Looks great. It's such a pain to write separate authentication / profile retrieval logic for each service.

Inflation.

I think it was through Slashdot.

Loved the 'artwork'. Simple but immediately familiar. Like some other commenters, I felt that sometimes my jumps weren't being registered.

To echo some earlier comments. As someone currently preparing for an interview, I would definitely like to see a web version.

Can you deal with Python? This is free and available on-line as just a regular static site. (http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/pythonds/index...).

From what I could tell, it's the full version of 'Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python 2nd ed', 2011. I haven't read it cover to cover, but it seemed well written. You can read some reviews on the printed version at http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Solving-Algorithms-Structures-...

I've found this site very helpful, and it actually runs and validates your code: http://oj.leetcode.com/

Thanks for the link unwind/paulrouget2.

I think it went a little over my head. What role does about:blank actually play? I'm assuming that the wild behaviour and parsing difficulty is the result of it performing some special function (beyond just returning a blank page).

A browsing context doesn't start its life empty. Instead, when a browsing context is created, if a JS program looks at what's in there, there's an about:blank doc in there. Since you can create a browsing context synchronously (e.g. document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("iframe"))), there has to be a way for the initial about:blank document to materialize synchronously. The HTML parser is always async. (Edit: The HTML parser is always async when loading a URL. Then there are innerHTML, createContextualFragment and DOMParser, which are synchronous.)

Add various events (readystatechange, DOMContentLoaded, load) to added fun. And the fact that browsing contexts that are top-level from the Web perspective are iframe-like from the XUL perspective and the code for dealing with this duality is a mess.

Yeh it's sandstone. Group of 8 is also sometimes used because ANU and Monash wanted to be included :P

It will be interesting to see what the practical effect of this is over the long term. The new SOP says that certain processes involving software will still be patentable, which seems remarkably similar to the Supreme Court's finding in Diehr.

I was thinking the same thing whilst reading the article. There are surely people at Yahoo! who would gladly help if asked.

I'm sure there would be people in Yahoo would want to help, the problem is actually finding and getting in contact with someone who does care.

...then clearing it with legal and getting approval within the org to actually /do/ this. AFAIK, this would be unprecedented, but would probably win Yahoo! a lot of fans when they need it most. I have no real hope for them or anyone in a similar position to provide user data back to community custodians.

.. as long as you forget all the other user-generated-content sites Yahoo has closed over the years.

Agreed. Really looking forward to trying this on my Raspberry Pi.