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I'm on Unity on Ubuntu 16.04. It's essentially just a way for me to launch a terminal (terminator) and an IDE. There is nothing in particular that I like or dislike as it just gets the simple job done for me.

I have used this in the past to backup email accounts of resigned employees so we continue to stay well within the maximum number of active accounts for our free Google Apps.

It generally works fine and it allows you to restore the emails to a different account name. (I sometimes temporarily restore an account to search for old emails). It seems to have some issues with restoring accounts with a lot of large emails (large or multiple attachments) especially those that have reached the 15GB quota.

Because one may occasionally needs to also bring it out?

You have the option of "docking" a portable but you will never be able to conveniently lug along something like a desktop unless you carry some display device along with it.

Well, Slava himself posted the (sad) news so it can't be any more true than that.

I'm no UX expert but maybe highlight the accepted answer and a different colored highlight for the top voted answer.

Because it more likely that beginning programmers would jump straight and look for the "accepted answer".

Forgive my ignorance but how do you say that something was pushed ahead by a specific duration? In this article for instance, how did they say that encryption was pushed ahead by 7 years? Is this based on previous rate of advancement in the field? (how do you even quantify that)

Same here

I do the same but using the flying-saucer library. Just pass the HTML text (with CSS) and it gives back a PDF. Up to a certain point the limitation was getting the header row of multipage tables to appear i every page. When they got to implementing support for CSS 2.1, worked like a charm. Headers and Footers (witblh page numbers) work too.

I don't get it either. If I use Spring WS to provide the endpoints, how does it make it a monolith? It's always using the right tool for the right job but if one set of libraries are the right tools, why not use it across everything where appropriate.

ScrapingHub (the guys behind Scrapy) offers Crawlera which provides some sort of automatic proxying and throttling so you can scrape away avoiding getting banned.

I do not know if telcos in other countries also have this but here in the Philippines, there are promotions where you can use a prepaid SIM and pay a fixed amount per day/week/month which allows you to send unlimited SMS.

While this is beneficial to consumers, SMS spammers equipped with gsm modems and this promowls to send text blasts. Prepaid SIM cards are also not regulated here (no need for ids to buy one) and you can get one for about $1.

Thanks for the link Brian. The "Get In Line For The Beta" button does not work for me (it does not do anything).

Seconding the peewee recommendation. I usually go with Peewee for lightweight needs.

Java doesn't get much love. I've been looking for remote employment opportunities (I'm not based in the US), and a huge percentage of the postings I see are for Node.js and RoR. For Python shops it's almost always a requirement for Django experience.

The Microprose games I remember had that as the mechanism. For the simulators it was identifying military vehicles. For Railroad Tycoon it was identifying trains.

Brings back memories of the good old days.

I experienced something similar. I installed Insider on one partition. On launch day, I got it to upgrade to RTM. Thinking my machine was already activated, I did a clean install on another drive (SSD). When the installation completed, the one on that partition did not activate. To get it work, I took an image of the partition with the activated Windows 10, restored it on the SSD, rebooted and voila - it was activated. I then did a Windows reset on the SSD copy and it did reset with an activated status.

I do. I read HN almost everyday and I scroll all the way down until I get to the articles I read the previous day.

And don't forget those "Best viewed in" IE and Netscape gifs...

The part on how to avoid detection was particularly useful for me.

I use webscraping (https://code.google.com/p/webscraping/) + BeautifulSoup. What I like about webscraping is that it automatically creates a local cache of the page you access so you don't end up needlessly hitting the site while you are testing the scraper.

Thanks for sharing ftfy. I have had several issues that this little library appears to address perfectly

RHEL-derivatives (Scientific Linux, CentOS) for work since we deploy to RHEL for clients in production.

Mint 15 on my laptop

Switched my home desktop to Debian. Would want to switch my work laptop to Debian for longer term stability but not sure if all drivers are available (couldn't get Realtek HD SPDIF to work on my desktop). Can anyone with a Thinkpad T500 confirm that it works flawlessly?

Thank you for sharing. I've been thinking about building something similar for personal use just to make doing the groceries more efficient.

I'm also starting to learn machine learning so this should even make this mofe interesting.

I'll probably build a game that has the player enter the following number sequence 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 before a timer runs out.

Ok thanks. It's a pretty cool idea. The freelance market definitely deserves having a service such as yours.

Are you open to US-based developers only?

I'm an experienced developer and I find odesk and freelancer a waste of time in the attempt to bid against lowballers.

Aren't they made to be broken?

(Sorry, couldn't help it)

Although I cannot personally vouch for it, I read that Scientific Linux gets updates more often compared to CentOS.

When I was in the States, some buddies had some Philippine Peso coins which weigh and are roughly the same size as quarters. They used a few if these to operate coin-based laundry machines.

Bought Far Cry 3 and it does the same. When you launch the game on Steam it installs UPlay which requires you to have a UPlay account as well. With an account you can launch the game from Uplay.