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Why aren’t there more high quality mobile web apps that have the look, feel, and performance of their native counterparts? I don’t think the reason is a technical one. Granted, some apps must be native: OpenGL-based games, for example, or apps that access hardware capabilities that are not yet exposed to the browser (a shrinking list); but I don’t buy the argument that native SDKs allow you to create interfaces that are inherently better, smoother, more dynamic — or more delightful — than what is possible via HTML5. Some lessons we’ve learned about making web apps work well on mobile devices.
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The web platform has advanced out of all recognition, and continues to evolve at a frankly bewildering pace (I’m paid to keep track of all this stuff, and if I take a fortnight’s holiday I scramble to get back on top of it). Four years ago, if you wanted to access your device’s GPS information, you pretty much had to use a native app; now, the W3C Geolocation API is available in all browsers, on most classes of devices. The advancement of what the press likes to call “HTML5″ (but mostly isn’t just HTML5) is closing the gap between the capabilities of native and web. But it isn’t there yet. You can do a lot with web technology. What more would you like it to do?
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Unicode is supported everywhere, but font support for Unicode characters is sparse. When you use any slightly uncommon character, you have no guarantee someone else will be able to see it.... So what characters can you count on nearly everyone being able to see? To answer this question, I looked at the characters in the intersection of several common fonts: Verdana, Georgia, Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New, and Droid Sans. My thought was that this would make a very conservative set of characters. I U+2764 Unicode (most of the time).
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Have a plan to steal millions from banks and their customers but can't write a line of code? Want to get rich quick off advertising click fraud but "quick" doesn't include time to learn how to do it? No problem. Everything you need to start a life of cybercrime is just a few clicks (and many more dollars) away. Malware is big business. And now it's going retail.
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Back in the fall of 1994, Bill Clinton was nearly midway through his first term, Ace of Base was at the top of the charts, and the Web was in its infancy. Businesses were just waking up to the power of the Internet as a commercial platform. In California, the staff at Hotwired — the Internet offshoot of Wired — contemplated how exactly to pay the writers it hired. The idea arrived to create a dozen sections that would carry “banner” advertising. This wasn’t entirely original. Early Web service Prodigy had used similar methods, although it placed its banners at the bottom of the screen. (This led to the first ad blocker; a piece of plastic affixed to the bottom of monitors to obscure the dreaded advertising.) Other 1994 notables: Tonya Harding, OJ Simpson, Boyz II Men and Ebola Zaire.
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The problem is that Wordpress allows unlimited amount of login attempts on the admin account. There is a plugin to remedy this, but it really should be built-in to the core.
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Clickety[^] [The New Yorker]
Intelligence analysts said that the announcement gave rare insight into the inner workings of North Korea’s missile program, which until last year had been running on Windows 95.
/ravi
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I wouldn't have wanted to be the helpdesk person trying to translate swipe in from the left into Korean.
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I do. I was trying to start the newsday with a subtle spot of levity.
/ravi
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So... the whole thing was a google advertising stunt?
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Where stawt button?
How stawt war with no stawt button?
Where my F%^&in pworgwam?
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Ron Anders wrote: How stawt war with no stawt button?
You are using the peace edition of Windows.
Wait... Windows has always to be tamed -.-
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To be a good coder in Silicon Valley is to be among the pampered elite. You get fat paychecks, people bring you free gourmet food, drivers shuttle you around town. Coders here are really treated much like talented entertainers would be down south in Hollywood. It’s a thought not lost on Altay Guvench, a coder himself who has become one of the first agents for software developers. Don’t groan. It was only a matter of time. Never work with children or animals, and make sure you get a piece of the merchandising.
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We're not developers, we're an "agency".
I'm not a consultant, I'm a "developer agent", or should we say "agency agent"?
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What's in a string? That depends on who you ask, apparently; a lesson that Fedora recently learned when it unexpectedly ran into a problem with the release name for the upcoming Fedora 19, "Schrödinger's Cat"—and all of the unusual characters contained within. Typographic oddities might seem like a trivial reason to upend the distribution release process, but a validation tool in the bug reporting system objected to the name, so Fedora developers found themselves asking whether it was more practical to stop and fix all of the utilities, or to change the release name itself. We cannot tell whether the cat is UTF-8 or not.
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Ha! We are in 2013 now, and Linux still can't handle that?
More than a decade ago, I tried to backup some files with non-pure ASCII characters from a Linux file system to a CD - and the names were broken. Well, somewhere on the web I found the information that it was not a bug, just a difference in the character sets of the file systems... Oh great! And now, more than a decadce later, Linux does still händle poor ASCII characters only.
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Quote: Peter Robinson proposed the project go right for the goal and choose "DROP table *;".
If they're going for broke, shouldn't it be something like: sudo rm /*
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Alice and Bob are crossword enthusiasts. Every morning they rush to complete the Daily Telegraph cryptic crossword. One morning Alice finishes the crossword and telephones Bob to gloat. Bob challenges her by asking for the solution to 21D as proof that she's completed the entire thing.... So Alice's dictionary procedure is a 'one way function': it's easy to go from a word to another in one direction, but very hard to do so in the opposite. Such one way functions are widespread in computer security. Computers are faster and do this with math, but the principle is the same.
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That's a great link we should give to all those people asking how to "decrypt" passwords.
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Notice Alice and Bob don't rush to complete Dalek Dave's CCC in the lounge every weekday....
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