Form, input, maxlength
Some registration scenario.1. Use a program to generate a unique and strong password.2. Copy the password to the clipboard.3. Paste the password into the text input field for passwords.4. (The pasted...
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1. Some website gets redesigned.2. Some developer node is oblivious to the original size of the maxlength field in the input text field for passwords.3. Some node with a long password (that would be...
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SHA-1, MD5, and the future. These hash functions are tentative measures, as most everything is, and therefore, most things should be viewed as tentative. All scientists must know this. All "computer...
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The cinema or the movie theater or kino
The movie theater experience always sucks!...and now (2005-05-23) I have glowing cell phones to the left, to the right, and in front. There are nodes with the smell of ashtrays or worse, panning still...
View ArticleAdapt to frequent visitors
(Principles are subjective.)1:2 Adapt design for those who frequent the website.Here I have put Labels first, not the Profile part. Why? Because frequent visitors don't care about seeing the same...
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Credits should always come last. Most nodes do not care about who did what, and those who are genuinely interested will look it up.Richard Donner agrees.Movies that don't show credits at the beginning;...
View ArticleQuestionable programming (QP) in C++
In questionable progamming (QP), there are two kinds of possible return values for non-special member functions; these are bool and void, the two possible return values for non-special member...
View ArticleThe most important part of information
The most important part of information is (still) the date and time.
View ArticleIn retrospect
This quote has little to do with Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass.[0h:41m:10s] "At the moment we have a system where we use Oracle at CERN, and MySQL at the other institutions. In...
View Article"Simultaneous" events
Have you ever read something, while at the "same time" listening to something (radio, TV, video, ...) in the "background", ánd, have you then noticed that, as you read the word, you heard someone utter...
View ArticleNaming scheme for digital storage units
Overall contextThis paper defines a consistent naming scheme intended for use in the communication of storage units. This naming scheme is intended to replace less concrete symbols used to describe...
View ArticleLess anonymous posts
Anonymous posters are often tagged with a generic name, such as "nobody" (if you've been to SourceForge). Some forum systems publish the IP address of these posters for all to see, but a better...
View ArticleDetecting overflow/underflow when adding/subtracting unsigned integers in C++
Assume three unsigned integers of the same type. In these examples, the type is char unsigned, but it can be any other unsigned integer type. In these examples, UCHAR_MAX is 255.(Observe that, in any...
View ArticlePride in not knowing
[00m:12s] "It's become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science, and proudly claim incompetence in...
View ArticleAimee Bender on the writing process.
[Aimee Bender] So I am one of the ones with a very set regiment which uhm—And the way it happened for me is that I kind of didn't have, I mean I—I think about this a lot, coz I think it really affects...
View ArticleAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)—Computers in Entertainment 2006
2006 ACM Computers in EntertainmentAnnual Scholarship Awards Reception[Newton Lee, presenter] And now, please welcome my hero, my mentor, my dear friend Dr. Alan Kay. (applause)[Alan C. Kay] Thanks a...
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The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet, OOPSLA 1997
Title: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened YetLocation: Atlanta, GeorgiaTalk by: Alan C. KayDate: [1997-10-05, 1997-10-09]Transcript by: A. R. Svendsen (started 2007-09-30)Transcript release: 1...
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