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by jewbacca 11y ago
On Android: You can install ABP at a system level ( https://adblockplus.org/android-install ) or uBlock as a Firefox extension ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/android/addon/ublock-origin ), Yo
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by jewbacca 11y ago
Looks like something called EViews: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EViews http://www.eviews.com/online_help/helpintro.html#page/EViews... ftp://ftp.rau.am/EViews%20Enterprise%20
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by jewbacca 11y ago
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software Chapter 1 For Want of a Printer http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html
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by jewbacca 11y ago
This seems to be missing large sections of text, beginning immediately. The full text does not seem to be available for free to the public on the surface web. Bummer.
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by jewbacca 11y ago
Here is a similarly-aligned sentiment from the OP thread here, beautifully-stated by somebody with potentially more credibility on the subject (let's be honest here) than me (though do note that she rightly does not claim to be speakin
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by jewbacca 11y ago
For very many habitual users of Reddit, the way in which it is probably most valuable is as the canonical general discussion forum of the web. An important part of the infrastructure of their perception and interpretation of the world aroun
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by jewbacca 11y ago
Also important to understanding this: To the users I'm talking about, the "cognitive value" of Reddit is not entirely about directly being fed opinions to take up as one's own. Many of these users find great value to bei
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by jewbacca 11y ago
Fair enough, I appreciate your perspective. Here is an attempt to communicate my own, as someone "closer" to Reddit: For very many habitual users of Reddit, the way in which it is probably most valuable is as the canonical genera
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by jewbacca 11y ago
Question: How comfortable are you with well-upvoted and -participated-in discussion threads -- like the one we are participating in here -- suddenly dropping out of visibility on a community you contribute to in a matter of minutes, without
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by jewbacca 11y ago
Yishan Wong 2 days ago: > Here's one. > In 2006, reddit was sold to Conde Nast. It was soon obvious to many that the sale had been premature, the site was unmanaged and under-resourced under the old-media giant who simply didn&#x
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by jewbacca 11y ago
For posterity: -------- > Here's one. > In 2006, reddit was sold to Conde Nast. It was soon obvious to many that the sale had been premature, the site was unmanaged and under-resourced under the old-media giant who simply didn&#x
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Yishan Wong comments on "What's the best long con you ever pulled?"(reddit.com)
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by jewbacca 11y ago
Was this story removed? It has more points than several older stories currently visible on the HN front page (and, for that matter, the next 5 pages after that), which, as far as I know [0], means it should be listed on one of those pages.
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BBC publishes links “forgotten” by search engines(bbc.com)
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by jewbacca 11y ago
> https://goo.gl/tF6M4C – this goo.gl shortlink has been disabled. It was found to be violating our Terms of Service. ---- For what an isolated anecdote is worth, I originally switched from Textmate to Sublime because I
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by jewbacca 11y ago
> he was never dumb enough to try to police 4chan This is not true, there was a massive controversy and subsequent schism less than a year ago. A "folk history" (if you're feeling generous enough to call it that) of the ep
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by jewbacca 11y ago
Ah, I think I understand what you're getting at now, that's a really interesting question. I can't entirely back this up without probably days of reading RFCs, but my initial gut feeling is that making this distinction, which
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by jewbacca 11y ago
> 404 should be reserved for URL/route errors. What dichotomy are you working off of here? It is absolutely a 404. How is this any less applicable to a DELETE request than it would be to a GET request for the same resource? What
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by jewbacca 11y ago
It's hard to argue about this without some idea about what the original author considers "real"/"not a myth". If he considers genes to be "real" in comparison (which I cannot totally infer from this p
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by jewbacca 12y ago
This is fucking nuts! All of the game code is Nethack's original C: https://github.com/coolwanglu/BrowserHack/tree/master/src Porting is mainly accomplished by defining a windowing system for &#x2
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by jewbacca 12y ago
Highly recommended related video by the same person (XboxAhoy / Stuart Brown): "Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv6aJRGpz_A
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by jewbacca 12y ago
https://github.com/cn-nytimes/ and https://github.com/greatfire/ host information about and software for circumventing the Chinese government's internet censorship systems -- which, among man
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by jewbacca 12y ago
Note: "Cryptopticon" (cf. "Panopticon") not "Cryptonomicon" (Neal Stephenson novel) ---- Not that this isn't a valuable and fascinating article (and extremely relevant to anyone who connected with that nov
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by jewbacca 12y ago
"Doom and Metal/Rock: A Comprehensive Comparison" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H3BB2gKKeY
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by jewbacca 12y ago
Is this actually true? It's pretty hard to believe, I honestly feel like you pulled it out of your ass, but it's also possible I'm totally out of touch. This article is a "feature" (not entirely sure what that impl
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by jewbacca 12y ago
qmail 1.03 source mirror on github: https://github.com/amery/qmail/tree/aa6bf9739209ca76f7f3af0f...
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by jewbacca 12y ago
Also a potential fragmentation problem: "Vancouver": https://localwiki.org/vancouver/ "Metro Vancouver": https://localwiki.org/van/ There's a genuinely hard problem in try
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by jewbacca 12y ago
Not that I don't also want this LocalWiki thing to succeed, but you should definitely check out your local subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/search
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Obviously not scientific, but if you need some totally informal causative bro-science to allow you to swallow these empirical results: Even if the benefits are "obvious", the large majority of people aren't self-improvement-f
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by jewbacca 12y ago
If you're already familiar with Manhattan Project histories, check out "Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall" ( http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Uranium-Club-Secret-Recordings... ), by ph

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