pvandehaar's comments

The question is in two parts: (1) Why do people add bad comments and stories?, and (2) How do we keep those from getting upvoted?

1) When newbies first see the karma system they begin (like in any game) to work hard to raise their numbers. They watch closely to learn what kinds of comments will get them points. Ways to address this: -Make new users read the guidelines and address this issue more directly there. -Make Karma look less like a competition.

2) Like other comments have said, figuring out who upvotes bad comments requires data-mining. A serious question here is whether democracy is a viable option any longer. What is the site meant to be: a mob, or a tight community which a mob may watch? Do we educate the problem-voters, or do we dis-empower them?

A good compiler without bias would help the whole market, but not enough to be worth the expense.

freerice.com for other languages, basically.

This clearly means that a "real Indian" would say "sorry, I don't know," but Google would lie. (Actually it's closer to asking whether it is a lie to be too embarrassed to admit to ignorance.)

If it had meant that a "real Indian" lies about it, it would have had a comma after "know" or "does" at the end.

Also add a link to "Archives" (http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/)

If the Media found out that insurgents used Linux to hack military drones...

Real Estate Agents likely do not run Real Estate marketing firms.

In the spirit of the Windows 7 Taskbar (or OSX dock), what about merging main-bookmarks and tabs? I for one would use it.

For the common user with 1~5 tabs, the issue is still relevant.

It's more of ideology and design principle.

I see no one who he is arguing with.

He tends to refuse challenges to debates by prominent religious leaders...

I try to avoid predictions in software further ahead than 30 years. I expect search will be rather unrecognizable by then. Just think back 50 years (PDP-10 and ITS 40 years ago; Apple and Unix at 30; Linux is 15).

1. open the link

2. right-click on the search box, select "add a keyword for this search"

3. for "keyword: " type "def" , for "name: " type "Google Dictionary Search"

Now in your address bar, type "def uniquity"

While you're at it, replace all your search engines with this method and remove your search box. optional: install tiny-menu, move everything from your navigation-toolbar to your top toolbar, hide navigation-bar.

I'm aware that restructuring the Domain Name System is not practical at this point but here's my idea: Domains should work hierarchically and be privately operated. Google Search would be "http://Google/Search/Web ". A company would buy "http://Org " and run a forwarding service so that "http://Org/RedCross " forwarded to the respective site. This would allow "http://a/ " to be a forwarder and, best of all, for the web to be fully recursive. Seems like the possibilities for such a system are limitless. For example, an internet-archive would be the normal site with "archive/" injected. There are of course many complex details and inefficiencies, but it would greatly improve human-readablity, making things more easily-explainable.

This could partially be based on all file-extensions being in the file-data rather than in the name and all folders having an "index" file that represented them (which could, then, be any type of file). I'd like to have an explanation for down-votes, please.

either: It doesn't reach down that far, or it can't lift, or they haven't thought of that.

V for Vendetta.

Summary: "Webapps are almost as good as Native Apps in many ways."

The author reveals no advantages of webapps over a good AppStore that allows 3rd-party software sources. He is simply angry that he doesn't get enough attention as a web developer, not especially different from the complaint of a three year old child, though with the language of a nine year old.

"6. What are the accelerating effects?" Roughly equivalent to "What makes you idea viral?" ?

I home-schooled myself for a year and stumbled upon them, and decided to call them "differentials" because I had heard that term before. It's also possible I was had been sitting too close to my brother while he was studying them and had forgotten about it for a time.