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You can't write that kind of comment and not give examples of such places.
Africa has a wide selection of such places, but there is a fairly high chance any 'adventures' may be interrupted by child soldiers.
I have explored 15 countries in about as many months, never seen a single Child soldier.
Please, please don't just parrot things out when you clearly don't know what you are talking about.
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Although I would prefer to be very strongly critical of the corporate model of the distributed operating system, (and particularly I'd like to relate it to Marx's concept of alienation, commodity fetishism and the tighter control of the 'free market of ideas' which turns out to be a 'free market' dominated by monopoly of Google in particular as they freqently turn out to be), I'm not sure what else I would do with a…
I found Zeal to be of some use as you can download a ton of documentation for offline use.
I wonder if someone has written a readthedocs importer for it.
The funny thing is, smartphones are all but useless for many tasks the minute you go into airplane mode. There are exceptions, but you're basically holding a client to a distributed operating system which has appropriated many of the promises of wearable personal computing for corporate profit. So yes, if you've already ceded your right to not be inturupted by running apps like Twitter and Facebook in the background,…
Although I would prefer to be very strongly critical of the corporate model of the distributed operating system, (and particularly I'd like to relate it to Marx's concept of alienation, commodity fetishism and the tighter control of the 'free market of ideas' which turns out to be a 'free market' dominated by monopoly of Google in particular as they freqently turn out to be), I'm not sure what else I would do with a…
There are two issues-- smearing your computer's dev environment across the internet, and making the internet a hard dependency of your mental model for your project.
Downloading all the libs-- environment smearing problem.
Can't debug without SO-- internet dependency problem.
Beauty. Almost a piece of art. I was on a plane yesterday (literally on airplane mode) and I finished a book I've been working on for a month, and prepped/wrote half of a presentation. Quite often I produce much of my writing on a plane. I find myself very productive on a plane. Especially on cheap flights that don't have in-flight entertainment. Literally no distractions for a preset amount of time. You're not only…
Agree 100%. Problem is though that many airline are starting to offer WiFi connectivity. I just hope that they've built shitty systems that won't work most of the time... :)
If so it'd be nice to have an extension or option that goes into offline mode when reader view is triggered.
> your ability to Google something In my opinion, this actually is something that makes me valuable. It doesn't matter how well you can synthesize information if you can't find it in the first place. Having the ability to take a problem, figure out what you don't know, reprocess those parts into a format that Googles™ well, filter out the noise from the results, and only then synthesize the information gathered is ac…
Ctrl+Shift+I on Chrome opens developer tools. There is an "offline" checkbox you can click.
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I find that hard to believe.
And why, would i ask? For instance, I was supposed to be reading an ebook on my iPad, but instead I've been reading this thread for the past half hour...
But that may be just me; I'm always skeptical of statements of the sort of "I turned off internet/facebook/friends/etc. for a year, and look how much different life is". They may be true, but they are not generally true. I use the internet a lot and I also read a lot of paperbacks.
> your ability to Google something In my opinion, this actually is something that makes me valuable. It doesn't matter how well you can synthesize information if you can't find it in the first place. Having the ability to take a problem, figure out what you don't know, reprocess those parts into a format that Googles™ well, filter out the noise from the results, and only then synthesize the information gathered is ac…
I remember times when I had the PHP manual, the HTML reference, etc. saved offline to save bandwidth.