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I hope not. Coming from a country with plastic notes, euros are a blessing.

Plastic is, well, plastic. If you deform it, which is very easy, it will stay that way forever. You can't straighten it up. Notes don't stack together nicely anymore, because each note shows a different pattern of wear and tear.

Notes are supposed to be durable, but are extremely easy to chip on a side, and when that happens, they simply split in two. This usually happens with larger notes. When I get money from the ATM, 10% of the notes are chipped on a side and I have to use scotch tape to fix them.

Best note material is what dollars use.

Plastic notes stacks are also much harder to count fast, they don't stick to your fingers, instead they stick together. If they are even slightly wet the problem is exacerbated.
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I've been considering using markdown for a project of my own. What sort of key features and power do you feel it lacks?
I second that. My immediate instinct was to assume that they were railing against professor-salaries and health insurance.
Is your startup ready for the media?
One-to-many email aliases and/or mailing lists are nothing new, why is this news?
Let's be honest here, personal and professional life will always impact each other. They can't be separated no matter how much you want to reason it out. I can't image how you two will be able to get into a meeting room and only discuss about business. And if you are unable to do that his technical competence will not add any value to you. His words may sound convincing, but your employee sounds arrogant and self-righteous if he says this shouldn't be a work matter.

I would suggest that you first take a break from your employee, make up your mind to terminate him, and finally talk to a lawyer to understand your options from him.
> How should it work to move hundred thousands of people
> with hundreds of thousands different types of things
> between several continents? In a few months?

Have you considered reading a WWII history book? That was a far more impressive and substantial mobilization to multiple countries spanning multiple continents which was done without the benefit of software. It took more than a few months largely because they had to manufacture equipment and recruit/train personnel from scratch.

Either you're doing one epic troll or you're displaying a staggering ignorance of the ability for militaries going back to the time of the Roman Empire to do significant mobilizations.
thanks, working better than the website
You've still written a long, jargon-filled sentence; a long way away from a plain english award. How about "Have we figured out any ways to make the website better for customers from the Christmas online sales figures?"
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It also has a few downsides:

- The build system is broken.

vs. make. qmake. cmake. autotools. scons. 'modern' makefiles (>_> what does that even mean? Yes, I'm looking at you Google) There's a whole ecosystem of tools out there to solve this.

- There are a few rubbish IDEs, most of which support c as a second class candidate.

VS has officially abandoned C; xcode grudgingly supports it. The CDT is mediocre. There's little or no support for refactoring or doing other things on large code bases, and the majority of the time the work has to be done manually.

- Because the build system is broken, dependency management is hell

Got one library that uses scons, another using autoconf, and what to build a local dev instance of a library without installing it into the system path? Goooood luck.

This is made even worse by arcane things like rpath, which mean that dynamic libraries only work when they are in specific paths relative to the application binary (I'm looking at you OSX).

- Its a terrible collaboration platform.

Why? Because the barrier to entry is high. To submit a patch that works and doesn't break other things, doesn't introduce serious security holes or memory leaks is hard.

Astonishingly, some successful projects like SDL are actually written in C, but most C projects are not collaboration friendly.

- There are no frameworks for doing common high productivity tasks in C, only low level system operations, or vastly complicated frameworks with terrible apis (>_> GTK).

I'll just whip up a C REST service that talks to mysql and point nginx at it. Um... yeah. I'm sure there's an easy way to do that. ...perhaps...?

How about a quick UI application? We'll just use GTK, that's portable and easy. ...Or, not very easy, and vastly complicated to setup and build.

These issues aren't unique to C, but they're certainly issues.

I'm not really sure I'd happily wonder around telling people how amazing C is at everything.

It's a tool for some jobs; definitely not all.
There are clubs for that, and my smartphone is not far beyond Picard's communicator...
They aren't as profitable as a lot of analysts/shareholders would like them to be. If you consider that these people could have invested in Samsung instead, you might understand why people see this as a failure rather than just 'less successful'.
The author's next love affair will be Go, and he won't be back. I see it as a very real successor to C. I have written about 6k lines of Go (on a project that I had previously written in C) and I'm deliriously happy with it (partly because its just more fun to write than C). Granted, you can't write a dylib or kernel, but it sounds like for the author's case it would be a good fit.
First quote was from Prince Charles. Stopped reading right there.
If you have a meat-free diet you are vegetarian, so he probably meant that meat won't be availible on Mars for the settlers for quite some time and that everyone who goes have to expect a vegetarian diet.
That is also how Google Groups works.
"But amazingly it's proven much more predictable when we'll hit issues and how to debug and fix them. In the long run, it's more productive."

