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andyn
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Comment #20096537
It seems a bit like Juicero - maybe investors are trying to find a corner of market based on food subscriptions.
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Comment #19431045
Chrome won't autoplay videos having audio. Unless you've already interacted with the site.
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Comment #17932521
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ is a goldmine of bad examples.
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Comment #17670261
I don't think there are so many ads on Youtube that it's enough of an annoyance to subscribe.
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Comment #9032301
Not an answer, but people who are using Mint; is there an official upgrade path between releases yet? How do you upgrade?
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Comment #8891550
I think this is the missing link: https://github.com/commondream/maths
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Comment #8367237
Love that last bullet.
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Comment #8162433
I'm using Xymon ( example: https://www.xymon.com/servers/servers.html ). I found it didn't take much work to add a client to the monitor and the default set of reports was enough. …
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Comment #7457338
One day I got a cheap-ish NAS then used beets [1] to organise and copy all the music on my computer to it, listening to it with Banshee[2] over the network. Then I got Spotify and …
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Comment #7352855
View the source.
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Comment #7296950
You'd have trouble finding someone willing to do most of the work of writing a game and especially the artwork. You're in luck though! The game is popular enough that someone else …
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Comment #7102173
Hmmm... Adblock Edge ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ ) with one of the privacy filter lists ( https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/ ) would do in that…
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Comment #7102074
Use a privacy plugin for your browser e.g. Disconnect ( https://disconnect.me/ ).
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Comment #6970037
I'm actively trying not to spend too much time reading other people's opinions on the internet these days, it's such a time sink and you do come away with such a negative opinion o…
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Comment #6547504
I use "Adblock Edge" as an alternative. It's basically a fork of adblock plus but without the "acceptable ads" feature.
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Comment #6256295
Seems decent. Thoughts: * Lose the background image. A plain background is fine. * "You have punched out for the day". Okay? But it's a button, do I press it? What do I do with it?…
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Comment #6120072
It's easy to get excited, but I remember the hype surrounding the Segway.
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Comment #5824715
Headlines with "Emotional" and "So Eloquent" are the new "L@@K! Must See!"
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Ask HN: What have you spent your training budget on?
For the last 10 years or so, I've been a web developer using Python, CSS, HTML and Javascript on Linux and for the first time, I've been offered a training budget! So I'm looking f…
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Comment #5331870
Works right away now thanks!
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Comment #5331195
Maybe it's just me, but the requestAnimationFrame code fails in Firefox unless they're all prefixed with 'window.' It probably works straight away in Chrome because requestAnimatio…
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Comment #4910042
I assume they're sorted by the number of downloads from the Python packaging index (PyPI). Tornado might be one of those packages people install from their distro's package or down…
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Comment #4664220
To be fair, Drupal et al. are great for throwing at non-technical users and letting them create their own content.
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Comment #4659737
He claims a Perl script that found computers with default or blank passwords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon#Statements_to_th...
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Comment #4543066
The latest XKCD comic features a panel which you drag around to explore a world. This is that map of that panel.