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mattmiller

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About mattmiller

Contact me: mattm184 at gmail

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    Comment #48280964

    "Antisocial behavior" You are describing teens being social. You dont get to define what antisocial means.

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    Comment #33414375

    Its been a while since I worked with this lib but I always thought Pygments was pretty. https://github.com/pygments/pygments

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    Comment #30107186

    Why haven't states setup Covid only treatment centers to relieve the pressure on hospitals? Sure there are only so many nurses and doctors but reducing regulation on who could work…

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    Comment #28517346

    Parent just suggested a realistic and actionable solution and you replied a snarky totally unrealistic counter offer.

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    Comment #27812340

    I agree with your assessment of the tech but the snake oil is a real turn off. What do I do? Hard to invest money when it feels so scammy.

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    Comment #23703421

    Facebook benefits from outrage. Outrage leads to engagement and virality. Hate correlates to outrage.

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    Comment #11973740

    Do the skimmers save card info to be retrieved later or can they call home somehow?

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    Comment #7078914

    Why wouldn't they sell the app and userbase as well?

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    Comment #5382555

    Health care costs in the US can have the same effect on the population as a tax even though it does not get go through the government. The goal should be to lower the healthcare co…

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    Comment #5347354

    The Netflix API does not let you create a player. As far as I know Netflix built the player for every device (Ipad, Playstation, Blueray...). If they did not build the player for a…

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    Comment #5099265

    How do you become a "Professional" CEO?

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    Comment #5074741

    This is an interesting possible future. If all things are built from the same raw substance the supplier of that substance will be incredible wealthy and powerful. A new Carnegie i…

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    Comment #5038715

    I think an easy way to improve the health care industry would be to quadruple the number of urgent cares and keep them all open 24 hours a day. Financially the system encourages ur…

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    Comment #4927723

    You clearly have it figured out. You should call this woman have arrange to have the kid live with you for a few months. I'm sure he will be cured. Your last two comments may be th…

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    Comment #4724560

    That is great, but is it private? If so you should explicitly state that. That will be your differentiating feature that you should stick with.

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    Comment #4522995

    How do you find industries dominated by PE?

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    Comment #4302158

    I thought NBN already planned to do fiber to the door for most of the country.

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    Comment #3962310

    If you look at the numbers as percentage of income instead of dollars then we can see the percentage of income that an item costs go up if the item has advanced (ie better cars, be…

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    Comment #3962300

    I hear the argument about how products have improved over time and how that justifies their increased price and I don't buy it. It makes sense if people still have the option of bu…

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    Comment #3962245

    Your example is the opposite of the current situation. If we assume that home prices are determined by monthly payment then that would explain why the price increased as rates drop…

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    Comment #3917290

    I would love to use it but my company would veto this product based on security concerns. At a minimum we would require a VPN connection to the cloud and the ability to limit (or c…

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    Comment #3782558

    That spoils the fun.

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    Comment #3755368

    The point is: if you don't like it you don't have to use it. PHP still stands in its current form. Snow may become popular with a minority of more adventurous devs and develop into…

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    Comment #3754539

    The only constructive comment in the thread has been sunk by downvotes. I don't know why people hate these pre-processors so much. Coffeescript threads always have a fair amount of…

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    Comment #3720265

    Do the Visas and Mastercards of Sweden still get their cut of every transaction? What a great way for these companies to solidify their corner of the market. Here is what I want: a…