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marginalboy
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Comment #6583541
I doubt you'd get it from an FOIA request. I believe there's an exemption that covers work like this.
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Comment #6325565
They messed up my "back" button. Party foul.
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Comment #5416803
It is relevant. The entire predicate of this situation was that she is offended by such jokes because they oppress women (a bizarre and utterly arbitrary conclusion, by the way). I…
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Comment #5416745
No, it is hypocrisy. She was clearly feigning offense. She eavesdropped her way into internet infamy and her behavior was so extraordinarily irrational, I'm disappointed the PyCon …
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Comment #5411546
Am I cultivating a hyperactive sense of irony if I point out that, instead of turning around and asking them to take it elsewhere (as a mature adult ought to have done), she played…
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Comment #5329546
I honestly think it's more of a statement on the mediocre management of tech workers than the productivity of those workers.
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Comment #5230292
I don't think you're being very fair. You're suggesting a false dichotomy.
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Comment #5181728
I tried several times over several hours and never could get the thing to work :-(
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Comment #5026324
On my mobile device, it was nearly unusable...
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Comment #4919695
I think it sounds promising. As much as my habits are solidly in the "file explorer" space, I can see its limitations. But, in order to even convince me there's a viable alternativ…
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Comment #4919690
It also seemed to break my back button after I went to the sign up page. I had to type the HN url to get back here after I finished. That was annoying.
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Comment #4910155
This, exactly. Great tool, but having no experience with Mongo yet, I literally said aloud "So verbose...!" when I saw the translation.
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Comment #4910136
I was casually browsing the site, but honestly it wasn't until I came back to the HN comments that I realized there was more than one package with more than one price.
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Comment #4654868
And it appears the bottom-feeder subclass of redditors has spilled over :-(
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Comment #4495560
That's classy.
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Comment #4482851
As soon as I walked away for some more water, I realized I had missed the point ;-)
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Comment #4482846
I don't know; I feel like this would get complicated far more quickly than the FOIL method...
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Comment #4468631
One can't help but suspect these players are acting in concert, to manufacture the most ridiculous exercises of technology patent abuse, so as to motivate the public and Congress t…
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Comment #4458232
Classic case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should"...
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Comment #4429950
Great work, Evernote! That's pretty darn cool :-)
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Comment #4420756
Signed up already! Great job on it. By way of exchange, I'll offer what meager observations my usability & QA expertise inform when I start using :-)
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Comment #4420737
I came here to say "how the hell can I get a backspac.es account". Loved it, absolutely loved it.
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Comment #4035376
This is from 2009. Is there news on whether the charges were valid?
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Comment #4033552
I've managed a high volume call center for 15 years and I agree with this very much. In my experience, it can be easy to view customers with cynicism. But answering an extreme prin…
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Comment #4033221
Whether or not the rule that the "customer is always right" applies is context-dependent. In an educational environment, for example, we can't embrace this principle; it is contrar…