Posts on computer science and the web, rants about OS:es, Window Managers, Platforms for almost publishing content on the web, and the like.
This week’s unrecommended word: Facerape
Facerape: The act of abusing someone’s Facebook account on a computer where they have left themselves logged in. (Urban dictionary).
So, what’s so wrong with this expression then? (I am sure someone “just has to ask.”)
In November 2013, Jeremy Rubin, a 19-year-old MIT student, developed a JavaScript program called Tidbit. This program was a concept/pilot, but the idea behind it was to use JavaScript to mine for Bitcoins.
It was thought as a replacement for advertisements. Instead of being overwhelmed by ads, a user visiting a site using this script would lend part of their processor cycles to mine for Bitcoins while surfing on the site.
As a former Linux user, I’m getting really, really, really burnt by homebrew.
My big fallacy is that I was used to having the package manager handle everything for me.
Brew doesn’t do that. Oh my, it certainly does not!
In programming, there’s no escape from backslashes!!\!
My VPN makes Google serve pages in german. The other day I realized the macaroni package in my cupboard had german writing… for half a second I wanted to cuss my VPN…
(Time to leave the house and take a walk IRL… Oh, and yes, I think that’s in fact dutch…)
On usability: If you feel your app requires a manual, you’re probably not doing it right!
When God uninstalls Linux, the Devil installs Windows…
The following is a list of system maturity levels:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/ is a page about different types of computer generated color schemes. There is also a page with Color Name Dictionaries. Great tools for creating applications or web pages using colors that look good together and/or are distinct enough for tag-colors and the same.
The basic strategy of software engineering seems to be to create something that almost doesn’t work.
(Which still trumps the hell out of something that almost works…)
Talkwards 