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Terminals have had a black background since monitors first appeared. This makes sense because a monitor bombards you with light and having a black background minimizes the amount of light you're exposed to, and thus fatigue (looking into a monitor is essentially looking into a lamp). I suppose the first window managers later reversed this with white as the default background; perhaps this has to do with the idea of a desktop metaphor where white backgrounds mirror the typical color of paper, who knows.

Note that the tradition is not white on black, but gray on black, because the former has too much contrast which gives it a kind of afterglow effect. Monochrome monitors used to support only a single color, such as blue, orange or green. That's why green on black now has (IMHO silly) "retro" connotations.
What do you guys think of Flocations, assuming you've seen them? They're Singapore-based and targeting the same market you guys (initially) are - budget travellers to/within Southeast Asia.

I think both your sites are great and look forward to using them soon. I've already recommened Flocations to a few people and will do the same for Adioso. Rooting for you here!
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It's for organizations that have different standards.

For example, the DoD has a pretty strict standard w.r.t. erasing traditional magnetic hard drives, even though `dd of=/dev/zero` should be good enough. Attacks at that point are theoretical, but they want defenses against theoretical attacks.
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> It maintains friendships

> It resurrects old friendships

> It sparks new friendships

No. Facebook does none of those things. All these are activities which can be facilitated by using tools such as a telephone, face-to-face meetings, e-mails or facebook. Facebook does not execute these activities automatically.

It increases discoverability, so that it does become easier for you to find former friends or collect more information about new acquaintances. Whether that makes us depend on it, I doubt it.
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It is, but using it means that Google gets your vote when discussing the future of the web. I'd rather have Mozilla shaping the web than Google.
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Is this the gist for it on GitHub?

Perhaps somebody could deploy to their host?

https://gist.github.com/2224365
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Nice try Microsoft.

Google Chrome is completely open source and can be easily compiled from the source (expect for its integrated Flash player and PDF reader). If you don't like something about it, please change it.
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Why shorten the URL?

Here is the expansion:
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There is also SPDE for people who prefer a superior language with all the benefits you mentioned.
This is very nice! And it feels very light weight, too. I've been looking for a saner rich text editor for a while...
What would make me use this is a way to get Django to use it when you launch `manage.py shell`, similarly to ipython.

One advantage over ipython I see here is that it doesn't use sqlite (I think), so it might run on Heroku.
Which-is-beter aside, this seems like a very healthy mix for competition & inovation:

75% split roughly even between 3 players. The big three are all very different (Community led Open Source, Bundled with the OS & Mega Company led Open Source). Developers can still feasibly test for major browsers. Everyone will be aware they have a choice. There is room in the remaining 25% for new players to emerge.

Seems ideal.
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Awesome!

Just a very small issue with the website: I wanted to click on the screenshot on the homepage, but it didn't work. I expected it to be clickable and do the slideshow.
In other news, the hemorrhage of Firefox users has been stabilized in January 2012, and it has been picking up market share for the last weeks (from 24.67% to 26.42%).

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-weekly-200827-201221
Opera is amazingly fast too. Like Chrome/FF13. And smaller memory footprint. Its not marketed well unfortunately.
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I bet the migrant workers you romanticise have a different
view than being "stronger" than you and hence doing underpaid back-breaking work in bad conditions and no health coverage...
Ya shouldn't have shortened it. Looks like I can't edit it now!
Firefox used to be my browser of choice, but now it's the worst of all for me.

There are two main problems:

1. Sometimes I start FF and it tells me that its process is still running. It happens too often that I close FF and it fails to properly terminate its process. The result is that I can't open FF until I kill it in the task manager.

2. Firefox is the only browser in which Flash crashes. Almost every day I had to search for the "Plugin container for Firefox" in the task manager and manually kill it.

