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Quite right, and a weakness of the original article is it doesn't make it clear how closely connected the "sales representatives" clamouring for repeat business were to the original IPO.

I'm intrigued by the possibility that an individual person closely connected with pricing the IPO might have expressed a view akin to: "we've got to set a sub-market price to ensure our institutional investors make a killing on the first day, because this stock will be in trouble once the hype dies down"

But still, that was over a decade ago, and I'm sure no investment banker would ever be so cynical today...
Well there is no Scaffolding section so it's hard to know what changed beside the aesthetic.
The original copy is better than your proposal: you get to the checkmate point, which is the essence of the captcha, at the very end.

The way it was originally laid out, it's clear that you are looking for checkmate in one, while in your copy it seems acceptable to click any black piece.
Probably not, but we are talking about the CAPTCHA itself :)

You raise a good point about making captchas that target your target audience in that they aren't really designed to keep out bots, but humans who wouldn't fit in. This looks very much like that sort of captcha.
VP8 went from (according to the MPEG-LA and its proponents) legally dangerous to a better option (at least legally) than H.264, covering more users and more usage scenarios (namely, not just non-commercial, but commercial too), and for free to users, to boot.

So yes, VP8 (and thus Google) won.
Even if pop culture seems to plant these expectations in the heads of children, that in itself is not a problem. Individuals can exercise their will power and act in contradiction of any expectations they're aware of.

The real problem is that children fear negative reactions from their peers and therefore abstain from many activities that would benefit them. Even boys are discouraged from doing anything remotely 'nerdy.' Most children are too scared to face the ridicule and ostracision that comes with embracing uncool activities. People will talk about you. I think it's particularly bad for girls.
If anyone is looking for a basic summary of "What's new", the best I found was their blog post about plans for v3:

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/12/10/bootstrap-3-plans/
You would do an online bruteforce? I think hundreds of moves in a few seconds kind of rule out a human...

Just implement your own check-mate check if going the brute-force route.
"The term "WikiData" seems to connote data of the tabular type"

There's a strong correspondence between "tabular data" (you probably mean relational) and triples (<predicate,X,Y>). Bot are based on the first-order predicate logic, so there's actually a natural mapping.
> If it was a single player game we wouldn't be having these issues... because it wouldn't need server capacity to play, which is nothing to do with DRM. It could still have always-on DRM.

Well, if the players still had to be connected to the servers (always-on) to play, maybe the same problems would arise even though the players wouldn't be interacting.

The strange aspect of this is that their infrastructure seems to be static. In this modern age of cloud computing, why not make the number of game servers elastic? That would bring safety to them and savings by reducing the number of idling servers when demand is low.
Same here, although Fine Artist was just important to me. Did all my homework in them when I just started primary school. Everyone else handwrote theirs :)
This will be effective as long as it isn't widespread, but there are much simpler CAPTCHAs you can use to avoid spam if you want to take the obscurity approach. For example, I've had great success with simple traps that just make it hard for automated programs to figure out the input form. That approach is completely invisible to human users.

But if you do go for obscurity, you're going to lose once your technique becomes widespread, or once your site becomes big enough to be worth targeting.
On the one hand, MPEG-LA appears to have "won", because they got Google to licence their patents. On the other hand, the license Google has acquired is incredibly broad: MPEG-LA usually seems to offer broad non-commercial / small income rights but reserves the right to charge considerably more for large scale commercial use of codecs that they regard as infringing patents in their pool. They've given up on receiving any of that income from future use of VP8.

Perhaps they regard VP8 as a dead codec, now that h.265 is on the horizon, so not worth the licensing effort?
Yes. I love that Consolas is included in Windows now. I always set my code text editors to use it when I'm on Windows, and try to get other folks to try it too. Such a pleasant fixed-width font to use when coding. It can also be used on the Mac.
The core being open source does not change the user experience though. Apple locked Safari as the default browser.
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In this context, I don't see how that's relevant. Whether IE was open source or not wasn't relevant to them bundling it with the OS to establish a dominant market position.
Contrary to you I actually provided a citation, you just refused to look at it. Or have you? So I am curious about your definition of "dubious uncited statistics". Do you believe my statistics are wrong, and what makes you think so (citations?)?.

The only thing that's dumb is arguing with a psycho. I guess we are done, unless you can provide any substantial arguments at all.
Meanwhile, in reality, everyone is using H.264. Seems like a lot of wasted effort to me.
How to fork the whole Android operating system's code?
the CLR is currently a place where great languages go to die

No, F# is completely supported by MS. And that's the problem with the alternative languages on the JVM. Decision makers are wary of anything that isn't officially supported by Oracle. There are other problems with languages like Scala and Clojure that have nothing to do with official support, but that's another story.

