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by gchucky 16y ago
I'm sorry, I have a hard time with articles that complain but offer no solutions (and the one line at the end about Akismet doesn't really cut it for me.) I've seen some captchas that have you do simple math problems or other basic question
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by gchucky 16y ago
Somewhat tangential of a question, but does anyone have recommendations for buying cheap solar panels in the states? Like, suppose I wanted a solar panel to put in my apartment window so I could charge my phone. What would it take to get so
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by gchucky 16y ago
The article's site is being pretty slow, but it's been cached at http://kyleclouse.com.nyud.net/mormons-lds-church-seo/ .
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Ask HN: Getting started with the logistics of freelancing?
3 points by gchucky 16y ago|2 comments
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by gchucky 16y ago
Has there been an explanation as to why they were using DES? Gawker started in 2003, a year after DES was superseded by AES, and there were plenty of more secure algorithms being used at the time.
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by gchucky 16y ago
Neal Stephenson's "Anathem". Seriously one of the best novels I've ever read. He's an excellent writer, and after about the first fifty pages I couldn't put it down.
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by gchucky 16y ago
Actually, there was an article in the NYTimes four years ago about lactic acid, and it turns out that "lactic acid is actually a fuel, not a caustic waste product. Muscles make it deliberately, producing it from glucose, and they burn it to
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by gchucky 16y ago
I'm curious now: what would be a more appropriate solution for each of the cases he gave (rsync, and mysqldump on a large database)?
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by gchucky 16y ago
I've been on a telecommuting project for the past several months or so. At some point we realized that we weren't really functioning as cohesively as possible, and the solution ended up being in finding a group chat tool. The author here us
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by gchucky 16y ago
I'm trying to wrap my head around your comment. How would one self-promote without coming off as arrogant or obnoxious? (And I'm not asking this snarkily; I'm genuinely curious.)
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by gchucky 16y ago
I just wanted to thank you for linking to the full version of the article (rather than the paginated one).
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by gchucky 16y ago
JRR Tolkien worked this way as well. He wrote out all the days for the books and where everyone was, even down to what phase of the lunar cycle the day was. There was actually an exhibit of Tolkien's notes that toured around for a bit, and
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by gchucky 16y ago
Honestly I wasn't aware of Haystack's security issues, but http://haystacky.s3.amazonaws.com/www.oblomovka.com/wp/2010/... cleared up a bunch of it.
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by gchucky 16y ago
If I was an average user and saw GTD in the first line like that and didn't know what it meant, I'd probably lose interest in the site. The definition is in the copyright text at the bottom, but some people may not make it down there.
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by gchucky 16y ago
Thanks for those recs; I hadn't heard of either of them. You should give The American Dollar a listen; they're a really great postrock band from Queens. And Mercury Program, too, but they're in the heavyweights category, more or less.
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Blizzard scraps plans to display real names in forums(kotaku.com)
4 points by gchucky 16y ago|0 comments
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by gchucky 16y ago
The Hacker's Diet ( http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/ ), a guide to losing weight for hackers, has an exercise component based around this. It's a little outdated now, but the concepts behind it are pretty good.
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by gchucky 16y ago
A friend of mine takes Bayer on long hauls due to its blood thinning properties. Not sure if that's proper medical advice, but...
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by gchucky 16y ago
There's an Android app, called Simeji, that's the same thing. Each button is one of the groups (a, ka, sa, etc.) and then you swipe in each direction for a given sound. I think it's -a if you just touch, -i to the left, -u up, -e right and
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by gchucky 16y ago
I don't think this is anything new; according to http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=428921... , it's been that way since at least May 2009.
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by gchucky 16y ago
This article doesn't say it, but "developers will dish up 1.9 percent to 2.9 percent of the sale, plus 30 cents based on PayPal's tiered pricing structure for e-commerce, or a 5 percent plus 5 cents per each transaction fee for micropayment
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by gchucky 16y ago
A fair amount of people have complained that they switched to Chrome from Firefox because FF is overly bloated, takes a long time to start up, and so on. Seems to me that a browser that also runs separate apps like this would take a conside
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by gchucky 16y ago
I've read that the diatomaceous earth basically sloughs off their shells, leaving.. not much left.
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by gchucky 16y ago
Reminds me of http://www.simondale.net/house/ , where a guy built a house inspired by the books. Looks like a pretty sweet place to live..
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by gchucky 17y ago
There's a review on Engadget ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1243630 ) that's mostly the same story. After all the drama that happened with this tablet, it's really a sad ending to what started out as a potentially great product.
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by gchucky 17y ago
I just looked up how to do this, as I couldn't figure it out. Slide open the keyboard, hold the shift key and drag your finger across the text you want to copy. I just tested it on my Droid and it works. Not sure about other Android phones.
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by gchucky 17y ago
Any word on how easy it is to remove? I'm planning on moving in a few months and I wouldn't want to leave it stuck to the wall in my current apartment.
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by gchucky 17y ago
What about browser plugins? There are a bunch out for Firefox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/tags/display/RSS?so... ). I used Sage several years ago and was relatively happy with it; surely they've improved on it since then.
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by gchucky 17y ago
Is this really worth making a big fuss over? The only time most of us would interact with personas is when Firefox upgrades and we see the update splash page. Aside from that, it basically stays out of the way and you can use the browser no
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by gchucky 17y ago
Site seems to be dead (it showed up on Slashdot as well) but here's a Coral Cache version: http://pixelqi.com.nyud.net/blog1/2010/03/07/diy-pixel-qi-ki...

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