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>> Did you even use Netscape in the 90's? While most of the non tech loved it's bloated and "friendly" interface, the tech crowd I ran in used IE because it was lean, fast and didn't try to be some sort of "suite" that took over your PC.

Apparently, You never participated in the IE4/Nashville beta.
Shortly before Windows 98 took the world by storm, Microsoft unleashed a new Beta of Internet Explorer for all the people who drank the kool-aid of Dynamic HTML that was being marketed at the time. One of the "features" of the Nashville beta was the HTML-ifying of the desktop and file manager. Now, everyone that's used Windows since knows that you can right-click on the desktop, and hide desktop icons. This was considered a feature in the Nashville beta, because it gave more screen real estate to .htm files you could create for every folder, including Desktop. Before uninstalling the (crashy) beta, I spent a good 2 days with all sorts of spinning .GIF files on my desktop thinking I was the coolest person ever. Eventually, I realized my PC was performing at approximately half it's normal speed, exhibiting symtoms such as Explorer taking 45 seconds (I benchmarked) to render C:\WINDOWS\system32 with HTML, and did a full Win95 reinstall in order to remove the tendrils Nashville inserted.

I'd say IE4 was when it "started sucking", myself.
In my case, my father was intellectually absent and my mother convinced me that programming was too blue-collar. Her father had owned his own heating company and raised his kids to despise anything remotely blue-collar. My grandmother had been his administrative person, and we were raised thinking that being CPAs, lawyers, etc were 'respectable' jobs. Engineering was 'acceptable', if not 'respectable'; ironically we were discouraged from pursuing it because it would "take a lot of math" (wouldn't becoming a CPA require a lot of math also?). And we weren't allowed to take anything apart because "that would void the warranty!" (heaven forbid!). On the upshot, my mother is now an academic adviser and because I've chewed her out so many times about this subject, she advises all of her students to take every math class they can and she has no heartache recommending someone follow a blue-collar path, if that's what the student's interested in.
I did a test at work. For a simple loop body, a for loop is much faster than .each. The reason is that function call is an expensive operation in Javascript.
Creating on mobile is on our agenda for the next week.
In the meantime, have a look at the result page for mobiles please: http://www.snapbugz.com/p/88a7a69a
Your relationship with the future
Show HN: Firesub – Reusable checklists for teams [MVP]
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Bullshit. Most people doesn't know a shit about electronics and they are surrounded with electronic equipment. And this is an example, there are a lot of things I don't know almost anything about them and I can successfully operate with them.
Ah Knoppix. I remember how blown away I was when I first ran the Live CD; at that time I had no idea it was even possible. It's a shame that it faded from popularity once Ubuntu came along.
Building a Business Around a Webapp? Not so fast.
And they still dominate because money still dominates what we do. We run after the money (= have power over the others), not after what creates sense in our lives. This is probably the most central value and problem in our culture. When that will be gone, life will be worth so much more.
I agree that we need to sound the alarm.

December 2013, North Atlantic Ocean between Florida, Bermuda, and the Eastern Caribbean: nearly devoid of sea birds and fish; plastic garbage common.

January 2014, Coastal Everglades of Florida: silent. No birdsong. None.

February 2014, Florida Bay and the Keys: enough lobster pots that you could walk from Cape Sable to Key West without getting your shoes wet. This is absolutely not a sustainable fishery--this is an unmitigated rape of the planet for the almighty dollar, even inside the supposedly protected waters of the marine sanctuary.
FDIC is backed by the full faith and credit of the US government. This makes the holdings of the fund itself irrelevant -- if BofA fails, Congress will make the depositors whole with Treasuries.
Teaching kids the specifics of some content management system seems as daft to me as focusing on MS Office.
That's a great story. Thank you for sharing!
Give the system time to work. It's already been taken off hold.
Android is a Linux-based OS. You can use an AOSP-derived distribution as a hackable Linux. Nearly every hosting service provides Linux. Linux is in your TV, STB, and car (maybe in the form of Android).

How many YC ventures' server software are running on a hosted Linux system? How many of their endpoints are running on Android? Was the toolchain Linux-based?
I am not a type 3 engineer myself but I too believe it's a matter of mindset. So what you want to do is to help them change their mindset. I have read 2 really, really interesting books on that matter. The first is called 'Mindset' by Carol Dweck and the second one is 'Talent Code' by Daniel Coyle. They are so valuable I believe that from now on we will see a blossoming of talents in the western world never seen before due to such books addressing mindset problems. I hope you take the time to look into them. They will give you hints and advice on how to spark the growth mindset in other people.
Google's robot.txt #inception
Does anyone have a mobile friendly mirror? The site isn't readable on iOS 7 Safari.
She does have to understand what's involved in the curriculum though. And claiming that teachers can learn to program in a day shows that she doesn't have that.
Heck, their professional gear would be a big business on its own, never mind music, tv, and movies.
As an oper of a small IRC network, I agree with this blog post.

