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by pmjordan 15y ago
Language tends to be very strongly intertwined with culture as the main means for conveying said culture. So I'm curious in what way you feel culturally closer to Germany. (disclaimer: I have spent about 80% of my life in Austria and about
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by pmjordan 15y ago
The subject in this sentence, "two sources of stress," is third person plural . Verbs are only conjugated with -s for third person singular in English. One source of stress applies Two sources of stress apply
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Interesting. I have a feeling this would drive me insane in the long run. Is there a particular problem you're attacking with this arrangement? Did you try a different approach before that didn't work so well?
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Do the screens display the same content, and do the input devices control the same cursor? I find this 2-desk pair programming a curious arrangement.
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Basically, I fully agree. (for details, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3660927 )
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Hah. Glad I'm not a betting man. :-)
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FWIW, I agree with you about code reviews. I'd add that I've found in-person code reviews to be the most helpful from a communication point of view. For remote teams I suspect live screen sharing with audio is a reasonable substitute. I gue
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I find pair programming is useful for overcoming a specific problem, after which you have to disband and each go off on your own. Examples: - The problem can be that programmer A is stuck on a piece of code or debugging: this is usually p
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by pmjordan 15y ago
The headline doesn't really reflect the article, though after all its waffling before getting to the point I don't think any of its conclusions are all that revolutionary. It comes down to this: when developing software in a team[1], you ha
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Don't feel bad about it. Unless you just moved 2 hours away from your workplace it's not your fault.
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by pmjordan 15y ago
The original Xbox consisted of commodity hardware (Intel P3 era Celeron CPU and a GeForce 3-like GPU, if I remember correctly). Although cheap to develop and produce initially, it apparently cost Microsoft dearly later on in the lifecycle b
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Wow, that looks (and sounds) fantastic. I'm curious now: how does that kind of thing compare price-wise to an urban or suburban place, on a startup budget? Do you pay much of a premium for the idyllic location?
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Singapore pushes 'entrepreneurial nation'(bbc.co.uk)
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The application form http://news.ycombinator.com/s2012form specifically addresses marketplace ideas in this question: How will you get users? If your idea is the type that faces a chicken-and-egg problem in the sense that it won't be att
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by pmjordan 15y ago
As far as I can tell, the reasons are that there are RIAA/MPAA-like cartels in most countries, which control the local distribution rights. Anyone wanting to sell music needs to negotiate deals with each of these individual copyright fiefdo
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How to scare off female developers(rachelnabors.com)
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Interesting way of looking at it (as it were), though in principle if there was some other scattering effect specific to methane, I don't see why this couldn't dominate the effects of Rayleigh scattering. (as I've said in the other comments
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by pmjordan 15y ago
That gels pretty well with the general observation that the sky becomes "bluer" at angles further away from the sun. IR scatters even less than visible red, so you'd expect its angular distribution to be more strongly skewed as well. I'm ha
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I agree that the function of spectral intensity depending on position and direction would be interesting. It's clearly non-trivial to calculate: it's a 5-dimensional field for any given wavelength, so the whole thing is a 6-dimensional func
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by pmjordan 15y ago
So the article doesn't actually provide the answer to the question, which is Rayleigh scattering [1]. Higher energy (shorter wavelength - blue) photons are more likely to be scattered (reflected in a random direction) by molecules in the ai
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by pmjordan 15y ago
They do. The BBC use it for the web-based version of the iPlayer, for example. (which only works on iOS devices and various set-top boxes and web-connected TVs - try it in the iOS Simulator or any other desktop browser with a spoofed user a
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Yeah, I don't know; Linux distributions bundle GPL software with non-GPL software. That doesn't make the non-GPL parts suddenly fall under GPL. In practice you're probably fine if you offer the GPL parts for free separately as well. Certain
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Regarding dynamic linking being permitted: you're thinking of LGPL. Not that static vs dynamic linking in the strictest sense is terribly helpful in the context of scripting languages. Note that the text of the GPL does not mention "linking
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by pmjordan 15y ago
I get the impression that the intention of the authors of the theme is to distinguish between the code and the "design elements". The code, as a derived work, would necessarily be subject to the GPL, but if say the CSS and images (and maybe
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Sorry to be nit-picking, but the percentage of shares issued that the departed cofounder holds after 4 years would be 20%. It's not helpful to look at percentages during the calculation: look at absolute number of shares. If 1 share vests
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by pmjordan 15y ago
Interestingly, Webkit on iOS devices CAN play back DRMd content via the HTML5 video tag. As far as I can tell, the web server can request a special Apple-signed client SSL certificate. With this, either the whole video can be streamed via S
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by pmjordan 15y ago
It's been going on for over 400 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregation_in_Northern_Ireland
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They may not be religious, but many borders (probably most of those which aren't due to the natural geography?) are the subject or result of some kind of conflict. So is this border really that special? Probably most borders in Europe were
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Schengen is just one mutual agreement of no border controls between member countries and enforced border controls to other countries. Any 2 countries which are not part of Schengen are free to enter a similar bilateral agreement.
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It still doesn't make sense as you can use tools such as Interface Builder. I was bitten by this on my first major contract iOS app, so I think I know what he means. Interface Builder will get you most of the way fairly quickly, which is

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