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neilbowers

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    Comment #44569791

    Beau Miles, a most entertaining Aussie YouTuber, is running a project where all ad revenue from this video will be used to buy tree saplings, which he'll plant.

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    Comment #11748964

    That picture wasn't what I was expecting, which was more like this: http://i.imgur.com/Lx6OiIb.png solid arrows show chronology, the colors highlight compatibility, dashed arrows a…

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    Comment #9006752

    Simple Perl interface to this API is now on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Prismatic::InterestGrap...

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    Comment #8822637

    No, it's not. Several people have signed up saying "I don't know Perl, but this seems like a good opportunity to start learning it".

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    Comment #8821633

    Let me check if it's on github ...

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    Comment #7738227

    I gave up reading before I got to what it was he did to improve the development rate - TL;DR anyone? :-)

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    Comment #6387467

    One of the few titles on my list of books that I tell people not to read ( http://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/book-review-atlas... )

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    Comment #5980745

    $5 isn't a small monthly fee, for a newsreader.

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    Comment #5976380

    * might be an idea to have a feedback link (why I'm posting this here) * scrolling becomes tedious very quickly. Needs a better overview mechanism. Eg only show the first N lines o…

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    Comment #5929155

    Yep, OmniGraffle for me. I've been using it for the last 8 years.

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    Comment #5519718

    “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” — Malcolm S. Forbes

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    Comment #5374371

    http://reederapp.com

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    Comment #5373823

    Much as I don't want Google to shutdown Reader (though I'm also relying on the http://www.reederapp.com author sorting out another back-end), I would suggest that the number of peo…

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    Comment #4929251

    That's a terrible UI. I wanted to add some data, but couldn't work out how to, and gave up in frustration.

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    Comment #4797696

    That's a terrible visualization. It takes way too long to work out what "the story" is.

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    Comment #4585000

    Nice, needs a bit more complexity and slightly less frustration :-)

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    Comment #4251987

    "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." - Howard H. Aiken http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_H._Aiken

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    Comment #3789009

    Linux.CentOS