The mono story is an interesting one. At first people thought it would allow cheap deployments of ASP.NET on Linux servers, but it's really carved out a niche for itself on the linux desktop, in gaming (Unity, Sony's dev kits), and now mobile. What's funny is the JVM is completely irrelevant on mobile, compared to .NET/Mono. Just now Oracle is pulling their heads out of their asses and trying to get the JVM to work on iOS.
"The point of an anonymous function isn't to make it not have a name, but to be able to define it where it is needed instead of referring to some specific function name in your code."

Actually, its point is to make it a value that can be referenced from any number of bindings (associations between names and values) in any number of scopes. What you're saying is just a consequence of this.

"It also fits well with the way PHP handles "pointers", by storing the name of a variable in another variable."

Which only shows the deficiency, since any such indirect reference should never refer to a name, but to a binding instead.
> That isn't true. Consider photo filters: you may want to have a photo filter written in asm.js for maximum performance on browsers that support it, but degrades to a suboptimal, but usable, experience on browsers that don't support it. Likewise, consider an asm.js-compiled mobile game: you may want it to be playable on desktops too, whose browsers generally contain enough horsepower to run JS-compiled mobile games at full speed even without special support for asm.js.

You're competing with native, not with today's crappy JS webapps. "Just like native but slow!" is not a selling point to users that have a plethora of better performing, better integrated native applications to choose from.

You guys at Mozilla could just target NaCL/PNaCL, contribute asm.js as the second-tier means of pulling IE and Safari along with you, the whole industry moves past the disaster that is JS/DOM/CSS, and everyone is happier.

> Again, it's not worth forcing Web developers to compile multiple binaries, when the main difference here is how you parse the bytecode.

Again, it's ALL about users, not developers. Of course, it can be easy for developers too ...

cc -arch armv6 -arch armv7 -arch i386 -arch pnacl -c users_first.c -o users_first.o

... but at the end of the day, you have to stop thinking about the developers as your primary users if you want to produce a successful platform.

Developers matter -- but users are why we're all here. It's not as if Apple's users have been hurting because developers have to target multiple variants of ARM and learn a new programming language.

> PNaCl is starting out with the same disadvantage as asm.js, modulo surface syntax

That's not just surface syntax. As a tool maker, I spend an awful lot of time working on and with things that touch assembly/bytecode as "surface syntax". It matters, a lot, and JavaScript is a TERRIBLE bytecode syntax to have to deal with.

That said, it's also not the same disadvantage, because PNaCL implementations compile to native code; there's no fallback interpretation mechanism that exhibits the unusable performance profile of asm.js's fallback profile.

That said, I think asm.js would be a great second-tier target for PNaCL in the case that one wishes to target a backwards browser, regardless of how slow it is.
I hope they do nothing because all my little home automation hacks with twitter interface at home run on their 'secret' X-Auth credentials.
They are not better than any other human, but tend get more opportunities to make difference than normal grads, but they just shoe them away.
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"We have power to choose, the resources to create our own paths and the capability to shape our own destiny. There are people out there, who spend their whole lives living it not as they want to, but as they have to. We on the other hand, surf an open field, with an option to steer whichever way we want. But alas most of us take the easiest path. We don't realize we are meant to lead and not follow, to create not consume, to innovate not duplicate and lastly to be the cause of the change and not be an insignificant part of it."

This resonated with me. I took the liberty and made some kinda-minimalistic-style wallpapers for myself, if anyone interested, here they are: http://imgur.com/a/cXMf6
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Not an absurd idea. The problem is the company and money driven structure not the MPEG-LA per se. Replace it with a consortium that has a general interest in innovation and not money.
no, that piece of code that you contrived up is awful, not .NET's anonymous functions.
I am not a physicist, maybe one would elaborate on this, but it seems to be rather straightforward mathematics for a physicist to use (fancied-up calculus), and I don't know how a computer would help here at the level of development computers are today, my laymans impression is that the art here lied in choosing what to derive, not in the derivations themselves.
Are you referring to the addition of active nav states? The rest has been around for a while: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#labels-b...
It seems like this solution means that if you want to have your own domain, either you must be rich or the website must be profitable. You're basically saying that only the rich should have access to domain-branded blogs and other non-commercial sites, and everyone else can make do with subdomains like a blogspot or blogger website. I think raising fees would have consequences for well-intentioned users far beyond the effect it had on domain squatters.
eh? How about

()=>"foo"

?
Eh, the renderer is the most important part of a browser by far. It's where all of the user-facing innovation happens.
It's a remix of anti-Communism and the type of anxiety we used to feel about Japan's economic power.
I wrote the article, it's my current project. I'm sorry there wasn't much substance, it was a very quick post written on a train ride.

