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benoits

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    Comment #46409402

    Thanks for your work, really appreciated the RTK perf boost!

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    Comment #33830308

    What do you recommend instead (or are looking at)?

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    Comment #29051521

    Some of those things in the pipeline like wkwebview-friendly HTTP sound great, would we be able to more easily see requests in the browser Dev tools for instance (a la native brows…

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    Comment #17602966

    If any senior VoIP/SIP/WebRTC dev is interested, my telemedicine startup just won the tender for building the WebRTC platform used by all hospitals in the Paris region. Includes so…

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    Comment #16550581

    Agreed. I don't see what is so evil about early returns, they seem very clear to follow to me. Especially with proper IDE syntax highlighting.

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    Comment #15554597

    so it's just another random visa card without any special discount (cashback) on uber rides? Is there any point to this?

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    Comment #14728977

    The metric system was first adopted during the French revolution. Why would they base the meter on the british foot? The pied du roi was 324.84mm compared to the UK 296 mm. Same co…

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    Comment #13330146

    Original Intel announcement: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-card/intel-co...

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    Comment #13272639

    By cross-platform, do you mean Java-based? Could I use Marvin within a node.js app?

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    Comment #10340544

    "nice one hackernews, downvoting the most important question in this thread... " We're less than an hour in and the OP question is the top comment... I'm not sure what's so wrong t…

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    Comment #10237134

    256 bytes. Insane. Most x86 instructions are 2-3 bytes already (up to 15 in x64!), how much can you even tell the OS in so few words... That's some seriously clever wizardry, congr…

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    Comment #9076012

    > Also remember that Google brought us HTTP/2 when Microsoft and Apple were completely ignoring the web. That's a terrible example since both companies contributed to the standard.…

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    Comment #8759757

    congrats Danielle and Kevin (and team!), you guys are awesome :-)

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    Comment #8759755

    congrats Danielle and Kevin (and team!), you guys are awesome :-)

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    Comment #8655388

    Instead of the overzealous closing, why doesn't SO create a "Stack Overflow Opinions" Stack Exchange site where they move the offending questions?

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    Comment #7416006

    So win. http://imgur.com/assEhUn Funny, unlike the original version there is a Civ-like 'keep going' button.

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    Comment #6872390

    Interesting. What's you definition of a startup then?

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    Comment #6052786

    I like the flexibility, but I would suggest you add a "generate GUID" button when choosing the group name in case the user does want a random URL, which seems quite likely.

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    Comment #5534819

    I would absolutely love if you could post the reference of this book here - and I'm sure a couple of other folks would as well! It sounds quite interesting. Thanks a bunch.

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    Comment #5320173

    WTF are you talking about? You are aware that you are comparing a ~300m country with a ~20m one, right? "It seems like the United States is about an order of magnitude worse". your…

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    Comment #5253764

    Ars review here: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/xamari...

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    Comment #5011307

    The title is very wrong and the HN comments so far miss the point that windows is a tiny portion of that deal. I don't know the details, but judging by the products involved, I wou…

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    Comment #4924367

    definitely not a "programmer"... He's an economist and professor at Insead (a top biz school). Here is his profile: http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/profiles/ppark... …