Consider learning an "executable mathematical notation" such as APL.

It has the advantage of looking like math formulas, naming entire matrices with a single letter and using symbols for the operations, while avoiding the pitfalls and chores of traditional programming languages, such as explicit loops.

APL was designed to allow non-programmers to express complex computations with ease, in a non-ambiguous, reproducible, executable way.

There are excellent commercial implementations (with trial or free-for-personal-use versions) such as AplX and Dyalog. They both have good tutorials. There is even a Try APL online site http://www.tryapl.org/

I'm among those who set their computers and gadgets to English the moment I get my hands on them, among the consternation of friends and family.

But I can attest to the fact that a LOT of programmers don't speak a word of English. They have learned the CS meanings of a few dozen words, but that's as far as they go.

They may know that 'this' refers to the current object in OO programming, but they have no clue how to pronounce it (I have heard things you humans...) let alone that it means 'this' as opposed to 'that.'

They know 'Windows' is the name of the most widely used OS, as most programmers clearly understand what an OS is. But if they came to your house and you asked them to open the windows, they would probably walk to your PC, not to the walls.

So there you go, developer tools need localization like everything else.

If anything, you must put EXTRA effort with developer tools, as opposed to generic software, to find and use the RIGHT translation. You wouldn't be very happy if your browser tool suddenly asked you to "gaze at the fountain" instead of "view the source", now would you?

What the hell is "business data" anyways?

Damn you, now I'm hooked on the most mind-bending crazy internet mind trip ever http://www.asc-alchemy.com/hudson.html

That's interesting. One's own thoughts then would just be huge MapReduce run over one's own history of moments of consciousness.

Maybe we are finite automata after all.

> This whole business appears to be a Slash-vertisement.

Yes, because a substantial part of Slashdot's readership gets into trouble and needs to do community service on a regular basis. I can totally identify with the "bad boy" on that front page.

The money will always be in the "mainstream", or the particular mainstream of every place and time, by definition.

Megaupload exists because it makes money. It makes money because millions of people watch movies and download shit off it, not because it makes a few hackers "free" to share stuff.

No mainstream = no money = not *existing* in any noticeable capacity.

It is in fact slightly different than what was reported.

Three of Apple's registered companies in Italy have been fined not just for misleading customers about their two year state-mandated warranty terms, but for hampering access to warranty services after the one year mark.

Official press release (in Italian)

Think of how most developers are using Javascript nowadays: it's a target language for their compilers.

Whether the source was Java (GWT compiler) or Javascript itself (YUI compressor, Google closure compiler) the fact remains that what browsers are given to run is not what the developers wrote. Which is standard practice in the software business (it's called compilation) and for good reasons.

Now, JS makes for a poor machine language. So we could either beat around the bush with an intermediate bytecode language (Java went there, and Python and all the others too, with varying results) or go for the real thing and come up with a good x86 sandboxing and code verification standard.

Remember, x86 is currently in use by 99% of desktop machines. When other architectures will gain momentum, websites will just offer two or more compiled versions of their code. In the mean time, they will just have to emulate or translate the x86 instruction set, a task for which a large open source code base has already been developed, and which would still be more efficient than parsing plain Javascript, by several orders of magnitude.

So what's the problem with that, again?

Exactly.

This is the 10th grade math course.

I can see how a successful person from one or two generations ago could fail 100% of it.

And I don't think such material should be requirement for everybody. People with other skill sets (social, artistic, etc.) should be recognized and valued too. The world needs musicians and clothes designers and yes, managers and salesmen, as much as we need good scientists and engineers.

Why is this modded funny at all? Have you kids seriously never used a computer without a hard drive? IBM PC? Amiga? Not even a Commodore 64? Come on!

<quote><p>Also, the just-in-time inventory fad where nobody actually stocks anything any more</p></quote>
I wouldn't call it a fad. With the current rate of technological advancement, where last-month products have already been made obsolete by some newer / better tech, I would call it sensible management.

Or maybe we should revise the decade-old HTTP protocol to better define the scope of cookies and of (misspelled) referrer headers.
That is, until fingerprinting the clock skew becomes commonplace.

To further increase their safety, we also limit the units to 6 miles per hour.

What? You only give them the 6 mph key?
Man, this is lame... I WANT MY DAMN RED KEY!