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fiveFeet··on How Amazon Plans To Use Whole Foods to Dominate the Retail Industry
A bit off topic but I wish the Costco membership had something like "Amazon Prime Video" for watching movies.
fiveFeet··on MoviePass has changed people’s moviegoing habits
Moviepass or not, I would like to see a theater which sells concessions at reasonable prices.
fiveFeet··on Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26
Would you recommend it compared to feedly?
fiveFeet··on Trump Issues Order to Block Broadcom’s Takeover of Qualcomm
This whole episode showed how important Qualcom is for United States national security. It still looks like a potential acquisition target with a price tag set by Broadcom. If Intel acquires Broadcom (thus making it an American company) then it may go after Qualcom. Otherwise, Intel or someone with deep pockets may also try to acquire Qualcom directly.
fiveFeet··on Ask HN: What tools have most helped your day-to-day productivity?
gitlab projects - for todo lists, notes etc., (so they can be accessed everywhwere)

pycharm - for editing python programs

Zim - for wiki style editing

vim - for remote files, non python files etc., where pycharm is not option

fiveFeet··on Dick's Sporting Goods to immediately stop selling assault rifles in its stores
You raise an interesting point. Their press release claims that they had removed assault-style rifles from all DICK’S stores after the Sandy Hook massacre and that they are now removing them at all 35 Field & Stream stores.

http://pressroom.dicks.com/press-information/media-statement...

But if they just renamed the store and started going back on their promises, that is bad.

fiveFeet··on Google Shopping now returns no results for searches containing “gun”
Hopefully they will take care of this loophole as they improve the algorithm.
fiveFeet··on Google Shopping now returns no results for searches containing “gun”
I love it. Thank you, Google! A lot of other tech companies - Paypal, Square, Stripe and Apple pay announced years ago that they would not allow their services to be used for the sale of firearms.

I hope other companies like Amazon, visa, master card will follow your footsteps.

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Yes. But how do you make the government do it?
fiveFeet··on Buy Now, Pay Later Helps JAB Billionaires Build Beverage Empire
Thank you. I wish there is an automated way to get a "TL; DR" version of a page. These bloomberg, wsj, nytimes articles are lengthy with very little useful information.
fiveFeet··on Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
Does anyone know of a similar project for editing mediawiki files?
fiveFeet··on Moving efficiently in the CLI
The diagram is awesome! It helps in remembering these shortcuts better.
fiveFeet··on Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?
I use vim <http://www.vim.org/> and zim <http://zim-wiki.org> to maintain my collection of notes which are primarily text. Both tools work well on Linux and Windows.

Zim is great if you need some type of markup (ex:- hyper links, bullet points etc.,). Vim is great for plain text.

If the notes are private but need to be shared across multiple machines, I create a private gitlab project.

If the notes are public, I either create a github project or put them on a public wiki where only I can edit. For the public wiki, I am using an account on shoutwiki <http://www.shoutwiki.com> .

fiveFeet··on Ask HN: What product/service would you be willing to pay for?
Good to know but it is a no go since WhatApp is ending support for BlackBerry on Dec 31st, 2017. https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000617/WhatsApp-support-for-mobi... . May be it is time for me to move away from Blackberry altogether.
fiveFeet··on Big Tech Is Going After Health Care
I am all for it if someone can make the doctors use emails instead of faxes.
fiveFeet··on Ask HN: Babies and screen time?
Our pediatrician's recommendation is to limit it to 2 hours a day.
fiveFeet··on Ask HN: What product/service would you be willing to pay for?
An app/service which provides the location of one mobile phone to another mobile phone. It should work across different manufacturers (iphone <-> blackberry), across different service providers (verizon <-> t-mobile).
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