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as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting Tweets Doesn't that mean tracking?

If you put 'histcontrol=ignorespace' or 'histcontrol=ignoredups' in your ~/.bashrc file it will not record commands that begin with a space [1]. I believe that 'ignoreboth' is the …

It's possible because of the depth. http://rt.com/news/quake-asia-tsunami-warning-729

This is pretty much standard on hardware benchmarking and review sites. I'm not saying that it's a good design, but it's not unique to this site.

when I want something all it takes is a single keypress and to start typing. No navigating an arbitrary hierarchy of menus where how things are filed made sense at the time they we…

will be a free update to Windows 8 for consumers through the Windows Store This could be to get more people to link their Microsoft ID with their Windows user accounts so that they…

Unfortunately the best data I can find are from 2010 [1], but Red Hat only contributes 16.3% of the commits to GNOME. [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/07/28/gnome-census/

The article didn't really explain the justification for the crackdown on Subutex except for the usual "drugs are bad, mmmkay". It seems like Subutex is a good cure for misery witho…

I don't think I'd want to use a domain registrar run by people who think that using the mustache meme on their "About Us" page [1] is professional. I'm not usually prudish about la…

Try installing vim-gtk instead of vim-gnome.

I agree with you. I don't care what the fonts were designed to look like. I only care about readability. The default font settings on Ubuntu hurt my eyes. Thankfully this is easy t…

This is a really important point. TXT files are associated with Notepad by default. If we want README.txt (or README.md/rst/org.txt) files to be read by the least sophisticated use…

For those fortunate Austinites who will face the difficult decision of choosing between two gigabit fiber ISPs: AT&T is a founding member of the Copyright Alert System scheme [1][2…

I agree with you that this is not a good thing, but I don't think changes in language like this ever reverse (similar to generic trademarks).

Here's an example from early 2012 that I don't think would have been possible with Google: http://console-cowboys.blogspot.com/2012/01/trendnet-cameras...

This is different than the Ubuntu proposal. Fedora is not yet shipping Python3 as the default Python interpreter [1]. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python3

Also, make sure your Internet connection is secure. Set up a VPN (or buy from a provider) to be 100% safe.

I hope that part of their follow-up to this includes information about not being able to fully trust that non-encrypted data on SSD drives can be 100% wiped. Users of hosting servi…

Another option is to run setxkbmap after X starts (using a ~/.xinitrc file or your favorite desktop environment's autorun feature. 'setxkbmap -option caps:esc' 'setxkbmap -option c…

If you're an Emacs user, you may want to give Emacs IPython Notebook [1] a try. I suspect that it would solve the keyboard shortcuts issue. [1] http://tkf.github.com/emacs-ipython-…

Would you have started this if dmor was a man? No? Well then you're probably just being sexist and mean.

"The institution’s financial resources are sufficient to sustain the quality of its educational program and to support institutional improvement now and in the foreseeable future. …