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by yannis 17y ago
The Afghan war seems so remote to us and it has been dragging too long, what screwing it up so long is actually finding a political solution that could let the troops go home and the Afghans live in peace!
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by yannis 17y ago
This is especially interesting for me (because normally I am put off by video), do you think is because the video highlighted the installation procedure better or do you think generally people prefer video?
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by yannis 17y ago
It worked very well for me in Chrome v 3.0.195.25. Impressed! Just a short observation, down the line you may wish that your pages are indexed by the search engines, by generating in js they will not.
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by yannis 17y ago
I found this point quite interesting and thought provoking: 'From the point of view of the internet, 'you' are a concept - the one thing in the whole system that isn't actually a part of the system. How to leverage that will be the stuff of
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by yannis 17y ago
Thanks, did you use a PHP Framework or you used propel directly (I mostly use CodeIgniter)?
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by yannis 17y ago
Anyone tried this? Sounds like a promising way of boosting PHP performance.
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by yannis 17y ago
'The prospect of the U.S. government becoming directly involved in commercial journalism ought to be chilling for anyone who cares about freedom of speech.' Well said!
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by yannis 17y ago
You could check a port of a Pratt parser done by Crockford some years back, can save you a bit of hassle. http://javascript.crockford.com/tdop/tdop.html John Resig's port of processing is also well looking into. Both the above are not pyt
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by yannis 17y ago
>Bush's IQ score is estimated to be above 120, which suggests an intelligence in the top 10 per cent of the population. But this, surely, does not tell the whole story Is there any evidence that his score is really 120?
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Facebook Finally Strikes It Rich -- in Court(fastcompany.com)
1 points by yannis 17y ago|0 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
Although the authors makes some good points on some of the advantages of not minifying code, it is always a best practice to do so. The errors that are common during minification of JavaScript mostly relate to ... yes you guessed it, is aut
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by yannis 17y ago
Keeping money. I actually find it easier to make money than keep it in the long run.
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by yannis 17y ago
I would be glad to see the jQuery discussions moved to a normal forum and moderated accordingly. A good idea would be to use a HN style forum. Google has failed to contain spam, even on discussion lists for their own offerings. It is actual
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by yannis 17y ago
For over a thousand years the majority of the 'civilized world' believed that women had more ribs than men. Personally I remain agnostic about the beginning 'first word', but I have a strong opinion that the second one was uttered by a woma
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by yannis 17y ago
Domain spoofing will be one major issue you can for example have 'google' with the two 'o' being greek omicrons, interesting times are coming:)
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by yannis 17y ago
Real world oil companies collusion http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=48041 (was on holiday here and just read this in the paper version of the paper)
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Going All-the-Way with the Client-Server App Concept(peter.michaux.ca)
1 points by yannis 17y ago|1 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
> The answer returns us to the biased brain, and a mental flaw known as the fundamental attribution error. It turns out that when we evaluate the behavior of others we naturally overemphasize the role of personality - we assume people a
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by yannis 17y ago
If you think that it works poorly you are welcome to improve it:) The testimony of the web provides the answer to the fact that HTML and CSS works. You can read Håkon Wium Lie's PhD thesis as to the reasoning behind CSS. http://people.ope
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by yannis 17y ago
Bollocks! Not only the author has not had a good look at both the historical context of HTML and CSS but has also failed to understand the technologies behind the success of the web. HTML is a mark-up language for documents. Its simplicity
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First-time Internet Users Find Boost In Brain Function (sciencedaily.com)
1 points by yannis 17y ago|0 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
Thanks for the encouragement :)
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by yannis 17y ago
I studied under C J Rallis (thermodynamics). He was an extraordinary man and my only regrets was that I did not spend enough time with him. He was born in Mozambique and taught at the University of the Witwatersrand for many years. He was t
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by yannis 17y ago
My wife is Chinese and she is hooked on it. Basically there is something like a vegetable patch and you grow fruit or vegetables in it. There is also an oversize dog that is supposed to guard your patch, but he only reacts if you buy food f
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Shaun Wylie (telegraph.co.uk)
16 points by yannis 17y ago|4 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
See similar discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=809680
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Top agencies with the most Facebook fans (gcn.com)
1 points by yannis 17y ago|0 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
It looks that the author actually was accepted into Graduate School and is probably too busy now :)
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by yannis 17y ago
She did quite a bit of work at Chernobyl as well. For 25 years she worked as a scientific illustrator for the scientific department of the Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich (she did illustrations of the effect of X-rays on
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Radiation-contaminated areas in the United States(wissenskunst.ch)
4 points by yannis 17y ago|3 comments

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