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jrw89 | 16 years ago | on: Former Hacker: Microsoft More Secure Than Apple, Adobe

"Marc Maiffret...now works trying to find security flaws in Microsoft's software...". I wonder who pays him? No surprises as to why he finds Microsoft more secure than Apple and Adobe.

jrw89 | 16 years ago | on: JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career

I found w3schools and tizag to be two of the best free web resources. JavaScript Kit goes into things in a little more depth with, IMO, better examples.

I highly recommend taking the scripts in the tutorial apart and testing to see what happens. No matter how much theoretical reading or tutorials I did, nothing came close to actual hands-on coding.

Best of luck in your project!

jrw89 | 16 years ago | on: 16 new services launched in 48 hours in Estonia

My favourite: "Seenele - map based Facebook application to find places to get mushrooms."

jrw89 | 16 years ago | on: HTML5 Readiness : A visualisation of HTML5/CSS3 browser support

Tut tut tut, poor/non-existent support for 1024x768 monitors. The worst fact is the page hijacks the mouse scroll so it took me a few reloads and zoom-outs to realise there was some really bad placed text at the bottom

jrw89 | 16 years ago | on: A world without planes

I think it was in the notes to a recent re-print of The Intelligent Investor or Security Analysis but it made clear that the cumulative profit of the airline industry has been negative overall (I'll try and find the reference to back it up). Of course there are some airlines that make money, but a lot that don't. Think of British Airways: essentially a loss-making pension fund with an airline on the side.

jrw89 | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: How would you invest $50,000?

Nothing beats Greyhounds: http://www.thedogs.co.uk/Ownership.aspx.