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by jtheory 12y ago
Yup -- I was taking intro & mid-level CS courses in 1996/7, and they set us up to code in Java (with an IDE called Roaster) as the "wave of the future", and easier to work with than C or C++ (though we used C for some cla
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by jtheory 12y ago
Update on IE support -- for the moment it seems to support IE 11 only.
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Cool, kudos to you for being so responsive! I see several threads with a similar resolution here.
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> Are you seriously saying it's OK to throw rocks at cows? There's a lot of space between "OK" and "take the boy's eye out with a rock", which is what I'm arguing is the wrong punishment. (No, it&
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by jtheory 12y ago
This looks great. The two deal-breakers for me at the moment are the missing i18n, and support for older browsers (which I realize is increasingly rare these days, but unfortunately our webapp needs to support IE6+ for the time being. Yes
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Eh, read between the lines here. That's written specifically to seem confusing & crazy. It's not. Two families split up because one partner from each formed a single new couple. That's all that happened. It's onl
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by jtheory 12y ago
Ugh. You don't even know the age of the boy, or if he even intended the cow's eye to be hit (maybe he was just throwing a rock to see it jump?), and you're ready to judge that punishment as well-deserved? It's all hyp
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by jtheory 12y ago
Right -- this is one of the few cases where I'd rather see a link to a blog post (providing some analysis of the raw data) rather than just the link to the data. Government-IP updates can be either completely innocuous (someone's
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by jtheory 12y ago
Charging 1 euro is practical (so they don't have to be giving out a ton of change during the day...), but it sounds like they should have made sure they were offering something that didn't look too cheap -- e.g., get decent qualit
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The problem with stereotypes is step 2; what you do with it. How many of us are habitually making decisions based on large masses of people, rather than individuals? We almost all deal with individuals, one after another (sometimes in smal
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by jtheory 12y ago
I knew all from both lists, oddly with about the same level of certainty -- e.g., each list had 1-2 words I've probably never spoken before, and am fuzzy about the definition (decoupage I recognize as French more than English, and don&
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by jtheory 12y ago
But they do counter with real-looking non-words, and you're penalized heavily for claiming to "know" one of the non-words, so that helps the accuracy of the test. You can take the test on the site to try it -- here are some o
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by jtheory 12y ago
Eh. Only if you want the price of that Fisher-Price VR viewer to jump from $20 (plastic housing and a couple of lenses/magnets) to $500.
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by jtheory 12y ago
Sure; but there's a world of difference between communicating with a webapp that claims to protect your privacy even from the NSA (but actually cannot) vs. "any regular application", which makes no such security claims, and f
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Quite right. If they were compelled -- e.g., "insert this backdoor or we'll imprison you" -- they might trivially serve up a tweaked version of their JavaScript to the one user the NSA was interested in. And it wouldn&#x27
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These kinds of frameworks will be quite useful, when mature. Though -- they're of course tackling a problem that gets harder the deeper you get into it, and has already been tried a few times, never with really great success. Java&#x27
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We use this most often to connect to a development environment which is running locally anyway, but you can achieve the same effect (without opening ports to the general internet!) with port forwarding over SSH; then you just connect to &qu
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by jtheory 12y ago
Hey, next Friday is Google's "make the world a better place" day... would you be interested in coming with me and (name) to give mini-talks at a few schools? -- I guess you'd have a tougher time if you actually call it &
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by jtheory 12y ago
This is why the rule of "wash your hands before you eat" is more crucial than "wash your hands after using the toilet" -- adhering to both rules is preferable, but only the first protects you from the people who don&#x27
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by jtheory 12y ago
If that were the only factor, then the diseases of the Americans would likewise have wiped out the arriving Europeans. The Europeans had much more hard-core diseases because of a mix of factors (including animal domestication), but the chie
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by jtheory 12y ago
It will help to frame it carefully in your own experience, and in the context of "what's the best way to test", not "here's what will happen" as if you were omniscient. Quoting from peteforde's response ab
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by jtheory 12y ago
This is a vague discussion that stays at a high level... I'm not sure how valuable this kind of generalization is. The "programmer" side of this discussion certainly does not always have a grasp of the needs of the business
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by jtheory 12y ago
This question seems to be impressively bad at generating discussion. I have no recollection at all, I'm afraid; I only know it was about 6 years ago because my profile tells me so.
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by jtheory 12y ago
> or because they expect users to be able to enter the password in via a telephone keypad, which vastly reduces the number of possible combinations since every number substitutes for 3-4 letters (also bad). Not so much as you may assume.
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by jtheory 12y ago
I've been curious about how to track down scammers -- just a few days ago I got a quite convincing call supposedly from Bank of America; they appreciate my reliable payments and would like to lower my interest rate... they'd just
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A sign of how nonsensical it is -- here's their fix: > Junior bankers who keep lighting up red, and the people who manage them, typically get a call from Urwin to find out what they are working on and if the hours are justified. If
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by jtheory 12y ago
> But sometimes you piss off the HN bees nest, and downvotes come streaming in. Reminds me of Reddit. No, just look at your comment. You quote the OP saying it was a boneheaded move to do X. Then you use feigned surprise ('cause r
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by jtheory 12y ago
Yes; upvoting just puts the better comments nearer to the top. Downvoting the fluff comments (with the minimal "effort" of a click while you read past) actually greys them out, which both discourages people from posting fluff in
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by jtheory 12y ago
The author mentions quite a few times how he/she ignored lots of problems, from the very beginning -- the CEO was far too full of buzzwords, etc.. This was also apparently a product that could gather a complicated mass of data that wou
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by jtheory 12y ago
But that loses the whole point of doing it on HN. This idea is somewhat cool in that if there were a few people who interested me, I could scan their comment history (or might recognize the username) to get a sense of their style of interac

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