Today the browsers that "just work" are IE9 and Chrome. I can't use Chrome all the time because it doesn't open images in Twitter, probably because images use http and Twitter uses https. Every browser has its own little problems. Those of Firefox are too much for me.
I guess these buttons have to be installed in some way that they are easily and quickly pressed in case of emergency before the enemy gets the equipment (so w/o opening your notebook i.e.). But then every colleague running past my desk can quickly trash my SSD. Probably a remote triggering the buttons via software makes more sense.
So, Microsoft is funding botnet operator to DDoS P2P network? It is legal? What if tomorrow Apple will fund botnet operator to DDoS Microsoft?
What is the potential for technology to help, some sort of combination of Google glasses and siri?
> I actually don't think my life would be seriously negatively impacted by being deaf

The irrational optimism on this site is starting to get a bit carried away.
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And doesn't most of Firefox's revenues come from Google?
ASL was my foreign language in college. I wish I remembered it better, frankly. It's definitely got to be difficult to translate technological jargon and neologisms into ASL, much less math, where your instruction is likely highly symbolic. Probably the best you would get would be to get a lot of fingerspelling if the person doesn't understand the subject... I can definitely see how Cued Speech would work better for you. Frankly real time translation into ASL has some big difficulties because of major grammatical differences, not to mention that a fast gesture can differ in meaning from a slower one. And that's assuming they were actually using ASL for the translation, instead of some sort of pidgin.

Anyway I think one of the important differences between most IM/chat and and speech is that speech is spontaneous and instant because it's serial and unbuffered. I think the closest you get in chat is Google wave, where you didn't hit enter, you typed and each letter showed up on the screen. I do wonder if even bad speech recognition, if it was real time, might not help with conversations. I really wish other IM services used real time typing, instead of requiring people to hit enter or send.

Also don't assume your alone. There are probably quite a few deaf hackers, and collaboration might help bring resources like subtitled or transcribed videos to light.

Anyway, I appreciate the insight. Keep kicking ass.
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Just fixed that. First day out, first bug out :-)
Update: Django uses `bpython` by default if `ipython` isn't installed! Woohoo!
"4. You are not offered health insurance or many other standard benefits usually given to full time employees.
"

Wrong. Lot of early stage startups don't offer them unless they are generating revenues or raised good venture money.

"2. The entire product requirements are just given to you as a brief list of items. A single email. There is no clear product spec. You are expected to figure out what is needed. And you are expected to then build it. Ask yourself if your compensation justifies this."

What is product spec that you are referring to? And the person you are referring is engineer/designer? In early stage startups you have to take initiative all the time. Do problem solving and come up with ideas/product specs. Its not big co where world moves along waterfall model and you get product specs from your manager.

"8. The management team expects you to contribute your personal devices for the firm's use."

Heard about BYOD? Even larger co's are implementing them.
Clients connecting (long polling) to the node.php server which is presumably using epoll.
You don't. That's not the purpose.

0bin is not made to prevent the user from being buster. 0bin is made so that it's difficult to sue the host for hosting hot content since he can claim he can't moderate it.
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The take-away message being that everyone likes to complain about the languages they use, and even more about the languages they don't.
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COBOL and FORTRAN programmers, many of whom started out as BASIC programmers, did the work that paid the taxes that paid the grants that let Dijkstra sneer at them from his ivory tower. I say that he has done far more damage to the field than any of those languages.
There are two kinds of languages, those that people hate and those that no-one uses.
> It passes boredom

So does cutting your toenails

> It maintains friendships, > It resurrects old friendships, > It sparks new friendships

No, people do those things. It's a medium for that interactions, but hardly the only one.

> It’s extendable, > It’s integratable

Those are both pretty clever. The quality of work that utilises this capacity may vary, but that's not FB's fault.

> It’s a social news feed

Yep, quite cool for that

> It’s a world news feed

Only if you consider celebrity gossip to be world news

> It’s a chat platform

It's a horrible chat platform

> It’s a media sharing platform

Love that side of it

> It’s a company of talented hackers

Their mobile apps suggest otherwise, to be honest

> It’s a place where small business promote themselves

Pretty cool for that. Used wisely, it's a great return on investment, based on what I've seen people I know doing. My sister is a wedding photographer and she gets tons of jobs through it.

