elliottlan | 5 years ago | on: GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
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elliottlan | 5 years ago | on: SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story
Or is this version heavily embellished: https://www.reddit.com/r/SR71/comments/2dpmw7/the_sr71_speed...
elliottlan | 6 years ago | on: Someone in New York is pulling emergency brakes, destroying subway commute
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?
elliottlan | 7 years ago | on: Plans Revealed for Enormous Particle Collider in China
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?
elliottlan | 7 years ago | on: Build a 100% Serverless Website with AWS in 7 Easy Steps
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-...
elliottlan | 9 years ago | on: Apache Server Status for ask.com
There is a pretty high concentration of searches for serial numbers.
elliottlan | 11 years ago | on: What Happens When You Try to Photoshop Money
elliottlan | 12 years ago | on: How to Hide your Email Address on Web Pages
See here: https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/blob/develop/system/...
elliottlan | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it possible to get a tech job without a degree?
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!
elliottlan | 12 years ago | on: Cmder: portable console emulator for windows
elliottlan | 12 years ago | on: Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone
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.
elliottlan | 13 years ago | on: Just Use Sublime Text