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elliottlanon GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si

Pathetic!

elliottlanon SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story

Is it just me or is this version heavily redacted while destroying the punchline by pasting it in bold at the top?

Or is this version heavily embellished: https://www.reddit.com/r/SR71/comments/2dpmw7/the_sr71_speed...

elliottlanon Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroying subway commute

I heard that people live in the tunnels in New York - is that actually a thing?

If yes, could this be people brazenly deciding they need to get from A to B, climbing aboard at A and stopping the train wherever B is?

elliottlanon Plans Revealed for Enormous Particle Collider in China

I am ignorant on this subject - when discoveries are made with the LHC are they made public or are they kept 'secret' by its 'owners'?

If they are made public, will another country investing in another one (or even a bigger one) discover anything that the European one hasn't?

elliottlanon Build a 100% Serverless Website with AWS in 7 Easy Steps

Have you seen this npm package?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/serverless-offline

I have no idea if this exists for other languages but its what lets me develop and test my functions locally before deploying them to stage/live.

Edit: they have some good examples - https://github.com/serverless/examples/tree/master/aws-node-...

elliottlanon Apache Server Status for ask.com

Some of these searches are pretty funny...

There is a pretty high concentration of searches for serial numbers.

elliottlanon What Happens When You Try to Photoshop Money

This jogged my memory - I remember these coming out in 2004: Adobe_Photoshop_CS_Banknote_Patch-TiGER Adobe_Photoshop_CS_v.8.01_Banknote_Patch-PARADOX

elliottlanon How to Hide your Email Address on Web Pages

I've always been a fan of codeigniter's 'safe_mailto' function.

See here: https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/blob/develop/system/...

elliottlanon Ask HN: Is it possible to get a tech job without a degree?

Yes it is - providing you are willing to learn the trade yourself.

I've been freelancing as a php developer since I was 20 years old. Now that I am 26 I have landed a decently paid full time php/sysadmin job that I really enjoy.

Between the ages of around 14 and 20 I spent a lot of time messing around with html and playing with linux installations which gave me the foundation to learn more advanced skills later on.

My main advice would be to take any job that you feel will increase your knowledge. If you don't like it, change jobs after a year or two.

Get some friends who work in the area of tech that you want to move into and talk with them about their solutions to problems.

If you can't find any friends in real life then find some on irc/reddit/hackernews/github...

Other people (and other people's code) can often provide you with a far better education than a degree.

One last thing - if you know anyone who is currently doing a computer science degree ask them what books they are learning from (for example books about object oriented programming eg java, books about database normalization, books about project planning).

There is a goldmine of knowledge out there providing you are interested to use it!

elliottlanon Cmder: portable console emulator for windows

The 7zip difference is indeed shocking.

elliottlanon Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone

Speaking of open source potential - has anybody tried out brackets (http://www.brackets.io/)

It seems like it could be another worthy alternative to sublime text if it moves in the right direction.

Disclaimer: I'm not looking for an alternative to sublime right now - it's stable enough for me to use as it is.

elliottlanon Just Use Sublime Text

Not exactly sublime text but check this out:

http://icecoder.net/