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"Seeing what is already being done with computers on a daily basis gives people knowledge of what can be done without knowledge of programming"

Not true at all, people can use computers every day of their life in their job and still not even understand where a window goes when they minimise it.
Getting started as an EU foreigner in UK:

- HMRC

- Council tax

- NI number

- Local doctor

- Voter registration

Never mind that even doing all that, most companies still don't think you exist because you don't appear on credit checks. Granted, most of these can be done via mail (someone should really introduce the British public service to the interwebs one of these days), the bureaucracy in Berlin is hardly uniquely bad from a British perspective :)
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pointerToStruct.foo would just be equivalent to pointerToStruct->foo. No loop required.

The main problem with this is that it hides memory accesses. The offset of x.y.z.w relative to &x can be determined at compile time, so if &x is available, accessing x.y.z.w requires roughly only one load instruction. (DISCLAIMER: ABI- and compiler-dependent. One instruction is an estimate. This estimate may not be precisely true for all possible programs across all CPUs and compilers.) But x->y->z->w requires 3 pointer dereferences, even if you have x to hand. 3 load instructions and therefore 3 memory accesses. (The same disclaimer applies.) People already complain enough about the inefficiency of C++ operator overloading, and the difficulty of spotting when it occurs just by examination of the source code...

Additionally, this change wouldn't play nicely with C++ operator overloading.

I just set up my text editors to insert -> when I press <Alt-,>.
I use iMessage, WhatsApp and LINE are really big around me too. All three have this feature, and it's clear that FB would rather have us use their short messaging infrastructure instead.

So even if it's silly, the competition started being silly.
Try your local council's trading standards team.
Tried it with an iPhone and it worked great. I hope iZettle will be developed for Android also, since the phone I'm always carrying is running Android.
Doesn't seem to accept Visa at the moment. As much as I like the idea (despite the name) of a European Square, not accepting Visa is less than optimal, especially as they try to gain traction.
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While I can imagine such a development, I have learned that any prediction of how tech evolves within 7 years is complete nonesense.
What I don't get about all this fuss is: Who is forcing anybody to learn about anything?

Free learning resources are huge empowering forces that are just starting to get a decent scale (see coursera.org, udacity.com.) It doesn't matter at all about what, few exceptions aside. If some person wants to learn something why should you discourage them?

In fact, to Jeff's phrase "I would no more urge everyone to learn programming than I would urge everyone to learn plumbing. That'd be ridiculous, right?"

Wrong, that wouldn't be ridiculous. People who'd care to learn how to plumb would do so of their own accord, not just because they saw an encouragement on a website. Just like people learning to program.
> It's not a jab.

It is a jab.

> It's just different community norms.

There are no "community norms" for reddit, each subreddit has its own norms and things which work in one may get all your comments mod-deleted in an other.
So, there are EU regulations in place that are supposed to make money laundering harder. This raises the bar everywhere.

I suppose he's not referring directly to a bank account, but to our lovely home grown credit-masking-as-debit-card "Dankort" without which you might as well not have a bank account. Since they are in fact credit cards, banks are reluctant handing these out to people they might never see again.
It's like the difference between wearing silk underwear and hessian underwear. Or being able to code while listening to an audio book vs needing peace and quiet. It's not a question of thinking less, or thinking more, or being more careful. Some people can put up with this stuff, and some people can't.
The name was pretty clear to me, I read it as a pun/play on the verb "to settle", i.e. to perform a financial transaction in order to resolve a debt.

You triggered my curiousity, though: what's your (mis)interpretation? I don't understand the reference to "at home" at all, and basic Googling failed to resolve it.

Another point about their communications is that their main (English) front page copy says "[...] is as easy as pie", an idiomatic expression that to me screams of the US, which was funny because of the European angle.

It seems they're actually fellow Swedes (yay); I've seen some ads for their card reader in local press, too. The reader was then coupled with (if I recall correctly) a phone with a business-type subscription, the ad was by one of the local/Nordic cell phone operators. Interesting.
I think that the end users you're referring to are just a minor subset of the end users I had in mind.

Let me give you an example of an average end user.

