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sdx23

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    Comment #19607437

    http://scholar.google.com has the full-text pdf if you put in the title.

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    Comment #19595677

    Nokia N9 and its OS: Meego. Imho this was in so many aspects "UX just done right".

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    Comment #18222213

    You can build slim frontends that barely put load on the server. Or you can build fullblown monsters that put "a bit more" load on the server (and the browser). So, it's not only n…

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    Comment #18131941

    I really don't understand modern web development. If people would build websites without shit, they wouldn't need stuff like this.

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    Comment #17993373

    Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. I'm surprised nobody mentioned it yet. It made me reconsider quite a few things.

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    Comment #17993354

    Multiplier effects are the one thing. Personal choices are the other. Everyone can make concious decisions about: - transportation, especially flying, - food, especially eating mea…

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    Comment #17945311

    So true. Even for wikipedia (which is not that bad at all) from a readability viewpoint it still gets better using the mobile version. Compare e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

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    Comment #17945289

    Beg your pardon: You say "essential features" and your page lists things like "Animated anchor links". In my humble opinion the problem is the common misconception of what is "esse…

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    Comment #17940378

    less bad? To me it's awful with the different thicknesses (not sure, perhaps something is broken with how it's rendered here). https://i.imgur.com/e3KUUuY.png

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    Comment #17940033

    So there is no (electric) brake energy recorvery? I find this surprising; especially for newer carts I'd presume that'd be default.

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    Comment #17685954

    > We need faster network and faster websites. We need less bullshit on websites, that'd solve both problems. See e.g. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/229533/20180606/thanks-to..…

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    Comment #17685944

    > screws up my carefully constructed window layout. To me this is off. With a tiling window manager I don't have to "carefully construct" a window layout. That's the window manager…

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    Comment #17181918

    Your site is broken, does not work without JS.

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    Comment #16294569

    Bitcoin will be doing something for a few years. Possibly high volatility which continuously decreases. But with a few peaks of excitement (positive and negative) when breakthrough…

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    Comment #14248727

    Fix your crappy website that has no content without javascript and I may stop instantly dismissing it.

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    Comment #13529426

    The keyword is "default mode network". You finde quite some publications on the effects of meditation on it: https://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=default+mode+network+med...

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    Comment #13469560

    Beware the usage of the term "speed of light" here. There is two things: the phase velocity and the group velocity.

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    Comment #13369019

    Sadly, the website doesn't show anything without JS.

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    Comment #13186659

    In what world is: def square(n): return n * n ... easier for a beginner to understand than: square n = n * n

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    Comment #13007473

    This is totally in accordance with: "Work expands so as to fill the time avaible for its completion." - which I found to be very true. I'm so much more productive, when time restri…

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    Comment #12992517

    "Importantly, because it is learned, it is configured to exploit structure in the training domain." Interesting concept. An algorithm that learns specifically how to better learn o…

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    Comment #12943770

    I don't really see, why I'd install something from some github repository if I can get it from a moreutils package that I like to have installed anyway.

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    Comment #12898358

    Also some of the reasons why nginx doesn't support .htaccess files to begin with.

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    Comment #12890946

    It does. Look Hveragerði: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMPE5W_Tomato_Greenhouses...