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by nhebb 11y ago
Can confirm. It's happened to us with Amazon one click. My wife stepped away from the computer and within a few minutes my then 3 year-old had ordered a game. The situation will be comical when kids can order directly via Google search
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by nhebb 11y ago
> I wrote this post is to provide a cautionary tale to other open-membership organizations who are considering using Slack I hope for their sake, The Odin Project ( http://www.theodinproject.com ) heeds this advice. They recent
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by nhebb 11y ago
For anyone interested in anecdotes about boorish leaders, "What Would Machiavelli Do?" is a fun read: http://www.amazon.com/What-Would-Machiavelli-Justify-Meannes...
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by nhebb 11y ago
You should read George Orwell's piece "What is Fascism?" [1]. It's a short essay worth the read before you're tempted to point the finger and call someone or something fascist. [1] http://orwell.ru&#x2F
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by nhebb 11y ago
One of the assignments I enjoyed the most was the "bomb lab". The bomb is a C program (w/ some Assembly required) that you have to defuse at certain phases in order for it to run to completion. It felt like a game more than a
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by nhebb 11y ago
Then detractors would just say that Windows is a stale joke.
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by nhebb 12y ago
I've been getting a lot of the IRS and the "This is Windows calling" calls recently. I usually tell them to fuck off, but once in a while I will string them along. I figure my best revenge is to waste their time so they can&#
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by nhebb 12y ago
Maybe I'm being myopic as far as the definition of firmware. I've never heard of a firmware update for a car, but if it's not happening already, it'll probably be part of the regularly scheduled maintenance in the future
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by nhebb 12y ago
I think the downvoters are missing my point. By definition, firmware is read-only software, so I was asking sure what (potentially modifiable) software the EFF is referring to.
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by nhebb 12y ago
Do cars actually run much software? I would think that most of the computing was done via firmware.
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by nhebb 12y ago
I've noticed this trick only works if I'm using Chrome. In Firefox (my default browser), the article content is still blocked.
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by nhebb 12y ago
I don't think we need to worry about STEM being over-pushed. STEM degrees are self filtering. Math, engineering, and science are hard, and getting kids interested at science at a young age can motivate them only so far. Many will enrol
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by nhebb 12y ago
In the article I didn't see what type of ultrasound they are using. I don't know a great deal about ultrasound, but I do know that there is a difference between diagnostic (imaging) and therapeutic ultrasound systems. It's li
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by nhebb 12y ago
They changed the default search provider from Google to Yahoo in the US, Yandex in Russia, and Baidu in China. (I believe only new installs were affected by this change.) The word "dramatic" is a bit over the top, but the changes
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by nhebb 12y ago
It sounds like Lars Bak needs to write a book on VM design.
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by nhebb 12y ago
> morale code The yubitsume(†) will continue until morale improves. † finger cutting
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by nhebb 12y ago
> For example, the FBI discovered that several Internet protocol (IP) addresses associated with known North Korean infrastructure communicated with IP addresses that were hardcoded into the data deletion malware used in this attack. The
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by nhebb 12y ago
So a Results-Only Work Environment works because it focuses on results. Got it. That may work fine for programmers, but when knowledge worker theory meets the reality of a mass workforce, you're resorting to a circular argument. The GP
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by nhebb 12y ago
How would that apply to the woman in the article, Ahlem Saifi? She works at the airport and at a market. A Results-Only Work Environment might work for some knowledge workers, but I don't think it would apply to the majority of the wor
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by nhebb 12y ago
I've seen two variants of parallax - parallax scrolling (which is fine) and parallax videos that play behind text. When you're trying to read text, having a moving image behind the text makes it harder to read. It looks cool, but
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by nhebb 12y ago
OT: The moving image behind text that visitors are trying to read is the worst design trend since carousels (aka sliders).
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by nhebb 12y ago
From the FAQ - item 3 (emphasis added): "All applicants should be authorized to work in the USA. This includes citizens of the USA "
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by nhebb 12y ago
As a NoScript user I understand your point, but if screen readers can't handle dynamically generated content then they will need to evolve along with the rest of the web.
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by nhebb 12y ago
When I maximized and then restored, it put the section in a popup window and removed it from the original layout. I would have expected restore to dock the section back in the original layout as before.
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by nhebb 12y ago
I guess older sites can drop the NOYDIR meta tag. A few weeks ago i noticed my site still has the NOODP tag. I have to think that Google doesn't even bother with that anymore.
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by nhebb 12y ago
The CARDIAC was my first introduction to computing. This is a cool little project, but while nostalgia may cast a warm glow, the truth is that most of my class found the CARDIAC to be mind-numbingly boring. I was thankful when we moved on t
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by nhebb 12y ago
Microsoft also pushed VBScript in the browser. They've finally dropped support for it in IE 11: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/dn384057%28v=vs.8...
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by nhebb 12y ago
That's an extreme example, but really traveling anywhere before modern transportation was slow. I remember from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography that it took him two weeks just to travel from Boston to Philadelphia. And IIRC, he
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by nhebb 12y ago
Most likely the professor is pulling together whatever information she can with the resources she has. Can you imagine how big of a ground effort it would take to collect the information you described?
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by nhebb 12y ago
Napoleon actually wasn't that short: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Napoleon...

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