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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
First I've heard of unexec() -- while it sounds like a good thing to be rid of, I'd be quite interested to read about its design and perhaps past implementation challenges. Anyone aware of a good tech article on it?
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
Under what language / toolkit? Folks are pointing out counterexamples below and I could name a few myself, but I'm curious where you're coming from :-)
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
Bear in mind that this was written in 1981, at the beginning of a decade that saw enormous progress for Pascal, rendering most of "some guy"'s objections invalid. ANSI C only happened towards the end of that decade. I think
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
> The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker is able to log on to a target system and run a specially crafted application. That reads to me like "RCE if you have RCE". Which I guess
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
> In many ways ES2015 is starting to look alot like other modern programming languages - that's a good thing. That depends on how you view Javascript. If you consider it a programming language, the growing-up is a good thing. Makin
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
+1. I knew what I was going to see before I clicked on your image, not because I browse a lot on mobile, but because I use a tiling WM with my browser at ~50% width, or around 900px. That's enough to get most "responsive" we
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The growing assault on our democratic rights [Australia](smh.com.au)
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
> Is there REALLY a difference between a "method," a "procedure," and a "function" proper? The context you are speaking in entirely determines the answer to this question. Your context reminds me of "
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
Not sure where you're quoting from, but January 2011 is the oldest entry in the fossil repository: http://runtimelegend.com/rep/lforms/timeline
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
It also hijacks what seems to be every other single keystroke . None of F11, ctrl-W, ctrl-L, alt-D, ctrl-plus, ctrl-minus work. At least on Firefox. Chromium seems to respect the user a little more.
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
They killed usenet off good by providing a reasonable interface that encouraged people to link to it .. then destabilising the URLs. I've seen wiki links to google groups that have been changed 3 or 4 times before people simply gave u
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
> for fear of looking bourgeoisie Nice characterisation, I might re-use that. Surely somebody has done a study of this effect. In web and software design it's particularly hilarious (in an I-want-to-cry way) since so much good sens
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
I've become convinced that gmail's goal is not to improve email, but to extinguish and replace it. This article talks about one minor aspect of that. In addition: * breaking established addressing conventions. Gmail (last time
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
Love it. Well said. This trend of design fashions negatively impacting usability has become so blatantly visible across the web (and apps, and desktop interfaces) during this century that I've become quite curious what psychological&#
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
> Per the Zen of Python, “there should be one– and preferably only one– obvious way to do it”. This is an aspirational message. "aspirational" is an optimistic way to describe it. As the article illustrates, every ~2 years the
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
In clickable form: http://wiki.tcl-lang.org/ (also https://tcl.wiki/ ) https://tcl-lang.org/ http://core.tcl-lang.org/
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
Plenty. I'd hazard that's how most medical science has come to be. If you're on this site and haven't already been strongly reccommended to read Oliver Sacks, do so. Broader than neuroscience, look for memoirs of Bri
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
For a much deeper exploration of this kind of dynamic object behaviour in Tcl, Sean Woods' "Lifecycle Object Generators" is a fun read: http://www.tclcommunityassociation.org/wub/proceedings/Proce...
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
Tenants are not tenets.
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
Doesn't (over-applied) machine learning just lead towards a variation of exactly the same problem? Instead of "this model fits the curve and sounds attractive and sciencey" it becomes "this model fits the curve and was d
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by qewrffewqwfqew 11y ago
A version that has been end-of-lifed and is superseded by three minor releases is a pretty strong indication. The amount of work involved in backporting patches is likely to be significantly more than migrating to a supported version which
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by qewrffewqwfqew 12y ago
One might have thought the OP highlighted the inherent problems in making assumptions about the meaning of meta-keys for all of your users, all around the world . But of course the OP continued to make the same mistake, which I pointed out
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by qewrffewqwfqew 12y ago
The problem is that the decision is left up to the website. But I see I'm in the minority here, thinking software should be predictable and leave the user a sense of control, so feel free to disregard my opinion.
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by qewrffewqwfqew 12y ago
Would you be so dismissive if the overridden key were Ctrl-W?
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by qewrffewqwfqew 12y ago
> It should be mostly transparent to the user that they are in a browser. Even if the browser is providing your entire desktop experience, you should be able to switch applications or close them in a predictable way.
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by qewrffewqwfqew 12y ago
So make it opt-in, and highly visible to the user when it happens. I get a nag screen when videos in the browser go full screen, telling me loud and clear that expected behaviour is changing and telling me how to get control back . When a
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by qewrffewqwfqew 12y ago
.. another relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1479/
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by qewrffewqwfqew 12y ago
Yet another example of why websites shouldn't be able to hijack keys that have meaning outside them (in the browser itself, or in the desktop environment). It still blows my mind that browsers permit this and don't provide an eas
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by qewrffewqwfqew 12y ago
In principle, the NSA is bound by US law. The problem is that US law is broken.
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by qewrffewqwfqew 12y ago
of all the software that can benefit from being on the web, this has to take the cake.

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