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Came here for the 3D printing of unicorn animals using lasers. Disappointing.

Having been involved with chargebacks from both the consumer and company perspective, for the company, it can be really frustrating when customers chargeback without ever trying to…

My dad's life was saved 10 years ago via a bone marrow transplant from an English woman. He was being treated for Leukemia. Thanks for promoting this cause!

Health care and dental care providers tend to still like faxes. It's still a thing, unfortunately.

If you're OK with using a third-party and would rather stick to GUI's, Virtru is a very easy solution for email encryption: https://www.virtru.com/

Too bad. Being in Columbus, 3 hours from Pittsburgh, I'd love to road trip there just to try a self-driving Uber. But not sure I would if you have no way of dependably hailing one.…

Yea, I agree with this one as well. Hire slowly; fire fast. But, even if it's fast, firing wastes a bunch of time for a bunch of people. Missing out on a good one sucks, but in the…

I noticed it on here last night (ET) between news of Grove's death and the Brussels bombing. Not trying to be pedantic, but it definitely seems to be in honor of Andy Grove.

Also an Aptible customer, went down a similar route from Heroku to Aptible. Like it so far! Also have had impressively short conversations with SaaS product companies after the acr…

Yea, I was using Github for Mac previously, and all of my non-Github projects ported over to the Github Desktop app. Like the other reply said, you just have to manually clone and …

Beam Technologies | Columbus, OH | On-Site, Full-Time We're a venture backed company shaking up the dental insurance market, and dental care in general. More info: https://beam.den…

> How did you handle getting your browser to talk to a server running on a different port? (Cross-origin requests). https://github.com/cyu/rack-cors I used that gem recently, and i…

Geez, just a joke guys

Misleading title... Definitely read this as a version of GitHub software that works on Windows 2.0 (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0 ).

Read more carefully. "Of course, this will vary from company to company. Facetime wasn’t valued at the big company I worked at, for instance."

I have to agree with this for the most part, coming from the startup side. I'm on my second startup (started at age 23), both of which I was unfortunately the most senior, and at t…

You can attach photos in Hangouts. I do so on iOS and desktop all the time.

Also if you look at the page, you can see you can change who you share the check-in with. It's just like Facebook app integrations: you can switch the share settings to "only me" i…

ChromeCast worked with my iOS devices immediately on release. Google craps on competitor stuff a lot less than others do.

"minor fender benders" The second crash in Mexico definitely was not. “This was a significant accident where the car was traveling at such a high speed that it smashed through a co…