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Re:Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @02:34PM (#8038180)
The site looks great, but the "Learn" section is badly in need of some copy editing. Subject/verb pluralization disagreement and odd grammatical structure (to a native English speaker, many of the sentences sound awkward) are the biggest issues.
Re:Releasing a Social Justice Warriors Game on Thursday July 03, 2014 @01:33AM (#7981620)
Error establishing a database connection

lolz

Re:Dear Google: Parody Is Not Trademark Infringement on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @12:51AM (#7776754)
This brings to mind another silly requirement for parody in the Google ecosystem, requiring "(Parody)" after an account name. Consider the case of Jesus H. Christ on G+: http://goo.gl/6UEsEj.

Google Weather API isn't really dead

The weather API isn't exactly dead, it's just locked down. But not securely...https://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=23220&hl=en&referrer=googlecalendarThe funny thing is that it only works if referrer is "googlecalendar" (so far from what I've tried), but it doesn't care if that's the actual HTTP_REFERER. Just passing it as a request parameter gets the XML response.I stumbled upon this...

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