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I stand corrected. "Idiotic" appears in that paragraph, but the actual ad-hom attack is "since he is a flamebaiting troll".

He makes no attempt to refute the person he attacks, and the only point of the attack seems to be that he's not linking to that person, because he doesn't like him.

Why bring it up at all? Why not just write your article, refute any arguments that need refuting, and try to sound like somebody worth listening to?

That sort of tone gets you voted down to -4 here in comments. It gets your article skipped too.
In Soviet Russia, policy follows you.

Did I do that right?
You need to re-read the article, slowly. The title actually helped me understand the article.
No publickey auth? Sorry, I thought it is 2010, so everyone uses authorized_keys (and passwords are only for emergencies)...

But the main problem that this completely lacks any technical description.
I use a method similar to yours with a personal wiki and the free Evernote. I get lots of ideas while in the car or in bed and it's easy to jot it quickly down in Evernote and then transfer it to my wiki later.
This angry reply rants about how you clearly never read the article, or the paper, or in fact anything ever, and ends with a comment about the writers mother.
I think "right out of school" means youngsters without hands-on experience. Of course I think the poster would pay more for experienced teenagers.
Unix newbie here: can I do a similar thing on Windows? Shortcuts do not work
Big-name games get pirated more and more and
their attempts to "minimize piracy" are much
more intrusive. If those don't deter people,
a little flash of a name isn't going to
deter people.

How do you know they wouldn't have been pirated even more without these measures?

In this particular instance, I think the fact it's a small fish game actually helps, since it will be harder to find well seeded torrents of it compared to the latest and greatest AAA extravaganza.

And do you think he'll automatically renew "1337 h4x0rs group" 10 keys limits after getting 1000s of requests to register the game under any single name?

I hope Cas will post some stats about how this worked out for him (assuming he can compare piracy rates between this and his previous games), I'd be very interested to find out how it fared.
This is a reply to your comment pointing out that you missed one tiny fact and disagreeing with your comment on the basis of that fact, regardless of your arguments merits.
He's wrong about security being ignored in HTML5.

HTML5 added postMessage that allows to isolated DOMs to communicate (previously you'd have to give up isolation), sandboxed iframes (you can embed untrusted content and e.g. disable plugins in it), blocking of link referrers (webmail links won't leak your inbox URL), cleaned up content sniffing, defined exactly how browsing contexts and window proxy objects behave (very tricky balance of backwards compatibility and isolation of pages).

Almost every section of the spec has "Security considerations" subsection and whole thing is plastered with security warnings: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

All new features have same-origin restrictions, and are going to support CORS: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/#origin-header

There have been other advancements, like CSP and STS: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Features#Origin_Header_.2F... which are going to be standardized by AppSec WG at W3C (http://www.w3.org/2010/07/appsecwg-charter).

If there's something missing, he could report a bug (I don't recall anything reported by him): http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=HTML%20W... It's even possible to report bugs without registration straight on the spec page: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

And many fundamental issues are really unfixable, i.e. a "fixed" browser would "fail" to work "properly" with many major websites. Lots of simple payment gateways (including some of PayPal) rely on CSRF vulnerability to pass payment data. Google-hosted jQuery relies on XSS vulnerability. The only practical solution is opt-in to new, stricter security models, which is what HTML5 and other WGs are developing.
I'm sure professional bodies also like to see as many members as possible to increase their revenues and influence.
The article quotes people who claim that there is a shortage of CS graduates.
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Who cares about tweets? It fits a text.
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E-mail and telephone both cover different situations. Telephone is more personal, contains information about emotions, feelings and context of the talk. If the information is about bidirectional feedback then telephone is much better than E-mail. Since they cover different situations you can't say what the title say.

With e-mail you can send spam to thousand of people, you can send e-mail to people that don't know you and that don't care about you. E-mail is like fruit in a tin, telephone is fresh fruit.
Something is wrong here. You're a "zealot" but "the thought of trying to understand someone else's Perl code is horrifying"? As a Perl developer, I read other peoples code without a problem on a day to day basis.
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Most studies I read on caffeine are either inconclusive or they contradict other studies done on the subject.

So there is basically only one good way to find if caffeine works for you. Try it. But do it scientifically an be strict about it. Try different drinking patterns and amounts during different weeks. Write down your experiences. This is important.

From my personal experience it helps me to stabilize my wake and sleep cycle. I am more awake during the day and get more tired at night, which is a good thing. I might add that I only dring 2 cups daily and I never drink coffee after 3:00 pm.
This is not true at all. Clean code, documentation, testing, are very highly regarded in the Perl community.
> It drives me mad, we're full of young without an idea of what it takes to survive in life - they take everything for granted and expect to land a good job without doing nothing. But they only find people that wants to exploit them as bad as they want to exploit employers - this isn't functional at all.

