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mroth

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About mroth

Lapsed tech person. Formerly head of product @flickr & @bitly. Creator @lolcommits & @emojitracker. Artist and hacker.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mroth; my proof: https://keybase.io/mroth/sigs/3haLq4Jd1TwNXqVrS3hqupKQEX-CxbUZSvpVsfnzE-o ]

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    Author here. To be clear, I don't believe I deserve free or special access to anything. The point I was trying to make was actually more in the opposite direction: I wouldn't want …

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    Comment #11042186

    These were scrapped from top twitter celebrity tweets in 2012, I assume quite a few of them have may have deleted their old tweets since then.

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    Comment #11041225

    Bah, who wants these hipster "unique" integers? Real fashionistas want on-trend integers just like those used by famous celebrities! And what if I told you you there was a place yo…

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    Comment #9233595

    Funny, when I attempted this Go Challenge #1 I had the exact same reaction, and halfway through ended up doing a solution in Elixir (which compiles to the Erlang VM) before finishi…

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    Comment #8948184

    Author here -- I found some of my results to be a bit confusing, so I was hoping the HN community could help me improve on these.

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    Comment #8253287

    SEEKING WORK - Remote preferred (Based in NYC) I'm a (primarily) backend developer who specializes in high-performance realtime streaming. I spent many years working in the tech in…

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    Comment #6199274

    I admire your dedication to ensuring all code is serious and no superfluous fun is permitted. Have no fear, you can actually use lolcommits as a management tool in order to audit y…

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    Comment #6139950

    Nestio - New York, NY: Django/Python Engineers (Full Time) http://nestio.com/about/ We're a NYC-based startup attempting to fix the horribly broken apartment rental process by crea…

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    Comment #5000440

    Hey there -- if the `bundle install` command isn't working when you are in the repo, you probably need the bundler gem installed, which is kind of like a package manager for ruby p…

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    Comment #4994448

    for .ws, as far as I can tell, most TLDs don't allow "fun" things such as emoji, and the software most registrars use also sometimes barfs on it, so it was definitely specific to t…

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    Comment #4994244

    nice list! I also did a similar post, and since people seem to be posting theirs here, here's mine: http://blog.mroth.info/blog/2012/11/11/the-year-in-side-proj...