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Louis Theroux: Westboro Baptist Church revisited(bbc.co.uk)
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by chris_j 16y ago
I agree that Myspace sucked from a visual and experience perspective. It's easy to see why Facebook killed it. When Facebook came along, it was a welcome relief from the garish graphics and "Thanks for the ad!!!1" wall posts. The real quest
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Same in the UK. I only really ever used Myspace for music (either checking out bands or posting my own songs in a fit of vanity). I don't think Myspace ever achieved critical mass as a social network here, certainly not among people that I
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by chris_j 16y ago
In the case of rabies treatment, if the patient has not received the rabies pre-exposure vaccination then they must receive a dose of immunoglobulin (antibodies against the rabies virus) in addition to the rabies vaccine. Without it, the pa
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by chris_j 16y ago
Very simply, when a nuclear reactor stops, the fission products in the fuel rods continue to decay and therefore continue to generate heat. A lot of heat. An external power source is needed to take that heat away from the fuel. Failing to k
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by chris_j 16y ago
Very true. It's getting worse as well. Back in the 90s, if someone wrote a Windows app that Microsoft didn't much like then Microsoft couldn't just shut it down. They had to go to the trouble of writing a competitor to that app and bundling
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by chris_j 16y ago
That's true to a certain extent: many of the costs are indeed incurred by people other than the driver. By no means all of the costs, though. I'm sitting in Starbucks in central London right now (heading to the London Clojure Dojo in a few
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by chris_j 16y ago
Thanks for the information. I had not realised that. There are still plenty of other measure that Ryanair could use, of course, in the case where there was no Referer: header, such putting some unique (and constantly changing) id into a coo
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by chris_j 16y ago
The perverse thing about terms forbidding deep linking into a website is that it is so easy to prevent deep linking by technical means. (In fact, it's so easy that even mentioning it seems like a cliche.) On each HTTP request, examine the R
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by chris_j 16y ago
The trouble with the word startup is that it means different things to different people. Taken literally, it could mean any company which has just started up. That's not what the word usually means when used on HN, of course. I recall this
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by chris_j 16y ago
That's awesome and is something that I only just discovered myself. Does it work with any autotools project?
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What is it about whitespace-as-syntax that is wrong?
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Absolutely. Being behind NAT at home, it is a pain having to open up ports on the router in order to run anything that requires an inbound connection. At the same time, it is rather comforting to know that making an inbound connection is so
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by chris_j 16y ago
Could you expand on that? What is it about NAT that is an astonishingly horrific idea?
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by chris_j 16y ago
That's a really insightful comment that has turned my thinking on this area of economics on its head. It sounds like any business is capital intensive if it involves paying lots of people high salaries in order to do it, even if the salarie
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by chris_j 16y ago
I'm with you on that one. I've never understood it when people say that Google has a monopoly as powerful as Microsoft or Facebook. If a Facebook user finds a social network that's better than Facebook, tough luck. The value of Facebook is
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by chris_j 16y ago
Thanks for the link. Have you used this technique and can you comment on its effectiveness?
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I haven't tried this but I really want to. I've noticed that I'm most productive when I'm working on the laptop and I don't have anywhere to plug in. I hover over the battery icon and notice that I only have an hour left... and I work like
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by chris_j 16y ago
What would be the advantage of using Trunk, rather than the latest stable version? Are we just talking about getting new features a bit earlier?
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by chris_j 16y ago
That's not what happened in this case, of course. The laptop thief used the stolen laptop to film himself but was unaware that the video could be viewed by the laptop's owner. I'm having trouble coming up with an analogy for that one.
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"the problem is this, nuclear power is being put up to a far higher standard than any other power source because of irrational fears" That's probably correct. The question is, why? Perhaps it's because it is so much more difficult to unders
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by chris_j 16y ago
Thanks for expanding. It sounds like the main problem with non-mainstream languages is the difficulty of recruiting developers who know the language well enough (rather than some technical quality of a language like Clojure that makes code
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by chris_j 16y ago
Would you mind expanding on this? All of the responses to this comment so far seem to focus on the last paragraph and Viaweb in particular, which I would guess is not the main part of your argument. You say: "...if you want your business to
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by chris_j 16y ago
#16 Blogger Being Free The author suggests charging a token amount (eg $1) in order to discourage junk. This would certainly have discouraged me from using my (Blogger) blog to send pictures and news home to family and friends when I go tra
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by chris_j 16y ago
> Wouldn't this mean that coasting down a long hill in gear would cool the engine and in particular the catalytic converter, potentially causing some operating hiccups and a big emissions spike when eventually reaching the bottom? I hav
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by chris_j 16y ago
You're absolutely right about the T&Cs. Presumably AT&T are aware that some people are prepared to pay more for tethering and therefore write the T&Cs such that can price-discriminate in order to get more money out of those peop
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by chris_j 16y ago
If that's what the upvote arrow is for then I may have been using it wrongly; I often upvote comments that I disagree with, if they add something to the discussion. (I'm with you on not simply commenting "I agree", which is what I assume th
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by chris_j 16y ago
I had a quick search for ssh extensions for Chrome and found at least one: http://ssh-chrome.sourceforge.net/ I've not tried it so I can't comment on it. Is that what you are looking for or do you want it baked into the heart of the brows
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Can Putty not be run without admin privileges? Portable Putty suggests that it might do (eg using config files instead of the registry), although I no longer use Windows so am not in a position to try it.
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When I read the headline, I was wondering why you would need it. Of course, the post explains where it would be of value: when using the computer belonging to a friend/family member. In that situation, a Chrome ssh client extension would be

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