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> So many times when speaking to employers/product owners about progressive enhancement of JavaScript components, the answer I get back is along the lines of "we don't care about that" or "we don't have the time"

Stop talking. Start doing instead. Employers and product owners are hiring you for your skills, so use them. Don't ask permission to follow best practice, just do. You are more than a code monkey.

Do your employers really not care if a third party outside of their control decide to do something to affect the availability of their site?

Do your employers control, audit and manage every single byte that gets delivered as part of their website? For those they don't completely and accurately manage and control, how do they absolutely ensure that every byte that needs to be delivered arrives correctly and is interpreted correctly in their users browser? How do they remove the risk of all those server hops between their web server and the customer's browser? How do they control that?

The Web cannot be controlled or managed in this way. There are simply too many factors outside of a website owners control that affect how their site is perceived by customers. Without pragmatic approaches it's either an all-or-completely-broken situation, or when a site is built properly with progressive enhancement, a slight degradation of usability that customers don't really notice - because the core experience just works.

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/making-software/progressiv...

Want a good data point? How about a couple that decided rather vocally that progressive enhancement is dead. $100,000 spent on a bootstrapped application, and then this astonishing comment: http://unicornfree.com/2013/why-we-shut-down-charm-on-the-ev... -- read the third paragraph of that comment.

Sometimes, it's an expensive lesson to learn.
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translation implies "other language". instead of still defining the page as being english, why not trying to define the page's language to the language the customer (allegedly) translated into?

in your case, non-translated "Account" and "Password" texts in a french corpus are most probably much much more common than a wrongly-translated french "Connexion" in an english corpus...

that said, i do not know if chrome is really considering the language or not, but i certainly would hope so. :)
Thank you so much. Much appreciated. We will be more than happy to provide additional information or even access to the server if needed.
touche, I didn't mean it in that way by any means. I should have used different wording, you're right.
The problem with something like Akka Microkernel is that you get multiple megajars for different actors, living in the same JVM, with conflicts in the libraries in the separate megajars.
This is the frustrating thing about facebook. They often have bugs that make things suddenly become public, or settings for visibility of new posts all of a sudden reset to 'all friends' or public. G+ handles this kind of stuff far better.

I really wish there was an auto-delete items older than X months. Most of the value of facebook goes away after a month, anything older than that is usually negative history digging and stalking by others.
My response was a little more workplace-unfriendly, but I like yours.
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Exactly my though. ;) I was thinking recently whether I shouldn't go back to have my phone invoices and bank monthly reports to be delivered by snail instead of email, like in those old times. ;-)
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My Chromium-using coworker is jealous of my (Firefox's) 3D View and my Responsive Design View. I use both browsers in order to have access to all the best tools.

(I keep development separate from regular browsing, either through Incognito or separate Firefox profiles. This way, my regular browser addons don't distort my view of how-my-website-looks-to-most-people, and Firebug speed becomes irrelevant.)
"But all the other kids are doing it, mom!"
I thought Opera Next is just a beta for testing the renderer. I don't think they consider it the new version of Opera yet, as it doesn't come up as a new version. I'm sure they wouldn't be so stupid to remove all the nice new features they've recently added and that their loyal following rely on.
ok, but he needs some country's ok first.
I'd go further and say it's misguided. I'd like to think that a single account's submissions can be thought of as a "channel", as on YouTube.
The people who download fonts from torrents know what they're doing. If it was trivial to copy fonts off of web pages, people would routinely violate H+FJ's license without even realizing it; H+FJ would be in the unpleasant position of having to police the Internet and educating all those people who'd be surprised to hear that the one piece of markup / technology they can't crib from another site is the font, but only if it's an H+FJ font, and...
Snowden himself made a similar claim minus the clearance part:

"My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked,” he told the Post on June 12. “That is why I accepted that position about three months ago.”

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1268209/exclusive...

