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ottbot

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About ottbot

You can reach my gmail at rjcrim.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #9473252

    Funding Circle, San Francisco We're (seriously) building a better financial world! Our marketplace approach gives small businesses a fast, simple, and fair way to get the capital t…

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    Comment #8744436

    You know that's still pretty shitty right?

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    Comment #8480713

    Have fun.

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    Comment #8431733

    The phrase "pick your battles" come to mind here, I mean, scream with rage?

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    Comment #7249962

    I guess it is because controls are only setup for touch input.

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    Comment #6649199

    I got an order in for the black 32GB version. No email confirmation yet though..

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    Comment #6392718

    It could be more readable if you use a placeholder variable family, _ = socket.peeraddr Which is more clear to me, but maybe not as much as just using .first

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    Comment #6222677

    Take a look at what http://gocardless.com are doing with Direct Debit in the UK. Not sure what "mobile payment" really means, outside of in-app purchases?

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    Comment #6184970

    I'm employed as a software engineer, but I have a mechanical engineering degree.. What should I call myself?

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    Comment #6179999

    Could you share some of these reasons? High rent, high salaries I'm sure, but I'd be interested to know what other reasons have.

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    Comment #5589627

    Have you seen https://www.quantopian.com/ ? Might be a good place to start.

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    Comment #5409407

    ottbot thanks!

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    Comment #5338508

    Another nice job management tool is disown, which lets you log out of your session without killing the job (similar to starting the command with nohup)

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    Comment #5206685

    Perhaps we've driven beyond the metaphor.

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    Comment #4927989

    I'm looking at building my company's CMS workflow with Jekyll so it's good to near this. I'll have non developers creating and maintaining pages and posts, so I'm hoping I can buil…

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    Comment #4795736

    You may not be aware such a thing exists, but I'd consider http://www.freesat.co.uk or or even http://www.freeview.co.uk to be (subscription) free alternatives to cable TV.

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    Comment #4505014

    Indeed, Imperial College London is similar in this respect.

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    Comment #4499690

    Ah, I probably could have been more clear. I was expecting (hoping) for more information. It doesn't seem to have anything wrong, but it would be great if it was possible to get a …

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    Comment #4499654

    Here you go: https://aboutmybrowser.com/890034160 Windows XP on Virtuabox

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    Comment #4499584

    It's unfortunate that when using IE, both this and supportdetails.com only give versions as specific as "Windows XP" and "IE 8", whereas I get more detailed version info using Chro…

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