zxtang

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by zxtang 13y ago
Right, if Google doesn't think you are in the US, you won't be able to download Voice from Play. Which is really annoying if you actually are in the US... I had to deal with this problem earlier this month, and the answer here fix
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by zxtang 13y ago
The git-config man page[1] is probably the best resource. The list of options is in the configuration file section under 'Variables'. [1] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git
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by zxtang 13y ago
It was specifically an IE7 tax by a company called Kogan: http://www.kogan.com/au/blog/new-internet-explorer-7-tax/ . And here's the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109137
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by zxtang 13y ago
You mean like this? http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/
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by zxtang 14y ago
http://research.google.com For reference, I googled "research at google".
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by zxtang 14y ago
It's also not very sophisticated last I checked. Just change the extension.
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by zxtang 14y ago
Many ad networks[1] do already provide an opt out mechanism. You look for a blue icon[2] in the corner of the ad, which if you click it should take you to an opt out page. I dug a bit further, and also found this: http://www.aboutads.info/
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by zxtang 14y ago
"GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, breaks existing scripts": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4295681
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by zxtang 14y ago
This part jumped out at me: "As a solution, Gelernter proposes moving all of human knowledge to online servers so that the in-person college experience can be replaced by user-driven self-education."
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by zxtang 14y ago
Here's what they have to say regarding browsers: https://mega.co.nz/#blog_1 Basically, only Chrome seems to be supported because it is "the most advanced browser currently in existence"
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by zxtang 14y ago
It's a redirect to that domain.
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by zxtang 14y ago
You can enable it in the control panel, under 'Organization & users'. It's listed as Google+ but appears alphabetically after all the other Google things.
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by zxtang 14y ago
System requirements and incomplete list of supported android devices: http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/812...
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by zxtang 14y ago
As always, there's an xkcd for that: http://xkcd.com/465/
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by zxtang 14y ago
You can use Google's cache of the page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... Clicking on the current page link should still allow you to read the page too, at least it works for me.
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by zxtang 14y ago
They plan to launch food supplies to Mars in 2016, 7 years before sending the astronauts and 2 years before they've even scouted out where to establish a settlement. I don't understand why they would send the supplies there so early. Can an
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by zxtang 14y ago
"Never send the user a new password over email." This is what HN does right now. I know, because I forgot my password just yesterday.
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by zxtang 14y ago
I liked http://gitref.org when I started with git. I find it's a good quick reference to common git commands so you can quickly get up and running with git. The rest of learning git is really just practice and searching for how to do stuf
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by zxtang 14y ago
http://askolo.com