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drewinglis

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    Comment #9296223

    It's probably worth it for your company to pay the $84/yr rather than have you go through hoops to move Hubot somewhere else.

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    Comment #8903189

    They're saying that they doesn't even have the signal strength part.

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    Comment #8885049

    Can someone explain to me why this is illegal?

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    Comment #8771838

    Their average MRR per customer is four or five digits (see slide eight), and they have 2,814 paying customers according to their homepage, so their MRR is at least ~three million, …

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    Comment #7873356

    UPS is a shipping company first and a technology company second. Uber is a technology company first and a (taxi|courier|etc) company second. It's a difference in mentality.

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    Comment #7317786

    As I understand it, most fingerprint scanners can only distinguish between on the order of tens of thousands of fingerprints. 50,000 is higher than other numbers I've heard for fin…

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    Comment #7118312

    The game can be over after each player makes two moves. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool's_mate

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    Comment #6962586

    This might also be custom audience targeting. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/custo...

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    Comment #6169124

    There are gems like shoulda ( https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda ) that make it really easy to do the 'types and typos' kind of unit tests. The marginal time required for any gi…

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    Comment #4446542

    The bit about code/processor interchangeability is actually between 3:00 and 3:30.

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    Comment #4352126

    You would also need to enter your username or email address, though, and that's hard to do over the phone... I guess voice-to-text is improving, so that might be an option.

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    Comment #4337391

    They did successfully block his requests. The issue is that he was charging for the service, and that was against their policy. That's why he was disciplined (though I find their r…

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    Comment #4297271

    It's laying the fiber that's the expensive part, and there is a $300 fee to pay for that. In terms of marginal cost, it really doesn't cost them anything to serve another 5MB/1MB c…

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    Comment #4284447

    When you work more than 40 hours per week, you're borrowing time from your future self. However, the interest rates are very high, and so usually it doesn't make sense to borrow th…

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    Comment #4180025

    At CMU, one of the first classes is, in fact, in SML.

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    Comment #3987901

    This article left a bad taste in my mouth. Companies that have millions of active users are hardly bridges to nowhere that are devoid of economic or public value.

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    Comment #3768635

    I did a quick and dirty port of obtvse to jekyll last weekend. It still needs some work, though. It's here: https://github.com/drewinglis/obtvse-jekyll

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    Comment #3714770

    It's still down for me. =\

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    Comment #3477346

    This is on our to-do list for tonight. Thanks for the feedback. =)

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    Comment #3477187

    You can! Just click on the "Not your representatives?" link at the top. =)