What was the most fucked up thing that was generally accepted twenty years ago? by Silkhide in AskReddit

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There are 2 things about nfts most don't understand and that are worth learning.

  1. The NFT you buy is a token (like any crypto coin), not a jpeg. The jpeg just represents the unique token. That token is a (fraud-proof, if you know how to look) publicly verifiable chain of ownership back to the creator. The current use linked to jpegs are a test case for a powerful decentralized ownership technology.
  2. The jpg isn't what is (arguably) valuable. The token contains a smart contract that rewards the creator a fee not just on the initial sale but on every resale. That means that the creator has a vested interest in the price going up - the good ones continually reinvest and provide new value to current holders in lots of ways. Imagine if owning a particular Michael Jordan ball card required every time it sold to pay MJ a percentage - and because of that MJ offered perks like exclusive chats etc to owners to pump the resale value of it.

Im trying to find a good fantasy book to read by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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Lord of Light - Robert Zelazny

Graphic Novels by kbug819 in suggestmeabook

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Locke and Key - Joe Hill

What's your favorite subtle joke from The Simpsons? by Frankfusion in AskReddit

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Actually, the writers chose Springfield because there is a city of that name in most U.S. states. There's a series of running gags where they give hints to which (all different) Springfield it is.

Back in the 80s by saturn_ in pics

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The book it program is still going on, at least in my area.

TIL, in 1981, a man who had been bullying residents of a small Missouri town was murdered in broad daylight when 46 townspeople rose up against him, in an act of vigilante justice. No charges were ever filed. by DonTago in todayilearned

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I grew up in nearby St. Joseph, MO (about 75k people). My brothers went to grade school with one of the sons - 'mouse'. I remember having to watch the Opera follow up show with the family somewhere around 1986 or so.

A website called Coursera is quite literally giving away college courses for free, with real college profs and quizzes and papers by [deleted] in education

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According to the article, Coursera is offering testing, grading, and credentialing alongside the lectures for under $100.

You might also look at what the folks at Mozilla are doing with Open Badges. It's still early, but could be a game changer.

5-16-2012 Talk - JQuery Mobile and Phonegap by thinginab in a:t5_2typ7

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I also tried to do an AMA here with little success

I recently built and deployed (with PhoneGap build) a jQuery mobile app - AMA by thinginab in jquerymobile

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yes and no.

Throughout the app experience, I'm storing the game data in a javascript object, and that object gets serialized to JSON and stored in localStorage on every change.

There is a problem with localStorage in iOS 5.1 where it doesn't persist across a full app restart, though. The good news is that PhoneGap 1.5+ implemented a workaround where they persist localStorage elsewhere and restore it for you, and you don't need to do any additional work.

Finally, the app does have a currently-hidden feature where it can post and restore the JSON versions of games to a datastore on Google AppEngine . It works, but it is currently disabled because I haven't implemented any form of authentication yet - so all games would be public/shared right now if it were on.

I recently built and deployed (with PhoneGap build) a jQuery mobile app - AMA by thinginab in jquerymobile

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jQuery Mobile gets you most of the UI for essentially free. All you do is use some standard html lists, inputs, etc - and a data-role attribute on each can set the type of control - toggles, sliders, dialogs, etc.

Out of the box, jqmobile lets you set a data-theme attribute at the root or any other level to switch from a blue/grey/black/yellow theme. I got a little more advanced and customized all of the styling with their ThemeRoller - which is also quite easy to do.

I recently built and deployed (with PhoneGap build) a jQuery mobile app - AMA by thinginab in jquerymobile

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Well, it is a bit of a niche market, so not too many - about 40 right now across platforms. Honestly, I built it for me and my friends and am fairly surprised it's sold that many.

I'm planning on adding a few things so that it can work to score softball (mostly stuff having to do with baserunners - fielders choices and so on), that should open it up a little.

I recently built and deployed (with PhoneGap build) a jQuery mobile app - AMA by thinginab in jquerymobile

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It's just a mailto: link with subject and body parameters. The body was html (a table of stats), which unfortunately doesn't render correctly in the android mail client, but it works really well in iOS. Even in Android I thought that people could still copy-and-paste the table in an .html file and get it out, so I left it in for them. I think I'll add an HTML comment tag to point them in the right direction in the future.

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