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lucasoman
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About lucasoman
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Trending Tech News: Feedback please
I've been working on this site for a few months, now, and it has gone through many iterations to get where it is. I'm not a designer, at all. My pride in the site is in its algorit…
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Comment #3262171
Well maybe you're right. Since the author openly offered his contact information, maybe the best way to resolve the situation is to discuss the matter with him directly and private…
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Comment #3262073
I understand that it is frustrating to you to feel that someone may have been inspired by some aspects of your project. However, I think it's important to consider a few things for…
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Comment #2978349
I think a feed would be too high-volume. But you can get topic updates from @TECHNOSPLODE on Twitter.
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Comment #2978249
I wouldn't be opposed to posting a dynamic list of feeds on the about page. To answer your parenthetical question: not very well. Since articles are sorted based on the weight of t…
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Comment #1578565
... and business blogs.
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Comment #1372497
People don't comprehend how insecure the Internet is. They take for granted that their information will remain private unless they explicitly wish to share it publicly. This may be…
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Comment #1245177
But, for the love of god, think of the children!
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Comment #1198749
Interestingly, it's a popular viewpoint in the deaf community (at least here in the USA) that deafness is not a handicap at all and, in the opinion of a minority, is in fact an adv…
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Comment #1195746
Aside from the obvious reasons, this is also great because it allows the deaf to work in a deaf-friendly work environment; everyone or most there probably sign. Much of a deaf pers…
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Comment #1143280
Finally, this makes sense of Ozzie Osbourne.
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Comment #1078233
Thanks for this! Just installed on my Droid.
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Comment #865263
I think the most conspicuous spin on the site is repeatedly calling the browser "the most important piece of software on your computer." Google has made it very clear that they int…
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Comment #865241
Um, why wouldn't they want to track traffic to their own website? I don't think my mom will be looking at the variables in the query string. As for the actual information on the si…
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Comment #856868
My cure for that is putting my .vimrc on my site; then, from a foreign machine, I just do: wget -O ~/.vimrc http://lucasoman.com/vimrc And just like that, I'm in my comfort zone. O…
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Comment #843882
That's the situation I find myself in: a developer stuck with PHP. In response to the first bit, a friend observed that Warnock applies.
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Comment #824157
Why the downvotes? It's a superficial glance at SQL injection fixes with little explanation or education. Just like you can't put a novel in a comic-strip, you can't explain SQL in…
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Comment #824095
So if you want comic-strip security, just go to this site. Perfect.
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Comment #821071
yawn
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Comment #789088
Yes, I understand the business side. But I studied Computer Science in school. I take pride in my work, and I regard an expertly-forged piece of code as a work of art. It's not sim…
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Comment #787609
Fixed, thanks for pointing that out. And as "the guy who built Digg.com for $10/hr", that's all the feedback you'll give me?!