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pauljohncleary

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About pauljohncleary

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/paulcleary; my proof: https://keybase.io/paulcleary/sigs/fJ4guDAwb7bKKv4cmf2OXXFKcwe0asNjO_8fS_OgUx8 ]

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    This is a really important point, having seen both public and private systems I think it's quite valid. In this case I probably would not want a head of orthopaedics to treat a rel…

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    Comment #13036252

    ...and be put on the list of state enemies?

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    Comment #12564124

    it's a tax on organizational size and well spent taxes aren't a bad thing, in fact, they're a great thing

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    Comment #12563880

    something being on your property is not the same as possessing it

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    Comment #12481198

    Switch to Firefox and only use fully reviewed/approved addons if you're serious about this. I just put a ported chrome extension through the full Firefox add on review process (tha…

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    Comment #12209244

    Different people think at different speeds[1], so if we really want to judge someone based on what we see as a reactive action, we'd need to measure their "thinking speed" first to…

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    Comment #12209223

    With cricket the player's intent is not considered unlike many other sports and in courtroom trials. So looking at the most minute detail (e.g. the snickometer, the checks if the b…

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    Comment #12200887

    it's almost unreadable on a widescreen monitor

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    Comment #12061186

    Extensions are a form of vendor lock in, Google were killing Mozilla in that space because: - network effects (chrome is more popular than ff) - chrome extensions are so much easie…

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    Comment #11968518

    You can do something similar with voting "credits" instead of cash, everyone gets 100 and they can use them to vote on the things they want I've done this to help elicit requiremen…

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    Comment #11779515

    Fair point, recent updates to Meteor (1.3) have made it much easier to use with the rest of the JS ecosystem (e.g. using react with meteor is as easy as using the default view libr…

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    Comment #11779203

    > the same frustrations when I was looking at things like meteor The main strength of Meteor is the speed you can get up and running $ meteor create my-app-name $ meteor npm instal…

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    Comment #11653666

    I'm from the rest of the world and I do ;-)

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    Comment #11653218

    > Wunderlich's converted value should really be stated as "ninety eight point something" if one is being honest. or we could, you know, agree on a standard and just use that...

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    Comment #11519218

    That's probably not that fair to lead the page with - if you read the rest of the wikipedia article you'll see that he founded Dialog in 1984 when he was 21 and it went public 10 y…

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    Comment #11495959

    bang on - I often ask my friends who are going through hard times with work or life, if they would consider moving to europe or further afield, among the poorer ones (aka 93% of th…

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    Comment #11477796

    The targets for this malware are laypeople with enough funds to pay the fee but not enough to go after the creators. Hypothetically, if a national government or other agent with su…

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    Comment #11354240

    wow, literally every comment is about facebook login seriously guys come on I really like this! It seems your "mobile first" design is "mobile only", you might want to make gifs sh…

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    Comment #11351857

    >add-1-to-a-number i++

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    Comment #11244551

    Product Manager Side Projects: - https://trombone.io - https://tab.bz

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    Comment #10751175

    yes, and by ignoring those laws it's perfectly reasonable for that judiciary to ban your service within the bounds of their jurisdiction

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    Comment #10730045

    Thanks! I had a similar extension that used the tab.bz API called Tab Condensor. It only had around 1000 users so I took it down to focus on the main product.