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Yes, we have a lot of English words that aren't really English. Also, we don't have iced tea but we have icetea. In Dutch, it's common to give a product an English name to make it sound more interesting.

Also, there's quite some racism/political incorrectness hidden in our language and culture, but most (white?) people don't seem to realize it.
Well I find attitude of many Apple fans to be smug and snotty. That total assumption of unrivalled superiority is reflected in your comments

> Certain designers have tried to catch up to Apple for a decade, now.

> So far, no competitor has arisen to match the iPhone.

But of course you aren't just an unsophisticated Apple fanboy. No. You are uniquely positioned to see where Apple are going wrong as well. But they..

> at least understand what they're supposed to be doing.

To me this represents smugness.

Some people see the quality of 'smugness' as being magnified by correctness (i.e. the number of apps sold). I actually see it as being magnified by overconfidence in unsupported positions (most of your statements). If anyone is being ass it is you.
>> I merely said that the content was predictable once you knew the author and venue and contained nothing new for me.

"But research shows that each new job cost Spain 571,138 euros, with subsidies of more than one million euros required to create each new job in the uncompetitive wind industry. Moreover, the programs resulted in the destruction of nearly 110,000 jobs elsewhere in the economy, or 2.2 jobs for every job created."

You could have predicted that by knowing the author and the venue? And if that disqualifies him/them, why is anything Al Gore says at a climate change conference valid?
FTA : the German government's Advisory Council on Global Change has proposed to limit long-term sea level rise to a maximum of one meter, as a policy goal along-side the European Union's goal to limit warming to 2C.

And that's it in a nutshell. The politicians are so out of touch with reality, they think they can hold back the sea and change the temperature of the world by writing things on bits of paper.
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or at least be aware that one is doing modulo arithmetic.
lets agree that both sides have something to gain and move on. This silliness about the "Big Green" lobby is distracting from a meaningful discussion about global warming and how seriously to take it.

I disagree with this. The main thrust against any refutation of human caused global warming is always that the author is in the paid service of an oil company, lobby group. You cannot have it both ways. You can't allow people to use that argument to brand people who refute or discount human-caused global warming as paid skeptics, and then brush it aside when the argument is used in reverse.
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Don't forget about the number of people who die each and every year in coal mining - fatalities which stack up year after year, as opposed to one major failure causing fatalities in the entire history of the nuclear industry.
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I thought the punchline rather was that he sometimes was considered a villain when he was young(er) and maybe less so now.
An alternative explanation than "people choose to fail", and maybe a more plausible one, can be found in Martin Seligman's Helplessness: on Depression, Development and Death.
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Not just binary search. Anything that involves addition of signed integers could overflow.
there should be an emphasis on the "almost".
The Official Book of Ultima. About how Richard Garriot started the Ultima series of computer role-playing games, and founded Origin Systems. Alas, it's sad when you consider the fate which befell both the game series and the company.
Any time you take a percentage of the net, you've set up a perverse incentive for the company to spend more money up to the exact point where they're not paying you anything. After all, for them, it's "free" money!
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> What does "counting" against "notional salary" mean?

Offering benefits allows both companies and employees to agree on a lower cash salary; it's in the company's interest to provide benefits that have a large perceived value for minimum cost, whereas it's in the employee's best interest to only offset his desired salary by no more than the amount that the benefit would cost him were he to purchase it individually.
I'll add a 7th approach: Develop for other browsers, then do the bare minimum needed to make your site usable in IE6. And then explain why you are doing that.

This achieves the dual goal of exerting pressure on users still using IE6 to upgrade, while not overly inconveniencing those who don't (or cannot).

(As an aside, a major Australian accounting firm - I'm talking Big 4 here - only rolled out their upgrade _today_ from IE6 to IE7 - so IE6 is still out there in the corporate world.)
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The best way for the companies to know their consumers well and get their unbiased opinions is to issue online surveys.The internet helps them to cover a large spectrum of their consumer. Thus it is becoming a preferred tool for collecting consumer data.
And what, pray tell, is the difference between a "Software Engineer" and a "Programmer/Analyst"?
thanks, will try that..
actually before wanted to use facebook paid polls, but found out they discontinued that recently..
I got tripped immediately on "Object Visual Programmer".
Do freelancers earn more than employees?
after you've finished an apprenticeship as an application developer here in switzerland, you're a "programmer" and after getting your CS / SE degree (university), you're a "software engineer".
I did contract once in a small company, they had developers & software engineers. Software Engineers were people with a CS/IT degree, I know nothing about the difference in rates though.
precisely - sometimes garbage just rises to the top. Started out as a villain, became more of a villain, does the world "a solid" by redistributing some of the wealth he essentially bled from it! In the words of alan partidge circa knowing me knowing you: "What a nice man".
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"Full-time" freelancers do, however they are employees as well in that scenario
Its funny that Google gets coverage for "modernizing a logo" which consists of adding some blue text next to their old logo. From the title I expected the main Google logo was being updated.
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Someone told me a few days ago they do not have "programmers/developers" in the list of skilled professions any more. Team leads still can apply. So I guess it's not a truly "hacker-oriented" country any more.
http://flowplayer.org/ ? Works fine for me (Sydney, AU)

20-May-2009

Flowplayer 3.1.1. is out!

