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ubojan

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About ubojan

freelance software developer

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    Comment #11184982

    There's awesome app for Windows Phone called 'Hacky News'. I guess there are similar apps for Android and iPhone.

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    Comment #10099800

    Yup, looks like CA bundle is not installed, causing issues on some browsers: https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=booker....

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    Comment #9045140

    Yes, build quality is really good. I've got model SGK-4040-GKCM1 with brown switches.

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    Comment #9044564

    I have Cooler Master Storm Rapid I mechanical backlit keyboard. It's pretty compact as it doesn't have numerical keyboard. It has nice light effects as it pretty configurable. I am…

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    Comment #7203001

    good news. I hope that new sync feature will work seamlessly and efficiently - I disabled sync about a year ago because browser became sluggish with large number of bookmarks.

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    Comment #7163548

    but you could buy software once and use it for several years, skipping a few versions before upgrade. There are lots of users that don't need latest bells and whistles.

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    Comment #6453622

    I use this tool extensively and it's awesome: http://sprightlysoft.com/s3sync/ It has the same name. Check out -TransferThreads parameter for paralel uploads/downloads (see Documen…

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    Comment #6300766

    This might be workable for some people, I tried DDG and results aren't on the same level. DDG is getting better every day, until then my temporary solution is using "Google proxy" …

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    Comment #6199964

    I have lots of websites hosted on S3 - you can have up to 100 buckets per account and every bucket can be a website. I use different setup - s3sync for syncing and AutoIt script fo…

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    Comment #6174433

    and for Usenet users - there's a group gwene.net.daemonology.hn-daily

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    Comment #5996833

    it's useful to have extension if you want to disable it and temporarily see ads; also it's easy to whitelist ads on particular sites/pages - there are non intrusive and useful ads.…

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    Comment #5895417

    I hope Digg Reader will be simple and usable product, because there aren't many quality replacements for Google Reader. I have to say that I transitioned successfully from Reader t…

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    Comment #5778749

    Firefox on Windows doesn't have this issue. You can fix this issue for classic Opera ( http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=437971&#38... ), but it seems that config m…

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    Comment #5706992

    Yup, this is currently the best and quickest way to fix problems with Firefox. If you set up sync, you can reset browser and reload context (extensions, settings, history, password…

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    Comment #5508507

    I have experienced similar behavior with Firefox on Windows 7 recently. A lot of freezing and slowing down. Then I solved it by removing bookmarks from sync. I have a lot of bookma…

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    Comment #5478962

    Simple and responsive UI, I like this site. Please add favicon for easier bookmark navigation.

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    Comment #5358508

    you can try to reset profile: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fi... Also, AdBlock plus addon for faster and clutterless browsing.

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    Comment #5358485

    I use Scrollbar Search Highlighter: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrollbar-sea... It does pretty good job.

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    Comment #5317930

    that's because you smoked indica instead of sativa.

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    Comment #5167811

    I really like the idea behind this website, there are few interesting topics. One suggestion: in "Select viewport" section add number of upvotes for each viewport (so you don't hav…

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    Comment #5045718

    great idea, I really like this site! I found a little glitch, it happens when image is too high. Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/IzhRF.jpg

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    Comment #4978116

    Because it's easy? I have 100 static websites on S3. After initial setup of buckets, it's trivial to update/sync all of these sites using command line tool (I use S3 Sync) with one…

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    Comment #4892690

    Can we share tips for "feeding" a browser with fake data and keeping some level of anonymity? For example, I noticed that one of the factors for Panopticlick is time zone. This is …

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    Comment #4881392

    He's a troll. Check out Joe Rogan Experience Podcast where he was guest, he explains it in details: http://vimeo.com/54406807

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    Comment #4748397

    if you use Chrome, you can add new search engine (right click on address bar -> Edit search engines, scroll down till end) and paste this into URL query field: https://www.google.c…