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Spreeder: free online speed reading software
(spreeder.com)
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13y ago
Rather than a free program for a limited number of people, I would be much more interested if they offered a similar program for all sorts of people at an affordable rate.
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I wish the Apache License was more popular. It's in the same spirit as the MIT License, but it provides more protections regarding patents, for example. This prevents the "bait and switch" method of licensing a work under a p
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It isn't very clear to me which Nagios plug-ins are considered standard, and perhaps that sort of confusion is what creates all the FUD surrounding Nagios.
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13y ago
> Everybody will want one. How many people do you think can afford a ~$100k vehicle?
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Cicada 3301
(en.wikipedia.org)
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I wouldn't say Esperanto is 100% optimal, but it was created from scratch by linguists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
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Canadian budget 2014: Bitcoin faces scrutiny to prevent money laundering
(cbc.ca)
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
(catb.org)
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'I wish I had breast cancer': Pancreatic cancer charity's slogan causes outrage
(dailymail.co.uk)
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I'm very doubtful as to whether it was within the Technical Committee's role to rule on this. After all, there is nearly a consensus on the fact that systemd is the superior init system. The question of whether certain kernels sho
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13y ago
curl is just a library with a slim command-line interface. It can't scrape pages by itself. Perhaps you're thinking of curlmirror? Even then, I doubt it can be considered more powerful than a good wget configuration.
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There's a huge contradiction in this article. It gets close to saying that this behavior is unethical, then makes a point of saying that it won't say that it is. Of course it is. When a website offers me a direct link , I expec
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Web companies give first look at secret government data requests
(reuters.com)
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Google opens up Chromecast with new streaming SDK for iOS, Android, Chrome
(arstechnica.com)
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13y ago
I think the first part /is/ a joke.
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> The idea that Bitcoin could be an alternative to traditional money that would allow users to conduct transactions anonymously beyond the pale of intrusive government regulators has proved to be little more than a pipe dream That statem
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Cracking GSM with RTL-SDR for $30 (2013)
(hackaday.com)
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There's nothing very new about this. Aboriginal societies have been exercising the principle of permissive education for hundreds for years. There is something very logical about the idea of applying the premise of learning from one&#x
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13y ago
I liked the days when Ubuntu was a nice, simple distro that I could recommend to beginners. Nowadays, every desktop distro is becoming more and more of an "island". The main "alternative" to Ubuntu, Linux Mint, is also r
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13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY I don't understand how it applies in this context?
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13y ago
You're thinking of Mint.
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I know this is about AWS, but it might be helpful to mention that DreamObjects ( http://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/dreamobjects/ ) is an API-compatible cheaper alternative to S3.
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I reported this to a freenode staffer. He said they didn't appreciate this kind of activity much and that they would investigate it.
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The world's fastest supercar might soon be electric
(cnn.com)
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Bitcoin 2.0 explained: the true power of the blockchain
(voices.yahoo.com)
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President Obama's NSA reforms show both promise and peril
(theverge.com)
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Facebook Acquires Branch to Build Out 'Conversations' Team
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> The price of bitcoin reached $1,000 again today on Japan-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox The headline is misleading. I would expect CoinDesk to use their own Bitcoin Price Index or at least a regular exchange like Bitstamp as a refere
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13y ago
> They go as cheap as $350 now, but you can get GREAT ones (really great, not just pixel density) for around $500. Are there any for $500 that are better than the $300 ones?
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