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Good hardware, consistent experience, lots of development tools. I moved from Linux to Mac simply because it lets me focus on work and less on fiddling around.

I would obviously have liked to use a completely open OS as well, but it's not like there's a lack of community on OS X.

I agree with the people saying the new look is quite good, but it does need a couple of changes.

Contrast has been mentioned, it's better on your "cards" (top toolbar that appears on some searches) than on the general results. Other than that, I'm not sure your choice of font is very good. It's not quite crisp enough to easily scan and read lots of text at once. I tried switching to Helvetica Neue instead of Proxima and things instantly looked more readable.

Overall a good step in the right direction though.

As far as I know, this does not set a formal precedent for Dutch courts. But it is far from uncommon for courts to take inspiration from other courts, especially from the ECJ, and perhaps even more so in a case like this.

The Data Retention Directive has already been struck down locally in every state where it has reached the highest courts, so especially after this, a similar law will probably not survive.

It might actually be better if a high court deems the national law to be just fine, since you might get a verdict in the European Court of Human Rights.

The Advocate General's opinion which is the basis for the ruling: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...

In Python, I use doctests for things like this. Just write the features in plain understandable language, with clear code that serves both as integration/behaviour test and example in between.

Cucumber etc. is usually about coaxing natural language into code, which makes no sense to me. Better to use natural language with useful code examples, which are readable to client, developer, and test software.

There is no better teacher than to actually go out and speak the language, so I'm not surprised you got good results one-on-one. Similarly, but probably with less efficiency, I'd like to recommend Michel Thomas' language tapes. They focus entirely on conversation and active use of the language.

One thing we should shy away from is the marketing message of "learning like children", like Rosetta Stone is doing. It is fairly well documented that adults can learn languages at least close to as well as children [0][1], but adults learn differently.

Here's something you can do as an adult which a child lacks the prerequisite hooks to do:

- English words ending in -ible or -able – possible, table, comfortable, probable – have the same meaning in French. They're pronounced differently (ending sounds like -sibl or -abl in French, not -səbl̩ or -eɪbəl)

- Same with -ent and -ant: important, different, etc. Usually adds an -e when writing. (pronounced with -ɑ̃ not -ənt)

- Also words ending in -ary: Military, necessary. Change the ending to -aire when writing. (pr. -ɛʁ not -ɛɹi)

- Lastly, -ence + -ance: Difference, importance. (pr. -ɑ̃s not -əns)

Congratulations, you now know well over 1000 words in French.

0: http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/myths.html 1: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual/201309/ho...

Well, law used parts of object orientation well before we started using it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_specialis

What would you say was the best resource to learn it? I've been curious about Scala for a while, but never really taken the plunge.

First thought: great, main.cf is always a pain to write.

Yes, you're right. :)

While that may have been true, I dare say that the burnt child that is today's Microsoft would not have mishandled this so horribly.

Without this bug, they wouldn't be able to use BofA's own certificate to do it.

It's even more unacceptable that it took them FOUR DAYS to fix it, just so they could add a couple of features to FaceTime while they were at it.

Then the co-op should have no problem regulating this internally. There's no reason to get full protection of the law, with all the unintended consequences it brings with it.