RadioactiveMan

Great to know, but I wonder "how on Earth is anyone supposed to know they can do that?"

I thought Modern PHP by Josh Lockhart, also the author of PHP the Right Way, was a helpful overview.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033868.do

What makes it a design failure if it is so popular?

I came here to include a picture of the kakoune.org problem, but since you already have one I'll include a (hilariously?) similar picture of your tweet.

http://i.imgur.com/zUYt7V9.jpg

On the subject of kak, I tried it a few months ago and thought it was really impressed by it but didn't stick with it long enough to decide if it would be better than vim for me.

Similarly, an adorable image placeholder service (so you can choose the most appropriate images for your project).

http://placekitten.com/

A sentiment echoed by Federal Appeals Court judge Alex Kozinski[1].

"If we as a society want to carry out executions, we should be willing to face the fact that the state is committing a horrendous brutality on our behalf."

[1] http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-na-nn-arizona-executio...

A fun quirk of colour names in HTML: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-thi...

I don't think it applies to CSS, just 'bgcolor' and the like.

It looks like you can commit code to the game by pointing it at a GitHub repository or other methods[1]. I couldn't find documentation on the GitHub integration but here's some people talking about it[2].

[1] http://support.screeps.com/hc/en-us/articles/203022512-Commi...

[2] http://support.screeps.com/hc/communities/public/questions/2...

I really enjoyed it. It was pretty fun to see everyone else's submissions and read their comments. I also like the command-line interface. No GUI or web garbage to muck with to fetch or submit exercises.

If you're working with multiple symbols, such as (), {}, and [], you'd want to use a stack. Closing a child ( before its parent { would be an error.

Consider looking at the Glance app. I enjoyed my Pebble to start with, but it became far more useful with Glance. I can now reply to text messages from a list of options I created on my phone. I filled the list with the messages I send the most: "ok", "yes", "no", "on my way".

I really like deciding if messages are worth my time without having to dig out my phone and I really like being able to send quick messages without fiddling about with unlocking and on-screen keyboards.

These could interest you: Odroid-C1[1] with 1GB RAM for $35 or U3[2] with 2GB for $69

[1]http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code... [2]http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code...

Slide 6 lists staff, including S Jobs and S Wozniak. That leads me to believe it is Apple, though I have no idea if they were involved in other companies.

Could you elaborate? In what I've learned (in the past few minutes) it looks like it hasn't has POSIX compatibility since an optional subsystem up to Windows 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#POSIX_for_Windows

How do you mean? It does stay in sync with the current time.

I'd like to share my favourite timezone lookup tool: http://xkcd.com/now

I really don't feel that way about my Android smartphone. Mobile operating systems are an experience as far from the console experience of freedom as one can get. This looks like exactly the device that I'd like to carry around with me and I think I've finally found that project to use my spare Raspberry Pi for.

If I didn't want to make the occasional voice call, I'd be absolutely satisfied with replacing my smartphone with something like this.

While I'd agree that it's not a good idea for a lot of purposes, that doesn't mean it's simply not a good idea. People will either be interested in playing with it or they wont, in which case it will simply cease to be developed, and the code will float around the Internet as an example of a cool little experiment. Either way, Node OS is not going to hurt anyone.

What is the point of decoding this back into the user's original "ENIGMA" and "AMAZON" strings? In this case, "sh(/J3HqAfQsu..u.rqf" is the user's password. If you have that, there is nothing to crack.

Edit: I see "Combine with another compromised password, and we're coming dangerously close to being able to generate a password for any arbitrary website.", which means that if an attacker could obtain a couple of these passwords, they could determine (a lot of) your qwertycard and gain access to more of your accounts.

However, by the time an attacker has any of your passwords, I'm not sure that reverse engineering your qwertycard is an issue. As others put better than I, this would also mean that in addition to obtaining one or more plaintext passwords, the attacker would have to be targeting you specifically and know how you generated the passwords.

Free speech doesn't require antagonizing anyone. I don't advocate censoring ourselves out of fear, but I wouldn't defend sticking our tongues out at a bully, even if we're on the moral high ground. We would be better served by expressing ourselves in ways that promote understanding other cultures, not widening the divide between them.

If a cartoon puts Google employees in a position where they could be targeted by threats or violence, it would be an awful move.

Amplification attacks can be used to gain huge boosts in bandwidth.[1] For example, in the attack on Spamhaus in 2013[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Refle... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberBunker#Spamhaus

I too wonder why, as a linux user, I should care how many other people use the system. It seems to me that we have a really good community going and if more people join in, good for them, but Linux isn't in any danger of fading into obscurity at this time.

It'll definitely be interesting to see how many 32-bit embedded systems remain in use in 2038 - and what effect the overflow will have on their functionality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem#Vulnerable_s...

Zed[1] is probably the best editor on Windows, OSX, and Linux too. I hate to go back to editors where I have to save, manage what tabs are open, and clutter the workspace with toolbars and buttons.

[1] http://zedapp.org/

Those projects do have a lot of money behind them. The point there is that there is room to make money with open source projects. There are business models besides selling software directly.

You make an excellent point about mobile computing. However, interest in free mobile software is growing and we'll see more options available to mirror the demand.

I don't understand your argument. Some of the most popular software in the world is free. Linux, Apache, OpenSSL, Firefox and more are used by millions and got built without charging people to use them.

On a personal computer, there is free software to accomplish any desktop computing task. How can you say that it wont get built when it already has been?

In buying a television I wouldn't fault a person for expecting it to be no more dangerous than the basic televisions they had in the past.

Consider the discussion taking place in other comments - SSL has never guaranteed a conversation between client and a server at the "end". The concept of one server at the end of your connection is wrong. Often, you'll be connected to a load balancer that terminates SSL and communicates with other servers over plain text. Or, you might reach an HTTP server that communicates with other services ( perhaps a database ) and you have no guarantee that those connections are over SSL or take place on internal networks ( as if internal would make it more secure ). Besides SSL itself and the serving of your particular request, what else is being done with the information you've sent? Perhaps they're storing data or sharing it in ways you would not approve of. Trusting the services you connect to is the real tough problem and it has little to do with SSL.

I wonder if creating relationships between notes would work well for me and my very large to-do list. However, it may be a moot point since at the current rate it's more like a never-do list. ~/ideagraveyard.txt