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   by avtar 10y ago

   Have you tried this one? https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacsbinw64/files/release/ It's worked for me fairly well.
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   by avtar 10y ago

   > Emacs works perfectly well Do you use spacemacs by any chance? I tried emacs with WSL when the Anniversary Update was released and ran into this issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/63
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   by avtar 10y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13576038 That story is about Twitter but the pattern seems to be the same post-election: more noise, less signal.
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   by avtar 10y ago

   That's fairly restrictive in terms of getting the client app approved by Apple but I guess their watch is the only available off-the-shelf solution that doesn't ship user data exclusively to a proprietary cloud. I'll take a l
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   by avtar 10y ago

   Looks like that might happen: https://github.com/mlaursen/react-md/issues/175
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   by avtar 10y ago

   Does anyone know of a fitness tracker that doesn't push data to a backend service operated by a for-profit organization? I'm searching for a device that: * Has decent battery life (at least better than the Fitbit Charge 2) * Perfo
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   by avtar 10y ago

   Could you please provide links to official Toronto murder statistics that back up your claim?
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   by avtar 10y ago

   I switched to Windows 10 about a year ago and having tried all the options listed above I would suggest giving https://mintty.github.io/ a shot.
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   by avtar 10y ago

   Does Gitlab conduct accessibility audits as part of releases?
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    by avtar 10y ago

    Thanks! Not sure how I missed that Amazon page. I'll get in touch with them since having access to Postgres via RDS is very appealing.
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    by avtar 10y ago

    Does anyone know if either Google or Amazon provide credits for non-profits like Microsoft does [1] for Azure? I haven't been able to find any details but also not sure if it's something they do offline on a case by case basis. [1
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    Your Filter Bubble Is Destroying Democracy(wired.com)

    4 points by avtar 10y ago|0 comments
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    by avtar 10y ago

    I suggest doing a search for 'The Mind Illuminated' and see if the book's description resonates with you. It contains meditation practices that aim to strengthen mindfulness. Unless you're amazingly unique you'll st
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    by avtar 10y ago

    I was hoping someone would mention Culadasa's book. I've been practicing for years and recently read this book. There were so many instances where I stopped and thought "I so wish I had read this ages ago." He covers so
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    by avtar 10y ago

    This isn't going to answer your question but the reasons why we support this Fedora VM image is because our projects make use of it in CI environments and also because one of our team members worked on the GNOME screen magnifier. I saw
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    by avtar 10y ago

    It's the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University. My email is in my profile, feel free to reach out :) http://inclusivedesign.ca/research/ocadu/
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    by avtar 10y ago

    For web apps you can install the tota11y [1] browser extension and use its experimental Screen Reader Wand feature to get an idea of how a screen reader will interpret elements. tota11y uses Chrome's Accessibility Developer Tools. Dequ
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    by avtar 10y ago

    > I don't currently have time to pursue it further myself. I work for a non-profit where we tackle accessibility issues related to the web, documents, and tech in general. We have a few Vagrant boxes that we use for development an
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    by avtar 10y ago

    You're very welcome :) And here's my ~/.minttyrc with, IMO, a better version of Solarized Dark compared to what I found in search results: https://www.pastery.net/ujprbd/
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    by avtar 10y ago

    Mintty is the best one I've come across. It even works with WSL https://github.com/mintty/wsltty
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    by avtar 10y ago

    You're right but there's also truth to what you quoted. I switched to Windows 10 earlier this year and before doing so I had concerns about privacy issues, malware, and the half-baked UI. The following three solutions somewhat add
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    by avtar 10y ago

    I don't think I'll be getting a Surface anytime soon but I'm curious, what sort of Illustrator/Surface NTrig stylus issues would one encounter?
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    by avtar 10y ago

    These free resources are worth checking out as well: * http://watchandcode.com/p/practical-javascript * http://speakingjs.com/es5/index.html
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    by avtar 10y ago

    There’s tons of stuff CouchDB sync doesn’t support that end up being a huge problem with mobile apps… Here are the top 3 things Realm adds in my opinion: great client-side performance, native models that are extremely easy to use, and conf
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    by avtar 10y ago

    Awesome, thanks!
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    by avtar 10y ago

    Yes, webhooks would be preferable over polling.
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    by avtar 10y ago

    I understand why your different offerings are bundled together, I appreciate how your team tends to reach out to users in public forums such as this one, and I'm a fan of the quality of your work, but quoting from the page you linked t
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    by avtar 10y ago

    I would love it if Gitlab CI went back to being a separate product. I'll use Gitlab for my own projects but ones that I work on with others are challenging to migrate. And creating mirrors on Gitlab of repositories hosted elsewhere to
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    by avtar 10y ago

    Perhaps the parent was referring to the self-hosting OpenShift option which acts as a Kubernetes distribution: https://docs.openshift.org/latest/getting_started/administra...
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    by avtar 10y ago

    > wireshark/tcpdump/ngrep/etc might be challenging to practically use in the presence of SSL/TLS. you can mitigate this problem by setting up SSL termination at your network perimeter so you can monitor unencrypted t