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12y ago
We use http://certalert.me/ it's free and it does multiple domains. I don't know if would have caught stripe's problem.
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You might like http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dialogue.html then
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12y ago
You're right, I should have said: altruism was a secondary concern.
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I'm moderately cynical about Apple's motivations. I think they've done it because it helps them make money, not for any altruistic reason. Having this feature helps Apple sell iPhones to us, and the iBeacon platform to advert
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12y ago
Indeed a nice interface, particularly the direct drag-n-drop to paragraph for attaching/embedding images. A few bugs to report: 1. When I select some text the popup menu doesn't include a + button. 2. The hover menu for a picture
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12y ago
Ditto, but with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML
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12y ago
Yes. The S depends on the conjugation - I bung ... He/she bungs ... They bung ...
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12y ago
In the context of nanotechnology (specifically MNT/molecular manufacturing as described by Eric Drexler in Engines of Creation) "free energy" could refer to photovoltaic panels that cost essentially $0. That may or may not ha
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13y ago
Love the concept and the pitch sold me. Your registration needs some work, there's too many steps/bail out moments. This was the sequence. 1. Visit http://dragd.is. Big, obvious Register with ___ buttons, excellent.
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13y ago
$250 per year, not per month.
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Hold the Hamburger
(blog.isotoma.com)
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13y ago
Flipper USB, a US company sells cables/adaptors with USB-A plug that works both ways. I've no experience of them though, and it still leaves the Micro-B connector with a wrong way up http://www.flipperusbsales.com/
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13y ago
Slightly offtopic, a photo of an early mockup/protoype for this phone showed a physical vibrate-mode switch ala the iPhone. The final production module doesn't. I've puzzled before why no Android phone (that I've seen) h
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PostgreSQL Studio
(postgresqlstudio.org)
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First computer made from carbon nanotubes debuts
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I _think_ the exact definition is within http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area modulo variable exchange rates
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They don't, the campaign is Fixed Funding - once it failed to meet the target all backers got a full refund http://www.indiegogo.com/how-pricing-works-on-indiegogo
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USB Power Adapter Takeback Program
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Efficient Cooking: It’s All in the Pot
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Japan prepares to restart nuclear plants
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For anyone else wondering, links plus taglines http://bourbon.io/ A simple and lightweight mixin library for Sass http://inuitcss.com/ a powerful, scalable, Sass-based, BEM, OOCSS framework http:/
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For anyone else curious, Andrew Johnson's letters are (I think): OSCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_for_Security_and_... OSCP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offensive_Security_Certi
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Why assume the thief will want to use it? The scrap value of the copper and aluminium alone could make it worthwhile
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(half remembered, take with a grain salt) Building penetration of a signal gets worse as frequency increases - so Three UK (2100 MHz) suffers more than Vodafone UK (900+2100 MHz) inside large/heavy buildings. Three has LTE (4G) coverage pla
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Notes from MPUG: "Python one-liners" talk
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A Friday challenge: In Python when is u'ß'.upper() equal to u'SS'? I discovered one case today, there may be others. Answer: https://twitter.com/moreati/status/332910618858364928
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Most likely answer: they don't work in a text-only environment e.g. an ssh session
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If I'm reading http://www.ifixit.com/iPad-Parts/iPad-Retina-Display/IF116-0... correctly then all Retina iPads use the same screen i.e. 3rd gen (dock connector) and 4th gen (lightning connector) should both be compatible with this. Assumi
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14y ago
re PIL. It's "friendly fork"/successor pillow does support python 3.x https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/2.0.0
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My goto example of this is when a ReadWriteWeb article briefly become the top Google result for 'Facebook login' http://readwrite.com/2010/02/11/how_google_failed_internet_m...
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