chocolateboy

It's odd that the article fails to mention the most high-profile film to follow Snyder's template, How To Train Your Dragon. Unlike the speculative examples in the article, the creators of that film have explicitly acknowledged Snyder's role in the development of their story (he's thanked in the credits). [1] I guess the fact that it was a huge commercial and critical hit (98% on Rotten Tomatoes) doesn't fit the simplistic, tabloid template that's taking over serious journalism.

[1] http://www.blakesnyder.com/2010/03/26/how-the-dragon-really-...

Streamlining credit card payments is like improving CVS. It's still a skeuomorphic, Flintstones way of paying for something online. There are better solutions in the works that focus on innovating rather than renovating:

https://payswarm.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02vX36Ntxxk

As mentioned below, this is available in Firefox: http://spasche.net/openinbrowser/

> This is similar to how the Rubinius project has been managed for a long time

... which in turn was "taken from Audrey Tang's commit policy on Pugs". [1]

[1] http://jacobian.org/writing/commit-bits/#c2548

"Q300: Tampermonkey can access every page that I visit! Is TM evil?"

http://forum.tampermonkey.net/viewtopic.php?t=78

> Tampermonkey seems like a privacy invader

That's a serious allegation. Care to back it up?

There are at least two other ways of running userscripts in Chrome, neither of which impose this restriction:

Tampermonkey: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dhdgffkkebhmkfjoje...

Blank Canvas: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pipnnjjknlabchljab...

It's a shame this project chose to duplicate the name of an existing project/website:

https://github.com/stefanw/seriesly

http://www.seriesly.com/

> Bisect for bug hunting awesomeness

svn-bisect [1]

[1] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?svn-bisect

This already exists. It's called EasyGit:

http://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/

Re: "reverse global state changes upon backtracking": this sounds similar to the (manual) "undo actions" supported by the Kelbt parser [1], perhaps unsurprisingly as it was developed by the same author :-)

[1] http://www.complang.org/kelbt/

Stop snickering at the back! Unless you're a Schemer, your pet dynamic language probably suffers from the same affliction:

http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/programming/the-bigges...

The algorithm was asked for its side of the story, but was unavailable for comment.

Allow this application to:

    * read phone state and identity

No thanks.