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    Comment #4965138

    We used this to automate UI tests on an iOS app a couple of years ago (before they added the UI automation stuff). Seemed to work pretty well, though it was a fair bit of work to g…

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    Comment #4361695

    I've been using it since the first alpha release back in December or whenever it was released and I can say that alpha absolutely fixes the one character at a time undo (and has si…

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    Comment #3825220

    I think that someone might've gotten clever and done something like, while (true) { Colors.insert(...); } On a related note, they took it down now.

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    Comment #3825137

    The live demo is here: http://colors.meteor.com/ Seems to have a minor glitch with unicode characters? When you do Colors.remove() everything goes away, but the entries with unicod…

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    Comment #2854035

    Yep, sorry about that, it was the MK line, stopped at Bletchley :).

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    Comment #2851602

    I just did this about a month ago, and it couldn't be easier to get from London to Bletchley Park, it's literally right up the road from the Milton Keynes train station, maybe a tw…

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    Comment #2767290

    That's great to hear!

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    Comment #2767262

    I just visited Bletchley Park last week. It was great to see, especially the Colossus MK2 reconstruction and the working rebuild of Turing's Bombe. The only thing that made me sad …

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    Comment #2280342

    Yeah, I assumed there had to be libraries to do this already, but didn't come across anything that did what I wanted. I'll check out async though, thanks for the heads up.

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    Comment #2280239

    I've written a library for internal use (that I'm waiting for work to agree to open source) that basically lets you bundle a group of asynchronous calls into a single callback. I p…

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    Comment #2069065

    Related from a technology standpoint: CASH Music ( http://cashmusic.org/ ) is a non profit dedicated to providing technology to enable a more direct musician to patron relationship…

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    Comment #1693311

    I love these 826 stores. I've got a set of time-travel travel posters from Echo Park and some cans of immortality and omnipotence from the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company as well…

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    Comment #1523928

    Actually, I think best practice is to not put the version number in the URI at all. Instead versioning should be handled via content negotiation. That is to say, a client specifies…

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    Comment #1284174

    There's JSON Schema which is serviceable, but unfortunately lacking a bit in the tooling department: http://json-schema.org/