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davebees

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    Comment #10395282

    as mentioned in the article.

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    Comment #10373763

    On my Android phone, at least, this can already be achieved with a double-tap of sorts.

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    Comment #8424443

    Is that an actual figure or just a tongue-in-cheek quote from the CEO?

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    Comment #8393464

    Some sample inputs–outputs would be great.

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    Comment #8147594

    This seems to be more a criticism of Khan Academy's live Processing editor.

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    Comment #7982535

    The negative letter spacing is a little jarring imo.

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    Comment #7305002

    The mechanic is different.

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    Comment #7130792

    That's http://geoguessr.com/ !

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    Comment #6621983

    Is the 'minus minus' being converted into a dash throughout?

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    Comment #6236251

    Was half expecting Joe to roll the car into a ditch the way that first story was going

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    Comment #6064798

    It's still running!

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    Comment #5507022

    H twenty?

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    Comment #5461162

    Would it be so bad to just enter your seat number into the app?

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    Comment #5439283

    > We’d also been careful to not ever violate Google’s Adwords weapons policy, which prohibits “the promotion of knives, such as butterfly knives, (balisongs) and switchblades.” Sou…

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    Comment #5402546

    For comparing two portions they’re okay. For larger data sets it can be difficult to compare the sectors: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Pie...

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    Comment #5279647

    I don't think there's much actual science behind the purported aesthetic properties of the golden ratio.

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    Comment #5158182

    Always mask rather than deleting if possible!

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    Comment #5078915

    The IM section was egregious too. How can they tout "Pidgin, the instant messenger for Linux (it exists for Windows as well, and for Mac OS X)" as an advantage of Linux?

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    Comment #5038322

    according to one person.

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    Comment #4730558

    >These properties make [pi] the only known constant with universal distribution of its digits that cannot be represented by the fraction of any two numbers, or polynomial with rati…

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    Comment #4722401

    Did you just make two separate comments praising this, both within two minutes of registering?

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    Comment #4710734

    Wow — they paid $1.70 per design. Were sites like 99designs as taboo then as they seem to be now?

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    Comment #4710128

    This is nice. I think it should tell you the number of trials though, as well as sanitising the JS somehow. I just tested it using the function: eval(document.write("hello world!")…

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    Comment #4657470

    Do you really want to be doing this when you're 50?