nayanshah

* is a wildcard for everything in the directory including files and directories. so the chmod will remove the execute permission from directories also.

Try using XAMPP. An easy installer for Apache, MySQL for all platforms.

A HN clone. Is it really going live ?

I read it through feeds and keep checking every 3-4 hours. This gives me time to do others things as well. As of now, not very active in discussions, but trying to hop in.

Hackers are good at design too, but not in the visual aspect but in the structural and architectural ones. Hackers do strive for simplicity and elegance in the smallest hack. Best example is of Unix. It has this inherent "design" in it, which makes it appealing to all hackers. Add a layout of awesome UI and you have the Mac. All the rich features with a decent packaging.

Design sense is definitely a must for everyone. Every programmer needs to spend atleast some time figuring out the cleanest interface (UI/API) for their code. Once a usable product is created, only then professional designer is need to make the product sell.

Yes, HN feed itself has over 100 articles a day. Plus i hate using marking all as read.

Miss a day on reader and you are lost in a jungle of feeds. Up-to-date on feeds but still catching up on Twitter though.

Why is this not surprising.

It still isn't too late even though iPhone captures a major share of the market.

That is a neat trick but highly unlikely. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4918184.stm is impossible.

Good luck for that. Time for battle of the bots ...

Currently studying for my bachelors.

I didn't like it just because it had Einstein's name in it. But interesting find anyway.

There is always a debate over should a scientist believe in god. Science is just a feeble attempt to understand God.

There could be an official detailed api.

+1 for Pi telling i to be real and i telling Pi to be rational

Make that 10 hard problems.

Similar to - There are 10 kinds on people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Love this one : http://spikedmath.com/325.html

It is phishing after all and a clever one also. People need to be more paranoid while browsing the internet.

There has to be a blend between the command line and the GUI. Even keyboard shortcuts in applications are included in it, without which its impossible to work for power users.

The best part : If we are just considering the round ones, then they are round by definition. That statement is a tautology.