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howellnick
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Comment #35863881
> Yeah, that one is rock solid. The best compliment to receive, thanks! (I’m the author)
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Comment #35863802
It’s supported by donations (via Patreon).
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Comment #35863769
Happy to see something I made showing up in the comments! I do still maintain Exo, but it doesn’t have all of the features I would have liked to build (like automation) built-in. M…
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Comment #27505435
https://cognitohq.com/ is another YC company that's already in this space. I haven't tried either service, but I wonder how they compare.
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Comment #22407082
C# 8.0 introduced "Nullable Reference Types" ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/embracing-nullable-ref... ), which, if enabled, can help solve this problem.
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Comment #15446095
Doesn’t RDP use Ctrl+Alt+End for bringing up the password screen?
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Comment #7093340
I don't use Backblaze, so I don't know what kind of upload speeds they have on restores, but 12+ hours for 6gb seems very slow (or the bottleneck is your download speed). It doesn'…
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Comment #7093297
He's not even sure that Chrome.exe was at fault. Why are you so quick to assume that it's Backblaze's fault in this one customer instance? He could have just reinstalled his machin…
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Comment #7093230
Coming from working in IT support, it's frustrating to me that you've made a big public ordeal over something that, firstly was fixed by rebooting your PC, and secondly you haven't…
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Comment #3631279
In a way I think this is less intrusive (and clever). These are merely "suggested defaults" that never actually get displayed on the user's profile. Actually using bad defaults may…
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Comment #3631259
They did not add any content whatsoever. facepalm It's simply a mind trick to get a much higher percent of users to add their skills to their profile.
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Comment #3631035
It's just a motivator to "correct" their skills and enter real ones. Who wants to say they "love IE6"? Hah, I like it.