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   Why isn’t all government software open source? (2014)(ben.balter.com)

   3 points by philshem 7y ago|0 comments
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   by philshem 7y ago

   > I understand that Microsoft has a similar crew they can dispatch to any customer to get their business software working again. There is a saying that these teams are dispatched by private jet and consist of 8 executives and 2 engineers
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   by philshem 7y ago

   Are pigs still a source of pharmaceutical insulin? Edit: > Insulin can be made from the pancreas of pigs or cows. Human versions can be made either by modifying pig versions or recombinant technology. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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   by philshem 7y ago

   The first step is to delete the social media apps from your phone. The problem isn’t the phone but its usage. Sent from my iPhone.
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   by philshem 7y ago

   aren't VPNs across the entire network connection? (so not specific to the browser)
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   by philshem 7y ago

   I guess in this case the easiest would be a separate browser for Facebook.
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   by philshem 7y ago

   Can you explain? It’s a puzzling comment about containers
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   by philshem 7y ago

   Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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   by philshem 7y ago

   Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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    by philshem 7y ago

    For those new and old to Firefox, check out the new-ish privacy feature “multi-account containers” https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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    You Don’t Know Africa (Geography Game)(youdontknowafrica.com)

    1 points by philshem 7y ago|0 comments
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    by philshem 7y ago

    > ... died of a blood infection contracted during the risky operation, ... I am curious to know more details, especially if this was a waterborne illness.
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    by philshem 7y ago

    They already rewarded him after the first crash, not to say they won’t again. > On December 17th, less than two months after the Lion Air crash, Boeing’s board of directors approved a twenty-per-cent increase in the company dividend and
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    by philshem 7y ago

    November 2019 New Yorker piece about what went wrong at Boeing https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/the-case-again... tl;dr engineers vs. accountants
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    by philshem 7y ago

    I guess this is the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799369
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Thanks for checking. I’m on mobile safari and I don’t think there are any dev tools or show source.
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    by philshem 7y ago

    As a reader of npr.org in Europe, I’m prompted by https://choice.npr.org to either accept cookies or visit the text site. I wonder if https://text.npr.org is also tracking-cookie free.
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    by philshem 7y ago

    I'm not much for planning my reading, but still unread in 2019 is Tara Westover's _Educated_ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35133922-educated
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    by philshem 7y ago

    I know this is an English forum, but for this German learner, could you write out the whole example sentence? (I’d mostly like to see which preposition is used. My dictionary says “jmnd. _in_ Zugzwang bringen” but your sentence has a differ
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    by philshem 7y ago

    https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Do any of the apps allow for browsing or opening links without an account or logging in?
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    by philshem 7y ago

    this is pretty cool, especially https://www.github.com/sethvincent/javascripting
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Funny and interesting was a recent episode of RadioLab https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/world...
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    Pythagorean Comma(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by philshem 7y ago|0 comments
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    Personalized book subscription uses well-read employees rather than algorithms(newyorker.com)

    1 points by philshem 7y ago|0 comments
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Cool, I just got the first one to check out. No affiliation or referral, but bookdepository has free worldwide shipping with no minimum purchase: https://www.bookdepository.com/Dinosaur-Empire-Earth-Before-...
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    by philshem 7y ago

    https://freecodecamp.org is open source: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp from the Readme: > You can pull in these test suites through freeCodeCamp's CDN[0]. This means you can build the
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    Ask HN: Are there any command line (non-web) coding tutorials or camps?

    7 points by philshem 7y ago|5 comments
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    by philshem 7y ago

    If this works, would be much easier to automate the army of manual archivistas that is currently using the chrome extension and blocked by recaptcha.
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    by philshem 7y ago

    yes, although better to not tell anyone about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739662