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jmccaffrey

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    Comment #4703788

    Haha, why does Steve Wozniak have the "Bad Boys Bail Bonds" lanyard my girlfriend does?

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    Comment #4609380

    I had no idea Rap Genius was a YC company. I listen to _alot_ of rap while working, and often look up the more intricate lyrics/phrases I haven't heard of. Rap Genius is far and wa…

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    Comment #4514091

    Alot of people are getting down on this... I'm very excited. I live in downtown San Jose, and _alot_ of people tool around on long-boards already; I've been thinking about getting …

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    Comment #4393550

    Congrats! I went to school in Philadelphia, I think Kortina paid for cheesesteaks at a hackathon once..

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    Comment #4326271

    Much love for PadMapper. I'll miss it man...I even recommended it to my landlord so he can track neighborhood apartment prices better (for rent adjustment)

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    Comment #4299088

    Yeah, the relevant naming was great. Seeing it go from rough segment clustering to your website design was very neat.

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    Comment #4006317

    Those looks _weirdly_ similar to what caricaturists draw.

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    Comment #3957319

    I went to a Serious Business Meeting in the Bay Area where one of the other company's engineers was wearing a kilt. Pretty excellent.

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    Comment #3804669

    Gotta love android, you can cheerfully mprotect away the write-protection on executable pages. I've done some dynamic stub code removal that way. Worst case, you can only hose your…

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    Comment #3641550

    C++ actually has some performance advantages over C, especially relating to static polymorphism (qsort v. std::sort)

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    Comment #3549812

    Having worked with repo professionally, I'm not a fan. You lose simple ability to track dependencies across repositories or even revert to a previous consistent point in time witho…

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    Comment #3530221

    I'm not sure I agree that it's necessarily bad if the interface is a side-effect of the implementation. It seems very worse-is-better to me. I feel like when the interface is a sid…