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namtrac

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About namtrac

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Recent public activity

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    Show HN: Use your Kindle Dictionaries on desktop

    Hi HN, I wrote a desktop application (works on Linux, macOS and Windows) to use your Kindle dictionaries (either azw or mobi format). To start using it just put your dictionaries u…

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    Comment #15567163

    Any timeline for Python3 support?

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    Comment #13658577

    Since Flash update is now bundled with Windows Updates it means that Edge users will be using vulnerable Flash for one more month, wow :/

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    Comment #13480966

    Well yes it does: https://wiki.winehq.org/Cygwin_and_More

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    Comment #12862890

    Chrome uses Blink which was forked from WebKit long ago, see https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/google-forks-webkit-and-la...

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    Comment #12179582

    Not all cats eat just what they need, one of our cats eat twice the amount of what he needs if he finds food available. That's why this kind of automated feeders makes sense.

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    Comment #11963171

    I sincerely hope Red Hat continues to develop Cygwin further. It's amazing to be able to run my favourite shell on Windows.

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    Comment #11566119

    This is part of llvm trunk (upcoming 3.9 release) now: http://llvm.org/docs/CompileCudaWithLLVM.html

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    Comment #11562757

    We have two cats and pondered about this long time ago. The best resource we found was the BBC documentary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lcqvq also has an e-book http://www.b…

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    Comment #11550706

    Great, would be nice to have and updated clang (seems to be using 3.5.1) and python3 (using 3.4.3). Generally its nice to point out the version of the compiler it's using somewhere…

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    Comment #11481555

    Not really anymore: http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/11/hyping-vulnerabilities-is-n...

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    Comment #11245169

    Also instead of taking over the newtab page it could use it own page :)

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    Comment #11244856

    Very nice! Hopefully it'll support syncing to google user account too.

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    Comment #11139958

    I guess you meant Python 3.4 because 3.5 has no limitation: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.5/Lib/sre_compile.p...

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    Comment #11133075

    This is the only app I miss on Linux, kudos!

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    Comment #11025870

    curl -s whatismyip.akamai.com

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    Comment #10980027

    Sounds nice, do you have it up somewhere?

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    Comment #9869703

    Well in zsh running =scp would run /usr/bin/scp not the alias.

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    Comment #9869536

    alias scp='rsync --archive --compress-level=3 --copy-links --partial --inplace --progress --rsh=ssh -r'

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    Comment #9860008

    OpenVPN already updated: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9900

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    Comment #9857642

    https://twitter.com/agl__/status/619129579580469248

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    Comment #9727861

    Linux support seems to be BETA.

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    Comment #8511230

    doc format is not documented, obviously.

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    Comment #7589216

    Well thank you for ngrok! My daily routine is ngrok start ssh && go home Stupid firewalls.