> It’s the only place that some businesses promote themselves (not even a website)

That's true, but I find that to be a pretty horrendous user experience.
The Wall / Info / Page structure for company pages is just dire.
Even web pros like me have trouble getting the info they want.

> It’s Google’s big problem to solve

I dunno. General Motors have stopped advertising with them, and I've heard a lot of people say the return on investment isn't great on FB ads compared to google ads.

> It has created a massive queryable, crowd-sourced, graph of people, places, and things of the world

That's very unattractive to me, I don't like the thought of the shared details of my life being someone else's commercial product.

> They’ve captured 1/7th of the world

If you think having lots of customers online is a mark of quality, I suggest you listen to Bruno Mars' "The Way You Are", the highest selling song on digital, ever.
Popular means successful, it doesn't mean good.

> They asked for all of your info, and you gave it to them

How is that supposed to be attractive?
And a lot of people actually give fake info, speaking as someone whose facebook profile is named after a tractor and shows up as the wrong gender.
The Turtle Graphics module ships in the standard library.

http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html

That said... it really didn't do a big difference for me. As a kid, just having "circle", "line", "ellipse", "plot"(point), etc in BASIC were more intuitive than LOGO, and I tried both around the same time. Keeping track of the turtle and the pen state were a nuisance for me, instead of helping with the world model as teachers claimed. I also found silly text games a lot more fun to both make and play, I guess I was a bit less of a "visual" person than the average kid. I did love sprites and interaction though.

As for Python vs Processing, I don't think the difference is massive as a first language. I'd pick Python so then the student has a wider spectre of development afterwards. Processing if I intended to introduce Java later on. But I won't.
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Speaking of broken, that second link you give doesn't contain a meta tag specifying the encoding, and the webserver probably doesn't send it either, because I had to set my browser to UTF-8 manually to see the correct accents.
Yes, this is one thing that I've had a lot of difficulty with when trying to implement a reliable ISO parser. I've found that Python is one of the worst offenders with this, as by default the datetime classes have no concept of tz, and it is significantly more difficult to attach tz info to a Python date. (Loosely mentioned in the article).
>> One would be surprised to learn just how bad some really good Chess players are about other things in life.

Really? Is Chess somehow different from any other activity? My teacher escaped from Kazakhstan simply because he could play Chess really well. Does the fact he chose an activity you have decided you don't like have any bearing on what type of person he is? Of course not.

>>In other words, you need to turn a fun game into a job.

To excel at something, you need to work at it; what is your point?

>> What they have to become in order to play at these levels is, to me, the absolute opposite of what the game felt like when I was a kid.

How would you know? Have you ever played at a high level or known a world champion?

>>In order to become truly competitive in Chess you have to become a human database.

This is demonstratebly false, rote memorization is meaningless in chess. Openings are the LEAST productive element of the game you can spend time on. Only ideas and concepts matter at all. A chess master does not automatically have a greater capacity to memorize than an amateur.

I have never seen a comment of such amazing paternalism directed at any other activity. How does studying music help one in politics or business or even as a lawyer? The answer: Just as much as chess. Simply the self-discipline required to play on such a high level must have some benefit. Even if everything you said was true, so what? Why does one take up activities except to interest herself personally? At least with Chess you are guaranteed to see moves or games of spectacular beauty. It does take time to develop a level of intution where one can recognize such beauty.
If you don't want to be tracked, the site that handles authentication can still keep you logged in, but it isn't allowed to track your whereabouts.

In the case of facebook they can show the "like" button, but they cant use the information that it has been shown for you on a particular site, on a particular date/time.
Seems you haven't suffered through huge C++ projects making use of advanced C++ features. Try boost::lambda for one. Or read the C++ FQA (Frequently Questioned Answers) for an overview of C++ hell: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ . I think then you might see what Richard A. O'Keefe's comment refers to.
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The presence of remote workers in a team greatly enhances written communications - take most open source projects for example : for lack of frequent oral interaction they are heavy on forums, mailing lists, bug trackers, wikis etc. I guess that the presence of deaf people in a team might provide the same challenges and produce similar effects. But I'm not sure that deaf people want to be treated entirely like remote workers : as the article shows, the need for social life must be taken into account too.
Yeah, but that is kind of useless.

