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It is a better approach when one knows nothing of a subject to rather ask questions than make statements (bordering on sensationalism). I don't disagree that one needs to be skeptical.

A diamond building will be easier to cool or to heat (most skyscrapers at the moment are glass houses). The Fire Chief will probably fail them as construction materials--besides all the other problems with strength--as diamonds are combustible materials.

This is an excellent idea and the instructions almost worked as is even on an old windows vista machine (with the exception I had to download PuTTY, but the messages were very intuitive. What is missing is perhaps a comments page, if nothing else to thank the author.

Go straight to the tutorial http://blinkprotocol.org/s/tutorial.html, easier to understand what it is all about.

Thanks! Good layout and color scheme. I would suggest your code highlighter has a touch of stronger colors for strings and divs.

Talking to a psychologist is not a panacea. The sane thing to do, is to talk to the employee and tell him that the __minimum__ you expect from the guy is to hand in his resignation and leave within the hour. Failing which I would have fired him.

Great work, thanks for making it.

Since you adding ARIA related info a small example for a table can be useful. Thanks for publishing it.

MALwar?

I think spolsky hit the nail on the head with "answering questions is about learning". If I profit from it and the site owners profit from it as well, so be it. This is a very rare case of win-win.

Take it!

The most interesting aspect is Paulo Coelho's claim that ".. the physical sales of my books are growing since my readers post them in P2P sites". This is in agreement with what web applications used all along---lure users with a freemium model---and a certain portion of them will eventually buy the product.

I am involved with a construction Company that operates in the Gulf area. The average hotel we have been involved with is about 50 stories high.

On a multinational Team from design to construction it can take a minimum of 36-50 months. Yes time can be cut -- certainly not to 15 days -- but not with the way large developments are currently build. The average rate of floor construction (with a prestressed slab) is 4-7 days, so the absolute minimum time required to get just the structure going will be >57 weeks. The average rate to get a single bath tub approved by the Consultant, Engineer, Client, Finance etc., is normally 3 months. To get a Hotel room approved down to the last fitting, carpets, access systems, IPTV, media hub, lighting, air conditioning and everything co-ordinated is anybody's guess, but again not less than six months.

On the current Project we are just finishing (5 luxury hotels), we have over 100 km of steel piping just for fire protection and chilled water for the air conditioning systems. There are over 50 systems involved, such as data, IPTV, WI-Fi etc. At peak we had over 5000 people working on the Project.

No chance in hell that an up to standard hotel can be finished in 15 days.

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You got to love some of these papers.

Account of an Elephant's Tusk, in which the Iron Head of a Spear was found imbedded. By Mr. Charles Combe, of Exeter College, Oxford, 1801.

Coming up with research topics was always an art!

It's from the documentation http://www.dartlang.org/samples/sunflower/index.html ...

     class Sunflower {
 
       static void main() {
         new Sunflower();
       }

No thank you! I would rather stay with prototype objects.

Yes! We all loved him!

Unless you did not get any experience during freelancing, I would count it as experience. Better list it as 3-4 years part-time experience and list the projects you were involved. This way your future employer can decide for themselves what your experience is worth to them.

Is the code open sourced? The UI needs some work and so does the css, but overall is very good for the amount of code.

There is no need to downvote. The Romans were the first to use the unit of long distance mille passuum (literally "a thousand paces" in Latin, where each pace was two steps) and hence back to the human body! (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man).

They do but with the metric system it was the first time since the Greek stadia that an earth measure was used to define units of measurements as compared to the body (feet, inches etc). They are a bit of a recursive topic, each defining each other in a way (besides geometry calculations, which are totally theoretical).

Sure it doesn't but interestingly enough the article does not go into its roots. In France after the Revolution the Metrical or Decimal system of measures was introduced. The fundamental standard adopted was that of a quandrant meridian; This quandrant was divided into ten millions of equal parts, and one parts or divisions was called the Metre, which was adopted as the unit of length and painfully measured by triangulation by M.M. Delambre and Mechain by measuring an arc of the meridian between the parallels of Dunkirk and Barcelona!

I am a Mech Engineer with a passion for programming. I used to paint when I was a kid, but that was a long time ago. Now what I find interesting is that without having read the PG article, I tell people that I program using the water-color technique. I 'sketch' quickly the code and then go back and fill the 'colors' the small refinements for completion and over write a little bit. Now I know other people they code like Architects, have master plans draw out all the details and then code, perhaps Djikstra was one of them and then there are the oil painters (possibly Knuth's style). Reminds me of Michelangelo where he had a great vision but had a lot of assistants to fill some parts (think of all the Ph D students slaving away).

A lot of Chinese websites have code with chinese variables etc..

Javascript will let it go through (as it is a valid identifier) and for example on the server PHP will not catch it.

There are a few in the higher planes that may give you problems (for example phoenician etc..). It is also important that the Browser does not do a replacement. You need a font like code2000 or latest version.

For a bit more in-depth understanding have a look at some of the problems as noted in Google's closure library (goog.i18n.uChar).

Any unicode character can be used as a JavaScript identifier for example:

     var 按 = function (){
                return '\uD869\uDED6';
              }

works with no issues.

Maybe better neuter yourself? This is the most selfish statement in this thread.

The part that couldn't cope to save enough for a deposit due to inflation and when we managed we paid 26% (at the time living in RSA) interest plus currency instabilities. What this means is that most people's wealth was tied in their property. We also tried investing in stock markets and if you look up black Fridays and the like you will see the futility of it. To summarize at least for me the main characteristic of my financial life was that it resembled a snakes a ladders game. When you on the 98 go back to square 2! One lesson that I want to pass on, is at the end, the only worthwhile investment you can make is to invest in your children in the hope that one day they can make the world a little bit better than where you left it. This was what my father did for me by working in a sweat shop to assist me with my education and this what I am still doing. I don't divide a person's life by age but by landmarks. If my kids need support until they are 30 to stand on their feet so be it.