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by Scriptor 17y ago
What incentives would there be for reviewers to stick around and keep participating in the site?
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by Scriptor 17y ago
It's a valid idea. It would be nice to see some population figures and see if they are any lower than any other groups of people who lived under similar conditions.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
It should be noted that wisdom teeth are generally thought to have been used to chew on tough vegetation, and therefore has little to do with the high meat diet this article tells us we used to have.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Besides the lack of any reference to this supposed find, the author comes up with this gem: "Ask any 10 year old boy if he could have any super power he wanted, chances are he would wish for super strength. I think it is ironic he would wis
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by Scriptor 17y ago
It's usually a bit of a hassle to set those, since you have to set each of the fields and most date fields are rather annoying. Just using plain text is easier.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Is there any way to see answers without signing in? Because otherwise, you've already put a significant hurdle to getting people to keep visiting you. People don't want to make an account without seeing anything . It'd be like HN requiring
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A Painless Introduction To Finite State Machines(lamsonproject.org)
9 points by Scriptor 17y ago|0 comments
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Does that mean we can't build something that would be useful for you? You can always do something profound and useful. Just make sure you don't get carried away with your own excitement. Browseology and Wave share real-time features, but
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by Scriptor 17y ago
When you go to every comment thread discussing Google Wave and say that your service is the same idea, when clearly the only thing they have in common is sending real-time data back and forth, people tend to get annoyed. Honestly, have some
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by Scriptor 17y ago
For anyone interested in the nitty gritty details, the original Cell article is here: http://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(09)00378-X Edit: And this video by the lead researcher himself is pretty good at explaining the basics of the re
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Is Google open-sourcing their server-side code? From http://www.waveprotocol.org/ : our plan is to release an open source, production-quality, reference implementation of the Google Wave client and server So it looks like they will rel
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by Scriptor 17y ago
combined Chat and Wiki and then threw some API for mashing up. Made it pretty and Ajaxy. Don't fall in the trap of using word choice to make something sound insignificant. Having several people edit the same document in real-time without
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by Scriptor 17y ago
What specifically horrifies you about it? There are a lot of utility functions in PHP that aren't built-in to Javascript. I've used it a little by looking at the source for the code and tweaking things here and there. This isn't really a wa
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Ask HN: Is Twitter non-existent among my age group?
2 points by Scriptor 17y ago|4 comments
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by Scriptor 17y ago
They do seem to have an API that's server-side accessible, but otherwise I wouldn't trust reassurances from the same company that is trying to sell me the product. At least, not without some valid data.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Is it honestly that hard to learn a language, and its own particular idioms and best practices, rather than forcing the idioms and best practices of another language on it?
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Even in the web-development world, that might be too general of a description. I think either type of hacker would be happy with using a framework if it wasn't closely related to what they need to do. For example, my latest app has a ton of
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I guess I am a very visual problem, so without something visual to latch on to my mind starts to drift. This means that often I lose track of where I am in the story. If the same happens while reading a book, it is far easier to simply go b
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Forums? Email? (Gmail does have pretty good search) Actually, even factoring in search, unless your group ends up having a _huge_ amount of messages a basic text search should be enough. In that case, IM should do fine.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Most modern browsers can also increase the size of the image with the text.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Don't most screen readers read out the alt text of an image? (Yes, the hint here is to check the alt text of the image).
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Again, the text of each image can be found in the image element's alt attribute. Since WA already uses images to make formulas easier to print out, I guess Wolfram simply wanted to reuse the code.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
The text is in the alt attribute of each image's HTML element. So it should be a breeze to scrape it.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Hey, the OP probably has the actual code as well. If you really want to be sneaky, you could install a little back-door just in case things get serious.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I tried "ethnic groups nigeria". Wolfram Alpha gave me a |-delimited string of them, Wikipedia gave me a much more comprehensive list ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ethnic_groups_in_Niger... ) and each one is a hyperlink. Perhaps t
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by Scriptor 17y ago
The original car makers did not have the problem of how to make cars profitable, theirs' was a problem of sales and marketing. Once a car was improved enough to make it affordable they received more sales. Youtube certainly doesn't have a
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by Scriptor 17y ago
And of course, try not to use "anti-bacterial" soap. It won't help against a virus, and if anything you are simply selecting for those strains of bacteria that have that extra edge.
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by Scriptor 17y ago
Though I don't have a source to back this up, I really think that population densities were too low during those times for much Cro-Magnon-Neanderthal (funny how one's capitalized and the other isn't) interaction. That said, aggression woul
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by Scriptor 17y ago
"The entire physics faculty was there, and I sensed he had zoomed over most their heads. Most, but not all. Feynman was sitting in the front row" Simply the sheer awesomeness (for lack of more eloquent words) of this sort of meeting between
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by Scriptor 17y ago
I check it a couple of times a day, but never for more than a minute. I don't get many notifications. Email is much more important to me and through trial and error I've set things so that I get emailed about important things, and nothing e

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