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alnorth
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Comment #44873716
I'm a heavy Todoist user and I think it's great. I used to use org-mode, but all the Android apps I used for it were clunky and had issues with syncing when my file was concurrentl…
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Comment #34910355
So if my competitor is using IngestAI and OpenAI use their data to train ChatGPT, could I literally just ask ChatGPT to tell me some secrets from my competitor's internal communica…
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Comment #26722892
The problem is that whoever you follow (whether they're friends, family or just interesting people) they ARE following the outrage parts. And of course there's the "trending" sideb…
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Comment #26078091
Xen only hit v1 in 2004 and was relatively niche.
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Comment #25124464
You have to use the dropdown to select the right page. As they said, it's in the conclusion of the article.
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Comment #24963166
I have very fond memories of foobar2000. Mostly I just loved how fast it was to use! Does anyone know of an equivalent for the Mac?
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Comment #21113211
Go ahead then.
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Comment #19963331
It seems to be working fine for Spotify and Netflix. Is there something special about journalism that means it wouldn't work there?
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Comment #17654455
Who mentioned patents?
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Comment #14202804
Say I wanted to learn COBOL, has anyone got any resources they'd recommend?
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Comment #12691240
I half agree with you, but one of the real benefits that SASS gives you here is making dependencies more obvious. A named variable like `$slider-height` is much clearer than a rand…
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Comment #12397064
With Google Mail (and Apps) anything after a + in the first part of the address is ignored, so foo+dropbox@gmail.com would be routed to foo@gmail.com. That's the easiest way to do …
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Comment #11570501
The Reader workflow never really worked for me. I just ended up with a big bold "unread" number counting all the posts I'd never get round to reading. In the end I rolled my own th…
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Comment #8458133
Yeah, but you're not introducing a new failure point. Most services already let you reset your password - as long as you can click a link they send to you in an email.
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Comment #8211467
http://www.uk-postcodes.com/
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