Few years ago School kids pass work only between residential zone to school usually same zone.
Then School Pass start working unrestricted on weekend ( all zone from 1-7 ) ( for many it was huge because going to Paris from suburbs cost much, same to go to Disneyland which is was zone 5 )
Then all zone over 5 became zone 5
Then Zone all merged to only one ( prices increased for user of only zone 1-2 but decreased for everyone else )
Then this free pass for every kids, even without school pass.
When there is only 4 people who commit to the repo, and 1 guy alone do 2/3 of the job you can put every Rules of conduct it doesn't matter. Opensource project are always maintained by very few people, if you want to enforce code of conduct to creator/principal maintainer they will leave and the project will die.
A working 'code of conduct' could only be pushed by the top, not by external people who never work on the codebase.
Zip code for gas is a nightmare:) When you're used to enter pin code in your country, everything works fine. You move to the US for vacation want to fill the car tank and the machine ask for your zip code. You can't do anything. If you're lucky a cashier is available if not you have to find another station.
So true, I've so many problems with the Mozilla build process and Pymake, that I stop after my first successful compile. If it was easier I maybe had time to identify and patch the thunderbird bug I was annoyed about.
Why only talking about developers. If you agree to have average Sellers, Average Marketing, Average Management, Average customer support sure you can have average developers.
Re:eBooks are an easy sell to the uninformed
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Have eBooks Peaked?
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Retailer : 33 to 40 %
Promotion to libraries: 10 to 12%
Distribution: 7 to 8%
Dead Wood manufacturing: 12 to 20 %
Promotion, communication to customers: 0 to 10 %
Author 6 to 12 %
I've kindle it's nice and I like it but not to replace all my books. First there is price it's pretty common than paper is 30% less than ebook. Second the reader can store hundreds of books right. Third more than half of book I read doesn't exist in any ebook format. if you can store hundred why is there is no way to sort you book without spending HOURS, it's a nightmare if you have multiple book by same author, multiple book with same name or some public domain book which are not well tagged (using search when your not sure of the book title is crazy).
I've used it for some technical books it's not always good. The writer have to do extra work to make it readable. ebook pages are smaller it works for full text but not when you have some diagrams, source code... Lot of technical book have hyperlinks to different chapters which is nice, but sometime you hit a link instead of turning page. BUT ebook reader give you the search tool which is really nice for finding references.
When a company try to sell a solution to an organisation/company the customers always try to change the way the product work. It's easier to ask a contractor to change the product than to ask your employees to change the way they work. People hates change. And big contractors LOVE that, they even encourage you to ask for special requirement because each change is a lot $ in their pockets.
It's even more surprising that the same customers who ask for everything to be customizable accept to have completely generic windows stations sometimes even with default background or accept the new office with ribbons, which is a big change, more easily than you product where an icon moved.
It's pretty common mistake because in java the separation between the language and the library is not really clear.
When you talk with java programmer it usually go to "in java I can do an HTTP connection but in c++ you can't"
In C++,with most of people I work with, even stdio or the STL are tools available but not the language. As c++ involved really fast those years c++11 is great, c++14 will be even better and the whole default library grow fast and can propose more tools to compete with other language default frameworks.
Price fixing (maybe not THE but A solution)
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The Publisher choose the price of the book ( depends of the country sometimes it's a range ).
Every bookstore buy the books at the same prices so you your local book-store even in small cities can compete with amazon.
Publisher support part of the risk of book pricing. If publisher want store to have more stocks of his books he make a deal with store of quantities and he have to buy back unsold items
For the books ordered by the bookstore the publisher have to buy them back too (not full price because of transport...)
It's not perfect but it keep local store, and when you see a book somewhere you can buy it directly because you know that's it will be useless to wait, go to amazon and buy it as it will be the same price.
The paper is clear there is no conclusion from those tests. And as the tests were paid by Microsoft If there was something really significant in favour of IE we will read it everywhere.
Due to the very limited number of test conditions, we cannot draw robust conclusions about
differences in power draw among browsers running Flash® and HTML5. We recommend conducting
additional testing of a larger set of Flash® and HTML5 websites to draw more robust conclusions about
how these technologies impact computer power draw.
It's good to start some energy efficiency ranking. Windows 8 (all tests are on that platform) have some very nice feature to helps developer on power consumption. My guesses is that no-one is using them as you need Win8 specific code but if somebody like microsoft try to MAYBE we could see some real differences.
It change almost nothing.
This law was to find your family members after long lost of contacts (years). It was to help family member reconnect after end of WW1 WW2 and after the end of colonisation in Asia and Africa. The administration do the research find the person, the ask him/her if he want to reconnect with you and if he/she wants give you the address. It's stopped because fewer and fewer people use it in the last decade.
