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totally agreed

"They looked at 130 different values per country and year", they don't say how many years were studied but I assume the greece book fixing lasted only a few years so we are looking at ~500 samples. I honestly don't know if that's enough or not, on wikipedia they show examples of the distribution on less than 100 samples so I guess I'm on the wrong.

for those looking for free reference, this is the best I have found: http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9780596155957/index.html not a great book but if complemented with blog posts here and there and the exercises from http://aperiodic.net/phil/scala/s-99/ you can get started.

can you apply Benford's law to only 130 samples?? that's not a large set of data according to my book

agreed that the example is not the best, a better example would be a picture puzzle that can be verified in just a glance but to build it you need to test all pieces against each other to see if they match.

I think groovy is out of the map for Play v2.0, in any case it's going to be a while for it to be production ready, so I guess the current version still has some life on it.

I agree with you, what's next after this? designers that can't use photoshop because it is not part of their intelligence type? HTML/CSS is the designers medium and they have to learn how to use it just as a painter needs to learn how to use paintbrushes or a film director needs to learn how to use a camera.

I didn't learn anything that I didn't already know but I had a few laughs

Correction: Ubuntu WAS ready for prime time

that's more or less in the same line as this other free book online http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9780596155957/index.html

The only outrage here is that a tax-payer funded entity is outraged because its payroll details were leaked. Don't I have the right to know how my taxes are spent? (supposing I was Scottish)

couldn't get a Scala hello world running, was exasperated by the slow response, ran away

I guess it's easier if you can locate and chat your prospective users, but what can you do if there is no coffee shop where you can find a group of 5 prospective users? I mean I don't know if they exist, much less I can interview hem

If anybody out there have any tips on how to test the interest of an idea with min. investment I would be glad to hear from you. I actually put a bounty on this topic on http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/28835/how-to-find-th...

From this story I have to say that it is difficult to get meaningful conclusions from the google adwords research tool when the idea is very niche and original. Also talking with random ppl on starbucks wouldn't get me anywhere. The splash "coming-soon" site with email sign up for site updates is one of the best tips I've heard so far (read it first on the start-small-stay-small book), but that kinds of requires commitment to start developing, leaves a lot to subjectivity on what conclusions could I reach to if after a month I have X email addresses from interested visitors, and who will come to visit an empty splash site and leave their email anyways?

Anyhow I don't think there is any easy solution for this, but if you can provide tips either in here or in the question they will be welcomed.

who exactly are those Java developers that dismiss current Java options and are waiting for prototype languages? I was honestly unaware that someone important in the community had that opinion, can anyone provide references of those opinions?

"Isolated tests go much better hand in hand with a few integration tests" I would say that it is the other way around and that integration tests go much better hand in hand with a few isolated tests, though I've never been a fan of the TDD dogma

All you say is valid but if you are going to argument that A > B, you cannot say that one of the reasons is "because I like A" or its equivalent "because A just work"

I'm sure there are many reasons why such switch would make sense, but the ones provided here are just BS.

1)"No more XML config files" XML configs are slowly disappearing

2)"by omitting the type info a python program has fewer opportunities for bugs" this reason was just nonsensical

3)"It's free software and easier to hack on", go check the openJDK

4)"Things in the python world seem to "just work"" that's just a self delusion caused by an emotional reaction not a valid argument

5)"I can still relive the good old scheme days" ok so maybe this one is not BS

is that what this book is about? I though it was about FP principles without any specific implementation. How do you actually do FP in Java? anonymous inner classes everywhere?

agreed, "don't do the shotgun method" is easier said when companies actually explain what they are looking for, instead of that what you get are increasingly generic job posts and don't even get me started on the headhunters scum. The hiring market process is broken and this article pretends to help you with basic sales advice.

sadly that's standard IBM procedure, I wonder what their OpenUP process says about it.

Richard Dawkins shows the giraffe nerve in a video (warning: dead giraffe in the video): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdm5he_richard-dawkins-demo...

did they use any code from 3D realms in the end?

you interview them?...oh, I see what you did there

no, what kills developer's passion is not having a say in what/how processes are implemented/evolved. The other thing that kills developer's passion is being tangled into a web of improvisation, contradictions and general confusion because the processes were forgotten.

I would agree with you if it wasn't the case that you can easily switch to "ubuntu classic" which is very similar to previous desktop experiences. Also I'm not sure if upgrading from 10.xx to 11.04 takes you unity or to ubuntu classic, it should be to classic in my opinion.

full disclosure: I'm a 10.04 user and plan to stay that way until the next LTS.

"However, another fiasco like the one with Ubuntu 11.04 will make 200 million users a distant dream."

What is this fiasco that he is talking about? not including wayland on 11.04? talk about confusing writing.

I do think 11.04 is immature compared to previous versions, but is in line to what you should expect with such a radical change as Unity.

Technical competence is where you should spend your efforts. What I mean for this is that if you pretend any sort of career advancement you have to invest your time in self studying by reading at least a technical book every three months, do tutorials on new languages/technologies and have hobby projects to develop on your own. Don't do this for the cash, do this because getting better and better at something is cool. What is mentioned in the article is important for sure, communicate properly, don't be an asshole, play nice for your corporate overlords, but in terms of guidance for career advancement you can do much better than this article.

I think the problem is with firefox warning annoyance, in chrome you get a good short explanation of what's going on and a button to continue (plus a graphical indication afterward that https is somehow not working), on firefox on the other hand you get a warning with a hidden section where there is a button to open a pop-up window that will then allow you to download/view the certificate and press "confirm security exception".

In summary, firefox exaggerated with their warning, I'm wondering if it is possible to do an addon to fix this.

as usual, wait at least a month to complain about an ubuntu release, I think with the exception of 10.04 you should wait until the next release to download the previous one.