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by citricsquid 13y ago
This is a very common Americanism, double spacing after periods is something I see more than single spacing. I would be more surprised if a 50s American didn't double space after periods. http://www.slate.com/articles
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by citricsquid 13y ago
Codeigniter has been all but abandoned by EllisLab, the community is giving up on it and there are far better frameworks available now. For example Laravel, the growth that Laravel is experiencing right now is huge, it has overtaken Codeign
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Something’s Not Right at ‘Gox: Theory on the "stolen" BTC(letstalkbitcoin.com)
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by citricsquid 13y ago
A couple of years ago a server management application called HyperVM had a 0day due to some questionable programming, hundreds of thousands of websites were lost along with a lot of money... the next day the creator took his own life. A lot
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How to make a Flappy Bird in HTML5 with Phaser(blog.lessmilk.com)
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GOV.UK social sharing buttons: the first 10 weeks(insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk)
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Important Kickstarter Security Notice(kickstarter.com)
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by citricsquid 13y ago
There's a reddit version of this idea called the "Reddit Switcharoo". The current chain has been going since 2011 and is (I believe) 10s of thousands of links long: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/
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Twitch Interactive replaces Justin.tv as parent company name(ongamers.com)
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by citricsquid 13y ago
If you absolutely cannot separate out the public portion of the application from the core -- which should be possible because even the worst shared hosts allow for folders above public_html -- then you'll need to use a PHP solution for
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by citricsquid 13y ago
Quick feedback: Don't commit vendor packages to your repository, make use of Composer ( http://getcomposer.org ). Separate out your application core from the public folder, that way you don't need to rely on your web ser
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by citricsquid 13y ago
The Minecraft brand and IP are constantly being misappropriated by others for commercial gain, the Minecraft IP is owned by Notch and he has every moral and legal right to protect it. There are numerous deals that are in place that allow th
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Wall Street Journal chart lists Twitch.tv fourth in U.S. peak traffic(ongamers.com)
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by citricsquid 13y ago
I doubt they're lying, what they are doing is mislabelling their experience as representative. Low level PayPal employees have previously made mistakes that has resulted in people who are selling mining equipment finding their accounts
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by citricsquid 13y ago
This is incorrect. The CEO of PayPal David Marcus has already denied these claims: To clarify: we have no policies against using PayPal to sell Bitcoin mining rigs. We don't support any currency txn whether fiat or BTC for a
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by citricsquid 13y ago
Most of the people that I have loaned to through Kiva are people with a very low standard of living (relative to the west) which means they do not have access to computers and without the Kiva field partners they would not have been able to
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by citricsquid 13y ago
This post is slightly misleading and also 6 months old, it's a Debian issue not a PHP issue. Tim, if you had upgraded from the version provided by php.net you would not have seen a problem. We have not removed json and we
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by citricsquid 13y ago
Looks like it's your lucky day :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7145756
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by citricsquid 13y ago
Linode charges monthly, but they bill daily and credit an account when a linode is cancelled. If you create a 1GB linode on February 1st they will charge you $20, if you then destroy that linode on February 10th they will credit your accoun
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by citricsquid 13y ago
An email address is for most people their single point of recovery for almost all of their online accounts, including services like Paypal. If you choose to trust an email provider, you are trusting them with access to your entire digital l
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by citricsquid 13y ago
I wanted to see how the system worked so that I would be able to comment on it from a position of experience and be able to provide screenshots for when it was being discussed.
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by citricsquid 13y ago
The filter on your mobile phone has existed for years (when I was a teenager in 2006 my Orange mobile phone had such a filter), it's a practice over a decade old. It has nothing to do with the supposed "UK Porn Filter" (which
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by citricsquid 13y ago
I can only speak for myself but my experience has been exactly as I claimed. I have two broadband connections in my home, one from BT and one from Virgin Media. The BT connection has no filtering enabled (the screenshot in my post is from m
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by citricsquid 13y ago
The government "asked" (read: pressured) some of the biggest ISPs to provide parental filtering controls to all customers, set at a broadband account level. For new customers these filters are enabled by default, but any customer
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by citricsquid 13y ago
That's interesting! Do you have a link to hand? Thanks!
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by citricsquid 13y ago
Facebook disclosed it in the comments (about a minute after you made this comment).
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by citricsquid 13y ago
Personally I love Kiva, "Kiva is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to low-income / underserved entrepreneurs and students in 70 countries." http://kiva.org
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by citricsquid 13y ago
I have no experience in mac apps nor do I know if this already exists nor can I attest to the viability... but this is something I've wanted on one occasion before: Some sort of API so that developers can send requests to a user for a
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by citricsquid 13y ago
We are associated with the same group behind MEGA (Megaupload successor as Wikipedia states), and responsible for the upcoming music service BABOOM. From their recruitment document
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by citricsquid 13y ago
Tenants in England do have a lot of rights (for example a tenant can only be evicted by a court) but these aren't tenants, they're "licensees" who do not have any of the legal protections afforded to tenants. You raise a

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