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eeeeewwwww no no no no no. Why every cute stat needs to be converted into a metric ot enslave people. Yes, I know, "because that's what managers do". But then I would argue it's in "us" (the programmers) to not let it happen. Yes, I know, "you cannot do that in big corp". Well then, there's no point in complaining either about anything, since we already assume that its a defacto situation, take it for granted and nobody can do anything about that.

Still, as a counterpoint of how this can be fun: When a fellow programmer left the company where I work, the CTO created a small video of the evolution of the services/code based on his commits during time. You could see the different repos popping up and showing his contributions to each during time and growth. Also, since he is (or was) a smoker, he got a zippo engraved with the number of commits and lines of code contributed. Does it mean he was good? He was bad? He did a lot? He did nothing? Noup. Of course, he worked for 5 years in the company, so it was a way to show to him that he contributed a lot and was part of the growth/existence of it, not if he was the most valuable programmer in the team. If you ask me, maybe many of the lines he commited doesn't exist anymore in the current code, still it was a snapshot of what he was for the team and company at that point. And the value was not on the code, but on being part of the team and the process of a company growing.

You can do whatever you want with stats, it's in you if its for good or not.

Well according to another post[0] "Breaking bad in 4k is 1.7Tb" or "star wars 200gb for first 6 movies. thats just 1080p". So I can imagine that much data being saved. Also, the subreddit is called datahoarder, so I imagine gathering bytes is important and "easy".

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6j06qp/how_do_...

When I was in Germany, a group of students (who wanted to do it) were given the task to take notes in latex. Then every week they compiled the pdf and was put on the website of the faculty.

To write the latex file, they worked together (sharing the same file, same idea as google docs).

And at the end, they put the effort only because they thought it was nice to have all the notes in pdf, commitment with the class, and because it was a good idea to share it with the other students. I still have all my mathematic classes pdf's.

The thing I don't like about WhatsApp vs BBM/iMessages is that I must share my phone number (at least I don't know another way) to chat. I think sharing a phone number is more personal than a pin like in BB.

Oh sorry, sometimes I mixed languages. In German it's with sch. Sorry =)

I'm spanisch native speaker. Began learning german at age of 5 for 17 years, english at 12 for 8 years, french at 15 for 3 years (barely remember something).

Sadly my written englisch is not as good as it should (altough I have no problem reading it or with conversational englisch. My father doesnt speak englisch, so when technicians from the US came to repair his machines (CNC) I was the translator).

And with german I dont have any problems, I try to read books and watch movies so I dont forget much. And of course german ebm/dark music =)

Being in a german school (Abitur) and living 2 years in Germany helped me a lot in my career =)

Should I rob every house that doesn't have an alarm or leaves the window open?

I agree with you it "helps" to care more about security and robustness. But I don't agree in the way. I have a dream that one day my website with minimum security won't be hacked for lulz and will be treated with respect. =)

After I found Fansadox comics, I came to the conclusion that boundries didn't exist anymore. I don't feel disgusted and everybody can buy/watch whatever they want. But this things are so common nowadays, that I wonder where the boundry should be.

At first I registered because of curiosity. Then all my friends began to have an account. And when I tried to leave, I found myself "locked" in FB because of the API Keys of my Apps. But as soon as I get rid of the Apps, I would really consider leaving.

I live in Mexiko. The corruption here is enourmous, from top to bottom. Wikileaks has showed this corruption.

The problem IMHO with corruption is that nobody can/want to do something about it. It doesn't matter (at least here) if you collect all the proofs necessary, because the people that can do something about it are corrupt as well.

And I don't think it's that easy to denounce bribes and send to jail the guilty ones.

There was a case against ABB (http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-175.htm), ABB was charged of paying bribes to Mexican government. There are two ways to make bussiness here, pay a bribe or to leave. ¿Who is more guilty, who pays the bribe (and get no income at all) or the one who receives it? I don't think companies have any moral. So the option is to follow a corruption scheme.

And I'm not saying I agree with that or that I'm happy with it. I'm only saying that it doesn't serve a purpose to denounce bribes, if there's no one to punish them.

Although I'm pro-legalization/pro-decriminalization I don't think it's a good idea for Mexico.

"Instead, they're referred to a panel comprised of a drug-treatment specialist, a lawyer and a civil servant, who usually recommend treatment -- and pay for it, too." is something that won't happen here. And I think that's a fundamental part for legalization to work.

Sometimes I wonder if Google does things that look bad by accident or if the really meant to do them. And I wonder too, if they realized of this before the French and if Google used this information.

I suppose by counting the hashtags per team. (#ger #aus #mex etc).

Question: Is it better/more secure than xmarks?

I think the problem of facebook is not the size of your friend list, but the size of "useless" (matter of tastes) apps that populate the timeline, like quizzes, and a big etc of questions, games...

I block one, and ten new appear...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2689166/1259396035302.jpg =)

Laptop: dualboot Ubuntu/XP, Netbook: Windows 7 (with synergy) This is my normal setup (1): http://www.der-ketzer.com/Imagenes/Full.jpg This is the setup from the desk at the room where I sleep (2): http://www.der-ketzer.com/Imagenes/Clean.jpg

I prefer the setup (1), I find everything is in harmony =) I use the netbook for school, mail, im, tweetdeck, and the laptop for coding, etc.

Maybe a nice photoshop plugin would be a converter for images (small images, icon like) to css (like adobe with flash to ipod)

Esperanto tried it and failed. Languages are a way of identity.

And it's not a matter of "third world countries". I'm from Mexiko and started learning german at the age of 4, spanish (at school) at 7, english at 11, and french at 16. Thanks to that I could study Informatics at Germany. I think learning languages gives you another perspective of the world, helps you to communicate with others in different ways (not only in theri native language), helps you to "understand" their logic, etc. Sadly my english is bad and my french worst. But I'm able to read/speak three languages and has helped me in my labor life.

I agree, I need to search between 200 notifications about quizzes, games, etc etc and I miss "important" things about my friends. That's sad because I want to know what my friends are doing or what they did, not if they have reached level X in farmville or what's their "Photo of the day".

I use xmarks. But I miss some sort of "Panic erase". If I lose my laptop or gets stolen, there's no way to erase my passwords from firefox. A gadget identification like Dropbox with the ability to exclude it from an access list would be great. (I know, it's wrong to save passwords in firefox, but sometimes its easier than copying them from my keepass DB)

Me too =)

OTOH I think it doesn't have the same weight to say I worked with x company and trained my skills in z language. As saying I worked at home on hobby projects for the sake of learning.

Being "under the supervision of an experienced programmer" gives you expierence quicker than working alone.

Or mouse gestures in Firefox.

There's a very good movie "The Oxford Murders", where the math professor talks about that. Every sequence has many answers, the trick is to find how to build the sequence you want and when you achieve thar, your answer is as correct as the "right answer".

Sorry but can someone explain me why was I downvoted. I thought it was a legit question.

I have a question. What about Chrome OS, I think the idea behind it is to build something like this, or?

"My husband is a drunkard and when he drinks he beats me, but he has promised me he will change".

Microsoft hasn't and will not change. It's in the DNA of Microsoft to be the way it is. And some bunnies and a little girl in a Windows 7 ad is not a sign of change.

A couple days ago there was an article of Steve Ballmer harrasing an employee because of an IPhone, if that's the way you treat your employees, what can the customers expect.

I think it's all psychological and the way we are educated. Many people doesn't study an engineer career because math is very difficult. But in fact, at the math faculty where I study, there are more females than males studying math, and in engineering there are more males than females. Something I don't understand.

I found this today, I think it's worth reading. It's regarding A) http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html