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by geekam 13y ago
It used to be only at sites where I have to give (often mandatory) PII and CC/payment information but these days I get annoyed when at least the login page of the site is not HTTPS.
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Your Facebook Like Is Worth $174.17(gizmodo.com)
1 points by geekam 13y ago|0 comments
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by geekam 13y ago
Does this writing requires that you publish it somewhere or can it be really private?
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Jobs: Why do so many people hate their jobs?(quora.com)
5 points by geekam 13y ago|0 comments
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by geekam 13y ago
If using with Django, is it possible to change the {{}} to something else?
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by geekam 13y ago
I cannot find that video/text from Chomsky where he says the same thing about G. W. Bush and that every politician has a persona.
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by geekam 13y ago
How is it possible that Facebook, which owns the data, does not give tools like these but others tap this using their data?
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Bad normal approximation(johndcook.com)
3 points by geekam 14y ago|0 comments
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by geekam 14y ago
Can anyone tell me what are the precautions the election officers are taking so that this does not happen again? I also saw Hacking Democracy[1] recently that shows about the 2004 elections. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democra
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by geekam 14y ago
I have never understood what does the exercise involve? Can you please tell me what is it that you "do" in those five minutes that you meditate? I want to try this. Thanks.
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Why Doctors Can't Give You LSD (But Maybe They Should) (popsci.com)
1 points by geekam 14y ago|0 comments
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If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today(pcworld.com)
250 points by geekam 14y ago|147 comments
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by geekam 14y ago
Twilio is great. I read about their collaboration with the Polaris Project for Human Trafficking victims. It is always great to see companies standing up in the time of need.
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by geekam 14y ago
Does anyone know if others (e.g. Digital Ocean) follow the Safe Harbor like Linode?
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by geekam 14y ago
Why would anyone build a content based site with content not showing up in the first 3 seconds? The site loads fine but the text is so delayed. Tried in latest firefox and chrome.
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by geekam 14y ago
Hi Rob, I just sent you an email regarding this. Thanks so much!
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by geekam 14y ago
I love this. Long time ago, I tried to see if I could do a similar project but never got far. It was not for Human trafficking victims but was for the entire female population of South East Asia counties, esp. India where assaults on women
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by geekam 14y ago
She turned around, smiled and took their photograph. She can do that and not confront them about the lewd remarks? Though, I understand that it is tough for women to confront in a massively male-dominated arena. I think this fiasco is likel
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by geekam 14y ago
No. Instead of posting someone's photo (and other's along with that) on the web confront them. If they do not apologize or shut up in shame, move to authorities. Authorities at Pycon did help her, didn't they?
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by geekam 14y ago
I think there are tougher but better ways to deal with the issue (like facing the two men) than to hide behind your twitter followers.
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by geekam 14y ago
I was wondering that what happens if you are standing with a couple of people and one of them drops a sexist joke. You did not have anything to do with it, and you do not support that behavior but you just happened to be standing there. In
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by geekam 14y ago
>>> and not get all "NIH" What do you mean by this? I did not get this reference.
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by geekam 14y ago
I have been dealing with similar issues. Never been successful at anything I have done and I began programming later than you did, with C. I did run after a lot of tech, new toys etc. Even though it is nice and many times important to know
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by geekam 14y ago
This is nice! Congrats! Feature Request: Filtering via hashtags.
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by geekam 14y ago
CPR's are not very effective. A large number of doctors do not want CPRs to be done on them. http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2013/jan/15/bitt...
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Vienna - an RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X(vienna-rss.org)
2 points by geekam 14y ago|0 comments
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by geekam 14y ago
Hi HN! This is something that I created in an hour, after getting inspired by Brad Conte. This is just a joke and I hope you all enjoy it. If there are any concerns, please let me know. I hope nobody is offended with this.
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Hacker News Home Page Parody (Inspired by Brad Conte)(dl.dropbox.com)
4 points by geekam 14y ago|1 comments
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by geekam 14y ago
Yes they were. Made me move all my domains to namecheap.
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by geekam 14y ago
Congrats! Pelican is a great software. Use it together with Github-pages and you do not need any hosting space for your blog/site.

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