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chrisbridgett

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    Comment #7318003

    Woooo, Ghost.

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    Comment #7290175

    I thought the historical reason was that punch-cards had 80 characters per line. ...just Googled it: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/148677/why-is...

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    Comment #6800588

    Facebook advertising has always appealed to me. The amount of parameters you can filter users to display your ads to is so specific, you can really squeeze it down to your exact ta…

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    Comment #6768173

    Nice. It's a shame http://fiddle.net wasn't available.

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    Comment #6661098

    God Mode: iPhone keyboard. :-)

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    Comment #6646645

    https://blockchain.info/address/1JqjU7zBvbhyrDFjtJG6xAwMm5BU... Watching with interest... xD

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    Comment #6645991

    Out of interest, how easy would it be for you to adapt the system to manage the reputation for hotels, for example? Doesn't sound like too much work given that you've said the syst…

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    Comment #6546776

    Ghost looks great and I'll likely end up using it for a couple of projects but.. "We have successfully created the world's first fully functioning blogging platform built entirely …

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    Comment #6405798

    At a risk of stating the obvious... StackOverflow/StackExchange. Not a forum per se, but definitely a community. :-)

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    Comment #6393872

    I find it mildly annoying that it's so similarly named and so completely unrelated to Bower - the extremely popular package manager...

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    Comment #6314233

    Doesn't seem like much work at all to me, compared to creating random users. Then again, maybe it's just me that isn't creative enough to be able to come up with names other than "…

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    Comment #6314222

    Neat little API. Would be cool if there were a way to generate users with a particular locale - e.g. so I could generate UK users with UK addresses, telephone numbers, etc.

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    Comment #6302289

    It does have media keys, by the way.

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    Comment #6295515

    So... what did you want advice on, exactly? All you did was post the results of your survey?

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    Comment #6082949

    Shut up and take my money!

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    Comment #5880061

    That's very true/a good point. Stale information would be a lot less useful to them though. i.e. Encrypted conversation between two terrorists happens today, attack happens tomorro…

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    Comment #5879731

    It's not a short term solution if you scale the strength of the encryption against the 'cost' of decrypting it and the speed of the technology available.

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    Comment #5879653

    Encrypt everything.

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    Comment #5868382

    How are you connecting to that French server? If you're using a domain name, maybe the nameservers are located in the US. If you're using an IP address then that sounds a little st…

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    Comment #5838857

    > 1.) I didn't know Facebook had bought one of these startups, so I am sure they have plans to enter this area There are lots of reasons companies acquire other companies. More oft…

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    How do you manage your email?

    I'm in a situation where I'm going to basically ditch my current email address(es) due to spam and a couple of other reasons. I can't decide whether to go with the 'cloud' approach…