Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The term was also used to discuss Soviet phraseology. Orwell included an essay about it in the form of an appendix in which the basic principles of the language are explained. Newspeak is closely based on English but has a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternative thinking—"thoughtcrime", or "crimethink" in the newest edition of Newspeak—impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the i...
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Are anti vote fraud mechanisms in place for all of the Stack Exchange web sites, or only for sites in the extended trilogy?
Background: In the biostar mailing list, there's some discussion on suspected vote fraud.
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Rubber duck debugging, Rubber Ducking, or the Rubber Duckie Test is an informal term used in software engineering to refer to a method of debugging code. The name is a reference to an apocryphal story in which an unnamed expert programmer would keep a rubber duck by his desk at all times, and debug his code by forcing himself to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck.
The process is to meticulously explain code to an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck. It is expected that when the programmer comes across a piece of code that is incorrect, they will realize this. The method exploits c...
I am trying to add a button on the Customize Tool Window on Firefox 4
My folders look like this:
addon
|- content
|- om
|- xul
|- browser.xul
|- browser.css
|- skin
|- default
|- icon.png
My chrome.manifest file:
content orkutmanager content/om/
co...
