I'm a Javascript developer, and I use NoScript, because I'm frequently Googling for information and checking sites I haven't visited before. Almost any time a Firefox vulnerability is announced, NoScript already prevents the exploit. Besides, I don't want third-party tracking and flashy ads when I'm just browsing for information. I'm happy to add genuine web apps to my whitelist, but blog comment forms, for example, should never require Javascript to function.

Mod parent up--hybridization isn't a magic bullet, though I love my mixes too. See Wikipedia: heterosis.

IE6 actually supports isolated processes with separate cookies when you launch another instance of IE. (Unlike Firefox, it doesn't detect and combine with the running instance.) My wife launches every new window from the start menu because she likes this behavior.

If you want to print HTML, Prince is the way to go. It even makes our end-user-generated TinyMCE documents look good.

Only assuming that we follow Japan's xenophobic lead instead of opening the floodgates to cheap immigrant labor.

Then try searching for "generic.h" and it returns pages with the string "generic" (no .h).

Put it in quotes. It's considering the period a word separator.

True, but onkeypress works.

Improve array speed (for simple arrays, use internally one simple C array/list - current days, any array is a map);

Try the SplFixedArray class. The SPL data structures are much, much faster. I actually rather like the "easy by default, fast when you need it" dichotomy.

And moreover, Andrei Zmievski says the IBM article is outdated anyway.

Quite right. The interactive examples make it a far better learning experience than a book.

Interestingly, the most empirically successful strategy in iterated prisoner's dilemma games is "tit for tat with forgiveness". If you're playing with someone who isn't as altruistic as you are, total welfare in the long run can be higher by punishing betrayal than by unconditional cooperation.

In real life, you also have to consider reputation effects: if future partners will be aware of and punish you for your history of betrayal, the most successful strategy is to cooperate, even if you're playing selfishly.

Hofstadter's superrationality (see link) is a nice idea, but I'm not convinced it's the best explanation for observed cooperative societies.

Agreed. I saw Thomas Friedman give a speech and was disgusted hearing him refer to "climate change skeptics and deniers" in the same tone of voice people usually use referring to Holocaust revisionists. Skeptic should not be a derogatory term.

Perl has typed sigils.

It does mean that, unless it's significantly subsidized, it takes as much carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as its use puts back in.

Way to ruin a Pigovian tax, guys.