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dougp

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About dougp

Rails developer & iOS developer creator of Kill the Dragon, Agenda Calendar, Buzz Contacts

dougp757 at gmail

Recent public activity

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    Comment #27027588

    Zappos | iOS Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.zappos.com Want to help make the Zappos iOS app a WOW experience? https://jobs.jobvite.com/zappos/job/o4i6dfwp

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    Comment #5518815

    He is charging .3333 of a bitcoin for a $75 gift card. Which is fair since a bitcoin is $223

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    Comment #4496151

    It may be rare but it happened to the mayor of a town in maryland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayors...

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    Comment #3697105

    Because you can't spy on what the user is typing in the mail or text message composer views on ios.

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    Comment #1739138

    Every Lenovo I have used at work in the past 2 years has put out this super high pitched sound. Like the sound you could hear from an old tv. It drives me absolutely out of my mind…

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    Comment #1565223

    This is hardly specialized knowledge but in 24 after every commercial break we were treated to a digital clock displaying the current time. They were using some digital clock numbe…

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    Comment #1551370

    If its like the laptops you press down with 2 fingers at once.

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    Comment #1265808

    I used to work at an amusement park that did that as well.

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    Comment #1161501

    I would buy the public service line if more then half of our mail didn't go straight into the trash. I am excited when I see a Fedex box on the door step. Not so much when I see a …

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    Comment #1159483

    Another cool one to try the spinner 3 in a row

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    Comment #1154190

    Maybe next year

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    Comment #1150776

    Crowds are actually what segways are best at. You can easily control your speed and turn in place. There is a reason mall cops use them rather then bikes.

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    Comment #1146486

    The only extra "configuration" I have experienced with rails 3 is adding routes as I used to abuse the default routes. But yes they decoupled a lot of things but it's not like you …

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    Comment #1077921

    The best line "The message to minors: These photos can ruin your lives, kids. And just to prove it, we're going to ruin your lives."

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    Comment #1015927

    I got started when I learned you could program a TI 83

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    Comment #927248

    Worse case scenario you can always just go in and make every one of your pixels blue for your avatar and you are back where you were. But I agree I need like a flashing arrow point…

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    Comment #927247

    Thanks, Yeah I should have guessed that people would try and trap people. That seems to have worked out on its own as every wall near the start has been vaporized now.

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    Comment #927087

    You guys are totally trashing the place and I love the guy who is putting up fake walls.

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    Comment #926912

    The author here. The whole thing is written in Rails and hosted on Heroku which has been great. Canvas was surprisingly easy to work with coming from almost no javascript experienc…

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    Comment #917185

    I see you guys running all over the place. Give me some feedback. Is drawing intuitive? Do you wish you could customize your character?

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    Ask HN: Check out my Canvas based multiplayer Maze

    http://www.graphitimaze.com/ I have been working on this for way too long in my free time and I need some outside feedback. I have tested it in Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Let me k…

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    Comment #845533

    The automatic restart caused us no end of difficulties at my work. We were running long running data loading integration test scripts on windows boxes. Nothing worse then finding o…