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by akanster 9y ago
https://frontendfront.com Is pretty good. As the name suggests, it’s mostly front-end stuff. They have a weekly email they send out too.
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by akanster 11y ago
This 60 mins segment touched on it: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/depleting-the-water/
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by akanster 12y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by akanster 13y ago
FYI the entire segment can be seen here: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-data-brokers-selling-your-pe...
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by akanster 13y ago
I think that's more of a reading progress bar than a website loading bar. Still pretty slick though.
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by akanster 13y ago
> After some incidents in my shool years, I've noticed that I unconciously tend to hit ctrl-s every few dozen keystrokes without even noticing it. That is exactly how I learned too. Years later, ctrl-s is still a reflex action.
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by akanster 14y ago
I recently turned off AdBlock "just to see" for a few weeks. Maybe I had completely forgotten how bad online ads were but a few things really bothered me. I would get ads for shopping sites in my recent history (while browsing a totally u
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by akanster 14y ago
Shady company. For a while if you used their domain availability lookup, they would register the domain, forcing you to pay them if you wanted it. http://www.billhartzer.com/pages/network-solutions-registeri...
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by akanster 14y ago
One of the first things I checked as well. I was really hoping I could work on Windows 7. :(
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by akanster 14y ago
Under "System Requirements" http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3547...
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by akanster 14y ago
That WSJ article attributes Digg's fall from grace to "rivals like Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc." and makes no mention of the Digg v4 redesign disaster. That was what did them in more than anything. EDIT: The story has been updated with a
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by akanster 14y ago
RE: point #2. To be fair you should also factor in the time, effort and gas it takes to go to Redbox, wait in line to rent and return discs. All the while hoping that new release is available and not scratched up. For most of us, that ext
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by akanster 14y ago
Svbtle by Dustin Curtis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742314
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by akanster 15y ago
Also, if you already have AdBlock Plus for firefox installed, try this: http://lifehacker.com/5542041/block-sites-from-using-your-fa... Prevents non-facebook domains from knowing when you are logged into facebook.
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by akanster 15y ago
What device are you using? I have 3 Google Mail accounts (a regular gmail and 2 Google Apps for your Domain email) on my Samsung Galaxy S. Using the Gmail App, I have access to conversations, labels, everything and it keeps each inbox sepa