Of course, this is trusting that the South China Morning Post is faithfully reporting what he said in the interview.
I don't understand your comment. What would be the problem with someone admitting publicly that they've been to 4chan?
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On Firefox OS, I can use JavaScript, or the languages that compile down to JavaScript (CoffeeScript, TypeScript or Dart, for instance).

On Android, I can use Java, C, C++, C# (via Xamarin), JavaScript, or the languages that compile down to JavaScript.

Yet somehow Android "is a much worse platform in terms of language choice"?
I just followed that link in Chrome Version 27.0.1453.116 and did encounter a phishing warning.
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I can somewhat think of this for people with a lot of real estate. You don't necessarily want your bills and stuff sent to the rental house, and if you have a lot of properties it might be better to aggregate rather than to send them all to your permanent residence.
This is hard to define in quantifiable terms, but you don't want a country that's besties with the US, or too heavily dependent on them, because they'll be too willing to jump through hoops to avoid making them angry.

But you also don't want a country that is enemies or has strained relations with the US - they're very likely to take advantage of you/snowden for their own gain. Or arrest you and torture you for the information you have.

You want a country where they like the US, have normal diplomatic relations, but don't necessarily want to seem like a puppet of the americans. They should have a strong belief in protecting individual freedoms.

Also, when you try to get asylum/protection in a country like Brazil or Ecuador or Iceland, etc. - no one can stand up and say, "He's helping our enemies".
Actually, I'm extremely pro-psychedelics. I'm familiar with the book, and have had to deal with plenty of close friends and family that read it and then go spouting off nonsense. While I'm not against documenting "experiments" as subjective experiences (ala Erowid), drawing out any further conclusions is counter-productive.

Strassman, for instance, "documents" things like "Hey, the pineal gland is usually visible around 49-days into a fetus's development. And hey, the Tibetan Book of the Dead says 49 days is how long reincarnation takes!" This kind of mystical tripe is unscientific and reinforces the stereotype that psychedelic users are illogical, new-age hippies.

I feel this way about a lot of "drug" researchers. In their zeal, they lack rigour, and they do the community a disservice. A lot of the LSD proponents of decades passed also fall into this category. I get it, psychedelics are awesome, and can be very beneficial. But just cause you tripped really hard, no, you don't suddenly understand the universe.
Was there no resistance to the first organ transplants ? I bet many people weren't willing to allow it or even benefit from it.
I assumed the terrorists and child rapist were "grandfathered in" and the extradition treaty change didn't apply to people already in the country. But you are probably right and Hollande would not extradite Snowden. Sarkozy would have sent him back, though.
The basic American cultural value is equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome, or predestination by social class. At least in theory, the American Dream means your success is the result of hard work and talent, not your birth or social class. And to a fair extent, this works - our current president is the mixed-race child of a teenage single mother, who grew up in obscurity and near-poverty. Barack Obama is the embodiment of the American Dream. Many of our political, business, and cultural leaders are entirely self-made.

So the modern failures of American society are the failures to provide equality of opportunity. Three stand out in particular for me - substandard primary education, crushing debt for secondary education, and a health care system that traps people into working for large corporations rather than small businesses or entrepreneurship.
I have a good bit of information about neurology, and that's exactly what my intuition draws from. I am extremely thankful I don't have the attitude you're endorsing.
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Anybody know which 15 countries?
And then you have the reverse happen, putting bad reviews on your account linking to competitors.
I cannot see the relevance of conditions in Russia to Snowden's decision that conditions in the United States need to be fixed.

Every country in the world could be far worse, without releasing the US from its principled goal of fostering a new birth of freedom through a government of the people, by the people, for the people.
The parallella + john the ripper google SoC project sounds neat:

http://www.parallella.org/2013/06/12/google-summer-of-code-p...

I have an old 65k+ passwd file that I have always wanted to get to 100% cracked paaswords (purely for sentimental reasons.) Unfortunately I bet that implementing DES is not a huge priority.
Challenge is not about having frustrating input devices.

