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HTML5 visualisation of global migration flows(peoplemov.in)
13 points by drats 15y ago|2 comments
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by drats 15y ago
I just realised my generation is now old enough to be complaining about younger generations. I think the only "generational" debate worth having these days will be the funding of the pensions (promised to people but not always saved for) an
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by drats 15y ago
It's worth noting the Taj Mahal and other Mughal architecture is not just Islamic though.[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_architecture
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by drats 15y ago
I would have imagined that someone from QLD would know better.[1] The abuses of the 1970's in QLD are surreal, but they are only a few short decades away; that's to say nothing of One Nation. But, to pause the banana-bashing for a moment, t
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by drats 15y ago
It's incredible the sound and fury generated by version numbers. Ubuntu is almost there if they would just drop the rather silly animal names and stick with 10.04, 10.10, 11.4, 11.10 et cetera. Also having such a easy to remember and unique
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by drats 15y ago
At its most sinister. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State#Humanitarian_d...
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by drats 15y ago
I'd ask which country you are in? And what kind of red tape do you face for your taxes?
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by drats 15y ago
My first home computer in the 1990s was well over $6k in current inflation adjusted USD and had a 12 mhz CPU with a 800x600 (or lower, can't remember) 14" CRT screen, a dot matrix printer and two games. At $200 this computer is coming in at
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by drats 15y ago
I've not had a single major problem with Linux since adopting the following strategy: a) check whether your hardware is compatible before buying b) don't install a distro hot off the press. It should be obvious to anyone who's been using Li
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by drats 15y ago
But it really is a silly childish thing. They made up "courriel" just so they didn't have to use "email". But electronic is électroniques in French (and both ultimately come from the Greek) and the English word "mail" is derived from Old Fr
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by drats 15y ago
Looks great. I'd comment the code though, and look into a real html parser.
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by drats 15y ago
I can confirm the iPhone 3G jumped the gun by a long way. I got one of the early versions that had next to no reception. In the USA some people went into stores and got replacements. Outside the USA I got fobbed off on the support line and
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by drats 15y ago
I agree with the OP, I got a weird vibe off it. I suggest you just chuck a logo over the front bit. I.e. replace it with the logo on a background maybe with a still picture of you stamping down/appearing next to it when you say your name.
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by drats 15y ago
This is the key to the argument here. It seems Zed said "they won't respond to any complaint" and never filed one before he went to DDOS the account and inadvertently the whole site. Seems like poor form from all sides.
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by drats 15y ago
Flagged. James, this is appropriate for your blog but not for HN. Also, you have a massive logical error in that you fail to explore the idea that there are moral consequences from inaction.
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by drats 15y ago
The long term trend is quite extraordinary with regard to the total number going into higher ed (which form networks too, although not the same as the elite institutions). "Two percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 were enrolled in a universit
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by drats 15y ago
I use Mensch too, but let's not credit Apple too much considering Menlo in turn was a fairly minor tweak of the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. To do so would be almost as annoying as people claiming Apple created Webkit out of the blue rather
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by drats 15y ago
The naming of this project should put you at ease then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)
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by drats 15y ago
The most interesting link is from the guy's uncollege page regarding the academic performance of homeschooled children.[1] [1] http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/200908100.asp
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by drats 15y ago
HDDs still fail as well remember. However, that aside, if you offered me the price of my SSDs and a next day warranty replacement on my computer with a great backup solution to give up tabbed browsing or keyboard shortcuts I wouldn't take i
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by drats 15y ago
Invest in mutual funds; read Chomsky.
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by drats 15y ago
A recurrent theme in Roman political thought inhereted from the Greeks, as almost everything of theirs was, was luxury and the possibility for luxury to corrupt. Specifically to corrupt a person's public spirit or the general aim of perfect
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by drats 16y ago
Linking to the simplates page and not the main page[0] is a little confusing due to the way their docs are structured. A welcome addition to bottle[1] and flask[2] though. [0] http://aspen.io/ [1] http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/ [2] http://
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by drats 16y ago
Indeed, there is no meat here. Upvoted you, and flagged the submission to save other people from wasting their time.
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by drats 16y ago
I think the barrier is that credit cards are pull and not push so people are hesitant to hand the capacity to pull over to very small operations which are often overseas and might be dodgy (or get hacked for that matter). Imagine if you mad
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by drats 16y ago
I like the translation just fine, but perhaps one of the following: "the words you elect to use perfectly reflect you and your views" "the words you elect to use bring respect to your views" "the words you choose to use can't fail to enthus
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by drats 16y ago
Upvote from me, I similarly don't care if I get karma burned on this one. This tripe can barely be called journalism and certainly doesn't belong on HN.
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by drats 16y ago
Sorry but text extraction is interesting and uses machine learning in its own right. http://tomazkovacic.com/blog/14/extracting-article-text-from...
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by drats 16y ago
"The cloud".
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by drats 16y ago
I think you know what I mean. If I'd just said the article was immature and silly and doesn't belong on HN because of its outrageous tone my feeling is that I'd be downvoted, as it's happened before, so I made my criticism more oblique.[1]

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