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Archive for January 20th, 2016

Registry trick now fails to work for the Yahoo Search Engine update in Java 8 – was: Registry keys to prevent Java installs from adding sponsors (Ask/Google/Yahoo Toolbar, McAfee virus, etc) via: Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/20

Anyone who knows a trick to prevent Java 8 from installing the Yahoo search/toolbar in Chrome and Internet Explorer?

This trick used to work in the past, but fails as of Java 8:


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft]
"SPONSORS"="DISABLE"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft]
"SPONSORS"="DISABLE"
; http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/how-do-i-place-comments-reg-file
; a semi-colon starts a comment line
; http://superuser.com/questions/549028/how-can-i-prevent-ask-com-toolbar-from-being-installed-every-time-java-is-update/562869#562869
; this switch not only disables the Ask.com toolbar installation and prompt, but disables all of the sponsors potentially bundled with the Auto-update setup/Online setup (Google toolbar, Yahoo toolbar, McAfee something, etc…)

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–jeroen

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How to keep a young coder occupied | CommitStrip

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/20

Source: How to keep a young coder occupied | CommitStrip

So mean and yet so many people that think it can work.

Hopefully they one day read: html – RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags – Stack Overflow

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One Hacker Way – Erik Meijer

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/20

Push vs pull. Hacker vs Scrum (they should both be Agile). The meaning of life. Async await (and the whole development stack behind it). Just a few of the topics he covers in two version of this great talk:

(embedded versions of the videos are further on)

Summary of the first: Erik Meijer’s Hacker’s Way. Feedback on the second Erik Meijer’s Hacker’s Way and One Hacker Way – Erik Meijer : programming.

A few quotes and paraphrased parts I took from this (more are in Keynote: One Hacker Way – Erik Meijer with subtitles | Amara):

Thanks Kees Ks for pointing me at this.

–jeroen

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Computer Color is broken: averaging and blurring colors – via Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/20

When everybody uses (a+b)/2 but should use sqrt((a*a+b*b)/2) or even [Wayback/Archive.is] weigh the RGB parts.

–jeroen

via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+.

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