Saying that PHP has value because it lets beginners get up and running quickly is like suggesting we outfit babies with jetpacks so they can get about quicker without all that crawling nonsense. I'm being over dramatic…
> (If not, why does this same mechanism work for the AGW hypothesis?) Because your comparison is flawed in multiple ways. > Another unscientific claim is that all scientists agree with global warming, therefor…
> Marriage helps families by providing heavy incentives for partners to settle their differences and stay coupled rather than get frustrated and split Yes, except it doesn't seem to be working. > It protects a…
I remember putting together a mag-stripe reader with old tape heads based on schematics/code in Phrack (or maybe 2600...been awhile). At the time, tape decks were found in almost every home, while (to me) a mag-stripe…
That idea and even the scenario you describe has actually been used numerous times in action movies (though admittedly usually using a different principle like fingerprint reading), including the James Bond franchise.…
That's the issue though. It doesn't introduce anything useful in terms of replacing JSON (it can even make things worse), and for other uses better solutions already exist. The fact that in theory if it was magically…
Indeed, the basics are all relatively simple...in fact a lot of the basics are things people do intuitively...it's just they've never really been told or thought about how it would work as a generalized computing…
This largely misses the point. I agree that it's not "essential" and not everyone should do it, but it's still more valuable than I think Attwood gives credit for. I'm perhaps in a unique position to comment, having…
It's perhaps worth noting that it's not calling a spade a spade though. A moron is literally a person who is mentally retarded, though it's use in science is now limited since it's considered offensive. It's one thing…
Lady Gaga is prob not a good example since she writes or has a big hand in writing pretty much all her songs. Like most pop artists she utilizes producers and songwriters, but she relies on them less than say Rihanna…
I think this is a fair point, and mostly agree. However, when I look back at my life and see all the things I got which I considered to be beyond what I deserved simply by for asking them....I have a hard time faulting…
Right. Though Teller probably makes most of his money from performance rather than selling tricks. I know P&T do a lot of their own research and creating their own illusions, they may sometimes sell them to other…
There are very few illusions in magic that are not for sale, it's how a lot of non-famous magicians make a living and how many magicians who are just starting fill out their act. So I don't think the issue here is the…
I think it's a little hazy. Magic has a long tradition of magicians performing similar tricks, and as long as you either reverse-engineered it on your own or came up with your own way to accomplish the illusion, I think…
Here's her linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/donnaklinekirschler
Don't trust the game client.
This is neat. It reminds me a bit of part of my Conky setup. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/zi1Ub. It's not as accurate, but it gives me an idea of what time of day it is everywhere. I have a cron script that…
I've traveled a fair bit across 6 continents and I don't think I've ever encountered a society that is simultaneously multi-cultural and without racism. I'm also a believer in the axiom that those who don't remember the…
I'm also not a fan. As a piece of juvenile science fiction I think it's serviceable though if I had children I'd probably prefer they skip it. To start with, the story is predicated on the notion that Eugenics works, or…
I think what they mean is say you have a bit of obsfucated, minified, and or complex JavaScript code you want to reverse engineer. You can start writing a an "unobsfucated" version in JS, pseudocode, whatever you…
It allows you to debug any language that compiles to JavaScript, with the caveat that the language's compiler must output source-map compatible code (or the source must be run through some other program that somehow…
It's not good enough now, probably because JavaScript was designed as a lightweight scripting language to make web pages a little more interactive and not as a general "bytecode for the web". However, it always amazes…
I agree for the most part that Google is not "fighting for it's life", though I think it has faltered a bit. > people are not defecting away from search to use Facebook's search or Bing or whatever. You are perhaps…
I think perhaps you are the one who needs to read up about it more. > Placebo is astonishingly powerful I would agree that placebo is "powerful", in that it can provide surprisingly powerful subjective…
This is just wrong on so many levels... That is absolutely not the "point" of modern homeopathy... The point of modern homeopathy is to spread a lot of nonsense about water with memory and other such bunk. Secondly, you…
