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elliottcable

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    Comment #5398505

    Unless I mis-understand, isn't this basically money laundering? Or rather, I suppose, bitcoin laundering?

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    Comment #2877986

    Actually, I’m moving all of this into an office in the next month or so, and renting out this last room.

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    Comment #2877953

    P.S.: Forgive the WoW shot; it’s the only game I had installed when I set it up. Hate that game. >,> Also, I cannot recommend this GelPro mat highly enough . A several-thousand-dol…

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    Comment #2877916

    For those interested, here’s the involved equipment: • Anthro Corp’s “Elevate Adjusta” desk, http://www.anthro.com/computer-furniture.aspx?desk=elevate-a... • Mac Pro, Apple 27″ LC…

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    The perfect standing hacker desk

    I’ve been planning this workstation for a long time, researching all the perfect equipment and options. There’s more information in the Flickr “set comments.” Also, watch the video…

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    Comment #2877882

    I’ve been using Safari as my ‘relaxation browser’ for ages; Chrome never felt “right” to me, even though I use it every day for development and various other reasons. Interestingly…

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    Comment #2584601

    Not actually true; you can play it in terminal/ncurses mode.

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    Comment #2302988

    I actually spent an inordinate amount of time calculating the ideal a while back. As a sometime designer, I’m quite intimately familiar with the limits of comfortable reading for t…

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    Comment #1974215

    Simply put, what mcdavis said. GitHub also has a history of being communicative during issues; not to mention near-instantaneous fixes of problems (anybody remember how unbelievabl…

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    Comment #1973710

    “… scrupulous amounts of text messages …” scru•pu•lous |ˈskroōpyələs| adjective (of a person or process) diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details “the research has be…

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    Comment #1973702

    Keyword, I think, being “was.”

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    Comment #1973695

    Let’s compare: http://twitter.com/tumblr/status/11570891053862912 … 130 characters, 21 words, no actual information other than that which could be assumed: we’re working on it (can…

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    Comment #1593910

    Actually, I doubt it will take you all that long. At one point, I was following ~1,900 people; I unfollowed all of them to get back to the essence of things… since then, I’ve climb…

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    Comment #1576830

    You’re confusing Wave and Google Wave. Google killing Google Wave essentially kills Wave as a whole, at this point; we all think Google’s web-client sucked fucking balls, but there…

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    Comment #1469958

    Oh, and on that same topic; as a personal friend of the creator of this library, I can very very much vouch for his sense of style. ;D

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    Comment #1469955

    This is absolutely fine: a creator who has no ‘style’ will not only fail to care enough to create a quality landing page for their creations, but it’s quite likely that the creatio…

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    Comment #1449851

    Obvious solution: Stop using SVN. Versions is a great app, but it’s long since time to move on. That said, Kaleidoscope is pretty neat! :D

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    Comment #1046511

    And here’s the answer, for anyone curious: http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html

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    Comment #1046509

    What’s ‘ramen profitable’ mean?

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    Comment #774590

    Of course, downvote me because I’m not mourning somebody who, if you’ll notice, isn’t dead /-:

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    Comment #774291

    Good riddance.

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