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For me, I learn mostly for practical use, so for instance I want to build a markov chain generator: - I refresh up on probabilities in general - I look at the markov chain wiki art…

I will say it: Wikipedia. You do need to have the common knowledge used to describe the topics but Wikipedia is an amazing source. (out of your list, I mainly looked at Game Theory…

Chrome has a built-in ad blocker that blocks the ads Google finds too disruptive for the users: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chromes-built-in-ad-blo...

Seems to be a lightweight shell that links to their wiki: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Jd/Overview

I'm having trouble with the google cache version too, so here is the archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20190408150115/https://misfra.me...

The "thank you" emails seems to be a tradition/expectation of the classic corporate culture where the employer has a extreme amount of candidates for each opening and each candidat…

What would be interesting is that we move away from domain blacklists (e.g. adblocks, /etc/hosts, pi hole, etc.) to domain/ips whitelists (like firewalls).

> If you want another database such as PostgreSQL, MySQL et al, you must deploy them in another container as an addon. Sounds like a pain.

Hi, do you handle something similar to buildpacks and heroku addons? The price is very attractive. I should get around to try it this week.

> On the last day of trial, Serrin Turner, the NY lead prosecutor, addressed the jury and stated that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire allegations occurred.[28] One char…

Maybe "meaningful" would be a better choice of word, not sure.

> Issues may not be added to the sprint I don't see this happening, even if that's a good rule, because issues come up that take higher priority than existing issues.

I think he puts Twitter there because he doesn't use it. If you follow the right people it actually promotes intelligent discourse.

> If your app or website uses a Unicode character which isn't supported on a device, the user will usually see � - a replacement character. If you include Unifont, they'll see the …

They do all kinds of caching, image compression, etc. I think most of those are in paid plans though. Just mentioning it as it's quite a simple, fast, free change that doesn't cost…

Would be cool to see what the performance would be with Cloudflare in front of those sites.

They often offer either the simple option or the custom-built option basically: - Stripe Checkout ( https://stripe.com/docs/checkout ) vs implementing your custom credit card form …

archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20190401005430/https://www.jemja... And original link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190401004514/https://www.jemja... I'm getting …

I've found HackerRank to be great at acing the algorithmic/data structures questions during interviews. You don't even need to finish Cracking the Coding Interview (which is incred…

Thought it was going to be a phishing testing service which I don't remember the name of (maybe https://www.getusecure.com ). (Seems like tallpoppy is focused on harassment)

You could use "hacker for hire" services on Tor. You could also hide a bounty somewhere (e.g. in an email, in a private Github repo, etc.). You don't even need to mention this is y…

# Code of Conduct This is a dictatorship, I do what I want. Thanks.