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mephi5t0

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About mephi5t0

Web Dev, writing code to tame ruthless Gods of World Wild Web.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #11733637

    They need to upgrade terminal itself, not the keyboard. Anyone who works at BB will tell you how outdated their stack is

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    Comment #11058832

    disable background app refresh in the settings?

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    Comment #10451727

    In other news: reading books causes rectal cancer too. All tested groups that got cancer were reading books at least 1 cubic centimeter in volume per week

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    Comment #9961857

    Trulia and Zillow both have Looking for Rent options. I wonder why would landlords go and try the other thing? Cheaper fees?

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    Comment #9930075

    Down votes are incorrect. Recruited means enlisted, hired. She was never hired, she was contacted by recruiters and interviewed. "Recruited" doesn't mean "contacted by recruiters" …

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    Comment #8998176

    Chinese started to stock up on heavy duty slingshots...

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    Comment #8268580

    So they can properly create an uninstall tool? Still have shit behind after LMIn went non-free and couldn't properly uninstall everything...

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    DB schema change from varchar(64) to 255 takes 4 yrs and counting

    WP transients being cut off because column is too short (64 characters). Considering you can add underscores and make sure transient unique and self explanatory when searching for …

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    Comment #7899204

    I became a good friend with my current coworker. We went to Islanders game. We watched games in the bar. Our friendship was developing steadily. Then I went to his apartment and di…

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    Comment #7785090

    Google's Nexus 7 was a OK device until after a few month of usage it started to lag like hell. a lot of previous android phones lagged like it was their job. Should Android or Nexu…

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    Comment #7733908

    324 mln divided by 64K people is about 5K. So, you didn't hire me because of your little shitty agreement, I didn't get a 30-40K or more salary a year (not to mention possibly bett…

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    Comment #7733855

    Exactly, nobody can. When we were drawing in horse crap - a car was a life saver. Now everyone complain it's killing us with cancer and drawing us in the future melted ice caps. No…

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    Comment #7698490

    I was in Math high school and in Math class. We had 12 of mixed math per week: algebra, geometry, linear algebra, probability and what not. Too bad in college we couldn't pick clas…

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    Comment #7598469

    this is bananas

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    Comment #7347814

    A bit pricey but with the accessories :) And seems like a much better quality than crappy-painted-not-standing Double Fine Pshychonauts mini figs

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    Comment #7320631

    very legacy?

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    Comment #7318842

    Question: did anyone got fired in Washington for blowing through 300 mln and delivering jack shit? Why if you get hired in a company and preform poorly or just because of the budge…

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    Comment #7300538

    is there a line that says "Bonus: 400 mln"

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    Comment #7278058

    Just go to LinkedIn, in the top drop down menu "Network" select Add Connections. You will get a list of "imported" users. That's the users LI tricked you to give to them when they …

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    Comment #7273534

    You can continue to put money there and try to change something about the physical shape? I think accent should be not on "oh crap I won't even use that money" but rather "hey, I W…

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    Comment #7273518

    Warning sign of a heart attack is a 300 pound belly.

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    Comment #7024206

    How is that illegal? Whatever is found in Google is public. It's like saying you are pirating books when you read them in library. I am not saying all the data that is indexed in G…

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    Comment #7006015

    Just because you tested more secure .NET site than less secure PHP sites doesn't mean that PHP is less secure. It means you tested more secure .NET sites compared to number of less…

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    Comment #6937264

    Those cubes with square holes remind me indie game Fez :)