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The situation can't be flipped on it's top like that. English is the lingua franca, people can speak it everywhere. This is not a symmetric relationship where you can say that if A -> B then B -> A.

I'm from Quebec, we speak French there. When you come to do business here, you'll talk to investors and politicians in English and you'll be just fine. People know that foreigners coming to invest/expand their business speak English. If you speak French too, great! Then when you start selling your product, that product will have to be translated. But you as a business woman/man coming to Quebec and dealing with people, you'll be just fine speaking English.

Now if I go in the Bay Area and start expecting people to do business in French with me, I doubt anybody will bother listening to me.
You have to admit, though, that iTunes on a Wii sounds way less appealing than Mario Kart on an iPhone.
Can someone explain to me the argument that it's hardware margins that are vital to the bottom line for Nintendo and not software ones? It seems to me the opposite of usual truths when it comes to hardware margins vs software margins.
Yes, they do. I've worked at two companies where they've offered to pay for development and/or help with the ports themselves. (EDIT: for Windows Phone, though)
I seen plenty of american founders with diction problems, lisp or some other speaking impediment.

Those are real communication problems recognized by professionals for decades if not centuries, and happens all over the world.

However accents are strictly a cultural and socioeconomical difference: someone coming from a very remote country is of course going to have a considerably different accent, and in countries like england the difference between classes has created some very different accents all over the country.

In the old days in england having a posh accent was a good way of working your way up the social ladder because being the best steam-engine engineer mattered little if you sounded like an illiterate irish. Same in the usa where even president Clinton got some bs from east coast journalists for his southern accent.

Did I say at any point that bad accents mean you are dumb and unintelligible? no, because that's not true. What it does is make you a target of xenophobia because it makes it very clear that you are "not from around here"

When that happens it doesn't matters if you are as eloquent as the best orators in history because if your public already has a demeaning attitude towards you they are not going to care one bit about what you have to say, after all you are just one dumb foreigner! hearing you is a waste of everybody's time!

pg could have gone for speech impediments instead which are a problem no matter where or what language you speak, and of course if english is your second language those problems are just going to compound. But pg went for the accents and the accents alone, as if the number of white american dudebro founders out there saying your instead of you're all the time were perfect.

Then again maybe when they are speaking pg is actually paying attention to what they say.
Just because Linus isn't actually selling his work directly, it doesn't follow that the output of his labour is economically worthless, it's just harder to measure.
The only "legit" reason I can think of that would make someone say, "I'll pay you for that user account" is that they are a spammer who wants to be able to submit links that get around the various automatic account controls in place (that prohibit accounts below a certain karma threshold from creating posts or commenting too frequently).
I'm surprised this works for pronunciation: surely it's easier to emphasize the first syllable and then add syllables with soft or altogether lost vowel sounds (-es, -ed, -able etc.) rather than starting with clearly enunciated suffixes and then progressively de-stressing and mangling them
I'd be more comfortable going from com- to comf't'bl than from table to fort-abl to comf't'bl

For the exact same reason I can see how your method works well as a means of teaching spelling by forcing native speakers to voice all the vowels that native speakers replace with the -schwa sound when pronouncing the full word.
It's more likely because you can't achieve modern security levels with cryptosystems built on the DLP or IFP at acceptable performance.

Suite B aims for 128-bit or 192-bit security levels; for comparison 1024-bit modulus RSA is currently thought to provide 73-bit security.

(The next natural question is why the internet community is still failing to widely deploy cryptosystems with appropriate security levels. I don't know. But HTTPS, OTR and DNSSEC are all built of cheese in this respect.)
A point repeated here has been "keep your skills flexible." A lesson we could learn that would improve upon the auto industry disaster would be to consider the "product line" itself. The auto industry was notoriously monofilamental in its innovation, as its CEOs preferred it. Their conservative operation proved a great long-term investment, with an eventual crumbling down hitting hard in the 1980s and hardly recovering.

Innovation represents hours sweated and is always rewarded. So far the computer science industry has been well-motivated to continue innovation, as computation becomes one of the world's standard utilities. But once it's all up and running _and_standardized, it will only take a smaller number of people to run it, like the power grid, water supply, phone system, etc.

It is all like plumbing, and like plumbers, there are household ones for household needs like web storefront/office/communications desks and industrial plumbers, but most of the unique, research-y plumbers are in a small, elite group who are innovating on their own and sharing their work with the public and are well-compensated. I think that's the effect we'll see, a narrowing or thinning of the industry somewhat, but it definitely won't settle until after use-cases are standardized and we're still a zillion miles from that.

Imagine NASA doing a shuttle lunch with everyone from the control room at home in their backyards cooking BBQ with their family :) Cell phone in one hand, spatula in the other.
>Once name-calling starts, we are playing the grade school game of seeing who can invent the worst insult. No thanks.

