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by jtheory 14y ago
This is worth talking about, but this post is a description of the problem and nothing more. Where do we go from here? Just "get involved in protecting/fixing the internet", generally? At the moment my involvement in practice seems to be mo
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by jtheory 14y ago
That's what we're doing at PatientsKnowBest.com -- patient-centered medical records where the patient can decide who can see their records, and revoke access if they want. No one can revoke the patient's access. Putting the patient at the
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by jtheory 14y ago
Not everyone can choose their browser -- either because they're still running Windows 98 and can't afford a new computer, or (more likely) because they're part of a large organization that can't afford to upgrade due to huge past investment
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by jtheory 14y ago
It's incredibly useful, if you need functionality that's not yet supported in the range of browsers that people use. I'm pretty sure I can't handle MIDI and audio input, do pitch detection, show animations synched with generated audio, etc.
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by jtheory 14y ago
Well, but the recent fix to Java was to force the user to click through a prompt from the Java plugin itself; so once the user tells Firefox that yes, I want this dangerous content to run, they get another warning about dangerous content fr
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by jtheory 14y ago
Most of this is beyond me; but I have a domain name originally for a translation site that could be useful to someone looking to solve these problems (depending on approach) -- scatterlang.com. Let me know if anyone's interested.
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by jtheory 14y ago
The trade-off is supposed to be that you can't always get a last-minute room at the Four Seasons when you book it for "tonight" -- sometimes they'll be sufficiently full that they won't have sold that block to HotelTonight, and instead of
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by jtheory 14y ago
A decent number of game educational sites, including mine: http://eMusicTheory.com -- in a small Java applet, I can process MIDI and audio input, assemble digital audio on-the-fly for output (or use MIDI, but they stopped bundling the sou
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by jtheory 14y ago
It's not impossible there'd be something interesting there... but Java is a more likely attack vector simply because part of its normal functionality is to execute code downloaded from the internet. Before this recent patch, that code wou
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by jtheory 14y ago
Ahem: "...using the CymaScope instrument". Though I do notice that crucial bit was dropped in the headline... I can't add much more about what they're doing; I can't bring myself to read about God's vibrations of the universe etc..
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by jtheory 14y ago
There's a big gap between "not flawless" and "my eyes are bleeding" or "I can't make this stuff up". Also: "should" != "is", I'm afraid.
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by jtheory 14y ago
That's pretty much what demeaning means, though. It's not "a single skill" as if you were telling Torvalds that his juggling skills were crap and he should keep his day job; if someone has enough coding experience that they're releasing OSS
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by jtheory 14y ago
That "stat" surprised me as well -- small dogs @ 10 years and large ones at 17? Uh, no. Great danes and Irish wolfhounds (and other big breeds as well, AFAIK) only average something sad like 7 years, whereas those little yappy toy poodles
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by jtheory 14y ago
People just don't work that way; at least, I don't. Who reads code without thinking of the author? When I'm derailed by a bug in some library I'm depending on, or see code that works in a way I find unintuitive, clunky, etc., I absolutely
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by jtheory 14y ago
Personally, I think he should add some one-star reviews -- nothing so serious as an ex-girlfriend please, but something perhaps from a drive-by troll, or someone who's clearly mixing him up with a completely different product, or someone
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by jtheory 14y ago
Not impossible, but also most sensible people won't think "some people on YouTube seem to think this works, so I'll do that" any more than they'll go to Yahoo Answers to find out the proper approach... there's just so much obvious foolishne
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There's this little dog that lives next door to me who is always ready to bark at any one (dog or person) that passes, even if they're far bigger than he is. Wow, that little guy has such a pair he can hardly walk! Of course, if he weren't
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by jtheory 14y ago
No kidding -- I checked his twitter stream to see what this looked like, and stopped scrolling after a few pages of nothing but apologies. Sucks to make these kinds of mistakes; I've been thoughtlessly cruel before in my life (though never
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by jtheory 14y ago
That's sensible, as this would be part of your permanent (online) record, of course. Still, you should at least mention what city you're in/near (presumably in the US?), and if you'd be willing to relocate - if that's even a possibility, at
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by jtheory 14y ago
Thanks; I agree totally with that. The important thing is that this can be really misleading: > And holding back criticisms now really does a disservice later in life. Holding back criticism isn't the problem; their limited understandi
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by jtheory 14y ago
If she clicks yes to all popups, then Java is a risk to her even with all security bugs patched, because I can request permission to get out of the sandbox with a signed applet, and if she approves I can do whatever I like with her comput
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by jtheory 14y ago
To be clear -- neither of these vulnerabilities is likely to cause much damage in the wild for anyone who has installed the new version. Applets don't run anymore unless you explicitly click through to authorize them. If you aren't expectin
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by jtheory 14y ago
If you're particularly paranoid about security, you may want to avoid importing 3rd party JS files into pages displaying sensitive information... which means you either have to manage your own analytics service entirely, or make server-side
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by jtheory 14y ago
Case in point, the founder of the startup I work for. Mohammad was trained as a physician, but has had a long-standing interest in software (and has even some experience coding, though we don't let him touch it nowadays). http://www.patien
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Here's the line that makes me really uneasy about what you're saying: > It is better for long term growth if kids are humbled at an earlier age You don't humble a kid. That's not an action any person needs to take, ever. Instead, yo
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by jtheory 14y ago
I remember MAX! The music theory drills that eventually ended up as Java applets on eMusicTheory.com started (a few of them, anyway) as MAX applications, in '95/'96. I helped a music professor develop some of those, then (because we wante
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by jtheory 14y ago
It's different, though in both cases their being new matters to the feedback you can give. A 50-year-old just starting out as a developer has already established to themselves that they can survive in the world as an adult; they have a hist
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by jtheory 14y ago
There's a nasty illogic to this sequence, but I see it all the time. A. "The world isn't all gold stars" (a.k.a. "it's a dog-eat-dog world out there", or "there are a lot of hardasses out there", etc.), THEREFORE B. I'm personally not goi
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> [Postgres] just handles the pretty display for you It's rather more than that, though I don't have the time to kill digging into it now. And personally I mostly seem to end up doing more complicated date processing in code, not querie
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by jtheory 14y ago
I think hellbanning is a useful solution for his posts; for now he is not posting content that adds to the discussions, but he is compelled to post what he does, so it's fine with me for him to post as hellbanned -- enough people keep showd

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