Is it just me (yes, probably) or have interesting slashdot comment threads risen from the swamp of generic political / culture war flame warring lately? I'd stopped even looking at comments because of endless [ redacted ] noise. Now this is a good old fashioned spirited discussion about web standards without a mention that I saw of [ redacted ] or [ redacted ]. The AMD vs Intel post recently was a classic slashdot thread. Neck beards with serious domain knowledge going back and forth with just enough vitriol.

An olde school /. thread worth reading through! Very impressed by the minimal off topic flame warring even with a trigger proper noun in the summary.

Geo random is interesting.
Random stuff can be cool. Figure maybe a day to knock this off and see it gets past the app gate keepers.
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How cool that would be!
UFO's make every conspiracy theory better.

I like physorg though the churnalism factor makes many of their best articles a tease.

"Here's the press release and you can rent the paper with the actual information for two days for $35"

One school required school hours which wasn't great, the other said just do the work. My kid is passing PE virtually which is downright weird.

The insurmountable problem is, from middle school on, at least half the reason to go to school is a building full of of captive peers every day. The problem I saw with homeschooling a middle school boy for a year was "no girls to start learning to navigate". His arithmetic took off but he sure missed having knucklehead friends. And even I don't want to hang out with me seven days a week.

It seems to me (normal career newb disclaimer here) that node is going to burn less juice than PHP under Apache. Disregarding for a moment my general dislike of php (except the paychecks) and my general dislike of the Drupal/WP/Joomla ... uh ... paradigm my experiences with node/mongo have been very refreshing. Async is a cool way to work with once you get your head around it (my head maybe 90 degrees so far ...) and Mongo / document storage is way more natural for certain kinds of relatively big data issues than mysql (which I have no hatred for)

But back to the top. Hey server guys and gals: Wouldn't node draw less electric, like way less. So if my webbloging socialnetworking ecommercing socialgaming buzzwordcompliant client blows up they'd need less of a web armada ... right? And they'd be helping the environment by not using Wordpress or Drupal.

My wife doesn't get it and my kids are in early elementary school psycho stage so I ended up taking a cheap share on a semi office. It was either that, sit around cafes (too old) or only get 4 hours a day.

would require identical subjects, no? Google: acupuncture nitric oxide and surf around for a while.
I agree with
> some of which might be correct and some of which might be nonsense
and that certainly applies to some of western medicine including all of SSRIs. There's something happening, over the last thousands of years, that hasn't been quantified by western medicine.
And "good" western DRs alter their thinking every couple of years as they should. We don't understand systems biology and are only starting to investigate. Dismissing acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine is the mark of ideologues and amateurs.

I, for one, was rooting for FTL. And I thought they'd have a more interesting gravity well or frame of reference mistake.
A loose cable? It's like they've got some out of work audio techs doing their setup.

I love writing games, sometimes for pay usually for fun, but don't play them and have very little interest. This has become a problem as I've had to get a crony who's an (ex)gamer to test the money games as I can't tell what's fun and what isn't.

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I get it. Thanks. I learned perl way back when to avoid malloc but should probably go back and get closer to the machine.

I'm a kludgy self taught coder and I just googled for a moment to no avail ... can you help this perma-newb out:
What is a "picket fence mistake"?