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my strategy for getting rid of these (earworms? had never heard that term until now) is to just play the song in full, _let it finish_ and go to another song (any song). congrats i…

yeah and: > By contrast, core features in Dia, like chatting with tabs and personalization features, are used by 40% and 37% of DAUs respectively well of course. these are likely s…

this sums up the situation eloquently and perfectly

this is awesome news. I loved the original pebble but moved to the apple watch after pebble's demise. I am curious what people here use their smart watches for on a daily basis and…

agreed. at my company we ended up rolling our own system. but this area is absolutely ripe for some configurable saas or OS tool with advanced reporting and alerting mechanisms. Da…

love this.

I love this. but, why?

ha. this just reminded me that some old touchtone phones had a pulse button in case you needed it.

wow - this was a great walk down memory lane. I remember using all of them, particularly tables for creating complicated layouts. it worked beautifully but was an unbelievable pain…

I agree with this approach. the other added benefit is that when they decided to optimize the app by eliminating or tuning queries and utilizing replicas for reads, they ultimately…

Greatest live album of all time IMHO

incredible and so inspiring. thank you!!

this is great. I have actually met 3 developers in the course of my career who went from standup to programming. Those are also the only 3 standups I have ever met!! Never understo…

Same thing happened to me recently! :)

This is completely on point ^. I remember those times, and I also long for a weirder, more creative and more frontier-like internet! The combination of a strong reaction to Flash, …

I was just looking for the G1 too. That was my first digital camera. I loved it!

I think it's more like a productive time of year for hackers to get things done :). The week between xmas and new years is always super productive and creative for me... it's quiet…

awesome! can't tell you the number of times I have slammed into this when copy/pasting.

maybe intolerable is a better word.

Our experience with the Google cost increase was similar. We were paying around $550/mo for the GMaps Platform pre-price-change. Over 80% of this cost was for dynamic maps usage. T…

How does this interact with the Gmail "Snooze" feature? Are snoozed items actually sent back to the inbox? Or are they muted in some way?

"Sometimes when you return to a problem after a rest, you find your unconscious mind has left an answer waiting for you." I love when this happens. For me it's usually after a good…