Can I suggest adding OCR capability to your license generation system? . . .

Kamen Nik wrote:

I don't know about library, but if it's a class, never, you simply shouldn't if it used across several systems.

Hence the ghost of NextStep that lingers on in every Mac and iDevice...

That's old news - there was an Infoworld article saying that at the start of April last year... http://www.infoworld.com/article/2613504/microsoft-windows/microsoft-windows-microsoft-skips-too-good-windows-9-jumps-to-windows-10.html[^]

Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

So - after all that you get the uncrackable password: c345sq522n

Great... now I have to change my password. Thanks a lot. :)

enhzflep wrote:

Since a pic is worth a thousand words - here's a copy of a pic I saw the other day.
https://www.yellloh.com/posts/i-changed-all-my-passwords-to-incorrect[^]

Great... now I have to change my password. Thanks a lot. :)

loctrice wrote:

However, it's also very standard in graphical environments to use ctrl+c and ctrl+v for copy and paste. It's not just os specific, it's followed by many programs (which is what makes in convention).

Don't forget that this "cntrl+c, cntrl+v" of which you speak is only standard because the Windows and Unix keyboards didn't have the "command" symbol on it and so replaced the "original" command+ short-cuts with "control+" shortcuts when they copied the "original" apple shortcuts...

harr harr

The expanding universe, coupled with its finite age, means that we're not looking into an infinite regression of starlight. Beyond a certain distance, the light either hasn't reached us yet, or is so much red shifted that it isn't visible light anymore.

Scratch [MIT] is actually pretty good at that age. My kids had fun with the book "Super Scratch Programming Adventure!". For Python, "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" [^] is ok, but code academy is probably better, unless they get distracted easily by youtube / pokemon / fungames…

Wrong, and wrong. - if it were just one calculation then your argument might have legs, but there are several independent observations and calculations that only make sense if dark matter exists. See here for more explanation. - No black hole has to have infinite mass (why would it?).

Franc Morales wrote:

Isn't it a fallacy to claim that small government and anarchy are the same thing?

According to Merriam-Webster online[^] anarchy is the extreme version of "small government": 1 a : absence of government b : a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority c : a utopian society of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government 2 a : absence or denial of any authority or established order b : absence of order : disorder

Terrence Dorsey wrote:

How much can you convey with a single button and lights?

Depends on how many lights... I have ... let me see ... 1296000 available here to use in the UI. Seems to work ok for me.

> I would rename the function to GetFilenamesOfFilesInAFolderInASingleStringSeperatadBySemicolons. Then you'd have people laughing at your spelling...

C'mon - aren't you in the software business? What's the cost of parts for a piece of software? What's the value? That's right - there is no relationship. There is obvious value in the iphone that many people are prepared to pay for.

Actually the iPhone has much better specs - eg camera is way better - than the iPod touch. I bought one cos I thought it would be cheap "equivalent" except for phone, but sent it back after a week cos it wasn't...

Why not keep both... Lucily, that's what S did on the Mac - the old menu is still there so I can find things, and the ribbon with it's nice shiny buttons for when the right one just happens to be there when it's needed :laugh:

ok, so looks like you've got a job then - better get onto it and rewrite the app. If the CEO has written it without any programming skills, and he's attracted a bunch of keen users, and he's already got funding to employ you, then I'd say he's not doing too bad...

Get a grip man - the outrage by the government over the leaks is nothing to do with actual security issues in the field (wikileaks even took the effort to redact personal information in the files) and everything to do with how they are lying to the public about the REAL progress of this long war. Of course they're mad - the leaks show that their pretty stories about how "successful" the war is going are pretty much fantasy.

No, Scratch is not boring. You've got to think what is a six year old going to be interested in programming for, and focus on small tasks with instant payoff. Does she like music? Then program some noise (drums, beeps, etc controlled by the keyboard or mouse), or show her how to record and playback herself singing. Does she like drawing? There's a (primitive) drawing program she can draw a picture - then do a program to spin it around or change its colour. There are plenty of program examples - does she like "Knock knock" jokes? They're pretty funny at that age and she can make her own from the examples.

Try Scratch - it is a visual language with statements set out as visual blocks - almost like a flow chart actually. My kids love it.