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You should also try use AARRC.info . It is a full-fledged web service with multiple access techniques to flagship academic papers (Elsevier, IEEE, etc) using a solid browser extension. It is also a free service.

I am a globetrotter and now in France working at a tertiary institution. I learnt french only for a few months, when I was younger (elementary school) as it was one of the compulsory languages to learn. Overtime, I lost it. On getting here, I tried to pick it up but was very intimidated. To add insult to injury, they don't want to hear me speak the phonetic/queen's English Lang. It is even not understood by them; hence, I speak the basics (most times grammatically wrong). They tend to speak English but the conveyed message is often confusing let alone torturing to me. I often cry and on many occasions, I think there is a systemic racial profiling going on here given that I am dark skin. I appreciate them picking an additional language and improving their skills via me, yet I am intimidated by not allowing me speak their language but must communicate in English. The whole experience seemed to be a new-age skills transfer - French<-English. They are using folks from the 2nd/3rd world as the 1st world folks cannot stand the harassment - they would have left the job.

An interesting observation is that my thinking changes as I learn/improve on the French Lang. I sometimes think the English folks could have been more picky all the while i.e. the systemic racism is higher with them. I tend to see the culture in French - love/friendship even I have my reservations (history has shown that they could be dangerous - colonialism). I see the hidden traits in French (Lang.), which is fearlessness/aggressiveness and English,\ (Lang.) which is respectfulness with a possibility of deception in it.

You rock! So is the issuing of PR permits for some countries.I have been there...

This is highly incorrect. Unless animals are genetically modified, they cannot ever think of being gay! It is the act of science that makes it possible. Nature won't.

There is another service in the pipeline. I came across it very recently; it is in a public-beta phase. It appears to focus on providing access to all digital libraries and specifically serving the third-world or developing countries, mostly in Africa. It has got a different (business) model and uses some advanced technologies for provisions of the articles. Given that they intend subscribing to the publishers, there is no doubt that they will remain in business for as long as the publishers themselves exist.

The projects like sci-hub.io, library.no and libgen are highly commendable. It is no news that the third-world countries are destabilized by war, economic sanctions, e.t.c. perpetuated by the world powers thereby making them re-prioritize (access to) their resources. And it is not surprising that webrtc/p2p related services are often times blocked in the first world institutions with access to articles from those digital libraries. Such technologies/protocols/tools are defined/shaped (at standardization meetings - IETF, W3C, e.t.c.) by big corporations in order to preserve their own product offerings.

@Danieltrembath: Sounds like you work (@leisure) with the Hackerspace in Hawthorn. I used to come there before I moved to Perth.

@All: Perth is quite dull for IT jobs. I only get calls from Melbourne/Sydney, most notably from the Progressive People recruiter. I am desperately looking for an opportunity in AU. I am happy to test waters in the other states. Fortunately, I am an OSS guy (anti-MS). I do a lot of web engineering works - browser extension dev., JS-based app/SPAs, OTT services (Telecom over the web) and so on.

I have always preferred and used Fedora over other linux distros. But the non-availability of Fedora LTS as resulted in a continuous upgrade of my machines, which is daunting.

I have now chosen the RH/Fedora variant CentOS for all my machines - desktop, server,e.t.c.

Teachers, such as the Zen and Budda masters, always say it is a sign of reincarnation i.e. a person, who has a phobia, say for flying on an airplane, might have died from a plane crash in their past life.

Boredom is when your person wants to speak to you but the you is not conscious to notice it. In others, you just can't hear yourself for you don't know what it is speaking to you. In the same way, you don't know what to do next as a machine that works on motivation.

That's when you should reach out to Alan Watts, George Carlin,e.t.c. if they could help you.

They (Moz. dev team) have now even gone wild by hiding the Addon SDK from developers. It's not on their servers but buried in github, covered by several versions of a new app./development tool. It took me a long time to locate it. It all appears that they don't want us to use it (perhaps because of the cfx they are deprecating for jpm). Yet, a developer needs it to upgrade or develop their (new) extensions ( xul->bootstrapped extension with/without the sdk lib.). On another note, extension development is now like a node app. dev. -- their directory structures now look like. It's funny yet interesting (standardizing addon dev.??).... This whole gospel about the SDK is a way of hiding the details/core of the FF browser from developers - ending the use of XUL/XPCOM, going HTML, e.t.c. Perhaps, Moz. needs to help make extension dev. easy for 'web designers'.

Could you share more information about writing gulp (+plugins) in Haxe?

I can't wait to learn it.

I disabled this plug-in months ago because I was not too interested in who is watching me (of which I know - google analytics, facebook, and most importantly the NSA). I was rather more interested in blocking their APIs, scripts, e.t.c. Hence, I began to use reactive mechanisms - plugins like HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, RefControl and Ghostery. I know they are intertwined (i.e. some doing the same work). But I prefer that approach to a listing or graphical visualization of who watches me (with little of no (re)action).