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Even if the subject of the article seems interesting, I refuse to click on such clickbaity titles.

I really wish there was a way around news sites and magazine depending on such... :-/

Guess web is not its circle. ;)

I've used in software for multiplatform oil and gas data analysis and visualisation. I've left the company many years ago, but they still use it heavily.

Actually, just found out about another one. Olympic Decathlon, released by MS for the TRS-80 in 1980.

PS: Separate comment as the anti-procrastination filter kicked in. ;)

Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.00 is from 1982. It's the oldest I know about.

Even QBasic Gorillas is from 1991, and published by IBM. Not Microsoft.

The point you seem not to get is not to compare health issues, but that people are not guilty of many diseases they might develop; and neither directly responsible for not getting better from most of them.

The results there (original link) are final for some time now. T-1 only applies until the end of the competition.

Always.

Interestingly, both Chemistry and Chemical Engineering also have a majority of female students in Brazil. I wonder why.

I don't know if it's the same in other places.

IKEA would blow Tokstok and the like out of the water in both quality and price.

Besides crazy import laws, what I see as the major blocker there is that Brazilians are not very fond of self-service stores and of having to carry their purchased stuff home and assemble it themselves.

Of course IKEA could try what they do in places like China, where they partner with a local company for delivery/assemble. But then maybe the price for that service would be a factor.

HERE Maps is still part of Nokia. It's not part of the new Microsoft Mobile.

For those downvoting, Nokia did start as a wood pulp mill in 1871.

Levelling up:

- in China

- on a hot summer day

Some pictures: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/09/travel/gallery/china-heat-ikea... ;)

Do you have any sources for that? Not the Chinese part, but the processor benchmarks.

I'd be very interested in reading them!

The experiment in Rotterdam where welfare receivers need to perform some activities and engage with their kids education seems intriguing. It'll be interesting to see what happens if Berlim chooses a similar approach.

Other then that, any attempt to improve integration is a good step forward in my view. Even if the guy doesn't run or win, I hope the issue gets more attention.

Yes. And I think there's a big market for that.

In places like here in China there is a huge demand for 'language partners'. Mostly Chinese looking for English-speaking people, but a lot of foreigners trying to learn Chinese. And many cases where both want to learn from each other.

The funny thing is that in the 90s, after the scare was mostly over, when adults would see me and my friends with rule books and pieces of paper full of numbers they'd always congratulate us for being 'studying hard'. ;)

Not only Japan. Singapore and China are the same. When leaving in Singapore it took me a long time to trust it, but I never trusted leaving my laptop.

Sweden also used to be like that, but it's been changing over there.

Unfortunately most places are not like this. From developing countries (especially Brazil) to major touristy cities in Europe. :-/

The key is "human rights". The only way to coexist is to respect each other's rights.

A person has the rights to follow whatever religion he/she wants. But that does not give him/her the right to restrict someone else's rights.

A person being homosexual does not restrict the other person religion. It is the same as not agreeing on a personal/political position.

In my view, the key difference is how a position touches 'human rights'. If it restricts it, like anti same-sex marriage, or racism, it is wrong, period.

The concept of human-rights is quite recent and not fixed, that's for sure.

Political, economic, or other personal positions, those should be fine as long as they don't affect your work conduct.

I'm not sure if being forced out is not the right option here.

For me there is a clear (somewhat) difference between a 'personal political opinion' and a personal opinion that directly touches human rights issues.

Taking it to a more extreme case just to illustrate. Would it be OK for a CEO to be forced out if he/she had clear racist opinions? I personally think so.

I'm not defending or attacking any position on this comment. Just genuinely curious about this. And the question is not just for the OP.

How do you think you would you feel if you were into a same-sex relationship and working for Mozilla? What about if you were a Mozilla user?

The line between professional conduct and personal beliefs seems to be quite fuzzy to me when around human rights issues. Especially in the CEO case, that is the face of a company.

Herb Sutter will give a talk on April 3rd.

And Eric Brumer will present a bunch on compilers and code optimization.

A better story from Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/china-to-get-xbox-one-in-late-2014-says-so...

And a recent one from Chine: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/851724.shtml#.UzvrZ_mSxpu

Nothing against the OP submission per se, but these frequent BBC stories titled "Is X the new SV" (and the corresponding posts to HN) are getting pretty tiring.

There are interesting points made about the different places and it would be nice if they at least could give each an actual different focus. I'm not sure it even works as click-bait anymore. :-/

Other very recent ones: Could Berlin be the next Silicon Valley - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26790422 Is Cambridge's start-up scene rivalling Silicon Valley? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-26683055 Can Tokyo ever rival Silicon Valley? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-26580038

If someone wrote a meta story contrasting all of them, that'd be interesting.

Not trying to be nitpicky, but the HN title is not correct. The laws are only in effect in England and Wales. Scotland will only come in later this year. All three are part of Britain.

Great news nonetheless. It's amazing it took this long.

No news on when Northern Ireland will do the same as the rest of the UK though.

Collectibles are also related to durability, scarcity and difficulty of forging. So I guess it's more related to currency than most would realize.

I for one had never thought about it this way.

They've actually sold many more devices (per-order). What they did now was to deliver the first 450 devices.

Xamarin has worked pretty well for my recent projects.

Of course I can't claim that my personal experience is representative of all people. But you're the first person I hear say that did not feel any psychological effects of doing a PhD.

Every single person I know that did a PhD (including myself) has mentioned feeling frustrated/isolated/depressed/etc at different stages in their PhDs. It is interesting to see that some people are actually not affected that much.

MS did "buy" the brand for this use; for two years.