rwx------ | 5 years ago | on: Google outage – resolved
same here - Mars
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rwx------ | 7 years ago | on: Egypt discovers 40 mummies in ancient chambers in Minya
Well if it is on HN, then it must be good news. Right?
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: OneLang – A tool to help writing code in multiple languages at the same time
Went to github to see the project maturity and
"OneLang is the love child of @koczkatamas and it was not a planned child. .... OneLang is six months old at the time of writing and it already speaks, but don't expect any comfortable conversation with it yet. It cannot grow without a loving family, and as a single dad I cannot take care of it alone. It needs more mommies and daddies who can help raise it up."
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites
I never felt comfortable using SaaS for checking the grammatical mistakes. If you are linux user then "the language tool" is your best option.
you can download it and run it as stand alone application
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
At least in US you get the medical treatment first and then they hand you a large bill to pay. In poor countries the hospitals will turn you away until you pay a significant sum in advance (not exaggerating it has happened to me).
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: Tesla's Musk sells $10M in flamethrowers in four days
People will buy any thing if it is endorsed/sold by celebrities.
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: Bug of the Year (2011)
Here is the famous "500 miles email" bug
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: Cake raises $5M for a swipeable mobile browser
Can't the swipeable feature be implemented in a browser plugin for chrome/firefox?
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor
For short video editing it is perfect. For large projects I prefer Blender.
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: LibreOffice 6.0 released
name one software feature that is better in LibreOffice than MSOffice.
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: LibreOffice 6.0 released
It was not obvious as the main menu was hidden. There is a button (top-right corner) to show main menu.
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: LibreOffice 6.0 released
I have enabled Ribbon UI and it looks like ribbon ui build in nineties. There is no obvious way to revert the change.
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]
Trying to build it, but I get
error: could not find `Cargo.toml` in `/home/xyz/Downloads/xi-editor-0.2.0` or any parent directory
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: Introduction to reverse engineering and assembly
Almost ten years ago I worked on a reverse engineering project. It was very tedious work. Is it worth it to be good at reverse engineering, I mean are there good paying jobs for it now?
I often have trouble explaining reverse engineering to people without raising eyebrows. People think its hacking
rwx------ | 8 years ago | on: Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics Launched: HP, Dell, and Intel NUC
'but still no ECC'
Are these cpus going to be useless without ECC memroy?
rwx------ | 9 years ago | on: HopFS: Scaling hierarchical file system metadata using NewSQL databases
Interesting approach. Google colossus file system also stores the metadata in a high performance key value store.
rwx------ | 9 years ago | on: Gnome extension for quickly switching applications
Alt-Tab sucks if you have tone of windows open. Switcher is a useful extension that save me many key strokes for switching applications.
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