This guy calls the customer support (via skype) and complains that he has no internet. He says that skype is working, uTorrent is working, but he has no internet. Obviously, his network connection is OK, but he's not stopping with "there's no internet!"

Can you guess what's the problem?

The guy who sold him the computer also explained to him how to use skype and how to pirate movies (that was what he cited as his reason for buying it in the first place). So far so good. One thing he also did was to setup yahoo.com as the homepage for this guy.

Searching for porn and free goodies, our customer installed some malware that hijacked his browser and change his homepage from yahoo.com to something else. And suddenly, "my internet is not working". This guy is asking us what button he needs to click on to get his internet back. For him, internet is having yahoo.com as the homepage.

I'm not making fun of this guy. I've met a ton of similar cases. What I've learned is that people are not interested in how it works, they just want it to work so that they can use it for pirating movies or any other thing they use their computers for. They want you to hide a complex functionality behind a simple button they need to click on.

Same disinterest I've encountered while developing custom software. The customers simply don't want to mess around with the software. They want to enter some data and click on the button. For anything else they prefer to call you so that you can make that button do something else. This may be anecdotal evidence, but I'm yet to encounter a customer who wants me to build the kind of software you're describing.
Or the southern Spanish [ee-thet-lay]?
Shouldn't that be "toIndex >= length"?
A good portion of students receive little or no financial aid. Even if you do get that money loaned, its still debt on your head that you would have to save up for / pay off.

A common mistake people make is that any given subject (math, econ, etc) is limited to your studies in college. I have studied biology, architecture, the classics, geology, meteorology, botany, and much more outside of college.

It does depend whether or not you are a self learner, but is paying 120k+ really worth it to have someone twist your arm? Everything you can learn in college, you can learn outside, for free -- the interent has democratized information.
What do you mean by useful ?
Seriously what is really useful in all that "Please code / Please don't code" story ? In itself nothing, it's all a matter of opinion. That doesn't make it less interesting.

So putting the sentence "Please don't learn to code" out of context is just not fair and misleading. He wrote this post like he wrote everything else he does, with his style. You have the right not to like it but please do not state your opinion as fact. How does the post is more useful ?

The idea that everyone should learn to program doesn't disturb me at the least but it's just a waste of time.
Comparing programing langage with english, french, russian or whatever is just a joke. The day the first words of a baby will be the binary representation of "Mommy" I'll rethink about it.

In truth those who want to get involved in programming for whatever reason (as a hobby, professionally, by curiousity ...) are those who should learn to program. So let's drop the hype, pleadge and let's keep those good websites which help to get started.
I find knowing how to program really useful, empowering, fun and challenging but not everyone has to feel the same way and not every programmer feels like I do. That is what Jeff Attwood tells in this post, while humouring himself with the movement.
So please learn to code, if you want to but you'll still be cool if you don't.
Well, a Zettel is a small sheet of paper in German. I have no idea if this is the background, but I really read this as iZettel - and it doesn't make any sense.

On the other hand, "Kindle" is something like an angel in German (or a beer), and I think it is a great name anyway!
The sad part is that they probably went back to doing it by hand once he left the company.

Also amazing that "normal users" consistently don't even want help with automating their IT tasks. Maybe they are worried about losing their jobs?
Is there a point to paginating articles online?
My brother studied electrical engineering (because the CS department was full). He now uses his degree as a paperweight and develops software, which he taught himself. There is a good chance what you learn in college won't benefit you much in real life.

That aside, you can learn anything you want outside of college, for free. Information is free, thanks to the internet.
He means that the law firm makes money by billing hours; hence if you take less time to do a task, the firm earns less money.
The thing I don't get is, rangeCheck doesn't actually _do_ anything. If it was taken out, the code would still function exactly the same, you just wouldn't get a nice exception when you pass in the wrong parameters (it'd still be an exception, just not as useful).

Actually, that's not entirely true. If you swapped the "hi" and "lo" parameters, the function would return an unmodified array if rangeCheck were taken out, rather than throwing an exception. But that's the only functional change.

So the idea that rangeChange is in any way significant is disingenuous at best, I think.
"When it's at home" is a Britishism meaning "basically": http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/when_its_at_home.

