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Rick-Butler

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    Comment #18860883

    Exactly this, the CEO of a publicly traded company would have to answer to the board of directors and investors. That would add resistance to spending lots of money on something un…

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    Comment #17754624

    Consider putting the site behind Cloudflare or similar content cache provider maybe?

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    Comment #17304835

    A comment like this makes me think you really don't know much about Bell Labs. http://blog.tmcnet.com/next-generation-communications/2011/0... A lot of modern computing traces back…

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    Comment #17299244

    not exactly the best example when you consider what their research arm bell labs gave us. Not saying that monopolies are good, it's just not black and white...

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    Comment #17079179

    I felt vim adventures helped me, but then again that's just anecdotal proving your point.

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    Comment #17052205

    Lodash is fairly ubiquitous, you can sneak in some lodash fp into projects. Dalton even has it aliased for ramda. The artity for certain functions might be different I didn’t check…

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    Comment #16711344

    tag Troy Hunt and underarmor on Twitter with a pic of this, sit back and enjoy.

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    Comment #16260437

    The dot net foundation has released a lot of the language components, this appears to be a different compilation target. It looks like this project skips the common intermediate la…

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    Comment #13811691

    Security through obscurity isn't a good practice in general. Because few people use it, security testers probably don't spend much time on it. So it could be easier to find vulnera…

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    Comment #11588765

    one semicolon to rule them all?

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    Comment #11507788

    Brainfart said boot camp meant parallels/fusion/virtualbox. Or go to the trouble of getting Linux on it and do the reverse. It's legal to virtualized OSX on Apple hard ware.

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    Comment #11504231

    If you want a 15in, MacBook Retina Pro w/ bootcamp. If you want a 13in, I honestly feel the Dell XPS 13 Developer edition is amazing, better than the 13in Retina Macbook Pro IMO.

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    Comment #10931782

    Your point is valid, but your wording could have been better (I assume that is the reason for the down votes). He doesn't mention consulting a doctor to explain the health risks be…

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    Comment #10313171

    Thanks for the links, I too always shuddered at the sound (and thought). Never gave the "why" much consideration.

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    Comment #5759749

    "Airbnb, Tutorspree, and FlightCar have all shown that a contrarian nature is necessary to succeed." a contrarian nature suggests that you are opposed to standard view. Yes, all th…

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    Comment #5499300

    I like it, simple and elegant.