If someone is missing, police still do the research.
If Someone need to be found to pay kids pension, to helps his/her parents, for fraud or taxes evasion, or even for some kind of family Inheritance there are others laws.
Maybe they are talking about Vista ? Ho wait vista (the microsoft total failure OS) is still more used to surf the web that all mobile devices together, which supposed to be our future....
In France it's not mandatory but most of the companies give you some money for food, or give money to the company's restaurant where employee can eat
The current rule is no taxes for noone if company give you up to 5.29€ knowing that the company can't pay more than 60% of your meal ( to ensure that they give you coupon that most of the time 50% paid by employee and 50% company )
If the company wants to pay full meals they can. But the company have to pay some extra taxes and declare to the that the employee receive some advantage. So the employee will have to declare it too ( like everything your company give you free for your personal usage car, gas, tickets, phone... everything is converted to some value not necessarily the full value )
Of course for some work where you have to be on the workplace, or volunteer work the company can pay everything without problems.
When developing for different browser you have some "strange" issues which are not from the webkit engine, but from de javascript engine or from the underlining implementation. For exemple Chrome decide not to check outside of his local cache sometimes, it's not webkit problem, it's not javascript it's only chrome implementation which is different ( to be polite ) and sometimes a nightmare for web developers.
Even if we had IE, Opera, Firefox and Chrome using webkit there will be some big differences.
Even if you don't try to do time prediction. Compare to classic errand to buy groceries.
make the list watch the weather dress accordingly find your car keys take the car and go to the store find all items on your list choose the good line pay the cashier go back to your car drive back unpack your items
How to do an accurate progess bar ? what is 30% done? How to not stop a long time on a percentage then go really fast on others ? If you count percentages of tasks some are fast some are very slow, if you count time it's may work on your test but it may not on someone else who leave farther from the store or drive faster, or find the store closed etc
Yes it's pretty difficult to choose good metrics for some complicated tasks.
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Few years ago School kids pass work only between residential zone to school usually same zone.
Then School Pass start working unrestricted on weekend ( all zone from 1-7 ) ( for many it was huge because going to Paris from suburbs cost much, same to go to Disneyland which is was zone 5 )
Then all zone over 5 became zone 5
Then Zone all merged to only one ( prices increased for user of only zone 1-2 but decreased for everyone else )
Then this free pass for every kids, even without school pass.
When there is only 4 people who commit to the repo, and 1 guy alone do 2/3 of the job you can put every Rules of conduct it doesn't matter. Opensource project are always maintained by very few people, if you want to enforce code of conduct to creator/principal maintainer they will leave and the project will die.
A working 'code of conduct' could only be pushed by the top, not by external people who never work on the codebase.
"Teaching Reason" in France's schools is mostly lessons on how to configure your apps and manages your identity and privacy on socials networks.
This is the answer as antivirus can no longer run at same level as kernel. Even windows defender can't run with those high privileges.
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses"
Bjarne Stroustrup
One of the reasons, "Windows 9" could be detected by some soft as "Windows 95" or "Windows 98" to be safe they skip the 9 and jumps to 10.
Zip code for gas is a nightmare :)
When you're used to enter pin code in your country, everything works fine. You move to the US for vacation want to fill the car tank and the machine ask for your zip code. You can't do anything. If you're lucky a cashier is available if not you have to find another station.
So true, I've so many problems with the Mozilla build process and Pymake, that I stop after my first successful compile.
If it was easier I maybe had time to identify and patch the thunderbird bug I was annoyed about.
No France can't choose which is religion and which isn't
It's one of the main point of the law of 1905 "Separation of the Churches and the State". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_French_law_on_the_Separation_of_the_Churches_and_the_State
Why only talking about developers.
If you agree to have average Sellers, Average Marketing, Average Management, Average customer support sure you can have average developers.
Here is some numbers from there in french/spanish http://alliance-lab.org/archives/1072?lang=fr#
Retailer : 33 to 40 %
Promotion to libraries: 10 to 12%
Distribution: 7 to 8%
Dead Wood manufacturing: 12 to 20 %
Promotion, communication to customers: 0 to 10 %
Author 6 to 12 %
I've kindle it's nice and I like it but not to replace all my books. First there is price it's pretty common than paper is 30% less than ebook. Second the reader can store hundreds of books right. Third more than half of book I read doesn't exist in any ebook format.
if you can store hundred why is there is no way to sort you book without spending HOURS, it's a nightmare if you have multiple book by same author, multiple book with same name or some public domain book which are not well tagged (using search when your not sure of the book title is crazy).
I've used it for some technical books it's not always good. The writer have to do extra work to make it readable. ebook pages are smaller it works for full text but not when you have some diagrams, source code... Lot of technical book have hyperlinks to different chapters which is nice, but sometime you hit a link instead of turning page. BUT ebook reader give you the search tool which is really nice for finding references.
