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Idekaon Spaced repetition for study and learning

iikanji looks good, but have you seen wanikani? The concept seems similar. http://www.wanikani.com/ Some feedback: I know how to read all of the stuff I tried (the first 10 kanji), mostly thanks to wanikani. But I haven't studied much gramar, so I'm not always sure what the sentences mean. You should probably add translations for these in the back of the cards.

Idekaon This is what a DDoS attack looks like

Looks more like a "claimer" to me.

Idekaon “Right click and save as” needs to go away

The "Firefox quirk" sounds more like a Chrome quirk to me.

Idekaon Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy

Wow. It's like the, what, fifth time Facebook destroys any notion of privacy?

Idekaon Dad hacks Donkey Kong for his daughter; Pauline now saves Mario

I believe posting the ROM would be ilegal. To share ROM mods, people usually share patches that can be applied with a certain program (like a binary diff, I'd assume).

Idekaon Linus on kernel changes breaking user programs (from 2012/12/23)

Have you seen Mauro's response? I think he took it like a champ. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/87

Idekaon ‘Creepy Cameraman’ pushes limits of public surveillance

Let's put it this way: he's not violating any legal rules, but he is violating some social rules. Whether that's doing something "wrong" or not is subjective, I think.

Idekaon Small

Reminds me of the Total Perspective Vortex, a torture machine from Douglas Adams' sci-fi book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

For when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says "You are here."

This, according to the book, completely annihilates your brain.

Idekaon Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?

Check google: https://www.google.com/search?q=type+upside+down

Idekaon Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)

since Python is a thoroughly mediocre language.

Care to elaborate?

Idekaon Why you should not be displaying relative dates.

That is a problem with Facebook, not with relative dates.

Idekaon The C Programming Language - Part 0

1. Use C if you want something to go as fast as possible.

Wrong: use Assembler Language.

That's ridiculous. I could say "Wrong: use machine code." and go on to reach "Wrong: use wire and soldering iron." and go on and on even more.

Idekaon Vim esckeys

Same here. I found that having Esc in the home row is really, really convenient, not only for Vim.

Idekaon Vim esckeys

Note that you don't actually have to wait for the delay to start writing. If you press <Esc>O and just start writing during the delay, vim will "cancel" the delay immediately (but of course, if the first letter you type is, for instance, a C, Vim will think you pressed the right arrow key and so on).

Idekaon Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web

Here is that scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYAoq3cFY9U (Skip to 2:20).

Idekaon Chrome redirecting to blank.html on search

ghostfish's message is now gray, so I guess he has been downvoted. Can anyone explain why?

My experience with DDG has been very similar to the one cited by aw3c2: I used it as my primary search engine for a couple of months, and eventually found myself always using !g, so I switched back to google.

Idekaon Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s

I tried fish some time ago. I thought it was pretty cool, but I didn't end up using it because it lacked Vi(m) key bindings.

Idekaon Dear StackExchange: Thank You

The post has two other questions:

what are the best practices when it comes to PHP?

And are there recommended ways of tackling certain task?

And these are, I believe, ambiguous, vague and overly broad (not to mention subjective).

Also the third question, the one you quote, is actually a yes/no question that would be pointless to answer. So, assuming that's not the real question... what is? I believe it IS difficult to tell what is being asked here.

StackExchange is just not meant for discussion, I think. At last not as it is right now.

Idekaon Browse man pages in style with your personal manservant

tengo hambre

Idekaon How I Collect Passwords

The fact that you know your password is what identifies you as the legitimate owner of your account. If you forget your password, you can't identify yourself as the legitimate owner of your account and thus, to the eyes of the system, you aren't. And about the only person who should be able to change the password of an account is its legitimate owner.

So, to answer your question:

Do they just ignore that rule in that case?

That case should not even happen in the first place.

Idekaon Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."

Classic: "having to" vs "wanting to".

Idekaon Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."

Care to elaborate?

Idekaon Linux Directory Structure (File System Structure) Explained with Examples

There's https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Filesystem_Hierarchy_St... too. Probably Arch-specific, but I bet most stuff applies to Unix in general as well.

Idekaon It’s Amazing What Your Users Will Do If You Ask

Here, take a look at the "testimonial" in question[0]:

"When I first saw Earbits, I couldn't believe my eyes. Worlds collided, rivers flowed upstream, birds sang in languages that could only be described as the purest form of unconditional love. Since that day, no other radio will do. I have lost my wife and children, but I don't care. All I care about is Earbits."

Anonymous

Yeah.

[0]: http://www.earbits.com/play/#/about_us

Idekaon Has anyone actually ever finished a project before a deadline?

I love deadlines. Especially the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

-- Douglas Adams

Idekaon Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

Damn, I always forget you can actually just use javascript to "do it", and end up using a Firefox add-on.

Idekaon Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday Present Ever

I suggest reading the article when you can, as that post wasn't actually very similar to it.

Idekaon ESR on Facebook

How does it matter whether ESR is (or was ever) relevant or not?

Idekaon On switching to Arch Linux

First of all, nothing works out of the box. You will have to manually set up the driver for your video card, support for your sound card (which can be a little difficult if you use USB headphones), wifi support, Xorg, your desktop environment and/or window manager of choice, etc.

Literally everything mentioned here worked out of the box for me when I installed Arch (except for USB headphones, which I do not own).