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by 8_hours_ago 9y ago
For those wondering, RFC's can be installed to /usr/share/doc/rfc/txt/ with the rfc package[0] on Arch Linux. Ubuntu has the doc-rfc package[1] with installs to /usr/share/doc/RFC. [0]:
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by 8_hours_ago 9y ago
Yes, that's the one! (I just checked the back of my cocoa powder to make sure)
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by 8_hours_ago 9y ago
My family’s “famous” chocolate cake recipe is from the side of the Hershey’s Cocoa container. It is way better than any other chocolate cake, even from baking cookbooks. I should write it down in case they ever change it...
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by 8_hours_ago 9y ago
That's a benefit of shopping in a brick and mortar store! I used to always get annoyed and say "no thanks, I'm good" when the employee approached and asked that question, but then a friend told me that I should take thei
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by 8_hours_ago 9y ago
+1
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This reminded me of Tents [0], which is one of the games in Simon's puzzle collection that I reach for while waiting for code to compile. Someone should add this game! Simon has very good developer documentation [1], and the code is ve
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by 8_hours_ago 9y ago
I came here to post something similar to this. I have seen this happen many times on open source projects, and it is especially depressing for the person who volunteered to write the patch. Going back and forth many times over several month
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by 8_hours_ago 9y ago
How is this done? Does the Facebook mobile app record all location data? Or does it record all nearby bluetooth devices?
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I pay my ISP a lot of money each month. They don’t need my data to be profitable. Facebook, on the other hand, has a business model completely dependent on selling advertising based on my data to 3rd parties.
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by 8_hours_ago 9y ago
This reminds me of tobacco company funded anti-smoking campaigns. I'm sure they hope it doesn't work too well...
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by 8_hours_ago 9y ago
Simon's puzzles are all really well done, and run in the browser, OS X, Linux and Windows. The code base is very cleanly written C and he has extensive developer documentation: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath
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And they did study him! Article about it in New Scientist: https://books.google.com/books?id=rYIJJP7audkC&lpg=PA26&dq=g... Here's the study "Exceptional case of survival in cold water": http:/&#
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by 8_hours_ago 9y ago
I too enjoy crummy-quality bootlegs of bands occasionally, but there are already enough of those videos of Jack White. He’s at the point in his career where he can ban phones without noticeably affecting the amount of bootleg videos of his
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by 8_hours_ago 9y ago
Off topic: I got confused by the phrase kindle fire , until I remembered that it can also mean start a fire . Now the name of the tablet seems less arbitrary...
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It is linked from their homepage: https://www.airhelp.com/en/ The linked page ( https://www.airhelp.com/en/ahlp/travels/ ) is a terrible landing page and doesn't have much information
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Their privacy policy is here: https://www.airhelp.com/en/privacy/ I don't see anything specifically about what information they collect from scanned emails.
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Questions like this don't tell much about a candidate's ability to design, write, and test maintainable code, however they do give information on a candidate's specific area of knowledge. These questions are useful if you are
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This could be an acceptable interview question for Javascript developers, but from the SO question it looks like the interviewer screwed it up: My answer was that it's impossible. They said nothing is impossible. It happened 2 weeks b
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"server-client encryption" means that the data is only encrypted between the client and the server (i.e. the server can read all messages). "Secret Chats" are only between 2 clients and are end-to-end encrypted which mea
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FYI, Ubuntu released updates today for Meltdown: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3522-1/ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3522-2/ Ubuntu 17.10: https:&#
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3522-1/ Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3522-2/ Ubuntu 17.10: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3523-1
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Ubuntu Meltdown patches available(usn.ubuntu.com)
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A 7 hour work day was standard?
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That map mentions: Normal operating hours of the Pedway are 7am to 5pm, Monday - Friday, unless otherwise noted. Does most of it follow that schedule? That seems like a very limited time. If you wanted to use it during your commute you&#x
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An Island to Oneself(janesoceania.com)
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"We need you to set up recurring billing for our new feature X" "Hmmm... that would be easier if we had a custom OS... I'm going to start on that first. Also, custom version control software would really boost our produc
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I really like the sentiment behind this... but you need to submit a W-9? That will dissuade people from taking advantage of this.
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...procedural content is not for "lazy developers". It’s not there to free you from creating content. It’s there to let content react to the player. You still need a lot of it. This is a very good lesson for game developers. Too
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You can find your iPhone and remotely lock it from the web: https://www.icloud.com/#find
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Linux Thinkpad Wiki(thinkwiki.org)
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