People want to play a challenging shooter, but nobody goes out to get the worst mouse they can in order to make it extra challenging.
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Even as an adult, when I'm really focused on something my right leg gets a mind of its own and just starts bouncing up and down rapidly. Maybe there's an evolutionary purpose to it (increasing blood circulation perhaps), but I've always found that when I force myself to be perfectly still I just don't focus as well.
You're talking about memory leaks as though they were a subjective thing (because nobody accused Chrome of having leaks, it doesn't). They are not. Objectively, both Gecko and WebKit have leaks, as a search through the bug trackers of both projects will confirm. (IMO, Gecko's approach to dealing with leaks -- a cycle collector -- is a superior approach to WebKit's more ad-hoc approach.)
Ironically, I use unroll.me which arguably works like your last sentence - while it's saves me only "a few seconds", it still saves me from having to stare at the less-important mail when passively looking at my inbox.

Also, it's more than a few seconds depending on your situation. You have to walk to a central mailbox for many newer suburbs. A rarer scenario, when I lived in Tahoe I had to drive down the mountain I lived to a P.O.Box - usually just to throw junk mail in the trash.
Do you think that it is Snowden who is hurting USA or the actions USA (NSA/CIA/etc) has taken and tried to hide?
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Where is that documented? 'cause that's a pretty big claim.
I am informed about the genetically modified food controversy. And even though I'm sure there are transatlantic issues about which I am indeed uninformed, you may have to accept that our differences have little to do with lack of information. We seem to be ascribing different importance to some of the same facts.
I found it frustrating to play with a touchpad. I often accidentally started a click-drag or highlight instead of clicking a button.

It would probably be ok with a mouse instead.
And the endless waves of mechanical keyboard, headphone and new computer part threads on /g/.
So you install a motherboard into a processor?
It does remap functions as needed however - avoiding damaged areas.
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The latest variations of this put the transparent JPG in the source code, then load in the image via JS with a lower Z layer. Now you move from "View Source", to "Developer Extension, watch assets, copy initial URL, paste, save".
why do you think the armies around the world have to threaten recruits with corporal punishment, prison, and even execution when they don't follow orders?
Except that this isn't a bug. The user asked for the content to be deleted. For it to become public, they must have used a "delete" flag or something similar. The point is they didn't actually delete the content, rather just flag it as deleted.
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I didn't know about that function syntax. Does it work just like the arrow function syntax?

[1,2,3,4].map(x => x * x) // [1,4,9,16]

I wonder why they included two new shorter function syntax alternatives. Is one of them recommended/deprecated?
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As someone who has moved around a lot this is a great service. Setup one address for all postal mail and no matter where I am I can get access to it. When I move the address stays the same - I can easily update my email address its sending to if need be.

Being able to search my archive of mail would also save me a bunch of time though I can imagine I would be deleting the majority of it.

I'd prefer it if the service was based outside of the US.
Well in Manning's case the reason is what Manning did to get in trouble in the first place, not about what he did afterwards.

Indiscriminate dumping of classified data that you didn't look at, to opponents of your government, is pretty much on page 1 of "Compendium of Spies".

What the public got out of his leak was that a) war sucks and b) diplomats are not pure as the driven snow. Both of which the public knew, and have known, and will pretty much always know.

What AQ, TTP, Taliban and other extremist groups got is detailed ground-level descriptions of how the Army operated against them, what informants they used, and much much more. As an intelligence analyst himself, Manning would be in an exception position to understand just how useful those documents would be in their hands, and if we are charitable somehow still judged that the gain to the enemy was somehow still less than the gain to the public.

