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gabipurcaruon How domains became backwards

well, for the same reasons the urls _should_ be the other way around, plus avoiding inconsistencies with other languages I guess (don't know what languages supported dot-named packages at that time, but I don't think they were the first ones)

gabipurcaruon Winter chills limit range of the Tesla Model S electric car

I'm not surprised. Don't know if this happens on a global scale, but here in Romania there's a trend of journalists and other media people starting to abuse their power like Broder (supposedly?) did, so for me (not sure about others), a journalist having a strong opinion quickly triggers a bullshit bell.

gabipurcaruon A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks

This smells like lots of hours wasted in the near future; I always wanted to get my feet wet with statistics, probabilities, etc. and it seems there's some nice content here.

gabipurcaruon Michelin Guides forgets to renew domain name, becomes "Michel in Guides"

This reminds me of a guy in a game, his nickname was "Penisland". Pen Island.

gabipurcaruon StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse

I really like the StackExchange family. But this is weak, IMO, for some reasons:

1. A typical forum looks simpler to me than this. If they're going to reinvent forums, it should be intuitive

2. AJAX? Yea, fine, but only as means to an end

3. "Discourse is designed from the beginning for high resolution touch devices." -- Tried on my nexus 7 and it looked bad, I had to turn on the laptop. Not all mobile devices can be described as "high resolution touch devices".

4. Their key features: "Conversations, not pages", "Get notifications when mentioned", "Simple, but with context", "Remembers your place", "Reply while you read", "Reply as a linked topic", "Real time updates", "Links automatically expand", "Bring your friends", "Paste to share images", "Log in with … anything", "Moderation that scales with the community", "Categories that grow with you", "Search that actually works", "Simple metrics", "Your stuff belongs to you", "Comprehensive API", "No app required". -- These are all welcome features, but they don't reinvent anything IMO, more like an incremental improvement. Most of them could just as well be implemented as plugins to traditional forums.

That being said, forums need to be reinvented, but Discourse doesn't do that.

gabipurcaruon JQuery's API documentation gets a redesign

If you ask me, making the old one faster would have been much better; I don't go there for the nice design, I go because I have stuff to get done, and I'd rather get that stuff done fast.

gabipurcaruon [dead]

I'm sorry, it uploads in chunks of 6MB, I should make that more clear in the description, so you will lose at most 6MB when you refresh (this was created for very large uploads). Since you only uploaded ~1.8MB, it would start over.

gabipurcaruon How American Giant created the best sweatshirt known to man.

You're not the target audience. I'd buy a piece of clothing that would last 10y