So you repeatably referring to those you disagree with as the thought police is different in what ways?
The computers of the future will just be blobs of flesh.
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The way that stores price their products makes no apparent economic sense [...]

- 1 can of coke : $1.00

- 12 cans of coke : $3.00

Makes total sense to me. Those products are targeting entirely different markets (person walking by who wants 1 coke; vs. person shopping for groceries). The issue isn't that Americans are "encouraged to buy in bulk", it's that merchants recognize how to take advantage of Americans' need for instant gratification.

The concept of virtually unlimited soda refills was alien to me, and I thought there was a catch to it, but apparently not.

There is. It's called type 2 diabetes, and it's epidemic here.
Love how little info is here - "Hi, I'm a 19-day old account and I've put up a form that asks for personal info. Please fill it out and, in return, I'll consider giving you $500 worth of free consulting! And I might feature you on my blog - but I'm not telling you the address of it, nor am I providing any other examples of reviews I've done for others. It's cool though - just ignore all of that and give me your email + domain!"
The core of today's HST tech dates back to the 50s (the 0-series Shinkansen, the latest of which was only retired in 2008, went in service in 1964).

And the first section of Chūō Shinkansen should be open in 2027, with partial opening possible as soon as 2020.

FWIW, even standard (non-maglev) high-speed rail construction are not short-term projects, the 300km LGV Est Phase 1 took 5 years between the initial earthworks and the line's opening and France isn't exactly as mountainous as Japan.
3/ Is not possible when you have kids and want to teach them your native languages. I have to speak French every at home, this is the only opportunity for my kids to hear this language.
As other users have pointed out, Microsoft actually does a lot of this. If you have a successful app MS will pay you handsomely to port it over.

Honest, the Surface's problem is more perception than anything
Blackberry paid bounties for every app developed in their store, and they got what they paid for - developers repackaged worthless content like wallpapers in the form of "apps" and listed them in the thousands. They made a killing. I don't think RIM really cared one way or the other, because they were looking to plump up that meaningless statistic that the press bandies around. Look, we have M apps in N months, check dat growth!
Clearly you never used Word Perfect for Windows ^_^.

OK, I didn't, but a lawyer friend who was a very loyal to the DOS version did, and gave up because it kept dropping his tables and such to the bottom of the document. I guess you could have used it as an electronic typewriter for the most basic of stuff, but in your hypothetical I would have gone back to TeX, Scribe or even nroff if I really needed things like tables.

However, I didn't have to do that, I could and did buy a copy of Microsoft's solid Word for Windows (on floppies, even).
I'm sure CAD software made lots of car designers redundant. What most people in our industry seem to not realize is the intense power accumulation laws at work. 1 Designer can now do the work that 50 could in the 50s. All that wealth is now going to one person (or whoever captures the wealth they would otherwise generate -- in this case car co. shareholders and customers).
Genius, power, and magic
Haven't tried it for myself -- but looking at the code, it appears that the last rule needs to be changed to port 22 for SSH to work.
Adam, what's Shopify's relocation policy? I am a US citizen living in New York right now, but have been considering emigrating for some time.

Are you willing to hire competent developers who don't have professional experience with Ruby, but wouldn't mind learning?
thanks! although the diagrams don't seem to work for me, unfortunately
Admittedly they just need better hardware. If Apple can sell you an iPod Touch for 229$ there isn't any excuse for not making a higher quality system. At least some higher resolution please.
The biggest barrier is making the choice to learn a new skill - which has been a huge barrier for humans since the beginning of time.

For example, learning Spanish would be a huge asset where I'm from (Texas). Hardly anybody does it, however, since it is hard to learn a new language. A new website that cuts the time to learn a new language from 6 months to 3 months wouldn't cut it for the vast majority of people.
The picture of the American military recreation room around the tomb of the founder of the Baath movement is pretty intense. Did they not know it was a tomb?
I agree with you, if you already have a laptop, then another device can be a luxury. I purchased a Surface Pro about three weeks ago, my 2005 Macbook died. I had been using my girlfriend's Surface RT for work, and that sufficed for three months. But, I missed running Adobe CS, and it wasn't my machine. After ten years of using OSX I turned to Windows.

The Pro has tackled all the tasks, I've thrown at it so far. For example, I recently worked on a case study for a startup I work with. That meant writing, doing interviews, researching, and some graphic design. A good amount of work was done in Google Docs. But, the rest of my work flow lived in OneNote, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

At one point I had Illustrator, Photoshop, Chrome, Metro IE, and Xbox Music running, without any hiccups. This was all while sitting at 1871, a collaborative workspace in Chicago. A laptop can handle this right? Yeah. But, the Surface is a tablet, that costs 799-899 dollars. Before, I purchased the Pro, I was looking at getting a Macbook Air or a Macbook Pro. The Macbook Pro was out of my price range, and the Air was a close competitor. I mention cost to make a point on the price to value ratio for this machine.

