oozcitak

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Comment · 13 years ago
I don't have the coordinates of the excavation site but the ruins of the old baths are located at: 37°55'29"N 29° 7'29"E
Comment · 14 years ago
It is safer to be a carbon chauvinist if you accept that ancient Mars was covered with oceans. A silicon-based microbe would be hard pressed to explain its distaste for water to its carbon-based neighbor.
Comment · 14 years ago
There are localization issues as well. Some place names in Turkey appear to be transferred over from legacy windows-1254 code page (e.g. Avcılar displayed as Avcýlar) Some have replacement letters for certain characters (dotless i, ş, ç, ğ). For example, "Sık orman" (dense forest) became "Sik orman" (penis forest).

Overall (at least in Turkey) the legends appear to come from an old, low quality source.

Comment · 14 years ago

    Your password can't be longer than 16 characters.

    ... we provide an inbox with ... rock solid account protection 
    powered by your Microsoft account ...
Those two do not chime that well.
Comment · 14 years ago
I agree with your first paragraph but not with the Django example. User.objects.get(id=1) failing is exceptional because you are asking for an object with a specific and unique property. Otherwise, you would be using User.objects.filter(age>20) (which doesn't throw an exception).
Comment · 14 years ago
Great idea and beautiful execution. I just copy/pasted a few photos from Instagram to Facebook. I will definitely use this.
Comment · 15 years ago
There are languages with true alphabets, ie. there is a one-to-one relation with written letters and sounds. A good example is Turkish. Once you learn the sounds of the 29 letters in the alphabet, you can perfectly pronounce all Turkish words.
Comment · 15 years ago
I believe there is a way around this. Google doesn't need to hide or remove pro-SOPA search results. Making them harder to find would be equally effective. Something like this perhaps?

    In order to show you the highest quality results, we have omitted some entries.
    If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.
Comment · 15 years ago
Is that impossible? Isn't it just a matter of running a root nameserver for the new internet?
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Comment · 15 years ago
Don't skip (as I did) steps 15-19. Otherwise, you'll wait a week before GoDaddy releases the domain to your new registrar. When you manually accept the transfer as described in the blog post, the process should complete in a few hours.

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