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_grrr

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About _grrr

http://www.soundcloudwall.com/ - "100 hottest tracks on soundcloud.com each month"

http://www.recawl.com - "A search engine for your web history"

http://www.webalertpro.com - "Competitive website content monitoring"

http://www.bookmarkerpro.com - "Search & monitor your bookmarks"

joel_at_halbert_dot_it

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    Comment #3549602

    I made this a while back http://www.soundcloudwall.com/

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    Comment #3230379

    Just installed Linux Mint - I love it! A real improvement over the bloated Ubuntu 11.10 release and Unity. It's fast to startup and shutdown, responsive and has a lovely UI.

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    Comment #3230375

    Having now installed Mint 11 I can say it it's a real improvement over Ubuntu 11. Fast to load and shutdown, responsive, beautiful UI.

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    Comment #3227542

    Yesterday I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10, having already regretted going from 10.10 to 11.04. In 11.04 the Gnome fall back just about worked. In 11.10 it does not. As for Unity I can't…

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    Comment #3199474

    I always go by the maxim: "(build) the right thing at the right time". I think John Bentley said that.

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    Comment #3174109

    The hand off between producer and consumer can be configured to be both synchronous (single threaded) as well as asynchronous (one producer thread, many consumers threads).

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    Comment #3174071

    As far as I understand three of the key features are: 1. Reduced queue contention: queues are typically implemented with a list, e.g. linked list, this introduces contention (queue…

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    Comment #3173031

    That mammals other than humans are capable of emotion and concious thought comes as no surprise to me. Why some humans derive pleasure from inflicting unnecessary cruelty towards o…

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    Comment #3129629

    Google can also do currency conversions for you http://tinyurl.com/6zzoqmt

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    Comment #2971871

    That's never going to happen. Anything that anyone ever wants to use to trade on in a cost/time sensitive manner will already have event-action (notification/trade) functionality b…

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    Comment #2965755

    No, paypoint looks very good though.

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    Comment #2965707

    Clickable: http://www.soundcloudwall.com/

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    Show HN: A music chart generated by mining artist relationships on SoundCloud

    I use soundcloud.com for listening to new music. There are lot's of producers sharing their music & it's a great site. They have an API which I used to mine the relationships betwe…

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    Comment #2950756

    Wow, we had EXACTLY the same experience. A lengthy process (about 3 months) to get signed up with Sage Pay only to be declined the merchant account (yet to give us a reason althoug…

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    Comment #2950191

    Agreed that Chrome's history search provides similar functionality, although it is somewhat clunky to use. For example, you can not constrain results by time period. In addition, u…

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    Comment #2950081

    Clickable links Website: http://www.recawl.com Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pmoicpmjnblomdapfi...

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    Show HN: A search engine for your browsing history

    Fed up with not being able to find pages that I knew I had visited in the past I wrote a Chrome extension that automatically indexes the url, title & content of every page you visi…

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    Comment #2930166

    Except I honestly don't think these answers weren't meant to be sarcastic. I sometimes skim through Guardian comments and these seem par for the course.

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    Comment #2853578

    It does, but it also has bookmarks and there are a number of bookmarking services that all improve on the basic browser offering in some way. When I first started Recawl Chrome's h…

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