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Zürich has it too https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ted/de/index/gsz/planung_u_bau/...

The mere existence of such a strict dress code should have been already a warning sign against petitions, but yeah a greenhorn could not know this - millennial or not. It's very true that businesses should not be equated with democracies.

Now, what would I have done instead? Quit, heck, I wouldn't even have interviewed there (although I'm older so cannot compare). First of all I value input from everybody INCLUDING interns and secondly if I don't want the customer to see butt cracks there's no need to require the whole company to wear matching suits (aka, there are much milder ways).

...until they get caught again red-handed.

Um, actually what was going on so far was that I, a European citizen, gave public money from my taxes to the Greek government to do nothing of use - neither for the Greek citizen, nor for me. So there's also a possibility number 3 which means don't trust those guys, which is unfortunately exactly what's going on right now. Both the former and the actual Greek rulers lied big time - to the EU AND to their people, whatever is worse it's everyone's to decide.

That's the real tragedy in all this: not having any spark of hope. Unfortunately I'm not sure all the SYRIZA voters realize how bad they've been cheated. But that's history already. What from now? What can the humble Greek citizen hope, when all s/he gets from the leaders is finger-pointing but no real measures? I really hope the actual accord (for lack of anything else) will bring you some stability and you can find a party or something really representing the _working_ people and recognizing their needs, including the need to stick with the other Europeans. Yes, we'd very much like to keep you around, hopefully not with crooks as leaders (and only you alone can manage that).

How about the interests of the OTHER European citizens, the ones who are supposed to pay now for Greece? EU is not only Greece, mind you.

It would be about time Greece pays back what Alexandre the Great robbed from all his neighbours! We waited long enough, I say.

It's one thing getting your side of the story, and another one blatantly overflooding the forums with your side of the story. In electoral campaigns there are rules against such practices, but bought reviews or fake followers are issues way more difficult to address. And as somebody else put it, financial institutions seldom try to justify with it an invasion of other countries.

The Romanian independent press publishes from time to time inquiries (sometimes undercover) about similar paid structures used by local parties (PDL, PSD...) during electoral campaigns and not only. First time I've read how they are organized and how much they get paid was like in 2009 (here the Google Translate version https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...), but I'm sure the technique is in place since long.

Because running a trading algorithm on a non-idempotent stack is such a good idea.

So one builds a model in Reflex based on the requirements, then tests that model. Even when the requirements are complete (which often they are not), the real life implementation afterwards may still bring zillions of problems (my own bugs, using a bad framework, whatever) which this model testing cannot catch... eh.

Well looks like you should get in touch with some group called "Nashi" according to The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/07/hacked-emails-n... But that's hardly news, given Anonymous unveiled the scam in 2012 already. So why wouldn't Microsoft follow? They get press, you get cash, everybody's happy (well, except users and devs)

Seems the way to go nowadays - Putin is also officially paying bloggers to boast about Russia's prowesses.

I'm working on the same open floor with people from another company with completely unrelated duties. I fail to see how this socialization is helping my own team's work (incidentally my team is NOT colocated). Nevertheless, officially we're happy open office users.

I see your point. In my environment communication makes only so much of a day's time and depending on how high this share is, an open office can boost or kill productive work. There's this concept of time slots which is completely failing in an open office environment - you can't honestly dedicate say 4 hours time at once for doing a certain task. Point is, an open office gives on one side (communication) while taking on another side (productivity time) and a certain company's mileage will vary way too wildly between these extremes. One compares always these schemes in terms of individual productivity vs. team productivity, but honestly said, all arguments seem to me completely random. There are no "standard" humans and when one will suffer from too much disturbance, its team will suffer too. And when one project will suffer from too little communication, the team will suffer too. What's the middle ground then? I strongly believe the "team room" is the sole setup which can be justified realistically.

The premise of this remarkable study is:

"The officeʹs primary (not only) value, we believe, is as a place for face‐to‐face interaction: a place to meet co‐workers and managers, to inspire, coach, be motivated, share information, debate goals and objectives, socialize, make friends, and so on. It is as much or more a social setting as it is a refuge or technical or information center."

The above doesn't sound to me anything like going to work for... you know, working. True so: work didn't even make it to the values list. Now I don't know about you folks but I certainly don't get any pay for socializing, as much as I'd love to. Cornell somehow confuses the office space with cafeteria. That, or it makes the case for an open-floor cafeteria, which I fully approve.

What the article completely misses, is WHAT exactly is a cloud specific language. Concurrent programming is by no means a cloud specific feat and that's about all what the article mentions - so it makes a pretty weak case I'd say. But maybe somebody around here can add some juice? Thank you!

What I mean is that services like Wuala or Boxcryptor offer this since years. And there might be more.

How's this different from the online storage services which encrypt already data on the user computer before sending it out? And Meteor is not even a web services platform... So, nice hype talk but I still have no idea what it's all about (...open Google and...).

An enticing title, a good introduction, then... I'm a bit disappointed. Now, the problem with an alternate setup like this isn’t necessarily the individual pieces of technology selected. I definitely have issues with some of the ones in the example, but the real issue is how the choices were made and what the motivations were for using certain technologies.

Next step, a Dart VM for other browsers! Otherwise, it's just another transpiler (aka lipstick on a pig)

"The lack of first-class functions is the major reason why there are so many “design patterns” in Java. Once you have first-class functions, you will need almost none of the design patterns."

Now this is a very bold statement. I'm dying to hear more on how you can get rid of design patterns with first-class functions. Does it mean getting rid as in: sharing knowledge is not needed anymore and programming becomes art as we all head to the rapture?

Yeah, I don't mean "jimifying Belch" would be necessarily bad, as long it would be really making a difference. More often than not it's however just boilerplate - understandable in a startup project for lack of resources, but certainly not something to see in a framework claiming to be "stable".