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prairiedock

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    Comment #18185891

    My main dislike is a technical feature: that every response to a comment does not link back to the parent comment. This often makes discussions difficult to follow. (Indentation he…

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    Comment #18079469

    You don't need the extension to get the benefit. Just go to https://outline.com

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    Comment #17885088

    If you read the article, you will find that they do propose to make daylight saving time (they call it "summer time") permanent.

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    Comment #14679502

    The only interesting question here is: why isn't he (Khosla) in jail?

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    Comment #13838938

    Can anyone explain why all authentication systems don't enforce a (say) 2-second delay on repeated password attempts? Wouldn't this solve nearly all insufficient entropy problems? …

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    Comment #13305895

    Seconded. Their statistics without Chrome OS are of little interest, and a distortion of actual desktop trends.

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    Comment #12932151

    It's not advanced, it's not long enough, and it's not correct either. > This will set the value of TMP to `/tmp/myproject` only if it has not been set. This should read "if", not "…

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    Comment #9305868

    You'll be glad to know that in GO, the ancient Japanese game which is played with black and white stones on a cross-hatched board, black goes first and has the advantage.

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    Comment #7374186

    I Looked at the site for z.m.l ( http://www.z-m-l.com/ ). It doesn't seem to do math, so it's a nonstarter. BTW, Pandoc (which does do LaTeX math) really needs no improvement, only…

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    Comment #6213420

    This thing is dead in the water, IMO. I just tried to contribute (more than enough to get a phone) and discovered a Paypal account is required. (Over my dead body.) I would have be…

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    Comment #5525316

    "it does what currency should do, which is increase in value over time." What utter rubbish. Bitcoin may or may not survive (as a volatile commodity, like gold), but you buy it now…

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    Comment #5423465

    Chromebooks out of the box lack any kind of straightforward text editor which will edit local files and/or files on Google Drive. (Google Drive is much more convenient to use on ch…

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    Comment #4196277

    You haven't been following Apple's lawsuits against Samsung much, have you?

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    Comment #4042566

    familiar? have? number? Don't think so...