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forkrulassailon Ugly Software (like Blackboard) Gives Education a Bad Name

Having only Blackboard as a delivery mechanism in South Africa (TUT) was really detrimental. Everything is a service call or a call out. I eventually (after 2 semesters) just used my own Moodle setups.

forkrulassailon NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’

It was hilarious, especially the puppy enthusiasm statement.

forkrulassailon NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’

Possibly just a marketing tactic for starting more conversations on the book.

forkrulassailon NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’

Very true. He knows this too well. Why he tested the top searched content. Brilliant from a marketing perspective, saying nothing about substance.

forkrulassailon Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results

YES. Like the useless chromeextensions.org

This would be an awesome feature.

forkrulassailon R.I.P. Ruby Hash Rocket Syntax 1993-2010

Now if only you could change

list.sorting = {:name => 'ASC'} to list.sorting = {:name: 'ASC'}

forkrulassailon Building connections with open source information - NNDB network visualizer

Pity it's Flash based. Would be great in Canvas.

forkrulassailon Building connections with open source information - NNDB network visualizer

Very interesting tool. Can just imagine when more open data sources gets linked in here, and you could do Maltego-esque queries for visualization.

forkrulassailon Introducing Word Lens

Seems dead.

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You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/2.2.16 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.16 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_fcgid/2.3.5 Phusion_Passenger/2.2.15 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at questvisual.com Port 80

forkrulassailon Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends: Chrome extension exports Facebook contacts

What happened to this tool?

forkrulassailon If you could give a book to your younger self, what would it be?

Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson

forkrulassailon Ask HN: Tips for Hackers having Kids?

Would be interesting seeing a StackExchange HackerSpawn Q&A site.

forkrulassailon Google should allow for the sharing of email filters.

Yes, that would indeed be awesome.

I have about 17 emails coming into my gmail account. And have extensive filtering, prioritization going.

forkrulassailon Ask HN: Does this exist; verify bank transactions via SMS?

In South Africa, ABSA (Barclays owned), First National Bank and Nedbank use this.

You get a text when logging on, on creating a new beneficiary, and again on paying a new beneficiary for the first time.

Verifications are randomized strings of 8 characters.

ABSA's SMS verification system is flawed though. Their internal network allows _anyone_ on site to change a client's telephone number, which allows employees to effectively steal, whilst keeping their security flag flying.