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minivan··on Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook
Here's a youtube promo video for those of us in Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umhPrOo47-A

The link in the post redirects to the Google store that only shows a Chromecast. Oh well.

minivan··on Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed
"o>-<|= for messages of interest to women"

I'm glad we are past that.

minivan··on Russia bans Reddit
Interestingly, the post is 2 years old, has one single comment by the OP. The user didn't have any other contributions to Reddit other than that.

The sub itself was created by the same user two years ago and had no activity.

minivan··on Wanna know what product your competitor is working on? Try Slack
Yes, even test@example.com works!
minivan··on Juno: A free environment for the Julia language
This is great, as it really lowers the barrier of entering Julia.

It also offers a level of exploration (with the in-place results), which is a neat thing for students – I've found that interactive environments generate interesting solutions to otherwise boring problems. I'm currently trying to replace Matlab as the language I use in our university's Probability class and Juno adds to "why use Julia" argument :)

Thanks!

minivan··on NPR One
Cool, hopefully it will replace the All Songs Considered audio stream (which is great).

Side note: Is it just me, or this "scroll to reveal stuff in steps" is a bit frustrating? It seems to be used more and more often and I am sometimes puzzled by the fact that I'm missing the scrolling step. I try scrolling and get either too far (which shows half an image coming from above) or don't get anywhere (which makes me scroll more and skip steps). Here's an example: http://www.spendeeapp.com/

Am I doing something wrong?