Try proxy or anonymizer or google cached page
How many millions are in a trillion?
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It turns out US isn't that bad in debt in terms of percentage.
Am I the only person who wants to stab my eyes out whenever I see the word 'ironic'? I count two appearances in the article, and one in the title.
they certainly do; provided they have enough work to keep their hands busy all the time.
I'm not at all surprised by this kind of controlling behaviour from Apple. That's how they've always been.
Wow, interesting. From St. Louis (Slicehost), and Italy I'm getting ERROR 400: No Host matches server name www.flowplayer.org
It's not bad! This is old school

Oh, you mean after you click "login" you get:

FoxWeb Message

The FoxWeb Service has returned the following message:
FoxWeb Timed Out--

Yes, its not very good.
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Works for me (in the UK).

Try not having the "www." (although that also works for me)
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What a trillion dollars looks like:

http://www.zee.me/blog/2009/03/what-does-one-trillion-dollar...
I learned a little about the Stereoptics (doubt that's a word) that are used for this type of model construction in my AI degree. What I found pretty awe inspiring, and awash with potential, was the project Flikr are engaged in. They compute 3d models of popular landmarks and sight-seeing destinations using the varied photos from all angles that are uploaded to their servers.
I always figured that this, along with something akin to what this Swedish company (or if anyone saw the Chinese one that was on HN a while back, complete with billboards!?) would be the next generation development platform for games and who knows what!
The common usage in Japan is that programmers are code monkeys who require intensive supervision ("Devise a Java program which will read this column from this table and then perform these three checks then update this column and...") and software engineers are more senior code monkeys who are capable of receiving a broader direction (such as "This system needs to display this data") and figuring out how to make it happen.

Hence, for the first two years at my job, every time I made a mistake I was told "Patrick, come on, you are NOT a programmer".
Depends what country you're from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

Personally I'm in the Long scale camp. It makes far more sense. That's why I was confused to not see the 'correct' answer listed :)

For example in the Short scale, their logic is: billion=
1,000 ^ (1 + 2). So for example TRIllion, the tri is pretty unintuitive. It has 3+(3 * TRI) zeros.

In the Long scale, the logic is trillion=1,000,000^TRI or 6 * TRI zeros.

I had no idea the UK had 'officially' abandoned the Long scale in 1970s, while the rest of Europe still officially uses it. I'm sure I was taught Long scale. Shame.
I've heard the idea bandied about that we should just drop the ambiguous names (w.r.t., the whole long/short scale thing) and start using scientific notation.

It is much more obvious that 10^12/10^6 = 10^6
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It's nice to see how Amazon turns business into technology and technology into business. They seem to have solved the codebase problems that bring so many large Internet companies to a grinding halt. Success only accelerates their expansion. How many features did they add to AWS in the past 2 weeks?
That's what you get for not using the metric system.
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I always thought of it as a language-specific thing, with English speaking countries using short scale, and other European countries using long scale (I always thought that the French "billion" being equivalent to the English "trillion" was basically just an issue of translation). I never realized it's quite that complicated and inconsistent.
Do you recommend people to migrate to Canada for startup? Any benefit there?
In the long scale, it's like this:
10^3 = thousand
10^6 = million
10^9 = milliard
10^12 = billion
10^15 = billiard
10^18 = trillion

So there are 10^18/10^6 = 10^12 millions in a trillion. In the long scale, they'd call that a billion. So the two correct answers are "there are a million millions in a trillion" and "there are a billion millions in a trillion"
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Why is it much more obvious? I would probably understand if I knew how you went about solving the problem. I am quite curious as to your thought process!

My thought process involved these components:

1. Remembering heuristics for proportions.
2. Remembering that Million -> billion -> trillion
3. Knowing that 1000 million = 1 billion
4. Knowing that 1000 billion = 1 trillion
5. Knowing that 1000 * 1000 = 1 million
This raises the question of whether British children are proportionately better at math problems involving proportionality!
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Tuth be known, I couldn't help wondering if the author truly was outraged, or if he was just trolling for publicity. I mean, it would have been five minutes work to add a filter to remove Karma Sutra from the list of books, yet instead he preferred to enter a back-and-forth with Apple, a no-win situation, instead of making the quick mod and getting his app out there.

Of course, I know that we hackers do like to take a stand for our priciples, so maybe he has a more altruistic motivation, but considering that he takes pains to add the possibility to register to be notified when the app comes out on his website (something which would take way longer to code than to filter the book in the first place), I have my doubts.
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Dividing numbers with exponents is simple - you just subtract.

A^B / A^C = A^(B-C)

This is an obvious result of the rules of arithmetic. To use a concrete example: A^3/A^2 = A because A^3 is A x A x A divided by A^2 is A x A, then the two A's on the bottom cancel out with two of the A's on the top - leaving only one A on the top.
All I want is FLAC support, and global hotkeys for more than just play, next and previous, but it looks like it's not going to happen.

