ColdHawaiian

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How can Stack Overflow users be encouraged to use jQuery only when appropriate?(meta.stackoverflow.com)
2 points by ColdHawaiian 12y ago|0 comments
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by ColdHawaiian 12y ago
> Start thinking for yourselves, ditch this shit before it’s too late and learn how to write some actual fucking code. The information is out there, you can do it. If you need handholding with factories and providers and service provider
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by ColdHawaiian 12y ago
FYI, here is an Ars Technica article that talks about the break-in into the Linux Kernel, and Git's role in revealing the tampering[1]. [1]: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/who-rooted-kernel-or...
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by ColdHawaiian 12y ago
Apparently there are other Easter Eggs in git as well. I tried the one in [this blog post][0] but couldn't get it to work. If you do `git grep "Yeeah"` in a clone of the Git repo though, you'll definitely see that the li
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Git Easter Egg, calls you clever when amending a dirty index(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by ColdHawaiian 12y ago|1 comments
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by ColdHawaiian 12y ago
Why is this a big deal? One of the changes is that your reputation on Meta Stack Overflow is now based off your reputation on Stack Overflow, instead of being independent[1]. So now you no longer gain or lose reputation on Meta Stack Overfl
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In case you missed it, Meta Stack Overflow spun off Meta Stack Exchange(blog.stackoverflow.com)
4 points by ColdHawaiian 12y ago|2 comments
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by ColdHawaiian 12y ago
TL;DR (Summary) There's currently a debate going on right now on Meta Stack Overflow (the new one, if you didn't hear about the spin-off of Meta Stack Exchange[0]) about whether or not highly upvoted, accepted, link-only answers s
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Should old, high-rep, link-only, accepted answers be deleted?(meta.stackoverflow.com)
1 points by ColdHawaiian 12y ago|1 comments
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by ColdHawaiian 12y ago
I guess a better measure of contributions would be number of distinct features implemented and number of bugs fixed.
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by ColdHawaiian 12y ago
> All of those questions have a massive amount of upvotes, i.e., the community thought they were interesting, well written, and, mots importantly, useful. All closed as "off-topic" or "not constructive." Give me a bre
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James Dyson Is Designing A Giant Vacuum-On-A-Boat To Clean Ocean Trash(fastcoexist.com)
1 points by ColdHawaiian 12y ago|0 comments
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U.N. Climate Panel Warns Speedier Action Is Needed to Avert Disaster(nytimes.com)
3 points by ColdHawaiian 13y ago|0 comments
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
Yeah, I was thinking about whether or not bacteria and other harmful microorganisms could grow in the water that collected too. I suppose, if nothing else, it could be boiled before consumption.
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This Tower Pulls Drinking Water Out of Thin Air(smithsonianmag.com)
147 points by ColdHawaiian 13y ago|83 comments
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
One of the first things I noticed as I skimmed over some of the tweets was that if the discussion had been started with a blog post that detailed all the arguments at the start, some of the back and forth elaboration of points (as well as t
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Twitter debate on Google paying teachers up to $2500 to teach girls to code(twitter.com)
3 points by ColdHawaiian 13y ago|1 comments
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Why Amazon pays warehouse employees $5,000 to quit(cbsnews.com)
3 points by ColdHawaiian 13y ago|0 comments
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
There's a really interesting Ted Talk by Taylor Wilson (perhaps the world's youngest nuclear scientist, and definitely a child prodigy) on thorium reactors as a safer alternative to uranium and plutonium reactors[1]. Apparently th
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Tumblr Addresses Heartbleed Bug(staff.tumblr.com)
2 points by ColdHawaiian 13y ago|0 comments
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
Spaces are in fact often, if not always, an allowed character for passwords, at least in Microsoft/Windows systems. See "Use Spaces in Your Windows Password for Extra Security"[1]. [1]: http://lifehacker.com/5
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
For what it's worth, that earlier Hacker News discussion regarding the Google case can be found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524473 .
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
When I was thinking of the question that I posed, I had engineering in mind. The link was interesting though, thank you.
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
Which SE site though ? That question is totally open-ended, it could generate answers forever. One of the key philosophies of the Stack Exchange sites is to suppress extended discussion.
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
I've been contributing a lot of answers to Stack Overflow lately myself[1], and I agree that, after a while, I'm tired of trivial questions popping up all the time, because frankly, they aren't interesting to solve . Not onl
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
Hi, I'm a Stack Overflow user with close privileges[1]. I've answered a lot of questions. I've also closed a fair number of questions. If you write a good question, it won't be closed. A lot of questions that I end up
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
From the Hacker News Guidelines[1]: > Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag&
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Debugging Asynchronous JavaScript with Chrome DevTools(html5rocks.com)
2 points by ColdHawaiian 13y ago|0 comments
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
> eat food for food in foods when food isn't 'chocolate' > from the CoffeeScript tutorial...Furthermore, until you finish reading the line it isn’t clear which foods will be eaten . The thing with typing the fi
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by ColdHawaiian 13y ago
On a side note, when I visited the blog, it triggered a Web of Trust warning because it got flagged as spam: https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/websanova.com . It looks like a legit programmer's blog to me, so

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