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I find it interesting the transition towards physical sciences and away from computer science in the late 1980s. At that time, my mother, who was educated and worked in chemistry, started working at home as a programmer. It was a very good job that allowed her to work remotely most of the time and set her own schedule.

> One thing I don't get from this argument is: does he consider programming a profession?

If an engineer that programs, probably. But not likely programming by itself. When I worked at an integration company (industry contractor), we had to be careful about the language we used on timesheets. We were strictly forbidden from using "engineer" (verb) since we were not an engineering firm.

This reminds me of how most people seem to use "hopefully." I very seldom hear people say "I hope this works." Instead, almost every time I hear, "hopefully, this works." It seems to have a "language smell" of wanting a way to weasel out making a commitment to a particular stance or viewpoint.

Would a "master password" (a la Firefox/Thunderbird) be the way to go (as input to an encryption routine)?

It seems like any credentials that can be automatically used after a program loads without the user authenticating are at risk for malware harvesting.

This was previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8207271

When I worked in HMI/PLC land, the only real security I remember being done was network isolation. Web apps were still pretty new at the time. I can only recall one project we did where a web app actually had any input to control (recipe scheduling). One client in particular required separation of PLCs that HMIs talked to vs PLCs that controlled the actual manuf equipment (robots et cetera). IIRC, only a select list of contractors were used to write code for the robots, whereas the HMI contractor list was less strict (group we were in).

By percentage of household spending, the US spends less on food than anyone else. There are several articles about this. This was the first search result for me:

http://www.ibtimes.com/us-spends-less-food-any-other-country...

That's the idea, however this does not automatically make programs actually work with long paths. Command Prompt is a prime example, at least on Windows 7.

The QuickJava add-on for Firefox lets you add toolbar button to toggle CSS (and other features) on and off.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quickjava/

It seems like it. This was also brought up the arstechnica comments.

Google still has their WAP transformation tool ("Google Wireless Transcoder"):

http://www.google.com/gwt/n

edit:

It looks like Google more recently rolled out another tool (googleweblight.com) for shrinking web pages. This does not generate WAP, however.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6211428?hl=

Is this anything like aerogel?

That's what we (company I work for) have done. 95%+ work we do is on our core product. Made work much more meaningful.

Better: Auto-Type. That way it's never even in the clipboard.

As of Windows 7, Windows still likes to fall back to System font if it is running low on UI resources. I see this on a regular basis in the "Find in Files" results in Visual Studio.

Further down the rabbit hole:

On Win2k, if you used non-default DPI settings, programs using System font looked particularly atrocious.

If you've worked in industry and/or programming PLCs, you've probably come across PID loops before.

Maybe not as accurate, but a simpler explanation: http://plchowto.com/plc-pid/

I used to use Zip disks to sneakernet files to and from computers on an isolated network. This was when USB flash drives were ~8-16MB and we were not guaranteed access to part of the machine were a USB slot was. I also remember using Sysinternals Sync before ejecting the disks. Too many times did I get back to my desk and have corrupt (incompletely written) files otherwise.

Anything like this for IIS that shows client compatibility?

The only configuration tool I know of is https://www.nartac.com/Products/IISCrypto/.

One of my favorite manuals for copy protection was Conquests of the Longbow.

http://www.sierrahelp.com/Documents/Manuals/Conquests_of_the...

The devs did a good job tying the druid hand code, druid trees, gemstones, and coat of arms into the story line.

The Scream versions are the only ones I find particularly interesting. All the others seem to fall victim to prominent cross-hatch patterns.

VMware supports "parent" vmdk files. The leaf-node "child" vmdk will diff based on the ancestors. VMware Player does support this. The VMware implementation of XPMode uses it. You can use vdiskmanager to convert the root vmdk to sparse files, which leaves the main vmdk file with just the configuration in it. This makes it much easier to set up the parent-child relationship than monolithic vmdk.

You can use "netsh advfirewall firewall" commands to view rules. And you can use "netsh exec" to execute a script to modify rules. Unfortunately the "dump" command is not implemented, so there is some work involved to turn the "show rule" output into a script.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd734783%28v=ws....

No reaction so far on their Facebook or blog. They do not appear to have a twitter account.

Based on previous discussions on HN, you may receive criticism for the use of the Lenna image.

A couple example threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8253676

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704629

I confess that I use this same pattern frequently for work emails outside the company. Inside the company, I only sign with my given name.

[GivenName],

[Body]

[Closing],

[FullName]

By that time, I think I saw more music videos during Beavis and Butt-head than other times of the day.

Without JS enabled on FF39, it looks like a nice WAP-era mobile page.

The closest you could probably get right now is editing cue files. Years ago, I would group together certain series of Pink Floyd songs when I converted to mp3.

BPG may have patent issues.

http://bellard.org/bpg/

"Some of the HEVC algorithms may be protected by patents in some countries (read the FFmpeg Patent Mini-FAQ for more information). Most devices already include or will include hardware HEVC support, so we suggest to use it if patents are an issue."

(Not directly addressing what you're saying.) A few MMOs have been written using .NET.

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/10247/mmos-based...

Nice "not-planets" montage by Emily Lakdawalla here:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/0714133...