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Scorponok
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Comment #15971519
So what happens if the EU and UK don't reach an agreement before the article 50 time limit expires? It doesn't make sense that the UK just gets to do what they like, otherwise they…
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Comment #15971331
Because the EU could then reject those terms and not having a trade deal would be vastly more damaging to the UK than the EU.
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Comment #15597271
SendGrid for transactional email, https://myemma.com/ for newsletters (although I don't think Emma do double-opt-in by default).
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Comment #13706561
Isn't that actually the opposite of "ironic", then?
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Comment #12270996
http://www.blackblaze.com/
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Comment #9535099
Publish too early and you get people assuming that you're a crank because you haven't done the research yet.
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Comment #9436182
I believe the choice was to spend time on adding C99 support, vs spending more time on C++ support. C++ had more people asking for it, so it got priority over C99.
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Comment #9395856
From what I've read it's not a legal issue, it's a "huge amount of money needed to get thorium reactors to where they need to be" issue. Nobody is really interest in putting up tha…
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Comment #9011042
We're getting close to this - you can buy graphics cards that plug into a PCI Express port on a laptop, for example. But the hardware's not quite there yet.
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Comment #8846347
Presumably the "real" auth will be at the end of the project, which means it could still fail. This is also the case with kickstarter projects right now - typically a few % of your…
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Comment #8655357
Yeah, we tried this on our product forums and it didn't really help at all. :(
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Comment #8501177
And we just got approved! Took ~2 hours.
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Comment #8500694
I'm very curious too! If it takes anything more than a day to get an app review, this tool is going to be pretty useless for us. :( I've submitted an update to our app to external …
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Comment #8500650
Yep.
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Comment #8483508
It's a lot of code to write, but extremely understandable when you come back to read it a year later and wonder "what the heck do the parameters to this function do?"
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Comment #8432967
I assumed the fridge was more about "make sure the microphone can't pick up anything from outside" than blocking radio signals.
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Comment #8339070
Some interesting facts about this vote: * 16 & 17 year olds were allowed to vote in this referendum, although they aren't normally able to vote in British elections. * Turnout was …
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Comment #8264804
I assume the baseball thing was his requirement to sign off on this, or an attempt to placate him...
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Comment #8040029
If it snows a lot, wouldn't you also have battery life problems because of the cold?
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Comment #7934736
You should only really use "auto" when the type is clear (like in your example #2). If it's not clear, you should probably specify the type so that it's more obvious what's going o…
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Comment #7841646
Some details here: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/16/google-has-already-removed-... As I understand it, Google and Apple did things like sandboxing in different ways for Chrome and …
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Comment #7718702
Other services (like spotify) have tended to have clauses in their licenses saying something like "If you get acquired, the deal is cancelled and you have to renegotiate it" so tha…
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Comment #7467456
What, so you spoof your client so you can get a version that's unusable in your browser because of its poor feature support? That doesn't sound like a great idea.
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Comment #7440374
Every new story about this makes Mt. Gox look worse. Now they're not even competent enough to steal them or have them stolen, they just lost a hundred million dollars?
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Comment #7394552
Maybe it's a US thing, but why does "teenagers starting later" mean that your 5 and 7 year old have to be awake so early?