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erifneerg

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    Comment #44685723

    According to a NYT article from 2022, there's a high false positive. Title: When They Warn of Rare Disorders, These Prenatal Tests Are Usually Wrong Authors: Sarah Kliff & Aatish B…

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    Comment #9682170

    Apple loses Facetime patent lawsuit. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114

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    Comment #8496791

    Time and time again, after being frustrated with Lastpass's UX i think of how much nicer 1Password looks. I really miss that app. It's hard for me to suggest LastPass to people who…

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    Comment #6872253

    The communist party is still an active part of the Ukrainian government, last I check.

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    Comment #6863112

    I was listen to an old episode of Radio lab ( http://www.radiolab.org/story/91713-famous-tumors/ ) and they had an ad for 23andme. The ad most talked about how you can use this inf…

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    Comment #6861856

    > Even if we accept that OS X users don't buy books about their OS and don't rant as much (which I find particularly out of touch with reality), that's because there are vastly mor…

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    Comment #6848426

    I'd like to say that with Mavericks adding OpenGL 4.1, I can play a number of games much better on my Macbook Pro (early 2008).

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    Comment #6848368

    I saw this reasoning flying around a lot when Valve started working on linux. I saw the move from linux initially as a natural extension of developing for the Mac OS. GabeN was quo…

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    Comment #6848263

    It's not user friendly to do. Jailbreaking on iOS has been shockingly easily lately when it's released.

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    Comment #6848226

    The main reasons I stay on iOS 1) Vender lockdown & habits - I've been using an since the second iPod Touch (as a PDA). I'm not ready/eager to change "my workflow". 2) Accessibilit…

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    Comment #6848147

    > Jailbreaking is also critical to ensuring that the disabled are able to use their mobile devices as easily as possible. This reason, while good and noble, feels really wonky. Fro…

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    Comment #6621267

    Overbite has a list of plugins and clients that work on most platforms. http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/

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    Comment #6082032

    I would contraceptive usage would play a much larger part then internet porn.

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    Comment #5884972

    I just posted its same link. Brett Terpstra makes so many amazing little script.

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    Comment #5760863

    I was thinking of Daniel Suarez's Freedom (TM) book when I read this thread.

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    Comment #5665825

    Did you miss the part where he says over and over how he uses vim? Did you read the replies on reddit where this was originally posted to where there are rebuttal to the author's c…

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    Comment #5663341

    Too bad that is chrome only at the moment and the commenter is using safari. And for the too lazy to copy paste: http://tldr.io

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    Comment #5465464

    People often mix the words sentience and sapience to mean the same thing. Mice clearly can perceive and feel things but they do not show the intelligence we call sapience.

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    Comment #5305337

    using '/' (search) comes to mind. Drew also did an episode cover some more ideas and touches on relative number moving. http://vimcasts.org/episodes/long-range-line-duplication/

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    Comment #5305283

    But as Drew points out in his post, moving by by word (w,b and e) and by character search (f,F,t,T) is much faster the arrow keys or h,j,k,l. The article isn't about not using h,j,…

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    Comment #5266425

    As someone with vision problems, syntax highlighting is a must for me (reason 1).

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    Comment #5238635

    I completely agree with you. But once I found this interest setup where you'd map the caps lock key to ctrl/esc and then the ctrl key to cmd+alt+shift+ctrl. That mapping can act li…

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    Comment #4906318

    Drupal 8 is talking about using Twig, which my guess is very likely. Twig is made by the same people that start Symfony 2, parts of which Drupal 8 is going to be using.

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    Comment #4733049

    I would a though iPod made more sense but waiting until 2009 is odd.