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by erikig 6y ago
Ditto on OSX+Chrome
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Which begs the question - which cooking recipes start off with a biography of the author? Now I want to see those!
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Speaking of Holbein and bones, that anamorphic skull in his famous painting "The Ambassadors" has always made me feel simultaneously puzzled, annoyed, curious and amazed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amba
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Yeah 3.48 billion dollar's worth of paying customers at last count.
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Yeah, it is an exponentially more difficult problem when done live - aka Bill O'Reilly Rule.
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This gave me such strong feelings of location nostalgia. Thanks for resharing.
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I believe every leader owes it to their company to utilize these government facilities. PPP loans are forgivable and they allow the company to maintain its staff during historically uncertain times.
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I’m curious, how much of the process is digital and how much of it requires physical presence by a specialist? Also how has this been affected by the COVID crisis?
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What a delightful find, I wasn’t aware of dwarf fortress or it’s creators. Thanks.
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I’m sure you’ve probably come across it but it is worth mentioning - TVTropes ( https://tvtropes.org ) is a veritable smorgasbord of story tropes and character archetypes. Their catalog of examples is pulled from TV, movies, liter
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History of Nombas (No MBAs) – The company that sold NASA on JavaScript in 2006(brent-noorda.com)
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"If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories, and crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh, wel
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“With Katzenberg singularly blaming the pandemic”... If this wasn’t the best time to launch an online entertainment platform - I don’t know what would. With everyone unable to travel and consuming so much media the pandemic should have be
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by erikig 6y ago
So many services rely on github that it has become a single point of failure for online infrastructure as we’ve come to know it. I remember seeing this shared many years ago [1] and not much seems to have changed in the interim. If anything
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I think the YouTube AI decided to save us all by making us all care about bees because we're about to annihilate ourselves because everyone is apathetic currently. Good Guy Goog
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The freeze is pretty wide ranging and will apply to a number of other visas as well: - H1-B - Specialty occupations - H4 - Immediate family members of the H-1B visa holders - L - Intracompany transferees from oversees - J - Work-and study-b
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by erikig 6y ago
The freeze is pretty wide ranging and will apply to: - H1-B - Specialty occupations - H4 - Immediate family members of the H-1B visa holders - L - Intracompany transferees from oversees - J - Work-and study-based exchange - H2-B - Temporary
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It seems like annotation is coming into its own. In addition to the W3 standard, there are a lot of interesting UI/UX ideas in the space for instance this UI/UX that was posted by Azlen Elza (in Twitter) that would be perfect for
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I appreciate this. I wasn't familiar with Adi Shamir's secret sharing scheme. I found this video quite helpful in clarifying how it works for cases where only a subset of the participants are required to confirm the secret. https
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This is quite a list, I was forced to think back and maybe reconsider at some of the naming choices I myself had made over the course of my career. I found this guideline doc from Microsoft, linked in the original MetaFilter article quite h
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Four Set Venn Diagram (Using Candy Examples)(d2slcw3kip6qmk.cloudfront.net)
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Maybe this was a social engineering tactic to get users to reveal their credentials. Everyone that chimes in saying "same here" gets pawned...
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I'd be surprised if they didn't have a rainbow table of all weak passwords. The addition of offensive password checking and the ability to ban users based on their content is what's novel and alarming in this case.
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Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon or Frequency Illusion is the phenomenon where something you recently learned suddenly appears everywhere
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Obligatory Archive Link: http://archive.is/XpWY0
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This list was helpful when searching for a unique domain names or for social media handles. It was inspired by the original gist by @marcanuy [1] and by an article from LeanDomainSearch [2]. Unfortunately both lists were not as easy to sear
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A list of the 5000 most commonly used domain prefix/suffix(gist.github.com)
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You can also create courses on https://udemy.com and on https://youtube.com . A great way to identify good targets is explaining newly launched platforms and how they worked for you and what you learned. There's
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Thank you.
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“...This means that the case will Follow the Sun by default, to provide 24/7 support” I love the concept of “Follow the Sun” to describe 24/7 support - I don’t think I’ve heard it described that way. I wonder how much we’d have

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