Not that i've really ever used quakenet myself.
I actually think that makes the games more fun. Especially so when you have a larger game so that there are people on those tiles.

For me, it makes the game feel less "solvable" by basic analysis. Sure, statistically certain observations will hold. For the game you are in, though, you have to be ready to adjust your strategy based on what has happened. (Clearly not in anticipation of future rolls, but more based on the resources you have managed to get, not the ones you wanted.)
Unfortunately, not every place in the world allows no-questions-asked returns like in the US. Even at an intl' chain store like Walmart (where I bought it.)
Disagree. You can learn all you need to know in a day to get "hooked".

As stated elsewhere,

10 print "Hello!"
20 goto 10

Then just variations on that theme, lookup other functions etc.

We don't need schools to teach programming either. Anyone who is interested in it can learn it themselves easily.

My son just made his decisions for GCSE options. He decided against doing IT, because they just play around with spreadsheets. He's learning to code at home, by himself, writing games and apps for his phone. That's the way to do it IMHO...

At school, you're going to be in a class where 50% couldn't care less about programming, and the rest will just slow you down. Self teaching is much better.
My dad paid for school and told me I was on my own after. I switched majors from Art History to Computer Science. So yes.

Not kidding. Glad I did.
GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving's problems are fixed in the newest GHC which just had it's first RC a few days ago. It introduces a "roles" system which tracks which types are allowed to use GND without breaking abstraction boundaries. Roles are mostly invisible to end users as well.
Big hat tip!

I feel that to do apps are all very lacking in this respect, the reusable aspect.
>My point is that those problems aren't any harder. They're just different.

Not really. The problems are made a lot harder by finite memory being more in play. Even with a good tool-chain when you actually have more data then you have RAM then you'll run into problems that are completely unique to an embedded world.

Code shrinks are very hard.
Suggestions to solve a problem on Linux often are written on a similar level, it's just that »click here, then here« gets replaced by »edit this part of that config file and then run this series of arcane invocations«. Oftentimes you can just copy/paste from some forum and won't learn anything from it.
Hi, I'm the creator of Firesub.

Hopfully you like the idea.
I'm very happy to answer any feedback you guys have.
I've been subscribed to it for some time and while it didn't cure my HN addiction, it lowered it a bit, and it also helps me find interesting articles I missed during "more work, less procrastination" periods. I just want to say, thank you for your work!
The creation part of snapbugz is just not ready for mobile/touch usage as UX patterns on the annotation part are different. However, the result / collaboration part is already finished: http://www.snapbugz.com/p/88a7a69a
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Beside bought me a computer, they did nothing. I found my fascination of computer science by tinkering myself.
Best seller rank: #1,268,721

How many books are there in total?
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Thanks, I do to.
Also I belive checklists in companies and teams are under used. There is a lot of great To Do apps out there but nothing specially design for reuse within teams and organizations.
The Ryanair one is particularly apt.
Trying to shut down IRC on the internet feels a bit like the government is running around attempting to cut telephone wires in the hopes it'll get enemy agents to stop communicating, when all it'll really do is annoy a bunch of innocent bystanders.
Sadly todays employer won't hire a coder from UK. He will hire an app-developer from Romania and pay them 20% of your salary per hour.
Has Double Helix done anything really good? Last time I heard they tried to remake Killer Instinct into a cheap cash in where you have to pay to buy characters.
Yes, but not deliberately. It was the 80's. Gadgets abounded. I'd dismantle things to see how they worked, and would then have to rapidly re-assemble them upon hearing the crunch of tyres on gravel, as otherwise a hiding would ensue. Turns out time-pressured strip-downs and assemblies of pretty much every appliance in the house begat something of a mechanical aptitude. I remember asking for a C64 for christmas, and being heartbroken when I was given a Sega Master System instead... and then trading the Sega for my godfather's C64, much to my parents' chagrin.

I then spent most of my teen years being yelled at for spending time in front of computers, and having unsaved work vanished by plugs being pulled from walls, etc., and having books yanked from under my nose for being "antisocial".

Twenty years on, they still want to know when I plan on getting a "real job" and becoming a banker/accountant/journalist/dinosaur.
This may be slightly off-topic (apologies), but what I worry about regarding this scheme are the people/companies who will be brought in to get schools up to speed. Call me cynical if you must, but I think, inevitably, they will be 'IT consultants' that maybe know a bit of SQL, but are otherwise shysters. (That's my impression of the IT consultancy sector in the UK, at least. I'd love to be proven wrong!)

