Re:Simulating JonKatz: A Case Study
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Two By Katz
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Excellent. I've alluded to this a few times, I do the same with JWZ's dadadodo, and your program seems to do a good job as well. Does it generate lots of paragraphs that you hand-picked?
Getting the last 20 or so stories and filtering out the slashdot crap in shell script isn't that hard, eventually I'll keep around some permanent scripts for it. Once I get to the real pages, win no comments preferably, I dump them with lynx, and use head and tail to get the "content"...
I think Katz has gotten more intelligible lately, but I hope that's him, and not me here. I don't want to end up understanding him and going insane!;) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
First off, the Linux download is smaller. The disk images are exactly the same, but Windows users get an installer, and some tools they need to get it working / make it easier.
I know because before I found the Linux version, I was trying to get the Windows version to work. I eventually managed to get all the files extracted using Wine, and it has a disk image, a file system image, etc.
The disk images for Windows and Linux are different; the (512 MB!) file system image is the same.
BeOS can't find its file system image with either disk. I put all its stuff in '/home/beos', which is a separate partition on my machine, so this should work. It bitches about the superblock, I tried enabling/disabling DMA transfers, etc., etc.
Does support for IDE harddrives or ext2 under BeOS blow this bad, or is it just me? I'm using pretty generic hardware here... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Don't link to something that isn't the article. At least someone posted it later...
Pardon me? Of *course* I know what ROT-13 is. A while back, I posted about using rounds of ROT-26 for encryption...;)
unity% which rot13 rot13: aliased to tr A-MN-Za-mn-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m
You use it on USENET when you don't want to spoil a joke for someone. But all the jokes here on slashdot have been spoiled lately, so maybe we should have used it... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I didn't see this story at all, even in German. Couldn't they make up a correct link next time?
Oh well, linking to German is better than mangling it, I guess.
I did find this April Fool's joke on CT, though. Replacing a real estate site with a porn site, what a great idea! Or maybe they could start an "Amateurs" site with real estate agents...:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
No, I hadn't! I'm going to have to show that one to my girlfriend... She'll love the "PsyDuck with a railgun"... I'd buy some PokeQuake merchandise, that'd be so funny!
If anyone else has other cool news that I missed, please post it, this is much better than the Slashdot news today... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Finally, slashdot posts some *funny* April Fools Day links!:)
I don't know who linked to it before, but the newsletter over at ticalc.org did the translations right, with a human to mangle them! I laughed and laughed... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Dude, for once, Barrapunto is *much* better than Slashdot. I can't read Spanish that well, but it's a lot more readable than this crap, and I know they carried the Google MentalPlex story that I submitted to Slashdot last night... Go figure.
Oh well, at least slashdot finally linked to something on salon.
Before everyone starts spouting off about this, uninformed, stay calm and follow the links!
Look-and-feel cases are old news, but they're coming back in a big way, and patent infringement is serious business, in this case US Patent number 5,876,324, which Andover might use to put kuro5hin in a world of pain!
I say we Slashdot Slashdot about what we think of Andover.net's behavior! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I had a special boot configuration just for Ultima VII, because nothing else would work. It also ran a bit too fast on my P133. (I got it late, there was no way it would have run on my 386 when it came out--it'd be like trying to run Ultima IX on that P133.:)
At one point, since I didn't know what else to do with my 32MB of RAM, and I was sick of hearing the disk grind, I loaded U7 into a 17MB compressed RAM drive. It was pretty quiet then!
It looks like they wrote their own XMS management routines, with garbage collection in the interpreter, and references to "voodoo memory", and lots of debugging. Looks like a hack to me!
Ah, those were the days. I need to play through the old games, and I want to at least try U9. I think my favorite was Ultima V on the C64. I still have the map and the manuals, and also the collection... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
...using the OSS[1]-emulation from the OSS[2] ALSA project, I managed to produce an OSS[3] from my hi-fi speakers...
Seriously, though, that was a good article. I'll just be happy if I can get a sound card that does full duplex under Linux, I want to try out those Internet phone programs... (multiple DSP's would be cool too!)
