Interesting Links for 07-04-2012
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andrewducker- Some of the problems Google Glasses is going to have to solve are pretty big...
- The Beer Game -or- Why China Has Such A Massive Manufacturing Advantage
- Internet use promotes democracy best in countries that are already partially free
- 'Hello, world': Programming languages quiz. 15/20 for me. How about you?
- Britain is now officially a dystopia
- A remarkably accurate global temperature projection from 1981
- Atheism Rising, But God Is Not Dead Yet: 10 Ways Religion Is Changing Around the World
- How to put yourself off ever wanting a Cadbury's Creme Egg
- A hermit crab in a glass shell. Somehow even more alien than crustaceans usually are
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Date: 2012-04-07 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-04-07 11:31 am (UTC)I got Scala and PHP by elimination (in that all the other options for those questions were obviously wrong) and C# and Ruby from only a very vague knowledge.
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Date: 2012-04-07 06:17 pm (UTC)Hermit crab
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Date: 2012-04-07 07:56 pm (UTC)I recognised C, C++ and VB. The rest were guesses.
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Date: 2012-04-07 09:50 pm (UTC)Atheism Rising, But God Is Not Dead Yet: 10 Ways Religion Is Changing Around the World
Of course, all of the highly religious nations are also quite poor, and the idea that the EU is weird for being so non-religious strikes me as impressively disingenuous - the nations where most of the populace are highly religious are that way because the people on average both really poor and not remotely in control of their lives. As these nations develop, religosity plummets (South Korea being a relatively recent example, with half the population being non-religious). The only real anomaly is the US, and even here religosity is (at long last) going down.
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Date: 2012-04-07 10:35 pm (UTC)I mistook Perl code for Ruby.
I also mistook PHP code for Perl.
This is a bit sad, in the sense that I've worked with both Ruby and Perl in the last year while I've never touched Ada, Fortran, or several other ones.
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Date: 2012-04-07 10:44 pm (UTC)There was no assembler, postscript, bash or SQL ("SELECT 'Hello World';")?
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Date: 2012-04-07 10:47 pm (UTC)x = y unless x =~ /regex/;
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