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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw TheDraw was used mostly in the BBS scene to create ASCII/ANSI art for the BBS's log in screen and menus. There was an entire sub-community of artists back then. …

AirBNB for offshore medical services. That could be a billion-dollar business in fact.

Minor countries aside (like North Korea) the part of the map that looks really really wrong is Africa.

I think this was written under the assumption that only children are smart enough to use electronic equipment. This was a common theme in the 80s and early 90s when talking about computers and videoga…

You can disable overcommit globally (/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory). At the application level, you can allocate as much memory as you want and then write to it all. You are not guaranteed not to die …

Well, I think there is some impedance mismatch here. He kind-of suggested resetting the stack "to remove left-over items". He also mentioned something about forgetting to pop an item. These kinds of c…

Unfortunately they only ship to India...

I think there's a confusion here between the copy-on-write system that makes fork() so fast under Unix and Linux's overcommiting memory, which allows malloc() to return success for memory allocation t…

Actually, I managed a reasonably large scale free email operation and spammers DO spend money solving captchas. We had this issue with spammers where after sending 50 emails a day we would ask users t…

` as backtick is rare? I thought it was the standard.

I don't think nginx has support for websockets yet.

Sokoban in sed: http://aurelio.net/soft/sedsokoban/

I experimented with FTS in MongoDB (I did what you did, except that I added stemming) and I was unsatisfied with the results. I think you should take a look at Solr. I was reluctant to add a piece of …