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Common words that have a technical meaning in math(johndcook.com)
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Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others(stepsandleaps.wordpress.com)
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by knight17 9y ago
They are now in better hands from what I read. Slashdot and Sourceforge were both acquired two years ago: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...
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by knight17 9y ago
Yes, Brave browser is open-source: https://github.com/brave
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by knight17 9y ago
There is BaKoMa TeX: http://www.bakoma-tex.com/
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by knight17 9y ago
I want two features from the YouTube Android application: Firstly, the ability to increase the video playback speed, similar to one available on my desktop browser. Secondly, remove the annoying incidence of comment reply opening my soft k
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by knight17 9y ago
Very fascinating. I think it is Mark Landis that you have in mind: "It obviously isn't a crime to give a picture to a museum, and they treated me like royalty. One thing led to another, and I kept doing it for 30 years," says
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by knight17 9y ago
I did not know that Android's 'stuck at Java 6' situation was due to the Apache Harmony project-Oracle scuffle. Statement by the ASF Board on our participation in the Java Community Process: > Through the JSPA, the agreeme
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by knight17 9y ago
> Japanese people are raised in Japanese schools. I would like to know more about Japanese schools. You seem to know about Japanese culture a great deal. Is there any material (fiction, non-fiction) accessible in English that talks of th
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by knight17 9y ago
Is this type of Yoga (Mysore) self-learnable or do you recommend to learn from someone who knows it well?
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by knight17 9y ago
> ... a 1998 update by Martin Gardner is available from St. Martin's Press which provides an introduction; three preliminary chapters explaining functions, limits, and derivatives; an appendix of recreational calculus problems; and
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by knight17 10y ago
Vimperator is the king among Vim-like keyboard shortcut enabler extensions in browsers, sadly it may not work in the future versions of Firefox because Firefox is transitioning from highly free but less safe/performing XUL based ext
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by knight17 10y ago
It is slow: it takes time to create the static output, especially if you have more than a few posts. For infrequently updated sites and blogs this plugin may be an excellent solution as it allows you to access a world of WP themes.
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by knight17 10y ago
Cars (transport) consume the majority. If we take the US, which consumes 21% of all petroleum, to understand oil usage pattern, we can see that 47% of US consumption is from petrol (gasoline). Second is Distillate fuel (diesel and heating o
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by knight17 10y ago
"FLY and DINE give you flight schedules and restaurant listings and reviews." "POSH, a Craigslist for the wealthy" https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-coolest-functions-on-Bloo... Banking software also us
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by knight17 10y ago
I've moved on to Feedly and then to Inorerader, but Google Reader was a wonderful feed reader. Nothing beats its search capability.
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by knight17 10y ago
>> I read an interesting blog post, so I clicked the author's name to go to his "profile page". I expected to see a list of his posts Blogger does this exceptionally well, or at least used to in its earlier default temp
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by knight17 10y ago
I am also a TiddlyWiki user. I use it as personal note taking + bookmarking + daily reading log. The best feature it has is a Wiki feature, not any TiddlyWiki feature: backlinks. I could make the backlinks show up in the footer of every pa
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by knight17 10y ago
Auditors cannot provide other services—mainly tax and IT—to audit clients for auditor independence (SOX in the US, Combined Code in the UK and similar laws are in application worldwide). All Big4 firms had to shelve their IT consulting to s
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by knight17 10y ago
None of them have any features in addition to what we get from Google/Bing/Yahoo/Yandex. Searx seems to have categories such as music, science, news, social media and so on which is better than nothing. What I currently do i
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by knight17 10y ago
Earlier they had a blog search option which I used a lot to find pages written in a personalised style, but they shelved this. Now there is no way to find such pages under the current system other than trying yor luck with searching for sit
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by knight17 10y ago
How would one go about starting neurofeedback training? Can this be done at home by ourselves, if so what equipment do we need and what are its cost? Can you give any further pointers/links?
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by knight17 10y ago
When this goes live, China will gain access to an Indian ocean port in Gwadar. This project runs through Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir; these are contested/disputed territory between India and Pakistan. China and India already have boun
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The frozen water trade(fourmilab.ch)
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by knight17 10y ago
Which one, please elaborate. I've seen Ford shorthand system which replaces alphabets with easier to write variants. It could also be used to write faster and provides some obscurity from the uninitiated. http://www.fordshor
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Your human-size life(scripting.com)
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Who's eating law firms' lunch? (2013)(abajournal.com)
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by knight17 10y ago
Yes they are nice. I always become indecisive when it comes to assigning keys with keychord. Also, Sticky keys are system-wide as it is an OS provided feature. It makes life very easy, for example, to select text, just click where you want
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by knight17 10y ago
Can you tell what other resources you've used to learn, what practices were helpful in studying grammar, what was not helpful in your study of grammar?
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Use piano to type text(xahlee.info)
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