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   by Cenk 8y ago

   Yes, of course. But does that mean that they have to give themselves a "a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable and sublicensable, perpetual, and irrevocable license to copy, store and use your User Content
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   by Cenk 8y ago

   Seems like an important distinction
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   by Cenk 8y ago

   >Consider using monospaced numbers when comparing digits between rows matters. For the love of god don’t only consider it, actually use tabular numbers in any context where the number is not part of a sentence or something similar.
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   by Cenk 8y ago

   You can’t seriously be equating the two
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   by Cenk 8y ago

   I try to keep this post up to date with the latest scihub links (and it has some other links to similar sites): https://citationsy.com/blog/download-research-papers-scienti...
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   by Cenk 8y ago

   Previously discussed (664 points, 92 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18784583
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   by Cenk 8y ago

   I really like the typeface, it’s one of the first things I noticed. It‘s Chiswick Sans, by the way: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/chiswick_sans
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   by Cenk 8y ago

   Congrats on your relaunch! The new landing page is fantastic. I love the "Remind me" function for upcoming AMAs.
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   by Cenk 8y ago

   See also: https://www.relay.fm/topfour/48
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    Did I say the operation was under Trump?
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    The cruelty is the point.
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    Evan Ratliff (the article’s author) has a book on this subject coming out in February: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JVBNCS7/
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    Why won’t the New Yorker keep you logged in? Mystery: Solved (kind of)(niemanlab.org)

    2 points by Cenk 8y ago|0 comments
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    Very informative post, thanks. I’d love to hear your impression of Citationsy (closer to CiteThisForMe or RefMe in functionality than Zotero it EndNote).
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    +1 for EU VAT, if you can automate how much VAT to charge whom that would make life much easier. VAT percentage based on country (default selection via IP location would be fantastic) and wether it’s a person or company. Killer feature sin
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    Have you tried Mamoto / Piwik too? I’m thinking of switching to Fathom and I’m not sure if it’s worth the effort.
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    > Thinking about how you collect users data, why you need it; how long you keep it for; how you secure it; who you pass it to - how they use it. Yes – Plus how you tell the people who’s data you are collecting about this.
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    It’s too early to tell wether large companies will be able to get away with this stuff under GDPR. If your small company is "getting fucked over" because if privacy laws, you’re doing something shady in the first place.
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    For OS X there’s a nice little menubar app called LinkLiar: https://halo.github.io/LinkLiar/
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    Libraries are supposed to be whatever the fuck we want them to be.
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    Yep. The also closed a bunch of people’s accounts with no warning a while back.
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    I’ve been using N26 for a couple years now, and I agree with almost everything you’ve said except the customer service part - it’ been unbearable slow for me, especially in emergencies. They don’t offer a hotline, for example, so when my cr
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    If anyone wants to do this, I have used this tool in the past: https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    Some people? I’d warrant >95% of people not only have never touched that settings, they also don’t know that is exists or what it does
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    Yes, because the graphics are a visual joke. The illustrator, Tarcy Ma, does great work: http://tracyma.com
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    Yes, it’s pretty obviously a joke
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    I can confirm from first-hand experience that access to technology can make big improvements at the university level too. Tens of thousands of people from developing countries use one of Citationsy’s features to access scholarly research an
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    Off topic, but Marco has lost a bunch of weight! Not sure I love the beard though.
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    Almost as if getting on the front page of HN with a story of a failed advertising method is it’s own sort of advertising
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    by Cenk 8y ago

    I don’t think that counts, Rocket Internet is not a traditional incubator or accelerator like YC, but rather a creator of companies.