anodari

I saw a joke who says that the most real life game was tetris because as in real life, no matter how much we work, always comes a new task faster and faster until we die.

This make me remember the Giotto big O history [1]. The pope was looking for a painter and requested samples to artists and Giotto sent for him just a circle.

[1] https://100swallows.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/giottos-o/

I know it's a parable and the objective is to send the message that "customers value complexity". In the enterprise we see lots of news where a business spend millions in a certain solution and we sometimes think it was overspend.

But I see another point why the story reflects the reality in some aspects: experienced developers tends to overengineer a problem, and I recall the 'hello word' joke about programmer evolution. But at the same time, the novice, rarelly will deliver a good sollution in the first time.

In my point of view, the simpler solution, will just work, could have lots of technical debts and could be hard to scale, while the complex one, could turn costly to support. Its very hard to find an optimal point between both.

The superpowers I'd like to have are read minds and super speed.

Nothing unusual for kids: jumping a fence to steal a fruit or play with fireworks. It is quite unlike anything illegal done for profit.

People are scared with hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat waves, etc.

You got my point, climate deniers are doing the same as the 'healers'. When is spoken "consensus" on this issue, means it is the best hypothesis so far, and not just an opinion without foundation among a bunch of cientists. Einstein was not just saying that other physicists were wrong because he did not believe in something, he presented a verifiable hypothesis. (read more about his graduations). Someone who wants to discuss climate, should do the same as Einstein, he must study hard all the science and provide verifiable hypothesis before questioning who does. Questioning the researchers' work, people are acting as the 'healer' who says that doctors don't know anything about his own fields.

Not the same thing, they was not an ordinary person who discovered it, was a scientist with many years of research. I prefer this metaphor: just as there are many healers around claiming to know the "true" cause of mental illness, I still prefer to believe the researchers. Do you're refuting climate scientists simply because you believe they are wrong?

I'm not trying to argument by consensus. I'm saying "look, the researchers in this field are saying..." Why so much people thinks he knows more about a subject than the researchers?

Excelent point, but unless I were a scientist studying the subject, I would not dare try to refute the opinion of most of the researchers in the field. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_c...

Ok, but it seems simple to calculate the CO2 produced by fossil fuels, since oil production is controlled by a handful of companies and require them to collect from our air the wastes of the product they sell, just as is done with producers batteries and tires.

South Brasil here, I did not know having so much heat before...

Sorry, but just as you are worried about having to spend to pay the cost of cleaning the air, others are worried about the cost of having their homes flooded or go through a prolonged drought ... therefore, it is good to try to think on both sides too.

Unfortunately, in this case there is a correlation: "In the scientific literature, there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused primarily by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.[2][3][4] No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view,[5]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy

By the piechart in venturebeat, I guess it targets e-commerce plataforms and providers.

An ethical problem happens when the doctor conditions the alleviating of misery with the alleviating of the money from the miserable in moments of greatest weakness of people.

Surely they use deceptive techniques to try to broaden the base. I would not doubt they improperly accessing the email accounts when someone uses the same password to register.

I fell into this trap. Once, when accessing my account, I thought I had forgotten the password, but in truth they were asking for the password to my email and I inadvertently put. It is very common to reuse passwords, I bet they test for reuse and "invade" the e-mail account without permission.

I'm afraid of what might happen, because in the scenario of a rapid climate change, the consequences are unpredictable. For example, today there are many people living with the meltwater, and they would return to the stone age.

Currently I see this as a problem of garbage. Polluting industries, such as batteries and tires, are already required to collect their waste. I think the rich oil industry should also be required to collect the garbage of co2 that is generated by their product.

I do not want to create a flamewar, just want to express my opinion and sorry my bad english.

Cool! I was looking for a table with OLAP capabilities to use in examples in my BI course.

Whenever we need to access some hardware (printers, smart cards, cameras, automate file updloads and downloads) we have to rely on a Java applet or Flash. The user must agree to the Java security warning before. Until browsers don't give us a better multi-browser and multi-plataform solution, we still need to use Java. Some of the html5 specs are to solve these issues.

Mafia!

It's an excelent gift idea!

Good point. There is a simple formula to measure it, but there is no easy formula to get.

Someone knows if there is a relationship between this or BDD and a rule engine used by expert systems?

This link (http://www.swetake.com/qr/qr2_en.html) have a detailed explanation about how data are stored

For me, it resembles Microsoft's Basic Gorillas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) and Worms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_(series) . Both used the same simple and addictive formula.

Could Python be capturing the dissidents of Java?

Done http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030611/Prince-Charl...

It's a 100% real story. I lived in these days. I had to put a feature called "currency change" in my softwares because every year we had to divide by 1000 all values in databases. One major work was to adjust fields sizes because currency values are allways causing data overflow.