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excalq

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    Comment #43436621

    I forsee even more dead vehicles ending up in blackberry thickets if that happens.

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    Comment #43250604

    Isn't that per year? I'm on their bigger $90/year plan which is excellent.

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    Comment #43232617

    I've noticed that it's trivial to install addons directly from their xpi packages on GitHub release pages.

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    Comment #43204931

    Tab containers are a godsend when managing multiple AWS accounts as well.

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    Comment #18430284

    On 17 October, there was a multi-AZ network failure at us-east-1. It only lasted 3m35s, but it was enough that our customers were calling about our site being down.

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    Comment #11048699

    What if Watson read Conservapedia thinking it to be factual. That's a startling thought.

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    Comment #10879264

    I took several years away from the front-end to focus on Backend and DevOps, only recently re-upping my front-end-fu. Since I knew CSS 2.0, I found Bootstrap quite easy to pick up …

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    Comment #10509848

    They also make a ridiculously amazing Solar charger array, which when I took across a border to Israel, had the inspectors in serious awe and wishing they could get one as inexpens…

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    Comment #9528983

    Why not Ireland? You do have a .ie domain, afterall!

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    Comment #9350083

    In my experience the Canada DMV has incredibly hot young women working at the DMV. Back home, it's Patty and Selma.

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    Comment #9055180

    Related to that is Tetration, which can be expressed with complex numbers resulting in some beautiful fractal graphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration#Extensions

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    Comment #8473053

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine's_Day_Massacre http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/nkazmers/organ...

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    Comment #8473048

    This is the same shit as happened in cities like Chicago during the 1920s, with the same cause: prohibition. I wonder when our incompetent politicians are going to realize that end…

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    Comment #8468467

    That's easy to fix. Use iTerm2, and tell it to remap modifier keys (to unflip them). If you use mission-control shortcuts (like move workspace), configure those keys in iTerm2 to "…

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    Comment #8401895

    I actually work for a tech startup in the Chambers Street building that was the original HQ of the Manhattan Project. It kind of blew our minds when we found out!