sheffield

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sheffieldon Dropbox sued for June 19 Authentication Bug

And at the same time a culture, where you can sue if someone hurt you, and even set a precedent if it's a first-time thing.

sheffieldon WeScheme (web IDE)

Try this Hello world:

    (js-big-bang 0                ;; initial world
                 (on-draw ;; the dom tree renderer
                          (lambda (w)
                            (list (js-p '(("id" "myPara")))
                                  (list (js-text "hello world"))))

                          ;; the css renderer
                          (lambda (w)
                            '(("myPara" ("font-size" "30"))))))

sheffieldon Dropbox sued for June 19 Authentication Bug

They won't lost customers if they don't tell them about the problems. The bad press is this, right here.

sheffieldon Dropbox sued for June 19 Authentication Bug

They are not shy to advertise the security and privacy of the service, it would be an honest move to communicate the risks, too.

sheffieldon Dropbox sued for June 19 Authentication Bug

...they're still a startup...

What? Is this an excuse? They charge money for the service and they will pay for their mistakes.

sheffieldon Testing Benford's Law

For the numbers 0-100, only 10 start with 1, exactly as many those start with 2, or 3, etc.

sheffieldon Hello World execution time

Java running times can be really good, but the startup times are terrible. See the recently posted Eclipse speed-up article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2694840 .

sheffieldon Hello World execution time

He wrote: "[...] it's pretty important when you are writing shell scripts / cron jobs / random commandline utilities.".

sheffieldon Smooth CoffeeScript

The killer feature of http://eloquentjavascript.net/ is the console, where you can run and modify the examples, and do the exercises. Do you plan an interactive HTML version?

sheffieldon Bull - Iterative development of a Picasso lithograph

Here's a video morphing the eleven pictures:

http://www.freeweb.hu/polecat/bull.mp4

sheffieldon To Figure Out Google’s Priorities, Just Look At Team Larry

> Ah, but how are people going to _find_ this information in the first place? Links don't just grow out of a vacuum. Someone searched for it _then_ curated it.

No. In the first place someone created that content, then shared the link.

sheffieldon English as a second language: Test results on the most fluent countries

The word with the most forms, also the longest word in the world is the English 'strawberry'.

   strawberry
   strawberry-less
   strawberry-less-ness
   strawberry-less-ness-less
   strawberry-less-ness-less-ness
   .
   .
   .
   ∞

sheffieldon Robot SmartBird Flaps and Flies Like the Real Thing [video]

Here is a longer (~half hour) making-of video. Really interesting.

http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369_11468.htm#id_11468

sheffieldon Gleick's new book on information theory

> Galvani did experiments on the muscles of frogs in 1791, and proved that electrical impulses could animate movement.

Galvani show us that there is something, but it was only after the invention of telegraph that we understand, that it's information, what's transferred on nerves.

sheffieldon Ask HN: Programming Problems for Plane Rides

http://programmingpraxis.com/