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Chris McAvoy, project lead for Open Badges at the Mozilla Foundation, tweeted his disapproval of the appointment earlier today. It triggered a number of similar responses from other staff at Mozilla, perhaps planned, asking for Eich to resign from his new position. "The peasants are revolting!"
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Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, hide yo husband...
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WearScript is a framework for rapidly prototyping and developing Glass applications in JavaScript rather than Android’s native Java. The framework can utilize or repurpose any of Glass’ native capabilities while also connecting the wearable to other input devices and hardware.
Yay JavaScript for Google Glass!
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To enable a "transparent texting" system, Apple proposes that an app's background be modified to display video images continuously captured by an iPhone's rear-facing camera, according to a patent application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday.
But it is funnier when people walk into things!
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"Moving" and "driving" are very different things. Apple would be wise to make that distinction if it every implements this tech or they're looking at a walloping of a class-action suit.
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Moving and driving are not very different things. Driving is a subtype of Moving surely.
I drive therefore I move (or my car is very broken).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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BlackBerry had to file a lawsuit to try and keep one of its most senior executives from leaving for a position at Apple—and it worked. I guess that's what they call job security
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So... I guess now they can cut that position's pay too, now that they can legally prevent the exec from going to another job.
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Yeah, I imagine he (and everyone around him) will have a smashing six months to come.
TTFN - Kent
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The WebScaleSQL project looks to make MySQL useable at Web scale. "I'm on my way, I'm making it. So much larger than life"
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Why don't they make it usable on a desktop scale first. Then worry about scaling it up.
Piece of junk.
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After years and years of rumors, Office for iPad is finally here. I predict the App Store is about to crash
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Microsoft's most hotly anticipated product release in years...is for Apple devices.
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MS used to be criticised for favouring Windows. Now they're criticised for not favouring Windows. They can't win.
Tbh, though, MS's orientation ought to be towards whether they can make [adequate] money or not. If it turns out that they are able to do so outside Windows then so be it.
Kevin
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Finally, MicroSoft is delighted to bring iPad users a new experience, the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) 
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Microsoft Corp. on Monday issued an emergency security warning saying that hackers have found a way to booby-trap certain common Word files with the .rtf extension.
Microsoft says it's aware of attacks going on now, but there's no fix yet to stop the hackers. It's working on a way to stop the bug.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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First time I've heard of RTF documents being used this way.
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From what I've heard - the rtf parser / engine is a major cluster of if statements in order to be backward compatible with the various versions throughout the years. Thank God for duct tape.
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I have no idea how this is related, but I have been using RTF files lately (don't ask why) and I noticed they are significantly larger than .doc or .docx files.
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Yeah, it is a pretty inefficient format. It also hasn't been updated in many, many years (and as others pointed out is full of cruft).
TTFN - Kent
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Probably related to compression in Word - not sure. I don't think RTF has built in compression.
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Emoji — the tiny art that can be stuck in texts, emails, and elsewhere to emote thoughts, feelings, and replace entire words — doesn't have a whole lot of diversity when it comes to the humans who are depicted.  isn't multicultural?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: isn't multicultural?
It's neutral. Meant to depict an emotion, and not to convey your color.
Apple needs something to have a headline, and racism is always a good one. But logically, it's a step backwards, exactly as expected from said company.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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How about giving us an emoji to show the middle-finger salute?
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