That's nothing to do with C. It's because Damien worked on CouchDB first, and learned a lot from that. If I were to go and rewrite our current system in Java or Scala, I'd also be able to predict where performance, and other, issues would crop up, simply because I've already encountered a number of them before.
America != USA.

But yet we all know what people mean because of the context.
Any "scientific" article that quotes Prince Charles is immediately suspect.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_wor...
They are usually right, unfortunately

And their accent still shows (like a sore thumb) even when their English is good. Same for English speaking people speaking French.

(Except Canadians, I think their French accent is a kind of 'impedance matching')

I think I saw a couple of French people with very good English and almost no accent though.
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> in line with his own personal ideologies

Sounds like this is at least partially personal. However, there are practical reasons for this too.
Neat, a direct competitor to the VMWare's free VShere Hypervisor.
I wish there were some way for it to detect the ambient light of the room I'm in. Late at night I prefer the warmest setting. But I feel like I'm constantly adjusting f.lux based on where I am. If I'm out, I can't control the lighting of the room. At home in the winter when it gets dark early, I don't want to turn the lights off at 5pm. But if I don't adjust f.lux, it hurts my eyes.

For the most part, though, I think it's great.
Really? You're posting a graph that shows overall usage of WP devices, that could have been bought at any time in the last 2 years, and trying to present it as data suggesting that more old devices were sold. If anything that graph demonstrates the opposite of what you're saying, as the 920 already has 10% of total WP usage, despite only being released a few months ago.

> OK, and? Nokia sells devices in exactly the same price ranges as Android. iPhone and GS3 sales absolutely crush Nokia on their own as well, so not sure what your point was exactly.

My point was putting your "17.1 million devices on Christmas Day alone" FUD statistic into perspective.

Yes, Apple and Samsung are still doing better, but that doesn't invalidate what Nokia has accomplished here.
So, it's a mailing list?
Ideas for this are everywhere and I plan to undertake this challenge too. I don't think it requires much creativity at all. Here are some things I thought of off the top of my head:

At Work:

- Ask a random coworker to lunch

- Ask for a raise

- Ask for a random day off

- Ask for a new chair

On the street:

- Ask any girl (or guy, or whatever your preference is) to coffee

- Ask people to take a photo of them doing a specific thing (same each day or change it up but it just can't be a photo of them anywhere doing anything)

- Ask people for a dollar

- Ask a homeless person to borrow a quarter

Other:

I just ran out of ideas. But they're everywhere. I think the problem might be that we have the ideas but don't want them to come out because we're still shy or afraid to even think of a situation where there's a chance of rejection.
> If you think that homoiconicity is good, then you probably like lisp. If you think that referential transparency is good, then you probably like haskell. Those are mutually exclusive, so one language can't really have both.

This mutual exclusivity is a strange claim that I have never encountered before (but I'm not a computer scientist). Could you explain it?
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Nah, because given the right circumstances (i.e starving to death)...anyone can become that.
I never understand when people say the iPhone is better for music. I'll grant you the Windows 8 Music app sucks on the desktop, but Zune was solid on Windows 7. The WP8 music app is great, the Zune Pass/Xbox Music Pass is basically the biggest reason I can't seriously consider switching platforms. $8/mo for 10 songs DRM-free and streaming/caching all other songs in their database is huge! Nokia Music playlists are huge, and free! The speakers on the Lumia 920 are much better than iPhone speakers in comparisons with my coworkers.

What music apps is WP missing in your experience?
I waited for 3 full minutes for the countdown to finish and all I get is a black popup with "Live - iPhone" at the bottom.

Not sure if this is the dramatic ending of the euro, or just a technical problem ...
If you work at even a moderate sized company, it probably means you need to make a request to a different department, and 1 or more people may need to sign off on that request. It might take a day or two. Meanwhile you can probably expense $10 with no special authorization and have you email list instantly.
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If you've got some kind of automation routine for putting images onto it you can losslessly convert them as part of that process.
The page goes on to say that the first time you log in to your Cloud Player account they will "scan" your purchases and provide the MP3's for any eligible albums.

It turns out the only album that I purchased on CD that was eligible was an album I bought as a gag gift for a friend.

Here I was expecting some awesome free* MP3's but instead I got Barry Manilow.
Of all U.S. government policies that stand little chance of being reversed, the cheap food policy stand tall. As Bob Marley said, "A hungry mob is an angry mob." Nothing threatens the status quo more than the unavailability of food. Plus, individual farmers have little power. They have always relied on government to prevent them from being completely impoverished by the distributors, or in more modern times, by the seed technology companies.
Maybe that's the plan? IMHO Elop did everything to make Nokia unattractive to all possible buyers except Microsoft. I see the only option for Apple to try buying Nokia to at least make it more expensive for MS. I don't believe Apple could buy Nokia because that most probably wouldn't be met very friendly by EU bureaucrats.
better hope your start-up pays off - so you can afford to get it removed in later life.
I think the point is that your mom wouldn't have to do anything.

