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by ghiotion 18y ago
Don't know why you're being downmodded. Personally, I think that's hilarious.
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by ghiotion 18y ago
I got hit with this very same attack over July 4th weekend. I inherited an abortion of a site written in "classic" ASP. The attacker inserted javascript links into every VARCHAR database table it could. Took me hours to clean out everyth
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by ghiotion 18y ago
I'm not necessarily for it, but the OP brings up an interesting point. If people are creating "one off" accounts for sensitive issues, there may be a need for this. Perhaps there could be an option to obfuscate the ID of the poster?
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by ghiotion 18y ago
This is the thing that throws me. At some point, good social skills came to mean "extrovert". I don't accept that definition. I'd much rather spend my time in deep conversation with one or two people than flitting around like a social bu
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Mod_social_skills, mod_rationality(tales-of-an-it-director.blogspot.com)
11 points by ghiotion 18y ago|4 comments
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by ghiotion 18y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. I felt like I was losing my mind as I was reading Cuban's blog. Can someone direct me to the place on Hulu where I can upload my kid's gymnastics video so I can send it to my folks living overseas? Oh yea
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I quit my job today, oh boy(tales-of-an-it-director.blogspot.com)
46 points by ghiotion 18y ago|19 comments
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Fascinating Idea - One Million Monkeys Typing: A Collaborative Writing Project(1000000monkeys.com)
6 points by ghiotion 18y ago|2 comments
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by ghiotion 18y ago
> Whatdya think? I think this represents a violation of the spirit of HN.
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by ghiotion 18y ago
Exactly. I saw that and was really surprised. Burying you comment like that was an aggressively unfriendly act; two adjectives I never thought I would use to describe this place.
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by ghiotion 18y ago
Gun to head, yeah, I do care about karma. But I only care insofar as I respect the community who's voting. The problem is that the indiscriminate downvote homogenizes discussion. The consensus opinion rises to the top. This is good when
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by ghiotion 18y ago
I posted an Ask PG submission about the use of downvote. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214398
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Ask PG: Are people getting more liberal with their downvotes?
41 points by ghiotion 18y ago|62 comments
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by ghiotion 18y ago
Yes, I've noticed that. Seems as if people are feeling more free with the down arrow in general. I'm not sure I like it. I'm no karma whore, but I do like my karma points. Personally, I reserve a down vote for comments that are particula
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by ghiotion 18y ago
Yes, but the idea seems to be to introduce them to programming concepts: variables, if/else, do/while, etc. The advantage of HTML and javascript is that it's very easy to see how a button click causes some logic to execute. It also shows
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by ghiotion 18y ago
What about HTML + javascript? Very visual with instant feedback. You get the programming stuff with javascript (an under appreciated language) and introduce the concept of a structured document with HTML. You can use firebug as an intro
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by ghiotion 18y ago
This article may be interesting and all, but I can't figure out why the link is to: http://cs6c.clearspring.com/r/484dbc934177dc66 with a url argument pointing to the newsweek article.
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by ghiotion 18y ago
I watched a friend of mine slowly die of AIDS over a number of years. I was in the room at the Hospice when he actually died. I drank to deal with it. My wife's 18 year old brother died of a stroke in his sleep. He was an adopted kid who'
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by ghiotion 18y ago
178 vi 105 ls 66 cd 50 python 11 links 10 su 7 ps 7 cp 6 id 4 top
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by ghiotion 18y ago
It's an interesting idea and one that has merit. One of the smartest programmers I know didn't go to college. He spent his formative years building pipe organs and having 5 kids. However, this makes the mistaken assumption that college's
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Interesting. Is this a DH1 response or a DH2 response? ( http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html ) Maroon seems to inspire lots of highly charged responses, both positive and negative. But it seems that most of these stem from his acerbi
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by ghiotion 19y ago
God, I just love this guy's posts. He's so freaking enthusiastic. It's really infectious. Normally, I'm not a big fan of the exclamation point, but somehow he makes it work.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
I've got to go along with pius on this one. This offends me. It's that smarmy, ingratiating racism that seems to be all over the internet. It's not funny, it's not clever.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
James Cameron did a visually breathtaking, 3D take at the end of his "Aliens of the Deep" about a hypothetical alien civilization living in Titan's oceans. Presumably, they were getting their energy from the thermal vents on the ocean floo
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by ghiotion 19y ago
"The Brothers Karamazov" - Fyodor Dostoevsky. Perhaps the very first existentialist novel ever written. Dostoevsky was an existentialist before anyone knew what existentialism was.
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by ghiotion 19y ago
I gotta disagree with you. If anything, Pilgrim was too easy on him. Frankly, I think someone could make a wicked "Fake Joel Spolsky" blog. The tag line could be: "HEY! I wrote Excel! What have you done douche bag?"
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by ghiotion 19y ago
> I believe Python programmers want to write Python - not Java, nor .Net. What attracts us to Python is a clean syntax. If I want concurrency in Python, I don't want to have to call into java.util.concurrent. A-freakin-men. Remove the
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by ghiotion 19y ago
I used VC++ in my first job, using Microsoft's ATL to extend the functionality of an ActiveX based Web app from Mercury Interactive (TestDirector, for those that are interested). It was utterly horrible, but I wasn't aware of it at the tim
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by ghiotion 19y ago
In general, I don't like this idea, but I just checked the new page and I count no less than 4 submissions that seem strange to me: 1) Free Software Download 2) a dude soliciting help for red5 3 & 4) InkomHolic and 3rrOrists that violat
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by ghiotion 19y ago
Yes please. This needs to go bye-bye.

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