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by laacz 10y ago
When I read something about google translate (related to Latvian or not), there is a certain phrase I love testing - "Hard rock fan". There were times when it was translated literally - "a fan, manufactured from solid rock&qu
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by laacz 10y ago
Read was interesting, but I found myself pushing through by force of curiosity. It was hard, since the post itself was very agressive to me - the reader.
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by laacz 10y ago
It's getting too common for new tools from large companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple) to be unavailable in most smaller markets. For example, Data studio told me that "Data Studio is not available in your country.". Y
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They Knew(medium.com)
1 points by laacz 10y ago|0 comments
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by laacz 10y ago
I'm blown by the speed of it, considering it's built upon electron. Since I haven't yet decided to upgrade to sublime3, might just give VS Studio a shot. For serious development I use IDE of choice, but for quick text editing
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Things I’ve Learned About CSS Grid Layout(css-tricks.com)
2 points by laacz 10y ago|0 comments
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by laacz 10y ago
Actually, tools are not that different across platforms as long as you write code, use version control and so on. As per topic - if you chose any of JetBrains product as your IDE of choice, it's cross platform (linux/windows/
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by laacz 10y ago
Vehicles with rollover cage are forbidden from driving on public roads in most of EU.
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by laacz 10y ago
One thing you can try is Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu on Windows). It works unexpectedly well, even with apps X server. For the sake of this comment I tried "sudo apt-get install gnome && DISPLAY=:0 gnome". It took
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by laacz 10y ago
I must say "Thank you". Thank you, Asimov, for my language skills. I started reading Asimov in my native language (Latvian) until I run out of it. It was late 80s. Then I had to work on my Russian reading skills in order to read e
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by laacz 10y ago
As a person who has to build a relatively simple webapp from time to time, it's tiresome. I usually take a look around - what's trendy. It results into lost night, since I learn that everything requires two times more stuff than s
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by laacz 10y ago
What a name. Almost misread it for jsonmia. :)
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by laacz 10y ago
There is no need for an alternative. You could go all vanilla with a polyfill for fetch.
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by laacz 10y ago
Actually, this somehow reminds me of my childhood here in ex-USSR. No groceries (deficit on everything worth buying), no money to by anything in reasonable quantities, extreme inflation, state-issued coupons for different amounts of items (
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Uber denies access to Harvard startup that compared ride-hailing prices(boston.com)
4 points by laacz 10y ago|0 comments
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by laacz 10y ago
Why is there no verification of email adress you submit? Sadly it's hard to take seriously such a petition.
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by laacz 10y ago
I'm absolutely delighted that there is more and more such developer-generated prose with context of recent events. Is there a place where it would be aggregated?
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by laacz 10y ago
However, many people are not on common route. You still have to get to that route.
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Geocities Forever – neural network generated geocities pages(geocitiesforever.com)
143 points by laacz 10y ago|40 comments
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Geolocation API removed from unsecured origins in Chrome 50(developers.google.com)
122 points by laacz 10y ago|73 comments
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How to send an 'E mail' – Database – 1984(youtube.com)
4 points by laacz 11y ago|0 comments
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by laacz 11y ago
I've been running out of ways to find weird new yet not absurd stuff on the web. All linkblogs are constantly dying. Even these from the beginning of this century. Thanks to author's homepage[1] (can I call it that?) now I have on
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by laacz 11y ago
Modularity comes with a price in form of wasted space. Nevertheless, this is something completely fresh from a major smartphone vendor. And it is done with their flagship phone. That's the spirit.
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by laacz 11y ago
This is not applicable to majority of mobile web users outside of US (Android devices for example) or non-Safari users (Chrome on iOS).
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by laacz 11y ago
Maybe someone could explain - how can mobile web be faster than (semi?) native app?
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A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe – Part I: The Pre-Web(briankardell.wordpress.com)
3 points by laacz 11y ago|0 comments
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by laacz 11y ago
Or three tweets, if you did not try squeezing it inside multi-byte characters.
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by laacz 11y ago
Practically anything can be performed at the level that it would be considered an art.
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What do you consider the most interesting recent [scientific] news?(edge.org)
1 points by laacz 11y ago|0 comments
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by laacz 11y ago
To what?

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