michalskop

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by michalskop 10y ago
It is common in Germany," too.
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by michalskop 10y ago
Scaleway has 50G disc and 2G memory for 3€(+VAT)/month
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by michalskop 10y ago
Related for working with CSV data, there is an interesting standardization project by Open Knowledge: http://frictionlessdata.io/guides/tabular-data-package/ It already includes some tools for working with and dis
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Slovak scientists lose access to scientific databases(spectator.sme.sk)
2 points by michalskop 10y ago|0 comments
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by michalskop 10y ago
we use Telegram as a free (no cost) alternative, "poor-man Slack"
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by michalskop 10y ago
As a potentional user (having a FF OS mobile, for example) I never even learnt the name and I do not even know how to pronunce it correctly till today - seriously, the name was probably the most important reason why I do not have a mobile w
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by michalskop 10y ago
More than 1 hour of no Google services (at least) in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, maybe more. Including the search, Google docs, CDN (js libraries, fonts) and DNS (including popular 8.8.8.8)
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by michalskop 10y ago
Is using Hugo suitable even for non-tech people? I have worked with several systems during last years (Wordpress, Drupal, custom apps, several wikis), but I am still not happy with them, because of missing combination "easy to maintai
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by michalskop 10y ago
Interestingly, I have never heard about such a rule (being from Europe; is it probably a US-thing?)
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by michalskop 10y ago
The good thing is I am an European citizen, so I do not have to take into account at all any American "classified" or "restricted" or whatever label. Or do I?
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by michalskop 10y ago
I used to have that for a very long time. (CloudFlare became the company I hate most on the net.)
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by michalskop 10y ago
Efficient maybe, but trustworthy? How can you know that the voting machines are not rigged in any way? (The same goes for e.g. Brasil.)
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by michalskop 10y ago
There are many problems. Is the hardware open-sourced, too? It should, there are known back-doors in many hardware nowadays (not talking about the unknown). Plane ticket, electronic banking, etc. - they have an immediate feedback that corre
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by michalskop 10y ago
Almost nobody is using voicemails, where I know (Czech Rep., Slovakia, Spain, Hungary) - it used to be the default (voicemail is on) to get charged for the calls into it, but I think it is not even so anymore (because it was too annoying fo
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by michalskop 10y ago
How about printing a landscape from a map/contour lines? Do you think it is possible for example from OSM data? (That London looks totally cool.)
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by michalskop 10y ago
Might be in Western Europe, the packages may be as little as 50MB in "Central and Eastern" Europe (and than considerably slow connection).
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by michalskop 10y ago
I lived in a country run by communist party for 14 years, but I do not see any link with ending South African apartheid at all. The apartheid ended and no communist paradise/hell/regime instead.
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by michalskop 10y ago
Correction to the article: There is no Ů in Czech (except for CAPS LOCKED words) - The longer "u" is written as "Ú/ú" as the first letter in a word, and "ů" in other positions (strange for sure, but becaus
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by michalskop 10y ago
CloudFlare is regularly blocking me (because of dynamic address I get from my provider; I have no real choice as I live in the country and not in a city) and being out-US, CloudFlare does not care at all. It is seriously the company I hate
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by michalskop 11y ago
Btw., being from the Czech Republic, I have never used a cheque in my not-so-short life. The bank transfers take here from 0 seconds (within the same bank, costs 0 in my case), through a few hours/usually (within CZ, costs 0) to around