I haven't checked out the ALSA project, but I've been having problems with some poorly written applications that end up locking up my sound card. However, if it gets stuck into the kernel anyhow, or if I get a new sound card, hopefully my problems will go away.
--- 1) Open Sound System 2) Open Source Software 3) Optimum Stereo Signal
Well, no, if you've ever seen an NT box recover from a crash, you should know how false that is.
1) It isn't all journaled, just the metadata.
2) If it doesn't need much "Fscking", then... Mommy, what's that blue chkdsk-lookin' thing on boot-up?
I don't know what you could do to clean up an NT machine, but I'd like to see it. Maybe Windows 2000 will be the big answer to your problems. ("Wait for the upgrade"...) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Re:Because '>'s waste bandwidth.....
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Hoax-a-go-go!
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Sweet, I wrote the same thing (in C) a while back.
I'm going to write another version eventually that only chops the message to a fixed space after the last >, because otherwise it'll mange ASCII art. (I tried it on your page just to make sure that it works the same way mine does...)
Hmm. I browsed that page in lynx, and didn't have a problem figuring it out. The left frame was "menu", since lynx supports frames. (and it should, since frames finally made it into the spec--are there any major browsers that don't support frames anymore?)
I would have preferred tables because I still think frames are evil, but okay. (On Lynda's main page, she's got a kewl script that breaks out of frames.;)
I know why people use graphics that are simply text. If there were a good, standard way to give everyone the same fonts, we could just use that. But there isn't, not really.
Lynx also shows the names of the images in the links, and these images are all named consistently. The ALT text would be exactly the same, except without the ".gif". w3m goes one better, and just shows the names, and that they are images.
Sure, these are technically errors, but please explain to me who would run into them? Someone using Mosaic with image loading turned off? Please. It isn't great, sure, but it isn't a "monstrosity".
However, you're right, someone doesn't know how to write HTML, was in a hurry, or hacked a pre-existing page. You should never have a closing body without a starting body tag, and frames don't need a starting body tag, so...
But even with all that, these pages look fine in most any browser, AFAICT. Isn't that the point? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Specifically, what is Lynda doing that deliberately breaks cross-platform compatibility? Her pages looked readable in w3m under Linux, and that's good enough for me.
Open standards and cross-platform compatibility *can* exist, but not enough people use it! There's a big difference between writing a spec and making people conform to it. Until the HTML spec is *better* than what Evil-Browser-X wants you to do, people aren't going to use it, and Conformant-Browser-Y will be broken.
Therefore, a project like Mozilla is a step in the right direction: a great, spec-conformant browser with a fast engine that people can use for their own projects might cause people to write HTML with it in mind. (web browsers are like platforms for HTML) If so, the HTML would naturally be more spec-conformant because the browser is.
In an ideal world, the W3C would put out the best browser, and the spec would be friendlier than anything a corporation can come up with. Do you now understand that we live in a far less than ideal world, the spec is a nasty compromise with big corporate interests looming over it, and Amaya is an ugly-looking, unpopular browser?
Are you now wishing for people to use those darn open standards, and write pages with cross-platform compatibility in mind?
I know I am. I'd rather use HTML and JPEGs than let PowerPoint mangle perfectly good images, but people like me are in the minority, and the majority has taken over the web. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Even if a post doesn't contribute to the discussion, *or* if you don't like it, it isn't redundant unless it's been said. And in this case, it seriously wasn't offtopic, since people were *still* posting interview questions! I would moderate it as "Informative".
A warning like that needs to be at the top, so people don't waste their time writing questions that won't be answered, and seriously don't waste their time flaming other people who write the questions...
I know how people get mod points, but I have yet to see the logic in the system. I've been reading slashdot a lot less lately, but I'm sure I'm not an average user, or whatever they're looking for.
From what I've read thus far, I like Lynda because she seems to understand the realities of the situation while still hoping for a real solution.
