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killwhitey

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    Comment #14123877

    The comparison to TV/cable is a good one. I don't think people who feel this way would say the same about telephones or the postal service.

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    Comment #14104069

    It's possible that this situation will cause all the other airlines to try improve their staff and bureaucracy out of fear of being next.

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    Comment #14083165

    The iMac G4 could be described as half of a globe.

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    Comment #14055375

    Have you forgotten about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks-related_Twitter_cour...

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    Comment #13897175

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13890782

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    Comment #13832630

    I own a 4 year old Nexus 4 that I got for $200. Almost everyone I encounter thinks it's an iPhone initially. Many people (especially the older ones) still think it's an iPhone afte…

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    Comment #13801001

    I suspect most of those history questions are answered via Wikipedia. From what I've seen if the snippet isn't using Wikipedia it's not useful and/or accurate.

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    Comment #12925215

    There used to be a feature on Twitter for viewing other people's feeds[1], but was removed[2]. I made something to replicate that via Twitter Lists[3][4], but it seems like making …

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    Comment #12722667

    This sounds more like gross incompetence than anything

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    Comment #12493073

    Freenode #startups and #dn

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    Comment #12433048

    I wrote about my own implementation for something like this for a web irc client, which may be helpful. https://gist.github.com/0x263b/2bdd90886c2036a1ad5bcf06d6e6f...

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    Comment #12356730

    I don't know about the Romans, but here's an example from 1627 https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0020217.html

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    Comment #12114612

    Author here: In developing this I discovered that Twitter really doesn't care about lists. The limits on API usage and aggressive following are well documented, but anything about …

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    Comment #12099002

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11875419

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    Comment #12067080

    You might be interested in reading this (assuming it isn't what you're referencing): http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/10/does-this-r... > “[Nippon Kaigi] have worked s…

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    Comment #11881953

    Mine starts with 'ab' and is ~7200 on the list

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    Comment #11743051

    The author works for Google on Polymer.

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    Comment #11634273

    > when we dug into the data we found that the votes for Pinboard look dramatically different from the votes for the other startups. What do the totals look like if you filter out n…

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    Comment #11367188

    > Mobile Safari can easily handle, say, a Photos.app-like interface with a translucent navigation bar, native-like swipe gestures and smooth animations. Chrome handles none of this…

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    Comment #11243080

    Can't be worse than when they hired Kevin Rose.