We use "easy as pie" in the UK too, although it's probably an American import. (EDIT: almost certainly 19th century American. Mark Twain used similar phrases http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/as-easy-as-pie.html)

I think maybe my accent has a much harder Z than they were anticipating.
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I don't know how much was profit, but they did hit $1 bn in revenue recently and an in share price.
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According to what's known this far, Nokia's new feature phone OS is not Windows Phone but Meltemi.
I would be worried letting someone read my card information via an Android phone. Malware would easily be able to sit in the background and intercept information from the reader. At least on iOS you know any interception would have to be on transmition from the app to the server, which is not all client side.

Perhaps that's a little unfair. I guess as more and more apps and devices become avaliable for reading you card inforamtion more and more opportunities exist for stealing your info.
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I look through a lot of resumes for software engineers. I do not check for degrees -- I only look at their experience. I sense that this will become the norm as time goes on, but who knows. If some of the most successful people in the world are college dropouts, I figure a degree probably does not mean a whole lot.
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Facebook is far to useful to the Government to go anywhere. I bet GM knows this, I suspect a case of "dump and pump"
No, I'm arguing that partitioning of friends groups isn't a serious (enough) problem that anyone cares.
What's all this "sign with your finger" nonsense? With Chip & PIN cards (i.e., all our modern credit cards) you should just need the chip & PIN. Signatures are only a backup authentication.

Also, signing with anything other than a pen and paper is still a disastrous user experience (see every courier's PDA system ever built)
I don't think it's about success or failure.

What's more interesting is how the different communities responded to the attempted hoaxes. This can help us understand how different hoaxes, memes etc. are spread and how they are, or aren't, debunked.
I moved to Berlin also from Helsinki last autumn to work in a start-up.

What I should add to your list is the open-mindedness of the people: it is one of the most liberal places I've ever been. People are nice, the police won't arrest you so easily for spending a splendid day in a local park and of course the nightlife.

When I visited Berkeley and New York this spring, it was really a joy to be back home.
https://izettle.desk.com/customer/en_us/portal/articles/5311...
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Swede here -- the company is Swedish and I have used it on several occasions, as a payer. It works great. As others have mentioned, it reads the chip, and is sturdy. Not using PIN though, you sign the receipt with your finger, which works really well. You can also get the receipt via email.

Edit: they definitely support VISA.
what facebook does: monitor your shit and send it to the government. They arent going anywhere
They do, actually!

I'm mostly speaking from personal (and vicarious) experience - when I graduated from college, I put out around 100 job applications -- no response. Then I released my first project, and had employers coming to me (Electronic Arts and Pixar, to name two). Make your own destiny -- all a degree gives you is an unwarranted sense of entitlement.
Yeah, and getting hold of the HRMC or any of these bodies over the phone can be very difficult. Apologies for that. I once got hit by a HMRC error and it was impossible for me to reach them to correct it while they fined me. Of course, they didn't admit that it was their error and that I took too long to get back to them...
My reading of the trial is that he knows how difficult and significant any decision on API copyrightability would be, so he'd been trying to avoid it.

I'm pretty sure that door is closed now, so I hope you're right.
Well it does not seems to be all about intent or interest, but just two distinct ways to provide insightful advertising.

But still, the intent model of google adwords seems so much more stronger, whereas facebook's interest model just look like a centralized and refined adsense. Google has long given emphasis to the long tail, the specialized interest that bring as much revenue as the mainstream one.

The intent model is clearly stronger here, as searches have an explicitly parameterized specific content, whereas the interest model can only bring up revenue on frequent and common patterns (such as you say, movie tickets), since you cannot anticipate rarely occurring interests.
You're paying for the gold-plated toilets, gold plated sandwiches being delivered and gold plated whores that they use.

Having interviewed at a couple of ticketing outfits and working at one for a single day (before I decided over an meatball marinara subway at lunch that it was a scam touting outfit and I'd probably end up on Channel 4 Dispatches [small hint]), I can say that they are the most corrupt, disgusting businesses on the planet and should fuck right off this planet pretty quickly.
I work as the IT guy at a biological institute (fixing Windows boxes).

