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garethadams
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About garethadams
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Comment #17560352
While this will work a very large proportion of the time, and has a big benefit of offloading security as you mention, email is fundamentally asynchronous and can be affected by is…
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Comment #14720167
Let's check the first paragraph of the readme… > Here are the screenshots of working example on an iTerm2 terminal (Mac OS), oh-my-zsh with powerlevel9k theme and powerline nerd-fo…
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Comment #14720021
> let me pay the bill and shut the account down The account gets shut down
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Comment #14708955
> The article starts by complaining about "drive-by issue comments", then described opening what might be considered a drive-by issue. That could be construed as contradictory. The…
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Comment #14105513
"can get the original secret" is a phrase which should worry a security-conscious person
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Comment #13887310
That's fine as a discussion starter, but thinking a law is wrong isn't a reason to break it – if that's what you're suggesting. That argument often turns into "But I probably won't…
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Comment #12501810
> 1. Can you rebase in the GitHub interface? > 2. Does GitHub have an option to fast forward merges? So is Gitlab's aim to just play catchup to Github?
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Comment #12129021
To be fair, everyone shits
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Comment #11835773
That's interesting, because from your comment history you're in favour of user-specified preferences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11114154
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Comment #11693850
Does it?
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Comment #11385664
One of these things is not like the other… https://github.com/edent/BMW-OpenSource/blob/master/FOSS_S1/...
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Comment #11342889
Is this the millenials' version of the "500 Mile Email"? - http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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Comment #11283813
I'm not certain, but I believe the subtle point parent was trying to make, is the difference between "base 10" and "base ten". Every base is "base 10" in its own base ;)
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Comment #11268864
Because of this[1] Chrome extension, I wasn't sure whether you were talking about Donald Trump [1]: http://somerichasshole.com/
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Comment #11207305
Maybe because the app could be a mail client? If I downloaded a mail client and it wasn't able to delete my email I'd think it was a pretty crap piece of software. The same as I'd …
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Comment #11202941
Well, apart from "6) Don’t use only the “latest” tag". If I'm not using latest, and I don't know that the Apache and Nginx images have been updated, then it's very likely that "yum…
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Comment #11119782
Right, see: New issue: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/new issue_template.md file in repo: https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/master/issue_template....
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Comment #11074999
Your point about whether doping is inherent in cycling is a good discussion point, but the research that the article describes shows how "Winners turn to cheating" even in cases wh…
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Comment #11074942
The parent wasn't talking about the individual validation of email addresses (although I guess that may be a part of the answer), but instead about checking the presence of a recip…
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Comment #10946381
I can see where that comes from, the functionality of Youtube is nothing without its videos. But on the other hand, Youtube wouldn't have as many videos – specifically the content …
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Comment #10836097
It certainly seems to be per-module, for example: http://jasperproject.github.io/documentation/configuration/#...
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Comment #10557344
[citation needed]
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Comment #10299687
"Google" is not a verb, except as a very recent (post 2003)[1] colloquialism. Verbing nouns is annoying, let's hope no one[2] does it. [1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3006486.st…
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Comment #9844539
The media pack with finalised technical specifications is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/microbit
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Comment #9591041
Luckily, this is built into the flexbox model too. By default flexbox uses an element's automatic size as the basis to calculate its new size from. However if you set flex-basis to…