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samgro

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About samgro

iOS Engineer @ Foursquare

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    Comment #6402500

    I used to play video games a ton growing up (most of the ones mentioned in the article). I have tried picking up modern games as an adult, but don't get quite the same thrill/zone …

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    Comment #6213787

    This will be very useful if it makes it into GitHub Enterprise - our IT won't let us use Gravatar, so comment threads/issues are harder to follow.

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    Comment #4258004

    I would whitelist the hosts, stackoverflow.com, google.com, and dev* - should cover 90% of productivity related websites :)

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    Comment #4175370

    I agree with this. Mobile first doesn't necessarily mean native first. From both design and engineering perspectives, it is much easier to build a website that looks good on both m…

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    Ask HN: Real-time Conversation Engine

    Often when someone with a large following (i.e. Robert Scoble, Tim Ferriss) asks a question on Twitter/FB/G+, there is a large interesting conversation that starts. However, it's d…

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    Comment #3695614

    Beautiful service - I've wanted this for a while. My bookmarks all show up, but when I search for anything I get no results. Looks like you guys still have a few kinks to work out.…

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    Comment #3695566

    Any "CSS Best Practices" guide should start with "1. Use a preprocessor." Also, don't use IDs? Really? The article referenced as a source for this claim ends with "Don’t stop using…

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    Comment #3618553

    Also missing long swipe up to go up a level.

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    Comment #3350845

    I just spent my entire day tracking down a missing "var" that caused a bug only in Internet Explorer. I haven't written any assembly code since college, and I hope to reach a day w…

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    Comment #3221679

    Can anyone explain why 'United States' could possibly be an autocomplete result for 'CA'? I am staring at United States and just can't see a 'C' anywhere... have I totally lost it?…

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    Comment #3189968

    I think the random string is clever. My first instinct would be that you should be able to reach it at http://resume.io/dangrossman , but then if someone is familiar with the servi…

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    Comment #3180426

    Do yourself a favor and use CoffeeScript! You will never have to worry about this or any number of other trivial JS mistakes, plus your code will be more readable and more fun to w…

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    Comment #3147557

    It is terrible that your friends' privacy was violated, and I apologize for this comment being off topic, but I feel compelled to address the specific personal circumstances that A…

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    Comment #3103803

    SASS @extend solves most of the code bloat - if you have lots of elements styled with border-radius: 5px, using @extend, the vendor prefixed code will only appear once in the compi…

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    Comment #3069374

    Before commenting about Android, read the article twice, look around the page, and if you still want to talk about Android, read one of the related posts.