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micmcg

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    Comment #10316634

    No, they will just get the small, metadata containing files

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    Comment #9391624

    "A quick look at HipChat indicates this still isn't possible" Not currently possible, but officially confirmed as being worked on. "It’s official: Development is underway for multi…

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    Comment #7881539

    micmcg at gmail if you are still selling it

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    Comment #6852489

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

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    Comment #5647783

    Prices are never going to be matched, and why should they? Things made in China are cheap simply because they have a huge population of people desperate to work, so they can exploi…

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    Comment #5647772

    People pay lip service to wanting to buy locally made, but they don't vote with the only thing that matters, the willingness to pay more. As long as consumers demand the absolute l…

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    Comment #5549479

    Can you explain why you think people wouldn't just use Youtube/Vimeo/etc?

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    Comment #5549473

    ^ This. I don't really understand the model. All you are doing is allowing people to host a video file with you and doing some trivial code snippet generation. How do you make mone…

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    Comment #5365670

    The "self-hosted" variant of BitBucket is Stash - http://atlassian.com/software/stash/overview Disclaimer: I work for Atlassian on Stash

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    Comment #4995175

    Please please please do an ePub version. PDF is great for reading on a computer, but an ePub is miles better on an iPad. I'll buy a digital copy if it comes in ePub, but not if it'…

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    Comment #4535647

    You do understand that you aren't buying a bulb for $70 right? You are funding a startup and in return you get a reward of one of the bulbs. Kickstarter isn't a retail store, so ma…

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    Comment #4436714

    Bitbucket and Stash are different products with different codebases. Bitbucket is written in Python and Stash is written in Java.

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    Comment #4016615

    Cause he is MAXXXTREME!

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    Comment #4016610

    It completely tweaks the way you search the web.

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    Comment #4016582

    I guarantee this is the case. If their desktop effort at a "new browser" is a chrome extension, no way is the IOS version anything more than a wrapper around UIWebView.

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    Comment #3342576

    Intellisense isn't a feature of the language, its a feature of the IDE you are using.

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    Comment #3341385

    Yeah this is a misuse of the term "long tail" or at least the assumption that it only applies to "using long tail keywords to grey hat SEO my site". Offering genuine long tail cont…

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    Comment #2986280

    Thanks for that, nice inspiration for my terminal.

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    Comment #2968083

    FYI, there's no such thing as "over-arrogant", there's no amount arrogance that is considered a positive, you would just say someone is arrogant. Though given your use of air quote…

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    Comment #2875327

    Agreed. Every advertising agency that works with Facebook would happily pay a subscription fee like that for the number of head hours it would save them.

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    Comment #2858671

    So even after reading the article, I'm unsure if its an appropriate set up for me. I just want a way to access my NAS at home from my iphone (mainly just web traffic). I'm not worr…

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    Comment #2681294

    CSS3 + HTML isn't Turing complete

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    Comment #2672715

    Yes, heaven forbid Google sends traffic to your site from people who might find it relevant.

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    Comment #2624150

    So what does "The New Student Union" do beyond be "an online magazine run by and for college students covering the issues that they care about."? The term "startup" is thrown aroun…