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Thunderbird Architect – Mozilla Jobs(careers.mozilla.org)
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by jboynyc 10y ago
This kind of inventory is not a new idea. In fact, the "definitive collection of Siliconia on the Web" [1] is nearly twenty years old, though sadly it hasn't been updated in fifteen years. 1. http://www.tbtf.com&#x
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by jboynyc 10y ago
Good to know. I did some searching and found them here: http://dev-sec.io/
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by jboynyc 10y ago
I suppose that's true, but in the field where I work (social science), servers are mostly spun up to scratch an immediate and idiosyncratic itch, so configuration tends to happen organically. I agree that's probably not a good ide
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by jboynyc 10y ago
I'm finding that another important step is this one: apt-get install etckeeper && cd /etc && etckeeper init Keeps your /etc under version control so you know what kinds of configuration changes you've per
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by jboynyc 10y ago
cstuder already answered this questions below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11908011
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D.C. Board of Elections publishes full voter file including addresses(twitter.com)
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License update(whispersystems.org)
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by jboynyc 10y ago
> why does that by definition mean the effort is worthless? Paul Ford himself doesn't claim it's a "worthless" exercise in this piece. In fact, he says "It’s pretty exciting to imagine that one day we’ll stumble
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by jboynyc 10y ago
If you were to report on climate change deniers, would you not focus on the fact that they are denying something that overwhelming scientific evidence attests to? Or if somebody claimed the earth was flat, would your report say, "gee,
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by jboynyc 10y ago
That is confusing/questionable wording, but it can still be logically consistent. Here's an analogy: Football (soccer) is the most popular sport worldwide, but it is not among the top sports in the U.S.
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by jboynyc 10y ago
There's a lot of promising work ongoing exploring emergent music genres. Just recently, two scholarly articles came out in the same week: "Genre Complexes in Popular Music" in PLoS ONE , looking at MySpace ( http:/&#x2F
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Morning and Evening Blue-Enriched Light Exposure Alters Metabolic Function(dx.doi.org)
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It's from Chairman Mao's Red Book of quotations. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-boo...
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Political scientist Danie Stockmann, who studies the role of media in authoritarian regimes, has this to say about the Chinese situation: > New and market-based media require a certain degree of liberalization, because market-based media
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by jboynyc 10y ago
I'm not sure to what extent this qualifies as an MS Exchange replacement (it certainly isn't a drop-in replacement), but the Open-Xchange suite, which powers mailbox.org, is quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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Flirting with Humanity(newrepublic.com)
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Not all disciplines use arXiv -- far from it. Especially in the humanities and social sciences, there isn't really anything comparable to arXiv. But you are right, preprints are not all that different from published papers, as this rec
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Comparing Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-Print Versions(arxiv.org)
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by jboynyc 11y ago
What's wrong with using Pandas? http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/generate...
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by jboynyc 11y ago
Slightly different game, but you can also interact with i3, a very mature WM, using Chicken Scheme: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/i3
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by jboynyc 11y ago
They didn't do very well on HN until about a year and a half ago, as I noted in this essay: https://www.jboy.space/log/ssrc-digital-media-reflection.htm...
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by jboynyc 11y ago
I have a Hackberry A10 board. The company behind it, Miniand, just disappeared from the web at one point, along with their website and the discussion forum it had hosted. So yes, user and developer community and sustainable backing is very
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Poor white kids are less likely to go to prison than rich black kids(washingtonpost.com)
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Regarding 3, no, there is no protocol to store mail locally. You have to use webmail or one of their applications. https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/imap-smtp-and-...
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Visualizing Erowid: data-driven anthropological research on drugs(chemicalyouth.org)
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The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science(plain-text.co)
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by jboynyc 11y ago
While you're at it, it doesn't appear to work with Disconnect.me either.
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Why Big Tech Companies Are Open-Sourcing Their AI Systems(portside.org)
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by jboynyc 11y ago
I remember really enjoying this talk on "Functional Composition" by the author, Chris Ford: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/music-functional-language

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