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Raticide

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    Comment #20825520

    But they're still keeping the annoying touchbar. I suppose I'm stuck with Dell laptops now.

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    Comment #20209858

    I think it's because chihuahuas and great danes have all the same bits, just with different scales/shapes. Where as entirely new muscles take a lot more work to evolve.

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    Comment #17460596

    Kim has no part in running it these days and doesn't trust it. https://twitter.com/kimdotcom/status/799275467266105344?lang...

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    Comment #17439226

    It's always the adverts that screw up a site. Maybe it's mining crypto currency too?

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    Comment #16927789

    The USA would benefit a lot if it moved to a more proportional voting system. It seem ridiculous to me that such a large country effectively only has 2 parties.

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    Comment #15957104

    I dunno about other people, but I almost completely ignore those big background posts. I think my brain sees them as adverts/spam and just filters them out.

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    Comment #15439422

    What's a good alternative non-proprietary format that all major spreadsheet software supports?

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    Comment #15197758

    Dogecoin is doing fine: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/

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    Comment #13701496

    The default terminal was a bit limited for me, but I hear they're making big improvements to it in later builds.

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    Comment #13701487

    Give this a whirl: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

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    Comment #13701352

    I've stopped using PuTTY and now use MinTTY with the Ubuntu subsystem and the regular old Ubuntu SSH client. Specifically this thing: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty It's real nic…

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    Comment #13537891

    It happens to everyone eventually, so don't feel too bad. But at least now you'll have a much more robust backup process.

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    Comment #13421086

    What annoys me the most about the interface is that dialogs ALWAYS open on the wrong screen. Is it so hard to open the dialogs on the same screen as the main window?

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    Comment #13353697

    All fine for me in Safari on OSX 10.10.3 http://i.imgur.com/ZwbQ08N.png

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    Comment #13011115

    Apple emulated PowerPC on x86 when they initially switched to Intel CPUs, and it wasn't too bad really.

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    Comment #12868755

    Nope, I don't think so. It would be hard to pull off as you might be using the font on an and the user could type any character. Or you could be pulling text in through an XHR and …

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    Comment #12183705

    Could Facebook make the page narrower please?

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    Comment #12041586

    You should try hot-reloading, then it'll work on the first try... kinda.

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    Comment #12021448

    Well, at least they won't have to compete with the UK soon.

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    Comment #12012926

    This falls apart when you need multiple scopes as it can't tell how to group the 'AND' and 'OR's. The new Rails syntax avoids this problem.

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    Comment #11998827

    I don't think he even uses source control, so I imagine the code is not the cleanest.

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    Comment #11966603

    While it's not legally binding it would be political suicide for the government to go against the referendum. There's zero chance of them doing that.

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    Comment #11943215

    Some nanotubes have a similar affect to asbestos when inhaled, so I sure hope they're not just leaving piles of it lying around. Source: http://www.nanotechproject.org/news/archive…