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Agreed, and we use Markdown where we can. But inevitably some product manager comes along and demands tables inside tables or embedded reuse of content... and it's back to DITA.

OxygenXML makes the OT much more manageable. I haven't had to touch an OT XSL transform in a few years now. Worth every penny.

Professional tech writer here: We use GitHub and a tool called OxygenXML to write docs-as-code in an XML DTD called "DITA". It's a hefty IBM invention from the early aughts, but it covers every use case I've thrown at it, from small documentation sets to multi-thousand-page monsters. Supports PDF, HTML, Word, and many other output types.

Given how regularly Western Bitcoin exchanges are hacked, I'm not convinced anyone has the knowledge to securely manage a Bitcoin attack.

Google Home 10 years ago

Now, looking at a device like this, I automatically compare it to something like a tractor or plow. It demands constant connectivity to Google HQ... it's full of secret code... it requires, for its basic paradigm, a private company's acquisition of staggering amounts of surveillance... and so on.

As someone who used to write code for snowplows, they're also becoming quite centralized. Location, plow settings, salt per mile/km usage and other values are tracked in real time from the municipal office. Municipalities are increasingly strapped for cash, so performing real-time data analysis on their services can save them quite a bit of money in the long run.

As long as the people submitting those pull requests understood the ramifications of contributing code gratis to a proprietary platform, there's nothing sad about it.

Please don't post LWN subscriber-only content until it's released to the public. I value LWN and would like to see its subscriber numbers increase, not have its content poached by content aggregators.

Agreed, GP's post was about the technical merits of PS. PowerShell may be the greatest thing since virtual desktops, but that doesn't help me until PS 3.0 is included in the OS by default. Since my customer base is decidedly conservative on OS upgrades, it's going to be a while until I can try out any of those great PS features.

This cmdlet is introduced in Windows PowerShell 3.0.

So... I can only guarantee it's included on my customers' computers if they have Windows 8 or higher. I'm happy most of them moved from XP to 7. Maybe I can start shipping PowerShell instead of batch files in 2020.

We're delivering CHM now and migrating to shipping folders with plain-old-HTML. Customers get the same content locally when they press F1 as they would if they found the documentation online.

Note that if you ship HTML files onto the user's hard drive you may have to implement Marks of the Web on each page so the page is rendered as part of the "internet zone". If you don't, certain javascript features (namely AJAX requests) are disabled as they could be a security risk. Alternatively, ship a small webserver to handle the AJAX requests.

More info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537628%28v=vs.85%2...

It would be the right thing for Google to remove SPDY at this point

It's going away, just maybe not soon enough for everyone's tastes. From the blog:

We plan to remove support for SPDY in early 2016

For the low, low price of $2000 you can buy one of my new, patent-pending Thunderbolt TPM dongles. Simply plug it in, reboot your machine, and you're protected from future EFI firmware changes! One use and you're protected, so pass it on to family and friends!

Includes other Thunderstrike implementations and official Apple updates.

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Welcome to a comet 12 years ago

That's one of the audio cables from the sound stage. If you look closely you can see the shadow of a boom mic on one of the rocks.

2051: One brave racoon escapes from a human-controlled racoon detention and experimentation center. He steals a ship and heads out into the Milky Way.

2052: Rocket Racoon forms an alliance with a Flora Colossi named Groot.

At the moment jquery.com loads with the following content:

  <body>I'm looking for a new job, I'm so sorry for this experiment with iframe, no one was injured, all files was permanently deleted. Greetz: Umputun, Bobuk, Gray, Ksenks @ radio-t.com My PGP public key is:
    <key>
  </body>
I think it's safe to say they've been hacked.

Quick, before you go, write two scripts and corresponding cron jobs that convert tabs to N spaces, or N spaces to tabs. Then, set them up to commit to your favorite repo on alternating days.

Now you can enjoy your vacation while pissing off your fellow contributors at the same time!