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This goes beyond foreign versions of textbooks.

A friend recently recommended "The Broken Sword" by Poul Anderson. The trouble is, the text of the 1954 work was watered down in 1971. So it's apparently important to read the right edition, or so Michael Moorcock warns. [1]

I've had small online booksellers assure me they have the edition I want. When I open the package in the mail, it's never the right version. When I contact the merchant to ask how I can find the right edition, they just refund my money and stop talking to me.

Other sales people have told me they have no warehouse access, they have no way to confirm what's getting in the boxes. The easiest way for them to find out the edition of a book is to just ship it to me and have me let them know.

You'd think you could have a meaningful discussion with a bookseller about editions. I know it's not something that matters for every sale, but you'd think at least those few who choose to deal in books would occasionally notice that not all books with the same title look identical, and start to wonder why.

We've moved from a world where I can put my hands on a book, glance at the copyright page, feel the paper, see the condition, to one where every version of a work, from annotated to abridged, can be lumped together as a fungible commodity.

I know, Bezos moves a lot of paper, this isn't going to keep him up at night. But if I get one "old man yells at clouds" rant, this goes in mine.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jan/25/featuresreviews...
"In 2012, Brown similarly pored over millions of emails hacked by Anonymous from the private intelligence company Stratfor. It was during his work on the Stratfor hack that Brown committed his most serious offence, according to US prosecutors – he posted a link in a chat room that connected users to Stratfor documents that had been released online.

The released documents included a list of email addresses and credit card numbers belonging to Stratfor subscribers. For posting that link, Brown is accused of disseminating stolen information – a charge with media commentators have warned criminalises the very act of linking."
The bevel is a bad move, and looks out of place. Poor design choice. Most of the other decisions were fine.
Okay, so it's bulletproof for PvE.
Just because it is "representative" does not make it an evil source. The driving force behind the stupidity is not home schooling but the faith that drives home schooling.

Peanut allergies are a real problem and kill lots of people. Do we ban peanuts and sue God? Is that the plan?
You don't need to register as a developer to get the command line tools.
They should make a strategic design decision and execute it consistently -- have a strong opinion.

Amen! Generally this disturbs me about a lot of web stuff (probably because it is the one area in which I'm exposed to it) - caring more about what people expect or want, rather what you wish they would want, because you like it yourself. The winning logo is so ugly, I'd use it as an glaring example why you can't poll the masses on style or taste, not as a guideline. Not that I think it matters that much; the world is full of ugly logos, but as long as they stand for something want/need, we tend to accept or even like them. But still. Yech.
I think Marissa Mayer was famous for things like this even at Google.
Yes. While the mathematics is simple, the relative salary and inflation tell an entire different story.

Also over the past year, the value of dollar has increased to Rs 67(or the value of Rupee has fallen, whatever). The point is, it burns more now. And the burn amount keeps fluctuating.
This is simply the wrong way to do branding. Even it's just for testing logo design. Come on. I know branding from strategic angle could be very simple to explain. It's all about how human beings perceive a "thing" and generate associations. However, executing one part of the branding job like this makes the test less meaningful. A great brand or whatever thing it is fulfills people's needs by leading them to a unique journey, not by asking specific place they want to go. Feedback is very important, but there is other ways to achieve it better. Moreover, testing is better to be done from a branding's perspective. Trees and forest are both crucial.
I know I'm feeding a troll here (I've checked your comment history) but what the heck.
What is a "task switcher"? And corollary question, do you have any idea what you're talking about?
I just got it on sale for $7.50. I had a pirated version I played a few hours in (wanted to see how the port was; as you say, it's pretty bad) that circumvented GFWL, storing my save in a local 4-meg file rather than on some server somewhere. And I can't restore him! I'M VERY SCARED TO START AGAIN.

But I might just do so with the fix.
I disagree. I liked the new logo. :(
As a former teacher of ten years, I completely agree that school is a waste of time, money and resources.

School is a baby sitting service that doubles as an "education".

The whole system is flawed. No one wants to be there.

The kids hate it, the teachers can love the job, but usually hate the grind, and the administrators are there to stay out of the classroom and not get blamed for anything.

Kids go to school so parents can go to work. That is the system.

If there is no school, what happens to the kids?

Most adults prefer working to being around their kids all day, just ask a home schooling mom with multiple kids.

She stays home not because it is easy, but because it is good for the kids.

The author of the article completely misses the issue. Kids don't get the best resources in our system. They get bare minimum.

He recommends some special kind of school and way of learning. But, this won't happen because it would require re-training, re-designing, and other costs that people just don't want to spend on other people's kids.
>The Yahoo! logotype was important enough to involve the CEO of a $25B company, and frivolous enough to knock out in a weekend.

