I've made a Unicode Clock in JavaScript.
Unicode has code points for all 30 minute increments of clock faces. This is a simple project to display the one closest to the current time written in JavaScript.
Because the code points are all above 0xFFFF, I make use of some ES6 additions. I use the \u{XXXXXX} style escape sequence since the old style JavaScript escape sequence \uXXXX only supports code points up to 0xFFFF. I also use the method String.codePointAt rather than String.charCodeAt because the code points larger than 0xFFFF are represented in JavaScript strings using surrogate pairs and charCodeAt gives the surrogate value rather than codePointAt which gives the code point represented by the pair of surrogates.
Yep. 
[WRITE-UP] A tale of two offline 
I didn't realize so many Debian/Ubuntu apps don't/can't do cert
verification. Also "untrusted websites" is a thing. 
UK film censors forced to watch a 2-day long movie of paint drying cc: "🕛".codePointAt(0)
128347
"🕛".charCodeAt(0)
55357
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The ordering of the code points does not make it simple to do this. I initially guessed the first code point in the range would be 12:00 followed by 12:30, 1:00 and so on. But actually 1:00 is first followed by all the on the hour times then all the half hour times.
Isn't Gmail's new Smart Reply feature act one of Avogadro Corp? http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/computer-respond-to-this-email.html …
Starting at midnight, prepare for this Halloween's most terrifying horror game:
TWITCH INSTALLS LINUX. https://www.twitchinstalls.com
James Mickens funny and pessimistic talk "Not Even Close: The State of Computer
Security" from NDC June 2015 https://vimeo.com/135347162
I’ve been following this advice for many years now to the extent that I find myself rewriting text to make linking my nouns easier and shorter.
The one I wasn’t following that seems obvious only after I read it is to keep links towards the end of your text to allow users to follow the link once they’re done reading.
links at the end of the sentence allow users to take action faster
As you might have guessed, Flame is also US/Israel produced malware. From the people who brought you Stuxnet, its… Flame!
So this is another Stuxnet by Israel/US?
The analysis reinforces theories that researchers from Kaspersky Lab, CrySyS Lab, and Symantec published almost two weeks ago. Namely, Flame could only have been developed with the backing of a wealthy nation-state. … “It’s not a garden-variety collision attack, or just an implementation of previous MD5 collisions papers—which would be difficult enough,” Matthew Green, a professor specializing in cryptography in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins University, told Ars. “There were mathematicians doing new science to make Flame work.”
“From his first months in office, President Obamasecretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.”
Anecdote on software usability. FTA: “… and suddenly realized that it was a perfectly ordinary whiteboard felt-tip pen. The headwaiter just draw an ”X” over their booking, directly on the computer screen!”
(via “What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen?” (javlaskitsystem.se))
Awesome faux trailer for Psychonauts as Inception. Wish I had made the connection before - there’s a ton of overlap.
INCEPTIONAUTS (by FineLeatherJackets)
Crushable has the video from the Cinefamily Pete and Pete tribute and panel. Also, AV Club is now inspired to have a Pete and Pete cast and crew reunion.
Github's to blame! 
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