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korny

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    Comment #42219962

    Oops - that's a typo, I hope I got it right elsewhere. "Droving" is admittedly a bit silly - herding probably makes more sense.

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    Comment #42219953

    Good find - Henk and Hein were actually cousins of my grandfather. His eldest two sons (my uncles) were also involved with the resistance, though this only came out recently.

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    Comment #6832182

    There are some big places using clojure - the Daily Mail uses clojure heavily for it's website, as do SoundCloud; also, like Scala, it's used internally at some financial instituti…

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    Comment #5731035

    Light table!

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    Comment #3655981

    What the? If you write it down, it's a bad password. Make it a pass phrase, make it long. And possibly store it in an encrypted password database, protected by a master pass phrase…

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    Comment #3503292

    I use truecrypt to encrypt lots of legitimate stuff. All my financial data is on a truecrypt volume on DropBox. And I suspect that folks with something to hide wouldn't find it har…

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    Comment #3359301

    I'm not sure they have the right price point. Many people will impulse buy something of interest for under $10 - psychologically, that's a small amount of money. I bought Louis C.K…

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    Comment #3333322

    brunch ( http://brunch.io ) provides this for backbone.js / eco / stylus - it merges multiple source files into a single deployable js (and css) file. Or you could use spine, which…

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    Comment #3309047

    And phantom.js

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    Comment #3213280

    Note the abstract for the actual paper is at http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/11/03/1102895108.abst... And some graphs from the paper are at http://www.blognome.be/2011/11/08…

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    Comment #3097216

    Wow. Reminds me of GWT...

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    Comment #2749708

    I wonder if there are other possibilities for this? Such as, you could use it to produce print versions of educational videos for distributing to poor rural areas...

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    Comment #2464178

    It's hardly against their TOS - they recommend using FreeOTFE or TrueCrypt to do just this: http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/IncreasePrivacyAndSafe...

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    Comment #2074268

    When your key is a phrase, for instance? A hash of { phrase => count } is a pretty common data structure.