I think that combination is probably accurate, but I don't think that is a bad thing. Mayer knows that something like this isn't really in the job description of a CEO. They don't pay her the big bucks to play around in Illustrator and it isn't a efficient use of her work day. But this is something she is interested in and something she thinks is important to the new image of Yahoo. So she dedicates a weekend (as off the clock as a Fortune 500 CEO can be?) to meet with the design team and get the work done. The move actually sounds pretty calculated and smart to me. It shows that she both knows her roll in the company but will still pay attention to the details.
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>Dark Souls is just plain better.

Nope. It has a worse frame rate, just for a start. All the qualities you list are laudable, but they don't even come close to addressing "every other respect". For example, Dark Souls requires you to pick up way more items than Demon's Souls. More items is good - but not if it turns into a tiresome exercise in collection.
in your opinion, what differs sfml and sdl?
It's really not though. At least for me, I find that there's a balance between giving and receiving damage in the boss fights. While having higher vitality (more HP) lets you survive longer, unless you can also dish out a lot of damage the fights can become incredibly difficult.

Basically, the question is how many times you can hit the boss by taking advantage of their timing versus how many times you screw up trying to take advantage of their timing.

If you have more HP you can screw up a few more times but if you're not dealing much damage you end up having to avoid screw ups for a long time in some boss fights.

Then there are the fights like the Four Kings where you really want to be doing higher DPS or else things get really messy.

Personally, I found the easiest build for PvE to be a sorcery build focused on high DPS. With a high enough intelligence you can deal a lot of ranged damage, which makes avoiding being hit that much easier.
Actually, this is really nice work and has a better ux experience.

Would you keep the sidebars of win 8?
Not that I can blame Google, I've never heard of a company asking recently hired employees about how they could make the interview process better.

Google sent me a survey after I turned down their job offer (back in 2006). Among other things, I wrote "this recruiter is nearly single-handedly responsible for me not coming to work for you".

A couple years later I heard that she had gotten promoted.
> She knows from experience that having the best of the best is necessary for your success in tech

This is simply not true. There is a metric ton of examples of "success in tech" WITHOUT "having the best of the best". Microsoft would be the prime example. Twitter - another.
Hence why some people are fighting the politically unpopular fight to get older people off the road. No one wants to be seen as the one that "stole grandma's freedom".
Nice. I like this one much better than the other 30 choices they presented to users.

*actually I didn't watch the video all the way to the end where it shows the bevel. Yuck. Why?
Why would I bother to answer a deliberately offensive comment from someone who's own posting is deeply partisan?
Without thinking about who did this, the bevel is plainly ugly. I wonder if no one in the entire design team could tell this to Marissa Mayer?
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I didn't go into details of the Tasker app (#3 on my list), but that's exactly the context dependent automation I use it for.
And yeah, there' no equivalent for such a broad ranging "device-wide programming" app for iOS. Nor is there likely to be one given the fundamentally "isolated apps" model of the world wherein iOS operates.
I wonder what the 1983 video was shot on? Would have been cool if all 3 were shot on film too heh.
The Solaire saga in Dark Souls was interesting and compelling, though not quite as rich as the Maiden.

Demon Souls was also better in that there was no selling of inventory. Anything that you could not use, would not use, or was inferior to your current equipment, you just dropped. Dark Souls introduced the Frampt “merchant” and allowed you to profit from selling stuff, leading to a Diablo-style loot hoarding. Fortunately the prices were low enough to not affect the game too badly.

The linked-to article nailed it: Dark Souls had its own style of black humor, where your death was the joke. Frampt was whimsical and weird and felt out of place for lots of reasons. Other than the doggy-dragon, Dark Souls was the better game in every way.
>So, I think the solution is easy: Pay teachers a salary that is competitive with other high-skilled professions, and you'll get good teachers.

The problem with that argument is that the supply vastly, VASTLY outstrips demand. How can you possibly argue that we should pay these candidates more when you have 100 applicants per position in most school districts?

Doesn't this suggest a real problem with the upstream pipeline?
If you would developped for Android, you should have known that you don't simulate a brand.

You simulate application sizes :)

Ever developped for Android, because i doubt so.

Easier collecting feedback and faster "getting it out" iterations to improve your application.
With a small caveat for HTML5 apps where you can install a verified version of specific code you trust in your browser or your phone. And Node.js applications which run on the server side in a controllable version.

But above is just a nuance. I agree on the basic idea when it comes to Javascript you run in the browser, it is a lost battle - unless I get a SHA256 of every version of every javascript library and compare to that, and disallow other unreadable (random emscripten junk) scripts on random pages you visit while browsing. That is why I have NoScript installed, and only allow handpicked sites to run javascript in the browser.

