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How Trust Shapes Nations' Safety Rules(theatlantic.com)
1 points by spatten 9y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 9y ago
Telus, the big phone company and ISP in British Columbia, does this in downtown Vancouver[1]. IIRC, I first heard about this in Work Like Nature[2][3] [1]: http://www.vancouversun.com/g00/technology/telus+million+d
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TripAdvisor removed warnings about rapes and injuries at Mexico resorts(jsonline.com)
16 points by spatten 9y ago|4 comments
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Squashed in Space: Study Identifies Changes in Astronauts’ Brains(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by spatten 9y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 9y ago
scroll down a bit and look for `--print-to-pdf`.
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Theft: A History of Music(law.duke.edu)
2 points by spatten 10y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 10y ago
If you'd like to hear more on this, they had a long talk with the author of this piece in episode 7 (titled "The Only One") of Colour Code, a podcast also from the Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com&#x2
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Q&A with Hayley Barna(themacro.com)
5 points by spatten 10y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 10y ago
From the paper, the IST on the graph stands for "Initial Speech Transcription", and those data points are for the speech-input text before any corrections were made. The other "Speech" data-points include time to make co
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by spatten 10y ago
There's a fantastic Radiolab episode about tumors that talks about the discovery of this cancer: http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-famous-tumors/
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DAO: The Path to Learning Requires Failing(continuations.com)
1 points by spatten 10y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 10y ago
I agree, it looks great. Funnily enough I didn't even notice until you mentioned it. However, I have to pedantically point out that the Markdown is not 100% visible. The author made the correct choice and just showed links as links ins
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How I Could Compromise 4% of Locked Instagram Accounts(arneswinnen.net)
1 points by spatten 10y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 10y ago
I wrote this a while ago answering the exact same question: http://scottpatten.ca/2012/04/no-excuses.html
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by spatten 10y ago
You do this by telling iptables to look at the X-Forwarded-For header when deciding what IP that request is coming from. This blog posts explains the whole thing: https://centos.tips/fail2ban-behind-a-proxyload-balancer&#x2F
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by spatten 10y ago
For what it's worth, it used to be pretty standard to put the ToC at the back of the book when making epub and mobi files. We did it at Leanpub, and I'm pretty sure we were just following what the Prags and (if I remember correctl
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by spatten 10y ago
She was also featured in this Freakonomics podcast about "I Pencil" (worth the listen): http://freakonomics.com/podcast/i-pencil/
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Soundcloud Go not paying all artists(airplanemo.de)
9 points by spatten 11y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 11y ago
I agree with everyone else about the physical hobbies, but I find you need something else to fill the evenings when you don't necessarily want to go outside, or when you just want to spend half an hour doing something that's not c
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by spatten 11y ago
Ansible has a nice workaround for this that might partially solve the problem and be less work than migrating away from GitHub. When you submit a ticket it forces you to fill in some required fields. Here's an example of a filled in is
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by spatten 11y ago
From what I can see, it's not available for OS X at all. According to Wikipedia[1], it is currently available for PC and PS4 and will be released for iOS "at a later date" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th
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by spatten 11y ago
I used org-mode for about a year, but then switched to Vim and none of the vim org-mode plugins looked great. So I thought about what I used it for, and realized it was mostly cycling items between TODO and DONE with a keystroke and text fo
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by spatten 11y ago
Cool, didn't know about that. Does it search multiple files in a directory? I use it for work logs and keep one file per week.
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by spatten 11y ago
I have a bunch of org-mode files that I save into a Dropbox folder. That gives me backups, and access from other computers / laptops. Search is via ack or grep. It theoretically also gives me access from my phone using MobileOrg[1], bu
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Living in Different Worlds(ben-evans.com)
1 points by spatten 11y ago|0 comments
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Refactoring with Hashes(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
2 points by spatten 11y ago|0 comments
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Distribution vs. Innovation(a16z.com)
3 points by spatten 11y ago|1 comments
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by spatten 11y ago
If you both review, then the reviews show up immediately. If only one of you reviews, then the review shows up after a waiting period (I think it's ~2 weeks). So presumably the negative review will show up soon.
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E-book sales are not falling(fortune.com)
1 points by spatten 11y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 11y ago
Amazon publishes a command-line tool called Kindlegen[1] that converts epub => mobi pretty seamlessly. [1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211

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