shrikant

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   by shrikant 12y ago

   I knew something felt off about the title -- corrected, thanks!
2. 602.▲
   by shrikant 12y ago

   Unless this is some obscure joke I don't get, the thread you want is this-a-way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7678178
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   Al Feldstein, the Soul of Mad Magazine, Dies at 88(nytimes.com)

   71 points by shrikant 13y ago|17 comments
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   The people who are still addicted to the Rubik's Cube(bbc.co.uk)

   2 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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   Mahout will reject new MapReduce algorithm implementations from now on.(mahout.apache.org)

   1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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   Cool GitHub projects(reddit.com)

   2 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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   by shrikant 13y ago

   I was going to complain that you aren't being entirely fair by comparing an article page to the main landing page, then I saw the actual article page as it stands currently. http://www.howstuffworks.com/four-wheel-drive
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   Why you must lead or follow(scottberkun.com)

   1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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   by shrikant 13y ago

   I believe the custom in digital watches is that a leading zero implies a 24 hour display.
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    Douglas Crockford: Commerce and Society in Cyberspace [1995](crockford.com)

    1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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    Oracle kills third-party JD Edwards reference website(jderef.com)

    189 points by shrikant 13y ago|90 comments
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    I was (and still am) honestly baffled that Canonical never went about building and marketing Ubuntu One as a home directory backup service. Maybe automatically encrypt and backup all text files in the home directory by default, and for free
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    Brendan Eich toughs out backlash over opposition to gay marriage(theguardian.com)

    2 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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    Play Sega Genesis games in your browser(ssega.com)

    1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
15. 615.▲
    by shrikant 13y ago

    Excel actually doesn't 'care'. It uses the record separator defined in your Windows "Regional Settings", and the defaults there differ for each system locale.
16. 616.▲
    by shrikant 13y ago

    Exactly 10 years from when Gmail was launched to the public, with its massive 1 GB of storage.
17. 617.▲
    by shrikant 13y ago

    NewsBlur is open source and you can set up a self-hosted version of it as well. See https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    I would strongly second this recommendation -- I've done about 200 miles over different legs of the SWCP (across two years), and it is a magnificent way to spend a weekend. Some of the scenery is quite breath-taking, and literally all
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    Why my Nexus is fantastic and why my next phone won't be a Nexus(softwareas.com)

    2 points by shrikant 13y ago|3 comments
20. 620.▲
    by shrikant 13y ago

    President of The Your Country..?
21. 621.▲
    by shrikant 13y ago

    You appear to be uninformed about WhatsApp: http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/06/why-we-dont-sell-...
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes
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    Surprisingly Undervalued Books(nabeelqu.com)

    1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
24. 624.▲
    by shrikant 13y ago

    I've used http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ for this in the past and it's worked really well.
25. 625.▲
    by shrikant 13y ago

    See this: https://web.archive.org/web/20100614055220/http://chromium.h... I'm not sure what's changed since then, but it's worth considering.
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    Random tie knot generator(tieknots.johanssons.org)

    1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    I strongly agree with this. Nationalist pride is the Kool-Aid peddled by government and society to get you to conform to their respective agendas and keep you from questioning the stupid shit they get up to. And I really don't mean to
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    Genius who used first class ticket to eat free for a year does not exist(shanghaiist.com)

    3 points by shrikant 13y ago|1 comments
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    You don't even need to long press to find this out -- if the URL of the site you're on 'supports' being opened in an app, a little grey android icon appears in the address bar. You can tap this icon to open the URL in th
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    As are the (non-Bootstrap) element classes, names and IDs in the code...