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Most people use screen readers because it is much much faster than braille displays. Especially since most blind users speed up the screen reader speech rate very high.

If you are an emacs user check out emacspeak: http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

Windows there are many options.

NVDA is the most used free one: http://www.nvda-project.org/

JAWS is highly used but expensive: http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/jaws-product-pa...

For mac there is voiceover (included in OSX): http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/

Chrome and ChromeOS have chromvox: http://www.chromevox.com/ but that is more for web.

Linux the most popular is orca for gnome desktop: http://projects.gnome.org/orca/

Jekyll is easier to get started with.

If you know ruby, middleman can be very powerful if not it can be a pain.

It isn't silentbanned but slowbanned, hacker news gets very very slow and almost impossible to use unless you wait the very long times to post your dead comment.

Can you remove position:fixed from the header css, it makes more sense when that theme is used as a doc but for a blog it is unnecessary.

That isn't commonplace in the US which I assume that is where he is from considering the whois info.

In fact it would probably be much more expensive here.

The main choices probably are a family member picking up groceries for you, or a small market which still can deliver groceries, I know mine stopped offering delivery around 5 years ago because the community size grew so much.

Same, but I use http://www.keepassx.org/ as it works better with linux.

Differential equations has its uses within specific fields.

If you want to do anything involving control systems or robotics it would be good to have a background that includes differential equations.

Anything related to kinematics usually involves differential equations as well.

As for compsci outside of controls and robotics you see diff eq a lot less.

It is probably hard for people to give you recommendations if you don't give any details about your usage.

But I've used maxcdn[1] before but they seem to have changed their pricing recently, but they do allow you to pay upfront and they do email out cheaper deals about every month for large-ish amounts (5TB and up).

[1]: http://www.maxcdn.com/

To give an example of what the increased land area leads to: I get 1Mbit/s down and 0.5Mbit/s up for the same price that my uncle in the city gets 40Mbit/s down and 8Mbit/s up.

The reason is that I live in a rural area about 20-30 miles from major cities. If you go another 10 miles your only option is satellite or dial-up (if you have phone lines to your house).

Fremont is a terrible DC for linode and it sucks if you are not aware of that when you buy a vps from them but I use the Dallas DC and haven't had any major problems to speak of in quite a long time (at least 5 AWS outages or more).

Probably because google doesn't make it's money directly from the majority of people using it's services.

And those that do pay do get support http://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1385067?hl=en

And I believe there is some support for apps for business.

It uses mathematica's syntax.

That's because you have OSX font rendering, here is what it looks like on ubuntu: http://i.imgur.com/YysUNuX.png

I'd hate to see what it looks like on windows (especially chrome which makes fonts even thinner).

You'd be surprised at how many engineering companies (research and otherwise) use Excel. I'd argue that it is used more than Matlab or any other programming language/environment in some fields (like Mech Eng).

Now that is just a small subset of all the little corporations that use it for bookkeeping and what else (those could probably get by with libreoffice) and every other major company in the world.

Microsoft was also smart in moving to docx and xlsx because libreoffice doesn't support that very well and now has an even better reason for people to avoid switching, I'd like to assume they don't support the open formats for this same reason.

I pay for fastmail, but there was a workaround where if you signed up for GAE with your domain you could get 1 free account. (Don't know if that still works)

I believe microsofts offer costs similar to the google apps.

It isn't the scantily clad women necessarily it is that they are really the only registrar people can think of when they want to get their own domain because godaddy is the only domain registrar that advertises on tv.

I guessed microsoft correctly (because of the flatness) but the rest I had no clue.

It's not just you, I recently used a SIII and it is giagantic compared to my iphone 4 which makes it difficult to use. (And I don't have stubby fingers).

Some of us just use our name for email. (Though I have no A/AAAA records).

I think its the blogspot theme with the gears in a box that your thinking of.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

It isn't the same but Mega uses their animation in the same way.

I think the ribbon is okay. I had just as hard a time finding things in Word/Excel 2003 as I did in Word/Excel 2007 but after a while the design started to make sense. I still had to google things but I also had that problem with the older versions.

Word 2007 worked much better for mathematical documents than 2003 and once you learned the shortcuts (it even allows some tex like functionality) short reports work out much faster than emacs+auctex or lyx while still looking generally good.

Soda is a UI theme not a color scheme.

If you didn't like the UI you could install Soda theme: https://github.com/buymeasoda/soda-theme/

You can use a vim emulation mode in sublime so all your hard work wasn't for nothing but I believe some of the more advanced vim features don't work in sublime.

The advantage of sublime is that it works well out of the box and with package control it is very easy to install any package you may need.

If you decide to give it a try, try sublime 2 with package control (I believe the trial is still free for sublime 2).

You're confused about how gplv2 works, Genesis gives you the source code and you are free to distribute it if you'd like, or alter it, but they don't have to distribute it for free.

You can read more about this kind of thing here: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Kind of like debian stable and debian testing relationship.

Ubuntu iso's can be dd'd onto a usb stick as well as fedora.

Very cool, this could be what svbtle should have been.

If you implement the things like trending and subdomain user blogs (with things like domain hosting add-ons in the future) I could see it being a very useful blogging alternative.

Nice work.

Go with wordpress, even going with wordpress.com would be a good idea just pay the cheap fee to host your domain there (and maybe pay for ad-free total would be $40/year).

It is ridiculous to me that people view public web pages as something that shouldn't be archived, if anything it provides illuminating snapshots to the state of the web at certain dates.

The archive.org team does follow robots.txt and I believe they remove content retroactively meaning if you update your site with a robots.txt it will delete the old content (which I think sucks).