The Origin of ‘Script Kiddie’

The Origin of ‘Script Kiddie’

The term script kiddie probably originated around 1994, but the first public record is from 1996. The first interesting find is from October 1993:

Here the term kiddie is not prefixed with script, and I’m not sure if it’s “elite code, kiddies” or elite “code kiddies”. But anyway, is this really the first time that somebody used the term script kiddie?

Source: liveoverflow.com

Faire (YC W17) Is Looking to Hire Business Operations Leads

Faire (YC W17) Is Looking to Hire Business Operations Leads

As a Business Operations Lead you will take on a variety of strategic, operational, and analytical projects to drive quality growth for our business. This is an ideal role for someone who wants to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and data-driven environment and have the opportunity to gain exposure to partnering with a variety of functions, including business operations, product, growth, and analytics. As a Business Operations Lead You Will:

Faire is an innovative online marketplace that uses machine learning to match local retailers with the makers of products that uniquely fit their stores.

Source: boards.greenhouse.io

How Hot Chicken Happened

How Hot Chicken Happened

Similar districts grew up at the heart of the black neighborhoods in East and North Nashville. Urban redevelopment accelerated over the next several decades, and it bore down upon other black neighborhoods around the city. The city planners cleared the edge of East Nashville for a new interstate.

Source: bittersoutherner.com

Web Components for Dynamic Scripture References

Web Components for Dynamic Scripture References

This page is about the Web Components I created for displaying scripture passages. puts a passage of scripture on the page. allows you to add multiple scripture passages to the page, and expand or collapse all of them together

note: you must use single quotes around the reference-list attribute value, so that you can use proper JSON double quotes in the value

Source: jordan.shurmer.family

A horrifying globalThis polyfill in JavaScript

A horrifying globalThis polyfill in JavaScript

There, you can access the global :

Furthermore, sloppy mode functions always have their set to the global , so even if you cannot run your code in the global scope, you could still get access to the global as follows in sloppy mode:

However, the top-level value is in JavaScript modules, and is within strict mode functions, so this approach doesn’t work there. It seems like it should be possible to combine the above techniques into a single polyfill, like so:

But alas, this doesn’t work in strict mode functions or within JavaScript modules in non-browser environments (except those with support). A JavaScript engine could use such an object as the global without violating the spec, in which case the above code snippet still wouldn’t work (and indeed, Internet Explorer 7 did something like that!)

Source: mathiasbynens.be

Dr. Bronner’s soap brand became a touchstone of wellness culture

Dr. Bronner’s soap brand became a touchstone of wellness culture

But Brown’s own go-to body-care product is Dr. Bronner’s all-natural liquid Castile soap, which costs $18 for 32 ounces so concentrated that a thimbleful will have you smothered in suds. In 1945, when Emanuel was still a roving preacher, a Chicago man crucified himself in the name of Emanuel’s “Peace Plan”

By the mid-1980s, Dr. Bronner’s wasn’t the only all-natural personal care product on the market. As the word “authentic” gets bandied about by every brand trying to sell a product by first selling us on a noble philosophy or tearjerking founding tale, Dr. Bronner’s has aimed to practice what it’s been preaching since 1948.

Source: www.vox.com

One Day With the Squad That Removes Needles and Feces From Downtown Portland

One Day With the Squad That Removes Needles and Feces From Downtown Portland

Along with the officers, Shipley, 41, works for the Clean and Safe program at Central City Concern, which in turn has a contract with the downtown businesses that tax themselves to clean the sidewalks every day. But the city has yet to turn a corner in the highest-profile symptom of the homelessness crisis: The streets of downtown are full of people talking to themselves, high or mentally ill, and camped out with their few possessions. Shipley and her colleagues see Portland’s homelessness with an intimacy few city residents experience.

Source: www.wweek.com

Ask HN: Which books teach mental models?

Ask HN: Which books teach mental models?

The question, then, is what books effectively introduced a new mental model or perspective? Two recent examples from my own reading, non-fiction and fiction:

Loonshots (Bahcall) – model & “rules” for structure of innovation in orgs is introduced, discussed from various perspectives, examples given, summarized in text, repeated. Overstory (Powers) – character stories all reinforce the perspective of an alternative relationship with trees and plants, the giant ecosystem and systems thinking.

Source: news.ycombinator.com

Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa

Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa

The “patient” is a small copper coin found by archaeologist Mike Hermes on a field trip to the Wessel Islands, off north-east Arnhem Land, last year. Exploring the intertidal zone at Elcho Island in July last year, Hermes didn’t need his metal detector to find the small copper coin. The coin’s next stop is Peter Lane, the numismatist, but in the meantime, Owen and Hermes pull out their metal detectors and join the McLeans on the beach.

Source: www.theguardian.com