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solox3··on We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
Numerous bugs on github were attributed to the guy with user name 0. He evaluates to false in many PHP applications, too.
solox3··on Closures for class/module privacy considered harmful
Overused now? It was overused 11 years ago, and it still is.

http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

solox3··on Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized
For more reliable comparison of temperatures, the minimum temperature should be set to zero Kelvin. Otherwise, the colour shown in the visualization is completely arbitrary, and its intensity cannot be quantitatively described.
solox3··on Show HN: Sync.js – Upload changed local files to remote server
My best guess is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
solox3··on A $45 Android tablet
If it comes rooted / can be rooted, then an android device can install Google Play and everything by mimicking a Galaxy Nexus (or any common device) by editing build.prop. There are lots of tutorials online about this topic.

http://highonandroid.com/android-apps/how-to-install-google-...

solox3··on Do_good.js

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solox3··on Chemists Work to Desalt the Ocean for Drinking Water, One Nanoliter at a Time
0.7A is the current of the "store bought" (AA) battery, suggested by the article.

To make this technology energetically favourable to boiling, it must not exceed ~700μA in current, and it has to be far less than that to be worth its complexity.

solox3··on Chemists Work to Desalt the Ocean for Drinking Water, One Nanoliter at a Time
40 nL of desalted water per minute, for a minute, using 3.0V voltage (from article) and 0.7 A current (standard AA, "store-bought battery" from article), yields 3.2 GJ/L.

Even if we give it the benefit of the doubt and say we're overestimating the current by a factor of 100, 32 MJ/L still a ridiculous amount of energy, and ~10x more than just distilling water through evaporation, which is 2.23 MJ/L.

solox3··on Windows Timer Resolution: Megawatts Wasted
Like the author says, Megawatt is a measurement of energy wasted per second.

If we take his claim that 10 MW is being wasted, then the energy wasted at 10 MJs⁻¹ over a year is the energy of 5 small atomic bombs.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10MW+times+a+year

solox3··on Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
The EU "Cookie law" is not limited to cookies. The term used in regulation 6 is "storage", which includes at least localStorage, headers, and remotely hosted solutions (off the top of my head).
solox3··on "Nothing like this will be built again"
> smelling the thing (mostly machine oil and steam, and a hint of ozone near the transformers)

Possibly just metal oxides or dimethylsulphide, as ozone is odourless.

solox3··on Google Correlate - Draw
Very useful for looking up what people care about: http://i.imgur.com/puNZMco.png

1. (antidepressant drug) 2. "county jail" 3. "google" 4. "detention center" 5. (vinyl music database)

solox3··on CppCMS – High Performance C++ Web Framework
Odd wiki. Unlike Wikipedia, the front page is completely open to public editing.
solox3··on Ask HN: Should I give up my dataplan to save money?
* Share a plan. * Look for family plans. * Depends on your town/city's Wi-Fi coverage. * Depends on your geographic location. In some places, broadband is so slow and 4G is so commonplace that it is better to drop the broadband service instead.
solox3··on Edward Snowden petition reaches critical mass. White House must now respond.
The brave man who revealed government espionage has already been charged by the government for espionage. It is unlikely that the official White House response will deviate from that, and even if it does deviate from that, the government is no longer an entity one should choose to trust.
solox3··on Silver makes antibiotics thousands of times more effective
Silver exhibits low toxicity in the human body, and minimal risk is expected due to clinical exposure by inhalation, ingestion, dermal application.
solox3··on Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
It happened a while back, when Bobby Kehres told my colleague and I about the game. https://github.com/1337/Tic-Tac-Toe-Extreme
solox3··on You can't impress developers
hey holman, you might want to look at the way your fonts are being rendered on linux http://i.imgur.com/wT1ue16.png
solox3··on Django-qrauth: QR codes for instantly signing in to a website
web.airdroid.com does that. It is a tremendously useful addition in their case, because most of their users already have devices with a camera.
solox3··on How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2
Apart from being cheap, this is also very denture-friendly. Chewing is absolutely required only 1/6 of the time (carrots, seeds).
solox3··on Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
opera:config does not work, but about:config does; it shows a curated list of applicable settings.
solox3··on Show HN: Squaresend - Less annoying mailto links
What, why would you intentionally break my freedom to use any mail client I want? If I really want to send an email from the browser, I would have just used an extension that handles mailto: links.
solox3··on A Social Coding Experiment
Disappointed that people with numeric usernames cannot participate because numbers are not function names.
solox3··on Open Sans, how do we love thee?
Liberation Serif. Great for writing reports.
solox3··on Verlet-js - Open source dynamic body physics engine
Alright, then why not do the very minor step up to Velocity-Verlet?
solox3··on Google One Today
It won't fly just like this - You can't just ask people to download an app and donate a buck a day. You need an incentive. This will definitely work if the $1 gets the donor an "item of the day" from the play store, which Google can most certainly give out copies for "free".
solox3··on Show HN: Weekend Project - Hide Inane Comments on HN
Has it happened to you at least once that something was greyed out, but you instinctively tried harder to read it because you couldn't?
solox3··on Console.log with style
Cool find aside, it must degrade gracefully on a non-Chrome console.

Edit: also, try log('this is code: `a =* `= b* == c`');

solox3··on How we implemented find-on-page with infinite scroll
>we only actually render the rows that you see and simply reuse those rows and change their contents

What warranted this extra load onto your database instances, as opposed to loading all rows on the client? Do they usually have a million tasks?

solox3··on #FF4A00
When I first learnt about orangered ten days ago, it felt like "too much was going on", but an experiment showed that slightly more than half of surveyed users prefer it over #CCCCFF.
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