You must realize that web sites would be much more usable and aesthetically pleasing if they worked the same way, on all web browsers? Like maybe if I didn't have to see unsupported character codes in HTML that only work in Windows/IE5 for some reason? Hmm? I wonder why that happens...
And for the record, I didn't say a damn thing about "Open Source", she did, and you did. I liked the quote, and was surprised I found it there, amid all the web newbie tool talk, and thought the Slashdot community might find it interesting. I also mentioned the other web design points I was interested in from the article, which you chose to ignore. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Actually, I still think the "magic 'O' word" in this case is "Open standards", but the other two 'words' are required to ensure that.
However, Open Source goes a long way to helping out the other three goals: if you can simply recompile, or patch the source, what could be more open and friendly than that? It's additional and optional, and programmer-friendly. No one else should care, except that they might get an enhanced product out of the deal. But we'll see how Netscape 6 is soon enough...
But I was just sharing a quote I found interesting, that raised my opinion of Lynda, who I had never heard of before. And as no one else commented on it before me, could someone kindly explain how I'm "Redundant" too?
I also thought the guy posting to explain that this wasn't a "Slashdot Interview" candidate was being very helpful, and I think he got moderated down for his troubles. Do I not get moderator access because they know I won't moderate down the good posts? No, really, I'd like a reply, preferably from the people who moderate down on this thread.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
And yeah, it still doesn't validate, but the W3C Validator is strict, and pretty crappy too. And the CSS validates just fine. Pretty good, for a (probably hacked) "Adobe GoLive 4" generated page.
And remember: Valid HTML might be syntactically correct, but that doesn't make it Good. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
At first I was somewhat dismayed, seeing that she writes books about Photoshop and Dreamweaver, and teaches courses on Flash, but then I saw this:
Wendy:If you could have one wish, forgetting the practicality of whether it can be done, what would you like to see changed in the Web development world?
Lynda: Open standards, open source, browser compatibility and cross-platform compatibility. A tall order indeed.
Keep up the good work, Lynda! I completely agree with using tables to organize text properly.
Oh, and the 216-color "web-safe" palette is obsolete: it has always looked nasty, all by itself! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Slashdot is pretty arrogant, and if it were any more interactive, JonKatz would get the *crap* beaten out of him on a daily basis...
Hmm. Well, he wouldn't like that, but some of us might... I mean, he does ask for it... But then he'd have to write about it, and it'd be "Another Columbine" and "Voices from the Bathroom" and whatever...:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
It struck me as a much better book than the one they used here for the intro classes, (written at least partially by Perry--don't take her class, I'm not even going to speculate about little boys on Hillsborough St.;) but that isn't saying much.
Whatever happened to the K&R book? Oh wait, that's C. Mommy, why aren't they writing in C?
But to be fair, I was really interested in what Stroustrup had to say about programming in C++ with the STL. I'm amazed that it's such a well-written class library that it can be more efficient than flat-out C code for simple things... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Considering the incredibly low opinion his students have of him, maybe he should listen before he opens his big mouth and digs himself into a deeper hole.
But does he listen? No, he whines. Well, I guess his critics were right, then.
And he must have paid extra to that boy on Polk St., not to tell...;)
Oops, I defamed him in a public forum! Ban Slashdot and the Internet! It's evil! People can express their opinions without censorship! BURN ALL TEXT!!! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Re:First ontopic post? Informative even?
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Update On WorkSpot
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Yeah, I had that happen too. Some trigger-happy maintenance programmer out there needs to tune his perl script...
I don't think these "free account" places can possibly last. All the old "free account" of any sort usually ends up failing miserably sooner or later. With a limited supply (of servers) and a near infinite demand (of lamers), and no revenue generator that I've heard of yet, this sounds like a real loser.
So I can buy stock in it, and become a millionaire, right?:)
I haven't been posting on slashdot that much lately. Is this crap normal now? 17/83? Come on, people!
First Post Above Score:1, yeah!;) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
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Excellent. I've alluded to this a few times, I do the same with JWZ's dadadodo, and your program seems to do a good job as well. Does it generate lots of paragraphs that you hand-picked?
