laughinghan

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by laughinghan 15y ago
To rephrase what dazmax said: They're under no delusions they're not evil. They're saying, "there are a lot of evil people around, and yeah, we're one of them, but who cares? There are a lot of evil people around, and in terms of damage,
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by laughinghan 15y ago
I'm sure he agrees that algorithmic improvements are more effective than constant-factor improvements like optimizing the assembly code. I think he'd also agree that algorithmic improvements are also easier to make in higher-level languages
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by laughinghan 15y ago
Refocusing the picture after the fact isn't just about being able to focus "right" after the fact, so it's not fair to just compare with "focusing right the first time". With normal cameras, when you focus, you lose information, and it is s
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by laughinghan 15y ago
"The ad [for China] shows us exotic temples, mist-shrouded mountains, twangy music, adorable children. It's so effective that whenever I see it I have to get out my Tiananmen picture book and take a look at the picture of the Chinese pro-de
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by laughinghan 16y ago
Is risk of discovery really the only thing you're concerned about? Lying to your employer about anything seems like a compromise of ethics that isn't be justified by you getting more money.
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by laughinghan 16y ago
This is a great idea. The point is merely to provide an alternative to an explicit CAPTCHA that requires interaction like reCAPTCHA that doesn't cost less to try and break. That way, it's strictly more convenient to the user, if they use au
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by laughinghan 16y ago
Opera, of course, was at the forefront of Web Standards, even way back then. (Hakon Lie is the CTO of Opera Software.)
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by laughinghan 16y ago
Truly touching: http://www.quora.com/Parenting/Is-Amy-Chua-right-when-she-ex... Though all the Quora responses are worth reading.
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by laughinghan 16y ago
Of course it's not the only way, have you seen Google's homepage? Also, JScript is actually surprising good and is nothing like the DOM or CSS, AFAIK the only known bugs are Named Function Expressions being parsed as Function Declarations (
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by laughinghan 16y ago
In this case, absolutely jump in the deep end. Find a way to get RSS feeds, and a way to display them -- there's probably libraries for either, however you plan on doing them -- and try to process them in between. Start with something small
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by laughinghan 16y ago
What prior experience do you have? In general, I'd say jump right in: Dive Into Python http://diveintopython.org/ The best way to figure out how to make things is to make things. It's rewarding to be able to get stuff working from the get
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by laughinghan 16y ago
An even better sign would have been: <- Central *Intelligence* Artificial ->
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by laughinghan 16y ago
I imagine most kids find visually engaging things immediately interesting. The initial hook I used to get my sister interested in programming was the Raphael Playground: http://raphaeljs.com/playground.html I walked her through how to use
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by laughinghan 16y ago
Am I the first person to go "Woah! That's cool!" then look at the code and instantly go " WTF?! "? - Browser sniffing using `document.all` to test for IE - Browser sniffing at all! - Aborting `trace` rather than just removing it
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by laughinghan 16y ago
However, any attempt to get the password masking to work on the desktop would involve a script that almost surely will break on mobile.
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by laughinghan 16y ago
1) Nielsen's First Law of Web Usability: People spend most of their time on _other_ people's websites. This wouldn't save anybody any amount of time at all. 2) This is virtually impossible to implement, input textboxes are very not hack-fri
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JavaScript Keyboard Events Compatiblity Tables: More extensive than Quirksmode(unixpapa.com)
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