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robspychala

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    on face value you can't argue with your logic but if you want to play the long game and help create and contribute to an industry that includes people from all demographics than th…

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    Comment #9971736

    From the employees' perspective: Take home tests are the worst. Company says take home test will take 3 hours to complete. They never do. Schedule 2x or 3x the estimate. Especially…

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    Comment #9753672

    this sucks but it's not a new technique music clubs of 15 years ago didn't pay artists for your "12 free CDs" either

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    Comment #5792410

    also happens when you try to view iTunes movies or shows while controlling your Mac with a remote desktop connection. super annoying.

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    Comment #5718667

    super cool. we are doing something similar with Birdseye Mail's Smart Actions http://www.birdseyemail.com/developers ... we opted to reuse open graph tags in favor of creating a ne…

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    Comment #5228487

    That's true. All clients as far as I know strip out javascript for security. What we do is actually inject scripts into emails to parse information in them. We've built a bunch or …

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    Comment #4454817

    facebook was 1st I believe

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    Comment #4341734

    East Side Access is another amazing project in NYC. going to bring LIRR to Grand Central in 2019 ish. i've been somewhat documenting its progress at http://eastsideaccess.tumblr.co…

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    Comment #4081388

    BTW, we're using heroku and ironmq for all the backend heavy lifting. Perhaps twitter got spooked by the volume of API calls. A testament to seamless cloud scalability. And of cour…

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    Comment #3846675

    agreed. I started http://snaplog.com around the same time.

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    Comment #3350213

    this API is it. no approval process as far as is known. the CB api treats devices no differently than web sites as far as Apple is concerned. the reason that there are no apps yet …

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    Comment #3349622

    oh man. can you retry? i think it's cause not all the assets loaded (ran out of free quota on GAE) fixing now.

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    Comment #3349618

    is it still broken? rand out of quota for a few minutes so maybe not all the assets loaded.

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    Comment #3349613

    looks like GAE quota was reached. fixing now. article is also mirrored on tumblr @ http://dedegroup.tumblr.com/post/14177518904/bluetooth

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    Comment #2774980

    BTW, how is the performance compared to sync pymongo in your use? I'm testing with eventlet and seeing it about 10-20% slower. https://gist.github.com/1088452

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    Comment #2278103

    http://snaplog.com , http://clowdy.com and probably dozens more.

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    Comment #1804430

    big diff is that suqarelog.com can be a replacement for 4sq's client ... for launch i'm touting the photos feature because it's the biggest differentiator over 4sq's official app I…

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    Rate my app: Squarelog.com

    http://www.squarelog.com promo codes: 9TXNE7YJH4E3 RLW6KHRPJMPW RR437MMEJMEJ Squarelog is an iPhone that allows you to easily add photos to your checkins.

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    Comment #1456326

    rga.com has been doing this on their main site for a while now

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    Comment #1239338

    We're using it for http://www.scienceslides.com/ ... a place for scientists to download signaling pathway slides in powerpoint format, etc...