I don't know for sure that there are repetitive tasks that the graduates do there, I am pretty certain that there are some.

But there simply is no structure in place that would allow me to work for them. I could do it pro bono, but honestly I don't have the time for it. On the other hand they simply don't hire programmers to automate tasks, that's just not part of their budget.
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O HAI! It's Slashdot 2001 again.

Historically there was a meaningful distinction between scripting and programming: A script is interpreted, so you trade off slow execution for no compilation. A program is compiled, so you get fast execution but slow compilation.

Today (as in 2001) both compilation and execution is so fast, for most use cases it doesn't really matter which you do. JITs further washes out the distinction.
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I agree and hence if it means more profit for Wikimedia organization, from people who do not use or do not know about adblock, then it is definitely a better choice than the current donation model.
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Economically, I can understand that people start to copy concepts and transfer good ideas into their homecountry. That´s nothing new - you can find that across human history and it was often connected to progress. Basically, copycats act like spice merchants in late centuries. They scout for some new spices and try to find out if they can match or create demand in other regions of the world.

However, what I really dislike is when people also start copy the look and feel of the innovator´s website. I think we should apply the same moral values to startup ideas as we do in science: That implies to create your own work, not to rephrase and to mention the original source. This piece might be missing in the system.
He repeats a well known truth that majority of startups fail, even majority of restaurants or cafes opened close after 2 years. That s all true, however the whole spirit of startup entrepreneurs is to feel this adreline, and enjoy this adventure.

Finally 1 billion dollars is also fine, as long as you use your motivation to work hard and to innovate. Even if your startup fails, you will acquire skills which are reusable, in new startups or established -startups-.
Lack of Chip and PIN support is going to be a major turn-off in much of the European market...
> It will keep people from building Javascript bloated sites that don't respond well.

On the other hand it will finally allow sites that do client-side rendering with JavaScript to be indexed properly, provided that they are responsive - which isn't that hard to do.
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Same here, in Argentina, south america
What do you mean? iSettle's and Square's websites look just as much alike as any recent startups'...
How about jailbroken iPhones? Do you check the vendor/platform of the CC reader in every shop before paying?
While the giant image slideshow of the product in use is a bit egregious, the rest of the site has a totally different look and feel.
Thanks! You have a missing apostrophe in your link, took me a while to figure that out. :) The proper link is http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/when_it%27s_at_home.
Exactly this. I've had a chip and pin card since they were introduced in the UK and never had to sign anything related to payment. It's always a case of entering your PIN on the terminal and authorise.

I was previously under the assumption that you can't authorise a payment via a signature nowadays in the UK?
That's not what I was trying to say :) Generally lying in research isn't okay and I would consider it fraud, since the liar stands to gain by it. But he wasn't lying in order to publish a paper about 19th century serial killers, he was educating some students and some of the internet about not believing everything you read, albeit through deliberate deception.

I don't believe this is wrong, because the end justifies the means. I get the impression we'll therefore have to agree to disagree on most of these points, since our ethical systems are basically incompatible †.

† From your statement "I do not object to the publication of anything at all, except of deliberately fabricated lies. Anywhere, with whatever artificially constructed post-justification."‡ you make it clear that the action is what is important, whereas I would judge on both the motivation and the consequences.

‡ One clarification though, if I may: Do you agree that in this case there is a simple and logical pre-justification (or that one could argue there is one, even if you disagree with it)? Does that make any difference to you, since you specifically call out "artificial" and "post-"?
That's a horrible idea. Instead of hardware fragmentation we'd be stuck with market fragmentation. I have zero confidence in the manufacturers' abilities to foster a good marketplace. And they would have a monetary incentive to disable access to other marketplaces and sideloading, so there wouldn't be any competition, either.
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It's orders of magnitude harder to clone an EMV than a magnetic strip.
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All good points - from a foreigner's perspective in either country.

I think the key here is not web/non-web but the government in question having an intelligent, joined-up registration system.

In the case of Finland, once I'd registered with the tax office my address and other details should have been registered in the system. KELA would be notified - along with all my income details - and the magistrate and police would have up-to-date records. Done, one visit to one office.