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Does anyone know how much of this development is paid for by the UK tax payer vs BBC worldwide profits from DVDs etc?

I'm not sure website development should be paid by UK tax payers TBH...

Maybe at least some of the reason for hate.

My main hate is the idiotic cookie policy which makes everything look ugly, but I guess the EU is to blame there.
Watsi is hiring a designer
I say the same as I never really turned up to University, however I knew I wanted to be a programmer afterwards and people wouldn't speak to me without that Degree...
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OsmAnd is great but its target users are OSM contributors and map geeks, not "Joe User looking for a GM alternative".

For your usecase, have a look at mapswithme instead. It's proprietary but very neat. Does only the basics but does them well.

There are plenty of mobile apps using OSM data, some of them high quality and improving regularly. If one app doesn't suit you, look around. Have another look if you last tried many months ago.
Entering a wrong branch of work only because it paid good, now I am stuck with knowledge that is not really interesting and am doing double effort to learn new skills and start a new job career. Hopefully I will be able to use some of the experience I have acquired up to now.
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Staying in college at a school that didn't let you change majors (Cal Poly). I picked up what I can in night school in the years following and have cobbled together the job a 25 year old should have now that I'm 32. Worst mistake of my life, not just career.

If you're in a major you don't like and can't switch, drop out. University is largely a scam that exists to impoverish students and adjuncts for the benefit of a bloated administration.

Junior college, however, is an amazing thing and I encourage it for anyone.
Maybe he wanted you to secure space for his creation at http://www.moma.org/ ? At least he's modest.
This would give you Nihilism. Theism disagrees.
I dunno, elected like Dilma Roussef in Brazil?

Brazil situation is so hopeless that people are just outright leaving (permanently), having given up on the fake democracy that we have here (or at least we HOPE is fake democracy, if it is real democracy some genocide is needed urgently).

Brazillian homes value outside Brazil doubled in value since 2008, and I doubt most of it is inflation.

The only reason I didn't leave myself, is because I don't figured how.

Brazil for example the same party is in de-facto power ever since the military dictatorship ended, despite (or because?) this party is extremely corrupt, and is involved in ALL corruption scandals since they took power.

Currently our election process rely on an electronic urn and some other electronic systems, that we are NOT allowed to see the source, or do penetration testing and whatnot.

There is no proof (or counter-proof) if the system really works properly, or not.

We DO have some testing done in machines made by the same manufacturer, those tests proved that cheating elections is extremely easy, and in our case if the cheating used the previously mentioned exploits, there are no way to find out (our elecronic ballots just give you the final result, there is no way to individually count the votes, so the machine can count the votes in whatever way it wants, without anyone knowing, beside the programmer of the method).
Intellij does a very good job for most of my programming and I use it daily.

In the process of learning a distributed system, the process of looking at the code as its documentation is not the ideal way. One could spend enormous amount of time to just understand a simple business usecase.

But then just because it takes time doesn't make it untrue.

I would rather accept a system which self documents itself with every change.

The point of breaking things is all well and good but to truly understand everything, after breaking also one needs to put the together one by one and understand their interactions so that if any one in the pool of modules fails, one knows what exactly would have caused it and how to be more resilient towards failures.
That realist would be a fool who takes the exasperated statements of politicians at face-value. Were any long term trade agreements threatened? Embargoed in a way where they actually did it, not just talked about it? Was military cooperation withdrawn, diplomatic ties severed?

Absolutely none of this happened. A lot of words happened. Mysteriously, for exactly as long as Snowden was in the news right up till Russia invaded the Ukraine.
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I think you will be surprised how much it makes you focus and actually work better. Kids are the Great Motivator, they are also wonderful insight into product use at different ages. Involve them in your creations.
Do some things deep, others shallow and pursue your fleeting interests - all will contribute to your levelling up.

Just make sure you do become deep with some things otherwise you'll be just a dabbler. You need deep expertise in some fields to be a power developer.
I agree. There will always be something limiting your "free" time, and you will always be prone to looking back and finding an excuse for why you didn't do X. Doing things as simple as rising an hour and a half earlier each day to put in one hour of quality work will eventually stack up until you are well on your way to starting a business. The only truly limiting factors are energy and motivation, and those can be mitigated somewhat by caffeine and stubbornness.
Apparently it's becoming a thing to cheer for Microsoft when it implements a feature in its browser that others have had for years. It's like cheering for the 10th guy who crossed the finishing line instead of the first.
How would that help against these attacks?
Congratulations for making such a great effort in writing that article!

