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Warren Teitelman described a lot of the great work done at Xerox PARC in "Ten Years of Window Systems - A Retrospective View" in the book "Methodology of Window Management," Procee…

I wrote that article about nine years ago, and OpenLaszlo never took over the world the way I hoped it would, but Max Carlson, one of its chief architects, is working on reimplemen…

I've worked on two user interface systems that used on constraints and data binding for layout and configuration, which worked very well. http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/69 C…

NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS coherently: used PostScript code instead of JavaScript for programming. used PostScript graphics inste…

The PHP manual pages are full of user comments with helpful suggestions just like that, which incompetent programmers copy and paste into production systems. But I think of it as a…

And no SQL keywords allowed in passwords. Because they like to advertise that they don't bother escaping user input before concatenating sql strings to store plain text passwords i…

And don't forget to immediately revoke your old marriage certificate, reissue a new one, and invalidate all your old keys and cookies, or else your relationship is vulnerable to a …

Obviously it's Mrs. Charlotte Faye Wylie Med's National Provider Identifier Number -- what did you think it was? Did you already forget??!

How about they revoke your free certificate for free, but if you want another certificate for the same domain, you have to pay for it.

Well Ted Nugent (not to mention Ann Coulter) got away with calling Obama a "monkey," and he's the highly respected darling of the GOP, whose endorsement is sought after and appreci…

That will just drive people to make sarcastic commit messages.

At the National Air and Space Museum reception during Washington DC EduCom in 1988, I took a big bite out of one lobe at the bottom of a three lobed red bell pepper so it looked li…

And remember that "a hate group" is actually "more than one hate groups" because Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul definitely qualify as haters and bigots. If you have the stomach, google …

You should respect him if he had the integrity to earnestly change his views. But he deserves absolutely no respect for sticking to views that are wrong and hateful that he refuses…

So you're saying it was wrong for the Supreme Court to strike down bans on mixed race marriages because at the time an overwhelming majority of Americans were against it? Why do yo…

Society has the right to protect itself from intolerant bigots like Brendan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Michael Walzer asks "Should we tolerate the intolera…

It's certainly always possible to change what you believe, and that's a lot more ethical than lying about what you believe. Of course, Brendan is a failure as a CEO and a decent hu…

The difference is that the people who stuck their neck out for racial equality, gay rights and women's rights were objectively right, but Brendan Eich is objectively wrong. And tha…

Your idea that human rights are about social consensus is really dangerous. The argument that homosexuality is acceptable is not based on cultural attitudes, it's based on science …

It speaks to his integrity as a hateful bigot that he didn't have the human decency to change his beliefs based on the fact that he was completely incapable of coming up with a val…

Not to be confused with the other "guy", Josh Mattingly: "The original concept work came from Indie Statik’s then-face Josh Mattingly and Game Jolt founder David DeCarmine, back be…

Philosopher Karl Popper asserted, in The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1, that we are warranted in refusing to tolerate intolerance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_to…

Welcome to the club of being even more hurt. A lot of people disagree with you, because they believe financially supporting Proposition 8 is prima facia evidence of homophobia, jus…

Explain that to the many religious people who used their religion to justify racism and misogony, as they now use their religion to justify homophobia. You can cherry pick and whit…