If only we would have had the declarative approach (I still am a little grumpy that the browser makers abandoned W3C and the far better designed declarative technology XHTML2 + XForms to pursue what is now HTML5).
Yes, if you have google plus profile on this account.
Profile ID now means google plus ID.
In Australia I've seen them in BigW (kinda a Kmart/Walmart equivalent).
Zing, wargamer!
>I've come to be skeptical of what everyone believes and no one questions, that schools are failing kids.

Amen. Schools are failing SOME kids, there is no doubt about that.

But the question I have - which is controversial, to say the least - is this: Do we really CARE that it's failing some kids?
Well, this went all Godwin faster than I expected for HN.
Erm, parent didn't originally compare US to DPRK. That honor goes to the top post.

Anyways, which country would the poster want to live in: the DPRK, or the USA? We are lucky enough to vote with our feet (well, in the USA we can); some Europeans even...gasp...come to the great USA sh*thole to live/work and actually...really not kidding...enjoy it enough not to leave. We aren't even kidnapping them...they pay for the airfares themselves!
Signing in with Twitter wants to post as me and read my tweets, how come?
Amazing to see the Graun supporting Sarah Palin ;-)
I thought there might have been fewer trees in the earliest video, but it was really difficult to tell with the film quality and the speed of things rushing by. If the rail was newly laid in the 50s, then they might have had to cut down the trees, and they take a while to come back.

The difference that jumped out at me the most is the decline in hats. I wonder how many haberdashers were put out of work during this period.

> it's interesting to reminded that big, capital intestive stuff like bridges and tunnels and roads are still built with 50+ year expected lifetimes. I can't imagine writing software with anything like that staying power.

I've given thought to this. Engineers are expected to get things like that right the first time, and the structures have to last a long time. But the engineers don't have to invent a new kind of bridge or road every time they design one. Software, being cheap to make lots of copies of, has to do something completely new every time you write it.
How you "get your code running" is the most important part of the dev life cycle.

How you *get your code running on a device" is even better. And it's trivial with Android. It's a royal pain in the butt with iOS.
Not to mention a recent story where Kim Jong Un had his ex-girlfriend and colleagues shot, then had their families shipped off to a prison camp. Wow, no wonder Dennis Rodman likes hanging with that guy.
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Hopefully MSFT will buy the full version when the trial expires.
Yeah. Taking photos they'd rather one didn't has gotten people doing hard labor for a decade and a half.
Sometimes you just gotta start with "Drake's Equation".

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

That's the mental template I have for these guestimation bullshitorama type questions, anyway.
"instead of getting a great offer on a hotel package in your favorite vacation spot, you might see an ad for the latest, greatest weight loss solution."

Translation: "Fuck you, we'll show you obnoxious weight loss ads instead"
Mirror here: http://visual.ly/how-car-engine-works-animated
I think the opposite is true. Don't make me join Facebook or Twitter to use any service. I won't. And not offering something without joining some other service and reporting your online life to specific profiling companies (tying your fate to them) makes you want to scream "Mozilla Persona" at them.
Has working for him in any way helped you landing contracts later?
Sure, if you ask the actual question about capacity planning. The golf balls and bus question gets you where exactly?
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How long until their regional affiliates update their design? For example:

http://au.yahoo.com (Yahoo! 7)
http://www.yahoo.co.jp/ (Yahoo Japan)

I really feel that while these spinoffs seemed like a good idea at the time (and in the case of Yahoo Japan were very successful spinoffs) having separate businesses with different branding will come back and hurt Yahoo! soon.
There is also another, more practical, reason for the lack
of trees and general greenery next to the train lines.

In 1953 we are still in the age of steam and trees were cut back from the lines to reduce the risk of fires from hot ash.

There was a pretty interesting article with the BBC to accompany this a while back.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23853863
This page is really slow on my chrome, wouldn't it be better to divide it into smaller pieces?
Interesting. Are there services (like LifeLock or something) that will aggregate these types of information for you regularly automatically?
A cursory grasp of correlation and probability theory would do wonders for the general public in so many regards (voting, trends, debunking scientific claims made in popular media and commercials, etc).

I could not agree more.
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>Educators tend to be big on calculus because it correlates with college success [1].

I strongly, strongly suspect the arrow points the other way.
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It's worth noting that the engine illustrated is a gasoline direct injection engine, which are fairly common on new cars but historically not so.

Until the early 2000s most fuel injected gasoline engines were multi-point injection - the fuel was injected in to the incoming air stream immediately before the cylinder, and before that indirect injection which injected where the carburettor was.

Then there are carburettor engines.

Most diesel engines have been direct injection for many decades now, due to the behaviour of the fuel.
The GIF also reveals why it's so easy to pick locks, and (to a mechanically inclined person) how to do it.
Did you think I said the Android emulator is better than the iOS one? I wasn't trying to say that. Maybe I confused the use of "simulator" v. "emulator".