(Whenever I see the praise effort, not achievement meme I make it a point to praise the effort, not the achievement).
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Actually, it expired quite a while ago, in 1989.
Don't know why you are downvoted but that's true. Windows versions tend to be long-lasting. If Microsoft keeps tying browsers to them, then they will always have browsers that remain behind for 5+ years.

And of course the next IE12/"Spartan" will be tied to Windows 10...so this won't change anytime soon apparently.
Cal Poly Pomona? Or Cal Poly SLO?
This dependency will soon be removed. It was used by the previous compiler because boost::regex_replace handles different types of formatters:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_57_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boo...

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/regex/regex_replace
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I wonder if they plan to support Curve25519 and BLAKE2 in the browser, so developers can choose non-NIST crypto.
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OSM is much more decentralised than that. There isn't really a central OSM body that controls everything. 2 of the 3 routing engines used are written by members of the OSM community, are open source, and are designed to work with OSM data. Should we count them as "3rd party" or not? They aren't hosted on the main OSM servers, instead hosted on the servers of the respective projects.
Scanned computer ads from a VOBIS retailer. Great to see how times changed. Prices are in D-Mark.
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The kids desire for gendered products or the parents desire for gendered products?
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Couldn't agree more. Its a pretty common case, with employers taking advantage of experienced freshies.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you supposed to evaluate stacked exponents from the top down? That is, 9^(9^9) instead of (9^9)^9. If that's the case, 9^(9^9) is much larger than 9!!. Though I'm not sure how much larger, since I couldn't find any big integer calculators online that would give me an actual result for 9^(9^9).
The patent expired a long time ago, the original patent was filed in 1958. They tried to trademark the shape indefinitely, which recently was denied. They also lost a case against Tyco in 1988. Of course the Lego design was copied from Kiddicraft to begin with.

More than anything, the family that founded Lego handed over the CEO post to a former business consultant in 2003.

http://www.dehns.com/site/information/dehns_articles/will_le...
http://brickfetish.com/timeline/1947.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgen_Vig_Knudstorp
Maps.me is a good android OSM app. It has routing now I think.
> What comes first, the desire for gendered products or the gendered products?

Apparently the desire. Toddlers pick gendered products on their own (for some forms of them). There was some studies about this behavior.
It's so impressive that I can take out a 30 year old Lego brick, and it "works" exactly the same as it did 30 years ago. Sure, the white ones have faded a little, but they still function just as they should.

Not to put the knife in too hard, but megablocks and other competitors don't even function properly when they're new out of the packet.
Here is the source code for 2 of the routing engines that are used:

https://github.com/Project-OSRM https://github.com/graphhopper
That's weird - middle click still works fine on Firefox/Linux, but doesn't work on Chrome/Linux.

Hard to believe this was intentional.
And what looks like apathy can also just be a sign your argument isn't as compelling as you think it is.
Just because somebody drew a cartoon doesn't make it true. What exactly is supposedly stupid about Lego friends? That it's not about robots and cars and Star Trek? But then Sarkeezian was really condescending about Lego ads that advertised building cars. So I guess we are limited to building gender neutral houses and random heaps of colored blocks to express our individuality?

As for the truth of the cartoon: there are more "neutral" Lego kits than any average kid could possibly afford to buy. Presumably girls weren't buying, that's why Lego made "friends".

I'd prefer my daughter to play with "friends" than no playing with Lego at all, although to be honest I am not really worried.
I am completely with you with the idea of replicating the whole system locally with help of Vagrant and making sure it is as close to production and then start and stop stuff and observe the change
I don't regret anything, but perhaps I should have been more patient and level-headed regarding my career choices. My choices have been quick and swift, perhaps too quick and swift. It would have been interesting to have seen what would have happened if I had chosen otherwise - but I'll never know.

Life is all about finding your own way, and enjoying the experience.
Not trying to build a business while in University, when you have nothing to lose.
The competition is terrible though. Have you tried assembling any other "compatible" building set?

The bricks aren't finished properly, some just pop off, and it all falls to bits easily.

I'd say the nearest competition to Lego is probably 60% the quality of Lego.
> And listening to everybody saying that hard work will get you places.

> Maybe I've just grown cynical. But your employer doesn't care about you or what you do.

Hard work will get you places. But nobody said anything about hard work for your employer. You have to work hard, but you have to work hard on your personal goals.

If that means climbing the ranks at an organisation. Do that. Climb them as hard as you can. Identify what gets them climbed. Do that above all else.

If that means starting a business. Launch a side project. Or two. Or twenty. Or even fifty. However many it takes until you have enough of a side-income to drop your job and live off of yourself.

