For those who don't know, PDF.js is the "built in PDF viewer" in recent Firefox builds. It's not an Adobe-provided thing. It's a new Firefox feature to convert PDF to HTML5 using Javascript using a mozilla foundation "community driven" javascript project.

I gleefully support the goals of the project.

And yet I regret to report that from my work-related test cases, PDF.js is badly broken with long technical documents with diagrams. :-(

For those who don't know, you can disable it!
1. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
2. Press the big button to bypass the warning.
3. In the Filter bar, paste pdfjs.disabled
4. In the search results, double-click pdfjs.disabled to set its value to true
5. Restart Firefox for the changes to take effect.

The article has an update posted now a day later:

It says out the guy had been fired/laidoff ("released") from his job. His WORK was spying on his searches AT WORK from his WORK computer.

They reviewed his searches and freaked out and reported him to the county cops to investigate.

" Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee. The former employee’s computer searches took place on this employee’s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks.”

I'm not saying it wasn't unfortunate for the guy, but let's be clear that for THIS issue this was NOT it turns out a "the feds spy on me" story.

This is a "your EMPLOYER spies on you" story.

Also, babies really come from STORKS not sex. Teach the controversy!!!! http://controversy.wearscience.com/

And btw... About this line

> The website will be a therapist -- telling you only what you want to hear

this was a surprising comment to me. If that was your experience with a therapist, please don't assume that all therapists would have such a useless strategy!

Good well-trained and empathetic therapists do challenge assumptions and help move you towards useful and new perspectives not merely ego stroking. Everyone if possible should shop around for therapists and find someone that is a good fit, and that includes getting the right amount of insightfulness and independence of thought, with rapport but also without fear of speaking truthfully in your presence.

These links may also be enlightening:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/12/confident-dumb-peopl.html

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_Effect

Yeah, because when you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfellas

This is just a part of the evangelical fundamentalist echo chamber.

It also means that Gosu supports custom type loaders that dynamically inject types into the language so you can use them as native objects in Gosu.

For example, custom type loaders add Gosu types for objects from XML schemas (XSDs) and from remote WS-I compliant web services (SOAP). Later versions of the Gosu community release will include more APIs and documentation about creating your own custom type loaders.

Modules of code containing type loaders can create entire namespaces of new types. This means that a type loader can import external objects and let Gosu code manipulate them as native objects. There are two custom type loaders that included in Gosu: (1) Gosu XML typeloader. This type loader supports the native Gosu APIs for XML. For more information, see "Gosu and XML". (2) Gosu SOAP typeloader. This type loader supports the native Gosu APIs for SOAP.

The first Gosu community release does not yet include these add-on typeloaders that support these APIs due to in-progress changes in bundling add-on typeloaders. The Gosu documentation describes the XML and web services APIs right now so you can become familiar with these upcoming APIs.

For more information http://gosu-lang.org/doc/wwhelp/wwhimpl/api.htm?&context=gosu&src=intro&topic=Extensible_Type_System

Good news then!!!

Because you CAN use your semicolons in Gosu!

They are optional, although not the standard Gosu coding style. http://gosu-lang.org/doc/wwhelp/wwhimpl/api.htm?&context=gosu&src=intro&topic=Gosu_Statement_Terminators

Actually there are several improvements to the Gosu generics system that workaround JVM limitations.

In Java, when you use generics, the true type like MyClass is erased and it just becomes MyClass at run time. This called type erasure.

In Gosu, if you do the same thing, assuming MyClass is a Gosu type, the run time type is really MyClass. This is called reified generics.

(Note however that if the type is a Java type to start out with, like java.util.ArrayList, then the generic version ArrayList in Gosu follows the type erasure route as you'd imagine.)

But if you are playing in the Gosu world with Gosu types (for example, a Gosu class ), the language adds code that really does preserve generics even though the JVM doesn't natively think that way.

regarding the "chance to really get going", Gosu is already used by multi-billion dollar companies around the world already, for a bunch of years.

See a list of companies here: http://www.guidewire.com/our_customers

It's just that the language now available to a wider audience who want it, not just Guidewire Software customers.

Native speakers know that he really meant "it could have", which in verbal English becomes "coulda" or "could've", the latter of which sounds like what he typed.

There's no need to be mean about it. And certainly no need to score the parent post as "Score: 3 Insightful".