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Precisely. I lost interest in Obama as a presidential candidate when in 2008 as senator he voted to renew the Patriot Act[1]. [1]Clinton Slams Obama for Voting “for” the PATRIOT Ac…

If you follow the author's link and download the font, there are three separate available fonts: Ivo_Lvl1-Normal.otf, Ivo_Lvl2-Normal.otf and Ivo_Lvl3-Normal.otf. The graphic you l…

God I hate leaf blowers. Interestingly when I went to Beijing recently I was pleasantly surprised at the absence of noisy gardening machines. The streets were much cleaner there an…

Actually, of the the examples mentioned in the article, I preferred the text the Bad Quarto over the Folio. For instance the reversal of roles between the sentinels in the opening …

I haven't used fish, but I'm curious about the auto-completion/history magic. Is it similar to dynamic-complete-history(CTRL-META-i) in bash?

Same here. I hadn't heard anything about him in years until 2014 when he took on the task of converting the Emacs code base to git. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2…

I am a software developer and "technical user". I don't care about new features. I tried switching from OO to LO and my experience was that it is full of bugs and not 100% compatib…

My experience with Magit: I played around with it, and didn't see any advantage over using git commands. Then I tried pushing a change. I was expecting some confirmation on what re…

I tried installing TextSecure recently but it wouldn't work without the Google Play services. I hadn't herd of their new app Signal. Has anyone tried it? I'm really interested in h…

I had the same experience. I am using CyanogenMod as well and as much as I dislike Google I did install the Play services. I can't even remember why but I think I needed it to use …

No this is completely wrong. Look up Title IX. It's the reason the university I went to e.g. had a women's swim team but not a men's team.

Totally agree. I saw 'time.com' and didn't even bother clicking. Somewhat related: I also skip over any links to paywalled sites(nytimes, wsj, etc...).

Yeah. For example: $ git branch fireos $ git branch fireos/feature-branch error: unable to create directory for .git/refs/heads/fireos/feature-branch fatal: Failed to lock ref for …

This looks like a set of notes that are mostly correct but encourage bad practices. I think it's because they author doesn't understand git and doesn't know what they are doing. >A…

"Linux for human beings" No thanks. I'll take the distro for power users. Seriously they did so many things to screw everything up.

Very nice! I notice that some bugs have been fixed since I last tried the latest development version(~4 months ago). I really like the enhancement to C-x TAB to use the arrow keys …

But do they make a positive or a negative difference? I would argue that my father had a negative influence. Mom wasn't really good or bad so I'd say she didn't make a difference. …

Corporate gateway seems to not like this domain: This web site ( www.kfirlavi.com ) has been blocked because it has been determined by Web Reputation Filters to be a security threa…

Did that also happen in Cryptonomicon? I believe the parent was thinking of Operation Mincemeat: http://history.writingwithtony.com/2008/05/27/tries-spies-an... https://en.wikipedi…

They probably got what they deserved. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/30/everest-climber...

Same problem on windows. I installed the latest version and it's perpetually using 0.03 percent CPU with stack: wow64cpu.dll!TurboDispatchJumpAddressEnd+0x6c0 wow64cpu.dll!TurboDis…

I've been grabbing the nightly builds and installing them on my phone for a while now. http://nightlies.videolan.org/

I just updated from 2.0.8 and already notice a lot of improvements in 2.1.0. Pause/play and start/stop used to result in some unpleasant audible artifacts. Sounds much cleaner now.…

Last time I checked, Apple's QuickTime Player was able to do this. There's even an option to show frame numbers in place of units of time in the UI.