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No, although I subscribed the first time. I read it here ;-)

Hebrew has a vocalization system to signal it, though (for educational purpose, for example).

Thanks, that post was fantastic. Having the arabic words in larger font size would have been great, though - really hard to look at them and spot the differences in that size (and …

Nice design! The examples colorings look a bit too much like done by an illustrator though, is this targeted for kids ?

Firefox 18 is going to be 23% faster than Chrome 34

Irrelevant love will be deleted, though.

I doubt that, and there is also a EU interface to VAT ID confirmation that is 24/7.

"Asia and the rise of convenient authoritarianism" ;-)

Interesting - bit close to Russia, though ;-)

Nice, thx. Looks pretty easy (not sure how complicated or detailled the verificion of the individual points would be, though).

Is your country's tax system easy to understand ? In particular, for people who work on their own or as entrepreneurs. Just out of curiosity. I'm german, and we produce more than h…

Experts got replaced by administrative bureaucrats who delete other peoples knowledge and work.

Siemens astroturfing http://geniusnow.com/2011/03/15/the-strange-case-of-josef-oe...

The blog post by that 'MIT PhD' seems to be a case of Siemens astroturfing: http://geniusnow.com/2011/03/15/the-strange-case-of-josef-oe...

Down ?

Hm, to me the value proposition is this: There are many, many interesting projects that I want to look at, read, potentially use or learn from. Every little help for reading and un…

The fact that cs is doing this 'the right way', meaning safe for all environments, as you have explained below, is one of the reasons I like it.

I have to say that by using cs I learned a lot more about js. Maybe for old js cats it doesnt matter, but I only used js occasionally before, and now it became one of my favorite l…

Can't wait for the result. Seriously..

This electronic communication thing seems to be a western myth, the protests took place throughout a week of cut down internet. It's just how we currently observe it, but that does…

Yes, I can confirm that it's surprisingly easy to run git with gitosis over ssh on your own server for a few dollars. Takes a couple of minutes to setup. And of course you can make…

I always ran into problems when doing full screen applications like aptitude (over ssh) and vim in iTerm1, so I had to switch back to Terminal.app - I hope it is fixed now, and I'l…

I know that they are there - as I figured out when visiting it the first time. Just takes a bit to find it ;-)