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by eksith 13y ago
I think this is very much a cultural problem within the PHP community. phpBB in particular is notorious for its unsustainable code and I think I figured out the reasons. There are better ways of doing things (despite PHP's inherent war
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NASA Uses Sanskrit To Program Artificial Intelligence(psychedelicjunction.com)
5 points by eksith 13y ago|2 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
vB's biggest problem is that it's a horribly convoluted rat's nest. If you've ever seen the actual code, you can see why it's just not possible to lockdown everything since there's so much legacy code that woul
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by eksith 13y ago
That's awfully well laid out for a defacement page.
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by eksith 13y ago
Ditto! I had the most heated arguments with people who complained that tables "just worked". It didn't help that Photoshop was (is?) king and web slices split into table/tr/td backgrounds was the most common way to
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by eksith 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this was already in place for quite a while. Google has slowly been trying to move away form pseudonyms altogether and force Real Name policies like Facebook and things like YouTube, Blogger, Docs
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by eksith 13y ago
Indeed. Some of us spend that extra time writing pithy comments on HN.
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To make it go viral: Make it interesting, original (if possible), authentic (people can smell "fake") and the rest will follow on their own. The truth is that you have very little control over what truly goes viral and the last th
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The Star Trek Reboot and How It Treats The Ladies(oddpicturesoddpeople.tumblr.com)
9 points by eksith 13y ago|7 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Good points, but "minimalism" is still rather heavy on the code front. If you like at a typical minimal theme lately, just after excluding the majority of the HTML weight, there's still a lot of stuff being sent to the brow
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Results from T2K: Muon neutrinos transform to electron neutrinos(t2k-experiment.org)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
The NASA video gallery is really heavier on current/recent videos, but you can give a quick search. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery They really should come up with a more comprehensive central reposito
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by eksith 13y ago
Indeed. Absolving him of any wrongdoing in the first place would have been appropriate, but pardon may be the only recourse to push through the House. Ironic that we now have Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Elton John, two men who would have m
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by eksith 13y ago
Yes, except for the "low performing" bit. And also "who would want this" because everybody...
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by eksith 13y ago
This is why the project would have been better off as open source with anonymous donations. Decentralization is still the best way to defeat aggregation.
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by eksith 13y ago
Cheeky. But I doubt they'll include that. More than likely, they've whitelisted all Yahoo CEOs/employees/associates/minions and people with "allah" in the name somewhere.[1] [1] http://en.wikipe
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by eksith 13y ago
Yahoo of all companies should know what type of users still retain their emails and what type has moved on. I had setup my mom's email on Yahoo (cause Gmail didn't exist and Hotmail, freshly bought by MS, was rubbish). She had a h
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by eksith 13y ago
Well, it seems it was a glitch + some misinformation (not helped by the said glitch), but I already see two problems with that : 1) As with Facebook, people who will hate it will still hang on because a lot of existing content they've
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by eksith 13y ago
Your first step might be to visit NASA[1] and take a tour of what astronauts might go through. There's a lot to take in with regard to human psychology in stressful/critical situations. What may seem intuitive and obvious on the g
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by eksith 13y ago
The TV show was cheek. The ex-Mormon, I've known for 12 years.
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by eksith 13y ago
> In fact, people who swear tend to be more honest than those who don't [citation needed] There's a whole lot of context involved here. Yes, there are very honest people who curse like sailors (fishermen especially [1])
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by eksith 13y ago
The AC wasn't really a "book" per-se, but a collected volume of snippets, wasn't it? I'd hardly call that a "banned" book though. I mean, it contained illegal activities which would have been verboten in
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by eksith 13y ago
It's still a problem in places where the primary means of accessing the internet is the library or cyber café (which might have some sort of filtering installed). It's not all that uncommon that books popular around most of the wo
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Isn't this is project an effort to make that somewhere else.
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by eksith 13y ago
I have a favorite screw driver. On occasion, I use the back of it as a hammer and it works quite well in that capacity on some jobs. The lengthy discussions have not only been interesting, they've often given me a swath of new ideas an
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by eksith 13y ago
Indeed. I bought a "dumb" GSM Nokia before flying to Sri Lanka and * gasp * not only was I able to have 2 lines, even two different carriers on the same phone, without too much hassle (something nearly unheard of the U.S.) I jus
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by eksith 13y ago
I was about to say this too. There was a lot of vitriol on the comments as well, but all of them follow the frustration of being overdrawn. But I agree, if the bank or card company doesn't take this as a genuine error and erase the rec
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by eksith 13y ago
I'm curious about that checkbox. The whole reason for it, I'm guessing, is because of COPPA ( Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), but then that applies only when you collect a significant amount of personal information
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by eksith 13y ago
This sort of thing has happened before to another company, but that was a case of human error compounded by the fact that there were no software safeguards in place. http://dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2008/01/15&
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by eksith 13y ago
> Because the alternative is doing nothing. The alternative is to do the right , thing as difficult a call as that may be. It doesn't mean you throw the constitution through the shredder or sit with your head buried in the

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