One person -- presumably the one who is good at email but frustrated that everyone else isn't, e.g. You -- sets it up and pays and just sends their very next email to 'the group'.

And everyone else just responds to that email as they would any other and it Just Works for them, regardless of whether Mom chronically forgets to "Reply All" or Dad never remembers to put Aunt Sally on the list.

I'd imagine people who don't email a lot with less-tech-savvy types probably don't see the advantage. And it really does sound like a 'feature' that any mail host could add at any point.

But if it gets traction and other mail providers match the feature, that's a win for everyone, right? I doubt 37signals has big plans for the revenue from this service. They're likely just solving their own problem and charging just enough to cover the administrative overhead and dissuade spam use.
Can you elaborate on what happens with IDEs and Linux/Mac/Windows?
I'm curious how/why 37signals decided to make and sell this product.

Is there a way to set this up with a custom domain?
No, but creating the product is a very small piece of the puzzle. 37Signals have a good amount of existing customers and what looks like a well greased marketing machine. That's what'll make this successful or not.
Full of ideology: Politicians and economists are stupid (esp. with their [quote] "worship of ‘free’ markets"), we need to change our (bad) Western culture, we need a "steady-state economy" (the usual propaganda stuff from eco-socialists) because growth is evil and technological innovation is useless (even bad), we need more redistribution a.s.o.
Of course, economists who share this view are called "distinguished economists" (not stupid then) and they should lead the transformation of the society into the steady-state sustainable society.

The most funny statement might be this: "The industrial revolution set civilization on the road to collapse." The opposite is true because before the industrial revolution societies collapsed frequently and usually never get beyond subsistence level and the Malthusian trap. The industrial revolution broke us free from this curse.

Ehrlich repeats his ideological BS (e.g., population bomb, we'll all die because of overpopulation in the 1970s and 1980s). He's a green fascist.
But oddly, if you have listened to enough techno, you may find that there is often more informational content in a 120bpm track than a 220bpm track. If a 4-bar bar is shorter, you can put fewer notes, fewer sounds, fewer subtleties of any kind in it.With the 220bpm gabba, there's no room for much besides the machine-gun beats.
I was thinking the same thing. This is the kind of thing I would create for a friend for free on a weekend or two. Unless I'm missing some huge complexity.
Very neat. A way to choose the "download speed" for the animation would be a nice addition.
Is it possible to create farms without bugs? And if there's bugs do we need rodents to keep them in check? And with rodents running around do we need prey animals to thin the numbers, and would those prey animals be delicious to eat?
Here's a "trick" when dealing with speakers that lack confidence in your preferred language: Try to speak their own language. Badly.

I have French people falling over themselves to speak English to me after trying to speak French to them.

It works elsewhere too. It often only takes a few halting words to get someone to accept that their own language skills are just as good or better, and want to meet you halfway, or switch fully to English.
Jinx!

Also: nice.
If you are interested in symbolism the EU Parliament "Tower of Babel" connection is a worth looking into.
Did you read my post? Did I say anything about government funds?

I'm talking about companies' priorities.
So someone talks about social things and you assume that they are talking about big daddy government? There are plenty of companies that make profit AND also make research for the common good and not how to kill each other better.

I mentioned those things because they are the most obvious and possibly important... but there are more subjects like environment, education, mass transport, open governments, factory automation, communications... that could do with more research.

Also, not all the profit should be monetary. Who are you gonna charge that money when there is no people left that can spend it?

No "social profit" -> no people -> no business. Your clients should be your interest not your product.

Bottom line: An "effing" waste of resources!
Amazon is selling MP3s. Anyone interested in "owning" the album should simply make their own backups of the MP3s in question, which have no DRM on them. I do. Their cloud service is nice and all, but MP3s can still be removed from it. If Amazon can remove it from my personal hard drives and backups, I've already lost anyhow.

Amazon's doing it right, here; if you want convenience, OK. If you want to manage the MP3s yourself, OK. In contrast to their ebooks or video.
Not too useful for me... I've invested the time / money to properly color profile my monitor with an X-Rite device so the times I end up creating graphics assets / working with photos, they will look correct.

Although I may play with it ... I spend a lot more time coding.
I wish a global collapse would happen, I think it could do humanity some good in the long run.
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That's simply the story of how the continent got its name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(mythology)#The_continen...

