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tinyProton··on Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go
Please excuse my ignorance, but what does Weiner mean?
tinyProton··on Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'
Even though these two share the same Arabic noun: 'kafala', they actually refers to two totally different things. One refers to the migrant laborers monitoring system, while the other refers to the Islamic view of child adoption. Don't mix them up. The 'kafala' system has no relation (or share roots) with the meaning of 'kafala' in Islam. It's nothing but a name of the legislation of migrant laborers.
tinyProton··on Ask HN: Text-based interface for PostgreSQL?
Thanks for your reply, but that's exactley what I don't want to do. I know about psql and I know how to write SQL statements, but what I'm looking for is a text-based interface that let me perform tasks (similar to what you can do with phpmyadmin) without writing SQL statements.
tinyProton··on Ask HN: How to create textbook-like PDFs?
It's definitely LaTex. You can find some very nice LaTex templates in: http://www.latextemplates.com/. See this template for example: http://www.latextemplates.com/templates/books/2/book_2.pdf
tinyProton··on Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements
Wow, that's amazing. Thanks for sharing.
tinyProton··on Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements
Is there any software that would allow one to easily build and simulate these kind of mechanical movements?
tinyProton··on What according to you is the biggest problem with MOOCs?
Deadlines. I want to be able to take courses and complete them whenever I have time.

Almost all Coursera's coursers have weekly deadlines. If you got busy for a couple of weeks during the course time you will fall behind. And the chances that you would get busy are quite high given that some of the courses last for more than three months.