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Thank you for all the details and suggestions!

Can you describe your setup please? I've been thinking about moving the family members off Gmail a lot lately.

Yes, Viridis is quantifiably better than Parula, as the talk shows, but Parula comes with the standard Matlab, and the jump from Jet to Parula was of such a tremendous magnitude th…

I am not colorblind, but work with data visualization in Matlab a lot. This hilarious SciPy2015 talk[1] convinced me to switch to the Parula color scheme. There's no way I'm going …

There's a special portal for current events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events .

How many languages do you speak more or less fluently?

All right, since everybody seems to have read the handbook, here's something fresh: Gabe Newell's email [0], taken from today's r/Steam, where he shares his thoughts behind the fla…

Nice try, but you still got an 'e' in your username )

This reminds me of another story by Leo Traynor about troll's victim tracking down and finally meeting the troll: http://www.traynorseye.com/2012/09/meeting-troll.html The massive …

Google's cache does a surprisingly good job with all these fancy video backgrounds: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?ion=1&espv=2&q=...

I think I started to see a lot more submissions with relatively low number of upvotes and even smaller number of comments on the front page.

Just key 'j' followed by 'k'. I have this in my vimrc for quickly jumping out of insert mode: inoremap jk

If you remap Esc to jk you don't even have to lift your fingers.

Yay teen pregnancy!

> Both Surface and One are thus stuck in the middle, appealing to no one. What? Not everyone needs, wants or can afford (hi EU!) Apple devices, which are loosing more and more grou…

Wow, thank you very much for your suggestions and the .els! I guess now I'm really out of excuses not to start with SICP.

Could you please outline your final setup besides using Geiser? I also come from Vim-land, have almost zero experience with Emacs and already understood that, to learn SICP, settin…

Well, I bought a 3-year reserved heavy utilization plan just a couple of hours before these news went live. My pain is about 2 orders of magnitude less than yours, though. I wonder…

Well, this link is also on Reddit's front page now.

>find somebody who will swap wallets with you, so you get coins with completely irrelevant history and no trace of that swap in the blockchain Or use a BTC mixer.

> this is still just a few thousands of extremists being destructive... Most adult people want this to stop and get back to work. I'm not even going to ask you how exactly do you k…

Two things that especially amaze about the actual 'street part' of Ukrainian revolution are complete absence of plundering or looting of local shops and that no firearms have been …