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by aasarava 14y ago
In Drupal any module can inject its own separate stylesheet into the page. It's standard practice to enable Drupal's CSS (and javascript) compression feature once you move the site to production. That they haven't done it suggests the devel
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by aasarava 14y ago
I'm not saying poverty, hunger, and overpopulation aren't problems that can't be solved, but I do think they're more complicated than you propose. In India, healthcare workers have had trouble convincing villagers to accept free vaccines fo
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I think you might be overlooking the fact that aid does have a long term goal. It's not simply about feeding someone in the short term -- it's to help the impoverished fulfill their most basic needs so that they can go to school, get educ
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by aasarava 14y ago
> Or, the parents wouldn't have had kids they couldn't feed. While this would be nice in an ideal world, your analysis severely underestimates just how strong the desire to have sex is, and vastly overestimates the ability of someone wi
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by aasarava 14y ago
"[T]here’s a certain irony to Craigslist suing other companies for creating maps with Craigslist ad data — claiming a breach of proprietary content — then turning around and using an open, crowd-sourced mapping solution to create its own ma
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Mitt Romney Twitter account filled with fake followers, analysis finds(news.techworld.com)
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Obama and Romney election apps suck up personal data, research finds(networkworld.com)
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Everyone keeps focusing on Facebook as an ad platform, and pointing to the difficulty in monetizing mobile via ads. But I'm betting Facebook is on the brink of rolling out a digital wallet. They already act as an authentication/identity se
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by aasarava 14y ago
Be sure to read the fine print from the author: "(Disclosure: I have various puts and wagers against Groupon.)"
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by aasarava 14y ago
You'll find those productive robots in every modern factory in the world, building everything from cars to candy more efficiently than humans.
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Amazon owns other "content creators" too, like dpreview.com, which it bought in 2007.
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With a sufficient technical background, you could work for the FBI helping to monitor, decrypt, and track these a-holes.
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The dropdown doesn't have Fiction, which was surprising since that's what I went looking for first. Also, when I figured out that I could click on the "Recent Fiction" heading on the homepage, I was disappointed to see that there was no way
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by aasarava 14y ago
Why sigh? Spell check is free and ubiquitous in this day and age. If someone is writing to a potential employer and overlooks that squiggly red line telling them something is potentially wrong, why should I believe they won't also misspell
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by aasarava 14y ago
I'm curious as to what tools you're using to work with files containing PHP code. I mean that sincerely -- if you've got something you really like, it'd be great to learn something new!
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Google Analytics? Don't you mean the spinning odometer at the bottom of the page? ;)
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Why? If your server is running PHP and you're not worried about confusion with some other language processor, then why not use shorthand?
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by aasarava 15y ago
Great site. Aside from the local tab positioning as has already been mentioned several times, my only nitpick is with the use of the "See More" button. Not sure why it's necessary -- it means I have to click several extra times to see the
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by aasarava 15y ago
If camping is a metaphor for social interaction, then wouldn't picking up the phone, or writing a letter, or sending an email, or a text, or driving over to your friends' houses and saying, "Hey, let's go to a coffee shop" be the real campi
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by aasarava 15y ago
Many places in India don't have definitive addresses. They tend to be relative, such as "across from the train station." And I suspect that when you live in the slums and are begging at the age of five, your world is quite small -- the chan
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by aasarava 15y ago
Does anyone have any pointers to tutorials on how to get started building OSM maps? For example, if I have my own "map" of the US (a simple graphic image), how do I go about connecting that up to state boundaries and plotting lat/long on i
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by aasarava 15y ago
Really? "Search Engine Optimization" explains it just fine? Sounds like you're trying to make Google's internal software work more efficiently. Not sure how a lay person would start with that and reach the conclusion that SEO is about try
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People could choose low to mid tier phones -- but they buy iPhones instead. They could choose low to mid tier laptops -- but they buy MacBook Pros. They could buy Xooms but they buy iPads. There's a lot of room for improvement with TVs.
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by aasarava 15y ago
Ah, thanks for the correction! I've updated my comment above.
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The actual raw data is here: http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2010 My first thought was to think, Wow this really provides a strong counterargument to people who keep touting the fact that 47% of US citizens don't pay any incom
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by aasarava 15y ago
When you create a postcard, do you have the option NOT to be featured on the home page? Because right now, the Magdaleins are showing off their baby to all site visitors, when perhaps they meant that postcard to only go to family and frien
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by aasarava 15y ago
As a Facebook user, why exactly do I want to see a notification about each and every song that 100 different friends are listening to at any given point in the day? Add in the fact that Rdio does the exact same thing (spam my Facebook "tic
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by aasarava 15y ago
A reporter's account, for a lay-person's description: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/brain-scan-movie-sc...
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Scientists Reconstruct "Movies" from Brain Activity(cell.com)
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Bugsy, I don't doubt that a lot of really horrific stuff has gone down in Saipan, owing in large part to the US's willingness not to enact labor laws there until just recently. But can you see how your method of saying this out overshadow

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