;)
Getting the last 20 or so stories and filtering out the slashdot crap in shell script isn't that hard, eventually I'll keep around some permanent scripts for it. Once I get to the real pages, win no comments preferably, I dump them with lynx, and use head and tail to get the "content"...
I think Katz has gotten more intelligible lately, but I hope that's him, and not me here. I don't want to end up understanding him and going insane!
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First off, the Linux download is smaller. The disk images are exactly the same, but Windows users get an installer, and some tools they need to get it working / make it easier.
I know because before I found the Linux version, I was trying to get the Windows version to work. I eventually managed to get all the files extracted using Wine, and it has a disk image, a file system image, etc.
The disk images for Windows and Linux are different; the (512 MB!) file system image is the same.
BeOS can't find its file system image with either disk. I put all its stuff in '/home/beos', which is a separate partition on my machine, so this should work. It bitches about the superblock, I tried enabling/disabling DMA transfers, etc., etc.
Does support for IDE harddrives or ext2 under BeOS blow this bad, or is it just me? I'm using pretty generic hardware here...
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Don't link to something that isn't the article. At least someone posted it later...
;)
Pardon me? Of *course* I know what ROT-13 is. A while back, I posted about using rounds of ROT-26 for encryption...
unity% which rot13
rot13: aliased to tr A-MN-Za-mn-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m
You use it on USENET when you don't want to spoil a joke for someone. But all the jokes here on slashdot have been spoiled lately, so maybe we should have used it...
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What about just changing the names, and making "Informative" into "Troll" and "Insightful" into "Flamebait", so we can have (Score: +3, Troll)?
I mean, that's basically how it works *now*, you'd just be fixing a bug! Yeah, that's it...
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I didn't see this story at all, even in German. Couldn't they make up a correct link next time?
:)
Oh well, linking to German is better than mangling it, I guess.
I did find this April Fool's joke on CT, though. Replacing a real estate site with a porn site, what a great idea! Or maybe they could start an "Amateurs" site with real estate agents...
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Nope, looks like business as usual.
:)
Those whacky '1337 d00ds...
"Phree Phiber Optik!!1!"
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No, I hadn't! I'm going to have to show that one to my girlfriend... She'll love the "PsyDuck with a railgun"... I'd buy some PokeQuake merchandise, that'd be so funny!
If anyone else has other cool news that I missed, please post it, this is much better than the Slashdot news today...
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Finally, slashdot posts some *funny* April Fools Day links! :)
I don't know who linked to it before, but the newsletter over at ticalc.org did the translations right, with a human to mangle them! I laughed and laughed...
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Dude, for once, Barrapunto is *much* better than Slashdot. I can't read Spanish that well, but it's a lot more readable than this crap, and I know they carried the Google MentalPlex story that I submitted to Slashdot last night... Go figure.
Oh well, at least slashdot finally linked to something on salon.
Låhdo+: n£ws FoR Lus£RZ, tuFf thå+ M@++urZ,
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Before everyone starts spouting off about this, uninformed, stay calm and follow the links!
Look-and-feel cases are old news, but they're coming back in a big way, and patent infringement is serious business, in this case US Patent number 5,876,324, which Andover might use to put kuro5hin in a world of pain!
I say we Slashdot Slashdot about what we think of Andover.net's behavior!
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Heh heh heh.
:)
I had a special boot configuration just for Ultima VII, because nothing else would work. It also ran a bit too fast on my P133. (I got it late, there was no way it would have run on my 386 when it came out--it'd be like trying to run Ultima IX on that P133.
At one point, since I didn't know what else to do with my 32MB of RAM, and I was sick of hearing the disk grind, I loaded U7 into a 17MB compressed RAM drive. It was pretty quiet then!
It looks like they wrote their own XMS management routines, with garbage collection in the interpreter, and references to "voodoo memory", and lots of debugging. Looks like a hack to me!
Ah, those were the days. I need to play through the old games, and I want to at least try U9. I think my favorite was Ultima V on the C64. I still have the map and the manuals, and also the collection...
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And The Wizardry Compiled, I think.
