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by mlok 6y ago
https://millionshort.com/ This search engine remove the top million top websites from its results
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by mlok 6y ago
It would be a wonderful way to make "prior art" too, effectively blocking such patent trolls.
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by mlok 6y ago
This is impressive, but as others have said : it fails to clarify things. One thing that would probably help is on the "colored side" when the mouse moves from one zone to the other, it should just change the highlights that need
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by mlok 6y ago
ELI5 : I did not know about this acronym. For those who don't know, it means "Explain me Like I'm 5 years old". https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/
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by mlok 6y ago
If you're born at 11pm then it is your birthnight :) (In French we don't say birthday but "anniversaire" so the day you are born cannot be counted in. You have only one birth day.)
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by mlok 6y ago
This is very similar to the Pareto principle : 80% of the highest result is obtained through 20% of the highest effort. To get to 100% of the highest result you will have to deliver four times more effort. Most of the time, 80% is good enou
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by mlok 6y ago
When I was on Windows in the early 2000 I loved Coolplayer for the same reasons. (And cherry on top : no install needed ! You could ship its exe along with the mp3 files) http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
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by mlok 6y ago
This reminds me of this brilliant interview with Ricky Gervais about atheism and religion : https://youtu.be/rYnjDCZUV6A?t=43
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by mlok 6y ago
This is what I expected too. This one has nav, aside : http://classless.de/#extra Plus a couple bootstrap classes where HTML5 has no elements : grid and card.
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by mlok 6y ago
For some reason the footnote link on sakura did not make my view jump to the note (neither Firefox 76.0.1, nor Chromium 81.0.4044.138 / Linux Ubuntu) although it works in Wikipedia.
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by mlok 6y ago
I cannot read descriptions until the end. The text is out of sight and unreachable.
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by mlok 6y ago
I like the zipped-HTML version of this : https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/singlefilez/
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by mlok 6y ago
You mean "Project Insanity"
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by mlok 6y ago
So simple and elegant. I have adopted it. Thank you !
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by mlok 7y ago
Maybe typos are good for SEO ? People often make mistakes or typos while searching.
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by mlok 7y ago
Maybe this could be one answer : "A new media platform from Wikipedia founder @jimmy_wales . The news is broken, but we're going to fix it." https://wikitribune.com
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by mlok 7y ago
!bangs in DuckDuckGo enables you to do searches right on the destination website https://duckduckgo.com/bang
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by mlok 7y ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. It sounds like an article written to show that Windows is finally understanding and has now embraced Linux, therefore users do not need to run away anymore : "Come back guys, we have all the Linux you love
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by mlok 7y ago
This law is for companies with more than 100 millions users. This bureaucracy will not be a problem for innovators and startups because it takes a lot of time to reach this threshold, they are not concerned by this while at the startup stag
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by mlok 7y ago
DDG gives me : movie, framework, movie (2 links), some song on youtube
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by mlok 7y ago
These comparisons are much easier in the metric system : it is either per unit or per kg. If it is per gram, it's easy still because *1000 or /1000 is very easy. (basically you just move the decimal point, no calculator needed) It
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by mlok 7y ago
For time, I think the equivalent would be the "Internet Time" created 20 years ago : one day is 1000 beats. 1 beat = 1 minute and 26.4 seconds (86.4 seconds) in standard time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swa
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by mlok 7y ago
I have 3 more bits of identifying information than you. (block fingerprinting enabled)
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by mlok 7y ago
In this article, another article in English is cited : "Software Disenchantment" already discussed on HN : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18012334
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by mlok 7y ago
John Costella shared code to unblur images : http://johncostella.com/unblur/
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by mlok 7y ago
The best quality/price laptops I've bought in the last couple of decades were from Aldi (their brands : Medion and Lifetec) It took 5 years for the competition to reach the same offering at that price. (That was in 2002, now it&#x
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by mlok 7y ago
A list of Markdown presentation tools : https://gist.github.com/johnloy/27dd124ad40e210e91c70dd1c24a...
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by mlok 7y ago
Yes, but not only : "GNU Guix is a transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that respects user freedom. Guix can be used on top of any system running the kernel Linux, or it can be used as a standalo
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by mlok 7y ago
free.fr has been offering this, ad-free, since the 90s. It is Xavier Niel company, Free is a French ISP and he alos funded "42" : a private, nonprofit and tuition-free computer programming school IT school.
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by mlok 7y ago
Thank you. It should also be noted that WASD controls are very bad on an azerty keyboard. There are better choices than these keys. (Arrows being obviously even better than letter keys)

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