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donald_draper | 13 years ago | on: Samwers Clone Stripe

Those are special cases for Germany and Spain (I implemented that stuff for a german webshop that has to make the same exception). I'd guess it's the same for Spain.

German customers who buy in a german webshop have to pay VAT and then claim it back later in their tax return, because the german tax authorities don't allow that exemption beforehand.

donald_draper | 13 years ago | on: The effect of typefaces on credibility

It's not random, they're basically numerals fitting lowercase characters. The idea is to integrate them into text flow. Numerals that are all at the height of upper case would LOOK LIKE THIS IN TEXT ;-)

Not sure about Georgia, but most larger fonts have various versions of numerals for tables (where you want them all the same height, and width monospaced width) and for text (as in Georgia). In OpenType print fonts you can select those types of numbers by turning on/off certain 'features' of the font (the glyphs will be exchanged without changing the text itself). That should be possible soon in webfonts too, I think Firefox already supports that, and IE 10 will follow.

donald_draper | 14 years ago | on: Louis CK does it again - 2 audio shows without DRM at $5 each

Lol - I bought the first video, and now one of the audios. However, at the end of the process I didn't remember my old password. So I clicked 'I forgot my password' and it said 'Oh my god, you're an idiot' and sent me an email with a new one - a random password beginning with the letters 'idiot' :-D Love the humour.

donald_draper | 14 years ago | on: Learning From Data - Online Course

Agreed.

I think it's actually quite telling if other institutions feel obliged to ridicule efforts (by Coursera et al) to make online learning a new experience, rather than just copying existing concepts as exercised in traditional universities.

donald_draper | 14 years ago | on: Linus torvalds on security

People should actually cheer to this expression of the open source spirit. Like in 'if you find a bug, fix it', he proposes to you to kill yourself if you cause one. Nothing special. Off course, if this were corporate software, they would send somebody to your house to kill you, which might be more convenient.

donald_draper | 14 years ago | on: Udacity goes live

Which makes it easier to translate into typical procedural languages like c and c++, which is not completely irrational to assume for embedded systems like robotics. And because many tricks and concepts will be array-index-based, you can just go ahead and use them right from the start.

donald_draper | 14 years ago | on: Thanks HN

To work at Grimm Library, you don't even need an id or anything. Just go there. But they have some rules about main times of the day like 8-19 reserved for actual students - although I never experienced anybody controlling it.

I go there for anti-procrastination as well, it's great.

donald_draper | 14 years ago | on: Open Dylan 2011.1 released

Given the rather small community size (from what I know), wouldn't it be the best survival technique to port the compiler to JVM, to have at least some usable real world libraries at hand ? I can hardly imagine anyone starting to use a complex typed system like that without reliable and proven libraries from the real world. It just wouldn't be worth the effort of playing around with it.

donald_draper | 14 years ago | on: Another free course: Model Thinking

For the future, it would be really cool if those courses would feature one preview lecture and a schedule to decide if one wants to get into it or not - now that it's getting so broad.
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