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why Putin is so interested in Syria and the Ukraine: the Russian navy’s ports
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.576212 read the Ha’aretz article and find, that in 1994 the U.S. and Russia signed a “security guarantee memorandum”! realize that the U.S. are rather interested in not disturbing Russia’s circles too much! and last not least: Russia is operating the shuttle service between I.S.S. and Planet Earth, do you remember?!!
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Perl, UCS-2, ISO-10646-UCS-2, UTF-8
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/630813 UCS-2 is a strict subset of UTF-16, with no BOM and just the BMP (“Basic Multilingual Plane”). UTF-16 is handled internally and rather fast by Expat (the core element of XML::Parser), much faster than the decodings done through *.enc files. Since around 2006 and despite supposedly un-enumerable requests for ucs-2.enc requestors always got told to use UTF-16…
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okcupid: “We’re having technical difficulties, try again later.” – that means you are haunted by one of their trolls …
… and maybe they already closed your account – sometimes (after whatever investigation) they release your account again. But it does not help to ask them, they don’t answer. Maybe they do, if you are an “A-User” (i.e. you pay for it), they answer your enquiry. You can always threaten, you withdraw your PayPal /…
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comparison of revision control software on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
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“Bastards” – Björk’s 2012 album with remixes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastards_(Björk_album) I do know, it’s not really fresh, but I do like her music.
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how the adolescent brain works, and why teenagers act the way they do
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is such an excellent presenter (and not only that!!!) – enjoy this presentation!!!
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my Saturday late evening Berlinale film: : Kumun Tadi (2014, in Turkish and a little English) (in English: Seaburners)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2363535 https://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20144507 Mostly sad story, but it’s good to get reminded of certain aspects of life.