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by getsat 16y ago
tl;dr: You will probably act differently when not hidden behind the veil of (optional/partial) anonymity. > Face it, authenticity goes way down when people know their 700 friends, grandma, and 5 ex-girlfriends are tuning in each time th
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by getsat 16y ago
That seems like a situation that is more directly influenced by the country-specific lending institutions, no? Aren't they the ones setting the interest rates, repayment terms, etc., not Kiva and other ML organisations?
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by getsat 16y ago
Understood. I just had no idea that people were taking their lives because of an inability to repay microfinance loans in general. I'm an active Kiva participant with a few thousand USD in the system at present.
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by getsat 16y ago
> work for a place that causes suicide thanks to usurious interest rate Wow, I had never heard about this. I found an article about it in case anyone else is interested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11997571
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by getsat 16y ago
#winning, after some research, appears to be related to Charlie Sheen's newfound popularity on Twitter: http://twitter.com/charliesheen
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by getsat 16y ago
Agreed. If you're prototyping a network-facing application or even building an initial proof of concept, take a look at EventMachine. Lots of bang for your buck. https://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine https://github.com/eventmachin
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by getsat 16y ago
Glad I could be of assistance!
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by getsat 16y ago
Two Chrome subprocesses jumped to 99.9% CPU usage after running that on this page. Awesome. (Chrome 9.0.597.102 on OSX 10.6)
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by getsat 16y ago
Install MacPorts: http://www.macports.org Add /opt/local/bin to your PATH (bashrc or zshrc or whatever you use). sudo port install libxml2 and sudo port install libxslt Then sudo gem install nokogiri --no-rdoc --no-ri should run wit
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by getsat 16y ago
Not really. I can Right Click -> Copy XPath in Firebug's element inspector then just Nokogiri::HTML(page_source).xpath('/blah') to get at it. You can do it with the CSS selector as well. :) Setting up a quick script to rip all the conte
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by getsat 16y ago
Good tip! I use this constantly in File Open dialogs (especially to get into hidden .folders). Also worthy of mention is that you can actually tab-complete paths in the dialog just like in the terminal.
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by getsat 16y ago
I agree. I haven't done Erlang since 2009, but reading through that book taught me a lot about functional programming theory, state mutation concepts, parallelising code properly and many other things. Definitely not a book for beginners to
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by getsat 16y ago
I mentally associate Altria with altruism when I come across it, which is probably the intent.
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by getsat 16y ago
Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World
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by getsat 16y ago
You can't.
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by getsat 16y ago
Interesting. You can always $ open Library to open it in a Finder window.
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by getsat 16y ago
How does "infinitely scalable" compare to "web scale"?
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by getsat 16y ago
If I recall correctly, CC companies do not allow businesses to charge an extra fee to take card, but businesses are not forbidden from raising the base price and offering a cash discount. During my time in the US, I saw many gas stations sh
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by getsat 16y ago
Someone will repost the story and it will hit the front page again anyways.
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by getsat 16y ago
"how to pay off the debt" -> "the next generation" You've already figured it out, sadly.
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by getsat 16y ago
You've reinvented port knocking. Use SPA instead: http://www.google.com/search?q=single+packet+authorization
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by getsat 16y ago
Check this out: http://www.google.com/search?q=single+packet+authorization
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by getsat 16y ago
It seems to me that they are doing what they enjoy.
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by getsat 16y ago
I saw benchmarks posted comparing a Java supercompiler vs C, and Java + supercompiler actually beat raw C for quite a few test cases. I can't seem to find the study I saw, but if you search for "supercompilers" there's lots of information a
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by getsat 16y ago
Thanks for the info.
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by getsat 16y ago
We're definitely still on the "are" side of that one, unfortunately.
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by getsat 16y ago
What is Wikipedia's policy on personal offsite URLs on user pages? I think it's just people editing his profile out of spite due to this issue. I agree that it's not done with good intentions.
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by getsat 16y ago
Haha, I love the edit war on his profile regarding his "non-notable" website: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Christopher_M... Which is making him a little handful of money daily: http://w3spy.net/site/smogon.com Chris, I
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by getsat 16y ago
I neglected to give more than a cursory glance at Obj-C back when the iPhone 3G and app store first came out. I hugely regret it now, but I was doing C++ at the time and thought it was the cat's pajamas. If you can think abstractly and use/
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by getsat 16y ago
Hmm. I recall the SysInternals books saying it was NT4, not 5. I could be mistaken, though.

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