Facebook's entire purpose is to show you things you are interested in. The fact you didn't like something on a given site is nearly as useful as if you did.
Hmmm, so you're using your hard drives in production and suddenly you add another point on the list of "possible bad things that can happen".

What if this gets triggered when you don't want it to?
You're just adding another list of possible bad shit that can happen.

I rather wished it was not built into the device itself, but you connect it to something else.

Just add another layer of stuff that can go wrong, and this one fries the disk completely.
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I know I'm echoing everyone, but this story was just so profound I have nothing to say. It's very rare to wake up in the morning, go on hackernews and find something this worthy of attention.

You almost made me forget to eat breakfast. Thanks for the great read and I'm glad to hear things are looking up for you.

Here's to hoping three years from now look as better than today, as today does compared to three years ago :)

PS: to startup founders hiring foreign workers, they feel like this too. I've seen it in the eyes of some people at some offices. Work on making everyone feel immersed in the office culture. If you think you are, work harder.

PPS: to workers where foreign people are involved, it's your job to make them feel involved. I know it's easier to just do things normally. Make an effort.
Awesome! Thanks for making this happen. Have downloaded the git repository and will take a look soon.
Were you expecting more or less of a dramatic moment? I've fried robotic parts before, and you really do get a small puff of acrid smoke. Things usually melt and turn black in my experience instead of cracking, but then, I've never zapped a big array of flash memory.
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I'm curious about whether the accessibility tools available on the devices we use for programming are adequate enough for anybody with serious visual impairments to allow them to be a programmer.

It's probably a fair assumption to say that most programmers can touch-type, but if a blind person is also a programmer and touch-typer, does it help them in programming or is the ability to see code on the screen really help to internally visualise the system they're creating? Does blindness lead to a better ability to understand something logically without having any visual cues?
I had similar issues with you, sarenji: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2111278 (Ask HN: Deaf wannabe entrepreneur faces networking issues. How to work with it? | Hacker News)

As for love, all the people I've dated were 'normal' as in, they didn't have hearing problems like I did. They didn't mind. In fact, I even met people on OkCupid despite them knowing I'm deaf. Of course, it's hard if you're a developer and they're a designer, there's no common ground unless you both want it. My advice? Keep trying so you still have as much opportunities as others.
I think triggering an overwrite of all memory with random data by pressing a short sequence of on-unit buttons would be more practical when you're smuggling data through Jinnah international airport and the authorities seize you.
oh trust me, there are still plenty. depending on how you handle the spamming and stuff, I might even contribute the ones I find myself.
I'm not deaf (actually, one of my ears doesn't work, but hey...) but I understand completely what this guy says about feeling like he's missing out on everything - I moved to a France to work, and my French is... poor.

Everyone speaks English, but only to me. Figuring out what's going on at a high level is really difficult (me: "Where is everyone going?" them: "To the new office." me: "WTF? We have a new office?!") but worse is missing out on all the in-jokes and messin' around. I'm not saying it's the same thing as being deaf, but it turns out that stuff is pretty important.
I am wondering what the use case for this is.

I mean you want to destroy your computing equipment for 2 reasons.

1) Its end of life cycle. In this situation you have plenty of time to do what you want.

2) The enemy is upon you. In this situation you are very short on time.

For situation 2 I would have thought burning or blowing up the computers would be a better solution than trying to quickly unscrew the case. Find the cable. Find the hole to plug the cable in. Press the button. Move onto next hard drive / system.

For situation 1 I would have thought that destroying them another way would be just as effective. You would also have the advantage of not having self destructing hard drives in key systems which could malfunction / be exploited / triggered because someone pressed the red button to erase by mistake.

The only use case I can think of is hackers / pirates / terrorists. I could see them running a computer which has the red button ready to go and taped to the outside of the case to destroy evidence as soon as police try to kick down your front door.