Saying that PHP has value because it lets beginners get up and running quickly is like suggesting we outfit babies with jetpacks so they can get about quicker without all that crawling nonsense. I'm being over dramatic…
> (If not, why does this same mechanism work for the AGW hypothesis?) Because your comparison is flawed in multiple ways. > Another unscientific claim is that all scientists agree with global warming, therefor…
> Marriage helps families by providing heavy incentives for partners to settle their differences and stay coupled rather than get frustrated and split Yes, except it doesn't seem to be working. > It protects a…
I remember putting together a mag-stripe reader with old tape heads based on schematics/code in Phrack (or maybe 2600...been awhile). At the time, tape decks were found in almost every home, while (to me) a mag-stripe…
That idea and even the scenario you describe has actually been used numerous times in action movies (though admittedly usually using a different principle like fingerprint reading), including the James Bond franchise.…
That's the issue though. It doesn't introduce anything useful in terms of replacing JSON (it can even make things worse), and for other uses better solutions already exist. The fact that in theory if it was magically…
Indeed, the basics are all relatively simple...in fact a lot of the basics are things people do intuitively...it's just they've never really been told or thought about how it would work as a generalized computing…
This largely misses the point. I agree that it's not "essential" and not everyone should do it, but it's still more valuable than I think Attwood gives credit for. I'm perhaps in a unique position to comment, having…
It's perhaps worth noting that it's not calling a spade a spade though. A moron is literally a person who is mentally retarded, though it's use in science is now limited since it's considered offensive. It's one thing…
Lady Gaga is prob not a good example since she writes or has a big hand in writing pretty much all her songs. Like most pop artists she utilizes producers and songwriters, but she relies on them less than say Rihanna…
I think this is a fair point, and mostly agree. However, when I look back at my life and see all the things I got which I considered to be beyond what I deserved simply by for asking them....I have a hard time faulting…
Right. Though Teller probably makes most of his money from performance rather than selling tricks. I know P&T do a lot of their own research and creating their own illusions, they may sometimes sell them to other…
There are very few illusions in magic that are not for sale, it's how a lot of non-famous magicians make a living and how many magicians who are just starting fill out their act. So I don't think the issue here is the…
I think it's a little hazy. Magic has a long tradition of magicians performing similar tricks, and as long as you either reverse-engineered it on your own or came up with your own way to accomplish the illusion, I think…
Here's her linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/donnaklinekirschler
Don't trust the game client.
This is neat. It reminds me a bit of part of my Conky setup. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/zi1Ub. It's not as accurate, but it gives me an idea of what time of day it is everywhere. I have a cron script that…
I've traveled a fair bit across 6 continents and I don't think I've ever encountered a society that is simultaneously multi-cultural and without racism. I'm also a believer in the axiom that those who don't remember the…
I'm also not a fan. As a piece of juvenile science fiction I think it's serviceable though if I had children I'd probably prefer they skip it. To start with, the story is predicated on the notion that Eugenics works, or…
I think what they mean is say you have a bit of obsfucated, minified, and or complex JavaScript code you want to reverse engineer. You can start writing a an "unobsfucated" version in JS, pseudocode, whatever you…
It allows you to debug any language that compiles to JavaScript, with the caveat that the language's compiler must output source-map compatible code (or the source must be run through some other program that somehow…
It's not good enough now, probably because JavaScript was designed as a lightweight scripting language to make web pages a little more interactive and not as a general "bytecode for the web". However, it always amazes…
I agree for the most part that Google is not "fighting for it's life", though I think it has faltered a bit. > people are not defecting away from search to use Facebook's search or Bing or whatever. You are perhaps…
I think perhaps you are the one who needs to read up about it more. > Placebo is astonishingly powerful I would agree that placebo is "powerful", in that it can provide surprisingly powerful subjective…
This is just wrong on so many levels... That is absolutely not the "point" of modern homeopathy... The point of modern homeopathy is to spread a lot of nonsense about water with memory and other such bunk. Secondly, you…