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magixman | 13 years ago | on: And then the music stopped

Agreed and there is plenty of blame to go around and anyone who buys an IPO has to assume a certain risk. Unfortunately for us the fact remains that when the top of the eco-system starts to look shaky it can have reverberations all the way down the line. We should not under-estimate the impact of this.

magixman | 13 years ago | on: A technique for hiding your JavaScript code

As in putting a break point at line 125 and executing String.fromCharCode.apply(String, codes) on the console?

magixman | 13 years ago | on: Study: High Speed Trading Hurts Long-Term Investors

It seems to me that the 800lb Gorilla in room is the impact of HFT on volatility which is not really covered here.

magixman | 13 years ago | on: Show a real-time user count without any client-side Javascript

Wish there had been more hackers around when I started at the age of 15. But then that was 1972 :-)

magixman | 17 years ago | on: Mozilla drags IE into the future with Canvas element plugin

There are a number of folks who can't install plug-ins because their machine is locked down or won’t because whoever the family friend is who cleans up their PC messes has successfully drilled into their heads the "just say no" mantra for whenever a security prompt rears its ugly head.

I applaud Mozilla for doing something that will make Canvas more universal but I am afraid that for really horizontal applications using one of the compatibility layer libraries is the only sensible approach. Do you really want the first impression of your app to start off with a security prompt?