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hc5

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About hc5

Currently: * Flickr backend

Formerly: * Distill, Tapjoy, Mog, Swivel

Duke '03, RPI '06, Dad '08 and '10

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8798038

    > Most Go-ic? Maximally Go-ful? What's Go's equivalent to "Pythonic"? Gophery

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    Comment #8118531

    Choco Pie isn't like "chocolate pie" in the Western vernacular. It's a knock-off (of a knock-off) moon pie. [1] > In the wake of World War II and the Korean War, the snack gained p…

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    Comment #8035174

    Also, 680/880 is severely underserved by public transit. Every day it's bumper-to-bumper traffic from Walnut Creek->San Jose. BART will eventually connect this, but you would still…

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    Comment #8008133

    FWIW, my parents didn't give me a generation name, and my kids don't have one. I have cousins and uncles (I think this is for males only? I could be wrong) who do have generation n…

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    Comment #8007085

    > People in Korea, who typically do have 3 names but who don't usually initialize them... No, not really. This is a completely wrong interpretation of Korean names. Most of us have…

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    Comment #7957276

    We're currently in PDT not PST.

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    Comment #7860826

    Using it with Google Glass: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/...

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    Comment #7410395

    Thanks! There is a corollary to this that would have prevented all this - when I went back in the Chrome settings and set the settings to the same order, it reset my header to this…

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    Comment #5185922

    This is my guess as well - our app updated and Facebook connect works just fine.

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    Comment #4639514

    EDT not EST

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    Comment #4130139

    It was a bug in Lotus 1-2-3 that was intentionally implemented into Excel, so technically it was a backwards-compatibility "feature". And some items from the original list aren't e…

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    Comment #4129007

    N+9.1: Non leap years will never contain a leap day. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214326

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    Comment #4122124

    When I put "saygent" in the second field: > $100k fine for linking to saygent.com > $200k royalty fee for using the term 'Saygent' in anchor text Yet it shows $350,000 total fine.

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    Comment #3236055

    > The iPhone 4S sends identifiers everywhere. So if I'm reading this right, Apple is sending UDIDs over HTTP?

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    Comment #2935153

    http://nodeknockout.com/judges - 172 judges http://nodeknockout.com/teams - 297 teams http://nodeknockout.com/entries - 200 (right now) entries, which I think means teams who have …

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    Comment #2840240

    That "i" at the top of the page is really bothering me...

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    Comment #2830114

    a) Yup, I have same experience here on iPad 1. b) I disagree with this, but my kid is 3 years old. I thought the music selection was playful and best of all, not annoying when play…

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    Comment #2731010

    San Francisco, CA (111 Sutter st.) Rails engineer, fulltime, onsite Tapjoy is looking for backend Rails engineers to join our current engineering team of 12 (6 backend, 2 frontend,…

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    Comment #2728244

    Did HP really have to name their product "TouchPad"? I was wondering why a laptop mouse needs 4G and 64GB disk before I clicked through the link.

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    Comment #2684966

    Amazon RDS and SimpleDB. I voted for MySql and Other.

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    Comment #2670419

    1 real, 1 fake for testing, 2 kids under 13 = 4

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    Comment #2598382

    I commute from Pleasanton to SF every day, and it's basically the exact same commute described in the article. 40-50 minutes each way, last stop so I get to work on the train, farm…