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billturner
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Comment #19208380
Agreed. Would be nice to know if it's trending for a good or a bad reason. Links back to HN and Reddit would help with that.
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Comment #17895142
Sounds similar to what happened just recently at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh's rare books collection: http://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2018/07/20/Two...
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Comment #17287196
Can't answer about copy/paste an NeoVim, but I just switched from vim -> neovim this week, and do feel it's a bit snappier. I also switched from syntastic to ALE for syntax checkin…
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Comment #15658133
One of the Pittsburgh papers just ran an excellent, in-depth article about something very similar, happening in one particular neighborhood of the city: https://newsinteractive.pos…
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Comment #15141160
There were a couple of interesting Planet Money podcast episodes on this from earlier this year: * part 1: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/10/527803742/episo... * part 2:…
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Comment #10563085
I was going to mention this same presentation, but you beat me to it. He does a wonderful job with the code, as well and keeping the material interesting, and he has a good sense o…
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Comment #10118590
If they mean closed source, that list could include Google +, Google Reader, Google Wave, etc
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Comment #9826960
Although it does seem to be very slow to respond, https://voat.co/ seemed to have stepped in as a replacement at the last big upheaval. They seem to constantly have troubles stayin…
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Comment #9411040
I did not, and assumed it was the actual SE site. My bad.
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Comment #9411021
There's one in beta: http://vi.stackexchange.com/
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Comment #8845950
Well, it looks like capistrano itself is just fine, but someone took to adding spam on their Github wiki.
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Comment #8789423
Page was timing out for me. Here's the google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S76Yg0P...
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Comment #8709352
It's funny how just from the description - "toughest, ugliest" - I knew exactly what warplane it was. As a kid thirty years ago, I probably put together five different plastic mode…
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Comment #8239187
Well, that's odd. They have the wrapped characters in Mac Chrome for me, but not in FF. Another comment says change deployed but they're still off in Chrome on Mac (even with a for…
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Comment #8239044
I totally agree with chollida1. This is always the first tutorial I point people at. Is it possible to add "overflow: scroll" to the code sample blocks' CSS? I get a few characters…
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Comment #7335535
I collected quite a few events that have happened in the last few months that lead to today: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...
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Comment #7335520
Yep, I did earlier today when another TextDrive customer alerted me.
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Comment #7326980
That's a horrible shame.
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Comment #6555211
Your post looks good, but why do you link to your twitter post, which links back to a HN submission, which finally links to the post on your site? Can you not just point directly t…
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Comment #6520751
I suggest this one: https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter It's quite nice, but I would turn off live updating, as that slowed things down a bit for me. Updating on save works p…
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Comment #6457310
Is there a status page for statuspage.io? None of the images (other than graphs) are showing for me in Chrome. (Edit with example: http://imgur.com/Fgna1vg )