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Right, if Google doesn't think you are in the US, you won't be able to download Voice from Play. Which is really annoying if you actually are in the US... I had to deal with this p…

The git-config man page[1] is probably the best resource. The list of options is in the configuration file section under 'Variables'. [1] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gi…

It was specifically an IE7 tax by a company called Kogan: http://www.kogan.com/au/blog/new-internet-explorer-7-tax/ . And here's the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

You mean like this? http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/

http://research.google.com For reference, I googled "research at google".

It's also not very sophisticated last I checked. Just change the extension.

Many ad networks[1] do already provide an opt out mechanism. You look for a blue icon[2] in the corner of the ad, which if you click it should take you to an opt out page. I dug a …

"GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, breaks existing scripts": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4295681

This part jumped out at me: "As a solution, Gelernter proposes moving all of human knowledge to online servers so that the in-person college experience can be replaced by user-driv…

Here's what they have to say regarding browsers: https://mega.co.nz/#blog_1 Basically, only Chrome seems to be supported because it is "the most advanced browser currently in exist…

It's a redirect to that domain.

You can enable it in the control panel, under 'Organization & users'. It's listed as Google+ but appears alphabetically after all the other Google things.

System requirements and incomplete list of supported android devices: http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/812...

As always, there's an xkcd for that: http://xkcd.com/465/

You can use Google's cache of the page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... Clicking on the current page link should still allow you to read the page to…

They plan to launch food supplies to Mars in 2016, 7 years before sending the astronauts and 2 years before they've even scouted out where to establish a settlement. I don't unders…

"Never send the user a new password over email." This is what HN does right now. I know, because I forgot my password just yesterday.

I liked http://gitref.org when I started with git. I find it's a good quick reference to common git commands so you can quickly get up and running with git. The rest of learning gi…

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