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Minard's famous chart is commonly regarded as the earliest example of a flow map.

Now this could be bad news for some patent trolls: A useful repository of prior art.

Celebrating the release of version 1.5 meSpeak.js.

> Yet it dutifully tries as hard as it can within this design goal by e.g making its == compile to JS ===. Now we're effectively losing the "==" operator, which is behaving like in m…

I second that. I wouldn't hire any developer delivering just CS, because it shows a "just wanting getting stuff done" attitude, as opposed to some commitment to the language used and it…

Sorry to say no. I've done some with the old REST API (using the free quota, cf: http://www.masswerk.at/google60 http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS http:/&#x…

On Google's Custom Search API: As far as I am understanding this you won't be able to retrieve a "normal" result as provided by coogle.com by the API, even if you are paying them. …

You are right. I can't see this for consumer devices. Also it would do major damage to app-stores, so there is no broader interest in it. And no one would release and maintain an OS dedicated to …

Think of Mac OS Automator for mobile devices (let's name it "Task Composer"), letting you assemble whole workflows based on pipes. But this would potentially harm any AppStore interests…

I think that there's more to it than what's mentioned in the article: Todays mobile OSes (and iOS prominently) have been designed as consumer OSes. Now it is becoming apparent that mobile de…

Now this is quite a national-biased view (again). On the other hand standards, protocols, and the trust in networks are an international affair as well. So what is probably a future damage viewed from…

Considering http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ I wouldn't bet on "deep encryption" either ...…

Windows NT was an incremental update to what would have been the next VAX-OS. (As for my humble knowledge.) See "Dave Cutler and Windows". But another good example for a very successful rewr…

On the other hand it was particularly for this stand-still of NS, why IE was on the throne. And this made HTML/JS effectively a proprietary standard, which brought web development eventually to a…

There's always an ambiguity in metaphors comprising directions and the like: Is it the direction the user is wanting to take, or is the direction the user is wanting the object of his/her in…

Sorry for the intervening (as this wasn't exactly a reply to my post). I really would like Americans to understand that there is a great concern outside of the US about the directions the US, its…

Maybe written a bit to early, so here are some hints: 1) No run command in GUI to access a Folder: Use "Go to folder" (But still no globbing, you have to use the terminal if you want auto-co…

Thanks for saying this! ("That is definitely not how I feel at all as a citizen") Yet another two cents: The idea of side-stepping national regulations isn't that farfetched: At least t…

And it's not only about US citizens. As things are, any non-US-citizen is under suspect by the US gov which is totally legal in the US. Now, just imagine the US outsourcing surveillance of homela…

You could load your data and have it processed while other assets are still loading. Later the same worker would liberate the UI-thread from model-jobs and keep the UI responsive. See "Example 4&…

Me too! – It has this classic modern look with a distinct impact printer feel about it.

But wasn't there an issue with the random seeds (and them possibly being corrupted) even in Free Software?

Just a thought: For the better half of the 20th century, i.e. after WWII, Europe has been confronted and living with acts of terrorism from numerous sides (Israeli – just after WWII, Palestine, left-w…

I think some ports claim to be based on the original port to Lisp. I've never seen any of the original SLIP code or data. The rules seem to be authentic, since they are producing Weizenbaum'…

all JS comes from the same source ...