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Not related, but also interesting. The railway U1 in Berlin going right through a house. Amazing when you are in front of the house's door. http://www.bahnbilder.de/1024/-hausdurchfahrt-im-uebergangsb...

> Only, in that case, isn't a whole new language ecosystem a bit of an overkill to avoid some of the inconveniences you'll have using C/C++?

Sure. I've started from scratch and Go seemed to me like the perfect match (not that there aren't any other choices, but it came right into my front door and I said: why not?)

+1. For me a killer feature is that I easily create executables for lin/mac/win on my machine and don't have any dependencies at all (JVM for example).

When I click through the years, I see its slow decay.

Is openstreetmap good enough for such a purpose to replace google maps?

When installing via .pkg, you can place a file in /etc/paths.d that adds to the path. For example, when you install in /usr/local/rethink/, you just add a file (e.g. /etc/paths.d/rethink) with one line: /usr/local/rethink/bin. Thats it, very easy.

Wow that looks fantastic. It's like jekyll, just different. Highly configurable, supports many layout templating engine and well documented. I especially like the i18n part.

Three years? Exactly the same here. I am a one man show and I highly enjoy the current situation. Next year I'll think about hiring one or more student to help me out on minor parts, but I still wonder if I can do without. Caring about employees might not be worth the trouble.

I have several non-english projects on Github and (although I am proficient enough to read/write basic english) I'd like to see the user interface in my language.

2) There is no such thing as "fair use" in Germany's copyright law.

I use schemas (in the form of RelaxNG most of the time) almost every time I deal with XML. Together with schematron you can make very complex lint-like scripts to verify your data. Actually I program in XML with a self created programming language (formulated in XML). This together with RelaxNG and a good XML makes it fun writing XML and absolutely (syntax-)error free.

* Infrastructure (schema support - DTD, Schema, RelaxNG; transformation - XSLT) * No obvious document format (What encoding are the strings? How to escape characters? * Only used to describe predefined object types (boolean, strings, arrays, dictionaries * Hard to ensure the integrity of the data without interpreting the data from the interpreter itself (no external validation)

Thanks. Installed.

What kind of 'top' program is this shown in page 3 (direkt link to the image: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/webser...)

Depending on the legislation, of course, but I have seen many, many strange court rulings in Germany when it comes to employee rights (or wannabe employees). So I doubt its because of not known things.

(German legislation) I don't know the sources (probably many court rulings, not a law by itself), but I have heard that quite often: don't explain why a person was rejected, just say that you're sorry.

I see a sign in the museum: "Please don't touch the software"

I had expected from the title "Your Family's Private Social Network" a software to be installed on a private server, well knowing that this is only something for experienced users.

I don't understand: how is this more secure? Maybe I don't understand the meaning of the word 'secure' in this context.

Photos and everything is still stored on a remote uncontrolled server.

I am new to bootstrap: what does it need that gh pages don't support?

First of all, one cannot 'steal' your idea. You still have it...

Actually I have taken an idea from the company I was working at. They kicked me out and I started my own company developing a very similar software, but I believe it is more successful, not because of technical superiority or so, but more due to customer empathy. Most people love to work with me, because I deliver quality and on time, in contrast to my former company. So I have a slightly bad feeling, but a) hey, they kicked me out and b) I treat customers much better than they did.

Thanks for your post. I was about to write something similar. While it is surely very impressive (the post), I am not sure if I learn better when I click on things. The visualizations make it nice to see what is going on, but making code that does not work error free is always (and was) the most effective way to learn.

I have been using the instructions in the wiki and they work smoothly: http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/WindowsCrossCompiling

See also another nice book, which can be downloaded as PDF: http://www.miek.nl/projects/learninggo/index.html

> Removing DRM is acceptable for certain personal uses, including, for example, making purchased media usable on your personal hardware.

Depends on the legislation you're in. In Germany it's quite certainly illegal.

> I did. It took about 30 seconds, from downloading the ebook from Amazon, converting it in Calibre, and pushing it to my Nook.

You are a technically savvy user. 99% of normal humans are not.

DRM is a serious issue, even if the book itself is free.

Add Ecuadorian food in half a year.

More comments from one year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2132591

I am so much annoyed by narrow minded skill choice "c/c++/sqlite/java/...". I have used quite a few technologies, yet my best skills are that I can learn new things and I know how to use a bug tracker (and others of course).

Those skill choices are OK in a technical forum, but not on a "recruiting" site. There is so much more to life than a technical skill.

Yes, the mixed mode editing, tabs and the great snippets were killer features for me to switch from 10 years emacs to TM1.

Nitpick: no "Bundesregierung" (Government) but "Bundestag" (House of representatives).