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leh··on Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (1997)
According to wikipedia, the julian calendar already had 31 days for august so the explanation of the article doesn't seem to be correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar

leh··on Stripe launches German beta
Oh hallelujah!
leh··on Ruby vs. Python
Nice article mr. schürre :)
leh··on German intelligence agencies can decrypt PGP (Google translate)
Or some major politicians :)
leh··on Udacity Course on Building a Search Engine
My girlfriend took the course that started in february and her progress is absolutely fantastic.

I really recommend all non-programmers to take it if they want to get a grasp on how cs people think.

leh··on Ask HN: Stripe equivalent in the EU?
This question regularly pops up here on HN.

Seems nobody is bold enough to tackle this problem :)

leh··on Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words
I just tried this with a different movie in mind. The results are pretty interesting, but see for yourself:

http://www.google.de/search?q=the%20film%20where%20a%20house...

http://www.bing.com/search?q=the+film+where+a+house+is+flyin...

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+film+where+a+house+is+flying+wi...

If you get the same results as I do, you should find the correct answer as duckducks first answer and bings 4th one. Google's first page of search results has no reference to the correct answer (though in the picture search the first one picture is from the movie).

I use google day in day out. Maybe I should overcome that habit :-)

leh··on Group GEB reading starts today
In case anyone else wonders what GEB stands for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
leh··on Ask HN: Great links for arduino hackers?
I haven't found one yet. hackaday.com isn't Arduino only, but they cover a lot of interesting projects with Arduinos.
leh··on 28th Chaos Communication Congress (Berlin) CFP
I have been there a couple of times and attended a lot of great talks.

I really recommend this conference to anyone interested in digital culture and create use of technology.

leh··on FrOSCon Stream
FrOSCon is a quite nice conference. Been there since the first year.
leh··on Ask HN: Please explain this open-source 'laws'
In general I would say yes. But for a definitive answer you should clarifiy:

* which open source license the original gem author chose

* "edit it and launch it as a gem": do you want to distribute the modified gem (e.g. upload to github)?

leh··on Mozilla Glow: Awesome Firefox 4 live download day map
Looking at Japan you can estimate where it was hit by the tsunami because of the lack of pings.
leh··on GitHub announces subversion support
I realized that - but will this "feature" be avaible after midnight?
leh··on GitHub announces subversion support
If this is a joke, it's a damn good one. Otherwise, it's a cool feature :-)
leh··on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released
An upgrade with LVM and cryptfs in use worked for me.