Hacker News: 9ec4c12949a4f3

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Google, Facebook don’t innovate"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:15:17 +0000

Google didn't invent page rank, they stole the whole thing in 1996 from a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two kids at stanford. Have they even seen a dime of money since then?

GOOGLE IS MONSTERS!! rabble rabble rabble.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "PDFed Hacker News Daily"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:09:13 +0000

Honest criticism here with suggestion on how to please me.

I wasn't interested viewing a website I saw last week as a pdf. What I suggest doing is checking out how arc90 made the readability bookmarklett, scoop content that way so that it works on your pages with your own magazine-like design that isn't boring. Include top comments, and create a section for discussions (comments that get a lot of replies/nesting). I go far out of my way to un-style every website to be nice and uniform without superfluous content screaming at me from every direction (why did gopher:// have to die?!).

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Facebook’s Modern Messaging System: Seamless, History, And A Social Inbox"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:17:19 +0000

Pass this bill along to 10 of your closes friends.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "I broke textCAPTCHA with Python"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:02:45 +0000

Congrats, I suspected a higher cost of defeating this test.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891026

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:41:48 +0000

"Hey man, want any emails from people at harvard? I have them all. They trust me. Fucking idiots."

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "TextCAPTCHA: 180 million simple logic questions"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:07:48 +0000

Lovely, but I could spend $500 and have the matching answers in a nice database I could resell.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:18:04 +0000

Are you kidding me? Clearly you don't have the kickass bookmarklett installed.

http://erkie.github.com/

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:54:43 +0000

I would say if you're using MyISAM for basic things, you might as well go with SQLite.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:53:20 +0000

That's actually what I'm looking at right now. I'm half way into my project and it's all freaking mysql :( On the plus side, the SQL is abstracted decently enough that I don't have to change my body of code to any major degree.

Any experience or articles you like that talk about transitioning between the two?

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:51:12 +0000

FYI, your English looks rather good for someone who's learning it. The only real issue I saw is how you make almost every sentence into it's own paragraph.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "MySQL Editions"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:10:47 +0000

If my PHP connects to a mysql database on the same host, and I sell that host as a product, I need to release that php code?

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "BASIC Computer Games Book, published in 1978"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:29:56 +0000

I had a very similar book in 1993 when I was 5 years old, for qBasic. Got me started with programming.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:14:54 +0000

Could be anything from my wildly different views on the world (theism vs atheism; government's place, opinions of other people, etc...), to being the middle child. My two sisters seem to get along fine with them.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:38:59 +0000

Teach your child two things:

How to learn.

How to keep his/her creative in a world that tries it's best to kill it.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:36:09 +0000

I'm going to get my future wife to put headphones on her belly and play a 24/7 loop of the speech Jor-El gave superman from the movie.

Kid will come up a winner.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:31:50 +0000

I still telnet. So much fun!

Wish gopher's were still around. I was thinking of using a gopher to do a blog with.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:30:25 +0000

I grew up confused and depressed, meanwhile, my parents did their best to show me every day they loved me and still do, but I feel entirely distant from them. I'm over 20 years old.

GG logic, gg.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "A List Apart: Get started with Git"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:53:25 +0000

Sorry I didn't precisely mean understandable. I mean that's now how your average user wants to learn the system. If I can't figure it out in 3 minutes I go "screw this, it's complicated" and go away back to "File-> save as-> TheEntireProject-Backup2-version8-March11-2009.code" again.

But maybe I shouldn't be concerned with programmers like that.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "A List Apart: Get started with Git"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:35:56 +0000

I'm glad to see the increase in GIT tutorials, about a year or two ago there wasn't anything out there except confusing circles that you spin in for people who already know GIT.

Perhaps a blog like the daily VIM might be a great idea for any keen hackers out there.

New comment by 9ec4c12949a4f3 in "A List Apart: Get started with Git"

9ec4c12949a4f3 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:34:31 +0000

I've suggested people use it for their office documents.