Most of the current generation of software engineers taught themselves in the beginning. Or, at least, had enough curiosity and initiative to investigate on their own volition and/or put themselves in knowledge's way (e.g., set themselves up for computer science degrees, etc.) Consultants however are invariably from the world of social engineering, where they get by and succeed through excessive self-confidence and, if you're lucky, they may have picked up a technical anecdote here-or-there.

I certainly agree with the sentiment of teaching/introducing proper computer science and/or software engineering to kids, but I can't help but feel that, as a government project, it'll be botched by the lowest bidder or brownest nose.
To what end would the GCHQ DDoS IRC servers? What would they gain from that?
Ack... now I'm torn over going and watching Time Bandits again or watching Bitcoin drama.
Sorry, I meant they're not even being broadcasted. It's all inside gox.
>she's navigating it through the corridors of power and dealing with all the vested interests for and against it.

Yes, but she doesn't seem to know what "it" is.
Joke on you. I don't have smartphone, car, STB and TV. Maybe I do but there are 7 billion people in the world.
My mum was a maths teacher and had been around computers since she had a job punching paper tape in the 1950s. I started programming on a programmable calculator, and we got a BBC micro later.
According to the leaked documents, denial of the targeted users to communicate with each other.
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We're kind of blessed here in the UK, consumer rights is one area where we haven't yet been thrown under the bus. Distance selling regulations for stuff bought online mean companies are obliged to take products back within 7 days of customer receipt no questions asked. This law exists solely to alleviate the "buyers remorse" problem. This doesn't apply to brick and mortar though.

Did you not play with it in shop?
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The simple fact of the matter is, Google were the first company to ship production hardware or software that used HTML5 EME, and what's more it was incredibly locked down. Their HTML5 EME implementation only plays back on approved Chromebook hardware from official suppliers that's locked down from the hardware up to prevent users from running any unauthorized applications on the system. Turning off the restriction on unauthorized code also disables the decryption module. It's thanks to Google that soon there'll be 100% standards compliant HTML5 sites that can only be legally viewed on locked-down, single purpose web browsing machines from approved manufacturers.
The trouble is there is almost no profit at all in TV's these days (and for most of the last decade too). It is too prestigious and therefore competitive as there is still the impression that it is the key part of becoming a major consumer electronics player (I think it is probably wrong these days and mobile phone/tablets may be more important). Differentiation of TVs is hard because features appeal to niche's of the total market and basic picture quality is now good on most products and MOST people can't recognise a good picture if they see it.

Sony has also suffered badly along with Panasonic from the strength of the Yen. A great deal of the cost base is still in Japan even when manufacture is outsourced into local markets which destroys any real possibilities of profit.

I don't know what the effect of making the TV arm it's own subsidiary will be, (it may be mostly to allow profits to be shown in the rest of electronics), but I really don't know what the best thing to do with it would be. I'm not sure it makes commercial sense to make TV's in its own terms but it is doubtful whether Sony could sustain franchised retail chains without TVs so it may affect the total business if they withdrew completely. It would also be a shame as the products are good and there are many good people there but I just can't see a future of long term profitability.

Ex Sony TV Product Planner/Biz Dev (Europe)
While the most recognizable Lenovo is the ThinkPad line, which is a very capable but very dated looking machine, I recently worked on an IdeaPad U430 (I work in computer repair), and was surprised by how nice that machine was. It's build quality and style really reminded me of my MacBook air.

So it seems like while the rugged and durable machines are where Lenovo is still getting most of their money, that design was inherited from IBM, while Lenovo is trying to focus on new machines with style and finish.
KDE 1.0 did have Konqueror/KTHML built-in, so maybe this was the example the grandparent was looking for.
The book is available in hardcover only so it's not the most expensive e-book ...

Bit I guess when you're serious about nuclear energy, 7500$ is probably relatively cheap ;-)
Love the "As not yet soon on:" logos at the bottom which tweets to those publications about Snapbugz. Great marketing hack.
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Darpa projects source code
I think I read that you just have to disable a condition somewhere and build your own base image or something like that.
Head First Design Patterns is good for novices.
May well be related to the perennial verizon / cogent peering flap- we got bit by this over the summer:

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/20/verizon-that-peering-flap-about...
It also says 3 volumes, so it is 3 books.
This is a great, great article. It gives you insight and makes you realize how intelligent he really is. Compared to Steve Jobs, I would bet Gates' IQ is a full 10-15 points higher. However, what Jobs lacked in intelligence he more than made up for with charisma and ability to relate to people. Highly enjoyable read.
They laid off most of their staff, are being sued for $75million and have millions seized by the feds for running an unlicensed exchange, and coinlab still has $5million from the failed partnership. Scam is incoming, Gox should've sold itself to somebody competent over 2yrs ago
A picture of the garbage patch would look like any other picture of the open ocean. Many of these problems are not visible to the naked eye.
The real gold is always in the reviews section of an item like this.
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https://gist.github.com/paraboul/8844618
- No political affiliation

Disqualified right there. If you don't care about politics, why should you get appointed to a political office?
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Actually my main OS is Arch Linux and i only use windows at work.