Are you wrestling with Millennials? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y#Workforce
navigator.allowXSSAttacks = false

If only the silly browser makers would set that flag to false sigh It's so easy!
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This might sound trivial, but if I could go back in time and give myself one piece of advice, it would be to use a language other than C for Analysis of Algorithms.

I didn't know C very well yet, and trying to learn the algorithms material whilst being distracted by implementation details was simply not worth it. I'd tell my younger self: you're going to screw yourself out of both a grade and understanding of fundamental material.
Yes, let's change all OO CPAN modules to use a new library, just for the heck of it. Let's not care that all of these libraries work great and are used in production.

Transition takes time, welcome to software development.
In fact, it is more likely for an avid cyclist to die on a bike, a motorhead to die driving, and a test pilot to die in flight, than normal. This makes sense. It is the opposite of irony, obvious.
Not sure which Perl you left, but it's not the one I'm using :)
The thing is, savvy folk know it's Perl and not PERL and regardless of your work, it indicates a lack of knowledge of the community.
$100-200k a day currently.
Come on guys let's go back to discussion, which from my interpretation was if the "underlying motivation for argument, debate, or discussion is to signal social standing".

I guess ckuehne opinion is that it unconciously is and I love his example.

How could we discuss that?
I would love to know examples of places and people that behave the way metamemetics tells us. I can't match any subset of people, or even any subset of intelligent subset of pople that match that behavior.
What about the Academia? Wasn't it supposed to be brightest subset of people?
That's probably why he said "faux-irony"...
Out of curiosity, do the people writing bills ever bother to consult experts in the fields that a bill pertains to? I don't have the expertise to tell if it's the case for most fields other than technology, but if the bill-writing process is anything similar, are bills on things like health care, the economy, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan also based on a complete lack of understanding of the facts?
thanks for that clarification. i was ironically reminded of other inventors killed by their inventions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_the...). still so very tragic.
> "Individual organisms are best viewed as adaptation-executers rather than fitness-maximizers."

--Cosmides and Tooby; <i>The Adapted Mind</i>
This seems to be indicating that values are encrypted in the cookie, and the issue is the AES encryption algorithm was implemented poorly.

Why are any values with any degree of sensitivity being stored in a cookie in the first place?

I'd argued against encrypted values being stored in cookies many years ago with some colleagues, arguing in favor of randomized values. What I kept getting back was "random isn't really random - that's insecure". I could never quite explain my point in a way they understood, which I still count as a failing on my part (but still a failure on theirs to grasp basic security stuff in the first place).

So... am I correct in understanding that the ASP.NET system is storing something of value via encryption in cookies? If so, what?

EDIT - should have read the full thing - this is the padding attack from last week. :/
or decipher data structures in perl that use pointers
due to a syntax that is still unintuitive after a
decade of use

Hint: Perl doesn't have pointers, it has references. It's odd that you haven't gotten used to it after 10 years.

Perl code that creates classes and objects is quite
hard.

Not with Moose. Simply declarative OO that contains an MOP and is very extensible.

Coding in Perl can be a challenge and Perl is so large
that all of us are expert at different things which
means that almost every single piece of new perl code I
see is like having to learn a new language.

This always surprises me. I code Perl for a living, and I never have this problem. I never run into code I don't understand. Sometimes the formatting and I need half a second to locate the curly brackets because the original author was a C/C++ guy, but that's about it.
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Do you believe this to be, solely or in part, due to outsourcing?
I'm pretty sure that, if you want it indexed, yes, you'd have to provide actual URLs (without the hash).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_college

I don't think there are any good engineering colleges or universities that are not also liberal arts schools, and many good liberal arts schools offer engineering.
Is it just one guy now? I know for a while it was at least two, possibly three.

Also, PuppyGames are the people responsible for LWJGL[1], which IMO is the best way to go for making games in Java.

[1] http://www.lwjgl.org/
I read it that they are complaining about a shortage of good CS graduates. Which is hardly surprising given the way that the numbers in higher education have increased in recent years and the extreme variations in course content.
Ah, this one takes me back.

It's almost a pity no one else has mentioned the classic Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James:

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

A bit dated now, and it looks like ESR has improved on the concept considerably, but this little classic will always be my favorite:

"Each language has its place within the Tao.

But do not program in Cobol if you can avoid it."
I tried it out, I think it's Awesome. GWT without the Java :)
I think he is referring to a specific issue: He wants a security model that allows "sandboxing" partially-trusted code so that it cannot take over the whole page. Today, if you execute a piece of JavaScript you have to trust it fully. This is an issue with e.g, ads. If an ad includes JavaScript, it can steal your users passwords.

