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that's a technology, not a feature. A how not a what

what would you do differently than the others?

There is definitely potential for something like this but the symbols seemtoo simplistic - with software they don't need to be easy to draw.

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It's using pictograms and ideograms to tell a story, implicitly using a language. This can and should be extended to a general purpose language.

Unfortunately it looks like this hasn't taken off. An international pictographic language is a great idea tho. This is a better approach imo: https://artreview.com/ara-springsummer-2014-book-review-xu-b... This pictographic book is readable without any training.

Most fountain pens have the nib and feed as one glued unit (confusingly, informally called the 'nib'), so you can't adjust the flow. Compare the 'nibs' at the top and bottom of this page. https://www.gouletpens.com/replacement-nibs/c/294 The ones at the bottom can only be used in Noodlers pens.

The Noodler's also have the feed made of cutable ebonite instead of cheaper plastic, so you can carve out a deeper ink channel if you want.

1. Noodler's fountain pens.

These are 'Hacker-friendly' pens. With most pens the nib and feed are glued in, but in the Noodlers pens they are push fit, so can be adjusted. You can adjust the amount of flex and flow independently.

You can also take out the entire filling mechanism, and use the whole pen body as a reservoir. Neat.

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/209380-noodler...

2. Vim

It was a bold design concept to use 'modes', but it makes it so much more productive.

Seconded. Premature design is worse than premature optimisation.

http://wiki.c2.com/?YouArentGonnaNeedIt

I'd be happy to answer any questions, or take any complaints, suggestions, or compliments.

Cool, but most users won't know what CSS3 or hybrid applications are. Maybe just put "should work with all modern browsers".

The about section says that it's not a CSS framework, but it seems that it is. If you mean it's better than other CSS frameworks, you should just say so.

This was why I flagged it 'OT', which means "Off Topic", i.e. irrelevant.

Different forums have different conventions, and judging by the downvotes even flagged OT is not OK here. I've learned my lesson.

Any deviation from the norms of English calls attention to itself, and distracts from the meaning. This can be done by great writers, but always with reason.

Good writing reveals something about the reader. Bad writing reveals something about the writer.

However since you now seem to agree that it's pretentious, which was my original point, I'll leave it there.

True, however cooperation and coöperation are not.

I'm well aware it's a diaeresis, and that it's part of their house style. That's exactly what I'm objecting to. The diaeresis is obsolete modern English (with rare exceptions) and putting it in interrupts the flow of reading. There is no excuse for it in 'cooperation', and only the only reason they do it is in order to show off they know about it - IOW pretension.

OT, but it's annoying the way The New Yorker writes cooperation 'coöperation' (ditto 'reëlect'). There's zero justification for this, etymologically or orthographically, it's just pure pretension.

Thanks for posting this. The TL;DR version of this article is:

I was asked for my advice, there was a clear cut right answer, that would have been good for the company and good for the future of the internet, but would have upset my bosses.

Instead, I kept my mouth shut to help my career. This makes me "grown as a person" and "politically and socially clueful".

No, it makes you a jerk.

btw, running craigslist is a "public service" and makes me a "philanthropist".

So you've given away the $400 million you made off craigslist, then? No? Then you're a delusional jerk.

Pascal, except for syntax, is similar to C. They are both JAVA (Just Another Version of Algol) languages.

One difference is that Pascal has much better type-safety, which makes it more appropriate for high-integrity software.

I think the only better choice for reliable code would be ADA.

- No hidden volumes.

Actually it not only supports hidden volumes, but unlimited nested ones, while TrueCrypt supports a maximum of one hidden volume, see: https://github.com/t-d-k/LibreCrypt/blob/master/docs/plausib...

It is entirely possible to trojan a system with an encrypted OS partition, by using a bootkit. For extra security, you should boot off a removable medium. Even this can be attacked if the BIOS is infected.

LibreCrypt is useful against very specific threats. Protecting against attackers that have repeated physical access to your PC, and the technical nous to install keyloggers etc. involves way more than just using a particular Windows program, no matter it's features.

It is, and this is stated in the FAQ: https://github.com/t-d-k/LibreCrypt/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md#...

Sadly, the FreeOTFE licence means I had to change the name.

Nor should they have to for that matter.

They don't, they can just leave the defaults.

Disclosure: I am the maintainer of https://github.com/t-d-k/LibreCrypt

The advantage is that if a flaw is discovered in an algorithm, then it is possible to switch to another without changing tools.

Disclosure: I am the maintainer of https://github.com/t-d-k/LibreCrypt

You are correct, cascaded cyphers don't increase security except in exceptional circumstances, and can decrease security if wrongly implemented. But LibreCrypt doesn’t actually support cascaded cyphers, so the point is moot.

The draw of /. used to be its comments. Nowhere else could you get such informative discussions. often with the people involved in the story. The rating-of-comments concept has been copied by many other sites, but few of them have a user reputation system and fewer get it right. This is why I pretty much copied /. for my own site.

There is a usenet thread discussing groups for geeks here: http://squte.com/usenet/comp.misc-list-active-newsgroups

Among those recommended are: comp.editors, comp.os.linux.advocacy, sci.electronics.repair, rec.games.roguelike.nethack, sci.logic, sci.physics.relativity, alt.philosophy & uk.rec.sheds

news:comp.misc is active and interesting http://squte.com provides a moderated interface to newsgroups (it will be familiar if you have ever been to slashdot.org) http://soylentnews.org