The Surface is the sum of its parts. It has a high DPI screen, headphone jack, a digitizer, a kickstand, a USB port, MircoSD card slot, and a mini DVI port. At home it sits alongside a monitor, acting like a desktop.

The Surface Pro, has quickly become one of my favorite pieces of technology, in a long time. The battery life could be better, and not every piece of software is optimized to work well on the screen. But, overall, its a dream to use on a daily basis. In my head this is what a tablet should be. Maybe, it was the idea of the iPad, I wished existed, before it was officially announced. Before, Steve Jobs, unveiled a 10 inch tablet that ran iOS not OSX.

PS. After using both Surfaces for a while now, I came to realization that there should be more than one type of input for devices. We have an iMac at home, I have to make an effort to not touch the screen!
You aren't tied to an employer with a H1B. Your H1B is for one specific employer, but you can transfer the H1B to another employer fairly easily, given about 2 weeks notice.

I've negotiated fairly strongly for my past H1B jobs: again, the strong job market allows this. If the market was weak, then there would be a danger that an employer would have control over whether I could stay resident, and this would provide them with strong leverage. I would be surprised if this was an intended part of the H1B program though: I've certainly never seen anything indicate that it is.

The sort of thing happening to the workers in the article is a form of indentured servitude, which is widely regarded as slavery. I don't believe it is ethical to hold this sort of power over an individual, and IMO, those employers should face jail time. I find it hard to believe a this would be designed into the H2B program.
I suspect any investor or investor group with enough data points to offer such a judgement would have said something similar 30 years ago (1983), or 50 years ago (1963), or 100 years ago (1913).

Long-distance communication and migration is becoming more common: native English speakers (especially in North America) are getting more chances to hear and become familiar with the speech of people who do not have English as their first language. (Without familiarity, it's easy to assume that flawed grammar and pronunciation means either flawed thinking or risky cultural differences.) So I'd surmise that the heavily-accented currently have their best opportunities ever to thrive in North American capital/recruiting/selling markets – and earlier generations of investors would have offered even harsher assessments about the impact of strong accents.

One of the points I was making with the My Fair Lady-themed joke in another thread (the SayAfter.me accent training offer) was that this is an eternal issue.

Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters; condemned by every syllable she utters…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhninL_G3Fg

That film came out in 1964 (winning Best Picture), based on a 1956 stage musical, based on a 1913 play (Pygmalion). The same ideas about accent and career-success go back further, and easily translate to many other languages and cultures.

Of course, an uneducated native (or disadvantaged local group dialect) accent is a different thing than a non-native accent. A non-native accent is more likely to indicate someone with the education and drive to dare operating in a non-native language environment. But, it takes a bit of familiarity to internalize that understanding, and stronger accents still signal a risk of slower and more error-prone communication.

When someone honestly points out that the strongest accents have been problematic, based on significant observational experience, they haven't "slipped", they've done the listeners a favor by sharing a perceived truth. Even if for some reason their observation is in error (and here I doubt it), by sharing the lesson they're helping, not hurting, the process of describing and understanding the world.
What horrifies me is people saying "Syria this" and "Syria that".

No, it's also consisting of many (perhaps mostly) innocent people like you and me who did nothing wrong and just want to live and get through their day peacefully.

It's not some unified entity. It's a lot of innocent people caught in the middle.
Is this really how it works? I know many do go solely with the -webkit or -moz property name to experiment with new features but for any site that's important (not an experiment, needs decent cross browser support) what I see happening is that most developers will do it the right way - they'll use all the available prefixes and end with the eventual standard property name while at the same time ensuring that use of these new features doesn't look completely broken in browsers that don't support the prefixes or non-prefixed version.

It's very rare that I'll see a developer code in such a way that they totally leave out a fallback or code with just one browser in mind. At least not when it comes to any site of importance (these include any site meant for a large audience, non-techies, business, and just generally not a site put together purely for showing off the uses of an experimental feature).

I didn't know Blink was going that route too. I fear that the use of new experimental features will stagnate if Chrome becomes too popular among non-techies.
As mentioned above, I've never created a Chrome/Chromium user profile.
I had the browser setup to clear cache and cookies on exit, and I'm aware of extensions/add ons slowing things down so I tested with a fresh install - no add ons/extensions - and a fresh OS.

I'm not trying to dis Chrome/Chromium as I really like the UI.

