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Hmm, a key-value store, limited to one per site, so different web app's can overwrite each other's key store without careful use of names.
Effectively a big global variable hash table. That's progress. All managed by a single mutex.
I guess this was largely limited by the browser vendor's racing to implement something - as usual the standard is defined by what people have implemented already.
Ironically, all this the same day as it is announced blink is finally removed.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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To understand a broad topic, sometimes you need more than a quick answer. Our research indicates perhaps 10% of people’s daily information needs fit this category -- topics like stem cell research, happiness, and love, to name just a few. That's why over the next few days we’ll be rolling out a new feature to help you find relevant in-depth articles in the main Google Search results. But can they give me urgentz codez?
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In a world where Google promotes its browser on YouTube, in cinema pre-rolls, and on billboards, the clear audience is not developers. It’s the mass market - the users. The overwhelming majority. They don’t know it works like this. They don’t expect it to be this easy to see their passwords. Every day, millions of normal, every-day users are saving their passwords in Chrome. This is not okay. This is why I just use "password" everywhere (don't tell anyone)
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Except for my bank, (Lloyds TSB in the UK to name and shame) who won't let me use non-alphanumeric characters for some reason.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Mozilla and Google have updated their browsers with features to help developers more effectively write and debug their websites. In related news, IE maintains it's best feature: the ability to download Firefox or Chrome
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In related news, IE maintains it's best feature: the ability to download Firefox or Chrome
Hey now. Be kind!
It's also the best browser for pretty printing XML or copying tabular data into Excel.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Having controlled our commas for decades, Grey Lady now positioning our braces. Because when you think Objective C, don't you always think of newspaper?
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So basically, a bunch of journalists who know nothing about programming have decided on a layout of braces etc?
Oh, and don't even get me started on how they have "outlawed" that one liner if statement that is perfectly OK. Or the "use spaces instead of tabs" mentality, it just makes me want to throw a keyboard at someone.
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Try-Catch and Finally through your keyboard
Ranjan.D
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Yup. It made perfect sense to me. Just like I always get my news from Bjarne. No other source is worth it. OK, maybe Anders, but just for the Turbo news.
I guess it might have originally just been the internal style guide that every company has, but I really don't see their point in publishing it.
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Apple has launched a worldwide "USB Power Adapter Takeback Program," under which it will sell discounted official Apple adapters to users who turn in third-party or "counterfeit" versions. "You're holding it wrong"
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We live in a time of chronic dissatisfaction in the workplace. Gallup's 2013 State of the American Workplace study found that as many as 70% of working Americans were unfulfilled with their jobs. How can we explain this? Certainly factors like the sluggish economic recovery and stuck wages play a role, but I think the real answer is even more straightforward: It's not clear how one designs a satisfying career in today's professional culture, especially if lasting fulfillment (as opposed to salary maximization) is the goal. "Be the ball"
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Microsoft today announced a slew of improvements for Windows Phone developers. These include the new Windows Phone App Studio in beta, the simplification of the phone registration process, and a new ‘Click to Chat’ support option. Coding without coding? That's just so zen.
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Copy machines have a relatively simple, single task so it's generally accepted that they'll function without issue and maintain 100 percent accuracy. What? You wanted an exact copy?
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I find it hard to believe that this happens with OCR turned off (as the author states).
/ravi
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From what I understand, it has nothing to do with OCR, it has to do with the lossy compression it uses (JBIG2[^]), which compares blocks of the image with other blocks, and decides to throw one away and just re-use the other if they're similar enough. Problem is, text is pretty similar to other text, especially when in a similar format (like currency strings). So the block of the image containing that string from one section is re-used in another spot that previously had a similar, but different, string.
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Thanks for the clarification. Phew! I'm not happy, but relieved.
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Cute, what is it doing? OCR?
Better not.
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Nope, see lewax00's great explanation above.
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A California startup called Crossbar is working on an alternative to current NAND Flash memory chips like those used in mobile devices and other consumer electronics products which could serve up a terabyte of storage and playback capacity on "an IC smaller than a postage stamp." Yes, please
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The TOR Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered network. Even though it was a Firefox hack
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