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u124556··on Ethersheet – An open-source collaborative spreadsheet
I love that it's anonymous. It would be cool if it had a read only version (using a random url) to share. Like piratepad (etherpad) has.
u124556··on DMCA Takedown Notice for Popcorn Time and Time4Popcorn
As the other replies say, git is already decentralized. What we need is a decentralized way to recognize one of those mirrors as the main one. I think gitchain: http://gitchain.org/ was supposed to solve that.
u124556··on Can Google's search engine find profits? (1999)
The search engine didn't find profits. The ad platform did.
u124556··on The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014
No ePubs?
u124556··on The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014
Read two books by him, both had the same exact plot except for locations. There's a man, loses his cat, loses his wife, loses his job, and then there's something magical that is somehow related to the Manchuria war.
u124556··on Introducing GIFV
It uses flash as a fallback if your browser doesn't support mp4 video.
u124556··on Introducing GIFV
A new extension everyone can use... https://xkcd.com/927/
u124556··on Introducing GIFV
Do they from an mp4?
u124556··on Introducing GIFV
So this is actually making mp4 worse? Talk about innovation.
u124556··on Privacy vs. User Experience
>“Is the user experience improvement worth the security risk to my private information?”

Yes. I'd quote Benjamin Franklin, but probably everybody knows the quote I'm referring to.

u124556··on Yahoo Hacked
You poke into someone's house when you see their front door wide open, see it has been cleaned up and then notify the cops...
u124556··on Backer News: fresh crowdfunding projects
It would be interesting if it could provide news that kickstarter keeps private just for backers.
u124556··on Microsoft Announces Windows 10
Windows: taking it up to eleven.
u124556··on Microsoft Announces Windows 10
Uhmm, my guess is they skipped 9 to avoid confusion with the 9x versions.
u124556··on Microsoft Announces Windows 10
Ctrl+Shift+V
u124556··on Microsoft Announces Windows 10
Workspaces! I've been using them in Linux since 10 years ago.
u124556··on The iPhone 6 Review
You don't have to be part of that half of the population.
u124556··on Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop
I wonder if they are going to pay for all the windows or mac licenses to run on or they have a linux version working inhouse.
u124556··on BitPay and PayPal
I always felt bitcoin was more about replacing paper money than replacing banks. Banks give you interests, Bitcoin just sits there and the amount (in bitcoins) never changes.
u124556··on BitPay and PayPal
Transportation was a solved problem when horse carriages were invented. Every solved problem can be solved even better. Isn't that what most startups are about?
u124556··on MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code
They could just, you know, give it to them?
u124556··on Major Android Bug Is a Privacy Disaster (CVE-2014-6041)
Back in my times browsers would kill for a 20% market share...
u124556··on WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end
Is the info hash different from a magnet url? can they be translated from one to the other?
u124556··on Paket: Package manager for .NET and Mono
Why not address these issues directly in nuget rather than building another layer on top?
u124556··on New Requests for Startups
I can think of two very easily: Sub-Orbital travel and medical tourism.
u124556··on iPhone 6 Screens Demystified
So if you want to watch a 1080 video on this device, the player will upscale it to 1242 and then the hardware will downscale it to 1080 again? or will there be some way to bypass all this?
u124556··on Researchers now able to stop, restart light (2001)
Did anything come out of it?
u124556··on Macworld lays off most staff
Why? where they in charge of the streaming yesterday?
u124556··on DistroWatch QA: Distributions not adopting systemd
I don't know what they say, but I do now they have a systemd-shim package that you can use to emulate systemd functionality when you don't use it as the init system. And the sysvinit package hasn't been removed.

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/systemd-shim https://packages.debian.org/jessie/sysvinit-core

u124556··on CLion – Brand New IDE for C and C++ Developers
I don't have a link right now, but I read somewhere on their bugtracker that they were going to do it after hitting 1.0.
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