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by benmarten 10y ago
what do you mean, can you explain? isn't that correct behavior if you rename the file?
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by benmarten 10y ago
Please note that this does not seem to be any improvement for citizens of "US treaty countries", e.g. most northern and western european countries. Where the needed capital investment is only needed to be substantial to get an E-2
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by benmarten 10y ago
I just quickly tested it, in terms of highest compression ratio it still does not beat xz, e.g. `tar -cf -FILE | xz -c9e > FILE.tar.xz` https://blog.benmarten.me/2016/04/01/Compress-Files-With-Hig...
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Show HN: Monokai Theme for OS X Terminal and Fish Shell(github.com)
2 points by benmarten 11y ago|1 comments
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by benmarten 11y ago
Great article! I am using OS X, but I will add windows version with the adjusted values by your script ;) Also didn't know that original Monokai article :)
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Show HN: Monokai Theme for Android Studio(github.com)
4 points by benmarten 11y ago|2 comments
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by benmarten 11y ago
I am wondering why support for retina images is actually really uncommon. Even on a lot of tech startup pages i can only see poor resolution images. Why does nobody seem to care about retina images on their websites?
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Ask HN: Why Is SRCSET IMG Tag Developer Adoption So Slow?
1 points by benmarten 11y ago|1 comments
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by benmarten 11y ago
I am trying to understand what the purpose of this blockade is? By the way here is a great talk about how the Great Firewall works https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7196-how_the_great_firewall_disc... by CCC the biggest Euro
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How to Add All Songs of an Apple Music Playlist to "My Music" Library(blog.benmarten.me)
1 points by benmarten 11y ago|0 comments
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by benmarten 11y ago
yeah true. for me its about the same though... guess i was so happy to come to the US in the first place ;)
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by benmarten 11y ago
Most starting salaries in Germany out of school for software engineers are between 40-60k€/year. I made 50k starting with a Bachelors. My brother with MSc. in Mechanical Engineering makes almost 60k€.
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by benmarten 11y ago
Damn! I did not know that salaries where that high here. I just came to SF on an H1-B and can only look up to that... But way to go - i guess...
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by benmarten 11y ago
Yeah - I'm glad to be in the Valley :)
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by benmarten 11y ago
I guess the main intention of the current US immigration system is to keep the immigration balanced based on origin. Personally I understand that it is unfair and very frustrating for you, but on the other hand to keep America great there n
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by benmarten 11y ago
It doesn't seem to be really sporadic, as even their status page is almost not reachable: https://status.slack.com
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by benmarten 11y ago
Good catch. Here's what Google says: "Since this initial release is a preview, you may want to download and run an additional copy of Android Studio in parallel with your current version."
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by benmarten 11y ago
Here's the link to the Download page: http://tools.android.com/download/studio/builds/2-0-preview It's not in the stable channel yet, so I assume it's not really released for the broad public y
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PlaylistHunt – Download or Share Playlists(playlisthunt.com)
2 points by benmarten 11y ago|0 comments
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by benmarten 11y ago
Playlist Hunt is a curation of the best new playlists for Apple Music. Discover the latest playlists, songs, and albums, that everyone's talking about. Everybody can share their own playlists and vote for your favourite!
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Product Hunt for Apple Music Playlists(playlisthunt.com)
1 points by benmarten 11y ago|1 comments
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by benmarten 11y ago
Direct Install via Package Control! 1) ⌘ + ⇧ + P - Install Package 2) Type: `Monokai JSON+` https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Monokai%20JSON+
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Sublime's Monokai Theme with Beautiful Colored JSON(github.com)
5 points by benmarten 11y ago|1 comments
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by benmarten 11y ago
From July 2015 on, Heroku will introduce their new pricing system which forces free apps to sleep at least six hours a day. With this project you can easily surpass this restriction by using only one paid heroku app for all of your free her
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Avoid the 6 Hours Sleep for a Free Heroku Dyno(github.com)
5 points by benmarten 11y ago|2 comments