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Google Training Ad Placement Computers to Be Offended

Posted by basename on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:23PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/technology/google-training-ad-placement-computers-to-be-offended.html?_r=1

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Battery Status Not Included: Assessing Privacy in W3C Web Standards

Posted by basename on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:07PM
from the blog.lukaszolejnik.com dept.

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/battery-status-not-included-assessing-privacy-in-w3c-web-standards/

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Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives

Posted by basename on Monday April 03, 2017 @08:14PM
from the rollingstone.com dept.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-putin-derangement-syndrome-arrives-w474771

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LaTeX Boilerplates – Plain-Text Document Production System

Posted by basename on Saturday April 01, 2017 @11:39PM
from the mrzool.cc dept.

http://mrzool.cc/tex-boilerplates/

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The gopher:// manifesto (2002)

Posted by basename on Friday March 31, 2017 @10:08PM
from the web-beta.archive.org dept.

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160911053736/http://www.scn.org/~bkarger/gopher-manifesto

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How we made the typeface Comic Sans

Posted by basename on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:07PM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/28/how-we-made-font-comic-sans-typography

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Must We Forfeit Our Ghee?

Posted by basename on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @10:13PM
from the hazlitt.net dept.

http://hazlitt.net/blog/must-we-forfeit-our-ghee

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Plainness and Sweetness

Posted by basename on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:29PM
from the frankchimero.com dept.

https://www.frankchimero.com/blog/2017/plainness-and-sweetness/

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Learning languages very quickly – with the help of some very basic Data Science

Posted by basename on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @06:57PM
from the hackernoon.com dept.

https://hackernoon.com/learning-languages-very-quickly-with-the-help-of-some-very-basic-data-science-cdbf95288333

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Calling 911 on a Mobile Phone

Posted by basename on Sunday March 26, 2017 @08:58PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/technology/personaltech/calling-911-on-a-mobile-phone.html?mtrref=undefined

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The Hidden Power of Stack Overflow

Posted by basename on Sunday March 26, 2017 @08:56PM
from the nymag.com dept.

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/03/the-hidden-power-of-stack-overflow.html

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Making Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup with 253 cooks and no head chef

Posted by basename on Sunday March 26, 2017 @08:18PM
from the rockpapershotgun.com dept.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/03/23/making-dungeon-crawl-stone-soup-with-253-cooks-and-no-head-chef/

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Defensive BASH programming

Posted by basename on Sunday March 26, 2017 @04:22PM
from the kfirlavi.com dept.

http://www.kfirlavi.com/blog/2012/11/14/defensive-bash-programming/

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Create a Zettelkasten for Your Notes to Improve Thinking and Writing

Posted by basename on Sunday March 26, 2017 @12:55AM
from the zettelkasten.de dept.

http://zettelkasten.de/posts/zettelkasten-improves-thinking-writing/

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OCR History: The Original Machine Learning

Posted by basename on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:56PM
from the tedium.co dept.

http://tedium.co/2017/03/22/ocr-typography-optical-character-recognition-history/

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Why Can't You Listen to Aaliyah? Ask Her Uncle

Posted by basename on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:35PM
from the complex.com dept.

http://www.complex.com/music/2016/12/aaliyahs-music-isnt-online-and-her-uncle-barry-hankerson-is-the-reason-why

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AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video]

Posted by basename on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:37PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0

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How are pilots different from the average person?

Posted by basename on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:49PM
from the postbiota.org dept.

http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2017-February/019879.html

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Living with a Zettelkasten

Posted by basename on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:13PM
from the omxi.se dept.

http://www.omxi.se/2015-06-21-living-with-a-zettelkasten.html

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Evan Miller: You Can't Dig Upwards (2014)

Posted by basename on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @08:10PM
from the evanmiller.org dept.

http://www.evanmiller.org/you-cant-dig-upwards.html

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The Vimrc Antiques Roadshow (Vimeo)

Posted by basename on Monday March 20, 2017 @06:46PM
from the vimeo.com dept.

https://vimeo.com/96886790

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100+ FREE Resources to Learn Full Stack Web Development

Posted by basename on Monday March 20, 2017 @05:55PM
from the hackernoon.com dept.

https://hackernoon.com/100-free-resources-to-learn-full-stack-web-development-5b40e0bdf5f2#.f9r2o36ap

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The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)

Posted by basename on Monday March 20, 2017 @01:22AM
from the nngroup.com dept.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/

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Revise Until You Drop

Posted by basename on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:18PM
from the thesmartset.com dept.

http://thesmartset.com/revise-until-you-drop/

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First Timers Only: A Suggestion to Open Source Project Maintainers…

Posted by basename on Sunday March 19, 2017 @03:08PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/first-timers-only-78281ea47455#.dpr0srzi7

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A Good Vimrc (2014)

Posted by basename on Sunday March 19, 2017 @12:32AM
from the dougblack.io dept.

https://dougblack.io/words/a-good-vimrc.html

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Re:Show HN: *nixy filter to color stdout, by rows or space-separated c... on Friday March 17, 2017 @07:42PM (#13898947)

I've been looking for a simple way to separate commands from their arguments, in 'history' output. Aliased.

    [ -x $HOME/bin/colorize.py ] && alias h="history | colorize.py 4"

“Buy American” needs a filter button on all e-commerce sites

Posted by basename on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:10PM
from the akinokure.blogspot.com dept.

https://akinokure.blogspot.com/2017/02/buy-american-needs-filter-button-on-all.html

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Google starts flagging offensive content in search results

Posted by basename on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:17PM
from the usatoday.com dept.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/03/16/google-flags-offensive-content-search-results/99235548/

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Re:What is your pick for the most mind bogglingly incredible software ... on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:31PM (#13879041)

It amazes me what git is capable of, fresh out of the box.

Most of the things that I've found useful over the years - procmail and mutt, or vim - need quite a bit of configuring before unleashing their full power. Writing procmail recipes is like potting-training a pig.

But for the most part, git shows up ready to work.