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On the linked page: >Hey, this isn't a SourceForge project! Check out the SourceForge Open Source Mirror Directory for more information. which links to: http://sourceforge.net/mirror/ >The Open Source Mirror
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Tangent: I like the catalog display that you link to (aka, from the 'old version of their collections database') better than their new revised version http://webapps.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?oid
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Yes, and tethering charges are basically charging consumers twice for accessing that data. I ethically disagree with it, but it is the standard practice here and with one legal exception, it is a legally supported practice.
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I wasn't aware that it was an American weirdness, but phone carriers here can, and mostly do, charge us to tether our phone to another device [1]. There is at least one legal exception, where consumers whose data is transmitted via th
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I love Tunnelbear, but I assure you their vigilant mode is far from perfect. In particular, I take a train to and from work. When the network goes down, and it goes down several times every trip, sometimes Tunnelbear goes into vigilant mo
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Show HN: V0.2.0 Pre-Release of GUN – Auto-Recovery of Primary Fault(medium.com)
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> reproduce tomorrow's sky in your living room It sounds more like a time machine for tomorrow's weather.
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http://gogs.io/
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http://howtocenterincss.com/
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FYI: The test link[1] doesn't work for me. It either reloads a white page, or reloads the page but it is still firewalled. [1] https://go.umur.io/wsj/
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My experience is the same. If I don't press the open door button on the train then the door doesn't open; if I press the button, then the door opens. One of my train start locations is at the end of the line. The train idles ther
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An ironic response given that the author is himself white [1] and he also wrote, "The Case of the Missing Adjective: Writing and Choosing Whiteness" ( http://www.thetattooedprof.com/archives/350 ). [1] Since yo
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With technologies like Freight Farm [1], solar panels, and Tesla's Power Wall [2], cruise ships could –relatively– easily be reconfigured to be much more sustainable. [1] http://www.freightfarms.com/ [2] http:/&#
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> So I suspect that there are some important confounding factors involved! Hence, I only "suspect" that there are confounding factors, I do not in fact "claim" that there are confounding factors.
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>Putting on formal clothes makes us feel powerful, and that changes the basic way we see the world,... There are occasions when putting on formal clothes makes me feel more, well "formal", such as weddings and funerals. The re
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>Unless you find other models, like patronizing Patronizing like - https://www.patreon.com/ - or patronizing like, "offensively condescending" [1]. Based on context, I'm assuming the former, but patronizi
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If John Deere is the Apple of tractors, then Open Ecology is the Linux of tractors. - http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski - http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac
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>The only requirement is that they be between the ages of 18 and 30. I'd estimate that well over half of my bootcamp cohort was over 30.
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>Ghostery prevented a redirect from justforward.co to click.linksynergy.com, which is part of LinkShare. If I allow trackers once until destination, I'm taken to a $99 Udemy course - https://www.udemy.com/learn-angul
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> It used to be called "openoffice". OpenOffice.org still officially lives as Apache OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#End_of_OpenOffice....
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>Finally, procrastinators are more likely to complete a piece of work if they’re persuaded that it’s not actually work. In one study reviewed by Jaffe, students were asked to complete a puzzle, but first they were given a few minutes to
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>Interesting. Power vs difficulty in debugging. Reminds me of this statement by Brian W. Kernighan, "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you a
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To save others the search: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/campaigns/home-office/standing-des...
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I have multiple smallish projects that don't need to be up 24/7, but that may evolve into something more. I'm not going to pay $84/year per project to keep them on Heroku. So, I'll end up moving them, and as they
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This isn't completely true. I frequently will download all the videos for an online course. Subsequently, when I watch them in VLC [1], I'll bump the playback to 1.25x - 1.75x. Fwiw: for me, playback speed strongly correlates to
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I'd like to see process type as an option, e.g. extrusion, DLP, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing#Processes
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I'm not in the freelance world, but I've heard good things about the "Freelancers' Show" from a friend who is - http://devchat.tv/freelancers
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>About the data: We used the family income data from the 2013 American Community Survey. This counts only families, which the government defines as households with two or more people related by birth, marriage or adoption. I find the fac
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I have a lot of privacy concerns about what Google itself does with my data, but I do like knowing that they help prevent others from surreptitiously gathering data.
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I love Hacker News! I came to up-vote the inevitable "fittest is relative" type comment. Instead, I find 5 of the 6 main comments are saying it :-). (Now 5 of 7, because I'm totally contaminating the conversation with my obs

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