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vlad003

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    Comment #9267300

    Can you link to the example? I've been interested in doing something like this, but as far as I can tell, you can only read messages using the Graph API; there's no method for send…

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    Comment #9129110

    Can I just add $$x^2$$ to my text and have KaTeX render it automatically (like MathJax does), or do I have to use katex.render() directly?

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    Comment #9092018

    You can have something like this in your .bashrc: multitail() { com="tail -f " for arg; do IFS=':' read -a array This will take the host:file syntax of remtail and turn it into Plu…

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    Comment #9031982

    That's because the element only contains "LKML: " on the thread, and "LKML.ORG - the Linux Kernel Mailing List Archive" on the main page. Maybe they forgot to keep the "unofficial"…

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    Comment #9013292

    It's possible the false sense of security is worth more than people think. It lets them say "hey, we tried".

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    Comment #9013275

    I'm not sure what the benefit of HTML5 video is if you still end up being forced to use some proprietary component. You ditch Flash but now you have to run some DRM software. And t…

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    Comment #8829091

    It looks like it's unstable. I can connect to it occasionally but most of the time Firefox is saying the connection was reset.

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    Comment #8806114

    I think that probably falls under "launch other executable code".

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    Comment #8798589

    I don't know Perl, so I rewrote it in Python in an attempt to understand what's going on: [link redacted] I'm not storing key,value pairs for elements that don't exist (not sure wh…

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    Comment #8731525

    Oddly enough, if you search for "test", you do get results. Nothing else works, though.

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    Comment #8650629

    Scroll up. The conversation is above the linked tweet.

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    Comment #8615496

    He means separate from Gmail.

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    Comment #8375487

    On Ubuntu, since 6.10, Dash has been the default system shell rather than Bash. '/bin/sh' symlinks to '/bin/dash'.

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    Comment #8346552

    It looks like the OpenID Foundation considers OpenID 2.0 obsolete and OpenID Connect is the new thing: http://openid.net/developers/specs/

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    Comment #8103328

    Conveniently enough, I just generated myself a pdf of it: [link redacted]

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    Comment #8039695

    I find it much easier to read when the text is in columns of that width (like newspaper) than when it's full width. According to Wikipedia, it's actually recommended to put your co…

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    Comment #8029920

    My understanding is that the Raspberry Pis are intended to be used in education. The front page says: "We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn how computer…

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    Comment #8023348

    Since you can't escape the problem, maybe it might be a good idea for sites like these to make it clear where the ads are. Something similar to the yellow/orange Ad tag on Google S…

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    Comment #6493396

    It is the concern of the middle men, though. If content providers aren't willing to provide content, then the middle men will have no reason to exist. You can't have Netflix withou…

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    Comment #5412803

    You don't have to. You can use a username.

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    Comment #4399509

    > The only major issue facing Linux users these days, except perhaps printing, is wireless networking and sometimes even getting wired connections to work. I never have had a probl…

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    Comment #4399477

    Amusing thing is the original was drawn by hand, so it likely didn't have all those ratios calculated accurately: http://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_desig...

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    Comment #4374112

    Magnet links take up much less space and it's much easier to mirror TPB