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by firefoxd 7y ago
Duolingo is s fun mobile game that happens to have words in different languages. It uses all modern gamification and addiction technics to keep you hooked. However, the very act of using the app means you are willing to learn a new language
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Yep.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Every job i had as a programmer, the first thing I did was kill VNC and remove it from the startup script. No one ever complained about it. The reason I did so was because I worked as an IT before and I was often asked to dive into someone
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by firefoxd 8y ago
I can't pinpoint when exactly, but on windows XP, there used to be a speech to text engine that worked locally. When you set it up, you had to read some text to train it with your voice. You could constantly train it to improve it. Thi
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by firefoxd 8y ago
You will also enjoy Peace Walker. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid:_Peace_Walk...
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Decentralized web can be downloaded and backed up by one entity. Then, you can go to that centralized entity to enjoy all the content. If we still don't have decentralization, it's because it is not as easy.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Animalus Anthropomorphicus, "the animal as seen through the human eyes." I think Dindim has found a source of free food. Although it's a win win because who doesn't want to be visited by a penguin.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Shower thoughts that may amount to something is first repeated out loud. Only when i vocalize them they can stay in memory long enough to be recorded by any means necessary. I send myself emails, record audio, then in the end everything is
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Many years ago, i added a script to my blog to scan for certain words and throw an error if I ever use them. Earlier this year, i was having trouble publishing my article. No matter what I did, it would simply refuse. I try locally with a s
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by firefoxd 8y ago
There was a great comment i read here yesterday. Developers build stuff on chrome because the console is amazing. So if the user uses chrome, there's a guarantee the website will work. Yes, firebug started it all, but chrome is killing
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Your prose is too prolix.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
> Apprente makes interactive machines powered by a proprietary, neuroscience-based AI technology. They say mobile ordering is bad, so the solution is AI ordering, and a touch screen.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
I guess the new design is curing the addiction to reddit.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
It's not the insights, I think piwik got that part right. The problem is when traffic increased piwik and the server it was on could no longer support it.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Kudos to the author. I think if every technical person with a blog takes the time to reevaluate it will be a good start. Over the years I've reworked my own blog to not use any third party dependencies (bootstrap, jquery, etc.). And us
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Shows great mastery of webgl animation and poor understanding of browser history (navigation history).
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Well there is this: https://youtu.be/OkPter7MC1I
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by firefoxd 8y ago
"Nothing we do in this large department of ours is really very important, and there’s never any rush. On the other hand, it is important that we let people know we do a great deal of it." General Peckem - Catch 22
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There are no secrets (James Mickens) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by firefoxd 8y ago|0 comments
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Can we sand someone to double check it? Joking aside, wow, why can't we send someone to double check it 60 years later.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
In September 2015, I was one of the people celebrating the expiration of Mp3's license. I scoured the web looking for others talking about it. I brought it up on Reddit, no one seemed to care. I still don't hear it talked about of
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Serious question. Is there any precedent? Where a people developed without harming their surrounding.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
I totally ripped off google[1] . I'm working on a facebook, and YouTube one, because why not. [1]: http://www.ibrahimdiallo.com
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1911 – A trip through New York with sound [video](youtube.com)
10 points by firefoxd 8y ago|2 comments
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Ok, in the US we are one medical trip away from complete bankruptcy. Not too long ago there was an article saying the average person in America doesn't have $400 stashed away for an emergency. So what do you do when you get this bill?
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Because of Spam, I give a bogus link by default to all forms, then update it to the correct one with JavaScript. I still log all post requests. After five years I've gotten less than 10 non spam submissions to the bogus link.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
"refuse to change"? It's not easy to change something used by more than 50% of the internet.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
Note the little grayed out "go to mobile site" link. It actually makes you believe it is a link. But it is not. It makes you think that if you click it will take you somewhere else, so you don't want to click and lose the cur
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by firefoxd 8y ago
One of my favorite parts in Catch-22 was when the chaplain lied and it was good: > The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery.
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by firefoxd 8y ago
I took a paid in person course with Income Trader. Before that, i read all of investopedia. And now I just follow Mr Teroso's advice: Invest once a month, market up or down.

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