there. Personally, "second tier" cities are probably better choices for many people, due to lower costs, but why mention "packed lunch"? You can certainly have great food provided in 'second tier' cities, and at a lower cost to boot compared to 'first tier' cities.

Paying $2k for each speaker is certainly a nice gesture to the speakers, but they're setting up some extreme options here (basically spending $5k+ per speaker, vs nothing). Best value for all parties will probably be in between those extremes in most cases.
The whole point of the OP was revealing the structure of the data being matched (like a routing file). This code completely obscures that. And I'm not sure this is more readable as the number of conditions grow.
Be generous.
I think 55pts makes an important distinction: just because it's possible to write programs in a functional style doesn't mean it's a functional language. The answer with the most votes in your SO link sums it up: Ruby is an imperative, OO language, and you can be generous and add that it has first-class functions and lexical closures. But JavaScript, Python, Perl, PHP, and C# fall in this category, and maybe Java 8 will too. If they are all "functional languages" then the phrase is meaningless.
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I think olalande could have avoided the Indian reference. I too winced a bit when I read it a few hours earlier.

I also winced at the overt & embarrassing nationalism of kamaal, good that he just stopped short of singing the national anthem :-) (but don't agree with the down voting his comment to oblivion).

And also at the second part of your sentence, was unnecessary. That completes my nit pick. Woof!

Edit: A description would help, if you down vote a perfectly civil comment of mine.
Have you been to any small regional conferences?

I've gone to MountainWest RubyConf a couple of times, on my own dime, and gotten way more out of it than I paid for tickets, lodging and travel. I'm pretty shy but I push myself to talk to a handful of people every day. Just being around people who are really passionate about what they do, and good at it, is pretty valuable.

But I do live in the middle of nowhere with very few programmers. That might skew my perspective.
I wouldn't try to form such a short cycle, but it would be fun to form a series of other cycles with the ownership graph in such a way that drawing the graph would give the prospective investigator a congratulatory message ;-)
Extending this farther, I'd say everything you read or listen to in a foreign language should be in some kind of context, the richer the better. Reading characters outside of their context in words is pretty useless, but reading words outside of sentences isn't that much better, and sentences can be pretty awful by themselves.

For example, in English: "Do you have any paper towels?" What does the sentence mean?

Context #1: At a supermarket, talking to a clerk. The sentence means, "Please direct me to the cleaning supplies."

Context #2: At a friend's house, after I spill soda on the floor. The sentence means, "Please give me some cleaning supplies."

Context #3: A friend asked me to help pack for a camping trip, and we're going over the list of what's packed. The sentence means, "I suggest packing cleaning supplies."

Context #4: A friend spilled spilled soda on someone else's rug, but is unconcerned. The sentence means, "You should clean that up."

Exercise: Come up with a context where the sentence has its literal meaning, "do you have any paper towels?"

Pragmatics (as above) are a pretty extreme example, but even fairly plain descriptive sentences can be indecipherable without context. E.g., in Japanese 「本を貸してくれた。」 you know that somebody lent someone else a book and that the speaker somehow benefited from this action, or perhaps feels grateful. It probably very clear in context, but you have to practice reading it with the context.

And this is why flash cards suck (not that they're useless...)
i wonder how is it compared to servlet container (e.g. tomcay and servlet spec?
Tim Ferris blogged a guide to those sentences here: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/11/07/how-to-learn...
As a frequent conference attendee and speaker, a lot of the points that this post enumerates resonate with me. Our profession seems to have a love affair with conferences, and it's been getting worse year after year.

I believe a large part of the problem is that many conferences are priced with the idea that the fee will be covered by corporations that pay for their employees to attend, as opposed to being covered by an individual. Businesses have an easier time justifying a $1000 conference ticket (especially if they're able to recruit or scout out new potential hires at said conference) than an independent consultant.

But, conferences don't need to be quite so expensive. Conference organizers just need to reorganize their priorities. The best conferences I've ever attended (and paid for out of my own pocket) had less than two hundred attendees, were not held in a hotel, and had an incredible focus on the local community.

The best example of this: http://brooklynbeta.org/2011. Total cost for the conference was $100, and an additional $100 for the (optional) special event held the day before the conference, both of which included food, coffee, sponsored after-parties, more beer than we could finish, and the list of attendees and speakers was the best that I had ever seen.

People need to start voting with their wallets a bit more. Stop going to conferences that suck.

[Disclaimer: I now work for the organization that runs Brooklyn Beta, but did not work for them when I attended the conference in 2010 and 2011]
A stylus type pen device would be the best alternative to touch typing on a touch screen.

This is currently available for touch devices but not that frequently used. I am not sure why?
I complete agree. We're a small Ruby consultancy and we run a relatively small Ruby/Ruby on Rails conference in Helsinki[1] and before we organised it for the first time we basically had no idea how much everything would cost.

Expect to be overcharged for everything ranging from coffee, to having power outlets available, to having tables for registration. You can expect a cup of coffee at your venue (any venue) to cost the same or more than it would in a good coffee shop (but it won't be anywhere as near as good). Lunch will probably cost two times more than it would in a decent restaurant nearby (but good luck finding a restaurant that can cater to 200-300 people at once).

Oh, and most venues have terms which prohibit you from using an outside caterer and thus you're stuck with the venue's own catering, no matter what it costs.

In terms of compensation for speakers, we do our best to help them out, but the economics of running a small conference means that we can't afford to pay everyone's travel expenses (never mind paying them a non-insulting speaker's fee). I wrote a blog post partially related to this about a year ago: http://blog.kiskolabs.com/post/5661615036/controversy

In terms of making money, we'd be much better off just concentrating on our core business, but then it's likely that Finland wouldn't have any Ruby conference at all. We'd love to be able to drop our prices to the sub 100€ level, but frankly that's not possible, not even with the great sponsors that we've been lucky to have in the past years.

To help with the "high" ticket prices, we offer discounts to full time students and discounts at a few levels to people who have contributed to Ruby on Rails. In fact, if you have enough contributions to Rails, we'll give you a free ticket.

[1]: http://frozenrails.eu
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I think it's too early to suggest how the digital goods market will develop in terms of share - we only know that it is developing. An interesting perspective though the fact the author is short on Amazon is nothing new either.
It's important to remember the difference between an upfront cost/purchase, and an ongoing (considerably cheaper) cost/subscription.

edit not an argument, just a statement!