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Type a foreign name, click 'Images', see if that's male or female.

When you work in a multinational company like me, that's handy.

Both tricks are quite obvious. I've used them for years.

Ugh! Nasty crash on their website; http://staging.rosettaproject.org/blog/02008/nov/3/macro-mic...

"You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 500 page."

3000 lines per Python package.

"Ad hoc is a Latin phrase which means 'for this purpose'. It generally signifies a solution designed for a specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and which cannot be adapted to other purposes." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc

No mention to the size of the solution, big or small. The point here is the specificity.

I work at a major (the biggest?) telecom equipment provider. For a couple of years, I've been doing ad-hoc Python scripts (say, 3000+ lines) to interact with network nodes, based on customer requests. So yes, there is room for professional, non-web related Python. I try to push the language for more developments, but it's hard to convince managers. I prefer the tools I make to the standard, corporate fat applications we sell for millions. If anyone is hiring on those skills, I'll be glad to hear offers.

I bet this is human-translated french, but it still contains mistakes and looks a bit unprofessional, e.g.:

- typo: "routièrse" should be "routières" - grammatical person: the text uses the second person singular, which sounds a little informal. I'd use the second person plural instead ("enregistre" -> "enregistrez", etc.). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-V_distinction#French

I am not a marketer, but it might make sense to locally tune the text for your south-american customers. Expect little changes, even none at all. Any mexican, argentinian, peruvian, etc. readers out there to verify?

Drop this one! It's very, very poorly translated, probably by a automated service. I see flaws a bit everywhere. Any native french speaker can confirm this.

I'm a native spanish speaker. This translation looks perfect to me, with a very minor exception; "agregarlo" sounds more like south-american spanish. We would rather say "agregarle" in Spain, even though both ways would be understood.

Bus drivers in 1850?? Unless 'bus' is taken as a generic term

The Asimov stories illustrate exploits on his own 3 laws. But how can you fix that? Embedding a full robotic-oriented legal system in their little brains does not seem to be the answer neither. I think we have to admit that robots will be far from perfect. They will make mistakes. They will stumble and fall. They mill misjudge situations. Like we humans do.

I've always been puzzled by the little attention HN pays to demoscene. Coders of those little gems are truly expert hackers in their domains, getting the most of a limited amount of resources with pretty clever algorithms.

You just need to temporarily setup the network to block incoming calls to the phones in the patrolled area. This does not mean the 'signal' will drop to zero at any time, from the phone point of view. The phone will have absolutely no way to tell a blocked call from a lack of calls.

Standing outside the beam? (Assuming there is a 'beam', of course. I ignore the radiation pattern of an EMP)

It's the same voice all over

I independently developed the same method as Seinfeld's but using Google Calendar. I make an entry of a particular color everyday I've been to the gym. The point here is I don't make future appointments on when to go, but rather make an entry at the end of the day every time I have actually been. The psychological effect of not breaking the chain pushes me to keep going. It really works for me!

Filtering them means analyzing the SMS contents, right? Is that legal?

A "metacolony" would be better suited? But that will miss the size notion that "mega" brings

What do you do for work? I'm frustrated with mine. The saddest thing is my colleagues are either equally frustrated or indifferent. I don't know much people around me that would say "I'm satisfied at what I do". So I'm curious about yours.

There is a ton of theories about nutrition out there, as the radically opposed comments show here.

I haven't really studied the subject, but I know from experience that the food I used to have at home (basically, the mediterranean diet) keeps me healthy and with no overweight. So I still follow my mother's wisdom: eat a bit of everything, with ingredients around olive oil, vegetables, fruit, bread, fish and some meat.

Ins't there a risk that the exoskeleton produces muscular atrophy?

If true, this has a devastating effect on elections. The more a political party talks about its agenda, the less it will do?

It totally contradicts the notion that the voters like a candidate that can clearly explain what his goals are.

I think the trick here consists in not sending a compressed image in any way, but rather a pre-calculated dataset that allows the image to be rendered on the client with low calculation power. Maybe just sending the polygon coordinates would be enough.

(A good exercise can be to get some figures about the polygons/s on a modern game, but I lack the data ;-)

The latency is the big problem here, but with network improvements and good algorithms, this should be solved. VoIP also has this limiting factor yet it works reasonably well.

Game development companies can only benefit from this shift: instant deployment, pay-per-play, 1 single version for all platforms (Apple, Win, Linux,...), no distributed SW (so no piracy), direct feedback of gaming habits, etc.

For the user this would also be beneficial: no need to acquire state of the art graphic cards and CPUs, instant playing, game zapping.

I foresee a brilliant future for this real-time "Computer Cloud Gaming".

Isn't Computer Science a complex enough subject for the teacher to be able to write new problem sets every semester? Isn't he just being lazy by trying to reuse his problems over and over?

This article comes to my mind: http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm

It summarizes a model of possible levels of "knowledge", making a distinction of Data, Information, Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom.

So in this context:

  API -> Information
  SQL join, class, OO paradigm -> Understanding
  Work experience -> Wisdom  

I believe a job interview should mainly focus on evaluating the candidate's Knowledge and Understanding, not on Data or Information. One can argue that by using Google long enough, it is possible to reach the upper levels, but that comes at a price (you would need a lot of time).

I disagree.

I work for a large (65000+ employees) telco company, and our in-house problem/solution reporting database is totally broken. The search function is crap (it's based on predefined keywords, not really on free text). It has a voting system, but the votes are not used to classify the quality of the problems/answers. They are only used to track how active an engineer is browsing the database. You can randomly select problems and write nonsense commnents, the net effect is the same.

With a corporate Stack Overflow there would be no employee/boss conflict, since in my company all the users on a given domain are at the same hierarchy level.

When I discovered Stack Overflow I inmediately thought how good this would be to replace our corporate tool.

Misleading title. This is just a standard USB memory key decorated with some parts from a mechanical watch. Nice craftmanship though.

I grew up and live in Europe. English is not my native language. When I was a teenager, the words Stanford, MIT or Ivy League were totally alien to me. In fact the world and the metaphor they represent were all unknown to me.

I wish I knew of their existence, but nothing in my environment prepared me for being one of their students.

So of course these institutions are for an elite. Not everyone gets the same opportunities, because not everyone is even aware of those opportunities.

A sense of sadness suddenly shocks you when you realize it's too late for entering in the circle.

The article and the comments here are mostly American-biased. In fact, HN is many times very American-biased. There's nothing wrong about it, but please realise it.

What about bigger creatures, like dinosaurs? Is there any evidence of cancer among them? (I'm totally profane on the subject, just wondering).

Unless I see a convincing citation, I strongly doubt this expression is originally french. As said in other comments, equivalent expressions exist in Spanish, Italian or German, where they are frequently used.

Conversely, I find interesting that very common expressions in the english language, like "procrastination", are almost unknown in Europe (saved the UK and IE). Spanish, for example, has the perfectly correct term "procrastinación", but it's very seldom used.

This reminds me of a sentence by Arthur Schopenhauer: "... one's choice in this world does not go much beyond solitude on one side and vulgarity on the other".