If that means starting a VC-backed business. Well, work hard on knowing what ticks the checkboxes for VCs. Work hard on meeting a lot of VCs. Work hard on whatever it takes to get VCs to dump money into your idea.

The world is literally your oyster.
The BBC produce quite a few intereting write ups of their R&D process alongside odd things they are hacking on here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd

Well worth a read.
Still, you can only buy something else within the range of options on the market.

Ideally companies adjust their product lines based on customer demand. In reality it's mostly determined by other factors like supply chain, internal politics, competitor envy, random advice from consultants, need to meet quarterly growth goals, etc.

For example, high-fructose corn syrup has become a major ingredient of many American food products within the past 20+ years. That didn't happen because of consumer demand, and consumers don't have an easy way to vote against it.
you mean by license fee payers.

Given the bbc is the 7th most popular site in the UK, and a clear leader over other news sites, I don't see why it shouldn't be paid for by the license. It fulfils its requirements outstandingly well.

(There are questions about whether given the move away from a tv based model the bbc should be paid for by tax payers, and that's fair)
The easiest way to earn more money is always to quit - either they'll throw money at you to stay, or you take a new job with a higher salary.
SLO. My degree in physics came after constant failures as I spent most of my time outside class struggling (and failing, horribly) to complete classes I couldn't manage, and trying to learn to program in what little extra time there was. I tried to switch to CS and ME to no avail. However, by the time I realized it wasn't for me (after all the first couple years were general ed requirements) I had sunk so much time in to it I thought it was better to stick it out.

It wasn't. It took me an entire extra year just to get one class I needed to graduate (mind you they have plenty of money for a fancy gym and new buildings, but not for professors to teach classes). I only got out when I was 25 and a sad, bitter, angry shell of a person.

There's a happy ending, though. I left San Luis Obispo, started going to night classes at Ohlone College in the bay and later Santa Monica College, and finally built up enough of a skill set to work in ad operations, then support, then support engineering. I had thought I was too stupid to do anything, but I did well in my classes after Poly and professionally.

Since then I've tried to adopt a motto to enact change before life has the opportunity to do it for me. You are never secure, so don't pretend you are. I thought I was in a decent position in SM when I left for Ireland on a working holiday (it had always been a dream of mine to live abroad). I was terrified to leave a good job for a country with a crappy economy. Lo and behold my whole department was shut down a month after I left, and after a bit of networking in Ireland I ended up with a position better than I had at home. How long this will last I don't know, but I know that it won't be forever (nothing is) and I am always looking out for what's next, and trying to improve my skills (lately I've been in to brewing automation and getting better with Arduino).

That was long-winded, but I guess I also felt like I should point out the positive learning that came from it.

I still should have dropped out, though.
If (universe==indifferent) meaning=null;

Anecdotally speaking most people get through their day to day tasks thinking that somehow it all matters in the end.

If nothing really matters, and best you can do is be your own little streetlight(to paraphase Kubrick) you are faced with the problem on what to choose as your meaning.

Pick anything, it will do. That is scary.
Well update your threat model appropriately. What are the realities if they've somehow hit every single hard disk in the US? What is the likelihood this level of subterfuge can be maintained? How many people are involved?

Just because you can imagine it doesn't suddenly make it practical, and it certainly doesn't mean they're going to burn that capability outing some guys porn habits either.
I worked on a project that used that and while I understand the reasoning I hate the ugliness of it.
Probably an oversight on my part not to think of this ;-)
In communist Poland, during the time of Martial Law, when alcohol was really scarce, people used to "filter" anti-freeze and perfumes to drink alcohol from them. Obviously janitors at Los Alamo were not in such dramatic situation,but it's not entirely inconceivable to me that someone might do it to get drunk.
The 50 years old weaver in 1800 Manchester was rare or dead. Life expectancy at birth was only around 48.5 even in 1900-1910 in England and Wales.

http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/Docs/DEIP_Gallop.pdf

Relevance? The industrial revolution enabled increases in life expectancy. At this moment, the software revolution is doing something similar.
What exactly is blunder? Watch this game: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1032537

Tal sacrificed horse and queen.
That's the contemporary situation. We have something close to a police state with mass surveillance, militarised police and heavy restrictions on protesting. At the same time we're also seeing more interest in Basic Income and I expect there will be more of a political push for that in the near future. All of the above are about trying to keep the lid on a situation where technology is facilitating greater inequality. In the current situation oligarchs with large capital reserves and the ability to purchase legislation can continue to exfiltrate much of the wealth created by the population.
Per their 2013-14 financial report, the BBC's income was 3.7b pounds from license fees and 1.3b pounds from commercial activities (= largely BBC worldwide profits).

