Empathy for the user having sex with your software 2 years ago
Hear hear.
The fact that (for the most part) 2 American credit card companies determine what porn people can and cannot watch on-line world-wide is an embodiment of this very problem.
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in most western countries you cannot be fired without cause.
Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed? 16 years ago
JavaScript never required proprietary development tools
To most people I say I sell software. This is what I primarily do today. If I write something, it's in the realm of hacking and to the right crowd I say I'm a hacker.
"This Email Will Self Destruct" 16 years ago
There are several techniques, some of them are:
* Show in a frame on the company's server
* Sends JavaScript code that retrieves the message from the server
* Sends an ActiveX / Java / Flash client that displays the message from the server and resists attempts to copy/paste
* Sends the file with DRM, and a client that would enforce the DRM rules
Being that the website uses flash on its first page, I would hazard a guess that a Flash client is involved. I don't like to login to these sites with credentials from other sites, especially if I only want a bit of information.
By the way the idea isn't new by any stretch of the word. http://readnotify.com have been at it for years.
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How to Appear Incompetent in One Easy Step 16 years ago
...which of course justifies any amount of perpetuating stereotypes and of course teaching how to trick geeks by waiting until they are married to you before making them change their wardrobe. We all know geeks wear only jeans and shorts and wouldn't marry you unless you trick them by pretending you don't care and then you can modify their behaviour.
Really smooth. Puts a more human face on AMD.
Poll: How many hours do you sleep per day? 16 years ago
5 but I make it up on the weekend...
Poll: How do you combat RSI? 16 years ago
I position my hands comfortably so the wrist is in a comfortable natural position. This means always working on a keyboard which top is aligned with my wrist (by using a gel pad).
Flat out refuse to use a keyboard without it. Kept me out of wrist braces for years now.
I have a large, quite unique and difficult to remove sticker on its back. I don't need to be the most secure, only more secure than other people around me.
Oh and I don't leave my laptop unattended for more than a few seconds at a time. That helps too.