I doubt any of the symbolism of your interpretation was intended.
> Microsoft licensing costs are a rounding error compared to the cost of employees for a business.

That's not true for the product editions labeled "enterprise" or "ultimate". Just look at SQL Server Enterprise.
Right, yet in real life we see effective use of those rounds out to double that 1200 yard range.

And, of course, accuracy is only one part of effectiveness. Stopping power is also important, especially in the military role, and varies greatly between cartridges; for instance .338LM is something like 5000 ft.lbs. at the muzzle vs. .308 which is somewhere around 2900.

Regarding .50 BMG - I'm not sure there is such thing as overkill if you're one of those guys on a two-way range. ;)
That's why we have valgrind and glib.

At the core, a good language shouldn't really have any of these things you say built in - they should be built on top of the language itself.
The payment looks most like a barrier to spam. Thus anything that made it possible to create more groups and/or larger groups would require an increasingly higher price to break the economics of using this to spam people.
At the risk of sounding like that guy, isn't this property of all Smalltalk descended languages?

And I mean on the basic language level, not "using a library to run a hot swap VM for my language" level like Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA do.
Zune Pass, no wait it's now called X-Box Music Pass.

Oh heck I don't know what it's called.

The music rental thing, is actually pretty damned good. However like spotify it is missing some artists.
I wonder how many people both buy CD's and care about CloudPlayer? I guess I don't know anyone from either party so there's a chance of there being some overlap. To me this seems like an utter waste of resources.

How about offering a Spotify-like streaming service? How about making CloudPlayer free for the first 20,000 songs like Google Play? How about making a web player that doesn't make me feel like I'm in Target? What about a web store that's really accessible for indie musicians (that means without labels). I really want to like Amazon Music, but at this point it doesn't really feel like a competitor in my demographic (college, computer-savvy).

Edit: Those who think that buying CD's is supporting artists should know that if you buy an MP3 from them instead they generally get a lot more profit.
Not in this decade... I used to do embedded programming and even we considered C/C++ to be somewhere in the middle, with Java being the "high level" language for our management software and C/C++ being the "low level" language for our embedded devices.
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That's one heck of a bold claim.

There are some details:

> want to get a job, attend the events and meetings we set up for you

Nothing too bad there, although I'm not sure how "want to get a job" is proven.

I like how the web-site forgets key details like "where is this course being run?" "Are you accredited?" "What supplies do I need to bring?" "Basic qualifications to start?"
Mushrooms contain little energy so by definition they cannot be a staple food.
I'm aware of that, so I can understand where the idea to put Europe in the watermark is coming from. That said, with everything that is going on, it's at least a little insensitive to have a symbol from Greek mythology on your bank notes, that relates a story that almost seems too coincidentally analogous to how a lot of Europeans feel about the Euro, the ongoing integration of Europe at the expense of national sovereignty, and the Greek bailouts.

A lot of Europeans feel tricked into accepting a common currency that now appears to be used as an instrument to railroad through measures that promote European integration, is leading to austerity, higher taxes, higher unemployment, and less national sovereignty. Whether or not this feeling is justified is not relevant, that's how many feel about it over here right now.

One thing worth mentioning in this context is that the images of buildings and bridges on the notes were specifically chosen to be imaginary, instead of depicting real buildings from European countries. The rationale for this choice was that the Euro was the common currency of all Eurozone countries, and putting e.g. the Eiffel tower or the Colosseum on them might send the wrong message to people living in countries that did not have any national monuments depicted on Euro notes. Still, somehow nobody thought anyone could ever get any wrong ideas if they put the mythological Europe in the watermark, which I personally find pretty strange.
These courses are themselves a sign of how high demand for programmers is.
Having strings, containers, etc, not built into the language itself means that you can't practically use them. Libraries will all have their own incarnations, and as a result you get stuck dealing with the lowest common denominator of C arrays.
Requiring people to not eat meat (or at least eat very little meat) makes sense. Requiring them to do so for a couple of years before takeoff to prepare (and make sure they're happy with that diet) makes sense too. But recruiting only people who are already vegetarians seems counterproductive.
And I thought email was obsolete. Do this with SMSs and it would be HN-worthy :-)
C and Java both have terrible productivity loops because they have a tedious compile step. Python you just run after editing. I was more productive in python using a test editor the very first week I learnt it than I ever was in Java or C++ even with IDE support and years of experience.
Google App Engine python dev server reloads modified python files whithout server restart. That feature blew my mind after doing Java EE stuff (although that experience is 8 years old so maybe new Java servers can do this??). Talk about productivity!
Oh, I see what you mean. My apologies. Thanks!