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It seems like semicolon insertion is an example of browsers being liberal acceptors of slop. Good that the rules are codified by ECMA, much like HTML5's error recovery parsing rule…

Phase-change memory.

Psh, people have known for ages that marijuana can expand the mind. (Sorry, that one was just too easy.)

In a real world program you would validate input and make sure you get something callable (with either technique). The only additional unexpected behavior is when there could be un…

As a dynamic language, Python already has similar tables built in. You can use something like: getattr(self, 'handle_%s' % action)

Schematic tables [ http://subtextual.org/OOPSLA07.pdf ] are an extension of this idea that can handle arbitrarily complex conditionals. Unfortunately, they only work in Subtext [ h…

> here is an idea that can be easily implemented right now and that will cover the 100% of the web design community needs.

> If you think for a moment how exactly non-standard fonts are used in the web design, it will immediately make perfect sense. They are used sparingly for headers, menus and such a…

Their claim is pathetic, based on hypothetical misrepresentation. I hope they save face and drop it, and maybe rethink how how many lawyers a community college needs.

I wouldn't put all those messages up there with my own copyright notice. Besides that, I only see profile pics next to a few cyclists, so that could use a fix. Seems like this coul…

Digg can avoid pissing people off with this by adding their own framebuster. If the frameset's HTTP referrer is Digg, then the DiggBar is a potentially useful toolbar. If the refer…

If you figure out the answer to this, politicians, PR people, and journalists will be knocking down your door. Once misinformation is publicized, it is very hard to correct. This c…

I like this game a lot. There are very few original abstract / geometric games. Tetris is a classic because there is nothing like it in the real world (and because it's really fun)…

Reading is another activity done in sedentary solitude. A seven-year old shouldn't spend all day reading or coding, and most wouldn't want to. I wouldn't fret about how young to in…

They're new, so I don't want to dismiss them, but if their selling point is their larger-than-Google index, I'm not buying. On my sample query, I got a web proxy in both the first …

I'm not at the point where I need to disconnect my laptop, but during exams last week and the week before that I used this user stylesheet in Firefox: @namespace url(http://www.w3.…

This looks very interesting. I'm far from knowledgeable in this area, but I'd think radiation-created transient errors would be a serious problem with something this small.

You can fetch all of the comments by comment_link_id in a single query, then work with the result to recursively print the tree.

Learning a library is not the way I would recommend learning a language. At 12 years old, javascripter has no time constraint to build a product fast. javascripter, learn about Jav…

I haven't gotten through all of it, but I really like the New Turing Omnibus, by A.K. Dewdney. It's about computer science, not how to program, so it would be interesting to non-ha…

How odd. I was meeting my dad in NYC, waiting for him in a Starbucks, gave him the corner it was on. He went to the Starbucks 1 block over. After waiting for me a while, he asked a…