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by chdir 11y ago
F5 = refresh (browser)
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by chdir 11y ago
> learning to code when he was 63 > switching careers extended his neural plasticity considerably I find this very interesting & uplifting. Would you be comfortable sharing more on what motivated him to switch careers at that age
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by chdir 11y ago
Websites use captchas & IP based limits to prevent abuse of their resources & make it harder for copycats to mirror their data. There are often cases where copycats outrank original content in search rankings. (see this example : h
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by chdir 11y ago
- Auto-resolve CAPTCHA’s - Automatic IP rotation That's just wrong. Is there a website where we can blacklist IP addresses of such violators ?
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Is WARF a patent troll?(host.madison.com)
1 points by chdir 11y ago|0 comments
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by chdir 11y ago
Slightly simplified & loops through all the links on the first page : import re, youtube_dl from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from urllib2 import urlopen from urllib import quote_plus ydl_opts = {} soup = Beautif
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Nurse used same syringe on 67 people at N.J. flu clinic(nj.com)
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by chdir 11y ago
I use a standing desk, and hence require a separate keyboard to go with my laptop for proper head & wrist position. I've been searching for a wireless thinkpad keyboard which is a replica of the T series keyboard (with touchpad &am
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by chdir 11y ago
> This was the only archive of truecrypt code I could find There'a also https://github.com/AuditProject/truecrypt-verified-mirror (maintained by opencryptoaudit.org)
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by chdir 11y ago
My biggest gripe with Nexus series has been the camera. None of the releases has made a quantum leap in terms of picture quality. I don't care about gimmickries like HDR, live photos, sphere etc., all I want is a $300 Point & Shoot
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by chdir 11y ago
Lots of good stuff in release notes [1]. My favorite : " Running tests in parallel ". Sounds awesome. [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.9/
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by chdir 11y ago
Thanks, that's the one I had in mind. Also found : import.io, scrapinghub.com & 80legs.com
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by chdir 11y ago
I've seen something similar more than once on HN but my google-fu is failing. What other similar services are out there that'll let you smartly scrape a page into a spreadsheet. In the past, I've tried Google spreadsheets wit
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by chdir 11y ago
> 15-30min block at the end of each day over the span of about a month Admire your speed ! It's a fun app with lots of nifty features.
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by chdir 11y ago
Official word is that it'll be the "only major change to the Hacker News UI that we're committed to" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8297695
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by chdir 11y ago
The extra only saves the trouble of cleaning the main filter too frequently. The cost of filters, especially the RO membrane (the most expensive component) that removes dissolved impurities would still be there. The advantage of my setup wo
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by chdir 11y ago
That's exactly what I did last year :-) A stand alone sediment filter where I turn two valves to reverse the flow of water. It's not very aesthetic and it takes more space but it does make my life easy. Regarding your 2nd point, m
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by chdir 11y ago
> no longer in use on any critical/important end points What's your recommendation as an alternative. Cloudflare is tempting if you are tight on resources due to free SSl, CDN, etc. and it is super easy to setup. I'd love
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by chdir 11y ago
A 3rd world country perspective : I've seen an increasing trend of appliances at home that are intentionally designed to make repair difficult. The manufacturer/dealer nexus forces you to depend on paid but poorly trained mechanic
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by chdir 11y ago
For example: the color red is associated with danger and prohibition as established by social convention. Talking about the environment in red colors will confuse users and distract from the message trying to be communicated How much weig
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by chdir 11y ago
Adieu to a great man, https://twitter.com/APJAbdulKalam "Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep." ― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire: An Autobiography Some of h
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by chdir 11y ago
A comment mentions this deep below, but I think this deserves a bit more attention: If you're using a modern framework with url routing, you don't need to worry about hiding .git or .hg in your webserver config file.
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Anatomy of an Attack: How I Hacked StackOverflow (2012)(blog.ircmaxell.com)
83 points by chdir 11y ago|20 comments
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Harvard Medical researchers find online symptom checkers are ‘frequently wrong’(thestar.com)
1 points by chdir 11y ago|0 comments
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by chdir 11y ago
1. "Mindfulness in Plain English" - Bhante Henepola Gunaratana. Really liked it & easy to follow. 2. "Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life" - Thich Nhat Hanh. Also good, but found it a bit re
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by chdir 11y ago
I had a severe case of not being able to sleep if my mind was busy after dinner time e.g. coding, debugging, mentally solving a problem. Adjusting light temperature, using flux software etc. helped marginally, but never attacked the root of
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by chdir 11y ago
Kind of agree with all those who say that Cloudflare is still a better option. But how do you tackle their lack of automatic failover ? https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168916-C... "th
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Sleeping time via twitter(sleepingtime.org)
2 points by chdir 11y ago|0 comments
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Amazon doesn’t eat its own DNS dogfood(networkworld.com)
3 points by chdir 11y ago|0 comments
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by chdir 11y ago
Here, read this example on how the Assessing officer interpreted the section 54F and put a restriction on tax exemptions. The tax payer had to fight it out in high court for a seemingly straight forward issue. The real problem here is lack

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