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Greetings Soylentils! And welcome to SoylentNews!
We are here to deliver the best community-sourced news, catered for all manner of nerd! Because this is a grassroots based platform, the content feeds are powered by readers like you. Our main objective is to highlight news stories on the web that are of importance to everyone, but especially nerds. In addition, SoylentNews will strive to go beyond simple news-aggregation, with some core principles:
- Providing a soapbox for experts to discuss their profession and solicit questions from a curious audience.
- Allowing the community to comment, without any mandatory registration.
- Staying mindful of the community's needs and wants while avoiding changes to satisfy an overarching corporate agenda.
We want to make this your source for news about technology, art, and science. We are the new kid on the block and are adapting quickly to satisfy our community's needs, as we look forward to exceeding your expectations and pushing boundaries like never before. Lastly, there will be no changes in format without a general consensus from the community. Thank you for stopping by and enjoy the ride!
~Dopefish
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-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
(Score: 5, Insightful) by xlefay on Monday February 17 2014, @02:07AM
Great news guys, thanks for your hard and awesome work! Let's rock!
(Score: 3, Funny) by samzenpus on Monday February 17 2014, @06:00AM
Yeah! Wheres the beer?
(Score: 2, Funny) by timothy on Monday February 17 2014, @06:01AM
How bout that? You too?!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Soulskill on Monday February 17 2014, @06:06AM
It's a party!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Lagg on Monday February 17 2014, @06:34AM
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @07:26AM
Methinks someone meant to hit +1 Funny, not +1 Insightful..
(Score: 1) by Eunuchswear on Monday February 17 2014, @02:13PM
The UTF-8 support is a lie.
Watch this Heartland Institute video [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @02:20PM
Well, sort of. I can see Unicode goodies in other people's posts, just can't conjure them myself.
(Score: 1) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:17AM
They seem to work only with entities like ζ but not with direct entry like à¥. Apparently the UTF8-bytes get interpreted as latinn1 instead.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:22AM
Oops, I should also have given the input form. In the first case, it was ζ, in the second form the unicode character U+0950 entered directly. Well, actually (as you probably have guessed by now), I meant to use ॐ, resulting in ॐ.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:25AM
Err ... resulting in ॐ of course — I really should have used preview ...
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:29AM
And I see nesting ends at level 7. Is this configurable somewhere? I've got enough screen space to allow several more nesting levels.
Note that it may make sense to store the maximal nesting level in a cookie, to allow different settings on different devices.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by mrcoolbp on Monday February 17 2014, @06:10AM
and me with no mod points....
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 2, Funny) by CmdrTaco on Monday February 17 2014, @06:48AM
Hey guys remember me? Great site you have here.
(Score: 1) by cosurgi on Monday February 17 2014, @08:44AM
sure I remember you! :)
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#\ @ ? [adom.de] Colonize Mars [kozicki.pl]
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(Score: 1) by zocalo on Monday February 17 2014, @09:22AM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @01:53PM
You're dead to me, Taco. You sold out.
(Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Monday February 17 2014, @04:06PM
Already I see the possibility that this could be more Slashdot than Slashdot is now, which would be sweet. Although I'm sure it'll have its share of problems.
Time will tell.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2, Informative) by crutchy on Monday February 17 2014, @06:49AM
deleted my /. bookmark... created soylent one in its place :-)
g'day from australia fellow geeks & nerds
(Score: 1) by mrbluze on Monday February 17 2014, @07:18AM
I love having some Soylent on my homepage.
Do it yourself, 'cause no one else will do it yourself.
(Score: 1) by Kell on Monday February 17 2014, @09:02AM
Aussies represent! Up just in time for the end of Slashcott downunder!
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 1) by Sir William on Monday February 17 2014, @06:56AM
I agree. Thanks for the hard work everyone.
(Score: 1) by crutchy on Monday February 17 2014, @07:33AM
don't seem to be able to use the 'Submit Story' feature at the moment... i just thought i'd flag a little saga currently unfolding near where i live
an open cut coal mine that supplies coal to a nearby 1600MW power station has been on fire for over a week
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/min e-smoke-hits-19-vic-firefighters/story-fni0xqi4-12 26829247880 [heraldsun.com.au]
what might be more interesting is the lack of news media attention to it
(Score: 1) by Popeidol on Monday February 17 2014, @11:14AM
To see just how bad this can get, There's a coal seam in the US that's been burning since 1962. The adjacent town had to be evacuated after houses started collapsing into the ground and carbon monoxide poisoning became a risk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by clone141166 on Monday February 17 2014, @11:18AM
crutchy I have submitted your story via the submission page (for whatever reason it seems to work for me) and credited you for it - I just copied in your comment verbatim.
(Score: 1) by hal9000 on Monday February 17 2014, @08:03AM
wait...
(Score: 1) by ionescu77 on Monday February 17 2014, @11:53AM
Hi and thank you for the hard work.
I am very happy to see the original slashdot spirit alive.
Best regards
(Score: 1) by dilbert on Monday February 17 2014, @12:19PM
Cheers, and kudos to the community for showing how to 'roll your own'
(Score: 1) by arlo5724 on Monday February 17 2014, @01:01PM
Very awesome, congrats!
And I finally got that much-coveted 3-digit user number
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
(Score: 1) by hb253 on Monday February 17 2014, @05:22PM
Amazing job, the site looks great!
I also get 3 digit ID!
The firings and offshore outsourcing will not stop until morale improves.
(Score: 1) by Geezer on Monday February 17 2014, @01:12PM
Take that, smelly Dice Beta English pigs! I fart in your general direction!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @01:24PM
Congratulations to everyone involved in getting this up and running! I (like most others) have been reading the wiki and forums for over a week, checking in constantly to see how things were going. Great work guys and gals! I can't imagine ever going back to that other place.
(Score: 1) by biokoded on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:45AM
Agreed
(Score: 1) by Klik on Monday February 17 2014, @01:25PM
Awesome work, guys.
Nought to working ( mostly ) in under a couple of weeks! Wow!
As someone who saw the 'other place' as a part of his daily routine since the 90s, i'm so glad that something of its original nature has returned, in a new form. Best of luck, everyone, and may we agree to disagree for many many years on...
Klik
Open your mind too much and your brain will fall out...
(Score: 1) by Nmb on Monday February 17 2014, @01:41PM
Awesome, as good memories I have from Slashdot, it's great to see alternative.
(Score: 1) by j-stroy on Monday February 17 2014, @05:12PM
Very appreciative.. I just felt icky when I looked at slashdot.. Keep it going! New avid reader.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @03:35PM
mcgrew here. I registered that user name (I'm mcgrew at slashdot and was at k5 as well) a couple of weeks ago when it was called altslashdot. Today I tried to log in and it rejected my password. When I went to retrieve it your database had no idea who I was.
WTF, guys?