Agreed, the Android emulator sucks and I don't use it. One of its many flaws is that it doesn't support multicast, which is pretty much a requirement for doing device discovery in a remote control app.
How a gasoline car engine works, specifically a piston car engine with injection. There are lots of other variations on the theme of car engine. For instance, Diesel, Natural Gas, LPG, electricity (non-hybrid) and another configurations for the hot chamber, for instance a Wankel engine. Instead of injection there is carburation (an older, less efficient process for getting the fuel air mixture into the cylinders), and then there are turbo variations.

Of course gasoline, piston car engines are extremely common but the number of diesels can be very large depending on where you are (for instance, in Europe they are very common).

So for the general North-American view of what a car engine is this infographic is mostly correct but please don't take it as the be-all end-all of car engines, there is a lot more to it than that.
> how many users can you serve with one CPU core

Adding features to your software can drastically reduce throughput per CPU core. Even simple architecture refactoring for better scalability can drastically reduce throughput per CPU core (just as you have to pick availability versus consistency, you also have to pick scalability versus throughput).

And hence, because it depends on what the software does and how it evolves, the question cannot be answered unless you stress test a CPU core. The question itself, as phrased, is even stupider than how many golf balls fit in a bus.
For an old school look at internal combustion engines, check out this episode of The Secret Life of Machines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr3_AwuO9Y

The whole show is well worth the time.
There's also:

lynx -dump -nolist developerexcuses.com
Bicycle DUI really, wow...

In Belgium they throw money and campaings at getting people not to drive cars under influence. I wouldn't say "take your bike" is the official stance, but certainly the most popular alternative.

I've never heard of anyone being stopped to check alcohol levels on their bike.
Abstraction. I hear computer programming is pretty abstract.
Documented here: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/10/world/asia/north-korea-gul...

And this is the story of that kid who grew up in prison camp.
> Would a writer submit himself to such a gimmick for his book's names?

You'd be surprised! Some of these are weaker than others.

Stephanie Plum (By Janet Evanovich) start "One for the money", "two for the dough", "three to get deadly", "four to score", etc etc. (https://duckduckgo.com/c/Stephanie_Plum_books)(This is a terrible website)(http://stephanieplum.com/)

Hannah Swenson, 'murder she baked', has food in each title (and a recipe in each book) (admittedly, the titles aren't in any order)
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_14?url=search-ali...)

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Janet-Evanovich/e/B000APXTY4/ref=sr_...)

Women's Murder club. Each title starts with an incremented digit. "1St to die", "2nd chance", "3rd degree", etc. (http://www.jamespatterson.com/books_wmc.php#.Uigpk9KRC0I)

Alex Cross, (By James Patterson) starting to get Children's nursery rhymes in the titles. (http://www.jamespatterson.com/books_alex_cross.php#.UigpyNKR...)

Cal Murphy (by Jack Patterson) uses Cross in the title - "Cross Hairs", "Cross the Line", "Triple Cross". (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Patterson/e/B0098F2E48/ref=ntt_...) (This last one feels odd - the author name is close to James Paterson, and the series titling uses a word ('cross') that happens to be the name of the James Paterson protagonist.
I'd never be able to be a Googler either, for nearly the opposite reason: I left College a long time ago for a job. I have since spent 8+ years working on tough problems that are highly algorithmic, and tons of optimization work. Yet the lack of college is a deal breaker AFAICT.
A Fire Uchigatna+6 or +7 makes Four Kings easy if you have 20 estus flasks and plenty of vitality. Since this weapon doesn't scale with stats you barely have to alter your build to use it. I'm not saying it's the only viable build, nor the only fun one. I'm saying that the builds aren't exactly a work of genius, which is I suppose unavoidable when on your first run there are basically zero clues as to what's to come. For example, how are you supposed to know that Four Kings will need high DPS? A better way to do all this would be to foreshadow every boss in some way. For example, NG being a very cut-down version of the game with simplified, shorter areas and weaker bosses, with NG+ being the real deal deal. This is basically how everyone who really loves the game plays it anyway: bumble around through your first play-through, then on the second and third goes you can start making more conscious choices, since you have some idea of what's to come.
The question is not a literal question, just some words meant to evoke in the reader's mind the relevance of estimation to software engineering. For a detailed discussion on this subject, see Chapter 7 of Programming Pearls: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/bote.html
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Ok a little off the main topic here, but since on THIS node there is a mini-debate going about creationist vs evolution, i just want to say that i never truly understood why a person cant be both :/

What's wrong with the notion that the creator just used evolution to create things? Why must he create them as they are.

Cuz i personally view the creator as The Great Coder (or Goder or God for short :P) who jsut wrote an epicly long program and hit the "Compile and execute" button! (hence the BIG BANG) :P

Just a thought