Great books, anyhow. Rick Cook also writes relatively clueful tech articles...
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...using the OSS[1]-emulation from the OSS[2] ALSA project, I managed to produce an OSS[3] from my hi-fi speakers...
Seriously, though, that was a good article. I'll just be happy if I can get a sound card that does full duplex under Linux, I want to try out those Internet phone programs... (multiple DSP's would be cool too!)
I haven't checked out the ALSA project, but I've been having problems with some poorly written applications that end up locking up my sound card. However, if it gets stuck into the kernel anyhow, or if I get a new sound card, hopefully my problems will go away.
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1) Open Sound System
2) Open Source Software
3) Optimum Stereo Signal
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Well, no, if you've ever seen an NT box recover from a crash, you should know how false that is.
1) It isn't all journaled, just the metadata.
2) If it doesn't need much "Fscking", then... Mommy, what's that blue chkdsk-lookin' thing on boot-up?
I don't know what you could do to clean up an NT machine, but I'd like to see it. Maybe Windows 2000 will be the big answer to your problems. ("Wait for the upgrade"...)
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Sweet, I wrote the same thing (in C) a while back.
I'm going to write another version eventually that only chops the message to a fixed space after the last >, because otherwise it'll mange ASCII art. (I tried it on your page just to make sure that it works the same way mine does...)
main()
{
inti=0;
chars[512];
while(gets(s)){
while((s[i]=='>')||(s[i]==''))
i++;
puts(s+i);
i=0;
}
}
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Hmm. I browsed that page in lynx, and didn't have a problem figuring it out. The left frame was "menu", since lynx supports frames. (and it should, since frames finally made it into the spec--are there any major browsers that don't support frames anymore?)
;)
I would have preferred tables because I still think frames are evil, but okay. (On Lynda's main page, she's got a kewl script that breaks out of frames.
I know why people use graphics that are simply text. If there were a good, standard way to give everyone the same fonts, we could just use that. But there isn't, not really.
Lynx also shows the names of the images in the links, and these images are all named consistently. The ALT text would be exactly the same, except without the ".gif". w3m goes one better, and just shows the names, and that they are images.
Sure, these are technically errors, but please explain to me who would run into them? Someone using Mosaic with image loading turned off? Please. It isn't great, sure, but it isn't a "monstrosity".
However, you're right, someone doesn't know how to write HTML, was in a hurry, or hacked a pre-existing page. You should never have a closing body without a starting body tag, and frames don't need a starting body tag, so...
But even with all that, these pages look fine in most any browser, AFAICT. Isn't that the point?
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Specifically, what is Lynda doing that deliberately breaks cross-platform compatibility? Her pages looked readable in w3m under Linux, and that's good enough for me.
Open standards and cross-platform compatibility *can* exist, but not enough people use it! There's a big difference between writing a spec and making people conform to it. Until the HTML spec is *better* than what Evil-Browser-X wants you to do, people aren't going to use it, and Conformant-Browser-Y will be broken.
Therefore, a project like Mozilla is a step in the right direction: a great, spec-conformant browser with a fast engine that people can use for their own projects might cause people to write HTML with it in mind. (web browsers are like platforms for HTML) If so, the HTML would naturally be more spec-conformant because the browser is.
In an ideal world, the W3C would put out the best browser, and the spec would be friendlier than anything a corporation can come up with. Do you now understand that we live in a far less than ideal world, the spec is a nasty compromise with big corporate interests looming over it, and Amaya is an ugly-looking, unpopular browser?
Are you now wishing for people to use those darn open standards, and write pages with cross-platform compatibility in mind?
I know I am. I'd rather use HTML and JPEGs than let PowerPoint mangle perfectly good images, but people like me are in the minority, and the majority has taken over the web.
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Wow. My nemesis, thy name is gargle.
Even if a post doesn't contribute to the discussion, *or* if you don't like it, it isn't redundant unless it's been said. And in this case, it seriously wasn't offtopic, since people were *still* posting interview questions! I would moderate it as "Informative".
