Posting again because I seriously can’t get over how insanely well executed @krisstraub’s new short is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw_HKzo9Ync …
.@realnzall Don't worry, Tay has a
physical hard drive wiper with verification pass and optional label printer 
pic.twitter.com/PgAqBKXgCH
Unlimited power forever. RT @NeowinFeed:
what happens when you plug Surface 3 into itself http://neow.in/1Gi3ZPj pic.twitter.com/R5kAduccqn
Facemoji - face detection and overlay - http://facemoji.me/ - excellent user interface, too.
Does using Facebook make you sad? The answer: yes, if you use it in certain ways...
http://dlvr.it/8lzYyS
2014 highlights from Facebook's bug bounty program: https://www.facebook.com/notes/1026610350686524/ …
Facebook Security published a note with some info on Superfish: https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/windows-ssl-interception-gone-wild/1570074729899339 …
Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces http://crockpotveggies.com/2015/02/09/automating-tinder-with-eigenfaces.html …
Claire Ayoub
@intoosteep :“This is the chronicle of the most epic retaliation and how I pranked my roommate with targeted Facebook Ads to the point of complete paranoia and delusion.”
Funny anecdote but also a how-to on creating a Facebook ad campaign that targets a single person.
An interesting way to use the report-uri feature of CSP to detect if a user is logged into Google, Facebook etc.
Nieman Journalism Lab - Who’s behind that tweet? Here’s how 7 news orgs manage their Twitter and Facebook accounts
When writing a JavaScript library that uses postMessage and the message event, I must be considerate of other JS code that will be
running along side my library. I shouldn't assume I'm the only sender and receiver on a caller provided MessagePort object. This means obviously I should use addEventListener("message" rather than
the onmessage property (see related What if two programs did this?). But considering the actual messages traveling
over the message channel I have the issue of accidentally processing another libraries messages and having another library accidentally process my own message. I have a few options for playing nice
in this regard:My second completed app for the Windows Store was Words with Hints a companion to Words with Friends or other Scrabble like games that gives you *ahem* hints. You provide your tiles and optionally letters placed in a line on the board and Words with Hints gives you word options.
I wrote this the first time by building a regular expression to check against my dictionary of words which made for a slow app on the Surface. In subsequent release of the app I now spawn four web workers (one for each of the Surface's cores) each with its own fourth of my dictionary. Each fourth of the dictionary is a trie which makes it easy for me to discard whole chunks of possible combinations of Scrabble letters as I walk the tree of possibilities.
The dictionaries are large and takes a noticeable amount of time to load on the Surface. The best performing mechanism I found to load them is as JavaScript source files that simply define their portion of the dictionary on the global object and synchronously (only on the worker so not blocking the UI thread). Putting them into .js files means they take advantage of bytecode caching making them load faster. However because the data is mostly strings and not code there is a dramatic size increase when the app is installed. The total size of the four dictionary .js files is about 44Mb. The bytecode cache for the dictionary files is about double that 88Mb meaning the dictionary plus the bytecode cache is 132Mb.
To handle the bother of postMessage communication and web workers this was the first app in which I used my promise MessagePort project which I'll discuss more in the future.
This is the first app in which I used the Microsoft Ad SDK. It was difficult to find the install for the SDK and difficult to use their website, but once setup, the Ad SDK was easy to import into VS and easy to use in my app.
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