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iTerm2 3.0's tmux integrations take a little bit of work to set up locally, but you only have to do that once, and as long as your remote servers have a reasonably recent version o…

After frustratedly fixing an unsolvable Rubik's cube over Christmas break (my dad thought it'd be funny to "solve" it by peeling off the labels and putting them back on, but got ti…

Every time there's a minor version update I have to remind myself the sequence of upgrade incantations. It's pretty simple, but here's a gist that might help anyone upgrading from …

Another paywall workaround is to use/spoof Google search as your referrer. In Chrome, for example, install the "Referer Control" extension and add an entry for "ft.com", select the…

Interesting proposition though; can Google's search algorithm's ranking be construed as libel or something legal like that? Has anyone ever sued Google for lost business, and won?

I'm sure they did a lot of user testing and decided that their Javascript-powered scrolling mechanism was a better user experience than the default browser behavior of just moving …

You can also request that the Web Archive fetch a URL from their homepage: https://archive.org/web/ ("Save Page Now" in the bottom right). I triggered the 7:09 copy this way; wheth…

It said that before, too — I was paraphrasing. "humb.ly" is a more trustable name than, say, "Megaupload", but they can say whatever they want. What I want is some assurance like "…

Okay, but then the receiver has to know how to decrypt. Kind of narrows down who I can realistically send files to.

tl;dr from the FAQ: Q: "Why should I trust you?" A: "Because you should! We're good people! Honest!" I'd love to trust a service like this, but there's no credible effort to actual…

Maybe they are really short. 30 seconds * 20 => 10 minutes, which seems reasonable.

I'm kind of surprised that Linus uses Gmail. It's likely that he'll actually catch a Googler's attention, but for many of us, user feedback is not an option. @jacquesm's http://jac…

I guess this means that regular expressions are Turing complete, at least until a patch arrives?

Also on github: https://github.com/ivan-tkatchev/yalz77

Is it ironic that this guy bought a domain name specifically for this? or does he just know his audience.

I do. I block Flash in Firefox (v33.1), and it works in Firefox. Chrome (v38.0...) might have some Flash on it somewhere, but it's mostly HTML.

My institution subscribes to Nature, and using my library's proxy to access the Nature website, I can use the "Share/bookmark" menu to generate links like http://rdcu.be/bKk4 , htt…

It makes me sad that asking Google to fix their problem is the best solution Goldman Sachs can come up with. A few other options off the top of my head: * DDoS the gmail account in…

I've heard that before. * Library of Congress: http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/01/update-on-the-twitter-archi... * Twitter Data grants: https://blog.twitter.com/2014/introducing-twit…

Could be part of the game. Bughouse = chess + chess, inb.tw = chess + XSS.

Very cool. @dfkoz, did you do any pre-processing to remove script boilerplate (e.g., I'm looking at Zero Dark Thirty and there's a lot of CUT TO ... CUT TO ... CUT TO) or try to ex…