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WikiLeaks claims court victory against Visa.
Apparently, this means Wikileaks can receive payments, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you can send payments to WikiLeaks. In effect, that means they have only won half the battle so far. And they still have the other payment methods to consider (Mastercard, PayPal, Bank of America, and Western Union). Still, this sets a positive precedence.
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I've been programming for over 30 years from machines that seem puny today (Z80 and 6502 based) to the latest kit using languages that range from BASIC, assembly language, C, C++ through Tcl, Perl, Lisp, ML, occam to arc, Ruby, Go and more. The following is a list of things I've learnt. A zero-based list, naturally.
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If you’re a front-end developer mostly focused on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, then you’re probably always on the look out for ways to be more productive. In this post we’ll share some tools and other resources for front-end developers that you might find useful to include in your workflow. 16 ways to make coding the web easier.
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Who needs JavaScript? The expanding capabilities of HTML and CSS make it easier than ever to create rich user experiences for the Web. Mark Pilgrim captures this in Dive into HTML5 when he advises, "Scripting is here to stay, but should be avoided where more convenient declarative markup can be used." Today, declarative markup can be used to accomplish more than ever. Show the Mozilla crew what you can do with no JavaScript.
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It is as if, back in 2009 and early 2010, the memo went out: use Silverlight for everything. Then, later in 2010, the memo went out: use HTML for everything; but too late for the current generation of server admin products. Welcome to the framework of the month club.
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At first you were frustrated a lot, and far less productive. Your browser history was essentially a full index to the online Vim documentation; your Nano and Pico-using friends thought you were insane; your Emacs using friends begged you to change your mind; you paid actual money for a laminated copy of a Vim cheat sheet for easy reference. Even after weeks of training, you still kept reaching for your mouse out of habit, then stopped with the realization that you'll have to hit the web yet again to learn the proper way to perform some mundane task that you never even had to think about before.... Editing source code alone now seemed an insufficient usage of Vim...
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When you submit your app into the Store, there will no doubt be other apps in your category that will compete for people’s attention. Being able to crisply showcase the differentiation points in your offerings and staying focused on delivering the core scenarios that you are best at are crucial to a successful Metro style app that will stand out from the crowd. You gotta have a gimmick!
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good one
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Yes, laptops are doomed – tablets will replace them over the next few years – of that I have little doubt. Desktops aren’t entirely doomed – at least for gamers, CAD users, people doing graphics work, and other scenarios where cost-effective high-end hardware is required. But even today few people have only a desktop. Most people have a desktop and laptop – and in the near future I expect they’ll have a desktop and tablet instead. ...until the neural implants.
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Oh please. These morons who think they can predict the future based on a recent fad of people buying tablets.
I remember when I would eagerly wait for new posts in The Insider, back when the posts were about actual technology not about what a bunch of people on the internet are predicting for the future. I'm just not going to bother with this part of CP anymore.
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Thanks for the input, Lloyd.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Funny how all those "the PC is dead" articles are written on PCs
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Recently, Ars Technica reported about a leak by “D33ds Company” of more than 450.000 plain-text accounts from a Yahoo service, which is suspected to be Yahoo Voice. Since all the accounts are in plain-text, anyone with an account present in the leak which also has the same password on other sites (e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc), should assume that someone has accessed their account. I gathered some quick statistics on the passwords. Plain service. Plain text. Plain passwords. I'm seeing a trend...
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Plain Text Passwords ==
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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Today's chips contain about 100 kilometers of copper wiring, so the potential for errors is huge. And if one of these wires doesn't work because of a mistake in one layer—something that's impossible to detect until the chip is completed and tested—the chip has to be tossed out. Tiny mistakes carry a big price tag: defects at a rate of one per billion lead to a 25 percent drop in yield. CPU performance benefits from better transistors, but also less copper wiring within the chips.
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I always thought the idea of physically smuggling data was absurd. Even physically transporting data seemed silly to me because if you have broadband you can simply upload or download it.... Two things changed my mind about why physically transporting data is interesting. Maybe Johnny Mnemonic wasn’t so absurd after all.
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The only way to completely wash your hands of a piece of software you’ve written is to change employers, and sometimes even that doesn’t work. Code won't go gentle into that good night.
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Just don't write code that you'll be ashamed of later.
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That's like saying "to climb Mount Everest, you just don't stop walking uphill". It's true inasmuch as everyone can easily nod and agree, but it doesn't actually say anything about climbing Mount Everest.
There should be a word for that. Thruthism?
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Q: How do I get to Carnegie Hall?
A: Practice, practice, practice.
(I haven't read the article yet.)
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With all the hubbub that's been made about Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), we're sure many of you have questions you're dying to have answered. Jelly Bean still looks and behaves a lot like Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). There have been a few visual tweaks here and there, but most of the changes are taking place beneath the surface and won't affect much that you are aware of. If an OS ships without any devices to run it, does it still need a review?
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The inventor of object-orientation, co-designer of Smalltalk, and UI luminary opines on programming, browsers, objects, the illusion of patterns, and how Socrates could still make it to heaven. The lack of interest, the disdain for history is what makes computing not-quite-a-field.
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What makes the web beautiful is precisely that there are multiple browsers and, if you build things correctly, your sites and applications work in them all. They might not necessarily work exactly the same in them all, but they should still be able to work. There is absolutely nothing preventing you from using new features in your web applications, that’s what progressive enhancement is all about. The constant drumming of “Internet Explorer X is the new Internet Explorer 6″ is getting very old.
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