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I think the moral of this story is that it's not your business. She will decide what she want to do, and her parents should help, and not restrain her, or tell her what to do.

sheffieldon Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years

The time served might be much less then the sentence.

sheffieldon Google Open Source Manager Says "Android Is The Linux Dream Come True"

Android is the name of a distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora.

sheffieldon Stanford's CS 101 course uses Javascript

I find the efficient version much clearer, too. It extracts one layer of abstraction: a beginner may wondering, how can a variable being less than a function (a<func()), then find out, that the function returns a value, etc.

Two more lines worth it.

sheffieldon Samsung releases code of WebCL implementation for WebKit

Samsung is a Korean company.

sheffieldon Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and LibreOffice

Good news, but I don't understand why both? Why don't they choose one (preferably LibreOffice)?

sheffieldon Tesco: Homeplus Subway Virtual Store (Movie

There is not much difference between a photo on your screen and a printed photo.

sheffieldon User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer

Well then, they're called babies.

sheffieldon User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer

The world is full of people who have never used a computer. They are called children.

sheffieldon File Content Histograms

English vs. Russian vs. Japanese text (UTF-8)

http://imgur.com/a/vwoIF

sheffieldon A Philosopher Every Programmer Should Know: Susanne K. Langer

Two half brains. Everything has two halves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

sheffieldon A Philosopher Every Programmer Should Know: Susanne K. Langer

We have only one brain.

sheffieldon Music Theory For Beginners (part 2)

"I would hope you put more effort into thinking of a melody and harmony than this, but the point is that rhythm makes a gigantic difference, even if everything else is messy."

You should read the article before commenting.

sheffieldon Google made my son cry

why would Google enforce COPPA compliance internationally?

Because it's Google (an American company) who have to comply with COPPA and not some children (of any nationality).

sheffieldon Why Google+ Will Take Half of the Social Networking Market from Facebook

I don't know if Google will win or lose, but I don't think it's possible to split that market because of the herd mentality. People follow their peers and they will all either stay at Facebook or move to Google+.

sheffieldon A Regular Expression Matcher in 30 lines of C

"In 1967, Ken [Thompson] applied for a patent ..."

Wow, he pioneered that, too...

sheffieldon Under-18 users request to open up Google+ for them

Then the 'adult age' should be 21 too, because at 18 you're not a grownup yet. And it seems that European children grow faster because they can drink at 18 or less (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_age). Or maybe brain research only exists in the US.

sheffieldon Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5

Yes, that's possible. Sorry, I checked if I'm wrong here: http://www.acronymfinder.com/TFA.html , but didn't find anything relevant.