Learn JavaScript

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Codecademy is a new start-up that was created out of the frustrations Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski found with learning how to program. Tired with ineffective text and video resources, Ryan and Zach created Codecademy.

It’s early days but the site certainly has potential currently there’s 21 lessons and 109 exercises on JavaScript – there are courses for absolute novices and others for those with some programming knowledge.

Currently it’s free so if you wish to learn JavaScript there isn’t a better place to start.

Hat Tip: Business Insider.

How Secure is Your Password

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Here’s a simple little table taken from UberGlobal that shows how long on average it would take to randomly guess your password.

Time taken to crack a password

So now you know what to do – make sure your password contains lower and upper case letters, a number and a symbol – you know an @, &, $ and the like.

Do it now it’ll be worth it, there’s a lot of ideal hands out there since bankers broke the economy!

WeTransfer

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WeTransfer allows you to simply transfer large files across the internet without the need for registration. Files are only available for two weeks, however the service is completely free to use and you can always upload the files again!

Tories Screw The Poor, The Disabled, The Sick, The Young and The Old Alike

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The Institute for fiscal studies reports Education spending ‘falling fastest since 1950s’.

The independent financial researchers say spending will fall by 13% in real terms between 2010-11 and 2014-15.

In England, the deepest cuts are in school buildings, higher education, 16-to-19 provision and early years. BBC.

And the Tories response?

“The government had to take tough decisions to reduce the deficit.” BBC.

No the Tories aren’t making any difficult decisions they’re doing exactly what they did the last time they were in power hit those in society least able to speak up for themselves, the poor, the sick, the young, the old and the disabled.

And you know the saddest thing of all? If opinion polls are to be believed almost 40% of the voting public agree with them!

Energy Costs

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Chris Huhne told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme that the government would be on the consumers’ side to ensure they got a better deal.

He said the government’s prediction, and that of virtually everybody else, is that bills were going to go up in the medium term. But while the energy companies were not “the Salvation Army”, and expected to earn respectable returns, Huhne continued, they needed to operate in a fair and competitive market.

The energy secretary said the long-term aim was to stop Britain being so reliant on fossil fuels from “volatile parts of the world” by developing domestic sources from renewable and nuclear, but in the short run, a more competitive UK market was key. The Guardian.

A respectable profit? When providing necessities like energy, morally, there isn’t such a thing as respectable profit.

And the idea that we can replace our reliance on volatile supplies of fossil fuels with nuclear isn’t thinking clearly at all, whilst Canada and Australia supply 50% of the worlds Uranium the remainder is shared amongst some pretty volatile parts of the world. Uranium won’t be any more secure a source of energy than fossil fuels and we mustn’t continue to labour under such an illusion.