He mentions Caja (http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/) which is an attempt to provide such a security model.

I guess this is a serious issue for the big ad-driven sites like Yahoo and Google. He is frustrated that the other parties involved in standardization (primarily browser vendors) does not prioritize this issue. I do agree that it is disingenuous to state that security was ignored.
Well, Perl 5 Version 12 came out in April 2010.
Very sad to read, especially with those huge donations to charity he gave.
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you could always set up a super stripped down user with a random password. Not to say that I'm about to do that
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I don't mind paying for free software, if I think it's worth it. But I wouldn't take their proprietary software even if you paid me.
Dropbox is not secure! They have access to all your data. Read the Dropbox forum and you will find that information.

So - Dropbox should not be used for any important files. But for everything else it should be ok.
> you are looking at this from a technology-warped lens, placing too much emphasis on an aspect close to you (i.e., websites).

Actually, I'd tend to agree with you but the specific aspect would be "accessibility" rather than websites in general. Since I was disappointed in not being able to see the content on the slidesf.com site, I'm certainly guilty of at least some degree of emotional response.

> Again I don't have data, but I'm quite convinced that the amount of people who are out on a friday night and google'ing for a place to go is very, very small; so small as to put the accessibility and SEO-iness of the event's website pretty much at the bottom of priorities for a promotor / club owner.

I doubt it's intentional, but you mixed the wrong bits, and then argued against them (straw man). The SEO of a site is relevant at all times and on all devices. The (mobile) accessibility is a more specific use case, where the looking-while-out-on-the-town would be an example.

Without data, we're probably wasting time discussing it, but I don't think you're an idiot/hipster for arguing the other side. In fact, I appreciate your comments. If you look at the down-votes I've gotten, they pretty much prove if one of us is an idiot for arguing an "unpopular" point of view, it would be me. Until I saw the down-votes myself, I never dreamed keeping things accessible, particularly advertising promotions, would be such an unpopular view.
This is a comment pointing that "there is nothing new under the sun", as the Ecclesiastes puts it.

This comment also suggests that it is probable that the ancient greeks made self-referential text jokes too, thousands of years ago.

The final part of this comment bemoans the lack of progress of humanity from this and other standpoints.
"After this we will add [...] an Empire game"

Interesting - any idea how popular that game still is? Most popular version seems to be from http://www.wolfpackempire.com/ ?

I remember finding that site years ago, but it seemed too complicated to get into back then.

In this 15 minute guide it sounds more comprehensible: http://www.toger.us/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage...

Too bad it seems to require a lot of micromanagement, which is usually not to my taste.

Might be fun/worthwhile to create a JavaScript client?
I don't see why there does have to be more to it. People make mistakes while driving vehicles all the time. How many of the recent Toyota crashes were caused by people stepping on the gas when they meant to step on the brake?
"Any service that provides encrypted messages must be capable of unscrambling them."

Isn't that unrealistic in a private / public key encryption scenario? I worry that lawmakers don't quite grasp the implications of the technological changes they want mandated
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Trion has built the server equivalent of Sony Cell
AFAIK there is just one programmer, and he is on the LWJGL team but is by no means the only LWJGL developer.

There might be someone else working with him, I couldn't really find anything about it.

EDIT: apparently there are 2 people, Cas & Chaz:

http://www.javagaming.org/index.php/topic,23005.msg190715.ht...
I took a Segway tour in Chicago this summer. Part of the tour takes you by the water. I asked out guide if a segwayer had ever fallen in - the answer was yes, sort of. They did lose a Segway in the lake, but the user jumped off before going in herself. The worse accident they had ever had was when a guy went over the front, smashing his face, after using it incorrectly and accidentally enabled an auto-stop mechanism, where the Segway basically shuts off.

You have to lean forward to move forward, which makes me think this guy either passed out or hit some rough terrain and the machine just slid off the cliff.
ironic in what sense?
but watching and waiting for Perl6 and getting the OO
model cleaned up

Have a look at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose and http://moose.perl.org as well as the MooseX::* namespace on CPAN. It's Perl 5 OO with a Meta Object Protocol, lots of extensions, and compatibility with pure Perl 5 OO.

Do you think it will look good on your resume, improve
your skill set, or help you think in new and better
ways?

For me it does. I'm a full-time Perl 5 developer and I have to learn and read up on newer technologies all the time. Even if the CPAN already provides me with what I mostly need, I'll still have to integrate it into the customers infrastructure. And for that I have to understand it.

