zalew

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by zalew 14y ago
"Funnily, the mythical website that inspired wok still hasn't been written." ha ha, classic. like my django-tmdb abandonware.
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by zalew 14y ago
there's quite a similar quote on photography "Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light"
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by zalew 14y ago
> And even programmers, the audience who would most need all the power and flexibility of laptops, are switching to tablets. programmerS? the link is the only guy I heard of so far, and I even know die-hard ipad fans who laugh at the id
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by zalew 14y ago
yeah, I'd also like something like http://www.devswag.com/ but with more choice. I'd like to have stickers with my OS, programming langs, frameworks/libs, etc. and it looks like I either have to order them on 20 different sites and get ri
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by zalew 14y ago
I prefer to read from people who know what the fuck they are doing.
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by zalew 14y ago
> I once dropped a car into a creek in a third world country story, please
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by zalew 14y ago
you are doomed. flee.
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by zalew 14y ago
9 women won't give birth in a month.
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by zalew 14y ago
email #1 "Thank you for helping to improve Google Maps. Once approved, your contribution will appear on Google Maps for everyone to see. Thanks and happy mapping! " email #2 "Congratulations! We have made changes based on your suggestion on
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by zalew 14y ago
TIL about Google Map Maker. Just corrected a few issues in my neighborhood, they got approved, I wonder when they get into Google Maps. Anyone knows how long it takes? Google's email sent to me just says "Soon you will be able to see your e
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by zalew 14y ago
> Find the traitor: who sold our emails to spammers username+trapkeyword@gmail.com
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by zalew 14y ago
It would be even better if you started up a trend of designers making cool websites for opensource projects, for free. A gang of opensource designers, that's an awesome idea. I'm really surprised reading a lot of comments about not seeing w
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by zalew 14y ago
those sites were up before CSS, it has nothing to do with demand.
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by zalew 14y ago
the actual django page is being redesigned https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/django-de...
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by zalew 14y ago
They should go thermonuclear war on this.
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by zalew 14y ago
> Having the PHP site in your design portfolio would open doors with a lot of people. That's true for beginners with a weak portfolio. Experienced ones don't care about php, they have commercial projects in there. > Plus, a lot of d
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by zalew 14y ago
"it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice"
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by zalew 14y ago
easier to find it here <div class="map" style="width: 165888px; height: 79872px; position: absolute; z-index: -1; left: -67645.4px; top: -27545.6px;">
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by zalew 14y ago
'stupid feebsd' and a crashed plane
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by zalew 14y ago
Wikipedia plays such a role in today's information access, that leaving it to 'the people' is simply impossible. In the end, Wiki is a powerful media, it's impossible not to acknowledge the potential huge profits of propaganda and advertisi
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by zalew 14y ago
sort of relevant: history of jesus' wiki entry http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/webhead/2011/01/jes...
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by zalew 14y ago
AFAIR there are reversal bots, to prevent vandalism.
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Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia(news.cnet.com)
144 points by zalew 14y ago|53 comments
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by zalew 14y ago
in Poland instead of 'hoover' it was 'electrolux'. some seniors people call it so to this day. 'bic' was also popular in Brazil.
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by zalew 14y ago
> What happened to the social media networks that we saw playing a big role in the Arab Spring? they host the anti-islam movie. but in all seriousness, westerners overvalue the peaceful and democratic role of the internet. I recommend r
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by zalew 14y ago
those screenshots were enhanced with adobe(r) photoshop(tm) software.
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by zalew 14y ago
http://longreads.com http://longform.org
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by zalew 14y ago
American English is also easier to understand for most foreigners than some accents of English (and I mean only the ones from England).
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by zalew 14y ago
also http://www.salon.com/2012/09/17/newsweeks_muslim_rage_invite...
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by zalew 14y ago
I spoke Brazilian Portuguese and even back then it was relatively hard for me to understand Portuguese the original due to pronounciation/accent differences (by relatively hard I mean I had to focus). I had less problems understanding Spani

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