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Comment Re:How are these things related? (Score 1) 202

You just cannot fix X the way it should be fixed.

Translation: It's protocol-oriented.

Wayland is the obvious choice

Really? It's protocol-oriented too (and is slow-progressing because of that).

Mir is library-oriented so no-longer will DEs paper-over the ugly parts, but instead they'll just fix the client library.

Comment Re:Compuing Resources are Finate (Score 1) 745

what's an agent? Or more specifically, don't optimize for them when the concern is actually consistency. Whenever a serious inconsistency is found, God could reverse to somewhere that the correct facts can be worked-in. Under this idea, early simulations could be fast and we are therefore effectively causing physics, chemistry, etc sciences into being by studying them.
  Though under this theory it could be very hard to test.

Comment Re:This is worth a Slashdot article? (Score 1) 136

Advertisers live by document.write.
Window.open is required for bookmarklets and reparenting to avoid windows being monitored by their creator.

Yes eval is trouble, but I'd rather see a badge indicating "easy to hack" when "use strict" is not in use. Many sites still use eval, so it's best to single them out vs breaking them.

Comment My bugs (Score 2) 716

My latest bugs are along the lines of:
Me: Here's the most rough proof-of-concept, prototype implementation.
Mgr: Ship it
Me: It only does some of what's needed, even then most common considerations aren't done.
Mgr: Ship it. Log that other stuff as bugs. We will close most of them until someone complains.

So according to your thoughts, employers only pay for the prototype & I'm responsible for the full implementation? No go!

Comment Fan of mass-exclusivity (Score 2) 578

The fools are shooting themselves in the foot:
Here's an idea: Lets get the entire next generation disinterested in the Olympics by making it impossible to see it over their preferred method unless they bug their parents for cable bill info! Lets remind those kids who is in-charge.
This will also exclude some Americans and totally exclude all those fit country people so they won't join the games out of spite. Now the US won't participate as well or be interested as much. And we know how well America watches international sports they do poorly in. Soccer anyone?

This media event is unrelated to the ancient games except by name. It's about 20 years before irrelevance.

Comment Re:It's 2014 (Score 1) 387

You can't make a distributed, decentralized rule enforcer that's open source or unencrypted. Any source leak and it's over.

P2P MMO hits scalability issues with groups of people interacting.

Only 1-on-1 activities make sense, and if you're interested in that then check out webRTC (video chat, screen share, file transfer)

Comment Location (Score 1) 271

I've owned 2 houses & know it's all "Location, Location, Location".
Tech isn't everywhere, but where it is, it's booming.
My kids will start school soon, so I"m in a rush to a diversified tech area before they won't want to leave.
Because where will the next great tech startup likely succeed? wherever they can get developers!

Comment Re:I have 3D printer. (Score 1) 87

'do you design everything that comes out of your 2D printer from scratch'

sort-of. We have symbolic glyphs that make up most of what my 2D printer produces, and I arrange long combinations of these glyphs. This is done in a typically 1D fashion despite being 2D glyphs.

Assembly of pre-existing libraries in logical ways (like connect surface A.side to B.bottom at right angle rotation on clicked spot) sounds more likely to have mass appeal than complete freedom (MSPaint for 2D) .

Comment Re:Clearly they're not thinking evil enough (Score 1) 87

Anything in that timeframe that's media-like (ebook, etc) has DRM trapping it, or else there are already more ways to make duplications of the original (Amazon MP3 vs torrented Amazon MP3).

But new art is made all the time that has identifiers showing that it was assembled and not printed.

Comment I asked it (Score 1) 182

I asked Watson "what is the meaning of life?" and the answer:
        It's referent.

It makes sense for a referencing machine, but this was not a sarcastic pre-programmed answer. It provided the references it assembled for its decision. If it's right, it could do quite a lot.

Comment Command-lines beyond the shell (Score 1) 383

Command-line interpreters help save time and have became my favorite way to jump into using those languages, but there's more than the shell.
Python is a great one.
Javascript in Chrome has a command-line where you can try out things.
Unsurprisingly, despite both of these languages having issues, they are highly popular.

I hear that there's a chrome with a Dash interpreter built-in. If it includes inline editing, then I'd bet it will do well.

Comment Text files (Score 1) 133

I recommend any of the impressive tools that round-trips text nicely (Sublime, Notepad2, gedit). Just plain text with minor format annotations.
It's easy to lay out simple graphs which I use for financial summaries that I will be able to access for years.
Text is a massively-entrenched standard format with universal comprehension rules (unlike other standards like HTML). Just be sure your editor makes sense of either line ending. You can use many tools including those that can write directly to a RAID0 device, an FTP server, etc for safety.

Integration has some positive factors to consider:
  - Copy-paste of text into a calendar works great.
  - Filesystem tree layout is handy for archival purposes (and is also deeply entrenched).
  - Naming in year-month-day-subject.txt consistently will allow filesystem search to find the note you want, and dates are retained despite the copy tool used.

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