A warning like that needs to be at the top, so people don't waste their time writing questions that won't be answered, and seriously don't waste their time flaming other people who write the questions...
I know how people get mod points, but I have yet to see the logic in the system. I've been reading slashdot a lot less lately, but I'm sure I'm not an average user, or whatever they're looking for.
From what I've read thus far, I like Lynda because she seems to understand the realities of the situation while still hoping for a real solution.
You must realize that web sites would be much more usable and aesthetically pleasing if they worked the same way, on all web browsers? Like maybe if I didn't have to see unsupported character codes in HTML that only work in Windows/IE5 for some reason? Hmm? I wonder why that happens...
And for the record, I didn't say a damn thing about "Open Source", she did, and you did. I liked the quote, and was surprised I found it there, amid all the web newbie tool talk, and thought the Slashdot community might find it interesting. I also mentioned the other web design points I was interested in from the article, which you chose to ignore.
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Actually, I still think the "magic 'O' word" in this case is "Open standards", but the other two 'words' are required to ensure that.
:)
However, Open Source goes a long way to helping out the other three goals: if you can simply recompile, or patch the source, what could be more open and friendly than that? It's additional and optional, and programmer-friendly. No one else should care, except that they might get an enhanced product out of the deal. But we'll see how Netscape 6 is soon enough...
But I was just sharing a quote I found interesting, that raised my opinion of Lynda, who I had never heard of before. And as no one else commented on it before me, could someone kindly explain how I'm "Redundant" too?
I also thought the guy posting to explain that this wasn't a "Slashdot Interview" candidate was being very helpful, and I think he got moderated down for his troubles. Do I not get moderator access because they know I won't moderate down the good posts? No, really, I'd like a reply, preferably from the people who moderate down on this thread.
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Well, you have the wrong link, for starters.
Try this one (Lynda with a 'Y').
And yeah, it still doesn't validate, but the W3C Validator is strict, and pretty crappy too. And the CSS validates just fine. Pretty good, for a (probably hacked) "Adobe GoLive 4" generated page.
And remember: Valid HTML might be syntactically correct, but that doesn't make it Good.
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Keep up the good work, Lynda! I completely agree with using tables to organize text properly.
Oh, and the 216-color "web-safe" palette is obsolete: it has always looked nasty, all by itself!
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Slashdot is pretty arrogant, and if it were any more interactive, JonKatz would get the *crap* beaten out of him on a daily basis...
:)
Hmm. Well, he wouldn't like that, but some of us might... I mean, he does ask for it... But then he'd have to write about it, and it'd be "Another Columbine" and "Voices from the Bathroom" and whatever...
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It struck me as a much better book than the one they used here for the intro classes, (written at least partially by Perry--don't take her class, I'm not even going to speculate about little boys on Hillsborough St. ;) but that isn't saying much.
Whatever happened to the K&R book? Oh wait, that's C. Mommy, why aren't they writing in C?
But to be fair, I was really interested in what Stroustrup had to say about programming in C++ with the STL. I'm amazed that it's such a well-written class library that it can be more efficient than flat-out C code for simple things...
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Considering the incredibly low opinion his students have of him, maybe he should listen before he opens his big mouth and digs himself into a deeper hole.
;)
But does he listen? No, he whines. Well, I guess his critics were right, then.
And he must have paid extra to that boy on Polk St., not to tell...
Oops, I defamed him in a public forum! Ban Slashdot and the Internet! It's evil! People can express their opinions without censorship! BURN ALL TEXT!!!
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Yeah, I had that happen too. Some trigger-happy maintenance programmer out there needs to tune his perl script...
:)
;)
I don't think these "free account" places can possibly last. All the old "free account" of any sort usually ends up failing miserably sooner or later. With a limited supply (of servers) and a near infinite demand (of lamers), and no revenue generator that I've heard of yet, this sounds like a real loser.
So I can buy stock in it, and become a millionaire, right?
I haven't been posting on slashdot that much lately. Is this crap normal now? 17/83? Come on, people!
First Post Above Score:1, yeah!
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