fizz_and_buzz

Where I live, signs that change to adept to the traffic flow a pretty common[1]. Also, sign for construction sites are not in gps databases.

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VBA_showing_100_kilom...

At my work we are considering to open an office and incorporate in the US (We are based in Germany). Are there states that easier to set up an office? Delaware? Our costumers are manly in the Chicago area and the north east.

For some strange reason it is users in Europe that prefer manual transmission, since basically every car is available also with automatic transmission also.

If anybody cares, here is my theory (at least for Germany, where I am from): Driving lessons are very expensive in Germany and you have to decide if you want to learn automatic or manual transmission. If you learn on automatic transmission, you are only allowed to drive automatic cars. If you learn on a manual, you are allowed to drive both. The prices for the drivers license are the same. So, most people will learn to drive stick. Since they are then only used to driving stick, they are actually more comfortable with than with automatic. I have met quite a few people who I had to explain how to drive an automatic (it's obviously super easy if you already know how to drive a manual). So, I think it's want you learned first that you will stick with.

They add a little javascript function that they call advertisment.js or something similar which just adds a div to the page (e.g.: document.write('<div id="test"></div>'); ). They then check if the div exists when the document is ready and notify the server. Adblock has a filter feature where you can enable specific javascript functions on a site, which allows you to circumvent this trick.

> The majority of the internet traffic in the world routes through the USA regardless or origin / destination.

I was suspicious of your claim since this didn't line up with my experience of using traceroute. So, I don't think this is really true anymore; especially for Europe. Have a look at this infografic [1] by the NYtimes linked from this 2008 (!) article [2].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/08/30/business/30pipe... [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html

Well to be fair, the parent comment brought up the US not the one you are quoting.

This is definitely untrue. There were a bunch of studies in Germany that concluded the opposite, which is why the laws were changed here. It is now often illegal to change lanes e.g. the last 300m before the merge point. There are several reasons:

- The traffic jam is longer because less road is used and the traffic jam often reaches so far back into intersections that other roads get blocked that are unrelated to the actual blocked lane.

- Several merge points slow down the traffic more often which create several waves of breaking and accelerating, instead of just one breaking instance.

Why not Germany :( Or rather why is it restricted to the US and the UK?

Haha, I kind agree, but I also lived in the US for a while. I talked to a coworker a while back though, and he came back from a conference in the US and was annoyed that waiters kept asking him if he wanted anything and when he said he didn't they brought him the bill right away. It's pretty common in Germany for example to just sit at the table and talk with your friends, but he felt like as soon as he stopped ordering anything they wanted him out.

> An O(n) algorithm is also O(n^2), O(2^n), etc.

To be fair, it is pretty common to be a little bit sloppy with this definition. People often say O(...) when they really mean Θ(...).

Really? That seems odd. I have been using firefox on a 6 year old macbook pro for many years and mac is not exactly there best supported platform. I can't remember the last time this happened to me. Do you have a test case which can be replicated? What's your platform?

> it's a big player in a fast growing economic sector

I have the impression that the blogging market is actually kind of over-saturated.

"Ms. Amoruso also outgrew eBay, which she said was a terrible platform to start a business. Competitors started flagging Nasty Gal for breaking the site’s rules by, for example, linking to Ms. Amoruso’s Myspace page. Fed up, she decided it was time to start ShopNastyGal.com."

Those kind of geographical terms are hardly ever well defined (same with continents etc.), mostly because there is no rigorous way to define them.

They are actually phasing out the HPHPc translator and are now developing, as far as I can see, a more conventional one, which translates php into bytecode and can perform JIT on the bytecode into native code without going through C++.

I would rather not disclose to the owner that I have any interest in the domain. I feel that then they will definitely extend the domain. I assume only somebody who wants to use the domain or sell it to me would use a professional domain drop service. I doubt anybody will have an interest in using this random name. And as long as nobody knows which name I am interested in, I wonder what the chances are that someone would try to snatch it away to sell it to me.

Thanks a lot, this is very useful information. As far as I can see they have never actually used the domain in any way.

Thanks for the answer. Just to clarify, we do not have a trademark on the domain, but only on the company name i.e. on "our_company_name" and not "our_company_name.com". I assume we need a lawyer to file a proper complaint. Do you have any experience in how much the whole process costs?