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joecomotion

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    Comment #10410436

    IIRC, Rotterdam had a massive govt. subsidy for going fully-automated, which kind of helps. I spent 10 years between 1997 and 2009 (took a break for grad school) working on semi-au…

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    Comment #10089513

    The magic will be when my hamper contents gets emptied / sorted / washed / dried / folded without my intervention. Bonus points for refiling in my closet and bureau.

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    Comment #10050099

    In a past life, when I was mixing GPS, accelerometer, gyros, and tachometer sensors, Aided Navigation by Jay A Farrel ( http://www.amazon.com/Aided-Navigation-High-Rate-Sensors/dp/…

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    Comment #7345770

    Delicious left Big Purple long ago.

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    Comment #5482458

    There are three integration points: - Share from Dropbox: when composing an email, insert a link to a file already in your Dropbox. - Save to Dropbox: when reading email, save a re…

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    Comment #5439058

    I hate being in team meetings where we're discussing a failure and avoid talking about individual actions/responsibilities leading up to the issue. Don't make it personal, but do m…

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    Comment #4231719

    Any chance someone could update this to work with a recent FF, Safari, or Chrome?

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    Comment #2954982

    These guys have nice Yahoo! Mail App for scanning your inbox automatically and aggregating purchase history: https://www.projectslice.com/mail_app Full disclosure: I work for Yahoo…

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    Comment #2328924

    The latter can break caching for some older proxies. Also, I believe safari will ignore your caching/expires headers if you use GET params.

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    Comment #1745183

    Wait, if what you think they need to do is "gut the top" than why is it frustrating for you to watch the people at the top leave? Whether they're leaving of their own accord or not…

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    Comment #1658520

    Handy if you're viewing a live log file and want to see what's been appended since the last time you've opened it: (defun force-revert-buffer () (interactive) (revert-buffer t t)) …

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    Comment #795331

    I prefer to return as early as possible and I dislike unnecessary else clauses. And unnecessary braces. I especially hate really long functions where there's only one return but a …

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    Comment #142082

    Yeah, variable naming standards are nice for consistency and I take it "common functions" is a euphemism for "don't cut and paste," but do you really want to dictate 'how to do ite…

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    Comment #134486

    What type of tests do you guys maintain for news.yc other than the live deployment? Did this hiccup result in something like an account creation stress test being added to an autom…