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9ec4c12949a4f3··on Google, Facebook don’t innovate
Google didn't invent page rank, they stole the whole thing in 1996 from a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two kids at stanford. Have they even seen a dime of money since then?

GOOGLE IS MONSTERS!! rabble rabble rabble.

9ec4c12949a4f3··on PDFed Hacker News Daily
Honest criticism here with suggestion on how to please me.

I wasn't interested viewing a website I saw last week as a pdf. What I suggest doing is checking out how arc90 made the readability bookmarklett, scoop content that way so that it works on your pages with your own magazine-like design that isn't boring. Include top comments, and create a section for discussions (comments that get a lot of replies/nesting). I go far out of my way to un-style every website to be nice and uniform without superfluous content screaming at me from every direction (why did gopher:// have to die?!).

9ec4c12949a4f3··on Facebook’s Modern Messaging System: Seamless, History, And A Social Inbox
Pass this bill along to 10 of your closes friends.
9ec4c12949a4f3··on I broke textCAPTCHA with Python
Congrats, I suspected a higher cost of defeating this test.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891026

9ec4c12949a4f3··on Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
"Hey man, want any emails from people at harvard? I have them all. They trust me. Fucking idiots."
9ec4c12949a4f3··on TextCAPTCHA: 180 million simple logic questions
Lovely, but I could spend $500 and have the matching answers in a nice database I could resell.
9ec4c12949a4f3··on Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)
Are you kidding me? Clearly you don't have the kickass bookmarklett installed.

http://erkie.github.com/

9ec4c12949a4f3··on Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?
I would say if you're using MyISAM for basic things, you might as well go with SQLite.
9ec4c12949a4f3··on Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?
That's actually what I'm looking at right now. I'm half way into my project and it's all freaking mysql :( On the plus side, the SQL is abstracted decently enough that I don't have to change my body of code to any major degree.

Any experience or articles you like that talk about transitioning between the two?

9ec4c12949a4f3··on Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?
FYI, your English looks rather good for someone who's learning it. The only real issue I saw is how you make almost every sentence into it's own paragraph.
9ec4c12949a4f3··on MySQL Editions
If my PHP connects to a mysql database on the same host, and I sell that host as a product, I need to release that php code?
9ec4c12949a4f3··on BASIC Computer Games Book, published in 1978
I had a very similar book in 1993 when I was 5 years old, for qBasic. Got me started with programming.
9ec4c12949a4f3··on Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?
Could be anything from my wildly different views on the world (theism vs atheism; government's place, opinions of other people, etc...), to being the middle child. My two sisters seem to get along fine with them.
9ec4c12949a4f3··on Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?
Teach your child two things:

How to learn.

How to keep his/her creative in a world that tries it's best to kill it.

9ec4c12949a4f3··on Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?
I'm going to get my future wife to put headphones on her belly and play a 24/7 loop of the speech Jor-El gave superman from the movie.

Kid will come up a winner.

9ec4c12949a4f3··on Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?
I still telnet. So much fun!

Wish gopher's were still around. I was thinking of using a gopher to do a blog with.

9ec4c12949a4f3··on Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?
I grew up confused and depressed, meanwhile, my parents did their best to show me every day they loved me and still do, but I feel entirely distant from them. I'm over 20 years old.

GG logic, gg.

9ec4c12949a4f3··on A List Apart: Get started with Git
Sorry I didn't precisely mean understandable. I mean that's now how your average user wants to learn the system. If I can't figure it out in 3 minutes I go "screw this, it's complicated" and go away back to "File-> save as-> TheEntireProject-Backup2-version8-March11-2009.code" again.

But maybe I shouldn't be concerned with programmers like that.

9ec4c12949a4f3··on A List Apart: Get started with Git
I'm glad to see the increase in GIT tutorials, about a year or two ago there wasn't anything out there except confusing circles that you spin in for people who already know GIT.

Perhaps a blog like the daily VIM might be a great idea for any keen hackers out there.

9ec4c12949a4f3··on A List Apart: Get started with Git
I've suggested people use it for their office documents.
9ec4c12949a4f3··on IE9 Outperforms Other Browsers for HTML5 Compliance
Funny how chrome gets 100 on the acid3 and ie9 gets a 95.

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/benchmarks/Acid3/Default.h...

9ec4c12949a4f3··on Fermilab is building a "Holometer" to test theory of holographic universe
I'm willing to bet the only people who don't connect "holographic universe" with "The Holodeck" are people like us that live on the internet and slept on a pile of physics books 10 years ago.
9ec4c12949a4f3··on Scale of the Universe
Simple question here, when did I ever say before?

Edit:

In the early universe, before the plank epoch when we had particles of plank length or less, you know, things with a schwarzschild radius? The entire universe made of things that are black holes, nothing but black holes? Those time-ending particles that disappeared in their own hawking radiation? The first early 10^−43 seconds, where time didn't actually exist? Those were the good old days.

9ec4c12949a4f3··on Scale of the Universe
Ah, but in the earliest part of the big bang, time didn't exist. Now what?
9ec4c12949a4f3··on Search for PHP
Found no results for <?=
9ec4c12949a4f3··on A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator
Try a URI-encoded char code for X
9ec4c12949a4f3··on A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator
It's very simple, you're using it wrong.

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#20=&star...

9ec4c12949a4f3··on "Calling oneself a C Programmer is like saying you're a Hammer Carpenter"
Calling oneself a C programmer is like saying you work with wood but not metal.

Fify?

9ec4c12949a4f3··on Real-time heatmap example with Javascript and HTMLCanvas
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/facetious
9ec4c12949a4f3··on Real-time heatmap example with Javascript and HTMLCanvas
Upvoted anyway!
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