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   by zoidb 10y ago

   If they think they will win this fight they should talk to the old Lindows linux distro/company..
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   by zoidb 10y ago

   I wonder what conversation at bloomberg resulted in adding all of those extremely distracting (and annoying) animated gifs..
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   by zoidb 11y ago

   Nice write up! I would assume in a large distributed back-end like facebook that notifications are not sent immediately and definitely not sent to everyone at the same time. This probably means that it is impossible to rely on them to get a
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   by zoidb 11y ago

   tldr; author posted an image of non-pornographic full frontal nudity on facebook, had is friends report it and and was banned for 24hours. Thinks it has something to do with facebook's lack of employee racial diversity which I don&#x2
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   by zoidb 11y ago

   You probably should put a prominent notice somewhere that this is not endorsed or affiliated with paypal (unless it is). If it isn't, the "powered by paypal" at the top is a bit misleading I think.
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   by zoidb 11y ago

   It seems like not allowing encryption for amateur radio bands is a showstopper for a lot of people, it would be nice if the FCC would change their position on it. Does anyone know if there has been any movement in this area?
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   by zoidb 11y ago

   Sigh, I believe the answer is "no". Cost is not the problem with tinkering. I don't think access to computing gizmos is an issue at all in the US. For me I surfed in on a wave of tinkering and innovation by building things th
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   by zoidb 11y ago

   original - https://medium.com/@juliachou/it-s-not-your-fault-3e5ad1ccb9...
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   by zoidb 11y ago

   Here is the thread from the last time this surfaced, I guess not much has changed since then? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9720665
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    EC2 run command on Linux(aws.amazon.com)

    1 points by zoidb 11y ago|0 comments
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    My assumption here is that it is cost prohibitive to go after individuals so the loss is just written off.
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    Funny thing i almost did exactly this until i realized you can use rss which can also watch directories easily enough for example https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/Documentati... . Also
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    > pip install coursera really? I'm sure calling it "coursera" will not make the coursera folks happy. I would consider at least naming it coursera-dl so that its function is clearer. I really like this idea though, very he
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    According to this https://blog.twitter.com/2014/building-a-twitter-we-can-be-p... 34% in tech. It is left out because it doesn't fit the narrative.
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    From the pictures this type of clock has a 9v battery for when the power goes off, not enough power to drive the display but enough to trigger the alarm. This would also explain why (maybe) he didn't realize it would go off during clas
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    I discovered it recently as well, also it's pretty snappy due to the offline data.
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    love the logo, hate the mustard yellow on gray.
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    Right, I meant integrated into the player itself
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    When I was young the paramount thing to consider when picking a language making something cool that my friends/parents/anyone could play with. I could easily share little text adventure games and it was cool enough that I actually
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    I thought about that but I remember when one of the great things about this sort of gameplay was having a friend over and being the one in-the-know for all of these little secrets and helping each other out.
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    Nice! I would love to see this integrated into https://github.com/cmus/cmus
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    After recently moving to Berlin from the states I miss Comcast. Not something I ever thought I would say but it's true. Internet plans are expensive, most if not all the reasonably priced ones have data caps and the support is horrible
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    as far as I know Khan Academy still runs on google app engine
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    Hey nice! I've actually done something similar myself as a weekend project - https://page-watch.com Also checkout the following projects, https://visualping.io/ and https://dpxdt-test.appspot.com
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    > raising the inside temperature by more than 10C (18F) This article is copied from http://mosaicscience.com/story/what-happens-after-you-die licensed under creative commons with some small edits like the funny conv
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    by zoidb 11y ago

    Nice though I'm now sure if I like the stackoverflow format for this. This format works extremely well for quickly getting to a single concise answer via search but will these answers index well in search engines? Also where in stack o
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    Arizona State allows students to take their freshman year online for credit(fortune.com)

    1 points by zoidb 11y ago|0 comments
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    by zoidb 12y ago

    Here this will save you the trouble - https://mailinator.com/inbox.jsp?to=j#/#showmailpane
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    by zoidb 12y ago

    clickbait title, tldr - it depends
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    by zoidb 12y ago

    This is not a new article, should probably add 2014 to the title.