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Very nice. Only one thing really bothered me: it's really hard to tell when the radio buttons are selected. I much prefer a full circle when selected

But the trick of selling a plain text email and only then html email seems like bad tactics. if you know that 70% will want the html email, you should tell them in advance that a good product will cost 180, instead of offering them a mediocre product that they don't want for 100, just to make the price seem low.

you are ripping them off...

That's the only javascript framework one needs.

Actually I've been wanting to write something like that for a long time but didn't get around to it. Nice to see someone else did exactly what I wanted...

I would say the most effective thing would be to use the internet and social media to raise awareness, thus forcing western governments to get involved. Not knowing where you are paying taxes, I can assume you probably contribute money and legitimacy to some armed forces who can fight this terrorist organization.

This is the only way.

until you do that, at least don't pretend like you are helping to solve one problem, by helping to solve a different one.

the saddest thing is that the action suggested in this article is not even about saving those girls, or protecting other girls, or punishing/dismantling the terrorist organization who did this.

The action suggested is building schools in a totally different country.

That demonstrate in a very morbid way the inability of good people in the first world to help people in the rest of the world, without getting up from their chair.

I don't support any terrorism of any kind, but I do feel sometimes that western education is sinful.

The article fails to make the distinction between lunar and solar calender. It's just about dividing the solar year to equal months, but we also want to make the month align with the moon, which circles earth for 29.5 days on average. The big problem with the Gregorian calendar, in my opinion is that it so clearly missed the lunar month. it just feels intolerably close, but not quite there...

by the way, no need to invent a new calendar. the Hebrew calendar is both solar and lunar.

HMO:

I just can't seem to solve this bug, no matter how hard I try... It's in my side project: http://www.hashworld.co/ it's written in Java under App Engine. If you want to give a try, send me an email at hmo@hashworld.co and I'll send you details.

How I can help:

I'd love to help out in interesting problems, especially relating to scaling and making sites always live.

he was too quick to release...

why not... i'm not teaching the dictionary meaning of the word, i'm teaching the concept...

is this system really needed in order to grasp the concept of division? isn't saying "divide these 30 oranges to 6 boxes" enough? what does this system add to grasping the concept beyond this sentence?

actually i think the two methods of division are entirely pointless to teach youth. they are both mechanical algorithms that contribute very very little to the logical sophistication of kids, especially when you consider the other things you could teach them instead (set theory).

in other words, one method is short but easily forgotten, the other is long and remembered, but actually in real life you don't need to remember how to divide numbers and you also don't need to do it fast.

site down. yet again a static html file is served from a private server.

the crawling issue is simply a deal breaker. try searching in google for something in angular docs - and you'll see what i mean...

Million of developers worldwide stopped "writing" code

also, composition is so much more clear and intuitive than abstract inheritance of objects. one should favor simplicity over sophistication always

here is a free, simple, and accurate geolocation service: http://free-geolocation.appspot.com/

i still don't know of any compayn that gives unlimited international calls (let alone free...)

besides, they started to gain popularity before the widespread of unlimited plans, at least in my country

viber was founded by 4 israelies who invested $30M out of their own pockets. the location of the developers are now exactly known but it says that they have offices in israel, cyprus, belarus

instead of starting a brand new stack overflow in another language they should think of some way of letting people translate questions & answers and earn karma for that. this way, like wikipedia, you can always go from one language to another for the translation

i wonder if promoting posts also lead to fake/false exposure

i still don't understand why in 2014 it's not possible to have an entire website with all it's files zipped and shipped as it is on the first request. how wasteful is it to have 50 requests for a server just for images and resources? have your root domain be a zip file of everything you need to view it, and then include some additional popular pages along with it. it can't get any faster than that

kudos for the mobile support that's what i'm going to do on my ride home today

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.” - Albert Einstein

Israeli here. this law-suggestion was only preliminary approved. it still has a long way to go until it will be officially a law, and it probably won't make it. the media here criticized this move harshly once it has "discovered" about it. i say discovered because many law-suggestion are discussed by 4-5 parliament members who are present in the knesset in the preliminary stage, and really nobody hears about them or cares until the later stages...

from the downvotes i gather i may not ask...

may i ask where are the machines hosted? is that on AWS? if not, why don't you move to a more reliable hosting, like AWS?

why not block a user from sending messages to anyone after, say, 3 complaints? yes, maybe it's a little harsh and not democratic, but it will make men much more considerate

The one thing that never stops boggle our minds is the infinite. Nobody wants finite things, and I don't believe finite things are genuinely good for us.