jblz

Very fun. I found a bug that lets me skip levels 8-11 by using this code in the phone callback on level 7:

  if ( ! ( player.cc && player.cc.length ) ) {
       player.cc = ['#f00', '#ff0', '#0f0'];
  }
  player.setColor(player.cc.shift());

It says it's loading the next level, but the code and gamefield remain stuck on level 7 until you push it to level 12.

Along these lines, the Botball program is a pretty amazing way to teach hands on engineering.

Bummer the OP just missed the 2014 Greater San Diego Tournament by a few days

http://www.botball.org/sca/2014/tournament

This was the only April Fools gag that I even chuckled at this year. Good stuff :)

Looks like Twitter is doing something similar. One of the commenters here shows some decompiled code:

http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/57726/twitter-rec...

"Read your text messages (SMS or MMS) If you add a phone number to your account, this allows us to confirm your phone number automatically by finding the confirmation code that we send via text message."

That's a pretty crap feature to use to justify this.

https://www.facebook.com/help/210676372433246

Not sure why you say that. WordPress.com offers 2-Factor Auth:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/two-step-authentica...

There are also tons of available security plugins & pretty extensive documentation on hardening a self-hosted install:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

Because hackers are people..?

"It's (for me) evolved into my less-close friends' vacations and babies and memes."

This. Further, I think Fb serves a very important purpose in my life: it has supplanted any need or desire to attend a high school reunion. I can easily find out "what you've been up to" if I care in the slightest. Also, upvoted b/c babies are cute :)

You can easily loop through the results of this call with for or while:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

WordPress supports Post by email:

Self-hosted: http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email

WordPress.com: http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/

...also, if you're traveling FTL, then time travel isn't that much of a stretch. So, ya.

This article assumes a lot:

* The aliens who possess the technological ability to reach Earth are the ones who built it and evolved alongside it. Who's to say they didn't take it by force?

* FTL is something that must be developed through technology. (i.e. discounting the possibility of naturally occurring wormholes)

* The aliens have no inherent desire for exploration

Yes, I've watched too much Sci-fi :)

In general, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're knowledgeable about things they purport to be knowledgeable about. I don't think that's so different from the instant situation here.

Walking a crowded expo floor is a chore in and of itself (maybe more-so for introverts like myself :) ), but the '10 GDC I attended wasn't particularly challenging in this regard.

You're discounting the second half of the sentence you quoted:

> but barring that, selfish as it may sound, if I could have substituted all the plain-clothes promoters for traditional booth babes, I would have done it in a heartbeat.

Of course, progress isn't a panacea, but I'd take progress over the "old days," myself. I've personally seen the number of confidently technical women at conferences increase year over year for the past decade (please note, I'm not saying that the status quo is optimal, just that, in my experience, there _has_ been progress).

Moreover, the _title_ of the piece concludes with "Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse" which contradicts what you said.

If I'm understanding correctly, the author would prefer it if non-technical female expo floor workers were scantily-clad so she would be less likely to be assumed by other conference-goers to be non-technical herself..? I'm sorry, but I find that pretty offensive.

I don't claim to know what it's like to be a woman in a heavily male-dominated field (or just your de facto patriarchy, for that matter), but I also don't assume anyone I'm talking to at a conference has any reason to believe I possess any sort of prowess or authority without my convincing them of such even while donning my geekiest T-shirts.

More importantly, I assume anyone representing a product or service at a show is knowledgeable about its inner-workings until they give me some reason to believe otherwise regardless of their gender or attire.

While I appreciate that it is often difficult dealing with misogyny at conferences, I think it's unfair to lump a proper PR employee in with a model in a Princess Leia slave bikini who knows nothing about the product.

See also: The NeverEnding Story

because people like to say, "Salsa!"

Akismet, while a plugin, is included in the default WordPress install -- it just has to be activated. I'm not sure how a standalone install of WordPress would competently fight spam in the automated manner you're advocating. Since spam techniques are constantly evolving, it's a pretty challenging machine-learning problem to stay a step ahead. That's where services such as Akismet come in.

http://akismet.com/how/

Here's another set that goes up to 128px: http://icondrawer.com/flag-icons.php

They're free, but require attribution unless you buy a 'royalty-free license.'

The MIT-licensed reference server is on github. Get to forkin'!

https://github.com/tent/tentd

right now if you don't mind pre-release code:

browse source:

    http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve

check it out:

    svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve /path/to/your/themes/dir/twentytwelve

It was worth the wait if you ask me :)

This is tremendously cool!

Any plans for MacOS (or other *nix) support?

Really good stuff. I'll try to take it to heart.

Thanks for sharing :)

Small gripe: 30em-wide text is pretty tough (for me, at least) to read on a high-res display

Until Microsoft either discontinues support for Windows XP or releases a modern version of IE for it, libraries like jQuery are all but necessary, in my opinion.

I don't buy the contention that's being bandied about that "the middle class has shrunk in size." If you look at the Pew report, the relative size of the middle class is only established as a function of responses to a survey question asking people to self-identify into economic class.

Comparing the results of this sort of survey over time isn't scientifically supportive of that claim because there is not a universally accepted academic model for class -- even the experts disagree.

"It's not just you! http://blog.stevensanderson.com looks down from here."

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://blog.stevensan...

This looks like a cool product. Consider linking to your FAQ or including a blurb about what Datomic is in the announcement -- I had to go digging to figure out WTF it was as opposed to what it was compared to the Pro version. Cheers :)

s/Word[Pp]ress/web host or configuration/

Ideally, IE8 should be your minimum. There's a large contingent of web users still on Windows XP and IE9+ is not available for it. XP is in extended support until 2014-08-14 & yes, I'm counting down the days.