I could go into much more detail, but I think my biggest point was the necessity of moving towards a bottom-up approach. Text generation by itself is too advanced - it's like trying to teach a child physics before elementary science. There's root work to be programmed in first.

But thanks for your feedback!
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You brute force the username+password pair. As a bonus, you don't need to know the e-mail address, so you're automatically trying to break in to all the accounts in parallel.
Depends on market definition. It's around 50% of tablet sales in USA. And it was like 90% soon after start of iPad sales.
And this is the problem with cooperation. There is no "we in tech" between companies; it's a liability.
I'd say it's much worse (what Apple is doing), since there's no way to change the default browser.
This would be far better accomplished by simply adjusting working hours rather than adjusting the time zone offset.
Picking on the simplicity of my example completely misses the point.
Are GS losing business due to this constant negative press which they get?
The problem that we all face, especially when we're new is that of discovery. Until you reach a certain level of notoreity online, creating your own little sandbox doesn't make sense. I could create a little programming blog, host it myself and revel in the twelve hits per day, or start a coderwall account and start showing up in targeted searches right away. Is Coderwall taking advantage of me in order to sell job listings? No, there's an equal trade of exposure - at least to start.
Please don't! The original is better and gets the point accross faster than the suggested change.
> a sheet of mylar experiences a higher drag than a steel nut of the same weight.

Drag in space? At what altitude, more precisely, does the objects start to experiment drag or the lack of it therefore?
No - the network effect here is huge, and so is the cost of change.
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That doesn't add up, unless you're counting everyone with a trial version of fruity loops on their system as having a studio. But even then, I think it's a stretch (everyone I know who does any kind of music production has at least $1k in non-computer hardware.)

How exactly do you expect to get this to work with your existing tools? It's obviously not usefully MIDI-compatible.
Looking at the grid i noticed the 1-column divs change size. e.g. 41px - 42px - 41px - 42px - etc. When resizing in smaller displays it behaves different: 25 - 25 - 24 - 25 - 25 - 25- 24 - etc. Was this always the case in bootstrap? I don't really understand the reason for this. It seems odd.
In my experience all the windows sysadmins I've met were doing EVERYTHING by commandline. Either through netsh and so on or they memorized .MSC commands for opening a particular GUI and then use a keyshortcut to flip a switch or so. You can hardly see what's going on
Of course not. Up until recently I was an Android user myself. That's why I said "less relevant", rather than "completely irrelevant" (after all, it's not as if no iOS sync will kill firefox itself - but it's certainly another reason why I won't pick it).
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This needs updating then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
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Black plays; checkmate in one!

What can be more clear than this?

If anything, I'd prefer to have the king I'm supposed to checkmate standing on a red field to make it easier to spot.
This is very easy to crack due the 2D board, which is trivial to "OCR".

Now the concept is interesting: one could probably do the same in 3D (with random camera angles -- up to a limit) and then it would prove more problematic for AI because one would then need to be able to correctly pieces in 3D and their position on the board.
Yes, an afternoon of coding to be able to post spam on exactly one website. Until they change the captcha.
That's like saying someone claimed they didn't order something at a restaurant while the restaurant claimed they did. The person pays anyway and the restaurant is happy and they don't get in trouble. Did the person win? Google has claimed for a long time VP8 was clear of patents. This is them giving up.
Modal is still a disaster.
In particular I refer to the .com namespace which, after all, should be used for commercial purposes. We already have .name and so forth for personal sites. Given that .name presents the ultimate namespace collision factory we do come down to a scarcity problem though. Thoughts on how we can handle that?

Also: Note that I said we should argue about the value of $X. I did not at all imply that $X should be such that "only the rich" have access to the ability to purchase a domain. That said, people spend $1200 annually for cell phone service, which I think we can draw comparisons between and DNS. If a person pays $1200 a year for a number they can be reached at through the POTS, is it unreasonable to expect them to pay $X (which we still haven't defined, simply said should be higher than $10) to be reachable on the Internet?
Note: I've never used AWS.

Currently, I use Azure for my projects. Primary reasons are due to being a C# developer professionally, and it just made sense to use it. In Visual Studio, it is very easy to publish projects directly to Azure without ever actually logging into the Azure dashboard.

I can't comment on price comparisons, which are much different. But I'd say give Azure a try for free initially to demo it and see if it fits what you need.

