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   by vinc 8y ago

   So it means it's a good idea!
2. 122.▲
   by vinc 8y ago

   I wrote this little thing in bash: https://github.com/vinc/pkg I find it quite useful as I'm switching daily between Arch Linux, Ubuntu, and MacOS.
3. 123.▲
   by vinc 8y ago

   I use Mail-in-a-Box on my own server. It's free, open source, and well maintained. [1]: https://mailinabox.email
4. 124.▲
   by vinc 8y ago

   Oh, you were an admin of C2? That's cool! Yeah this new service is definitely a wiki.
5. 125.▲
   by vinc 8y ago

   Have you been to C2 recently? It's now a web app that load only if you have JavaScript activated. Pretty sad. At least this one works well on text browsers, and pages load fast without the need for a spinner.
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   by vinc 8y ago

   It's a good idea, being more mindful of the content we consume is the key. Last year I made a little website to control how much time I want to spend on HN. For instance I have one page where the 10 most upvoted items for the week are
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   by vinc 8y ago

   Vue + Rails 5.2 + Postgres + Dokku With Bootstrap and Devise (auth) and many other ruby gems / npm packages, we can prototype a project extremely quickly with this stack by simply following the conventions of the community and trying t
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   by vinc 8y ago

   Thanks for the PDF. Here's direct link from another website: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/607/2/Feynman.pdf
9. 129.▲
   by vinc 8y ago

   Look at a blue sky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
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    by vinc 9y ago

    I'd suggest watching some of the recent lectures of Svante Pääbo on YouTube (and his papers on Google Scholar), he's very good at explaining the latest findings. This one for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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    by vinc 9y ago

    There's a good subreddit dedicated to the book: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMindIlluminated/ And if you really want an app, someone made a beautiful one for android, free and without ads, that follows the sta
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    by vinc 9y ago

    I couple of months ago I found a good TED talk on the same topic as your first link: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...
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    by vinc 9y ago

    If it's 400 meters long and do one rotation in 7 hours the gravity is essentially zero. It'd have to rotate twice per minute to produce 1g.
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    by vinc 9y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natt%C5%8D You may not like the taste, but trying it is an interesting experiment.
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    by vinc 9y ago

    Or perhaps this is a very valid way to look at things and it will make you reconsider driving a gasoline vehicle if you can. Personally I have the option to ride a bike and electric (nuclear+hydro) trains instead of driving a car, so that&#
16. 136.▲
    by vinc 9y ago

    The same happened to me. It was fun to swim in the big waves and spend half of the time under the water until I got tired and realized that the current was stronger than me.
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    by vinc 9y ago

    I scrape Wikipedia[1] for my website[2] like another user from this thread, it's pretty good to have a quick look at what happened during the day. Then I check only the top news from some subreddits[3] and hackernews[4], and I usually
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    by vinc 10y ago

    The situation with Vimperator is so sad, I can't use Firefox without it. I don't like all those toolbars that clutter my screen estate, I prefer to browse the web full screen. There are a lot of projects using Webkit, and I also u
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    by vinc 10y ago

    You could also use Lojban's numbering system[1] for example with GPS coordinates in decimal form to the same effect. [1]: https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lojban/Numbers
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    by vinc 10y ago

    Oh, that's an interesting idea!
21. 141.▲
    by vinc 11y ago

    My computer from 2009 is limited to 32-bit but it's still working fine so I'm reluctant to throw it away. I guess I'll have to now.
22. 142.▲
    by vinc 12y ago

    My browser is in English, and so are all my Google/YouTube settings, yet the movies are also dubbed in another language based on my current IP address. YouTube should respect my language setting.
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    by vinc 12y ago

    We need a browser extension to help us solve captchas with OCR. This is indeed ridiculous.
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    by vinc 13y ago

    Slate.fr - http://www.slate.fr - Paris, France (local only) Launched in 2009, Slate.fr is the French version of Slate.com. We are looking for Drupal developers to help us grow and merge our desktop and mobile websites together w
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    by vinc 13y ago

    There is currently a great course on Coursera named "A Brief History of Humankind"[1] that is exploring those ideas. If you have another source that goes deeper into the subject I would be interested to know it. [1] https:/&
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    by vinc 13y ago

    Mine has broken its screen after half a meter fall on a carpet.
27. 147.▲
    by vinc 14y ago

    It seems to be visible now : https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=SY&...
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    by vinc 14y ago

    I used this solution on a network of WP blogs with moderate traffic (maybe somewhere around 100 to 500k+ visits per month at best) but after a while some spammers took the time to script their way into the comments.
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    by vinc 14y ago

    I wrote a small program named Oximon a few months ago to extract data from CMS-50x pulse oximeters and generate Gnuplot graphs. I use it to detect REM sleep and it does the job with a nice accuracy so maybe it could help someone suffering f
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    by vinc 16y ago

    I don't want to spam but I did this : http://www.wipigi.com/ a wiki service on top of Git (and Django)... But with GitHub's wikis it's a little useless for anyone but me. Nonetheless it was fun to build and an opportunity to learn a littl