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This might be misleading. Germany has something named "mini job" or "400 euro job", where you are paid exactly 400 euro which barely covers the groceries and the rent for a room. A…

That won't solve anything. Let's say that you leave London and 10:00 UTC, and land in another city at 15:00 UTC. Do you go to dinner? Breakfast? Can you schedule the business meeti…

I guess that it depends on the ISP (for general area location) or the Wi-Fi SSID and MAC (for exact location). I just ran an HTML5 geolocation demo http://html5demos.com/geo from m…

But could Python really take advantage of asm.js? I think that this is more useful for compiling statically typed languages (C/C++/... maybe TypeScript?) to JavaScript.

3. it proves that it's better to spend spend spend, than to be a sucker and save

What austerity are you talking about? The governments still spend much more money than they have. When you have no money, taking a loan to buy a 60" plasma TV instead of an 80" one…

It's probably generating "white noise" which covers the other noises. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUwEiMNhOCM

That benchmark is for algorithms implemented in pure Python and in pure Go. But for real projects, a Python programmer might use several libraries which are written in C.

Or maybe business success leads to more women in leardship positions.

I hope that they keep the Long Term Support versions, for which they used to provide updates for up to 5 years.

Well, regarding yout API example, Python 3 introduces function annotations which let you specify the types of the parameters and of the return value. These types are not checked by…

Then we must increase the liability. When patent owners want to sue for damages worth $1000000, make them pay $1000000 in a 3rd party bank account BEFORE that. If they win, then th…

It depends on how large the code base is. Rewriting a 10k LOC project isn't a big deal, compared to a 10 mln one. And a rewrite doesn't have to target performance only, but ease of…

Yes, but it can also use several channels. This plus the AC standard becoming more popular will lead to overcrowding in 5 GHz also. 2.4 GHz has 3 non-overlapping 20 MHz channels. 5…

Well, I see that they offer to "Install the Ask toolbar" by default. I don't remember Sun doing this. http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/ask_toolbar.xml

Not good for a house, but very useful for apartments in large buildings. You can have one wireless AP in each room (connected to eachother with wires), and almost no interference f…

On the other hand, China has a lot of investment to do in its western part of the country.

As a first step, you could expand to other JVM languages (like Clojure, Scala, Kotlin, ...)

There are two different projects. What you're talking about is the Ubuntu for Android.

But it's limited for 1 or 2 years. After that you have to pay if you want that extra storage.

If men can't develop empathy, why does the (old) war propaganda show women and children who need to be protected from the "evil enemy"? How come a man can willingly sacrifice himse…

In case of homosexuality it could be that the genes which cause this in a man are also helping his sister in becoming more attractive to other men (and the brother of a homosexual …

But if everybody lives like Julia, who the hell will do the hard work anymore?

The pay-go pension system is a huge ponzi scheme because it needs more and more people into the game with each generation. It lasted less than a century and it's on the edge of col…

Well, if it's DARPA, then probably the main purpose of the network will be military. And I'm pretty sure that they have much more money than Iridium.