One thing of note that I feel is not mentioned often when discussing these two options. If you are planning on using Azure's storage options, there will be a sort of "vendor-lock-in" involved with the code-base. I have great experiences with it, but both Azure and AWS have different approaches to how they handle storage options including the NoSQL choices such as Azure Table Storage.

Additionally, I have used Nodejs on Azure. I truly enjoyed it when using Azure Table Storage for my database. Overall publishing to Azure was pretty simple and required minimal setup effort. Let me know if you have any questions!
Yes, it would. But this one will never see wide adoption so it's sufficient.

If every forum had a completely different captcha system, forum spam would pretty much die out.
What do you mean "the contexts are different"? I mean, I know they feel different, which is partly why I tried to compare it to camping, where no one cares. I don't think I see how switching labels is "shallow" except that it's easy to think of, and even if all it brings to light is another inequality, it's worth keeping in mind.
I don't see how Apple's attitude here is any better than Microsoft's stand regarding browsers on Windows, a few years ago, and for which they got a huge fine in Europe. If anything, Apple's attitude ("The company prevents its users from making any other application the default browser") is worse.
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Note: change the url's "0001" to be "0002", "0003", "0004", etc.
I even see my email in there.
'Fun' should only really be considered after 1. security and 2. usability, and this CAPTCHA fails on 1. As soon as this CAPTCHA becomes widespread, spammers will have additional incentive to create bots that brute-force it, defeating the point.

Also I think you overestimate the amount of coding required to brute force this particular CAPTCHA.
I don't get why textual templates are so popular for generating HTML. Not only do they tend to have weird rules regarding whitespace and indentation but they also have no information about context when doing escaping (for example, just escaping special characters will not protect you if you add user content to an attribute and forget to add quotes since its easy to break out of the attribute with whitespace)

data-name=${foo}
data-name=Hello onmouseover=evilJavascript

Using a document-oriented templating language avoids most of these problems without needing to do HTML parsing to check things (and HTML parsing is complicated and full of corner cases - its much worse than XML). (The article says that this not expressive enough since you can't open a tag in a subtemplate and close it in another one but I think you can see that as a feature...)
No, a captcha is supposed to get rid of spam without annoying the users. If it gets rid of lichess.com's spam without annoying the users, then it is perfect.
I suspect that will be because the primary grid is now based on percentage values rather than fixed pixel values. When you're splitting a grid into columns using percentage widths, often the browser has to make a choice between rounding up or down to the closest pixel value for display.

The fluid grid has long been a part of Bootstrap, but until now has generally been secondary to the fixed 12-column grid, which used strict pixel values.
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Probably a "sovereign hacker" as non-sovereign-employed programmers are naturally aligned with the open values and creativity that github exists for.

As far as motive goes, if github can be electronically terrorized, laws to protect them and everyone from future electronic terrorism only make sense, right?

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Always do what you can to understand motive!
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Doesn't it depend on how much they paid? If the person paid for much less than the restaurant was asking and/or for less than a court case would cost, I'd say they won. And as long as the size of Google's MPEG-LA payment isn't visible in their next earnings report (remember the MPEG-LA was claiming hundreds of millions of willful infringements), I'd say Google won, too.
How? You can build only WebKit based browsers for iOS and only Safari can be the default. Also, the Javascript engine used by Safari is not available. All MS did was include IE as part of the OS. You can build browsers for Windows without any restrictions and any browser can be default.
Are you supposed to "click-drag" or "click the piece then the cell"? How about on iOS ?

My point is that, while the one-liner captures the idea of the captcha, the summary doesn't explain how to actually execute.
Ignore the feedback. Original copy is better.

It is interesting because you can't really A/B test the response time with the different text, since the response time includes the human processing time of the chess problem.
I think all of the above are of really marginal utility. I mean, todo's, maps, QR codes and media identification. Compared to the "you'll never get laid wearing these" it's a no brainer.

The most interesting parts (book, video) are not really applicable to the current (and next 10 years) capabilities of the display. And given the technology, maybe never.

We'd sooner have in-retina imaging that glass displays with the appropriate qualities.
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> F# actually have significant percentages of uptake because they're actually supported by Microsoft. Scala, Clojure, etc.... are just miniscule blips on the radar in comparison.

I think that's pretty much wrong.

Despite Microsoft shipping F# support in their main IDE, pretty much no one uses it. Can you name one popular library which switched from C# to F#?

Compare that to e. g. Scala: Huge amount of adoption compared to F#, despite _not_ shipping with any IDE by default. One of the most popular Java web frameworks switched from Java to Scala recently.

Even the F# “elite” is aware of it and complaining about how Scala has a a lot higher adoption (and a larger ecosystem and more developers, libraries, conferences, user groups, support, ...), so I'm a bit surprised by your statement.