I've tried http://speedtest.net/ and when I complained to my ISP they sent me to their own site, http://speedtest.oceanic.

Interestingly, this morning's tests totally discredited my previous accusations regarding Chrome/Chromium.
(The net Gods must have intervened)

Chromium on Xubuntu 13.04 ===> http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2940424253

Chromium on Xubuntu 13.04 ===> https://paste.xinu.at/EWUab/

Firefox on Xubuntu 13.04 ===> https://paste.xinu.at/8ky/

Never mind... Disregard my complaints. It seems like Chromium is on par with Firefox this morning.
Eh, I like the article, but Marco kind of undercuts this little pearl of wisdom not too far down:

"... Sega threw away the Genesis’ tremendous fanbase and success by sloppily releasing the Sega CD, 32X, and Saturn, all of which were overpriced, uncompetitive, and poorly supported by game developers and Sega itself."

No company exists in a vacuum. This is why we promote competition and eschew monopolies, right?
Also similar to mine. Someone called me first time but the phone call was bad and he scheduled a new meeting, but he didn't call me back in the scheduled day. 2 days later he sent me a mail trying to reschedule it. As I was travelling i gave him a new number to call. He called in the first one and sent me a message saying that i wasn't there. I think i sent something like 5 emails later to explain that he called in the wrong number, but he never response me back.
I also think that since this would be exploited against non-state actors as well as states changes the payouts calculations significantly. Much, if not most, of the value is derived from exploiting non-state actors (i.e. Al Qaeda) who almost certainly would not have this capability or would not be able to keep it quite if they did. By signaling to the state actor on these capabilities, they would be giving up the value of exploiting the information from the non-state actors. So, even if you believed that state actors had these capabilities, it may be better to be kept a secret between the two countries and allow low priority secrets to be exploited than to have the info publicly known and the capability lost.
Of course there are reasons beyond compile-time checking, that is just one of the many requirements of an "enterprise" language. Haskell has strong type checking but fails in many other areas. Namely, being easy to understand by mediocre to average developers (and even some good developers).
If you look closely she's actually playing a guitar
Judging from the wikipedia link, Suite B does not contain a public key cypher. Which either tells us, that the NSA does not use asymmetric cyphers because they are broken. Or that they have a technical reason for it, like being able to do everything they want with key exchange, signature and symmetric cypher. So it is probably worth pointing out, that this speculations are interesting, but ultimately fruitless since we simply do not have enough information.
You aren't the mass of unemployed people.

I, too, find myself assuming that if something is easy/achievable for me, it would be easy/achievable for anyone.
Android versus iOS.
Totally tangential, but... I must have seen that exact same photo of NSA headquarters 100 times over the past month, at the head of every blog entry related to it.

It is too much to ask the nation's photographers just to take a few more pictures from different angles? ;) It's as bad as as the Onion's opinion on Snowden ("Nation Demands New Photograph Of Edward Snowden"):

https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=%22Nation+Demands+N...
Knew (given the guy's body is in there), but likely didn't care... just as they didn't care to stop the looting of Iraq's museums.
It takes time to vet, test, and build things, especially when representative government and massive land usage planning is involved. Much of the tech in modern airplanes is still from the 1950s and 1960s. The tech developed in the 2020s and 2030s will be in the trains of the 2050s-60s.
the lack of sacrifice necessary to make fat stacks of cash writing software?

I don't know about you, but I've sacrificed an incalculable amount of positive social interaction sitting in front of these damned screens. My programming skills weren't spontaneously conferred upon me, as a kid I'd spend weeks at time building foolishly impossible-to-complete applications that I'd eventually leave to rot as I hopped onto the next cool programming technique that I finally understood the power of. There's a considerable amount of my time not spent interacting with people I enjoy, even today, because I am so compelled to build programs. Time spent in the pursuit of understanding these gadgets is the sacrifice made and the barrier to entry.

Though, I do believe automation will catch up with developers eventually; there will inevitably come a point where general purpose programming experiences low demand as the explosion of software begins to cover the majority of conceivable business use cases.
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There are already plenty of media downloaders that provide their own file space and integrated playback ability. For example put.io.

Loading large files to Dropbox, where you cannot stream them, seems like a step back.

Besides, the site is a bit confusing to me. You should be more clear about the difference between the paid and the free plan.
SSH should be immediately moved off port 22 in virtually any install.

The amount of toxic traffic hitting that port is scary.
Nintendo did a mario game for the phillips CDI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Mario)
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I'm good reading and listening English but when it comes to talk with somebody it feels like I forget it all I have to think twice before talking and I my pronunciation sucks I've been practicing that .. if there are good sources for improving this please share it , I'm currently using livemocha but I already lost interest on it, I also recommend listening to podcasts.