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by gchucky 17y ago
In addition to what everyone else said, they can also prevent link rot and make sure that links stay alive.
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by gchucky 17y ago
I think at some point it would turn Wikipedia into a huge advertisement. You'd have every person who ever came up with a product create an article about how theirs does all these great things and is better than the others. If you've ever ta
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by gchucky 17y ago
I remember seeing YikeBike on here about half a year ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810787 ) to fairly mixed thoughts, particularly in terms of style (kinda uncool) and safety. Honestly I wouldn't want to drive through any part o
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by gchucky 17y ago
At http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085721 it looks like some people wrote a Greasemonkey script to remove iPad stories. Maybe you could adapt that JS to your liking?
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by gchucky 17y ago
Coming soon: masks made of frosted Plexiglas.
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by gchucky 17y ago
"Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are impacted by the bug, said Microsoft, and any supported versions of Internet Explorer (IE) on those operating systems -- including IE6 on Windows XP -- could be leveraged by attackers." B
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by gchucky 17y ago
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but I'm going to keep using Firefox. If nothing else, my paranoia senses are tingling with regard to Google. These days I'm heavily invested in Google - their software runs my phone, handles my
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by gchucky 17y ago
No, it worked just fine for me. Well done on the game, BTW.
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by gchucky 17y ago
There's a Firefox addon as well. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46442
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by gchucky 17y ago
I'm sure some people have seen this, but there's a product on Amazon called the Laptop Steering Wheel Desk. The reviews on it are hilarious. http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Office-WM-01-Laptop-Steering/dp...
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by gchucky 17y ago
Voice recognition is more or less included in Android. With the new updates, any text box can be filled with voice text. According to http://www.4feets.com/2009/04/speech-recognition-in-android-... (first hit on Google) it looks like ther
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by gchucky 17y ago
Men Who Stare At Computers?
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by gchucky 17y ago
Really interesting article, and kinda scary. Part of me wonders if we'll start to see small local farms having to ramp up productivity to sell to Wal-Mart and how that will affect the farms. It could end up going the way that "industrial or
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by gchucky 17y ago
Can someone clarify how this actually shows up to the end-user? When a user gets a new computer and first turns it on, does this show up in a standalone program, within IE, or some other way?
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by gchucky 17y ago
The EPA maintains a list of green power companies at http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/pubs/gplocator.htm . It's honestly worth making the change if you can. Here in NYC all you have to do is change which ESCO provides you power; I switched to
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by gchucky 17y ago
I think this falls into the same jurisdiction as Wappr does ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1123173 if you missed that conversation), where you're aggregating info from people that may not want it used as such. I know that this is tr
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by gchucky 17y ago
Anyone else marginally entertained by this being written on Buzz?
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by gchucky 17y ago
There have been a bunch of threads around here; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526517 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=918700 have a bunch of alternatives on them. Seems like people are okay with Spreedly and Braintree.
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by gchucky 17y ago
There was an article a few months back that stated that Amazon loses $2 for each book sold on Kindle. Publishers won't sell e-books for less than the publishing price. http://www.tbiresearch.com/e-readers-should-drive-profits-fo... is the
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by gchucky 17y ago
Isn't there an issue of time sensitivity here? Suppose the paper is supposed to start showing up at 6 PM. You need a few hours to start printing papers, so let's say all articles have to be in by 2 PM. Then you need time to let people write
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by gchucky 17y ago
Just gave it a test and it works pretty well. The image needs to be clear, but it was able to read the American Express logo off of my bill, a website address off of a keychain, and the Time Warner logo off of the remote. Edit : I tried an
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by gchucky 17y ago
I've been working from home on and off for two years now, and I can tell you that sometimes there is just no substitute for physically being in the same room as the rest of your team. Meetings are so much easier, getting help is far more ef
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by gchucky 17y ago
Total noob question, but I'll ask it anyway: is there any coding that has to be done to do HTTPS, or is it as simple as linking to the same page with https in the front?
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by gchucky 17y ago
Yes. The Monterey Bay Aquarium ranks fish based on sustainability and publishes the lists as pocket guides. I always carry it with me when I go to the market. The list is at http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx if you'
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by gchucky 17y ago
I'm sorry, but I find mixing serif and sans serif characters to be somewhat jarring. I'm partial to the Proggy set of fonts.
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by gchucky 17y ago
Sorry, I gotta disagree with you. Learning Japanese using an antiquated romaji system (si vs shi, etc.) and not learning any kana or kanji won't get you very far. What good is that when show up in Japan and can't read any of the signs aroun
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by gchucky 17y ago
Couldn't you do that in Firefox with Ctrl-C, Ctrl-L, Ctrl-V? Or instead of Ctrl-L, use Ctrl-K to get to the search bar?
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by gchucky 17y ago
There are pretty clear reminders. If you log into the Wordpress control panel, there's a bar that says "The latest version is x. Click here to upgrade." And they also built an automated update script that downloads, unpacks and installs it
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by gchucky 17y ago
So let's say I build some kind of application. And I create a website for it and a Twitter account and whatever else. Should there be a Wikipedia article for that? By having lower notability standards, there would be, as the article could u
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by gchucky 17y ago
For some reason, the PHP documentation for goto has a link to that comic too. http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.goto.php

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