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Re:Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects on Saturday August 06, 2016 @01:09PM (#12238868)
I imagine adding the feature of a one click javascript disable would cost a lot of money to mozilla. I wonder how much? That is a very honest question.
Re:Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects on Saturday August 06, 2016 @05:12AM (#12237577)
I hate how firefox force users to go to about:config to disable javascript, and to disabble css is more work. The dumb message in about:config, pocket and hello. I don't like any of this /end rant.

Each add-on increases the surface attack area. I only wish a better lynx

Edit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=873709

Re:The American Dream Isn’t Alive in Denmark on Friday August 05, 2016 @08:16AM (#12231659)
Perhaps small difference in wages like in Denmark is a way to avoid UBI, or a better UBI, perhaps not universal but cover a lot of people. Countries where you work but can't pay for a good meal is another option.
Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby on Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:16PM (#12227033)
Googling: http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1246

Python syntax with macros => Nim Ruby syntax => Crystal

Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby on Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:04PM (#12226953)
Can someone comments the differences between Nim (old mimrod) and Crystal? Which one do you prefer and why. Thanks.
Re:China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @04:08AM (#12216414)
I find it funny, what you describe looks like Silicon Valley
Re:Seymour Papert has died on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @07:38AM (#12209156)
I just installed Scratch and I find it awful but I am not a teenager. When a child realize that to simulate a small movement or scene you need to feed the computer with a lot of parameters he/she get bored. Fractals, like the Julia image, inspire us with deep thinking. What we want is to learn new concepts in such a way that the ratio power/(number of parameters) is very low. The logo idea is not about a turtle or a moving pen, is about the realization that you can draw complex images with a few parameters. I see loops as a form of parameters in a program. Snake moving is boring, we want to drive a drone. Virtual reality is a way of improving the way in which we feed parameters to the machine, another way is the machine learning about the programmer, completion of sentences, suggestions and predictions are a first step. A new logo is needed but one without turtles.