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obel1x

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obel1x··on macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
When you are selecting an area you can hold option when dragging to move the top and left sides of the rectangle. This is useful to select exactly the right area.
obel1x··on Prime members bristle at Whole Foods’ $9.95 delivery surcharge: ‘It’s just rude’
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
obel1x··on Show HN: A single command terminal configuration installer
sounds useful. i cd often. can you expand on your bookmarking system?
obel1x··on What Dockless Bikes and Scooters Are Exposing
There is also Zipcar Flex in London. You can park the cars in on-street parking, even paid or residents bays. But they have only agreed it with some councils so far. Map: https://www.zipcar.co.uk/takethebluepin#zipzone-map
obel1x··on For as Much as We Know About the World, There Are Still Dark Spots on the Map
It doesn't say that all land is discovered. It only shows data about oceans; it's called "Unknown Oceans" and shows data from the Census of Marine Life.
obel1x··on Hasse diagram of the 2008 Olympic medal table
why does allocating "pi^2 for a gold, pi for a silver and 1 for a bronze" mean "there could never be any tie in the total scores except when two countries had exactly the same medal counts in all three categories"?
obel1x··on iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta
the linked filename says v2.9?
obel1x··on Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android
Initiative taken! :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alphabet-incs-goog...

obel1x··on It is now easy to edit the genomes of plants, animals and humans
There was a great talk on the topic of CRISPR-Cas9 at the Hacker News London meet up this month by Edward Perello. Video is here: https://vimeo.com/137001197. It's a good introduction to the topic from a hacker's perspective.
obel1x··on How I killed app sales by going freemium
This got me thinking about something.

What's to stop an unscrupulous developer selling an app for, say, $1.99 with the (implied) promise that the app will work forever and then, once people have bought it, turning off the backend so it no longer works?

Is this illegal? Would Apple shut down the developer's account?

obel1x··on Japanese Change Trays
In the bar I used to work in we used to give the change to customers on a tray to prompt the customer to give us a tip. So I always assume that's why they are being used.
obel1x··on Show HN: Lambda Chat – A dynamic web app using AWS Lambda
Which part of the architecture causes the latency? The author says it's between 2 and 13 seconds and is faster the more users there are - why would that be the case?