It would be nice to have foobar2000 on the Mac, but that's not going to happen either.
As you realized in your post a little later, it has nothing to do with the metric system, and if anything in this the US is more "metric" if you will, then the EU.
Oh I agree. It's like when you hear some teenager saying how much they love the new, lame remix of some old song.

Current offender: "Right Round" by Flo Rida.
This should be tested. Probably best if it's a British team, just to be on the safe side.
does it still hold true when you factor in the cost of replicating staff benefits? I've always found it hard to chip into pension etc when freelance (but that's just me)
If you have a job offer as a "Software Products Developer", you get pretty much automatic approval for up to a 3 year work permit. I have a friend who literally just brought his offer letter and CV to the border and got in, no paperwork or waiting. See http://www.cic.gc.ca/EnGLIsh/work/special-tech.asp for a little more info . Now, this doesn't help you if you don't have a Canadian employer, or if you're looking for something more permanent, but it's still pretty hacker friendly.
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Isn't this just blatant spam?
I love how you can hover your mouse over certain lines of code and it highlights a paragraph below that explains something about it, and vice versa.
I saw some political polling a couple years ago-- people can't really conceptualize numbers this large. A slight majority of the poll actually thought a million dollars was more than a billion. People have a handle on the size of a million bucks because that amount occurs in regular life-- the price of a luxury home, etc. I think one of the reasons there isn't much outrage at the US government's $1.8 trillion deficit this year is that it is so large it doesn't have any meaning.
Isn't this just blatant spam? Username created just minutes before two links to a site selling software.
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Bear in mind the difference can be up to double the pay of salaried.
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You mean stereopsis?
> Even if the GAO's dire predictions aren't true it would probably be wise to have a redundant system in place.

Good thing then that the EU is building its own system.
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It's a mixed bag. I know plenty of folks in college who were good at mining connections. Everyone made "friends" with them because it was thought these kids would "succeed". These were the folks who could rack up 600 connections, but we all knew that they weren't friends with all those people.

I personally straddled that line myself, though in a different way. Being a leader of any student organization is likely to boost your friend count by around 100, and I had held important positions in two. But at the end of the day, that's not how many close friends you have.

Demographics can also make a difference. If you went to a big high school-- say 800 kids per class --you'd probably chit-chat with around 200 other kids on a regular basis. I had friends who did events with other schools in upstate, and that kicked up the contact list even more. Things like that can inordinately inflate your friend count on FB. But again, you were probably only close to maybe twelve of all those kids you knew from high school.

In all, I feel that Facebook was a tool to keep track of all the people you met in college (while you were still there). After you leave school, it becomes a tool to keep in touch with them occasionally. The other major use seems to be procrastination and banter. By no means is it a true count of how many friends you have.
Thank you for this awesome, insightful contribution to the conversation... not.

Edit: seriously, do we upvote people for posting reddit-like links to vaguely related non-information now?
They have apprenticeships for programming in Switzerland now? (I'm Swiss, but living in the UK)
Funny, my first job was as a "Junior Software Engineer". I have no IT degree (did physics instead).
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Including, as I found to my embarassment recently, my license key generation logic.

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I think his point was that violence is innate in children, whereas sexuality is mostly absent.

The kind of violence that you see on TV is no more innate in children than the kind of sexuality that you see there.

There's no point in sheltering little boys from violent media because they're quite violent on their own.

Invalid assertion. The abstract concepts of violence that are innate in us primates at early age have absolutely nothing to do with the message ("violence is okay and an accepted social tool") that you commonly get exposed to on mass media.

By contrast, sex isn't on the typical 8-year-old's mind, and probably shouldn't be.

So you're okay with exposing your 8-year old to violent media but not okay with exposing him to sexually explicit media?

Let's look at this using your own observations: Violence is innate in children, sexuality is mostly absent. This means the child will mostly ignore the sexual content (it can't relate, is simpy not interested) but will process the violence in one way or another (because even a child has concepts of "power", "superiority", "fear" etc.).

Maybe think again, maybe even pick up a book on the subject.
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We're USA without the baggage. Plus, free health care.

And we already have a large immigrant population, so you don't have to worry about fitting in. In our bigger cities, you'll likely find entire neighborhoods of people from your part of the world, who speak your language and share your beliefs.
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Also, between mergers, acquisitions and plain old bankrupcy I can see this economic downturn being very good for "unkillable" open source alternatives in various markets.
yes, in essence but I'm not sure the word suffices? From what I can infer, that is a noun, and that wouldn't follow as the correct usage.

"I learned a little about the Stereopsis that are used for this type of model construction in my AI degree."

That, to my mind, doesn't make sense. Whereas the "stereoptics" involved in the _process_ of "stereopsis" seems to fit my Universal Grammar Function (with equal measures of disdain and honour for Chomsky).

Dunno, I'm an anally retentive grammar nazi, this can be easily evidenced by my overt use of the "quotation" "marks" around "my" words..... it's a serious mental condition, people!

EDIT: Wikipedia doesn't seem to agree with me, though
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