Nightshaxx

I do not think this is true. Please tell me what marketing company would both manage Obama's very professional twitter, and at the same time commit fraudulent manipulation of Tesla's stock price.

If what you are saying was true, there would be some sort of evidence. Plus musicians/pop stars are very different from Official corporate twitter.

Someone posted in the main thread that twitter was releasing a new API tommorow. It was definitely getting patched soon.

This makes way more sense than any of the other suggestions in HN.

DMs are almost worthless; who uses DMs for anything important? It's for contacting people you kinda know but not really. State secrets aren't transitted over DM, but not because people wouldn't be stupid enough to do it. the people holding them are much older than the demographic that uses Twitter DMs. Worst case with DMs is some new YouTuber drama would be exposed.

You might want to customize it a bit more to make it clear this is an offical blog. For a few seconds when reading this on mobile I was super confused if this was official or just someone outside MS writing about it.

I have a keychron. It's alright, for some reason I find something about the key layout trips me up (although I've never used a 65%, mechanical, or Mac keyboard before, so one of those may be why). It is pretty high but the solution is to get a 10$ wrist rest.

This is acctually becoming a more common feature. I recently purchased a new mechanical keyboard and a lot of the newer designs are host swappable.

When you have a ton of money and you aren't super Technically savy, you don't always make the right decisions.

That is a fantastic title. I decided to buy it, thanks for the recommendation.

> "You feel like, you guys [the government] never have money for people that really need it, and all of a sudden you have money for everybody,"

The government doesn't have this money, they are borrowing it. Debt levels are increasing like we are in wartime [1] but there is a massive negative impact on jobs, not a positive one like in a war. I have seen more than one person echo this sentiment and I wish people acctually understood where this money is coming from before complaining.

(Yes I know the quote also talks about essential workers not getting more, which I can agree the distribution is skewed incorrectly)

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/economy/coronavirus-debt-defi...

Republicans acctually did try to anticipate this problem with an amendment but Democrats pushed it through. [1]

I don't know how long an amendment would delay the bill, but depending on the time period an argument could be made that this was intentional. Yes, if this was going to delay the bill a few weeks, it probably was just rejected to get it out, but if it would be a few days I think it would be reasonable to consider it.

[2] https://www.vox.com/2020/3/25/21194278/lindsey-graham-corona...

Why would you run _any_ code with a known exploit on a personal machine with your personal data. At minimum make a new user and run it on there for heaven's sake.

That's exactly what the commenter's point was.

Who verifies what is true or not? Much of the media has a bias either way. Who is the arbiter of absolute truth? Who decides when a theory is mature enough to be absolute fact?

To some extent there is a per-country copyright block. There are some videos not available in the US but available other places because of copyright claims. It probably has to do with who the copyright holder is.

Third most crime in 2019* whoops

Camden had the most violent crime in 2019 [1], but are around the 12th highest population in NJ in 2017 [2]. They are the 10th most dangerous city in the country [3] as of 2020 according to neighborhood scout. The FBI ranked it #1 in 2012. [4]

Yep, sure seems like a success story....

[1] https://nj1015.com/the-10-most-violent-cities-in-new-jersey-... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Ne...

https://www.newjersey-demographics.com/cities_by_population

[3] https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/blog/top100dangerous

[4] https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2012/10/compared_to_cities_...

Um Firefox not only has uBlock origin, it's way better than Chrome's version. FF is definitely way better.

Ahhhh.....you know what, now that I think about it, I remember last semester for a class I had to do a bunch of PHP + SQL for a Backend (my first time really using either). I basically just googled a bunch of stuff and I ended up just writing the queries in as strings basically because that's what I saw on a site (very possibly one of the ones in question).

I felt it was wrong because I was concerned about SQL injection, but my professor really didn't care about security so I wasn't too too concerned. Later on my professor mentioned that pre-compiled statements (I think that's what they are called) and I facepalmed because that would have been way more secure and been 5x easier anyways.

So yea, I guess they still are giving bad advice.

Well, I was already using Ff+UblockO, so this is just another reason to keep using it. I would really prefer I not get port scanned.

I saw him talk about how Threat Matrix is usually blocked.....but Threat Matrix has their clients get unique endpoint URLs to disguise it. I don't really know how AdBlock works, but aside from the extra time it would take, why doesn't adblockers look up the record of any URLs on the page and see if they are a CNAME for an A url that is on the block list?

As someone who just graduated college and found geeksforgeeks, cplusplusreference, and w3schools quite helpful for Algorithms, c++ Syntax, and learning some basic web design stuff (respectively).....what should I be using? I see a lot of people hating on them....but they all seemed alright to me. Is it just because they are too basic? (I used a lot of these things for just learning basic things I either forgot the syntax for or needed a quick introduction).

I'd especially like to know for c++.

That's kinda NSFW.....might be helpful next time if you indicated it as such.

Why shut down jobs if they can be safely done with social distancing? Preventing someone from being to exercise their freedoms and feed their family when they aren't harming others is just illogical panic.

I would love to use this....If I had any guarantee Google is going to support this in the long run....

Google doesn't seem to realize it's not easy getting your friends who aren't techheads to move from one platform to another, so in order to switch I have to know this isn't going to die soon. Untill then I'll stick with hangouts/skype. Why couldn't they just keep the hangouts branding? I have no idea, its kind stupid.

(Also yes, I know hangouts is going to die. But it hasn't yet and that's what all my friends already know about.)

Who is to say what's essential?? You've basically locked everyone in their homes, and now you are even trying to deny them delivery of goods they may need. Even things purely for recreation may help ease the tension and stress of lockdown and encourage people to do what the government wants them to do: stay inside.

Name literally anything on the Amazon store, and I can come up with a reasonable senerio where someone could legitimately need it. P

It is a way better way of learning the concept through practice, rather than having students memorize it for a multiple choice section on an exam, then forget it.

You have completely missed the author's point. The issue is not "how can we help students learn to code" the issue is "how can we help students understand the systems that they are coding on since that affects how they code"

Knowing Java runs in a VM very much affects how you have to code. Sure, when you are learning in a 100/200 level class it doesn't, but by the time you graduate if you don't understand the implications, that is bad. Why not make a very simple change early on that gives context for students later on? We shouldn't be teaching students that Java runs in a virtual machine in a 200/300 level class, by that time we should have moved on to why that matters.

Forcing students to continually use java/javac will make them start learning the concepts on how a computer actually processes their program. It makes them think a bit more about it and the concepts are not foreign when they learn it in a full class. The IDE just turns the whole process into a single button with little context.

whooooppsss

The point of the article is the very concept that the compiler and the Java runtime environment are not the same thing (which an IDE obfuscates to some extent) is what he wants students to learn early on. (And details like that). This leads into a lot of important concepts around how programming languages are seen by the computer.

Not arguing that we shouldn't have anticipated this more, but to be fair the "next big things" that we were prepared for, you might not have noticed.

For instance I'm sure there are tons of serious terrorist threats that the government has prevented, but when one acctually happens, everyone complains how the government doesn't know what to do about terrorists. I'm definitely not saying they shouldnt have prevented it....just be aware of the bias.