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by fps 10y ago
Google drive has a switch in the options to expose a "Google Photos" folder, which contains the original versions of all your uploaded google photos. You can then download these photos with any google drive client. The photos you
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by fps 10y ago
a huge amount of work today is done by people instead of machines because people are cheaper than machines. If you make people more expensive than machines, the machines will do the work, and the people can stick to doing something they ac
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by fps 11y ago
I have an electric kettle plugged in to a standard US 110 socket, and it boils a few cups of water very quickly - about 2 minutes from the tap to boiling. Plus, the kettle has an automatic shut-off and I can hold the handle with my bare ha
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by fps 11y ago
There are modules like this: http://aeotec.com/z-wave-in-wall-switches/170-micro-smart-ap... that work with hubs like wink or smarthings, but home electrical wiring isn't consistent, so the installation isn't
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by fps 11y ago
it says in like 15 different places on the page that you create a new account, you sign up with your business email, and while the interface is similar to the personal version of facebook, it's completely separate. My guess is you di
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by fps 11y ago
I think the bigger problem is that public information like your name and address is sufficient for proving your identity. If we make whois information private, what about phone books, property records, direct mail databases, etc. etc.
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by fps 11y ago
I regularly purchase SSL certificates - about 10 or so a year, from gandi. Their validation process is identical to lets encrypt without the automation. All someone needs to get a cert is to control http://yourdomain.tld/&
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by fps 11y ago
I've had two nests at home for almost 2 years, and have never had them stop working when the wifi went out. They just stick to whatever schedule they were programmed with the last time they were on the internet. I wouldn't buy
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by fps 11y ago
If a manufacturer is claiming high gas mileage, reasonable power and low emissions out of a small turbo diesel, chances are they're lying. You can only have two of those three, and so if you buy a diesel car, you're at risk for h
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by fps 11y ago
Lots of android games play well with a bluetooth or USB controller instead of a mouse. You can easily hook an XBox or PS4 controller to a PC.
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by fps 11y ago
I've worked for 5 companies since I've lived in MA, I've only ever had to sign a single non-compete, over 10 years ago. None of the places I've worked since have had them. I've never met anyone in MA that had one e
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by fps 11y ago
As someone who works for a start-up and tries to hire in MA, our biggest issue for innovation is a lack of people. Hiring is extremely hard here due to lack of applicants. The cost of living in the area is relatively high (only about 20% l
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by fps 11y ago
avc.com is Fred Wilson's (a venture capitalist) personal blog. It gets regularly linked off of HN, so i'm surprised that it's down. Judging by the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q
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by fps 11y ago
In my opinion, they're way better than touchpads. For any serious work I use a full size wireless mouse, but I'm comfortable on a trackpoint, and continuously frustrated using a touchpad. It's important to use the hard gripp
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by fps 11y ago
There's no "reverse natural selection", the same as there's no "reverse evolution." If what you say is true (and I'm not certain that it is) then being intelligent and career driven is not a desirable tra
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by fps 11y ago
1) I've worked IT or IT/operations at a handful of small to large companies over the past 15 years where I've been directly in control of email and any "snooping" requests needed to go through me. I can count on o
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by fps 11y ago
The "Revolver" plugin for chrome does something very similar. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/revolver-tabs/dlkn...
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by fps 11y ago
The problem with mass transit mostly isn't other people, it's the fact that it rarely goes from exactly where you start to exactly where you want to go. I take mass transit to and from work every day, but in order to get from my
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by fps 11y ago
Both FireTV and Android TV have voice control via their remotes. Both have universal SDKs between TV, Tablet and Phone. Neither have touch enabled remotes or motion sensitive remotes, but both have traditional console game controller acce
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by fps 11y ago
Plex on AndroidTV is a different interface than the version that exists on FireTV. It's more polished than the FireTV version, but the recent additions to all the plex apps around recommendations really annoy me. I don't want Plex
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by fps 11y ago
no, I installed gnu coreutils using homebrew. - /usr/local/opt/ is where homebrew puts installed binaries.
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by fps 11y ago
I mostly do (MacOS), but: $ which ls /usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin/ls I'd say $392 seems like less than I should contribute.
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by fps 11y ago
http://shell-sink.blogspot.com/ used to provide this service - it was what I based my project on. I'll see what I can do for a hosted/SaaS system this weekend.
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by fps 11y ago
$ history | wc -l 56201 I use a simple prompt_command hook to push my history (from all my machines) to a central MySQL database( https://github.com/fredsmith/history-db ). Entries are de-duped and a tally is
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by fps 11y ago
People are always touting the "reliability" of electric cars, but that argument mostly falls flat if you're comparing it to any car built in the last 20 years. Internal combustion engines are incredibly reliable. They requ
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by fps 11y ago
To address your first point, Edx.org is very similar to Coursera, but is a non-profit organization that releases all it's software as open source ( https://open.edx.org/. ) For your second point, EdX Studio ( https:&#x
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by fps 11y ago
Many programs (like git) respect the environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, which allows you to set the location of your 'dotfiles' to a different directory session-wide. This means you don't need to make your entire home dir
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by fps 11y ago
This explains a lot. I've been a (large) customer of compose.io for several years, and since the rename to compose support of our MongoDB clusters has really gone downhill. They recently pulled much of the monitoring that was availabl
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by fps 11y ago
The US government owns 28% of the land in the country ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands ) - Most of this land is not being used for parks or any other public resource - it simply is unused and unoccupied.
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by fps 11y ago
Multiple accounts is supposedly in development/beta - https://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-suggestions-ideas/sug... but yeah, they waited way too long to implement that.

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