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nathyong

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    Comment #30680663

    You can disable the feature by the following about:config setting: browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar

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    Comment #26393722

    Updating a cell in Excel is a CPU round trip, whereas updating a cell in Sheets is a network round trip. An operation that touches as few as 1000 lines (e.g. autofill a large range…

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    Comment #16444127

    By default the key bindings are cmd+ctrl+opt+{h,j,k,l} to move windows around left/down/up/right respectively.

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    Comment #15783557

    You can actually search for ' -l' (two spaces in front) and abuse the man layout engine to find the point at which the flag itself is defined. Makes the man pages a lot more useful…

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    Comment #15774331

    I don't know where this was when I was searching for alternatives to vimperator, but thanks so much for mentioning vim-vixen. It seems like it's just a port of the parts of vimpera…

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    Comment #15506803

    You might not know this, but you don't need to go through the Preferences panel. You can use the `say` command from the command line, which uses the same engine, but you can pipe t…

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    Comment #13892839

    Looks like some of your text got a little mutilated by the pseudo-markdown parser; perhaps copying that into a gist or paste would be better? I'm really curious what some of what y…

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    Comment #13314032

    A more relevant point that would disqualify Haskell is the fact that its runtime (or rather, the GHC's runtime) is nowhere near predictable enough for the realtime guarantees that …

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    Comment #11461326

    It's possible your shell has some kind of regular expression magic enabled that is eating the '?' and the '=' characters: $ echo youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=wbKJt1…

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