And this is why Snowden was so careful to note in his initial interviews that he took specific things from the NSA instead of just copying what he could.
If your site functions in Lynx, then your site will be crawlable by webspiders. I check that a site is functional that way before I publish it.
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People have had just about all major organs south of the brain replaced individually by either machines or biological transplants. (Can anyone identify one that hasn't?) And I don't think anyone's ever seriously claimed that such people have had their identity changed in any meaningful sense. Unless you have a very complicated hypothesis about multiple organs in the abdomen effecting personality in a weird redundant way--where losing one of them doesn't change your identity but loosing many does--the evidence is overwhelming that everything we think of as "identity" is in the brain.
It'd be quite interesting if he flew there with the President of Venezuela on his way back from Russia.
I'm going to re-post my comment from the previous thread because I think it applies even more now. How did they get $5 million in funding? What is their business plan? I would really like to know.

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1. Collect mail door-to-door

2. Scan each page of mail, including envelopes

3. Post scans online

4. Return requested physical mail

5. Charge $4.99 for this service

6. ...

7. Profit?

Looking at their job postings, they have one person per city managing a team of people working probably close to minimum wage going door-to-door. These people most likely scan mail at their homes using a scanner provided by Outbox.

Let's say they pay a City Manager $100,000, or $125,000 after taxes, unemployment insurance, and benefits. An individual can take on 30 customers, is paid above minimum wage (let's say $15 after taxes, etc.), and works 7 hours a day (or 35 hours/week, making them part-time employees). That's roughly $30,000 per worker annually.

At $4.99 per month, none of the economics work. At 30 customers per part-time employee, the break even point is $100 per month per customer. At $4.99 per month each PTE needs to handle around 600 customers each to break even. 100 customers per PTE at $30/month also breaks even. But even 100 per PTE seems unrealistic.

Unless I'm missing something very basic, it just doesn't scale at $4.99 per month. At all. It's not even close.
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>>The brain has zero software it's 100% hardware.

I'm not sure if we can say this with any level of certainty. If anything, the nature vs. nurture dichotomy could translate directly to hardware vs. software. What nature gives you is hardware, and what you learn is software.
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His father also is very worried about the association with WikiLeaks; and rightfully so, as far as public opinion is concerned.
I grew up (in Ireland) with single-sex schooling until age 12-3 (primary) and mixed secondary. That has its own potential pitfalls (eg bullying, more playground fights) but I think there are benefits too. Also, in primary school it's the same teacher all day for a full year (or two) at a time, which makes it a lot easier for the teacher to know each pupil and manage the classroom appropriately.

I'm unsure why American schools are so tied to the lementary/ middle/ high model. It doesn't confer any particular benefit that I can see.
>> What 6 or 7 year old can possibly sit still and study for 5 or 6 hours each day?

> The ones society wants to succeed in school.

So, the malleable, obedient ones should succeed. I'm sure that will be convenient for someone.
I would pay for simply having a poster of this. Would love to inspire my kids with it.
You're not the only one who's amazed by the overlap between Glass, the NSA leaks.

I'll add another datapoint: the new MS XB One is also another intelligence services wet dream, and is yet another fascinating but creepy product.

Why are all the new hot products giant spying devices? For my part I'd be much more thrilled with the concept of Glass if it did NOT have a camera. I want an assistant, not an overseer.
This is not my experience at all.

I have noticed an increase in the number of ads but also not anywhere near what the author demonstrates.

I have to ask though, how many connections does he have through his Facebook account? And how many of those connections are 'good' (active) users of the site?

I can see why his page would be all ads if the connections he has on the website aren't producing any content...? In which case, sorry... I don't think this is Facebook's problem.
It is to their advantage after they get his data to (1) keep the US from finding out what they got from him, and (2) keeping him from giving that data to others.
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What is the point of generating this value on the client? The second scenario you describe seems to work the same, minus the need to generate values on the client, with the same outcome.
There are plenty of crazy doctors out there who make nutzo claims not backed up by evidence in their field. One neuroscientist chosen at random is probably reasonable and competent, but a neuroscientist chosen conditional on publishing an astounding claim that isn't shared by any of his colleagues is almost certain to be cray.
Of course various hormones change personality traits, and many of those are governed or heeded below the neck. Trivially, testosterone.
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