When a company try to sell a solution to an organisation/company the customers always try to change the way the product work. It's easier to ask a contractor to change the product than to ask your employees to change the way they work. People hates change. And big contractors LOVE that, they even encourage you to ask for special requirement because each change is a lot $ in their pockets.
It's even more surprising that the same customers who ask for everything to be customizable accept to have completely generic windows stations sometimes even with default background or accept the new office with ribbons, which is a big change, more easily than you product where an icon moved.
It's pretty common mistake because in java the separation between the language and the library is not really clear. ,with most of people I work with, even stdio or the STL are tools available but not the language. As c++ involved really fast those years c++11 is great, c++14 will be even better and the whole default library grow fast and can propose more tools to compete with other language default frameworks.
When you talk with java programmer it usually go to "in java I can do an HTTP connection but in c++ you can't"
In C++
I understand it's difficult for many people to accept the price fixing of goods but some country use that system and it works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price_agreement
But price fixing is a double-edged sword.
The Publisher choose the price of the book ( depends of the country sometimes it's a range ).
Every bookstore buy the books at the same prices so you your local book-store even in small cities can compete with amazon.
Publisher support part of the risk of book pricing. If publisher want store to have more stocks of his books he make a deal with store of quantities and he have to buy back unsold items
For the books ordered by the bookstore the publisher have to buy them back too (not full price because of transport...)
It's not perfect but it keep local store, and when you see a book somewhere you can buy it directly because you know that's it will be useless to wait, go to amazon and buy it as it will be the same price.
Due to the very limited number of test conditions, we cannot draw robust conclusions about differences in power draw among browsers running Flash® and HTML5. We recommend conducting additional testing of a larger set of Flash® and HTML5 websites to draw more robust conclusions about how these technologies impact computer power draw.
It's good to start some energy efficiency ranking. Windows 8 (all tests are on that platform) have some very nice feature to helps developer on power consumption. My guesses is that no-one is using them as you need Win8 specific code but if somebody like microsoft try to MAYBE we could see some real differences.
It change almost nothing.
This law was to find your family members after long lost of contacts (years). It was to help family member reconnect after end of WW1 WW2 and after the end of colonisation in Asia and Africa. The administration do the research find the person, the ask him/her if he want to reconnect with you and if he/she wants give you the address. It's stopped because fewer and fewer people use it in the last decade.
If someone is missing, police still do the research.
If Someone need to be found to pay kids pension, to helps his/her parents, for fraud or taxes evasion, or even for some kind of family Inheritance there are others laws.
Maybe they are talking about Vista ?
Ho wait vista (the microsoft total failure OS) is still more used to surf the web that all mobile devices together, which supposed to be our future....
In France it's not mandatory but most of the companies give you some money for food, or give money to the company's restaurant where employee can eat
The current rule is no taxes for noone if company give you up to 5.29€ knowing that the company can't pay more than 60% of your meal ( to ensure that they give you coupon that most of the time 50% paid by employee and 50% company )
If the company wants to pay full meals they can. But the company have to pay some extra taxes and declare to the that the employee receive some advantage. So the employee will have to declare it too ( like everything your company give you free for your personal usage car, gas, tickets, phone... everything is converted to some value not necessarily the full value )
Of course for some work where you have to be on the workplace, or volunteer work the company can pay everything without problems.
When developing for different browser you have some "strange" issues which are not from the webkit engine, but from de javascript engine or from the underlining implementation. For exemple Chrome decide not to check outside of his local cache sometimes, it's not webkit problem, it's not javascript it's only chrome implementation which is different ( to be polite ) and sometimes a nightmare for web developers.
Even if we had IE, Opera, Firefox and Chrome using webkit there will be some big differences.
Even if you don't try to do time prediction. Compare to classic errand to buy groceries.
make the list
watch the weather
dress accordingly
find your car keys
take the car and go to the store
find all items on your list
choose the good line
pay the cashier
go back to your car
drive back
unpack your items
How to do an accurate progess bar ? what is 30% done? How to not stop a long time on a percentage then go really fast on others ?
If you count percentages of tasks some are fast some are very slow, if you count time it's may work on your test but it may not on someone else who leave farther from the store or drive faster, or find the store closed etc
Yes it's pretty difficult to choose good metrics for some complicated tasks.
Apple was so good with daylight saving and news years alarms calculation that a apple watch is certainly a good idea.
"fair use" is only an American copyright extension there is no international law/agreement for "fair use"
CC-BY-ND looks little counter productive in research because it means "unchanged and in whole" so for citations it's not usable.
There is more and more patents every year, so there should be many new inventions no ?
j/k