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Most people use screen readers because it is much much faster than braille displays. Especially since most blind users speed up the screen reader speech rate very high. If you are …

Jekyll is easier to get started with. If you know ruby, middleman can be very powerful if not it can be a pain.

It isn't silentbanned but slowbanned, hacker news gets very very slow and almost impossible to use unless you wait the very long times to post your dead comment.

Can you remove position:fixed from the header css, it makes more sense when that theme is used as a doc but for a blog it is unnecessary.

That isn't commonplace in the US which I assume that is where he is from considering the whois info. In fact it would probably be much more expensive here. The main choices probabl…

Same, but I use http://www.keepassx.org/ as it works better with linux.

Differential equations has its uses within specific fields. If you want to do anything involving control systems or robotics it would be good to have a background that includes dif…

It is probably hard for people to give you recommendations if you don't give any details about your usage. But I've used maxcdn[1] before but they seem to have changed their pricin…

To give an example of what the increased land area leads to: I get 1Mbit/s down and 0.5Mbit/s up for the same price that my uncle in the city gets 40Mbit/s down and 8Mbit/s up. The…

Fremont is a terrible DC for linode and it sucks if you are not aware of that when you buy a vps from them but I use the Dallas DC and haven't had any major problems to speak of in…

Probably because google doesn't make it's money directly from the majority of people using it's services. And those that do pay do get support http://support.google.com/adwords/ans…

It uses mathematica's syntax.

That's because you have OSX font rendering, here is what it looks like on ubuntu: http://i.imgur.com/YysUNuX.png I'd hate to see what it looks like on windows (especially chrome wh…

You'd be surprised at how many engineering companies (research and otherwise) use Excel. I'd argue that it is used more than Matlab or any other programming language/environment in…

I pay for fastmail, but there was a workaround where if you signed up for GAE with your domain you could get 1 free account. (Don't know if that still works) I believe microsofts o…

It isn't the scantily clad women necessarily it is that they are really the only registrar people can think of when they want to get their own domain because godaddy is the only do…

I guessed microsoft correctly (because of the flatness) but the rest I had no clue.

It's not just you, I recently used a SIII and it is giagantic compared to my iphone 4 which makes it difficult to use. (And I don't have stubby fingers).

Some of us just use our name for email. (Though I have no A/AAAA records).

I think its the blogspot theme with the gears in a box that your thinking of. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ It isn't the same but Mega uses their animation in the same way.