For all practical purposes the language is dead

CPAN disagrees.
I realize that showing respect for the death is usually a custom, but wouldn't it be better to show respect for the living?
My cat must be the king of generality.
Would someone explain the whole "eir" and "ey" thing to me? Is this an attempt at hipster spelling--demonstrating they are so smart they don't need to conspicuously spell correctly?

Did I miss something?
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When you're in your twenties, you could eat styrofoam and still function appropriately. I like to believe I can still do what I used to do in my twenties...just can't do it as often.

A twenty minute nap in the middle of the day is hugely beneficial. Just enough to not get into deep REM. I read somewhere, maybe it was apocryphal, DaVinci or Michelangelo would doze off with a spoon in their hand, over a metal platter. When they were just about to fall into deep sleep, the spoon would fall out and hit the platter and wake them up.

We don't NEED caffeine but in moderation it is no more detrimental than working at your desk. http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/showArticle.jht...
I like the sound of that policy -- for some courses, it would work fine. For other, there might be problem:

* Some courses are hard enough, and many undergraduates are undisciplined enough, that a lot of students would end up failing. Of course, when this happens, the professor gets a whole bunch of reviews back telling him that he taught badly.

* Sometimes exams aren't the best setting for evaluation.
You can't infer anything "intentional" here. I imagine he was close to the edge and he let it get away from him for whatever reason. Maybe he slipped in some loose gravel or mud, or his dog blocked one of the wheels, or he simply wasn't paying attention. Those machines are deceptively easy to operate, but they are still machines and you pay dearly for your complacency. I have 5000+ miles experience on mine, and I still planted a facer last month (my own fault, not the seg's). All I can say is that it's a good damn thing I don't live on a cliff.
I was surprised that games designed with savegames in mind are actually more compelling when played without using that feature. I'm sure the Dead Rising 2 developers didn't expect most players to play through without using savegames to do better in the game.
They don't have to be aware of the fact that they might be
doing it to signal social standing

Here you say 'might', while it once again becomes 'usually' here:

People usually go for status

I repeat: I find this last assertion incredibly annoying. I'm a regular guy and I think that I don't argue for status or social standing, but because I'm interested in 'the truth', insofar as that means 'what works best for us', where 'us' includes everyone I care about. I'd like to see someone making a convincing argument to the contrary, that doesn't involve supposed historical and psychological facts about 'human nature' that are, without supporting argument, extended to include individuals like me that that someone are having a discussion with. It's a logical fallacy to make some vague accusations like "you are just arguing this because of concern for your social standing". I will have none of that. I can easily invert the reasoning: if you doubt my motives, then you are the one that seems to be looking for an ad hominem way out of the argument, because you are losing and don't want to lose your standing. This kind of argument leads nowhere.
When expressing in English my intelligence must be the half that when expression in my native language. And my IQ must be on average. So I will not read a post intended for a CI above 140, I only answer to the comment of drblast guy. If a teacher ask a question with an obvious answer like what is 3 + 3, then I can tell that it depends of the radix use are using, or if you are using 3 as a polynomial in some finite character field, or if you are using some computer language in which the symbols plus is concatenation of strings and the given operation is an error. In any case perhaps any of those answer should bother the teacher, so finally I should say excuse me ...
I use this library in my latest project, it's at least twice as fast compared to jquery and it will soon have ponies support by default!
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This is something I recently (re-)discovered for me as well. Grabbed Mount & Blade Warband when it was a bargain on Steam and chose, mostly out of curiosity, that the game saves on its own, everytime, everything.
I see my brother game the game world. Running around, encounter, ooops, this is too hard/reduces my standing with X: Load a save game.
Boring. For me it was a much more realistic (and - rich) experience. Every action influences the outcome. Oops, I just accidently (seriously) proposed to the character. Now what?

I'm hooked again to this way of enjoying a game and really enjoyed the article (and the reminder of "Heavy Rain". Awesome game).
I'm a UX professional and I don't use these methods. No cardsorts. No storyboards. No personas. No 'unfocus groups'. And I wrote a book about them.

I do use research techniques though, sometimes. Usually they're really fast, and none of the ones you listed :)

Remember that many of the methods you listed where invented for work on large content sites, intranets and such, not consumer oriented products.

Answer to your question: no, it's not representative of what startups do for ux.
I use Microsoft OneNote to keep track of interesting things I read.
Probably more importantly isn't the segway but hesco bastion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up-ozEcAX8k
Saved lots of lives.
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Are you retarded? "He didn't do anything" means he didn't launch nukes in retaliation.

Your nit-picking is offensive.
If you startup experiences "pointless changes and management decisions", it's really pretty much doomed anyway. Might as well go work for a large company.
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