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mpobrien

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    Comment #24924575

    This is a tool to analyze large goroutine stacktrace dump files, to assist in debugging by parsing the dump and displaying it in a structured table. It works entirely client-side (…

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    Comment #13100904

    Remapping caps lock to ESC has been my preferred method for this, I'd suggest giving it a try!

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    Comment #9512209

    Isn't that still missing the point? We don't want to be spied on period, whether there are things to hide or not.

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    Comment #5894992

    That's about what I would have guessed too, except I think "documentation" is "wiki", and "merging" is "pull requests". The icons for pull requests and branches are far too similar…

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    Comment #5758548

    Looked at loom.com, don't get what this site does. Looked at loom.com/about and read wall of text, still not sure. I'd suggest finding a more efficient way to communicate what this…

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    Comment #5757134

    But isn't suing to enforce his patent rights also an expensive legal battle that he would need to somehow fund? I don't see how this threat could be seen as effective.

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    Comment #5756518

    Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Javascript!" Now they have NaN problems.

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    Comment #4972259

    As an alternative for 1) you might consider using the TTL collections feature in mongo, which expires data after a given time threshold: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/exp…

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    Comment #4581344

    The stars animation behind that logo seems to be using quite a bit of CPU...

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    Comment #4496798

    I love it. Instead of MMS though, reminders via instant message (gchat/aim/whatever) would be nice.

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    Comment #4027662

    That's Portuguese.

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    Comment #3349704

    It's not mentioned in the article, but using the MULTI command (exposed as client.multi() in this module) can sometimes help alleviate this if you need to execute multiple redis co…

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    Comment #3246132

    A while back I actually built a mobile site for playing Jeopardy (originally conceived as a drinking game based on jeopardy, but that's another story...) part of which was a scrape…

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    Comment #3214043

    Very nice. Do the search results link to the comments pages anywhere? It looks like there are only links directly to the original articles.

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    Comment #2861342

    in that case, you might like outloud.fm. the design is barebones and utilitarian, both twitter and facebook logins are supported, and you can also play tracks from soundcloud. full…

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    Comment #2755178

    If you ask an employee, "Are you bored?" there's a good chance they are going to lie to you, unless you have a strong enough relationship.

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    Comment #2538795

    >Most access tokens expire in two hours, but some tokens work offline and remain valid until the user changes the password, Doshi said. FB users can just go into their authenticate…

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    Comment #2532651

    Another method I sometimes use for pasting large blocks of code: :r !cat (paste your stuff) ctrl - D Doesn't require any switching between paste modes.

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    Comment #2500898

    A clever hack, which nobody should ever use

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    Comment #2217437

    Thanks! I definitely have no intention of trying to launch this as a 'product' because of the legal issues involved - I just did it as a fun experiment. It also makes for a fantast…

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    Comment #2217397

    Yeah - all the question and answer data comes from the J! archive: http://www.j-archive.com/

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