According to wikipedia, the julian calendar already had 31 days for august so the explanation of the article doesn't seem to be correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar

Oh hallelujah!

Nice article mr. schürre :)

Hehe...thanks :) .

Or some major politicians :)

My girlfriend took the course that started in february and her progress is absolutely fantastic.

I really recommend all non-programmers to take it if they want to get a grasp on how cs people think.

This question regularly pops up here on HN.

Seems nobody is bold enough to tackle this problem :)

Heavy regulation (due to customers protection) prevents small players to engage the market. Without few millions and an army of lawyers, you can't.

Isn't that exactly the problem which VC funding claims to address?

VCs will not tackle this because it's considered "risky".

I just tried this with a different movie in mind. The results are pretty interesting, but see for yourself:

http://www.google.de/search?q=the%20film%20where%20a%20house...

http://www.bing.com/search?q=the+film+where+a+house+is+flyin...

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+film+where+a+house+is+flying+wi...

If you get the same results as I do, you should find the correct answer as duckducks first answer and bings 4th one. Google's first page of search results has no reference to the correct answer (though in the picture search the first one picture is from the movie).

I use google day in day out. Maybe I should overcome that habit :-)

My first result in Google for that query is: "National Geographic real-life floating house: Pixar's Up! can be ..."

In any case, I think I have my search-fu already optimized for Google: I'd search "animation film flying house" instead, which results in:

Google → 1st result, Wikipedia page for Up!

DDG → 3rd result, reference to Up! in the title, although not a page about the movie specifically.

Bing → Up! nowhere to be see on the first page.

Well, it definitively doesn't here: http://i.imgur.com/zaiCy.png (I joined two screenshots in Gimp, that's why the scrollbar is strange)

doing an English language search on google.de is kinda unfair. Also note that the hl param on google is set to german. Of course you get crappy results.

I've been curious what accounts for variation between ddg serps and bing serps for the same terms aside from the zero click and ads. Does bing personalization account for the differences, or do partners like ddg have the opportunity to influence weightings in whats returned? Is Gabriel explicitly searching wikipedia independently?

In case anyone else wonders what GEB stands for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

I haven't found one yet. hackaday.com isn't Arduino only, but they cover a lot of interesting projects with Arduinos.

I really like hackaday, although it's not arduino based only.

I have been there a couple of times and attended a lot of great talks.

I really recommend this conference to anyone interested in digital culture and create use of technology.