While now I rarely run into driver issues that are very serious i still needed to replace my Wifi card on my laptop to be able to run it in monitor mode about 1 year ago.

So no Linux still has driver issues with certain hardware. Granted this is a bad example since it's quite a technical requirement and it's not Linux's fault but the manufacturers however Linux driver coverage is not as vast as windows nor do products come with a CD containing drivers for Linux so if it doesn't work regular users aren't going to care why.

Their going to blame the OS.
Admittedly, we already tend to take the number planning a bit out of the game by initially turning them on the other side and you can only reveal the numbers to hexes you have built at (for the inital round of placing settlements/streets they are revealed after everyone has placed both). Makes for a nice variant where exploration holds surprises, or you can expand to hexes that are already known.
a lot. really a lot.
I didn't even get that far. My company's firewall blocked it altogether.
"Even if she is Tory".

Oh dear.
https://www.goremit.jp/exchange/en

Keep your existing bank account, get an account with these guys (it requires a paper application the first time, nothing thereafter unless your situation materially changes), go to any bank/atm in Japan and do an interbank transfer (振込み) to the number they give you. They'll process an international wire for you on the back end to the beneficiary account you identify in advance. Costs about as much as a wire transfer generally costs (about $50 all-in to US, after you add your bank's fee, Lloyd's, the intermediary's, and your bank in the US).

If you're primarily concerned about a beneficiary which isn't the US/UK/etc, tell me the country and I may be able to make a better recommendation.
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I don't know if the price is hidden to me because I'm in the UK, but that one is apparently only available in hardback.

This one, however... http://www.amazon.com/International-Encyclopedia-Social-Beha...

$16,315.96 on Kindle.
That interview is kind of embarrassing, but I think the fact that she can't code and has committed to learning along with others is perfectly fine. The tweets comparing learning to layout an HTML website in an hour to learning complex algorithms in an hour is ridiculous - I learned to make a website in an hour! Crappy, crappy, CRAPPY website but a website nonetheless!
Should everyone learn to code? Thoughts in a tweet
My dad was a science teacher, so I grew up with a mix of science knowledge thrown into my everyday existence ... including him demonstrating some of the experiments he'd do in class for me at home. In terms of IT, I've still got a vivid memory of him bringing my sister and I out to the garage where he popped open the trunk to reveal the new Apple II GS ... Woz Signature Edition. I suppose both of those influences factored into my degree in computer science, and the path I'm on today.
Early in my life, not directly, but they did support me learning anything. Whatever I wanted to learn about, they taught me if they knew it, or learned with me if they didn't. Later on (in my teens) when I was narrowing in on technology, they gave some gentle nudges towards engineering because of the good long-term life prospects. But when I went through a phase in HS where I thought maybe I wanted to be a journalist, they never pushed back and said "no no, engineering is better".

I think they were less concerned with career choice for me (or my sister) than they were with making sure we came out good people able to make our way in the world, by whatever means made sense. They did stress that sometimes any work will suck, but always choose something I find interesting, becuase I'll spend a third of my life working, and why choose to be unhappy all that time?
Sure, there is more to "programming" than "coding", but there is also more to racing than driving and we still call F1 drivers "drivers". And there are very valid programmers who call it "coding".
And it has been consistently expensive.
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Re: Physical dice. I've gamed a lot over the years, and I don't believe I played with anyone anyone for whom swapping out dice had anything to do with actually effecting randomness/probability, but rather was just a fun way to wish for better luck. And, even then, that move "toward" luck or "away" from bad luck was always tongue-in-cheek.

Yet...we still swapped the dice. :)
What's happening isn't that the canvas is being told "load this image, find some Javascript in it, and execute that", which would make your comment make sense. Instead, it's just being used as a means of getting the PNG bytes and turning them into a string of characters, which gets passed to a callback that's passed into the loadPNGData function.

As far as I can tell, it's more than anything a means of smuggling exploit code past antivirus &c., and into the browser -- presumably nothing is looking for Javascript source hidden in a PNG file, and there's nothing to say it couldn't be obfuscated further.

On the other hand, being able to strip the code out of the image and execute it requires being able to execute Javascript code on the target browser already, so I'm really not sure what benefit the technique has for the attacker; if you can get your target to run your script loader, you can probably just get your target to run your script.