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Re:Begin LaTeX in minutes on Sunday October 30, 2016 @10:31AM (#12829975)
I'm a big fan of Asciidoc. It's nice to have the option of advanced features, while still dealing in text.
Re:Why American Elections are Flawed, and How to Fix Them on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @09:21AM (#12743497)
The clips are edited together, though. That was my first thought when watching the video. There are a lot of cuts. I get that it might just be for time, to show only the most relevant stuff. But it may also be to make it look worse than it is. Without the full conversation, we can't know.
Re:Why American Elections are Flawed, and How to Fix Them on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @09:09AM (#12743401)
I think that's a big part of what needs to happen. Make these changes at the state and local level, and eventually we might see some diversity at those levels. Then we'll be able to have a conversation on the national level. Like the original comment here says, Democrats and Republicans have no incentive to push for this because they benefit from the First-Past-the-Post voting we currently have.
To be fair, most people can't tackle a mountain road in a blizzard. At least if the streets of my hometown after a mild snowstorm are any indication.
Re:New data challenges the cultural consensus on public housing on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:45PM (#12694995)
I don't think it's discounting the research because of intuition. It's discounting the research because, while there is a statistically significant difference, the commenter above is arguing that it is not practically significant.
Re:How I built a keyboard by hand on Monday October 10, 2016 @04:13PM (#12679490)
Re:Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx on Thursday September 29, 2016 @09:42AM (#12605135)
I haven't had a doorbell ring or knock at the door by UPS in probably 3-4 years. I get that they're too busy to wait for everyone to come to the door, but you'd think they could at least knock.
Re:Computer Vision Syndrome on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:42AM (#12582752)
I have Flux on a 1 hour shift, so I don't notice the colors changing as it happens, but it absolutely makes a huge difference. Disabling it at 10pm after a few hours of 'flux-ed' viewing feels like staring directly into the sun.
Re:Static Website Generators on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:46AM (#12530970)
Sure. Just save it as the terrible HTML that Word generates on its own.
Re:Adblock Plus now sells ads on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:50AM (#12487684)
AdBlock Plus Ads
Re:When tenure never comes on Friday July 29, 2016 @06:50PM (#12190632)
Administration. More and more money going to committees for every little thing.
Re:The Majority Illusion in Social Networks on Saturday July 23, 2016 @07:59PM (#12151561)
Everyone has _that_ person, but a lot more people share a couple posts per week, or some similar lower volume but nonetheless obnoxious posts.
Re:The Majority Illusion in Social Networks on Saturday July 23, 2016 @10:26AM (#12149531)
I was thinking about this the other day. In the pre-social network days, it was obnoxious to blast your political opinions out to your friends and family. You had to create or forward an email, and very few people did. Mostly grandparents. Now it seems that everyone can and will share their political views through a social network. Is it just that it's easier, or is there something else about the platform that invites that type of sharing?
Likely for future features. I'm sure social stuff will make its way in eventually.
Re:Did I just win? on Friday May 13, 2016 @02:32PM (#11692275)
He had him post the challenge to his website. The text of the challenge contains the string "BackdoorPoCTwitter". By including the challenge in his website, he included the string in a software project (the code for his website). This won the challenge for @Sc00bzT, who was the one who told him to make the change to his website.
Got it, thanks. I'd heard of OTR, but never really looked into what it meant. Makes sense now.
Is plausible deniability something you want in your communication? Just curious, as this is something I haven't heard before. It seems like non-repudiation would be what you want in your comms.
Re:List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:00PM (#11440953)
You can check the README. It's from ShutterStock, and it's their list of words to filter image suggestions.

https://github.com/shutterstock/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscen...

Re:Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (2010) on Monday September 08, 2014 @10:04PM (#8288389)
Even with those things, most phishing is a matter of trying to get one out of thousands to respond. So a few people may notice the change, but that doesn't help the hundreds who may not.
Re:Testing a way for you to make purchases on Twitter on Monday September 08, 2014 @10:03AM (#8284738)
Unless it's not from a company I'm following. Inevitably this will show up in the ads I'm shown on the site, which are things I do not follow.
Re:OMG Markdown on Thursday September 04, 2014 @06:28PM (#8271022)
They also want to use the name because their project directly comes from Markdown. And is a fully fleshed-out spec for Markdown that does not currently exist. And because it makes their project easily recognizable for what it is: a standard for Gruber's Markdown.

They may very well end up changing the name, but that doesn't change the fact that this project is basically Markdown++.

Re:I created my own MMO and lost 100 pounds on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @04:01PM (#8104618)
Wouldn't your language learning MMO just be an MMO with the language switched?
Re:Jarvis: Personal assistant via SMS on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:03PM (#8094749)
Definitely agree with the auto carousel. Not a fan of things disappearing when I'm halfway through reading them.
Re:I hate stacked area charts (2011) on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @09:06PM (#7876133)
It's not perfect, but it's definitely better.
Re:Computer Programming Is a Dying Art on Friday May 30, 2014 @01:45PM (#7823050)
Funny. Who do they think will be teaching computers how to understand humans?
Re:Static site generators focus on the wrong thing on Friday May 30, 2014 @01:14PM (#7822911)
I think this post missed the mark by claiming that Hakyll blogs aren't updated because it's Hakyll, and therefore hard. I think the type of person who will set up a Hakyll blog just may not be the kind of person who will blog frequently. I have set up a Jekyll blog, Wordpress, Ghost, and now I'm using Octopress. Each time I set up a new blog I think "Ya, this new platform is great. It will be exactly what I need to blog regularly." Then a month later I still haven't posted anything. I enjoy blogging with Jekyll. I like writing my posts in Markdown, and I have no problem with the "git commit, push cycle." I just don't blog that often, and so far no platform I have found has changed that fact.
Functionality-wise it's going to be far more limited, but I think for the things it can do, it will be much much simpler to set up.
I put this together to help get my research team into Git and version control with collaboration on stats and LaTeX documents. Any critiques or suggestions are welcome.