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jakewalker

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    Comment #33469781

    Strongly prefer NetNewsWire, which is free and open source. www.netnewswire.com. Available on Mac and iOS.

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    Comment #26699378

    He addresses this in footnote 1 on the same page, though. "A different company, Sun, created the library. But because Oracle later purchased Sun, for simplicity I refer to both com…

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    Comment #22507694

    Sounds kinda like the people who thought that bundling a bunch of bad mortgage debt together in slices could get it rated AAA.

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    Comment #21059722

    Plaintiffs' class action (mostly securities) lawyer here. I have no idea what you are talking about.

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    Comment #20781036

    Not unilaterally, without any process.

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    Comment #20781028

    He does not. Which doesn't make the headline inaccurate. But he does not have that authority, and no one right-thinking believes that he does.

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    Comment #20781022

    Absolutely not. It's not remotely a thing, and would not withstand any scrutiny whatsoever.

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    Comment #20772532

    That may be part of it, but Starbucks has done a very good job of getting their regular customers to sign up for their loyalty program and online/app ordering, and to have them sig…

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    Comment #20701976

    We use Nest cams for a baby/child monitor at nighttime. Haven’t seen the change yet, but I suspect it will make it so that this use case no longer works.

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    Comment #19068861

    The Big Dig in Boston was full of the same overruns, delays, and even corruption. All worth it. It's the best thing the city has ever done, far and away. Fundamentally changed the …

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    Comment #18914367

    why would it be a "donation"? DDG isn't a charity.

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    Comment #17499255

    "Rumours of my acquisition are completely false. My humans and I are happily independent and plan to remain so." https://twitter.com/1Password/status/1016710603359096846

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    Comment #15550577

    No it isn't. http://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol107/iss4/1/

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    Comment #15550557

    And there are multiple inaccuracies in all of these replies.

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    Comment #15544160

    Lotus Improv was one of the best programs I've ever used, and I wish it would come back in a modern form. It was much more sophisticated than just having "names" instead of row/col…

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    Comment #10649867

    The standards for adequately pleading a securities fraud lawsuit -- which this was -- are incredibly high, and the plaintiff has to meet that standard without access to any discove…

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    Comment #9627543

    Thanks very much for sharing. Do you know more about its source?