About 55 ARS delivered in the suburbs (Gran Buenos Aires) and 80 ARS in a middle range restaurant. That's about 9,50 USD and 13,7 USD respectively using official exchange rates and 5,75 USD and 8,35 USD using the blue market rates. We don't really have chain pizza restaurants with international presence.
Also, things tend to raise at about 20% per year, so take that into account.
This country is fun, crazy and cheap, come visit. :)
Failing to load HD versions of the video and then graying them out (reloading the page usually makes it work again), play the video in 320p and display the resolution as set to HD, SD to HD loading ad infinitum (or just display an error and stop playback), stop buffering after skipping (even to pre-buffered parts), really low streaming speeds (that fix after reloading the page), etc, etc.
Making a general video host is so expensive and complicated that we may have to just resign to use YouTube for at least some more years... but it's easily one of the worst user experiences regarding online videos.
For longer stuff, and when I know I will likely skip back and forth, I use a browser extension to download the video as mp4, and then VLC to watch it while it's still downloading.. so much nicer.
It may be frowned upon around here... but when my friends asked me to point them in the right direction to learn programming I just gave them a copy of "Beggining Visual Basic", showed them some simple code and how to make a simple app with VS.
It may not be the best language around, but it's simple and you can make something that works in Windows ridiculously easy. If they show continuous interest, then they will hear about some other languages but most people just want to see something working with buttons and text boxes and then after a few weeks they lose interest.
It's like going to the gym, some of us love it but it's not for everybody. And if it's your first time, don't spend time with a complex routine... just run on the treadmill until you feel tired. If you like how it feels, then you will keep coming back, and if you don't, you didn't waste time doing the advanced exercises that are useless without continuous workouts.
Disclaimer: I told them that programming serious applications takes a lot of time, hard work and lots of reading and practicing. They just wanted to make toy applications. They were instructed to never deal with secure applications or production critical applications until reaching programming enlightement.
I started on VB. The whole "it rots your brain" argument is complete bullshit - there's nothing to keep you motivated through the hours (years) of work it takes to become a good developer like a programming language that lets you create a functional GUI in a few hours.
> I started on VB. The whole "it rots your brain" argument is complete bullshit
I started with Applesoft BASIC on the Apple II series and I'm not so sure about the bullshitness of the argument. Dijkstra was not talking about VB at the time. It's nearly impossible to explain recursion in terms of "classic" BASIC.
I'm lucky I also learned C and FORTH (through the wonderful GraFORTH environment). Because of that, the quality of my Basic code (my first job was programming educational software for Apple IIs) was much increased.
In order to properly assess the damage, you must ask yourself how comfortable you feel with concepts that cannot be expressed in your first (or "native") language.
Sure, but these days, Lua is almost certainly a better alternative, and actually provides neat things like first class function closures while maintaining it's simplicity.
What is more important is about easy learning and generated interest. VB provided a simplistic and verbose language which makes easy to understand and it pretty easy to learn.
I love C#, but I probably wouldn't recommend its power for someone only touching the basics and making simple things.
I've never worked with big databases so bare with me if this is a really silly question.
Let's say I have database A with sequential IDs, and database B with sequential IDs. Couldn't I just translate the sequential IDs to GUIDs in both databases, merge them to database C and then translate the records from A and B to sequential IDs?
Modifying IDs is a giant pain in the ass. At several previous jobs we've had to rekey billions of records with sequential IDs and it never ever goes correctly the first (or tenth) time, and when it eventually does work it takes forever to complete.
Maybe you're rude too so you can't tell how the waiter should be treated. /joke
I've never eaten with someone who was rude to a waiter, but there are some things that you can learn from a person by looking at how he behaves with other people.
For example, if someone is putting food on your table, try to not be in his way and maybe tone down the conversation a little bit. Saying thanks is also a nice thing to do... looking at you, study team member.
Is there some kind of elaborate joke going on in here? Or are you people incapable of reading a simple text?
You don't advertise a diverse environment with "4X female french, italian and spanish junior". It can be stupidity or a lack of understanding of the English language (if you're feeling like justifying it) or just plain gender discrimination and a really sexist statement to make.
Anyway, not much more can be expected from a job posting that seems targeted to 12 year olds.
* Internal pages and tools as pages, specially the downloads manager (I can't stand Firefox's little windows or Chrome's behind-the-scenes crippled manager).
* How it handles extensions by default (little buttons to the right of the address bar).
* The nested Speed Dial and the Stash.
* Off road mode is a really great tool when using slow connections.
* Default synchronization (is not an extension).
On the other side, v 15 isn't as polished as it should had been before being made publicly available (CTRL+Z doesn't work, no bookmarks, small bugs with the address bar).
Anyway, as you can see, most of the benefits are just UI decisions. I just don't like how Firefox or Chrome look and how they display their functionality (which is absolutely subjective).
Re 1: You have to know to open the page (in the menu, or at chrome://downloads) -- by default it just shows you the download bar at the bottom of the page where you downloaded the file.
Re 2: Parent probably is confused by extensions versus web apps. I find this confusing too, since it's up to the developer to choose which form factor to use when writing the extension/app.
About 55 ARS delivered in the suburbs (Gran Buenos Aires) and 80 ARS in a middle range restaurant. That's about 9,50 USD and 13,7 USD respectively using official exchange rates and 5,75 USD and 8,35 USD using the blue market rates. We don't really have chain pizza restaurants with international presence.
Also, things tend to raise at about 20% per year, so take that into account.
This country is fun, crazy and cheap, come visit. :)