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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Crows are incredibly smart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8-gP3Sw_8
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
I dropped Chrome (and told everyone to stop using it) when it sprouted that infernal "Not signed in to Chrome - You're missing out" button. A browser should not come with an agenda.
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
I bought some shares at an IPO as a long term investment a few years ago and held onto them since. For shits and giggles I subscribed to the RSS feed for this ticker on Google Finance. This feed contains a lot of stock ratings and "buy
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Took you long enough. One less Firefox addon, I guess.
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Transferwise is neat. I'm however even more impressed by an article writing about it without using the word "disrupt".
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Oops, brain fart - sorry :-!
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
I've used Privoxy & friends (Glitterblocker on OS X) since the days of junkbusters.com, but with SSL on the rise this no longer works very well for me.
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Considering it's brand new, no.
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Upon watching the video, my first thought was: I should try this! Not because I have RSI (used to though), but because it seems an excellent solution for keeping my hands on the keyboard whilst having a third "hand" for the pointe
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Reminds me of Nim (formerly Nimrod): http://nim-lang.org/
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
That's basically what wkhtmltopdf does.
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
If you trusted Facebook with that, you aren't scared enough.
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
They already have submarines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
pfSense lets you do this, along with pretty much anything else you can think of. https://www.pfsense.org/about-pfsense/features.html
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Also Expatistan for looking up cost of living comparisons: http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
That list looks awful. If you do want to go the scientific route, you'll have to work this out yourself, based on the metrics that are important to you. You can find individual indexes (Healthcare, Journalistic freedom, political neutr
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Forgot to mention Internations, a social network for expats. You can sign up there and read the forums of your choice destination. There will typically be a thread with advice for interested immigrants, and helpful people to answer your que
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
German expat in the UK reporting in. > What has your experience been? Mixed. Do your research first. It was difficult to get a bank account and rent a flat without references or fixed address (I stayed in a hostel the first few weeks). I
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Apparently so (from http://www.revk.uk/2014/07/dripa-and-aasisp.html ): > It was so close I did an edit :-)
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UK ISP reaction to DRIP bill(status.aa.net.uk)
3 points by sdfjkl 12y ago|2 comments
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Shingled Magnetic Recording (2013)(anandtech.com)
1 points by sdfjkl 12y ago|0 comments
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
This looks like it's a reaction to (and effective solution for) the problem with t1 instances that made them largely useless (or a gamble at best) due to sharing a CPU with instances that run at full load all the time.
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Alas, she only won due to the massive headstart such a boat is afforded. > Dorade’s finishing time in the Transpac race this year was 12 days 5 hours 23 minutes 18 seconds > Dorade started a week earlier than Pyewacket, which finished
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
I'd love to hear a bit more about that experience.
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Yup, every time I clear the intuit.com cookies, I get different prices.
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
6.95 on Firefox Mac, 12.95 on Safari Might just be A/B testing.
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Phone numbers are an anachronism from the days of electromechanical phone exchanges[1]. These days we can name things more sensibly, so you can call Bob at example.com by just entering bob@example.com into your SIP client. That SIP client (
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Same here, this is closest to the good old Google Reader experience, with no bullshit added.
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Solar Accounts - UK specific, suitable for both sole traders and Ltds, with or without VAT registration. Does invoicing and accounting in one nice package. http://www.solaraccounts.co.uk/ I didn't want to entrust my ac
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by sdfjkl 12y ago
Sell them a multi-region setup, or better yet, one that doesn't die with Amazon. My clients neglect this too, but at least I made them aware: Me: What happens if AWS goes down, locks your account or loses all your data? You might have

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