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agnoster

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    Comment #40799395

    Didn't say "should", just said "can"?

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    Comment #26820334

    Always snopes before you post! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/patrisse-cullors-topanga-h... The "mansion" is a 3br 2ba, real estate is just kind of expensive in LA. My Bay Area …

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    Comment #4488177

    At one point, the web and API team were a little more intermeshed, but this had the unfortunate side effect that the web was a de-facto a "privileged" client, while the other clien…

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    Comment #4488160

    It's a nice, pithy answer to give, and in general you shouldn't rewrite a backend "just cause". However, Wunderlist's backend was built with the intention of being a bit of a proto…

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    Comment #2656575

    Unless you said something like "I'd love to see you, but I don't have the energy to go out or make big plans", they might have thought the reason you weren't making plans with them…

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    Comment #2231203

    Yeah, I think people may be overthinking this, although there's something to be said for "two great tastes that taste great together". It's kind of silly, but I actually wrote a "g…

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    Comment #2230433

    Ditto this - the idea of having the bare repo in Dropbox, but having my frequently-changing stuff (especially, as you point out, with branch changes) locally seems to me to be the …

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    Comment #2215652

    Hey, that's really cool! Way better than mine. I like the simplicity of the center part, but the polka dots on the edge are killing me. But if you like them, don't change it just b…

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    Comment #2215635

    I don't really have to make that clear, because I'm the target market ;-) No, but seriously: it's a tool I wrote for myself (and other people can use it if they like) - I've optimi…

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    Comment #2215561

    Yeah, in practice I always run this in its own tab, so it's not a thing that has ever bothered me. I put that in because it did bother me that I couldn't Cmd-(L+C) to get a paste-a…

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    Comment #2215543

    Yeah, I wrote this as my own tool for similar reasons (actually I just wanted to use it locally, http://domainzomg.com/ is for when I'm not on my own computer and for friends who w…

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    Comment #2215540

    I'm tempted to actually do a quick test, but I think it probably comes down to something like whether you're closer to the duostack servers or the instantdomainsearch servers. The …

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    Comment #2213700

    Semi-hidden feature: "red/black trees" -> "redtrees.com", "blacktrees.com", "red-trees.com", "red-tre.es", ... Also, http://domainzomg.com/somedomainname should work if you just wa…