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:
–jeroen
The old trick from Registry keys to prevent Java installs from adding sponsors (Ask/Google/Yahoo Toolbar, McAfee virus, etc) via: Super User « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff
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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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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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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/20
When everybody uses (a+b)/2 but should use sqrt((aa+bb)/2) or even weigh the RGB parts.
–jeroen
via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+.
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