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elias94

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    Comment #34433230

    Other than having more than $350M of founds, the Wikimedia Foundation has started selling Wikipedia data to private companies (like Google) via Wikimedia Enterprise [1]. The open k…

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    Comment #34433189

    Wikimedia Foundation has around $350M of founds while the website expenses has been estimated around ~$10M per year. It could be run for more than 25 years without any money. The W…

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    Comment #34412931

    I would suggest Practical Common Lisp https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ You will create a MP3 database, a web server, a spam filter, a HTML generator. Really practical!

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    Comment #34310166

    Books are curated content that has been reviewed by editors and are usually well written. Better if the books is printed by a relevant publishing company and even better if the boo…

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    Comment #34298019

    Unfortunately users reviews are generally pretty useless. And the experts reviews are absent or difficult to find online, because there's not a real incentive for them to share it.…

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    Comment #34173709

    1. don't use Kindle since it lock you to use a proprietary format made by Amazon. Use a Kobo for example 2. buy ebook in a open format like .epub 3. buy physical copies as an alter…

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    Comment #32354370

    https://tryclojure.org/ in case you want to try it!

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    Comment #32339760

    > has been upwards of 15 queries per second from bots What type of queries are they generating? For what purpose are querying Marginalia? Scraping and filling internal search engin…

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    Comment #32287331

    Hey, here is the author of the accent package. It was my first extension that wrote after 1 week on starting using Emacs. ELisp is really great! MacOS menu for accented characters …

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    Ask HN: Why physics students are usually great software engineers?

    I met multiple physics PhD that transitioned to data science or software engineering with great results, despite their initial interest in another kind of science. Why physics stud…

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    Comment #32021509

    48MB? Nowadays laptop are sold with 500GB SSD and minimum of 16GB or RAM. What matters are the performances. The JVM outperforms all the electron and JS app out there. I would much…

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    Comment #32008781

    I got hypnotised

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    Comment #31986885

    I doubt anything interesting will came out from that expensive series. They're doing it for the money, not for the product. And that as always be a clear indicator of a low quality…

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    Comment #31432688

    If you are a developer, why not create your own blog? - github, or even better sourcehut as a repo + hosting - buy a domain for $10/y - hugo, jekyll (org-mode for pro) it will take…

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    Comment #31049196

    Thanks for the comment. I downloaded both and I'm really impressed.

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    Comment #30929414

    I love org-mode, but the lack of mobile is really a wall for me. I need the flexibility to add notes in a second from my mobile (without emacs server etc). I switched to Bear atm, …

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    Comment #30762867

    Another solution has been implemented in Marginalia. Notes near complete source code. source code: https://github.com/gdeer81/marginalia example: http://gdeer81.github.io/marginali…

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    Comment #30478936

    I’m the only one that saw Loom having access to the webcam in the article? Loom can open your webcam and record you audio if they want… So grammarly is offering this service thanks…

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    Comment #30436002

    Thanks mate, really good material!

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    Comment #30435987

    Read Clojure Distilled and try to complete all the Clojure Koans. 1. https://yogthos.net/ClojureDistilled.html 2. http://clojurekoans.com/

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    Comment #30427330

    Netlify took a bit to get the certificate but now is redirecting correctly! Thanks