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boksioraon The Power of Negative Thinking

Negative thinking is just a tool.

No one must get too deep in negative thinking and make it a habit.

Use the negative thinking as your servant and as a powerful tool to push the limits.

For example when someone have to challenge the "status quo" to do something "impossible" or say "innovate" and they have exhausted all possible ways to do it the only way to get though it is to get angry and not accept your defeat. Your "negative thinking" makes you continue and not quit.

"Do not underestimate the power of the dark" side as they say :)

Get angry at some problem and solve it.

boksioraon Gravity Light - Alternative form of lighting to replace Kerosene

You are right that the money will go out of the local economy, but this is not excuse for making better tools and technology.

For example I live in Europe, and when I get an iPhone... the money goes to the US, but this is not a problem as its technology and its an extra in my life.

But see when you have to buy basic things for living, like food, fuel etc... from non local companies its a problem.

Especially the poorness of Africa is deeper subject and i don't think that tools like that are the cause of it.

This thing can be applied my many more places that lacks electricity and its rather good than bad to have it.

boksioraon Gravity Light - Alternative form of lighting to replace Kerosene

I hope those guys make it successful

boksioraon DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator

Kudos

boksioraon Ask HN: what's your favorite PHP Function name?

hahah funny

boksioraon Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

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boksioraon Awesome new spam spammy spam spam fans from FB promoted posts

I heard they use mechanical Turk for that

boksioraon An Embeddable PHP Interpreter

Certainly genius

boksioraon An Embeddable PHP Interpreter

Great great stuff.

One thing that i would love to see is the ability to run the embeded php web server with something like

ph7 scripts/hello_world.php -h localhost:80

boksioraon OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing

* The sweet spot is to use OOP only when needed. * Abstract your core functions to the max

Here is a real life example. I write a software which is based mostly on functions. A php based CMS

If you look at it from aside, you will say its huge and probably needs a lot of code (and objects). The truth is that the core set of functions are less than 20 and less than 100K of code.

If you write your functions well, you don't need OOP and you will have - less code - less memory usage (functions free memory after run) - less problems

boksioraon Sundance asks for credit card info without SSL, says it has SSL anyways

Not quite true...

If you noted your order is processed inside an <iframe> element which is secured with https to https://webtix1.sundance.org/WebTixsNet/OrderFormPage.aspx?d...