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karl_nerd

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    Comment #8470523

    i guess this is the actual section they talk about: (i) Sell any new motor vehicle directly to a retail customer other than through franchised dealers, unless the retail customer i…

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    Comment #8260037

    So i'd wager there'd be quite a few celebrity dick picks available too if hackers wanted them. We know men like to send them unsolicited, and I'm sure those celebrities had receive…

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    Comment #7269300

    if your comment is intented to mean 'foreigners are coming over stealing our jobs', feel free to leave it as it is. Otherwise, you might wanna rephrase what you wrote..

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    Comment #5929555

    Iceland had 0.00021 UNHCR refugees per capita in 2013. same number for sweden was 0.0097 (almost 50x). I think its fair to say that iceland could take a bigger reponsibility intern…

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    Comment #5507432

    hey there! kudos for the simple explanatory, no-sound, no-parse-style-hollywood production videos! this is one of the examples where autoplay makes a lot of sense, and it's very ea…

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    Comment #5331301

    This is some really good UI code. You're storing the state in a very clear way and do the geometry calculations in one place, making it easy to understand what's going on. Nice!

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    Comment #5146788

    I understand where you're going here: pubsub communication can be both a blessing and a curse, it can be hard to ensure a consistent usage, hard to debug when there's long chains t…

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    Comment #5146403

    What I think is interesting to see, is that the patterns from Nicholas zakas' "scalable Javascript architecture" spreads into new frameworks. Enforcing components w/o return values…

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    Comment #5052828

    I second "writing a thumbdrive from scratch"! There's much more to it than it sounds like. Travis talks for example about the possiblity of the drive being able to fingerprint the …

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    Comment #4952431

    I'm getting very tired of hearing this. It's like we make up excuses for startups being dicks. There has to be a way to find business model that involves showing respect for your u…

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    Comment #4903878

    Very nice! Though the API of Box2d is a little bit hairy, i really appreciate how stable it is. We built a DOM-based game/ad-thingee with Box2d this spring ( http://embassy.de/game…

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    Comment #4869210

    While I agree with a lot of your points; in 1962 a lot of people in us/europe went abroad once or twice in their lifetime. Now, many go twice a year.

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    Comment #4797770

    Wouldn't need so much. The sidebar could say 'founder of app.net' instead of the machismo bullshit that's there now.

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    Comment #4757405

    scaringly fun, just lost 15 minutes here :)

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    Comment #4462046

    I'm super interested in this! Any code examples you can point to?

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    Comment #4254499

    Good that you asked, I went and checked this and my german bank actually let me do this now. This was referencing a thing a couple of years back with a Swedish bank.

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    Comment #4254142

    Note: i live in europe, have no experience w. american banks. Whenever i've had pain with my banks, it's always been revolving around exceptions, and not everyday business like pay…

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    Comment #4034037

    considered brokep from the pirate bay is heavily involved in flattr, i'm a little bit disappointed the site went down

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    Comment #3975729

    Here's an interesting example with http://junkyard.damowmow.com/507 When I saw the last line in the doc linked above, I realized that is probably optimized for adding one (1) "reti…

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