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blazingfrog2

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About blazingfrog2

Used to be http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BlazingFrog until an openID/obsoleted-Google-profile mishap locked me out.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #31854838

    > I don’t understand the thought process of putting someone down based on what they do for a living Discounting the counter productive condescension required to be the one putting …

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    Comment #31854752

    > I'd be proud of it, if they were a good person, took care of themselves I honestly don't know how anyone (good person or not) can properly take care of themselves on a Taco Bell …

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    Comment #18428547

    On iOS it requires installing a VPN profile. My understanding from their FAQ is that it is to allow DNS proxying in iOS but it’s not clear to me if that’s all it does. Up to this d…

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    Comment #10120097

    Is that VPN setup an "always on"-able setup so that iOS just routes traffic through it without having to manually switch on the VPN client? I run the VPN server bundled with OS X S…

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    Comment #9747777

    Don't forget that the ball can come very fast and the keeper will need a split second to adjust. In other cases, the kicker can be masked by another player preventing the keeper to…

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    Comment #9747754

    After logging many thousand of hours of dutifully watching soccer (over 30 years of full-on love for the game), I was able to match the given situations to similar ones I'd seen be…

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    Comment #9648960

    Or you could use the PowerShell command line. http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/03/1...

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    Comment #9307158

    > Americans care far less about what others will think of them As a European expat in the US, I find this statement to be very accurate. It can be maddening at times but I've grown…

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    Comment #9307111

    The average for June through September here in the State Capital, Sacramento, is just over 89 degrees Fahrenheit (or almost 32 degrees Celsius). This is not a matter of comfort but…

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    Comment #9064266

    Not to sound snarky but Saddam was boasting sitting on an arsenal of WMDs before the world found out there was zero truth to it. That's why UN inspections are used, however effecti…

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    Comment #8330705

    After a long time at Apple and then Palantir, he recently started as Head of Engineering at Pinterest so, yeah, a team leader. http://recode.net/2014/06/10/pinterest-hires-long-tim…

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    Comment #8213222

    > other people or corporations can't make changes to my property without my permission. IANAL but it seems you have given permission: Notwithstanding any other provision of this Ag…

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    Comment #8155586

    You may already be aware of this but a fellow HNer operates a service I use frequently for this exact use case called historio.us. I use the chrome extension to add stuff that I mi…

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    Comment #6736906

    Anybody else feeling uneasy about committing to spending serious cash immediately for a scheduled delivery 7-10 months away for something that could have many legal ramifications (…

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    Comment #6736575

    Flat may be fine. However, from what I've seen in the video, the Coin is not only flat but also almost totally anonymized. The cashier would not be able to verify the name against …

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    Comment #6479318

    Just noticed that too. What surprises me the most about this is that only ONE business/landmark is listed at 0,0 in the entire Google Maps.

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    Comment #6479260

    He flies drones in the office.

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    Comment #6378173

    Not at this point. Feel free to sign up for the beta on our site and take it for a spin, I'll make sure to get you your credentials quickly. PS: by the way, big fan of historio.us.…

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    Comment #6377787

    At Ask Ziggy, we are also 100% self-service.

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    Comment #6361001

    He is absolutely free to share it. As he said in a previous rant, "this is a free country". However, it seems foolish of him to expect the entity he represents to continue employin…

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    Comment #6008941

    The piece did not say "third party". I'm assuming these clients are the official Twitter mobile apps.

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    Comment #5603028

    He is supplying products (various physical rewards and the emotional reward of being a backer) at prices that, he thinks, are adequate to the demand that is out there. Isn't that c…

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    Comment #5592204

    +1 It's called sleep envy and, some nights when I can hear my wife drift off in minutes and I'm not even close to it, it throws me into that mental tailspin that goes through multi…

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    Comment #5251682

    I speak to human beings daily. I've known dozens, or maybe hundreds, of human beings who have never been so rude as to pay more attention to their devices than to me when in the mi…