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/pdf/2013-14/BBC_Fina...

And the BBC's mission is "to enrich people's lives with programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain". Building a website to better distribute the content they've already paid for seems like a no-brainer.

Disclaimer: I used to work for a subsidiary of BBC Worldwide. Plenty of bureaucratic nuttiness in there, but this seems like one of their more sensible moves.
The former is a generalisation, a trend that every right-minded thinker accepts. Deriving the latter from that, unfortunately, leads to a restriction. Witness the beauty of the free market which caters to the mass-appeal middle of the road, ignoring the beautiful anomalies at the edges.
> Does that in any way help you decide which is the better developer?

No, but it has time and again proven that it tells you which is the better engineer. Not necessarily having a CompSci degree, but someone who's made it to senior year or even postgrad is, in my limited experience, an infinitely better engineer than someone who dropped out in freshman year or never attempted.

No, CompSci will not teach you how to code. But it sure does a hell of a lot in teaching you how to design systems and engineer solutions. Of course you also need experience on top of that, but it helps a lot.

Like, things that are completely obvious to somebody with a CompSci degree, might be wholly out of the range of somebody who is self-taught.

But as always, the question is: Is that something you need? Everyone can build you a CRUD app for sharing cat pics. Even a 15 year old high school student who codes on the side can do that. But who are you gonna call when your CRUD app needs to handle a million cat photos a day? Yup, someone with a CompSci degree.

source: being both that 15 year old high school kid and a CompSci person.
How does the objective-c work under the hood?
It is well defined - it's "just" a matter of computation. There are a small number of possible 111-state turing machines - well, ok, there's actually a very large number, since it's one of those things that grows exponentially, but still, it's very much a finite number. For each of those possible turing machines, either it halts or it doesn't, something a programmer should be able to grind out; if it halts then it necessarily does so after some finite number of steps. So in principle we could compute all of those and then take the max of them. In practice it's a lot of steps - but we understand all the steps, so it would just be a matter of "cranking it out".

Conversely if you want to insist on a "constructible" number then you kind of have to insist on unary notation. Maybe a computer can give you a numerical value for "11^11^11^11", but can you really consider it well-defined if you can't put that many pebbles in a row? There are a few mathematicians who take this kind of view - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism - but it's very much an extreme position.
I'm sorry for your situation. I assume you're in the USA.

I care about our team and their wellbeing more than I do profit - although the two can go hand in hand if you reinvest in your people.

We send folks to conferences, as they learn and network, which is good for them and us. We generally give annual raises around the 15% mark. Above all we don't allow or accept the master-slave relationship anywhere in the company, and we're careful not to hire people who we feel will want to dominate other people.

I'm sure, in fact I know, many employers are assholes who treat their team like slaves - but it's not a universal law.
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A gendered society
stumbling across hacker news, my career hasn't been the same since
I would add Sleep to the list. I would be interested to know how it was ranked in your survey.

Most people at hackathons don't acknowledge that they need to sleep, which is bad for both their health and their productivity.
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This is the general feel of business in America. Aggressive, combative, winners and losers.

British capitalism tends to be based far more on mutual respect, trust, and benefit.

We don't work with US clients any more.
Right there with you, I have a 1-year old and I'm finally working on building my own business. I built my first mobile app when I was pregnant while still working full time as a software developer.

I just never had the motivation to do something besides the 9-to-5 job before I got pregnant and I do sometimes regret that, but it's just the way it had to be for me. Working on your own business takes its toll on your social life so who knows, you might not have met your partner because of it... :)

Anyway, don't think too much about regrets, now is the best time to start your business! It will be hard to find time once you have children, but I don't resent my child for leaving me less time to work. You'll just have to be patient and accept that you can't work at the same pace as before. Find ways to work smarter, so you can get more done in less time.
Wow, quite profound small piece of text. Made me genuinely happy.
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As peterjmag indicated in his comment, 9^9^9 looks like 9^(9^9) which is actually greater than 9!!.
A different way of looking at it is n! < n^n. We can see from here that factorization isn't really the new paradigm that the author is looking for; it's just a part of the exponentiation paradigm.

Furthermore, factorials don't really scale or stack easily. What the author is getting at in the relevant location is stacking the same concept:
1. Multiplying is just adding the same number several times.
2. Exponentiation is just multiplying the same number several times.
3. Tetration is just exponentiation several times.
4. Etc.

This allows us to generate the infinite hierarchy easily expressible by the ackerman numbers (which is basically A(i) = f_i(i,i)), which doesn't generate itself as easily with factorialization in place of exponentiation.