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Full Paper (at the end of the article) https://www.scribd.com/doc/273510197/Replication-Prohibited-...

Transcript link http://genius.com/Aaron-harris-startup-school-radio-ep-1-ale...

I find it interesting that writing this post he is using his own advice

Because this will help him In his task of helping his spouse to do the same

This is really cool!

Recently I've felt we need to advance in our programming tools, and this feels like a good step in that direction.

Why dont make it animated and click-navigable?

I understand that some people/business want or need to be different to get more attention, but you should mantain a good level of user-friendliness, just my 2c.

That runs on the same old hardware

It was published on October 1998, I was wondering about that when I submitted but found it interesting nonetheless

In the rare case, they decide to see your laptop, i dont think they care if it is encrypted if you login or tell them the password.

IMO, the problem in this case is not the encryption itself, but the act of hiding something, if you try to hide somenthing, then you could be in problems.

If you login to your pc, they are not going to know if it is encrypted ;-)

Well, if you are company that delivers real value to other companies that dont, then you will be in trouble.

Any ideas on how this is going to work for new machines some years from now? Would you install the current win 10 and then a bulk of service packs?

For me, the 7 minute workout was kind of effective. I say kind of, because i couldnt build the habit, but got some light results in less than a week.

So even if it isnt the most effective it could help you start building the habit.

What I find interesting in old magazine ads like this, is how much text they have, today probably no one would read all that text on an ad

Maybe EFF's Privacy Badger could help? I use it and like it, you can unblock individual scripts on a per page basis.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Maybe this is a good example of why is not a good idea for our goverments to have irrestricted access to everything, because this kind of people would have access too.

Some details from a Uruguayan (myself :)

- There's laptops for all kids Of public schools, that in most cases, are pretty bad. Also not from Mujica's adminstration but from Vazquez's (same party, different president)

- Free internet for everybody up to 1GB, also, I dont think this is merit from Mujica.

- No taxes on tech companies I don't think this is true, maybe tech companies have some exemptions, but that's all.

I like Mujica, but not everything good that happens is because of him, also he likes to throw ideas all the time, without the seriousness you would expect from a president.

All in all, I think he is a good president, but not the hero the world wants it to be.

Yes, we have universal education up to University. Can't compare healthcare, but I think we have a lot to improve in that regard (it is also, a lot newer that university).

Totally agree (another uruguayan here :)

I think that sometimes the devs writing the tutorials, didn't bothered trying out the tutorial themselves, so there are little errors that are huge for beginners.

I've seen this in tutorials, but also in open source project's documentation

Thanks for sharing your experience! :D

I had never think about this: "established, non-tech company that is around for long time"

Probably makes for a very good working enviroment, they may have a lot of technology to add to their business, and also they may value your work a lot more than a tech companies.

Besides having the not-so-mainstream needed habilities, how do you manage to find that kind of (niche?) work?

I'm far from what I would call a senior engineer (or a engineer at all), but the times I've written the most readable and maintainable code were when I write first what the program should do in comment form and then completed it with the corresponding code.

This way you force yourself to think outside your programming language and also forces you to write the corresponding comments.

I think this has a name as a methodology but cant remember it.

Is the git repository blocked too? or only the github project? (I can't try it right now)

Submitted the google cache link, because the original link is not available (404)

Oh, "Fun with flags", great show! ;)

http://mundialonline.com.uy it is a free service from an Uruguayan cable operator, it has only 2 non-intrusive ads (you don't see them if you go full screen).

It is in spanish, and I'm not sure if it has any kind of geo-filtering (I tried with Tor without problems). It claims to be hd, but IMHO it isn't.

I've heard that for small niches, Facebook ads work pretty well.

An acquaintance of mine used this for reaching some pretty specific niche, like males from a specific country, in a specific age range who like some type of cars.

He said that it worked better than other online alternatives, but as always YMMV.

I don't really know (I don't have that in depth knowledge of javascript) but it is probably like you said, because you are doing a sum, it treats null as 0, so (0 + 0 === 0) is true.

You can do the same with false: (false + false === 0)

And also (true + true === 2) is true

Edit: The same way as if you do "" + 1 you get "1" because it assumes + as string concatenation

Well, I'm not an expert, but the w3c Accesibility guidelines say:

"2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold: Web pages do not contain anything that flashes more than three times in any one second period, or the flash is below the general flash and red flash thresholds."[0]

And also: "Individuals who have photosensitive seizure disorders can have a seizure triggered by content that flashes at certain frequencies for more than a few flashes. People are even more sensitive to red flashing than to other colors, so a special test is provided for saturated red flashing."[1]

It is clear that this are only guidelines, not laws, but in this particular case I think it is appropriate to make some kind of warning for this users.

[0]http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#seizure [1]http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/seizure-does-not-v...

Windows XP, IE8 (at least I have chrome because I'm the webmaster, but not for the rest of the mortals, because of "security issues").

Also the main business software is a Java webapp that is less than 10 years old but looks, feels and works like it is from the 90s.

EDIT: I wanted to add a desktop flash app for editing web content. This is what sucks the most, it is mostly unusable (for example, you have to create a image object -db record- before you can load a picture) and you have to do a remote desktop session to use it (yes in prod).

As I understand it, you wouldn't need to reach escape velocity in a space elevator.

Think about it this way, if instead of an elevator, you have a space ladder, in theory (if you have unlimited energy) you could climb to whatever height you want, without reaching escape velocity.

AFAIK escape velocity is the minimum required to "throw" something away from earth such as it would never come back because of gravity.