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jsonscripter··on On Google and Python
I frequently wonder how ParrotVM will be affecting people's decisions when it comes to choosing high-level languages in the future.
jsonscripter··on Autistic teens master social cues, find friends
I was referring to high-functioning autism. Similarly, if one dislikes a particular food, they do not have a disease. If one dislikes all foods and refuses to eat, they have a disease.
jsonscripter··on How Do Afghan Drug Lords Spend All That Loot?
I wish they would just firebomb the poppy fields and get it over with. What would be wrong with that? They've been saying they would for years but always decide to 'wait a little longer' and never do anything.
jsonscripter··on Autistic teens master social cues, find friends
An estimated 1 in 150 American children has some form of autism. There's no known cure.

I'm a little insulted that people still consider it a disease. It's like saying people that don't like a particular food have a disease because most people like the food. It's quite simply not the case.

jsonscripter··on Dive Into HTML 5 preview (by Mark Pilgrim)
↜ Invisible canvas

Haha this book looks amazing and beautiful.

jsonscripter··on Git: A Designer's Perspective
This book is awesome: http://progit.org/book/
jsonscripter··on Posterous (YC S08) Finally Has An iPhone App, Could Have Been Way Better
I think that's just a different mentality. You're both right.

The grandparent is thinking "Every application should do one thing really really well, and everyone should have a bunch of applications".

You're thinking "Every application should be full featured and do everything relating to a specific goal. You only need a single application for every task you do."

jsonscripter··on Git: A Designer's Perspective
I wish there were more merge extensions in git. For instance, I would very much like an extension that merged bitmap images in a fine-grained manner, such that I could specify if it's okay to merge two sets of changes or just select the latest one on a consistent basis. This would allow multiple devs to do touch-up work on a single large image instead of having to cut it up into pieces.
jsonscripter··on How do you scale your web application?
Which is the exact kind of problem you have when scaling.
jsonscripter··on _why is no more
He got owned?
jsonscripter··on Lessons I Learned Earning $119,725.45 from Amazon Associates Program
What's stopping a site from just having an invisible iframe link to amazon? That would refresh that cookie on every page load.
jsonscripter··on Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color?
A better title would talk about "Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color in Data Visualization"

I initially thought the article would talk about colours in the design sense, and in which case engineers shouldn't worry whatsoever. It's not their job.

jsonscripter··on Signs not to Work for a Software Company or Startup
Well, sorry. Maybe I don't have the font that I'm supposed to have installed, but the default that came up is stunning. I was being truthful with my comment.
jsonscripter··on Signs not to Work for a Software Company or Startup
That font is beautiful.
jsonscripter··on How do you scale your web application?
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

-Phil Karlton

jsonscripter··on Calculator hackers crack OS signing key, opening a closed platform
Could you do this for the ipod nano, 2nd generation? I've been wanting to get RockBox on it for years, but the firmware is encrypted!
jsonscripter··on Haiku OS first alpha scheduled for September 6th
I really like that all the applications and windows, with the exception of the browser, don't demand your entire screen to be useful.
jsonscripter··on Calculator hackers crack OS signing key, opening a closed platform
But... it's a calculator!

And it has a headphone jack! And a bitmap screen! And a full keyboard!

jsonscripter··on Haiku OS first alpha scheduled for September 6th
I like having to put those patches on myself. I like the bare bones with a minimal additional features :)
jsonscripter··on Haiku OS first alpha scheduled for September 6th
Dammit now I'm downloading a copy. There goes my productivity.
jsonscripter··on Apple’s Cash Hoard
Well then Apple isn't paying their designers enough...
jsonscripter··on Apple’s Cash Hoard
I love the free market! Nothing's wrong with the free market! Buy what you want, people!

I'm simply saying that, in my opinion, they do not offer fair value, despite what other people say. I'm of the opinion that Apple would have to lower their price significantly before I would consider a purchase of any of their products. I'm saying that Apple's excessive extra cash comes from an extremely high premium on all their products.

jsonscripter··on Apple’s Cash Hoard
Nothing's "wrong" with people think it's fair value. It's just that some people think 2000 dollars for a laptop is inexpensive.

I'm just saying that Apple charges quite a premium on their products.

jsonscripter··on Apple’s Cash Hoard
To those that think Apple's products are reasonably priced: Where do you think they got all this money from?
jsonscripter··on Apple and AT&T sued for false advertising, lack of MMS
I knew the older iPhones couldn't send MMS, but I had thought that the new one could because they keep saying "Send and receive pictures and videos" in relation to the iphone up here in Canada.
jsonscripter··on Improving the world, one free license at a time
If only there was some license that not only allowed non-profits to use the software, but also contribute back and share with everyone! You could crowd source your own product!
jsonscripter··on World’s first formal machine-checked proof of a kernel
Arithmetic overflows and exceptions: humans and mathematics usually have a concept of numbers that can be arbitrarily big. Machines do not, they need to fit them into memory, usually into 32 or 64 bits worth of storage. Machines also generate exceptions when you attempt to do things that are undefined like dividing by zero. In the OS, such exceptions would typically crash the machine. This does not occur in seL4.

Er, 2038? You'll get a nice overflow at that point on a 32-bit machine.

jsonscripter··on Silverlight: Good for Adobe, Bad for Microsoft
Did you know that

  return { something };
and

  return
    { something };
are not equivalent in Javascript?
jsonscripter··on Asperger's Syndrome on Screen and Life
I'm happy just knowing I'm better at my speciality :D
jsonscripter··on Increase Sign-ups with Easier Captchas
I'm sure there's a way to make users want to enter captchas, like by making it a game of some sort. It would be cool if each captcha was some sort of pun or riddle that the user had to answer. If they don't know, they get another one. It would be kind of fun to know that only clever-enough people could gain access to your site :)

(just an idea)

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