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jjburka

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    Comment #1380284

    I recently got a pair of MetroFit 220 by LE which can be found for around 80$. ( http://www.ultimateears.com/_ultimateears/store/products/met... ) Which I like alot. They are buds,…

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    Comment #987957

    Not really about the app (It looks neat however) but on the site, the "Take a tour" section should display the screen shots in a gallery, lightbox or some such. It's rather hard to…

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    Comment #578573

    'For us the living' is also another interesting book by him. Sorta the anti-Atlas Shrugged.

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    Comment #578569

    Another good introduction to Ayn Rand is the 'Virtue of Selfishness'. Its a collection of her essays with some that were written by people in her group. Its pretty short (100ish pa…

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    Comment #554421

    The page does make it clearer when a company has endorsed the page or not. A couple observations * I don't think the "X has Opted Out of this Community" and "X is not yet participa…

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    Comment #521889

    With the added complexity of making it mulitplayer you would also have to deal with the increased costs of keeping the game running. Right now when they finish a game the only recu…

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    Comment #469811

    full disclosure : I worked on the project

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    Comment #413974

    If its a restful web service you could try http://github.com/yfactorial/objectiveresource/tree/master . It's basically a port of Active Resource to Obj C. You can use it if its not…

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    Comment #407789

    The difference is that very few if any plugins are sold and it is somewhat easy to downgrade to an older version of Firefox. Could you imagine what would happen if iPhone OS 2.3 ca…

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    Comment #403084

    That dot operator took me forever to understand , its highly unintuitive. @synthesize should of just created the setMethod and getMethod that would make sense. Not some weird prope…

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    Comment #395239

    yeah , it was interesting. It is a little difficult to actually see what they are making , but it appears they have paid for some marketing either 12K or 7K depending on if the 5K …

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    Comment #382560

    http://unfuddle.com/ has free private repos and they support git

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    Comment #381292

    I would also add actually having some text to put in the site helps. Completely off topic , I really like the design of that site.

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    Comment #371926

    Exactly, and he seemed to limit his scope of car companies to American car companies. Since the Auto Industry is global one the number is much higher. And just because you have a l…

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    Comment #345389

    the NSZombie and malloc tracing stuff shown in this article helped me out a number of times http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?DebuggingAutorelease

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    Comment #319923

    honestly I wouldn't hire anyone that can't take the time to spell out "you"

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    Comment #312371

    Wow thanks man. I generally go to ethic stores for spices which is really cheap compared to conventional grocery stores. But not as cheap as that.

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    Comment #311850

    If your whole foods has a bulk section its rather economical to shop there for that. But on the topic of cheap/good for you eats: Can't go wrong with burritos made with beans,corn …

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    Comment #259064

    In addition to adding some more color ( I would use kuler and upload your logo then mess around with the colors) , I would removed the 'detele blank images' button you display on t…

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    Comment #257725

    I second the Rails Way book , its a great book thats easy to follow and organized. For learning Ruby I found http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Programming-Language-David-Flanag... to be g…

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    Comment #252229

    That code sample is either really old or a good example of why you should read up on the framework your using

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    Comment #226486

    If thats the case I shouldn't be able to. I also might add a up button and a down button (like the left/right buttons you have on the top) so the user is aware the list scrolls. Si…

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    Comment #226210

    Looks nice. The only thing I found is if you scroll up in the news list area it doesn't stop at today's news , it loops back to a couple days ago. Which is rather unintuitive.