I barely notice a difference, but I use Opera browser on my phone. You ought to try it out.

Any language in particular? While the concepts transcend language, most books are language-specific. Or do you not care?

Go to the source on this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-.../dp/0321125215

Despite its sometimes enterprisey sounding jargon, DDD has a lot of useful concepts that ultimately boil down to methods for writing software clearly for humans. There are some good intro videos by the author too on youtube.

Highly recommend:

https://leanpub.com/javascriptallong...=raganwald.com

This will teach you ES6, but is really a book about seeing and using js for the functional language it is.

Disgruntled mobile HN readers who don't want to download an app:

http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/

That's console.log's fault. It doesn't log a full snapshot of an object when its called. This may help,

console.log(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(myObject)));
https://davidwalsh.name/javascript-d...ng-tip-objects

Something C-style. Ideally C#.

Thanks for the other suggestions. The JavaScript book looks great.

C++

https://www.manning.com/books/the-ar...second-edition

C++ > C#

I upgraded to Fedora 23. I have no idea what I gained from this.

http://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-...3-workstation/

Need a job?

Move to Washington, Virginia, Utah, or Colorado:
http://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/gr...itialWidth=800

I talked about this example in real life at a conference. There's a well known conference chair from Australian who's legally named "Neil" (name changed by me). He only has one name like Cher. Broke all sorts of computer systems, was almost impossible for him to book an online flight for years(!) etc. etc.
First system that was changed (quickly)

And while we're talking about internationalization issues...another example from lol OSX land, this time I'd say it's close to 0% Apple's fault though....

I found out today that you can't import UTF8-CSV files in Excel for OSX properly. There's an option for it but it simply replaces all non-ASCII characters with underscores. Seems to be a known but never fixed bug. Lol Microsoft, WTF.

Thank god that I'm only forced to use MS-Office for work occasionally. LibreOffice Calc obviously did it like a charm

From the market I know (European ERP, mid to high complexity) I'd say I have to disagree. That's a market where "turnkey solution" is a myth. There's usually custom and strange business processes that need to be handled adequately and security configuration/roles etc. are pretty much always custom. Additionally there's often "connectors" to legacy systems and/or data import/export.
+most FLOSS ERP vendors offer SaaS solutions these days (I think haven't checked but the ones I kept up with do)

I do think proprietary companies are usually more sales driven and FLOSS companies are more technology driven. And proprietary companies pay their sales staff better, too.

As an aside I think the most underdeveloped side of both proprietary and FLOSS business software (at least ERP) is UX by a longshot. I was recently at a bigish conference that had a keynote speaker from SAP and she talked about the cool processes and creativity workshops they run etc. and the first question was "well we use SAP...why does the UX suck". Chuckled quite a bit.

Ethics/Legal question:

I am building an app that requires an extensive amount of data about food. I found a site where the person lists from A-Z an extraordinary amount of information, pretty much everything I would need. Its all accessible to anonymous users of the site. Is scraping and storing this information legal? Im talking like X product and nutritional breakdown, nothing like images or proprietary information to the creator of the site.

Legally - IANAL, but you should probably check their Terms and Conditions. If they say you can't use it, you probably can't use it. ?

Ethically - I don't know. If you're planning on using it for commercial purposes, its a bit shady. I probably wouldn't do it.

Commercial purposes I assume means any aspect of business using the data and not just selling the actual physical data we got from the site?

Also, should be noted, dont believe you can copyright something like nutrition information for your own site, but that doesn't really affect the ethical side I suppose


Although Id assume he had to copy it from somewhere. Blah

Pretty sure you can't copyright statistics, but I am also sure there's a lot of legal nuance I have no clue about.

Commercial purposes meaning that you'd like to make money in some way, shape or form from it. So if you're building an app to track your own diet - who cares.

I assume the information isn't protected itself (after all its displayed on every single product). But how you use their site to retrieve that information might be?

If you can find a source for all of the info, for example ranges that would reasonably constitute the data you have, I see no flaws.

Unless you have access to a capable lab and equipment, you are copying nutrition information from somewhere. I think nothing of this, but admittedly understand if you are potentially building something around it that it may make you feel slightly uneasy, thus the question.

Find a few publications that have nutritional info and if for some who knows why reason troll paper shows up from someone then you have the source of the info and you should be fine.

IANAL tho and asking a lawyer who knows tech and ip this plan would take 5 mins.

Alrighty thanks for the input guys.

The data I need is all over the interwebs from hundreds of sources, its just kind of crazy to see it sitting in one very visible spot.

Food Standards Australia has this sort of data here, in tabulated Excel format which can readily be imported into a database.

The material is licensed under Creative Commons, which means you may use the data commercially and need only acknowledge the source. It's all in metric, idk if that's a problem.

The Australian government is doing well on data disclosure. There's a website data.gov.au where you can download any publicly released dataset you want - 7,500 datasets so far. There's even a place where you can make a request for a set of data you need.

This has to be kosher, otherwise apps like MyFitnessPal wouldn't exist