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Re:The Poison Pill to End the MMR Is Tylenol on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:23PM (#45362560)
The typical child's dose of Acetaminophen is 160mg (recommended dosage for 2-3 year olds over 24 lbs). It usually comes with a syringe that can measure out less (160mg is per 5ml), per your doctor's recommendation.
$_GET is a magic super global in PHP that contains all of the GET parameters of a request. Doing something like eval($_GET['code']); means you're essentially allowing a user to execute arbitrary code passed in through the URL. Not the safest thing to do...
Re:What Real-Time Gambling Data Reveals About Sports on Thursday March 13, 2014 @05:32PM (#7395241)
It will be interesting to compare the data and graphs presented here to historic win probability charts provided by Advanced NFL Stats[1] for the NFL and Fangraphs[2] for MLB. See how Vegas stacks up against models based on historical data.

[1] http://live.advancednflstats.com/ [2] http://www.fangraphs.com/wins.aspx?date=2013-10-30&team=Red%...

Re:Ask HN: Programmers vs. Developers vs. Engineers on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:30AM (#1550325)
I've held all three of those titles, so I find them pretty much interchangeable. The one term I hate though is "coder."