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spalt

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    Comment #42559915

    how many hours did i stare at the ZMODEM BATCH download screen waiting for my warez to finish at 4800 baud? innumerable! RIP.

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    Comment #40662554

    I kickstarted this long ago and when I got it a few months ago gave it to my wife as a gift, who is an author. She immediately rejected it because she found the eink transitions wh…

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    Comment #33266082

    I have 3 kids, two twins. They're annoying. Do you want a couple of mine?

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    Comment #24246312

    i want to see the tiny nasal sprayer they used on these mice, must be adorably cute!

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    Comment #23186916

    youtube is fucking down!

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    Comment #21776395

    We still do some development in .NET 3.5 VB (huge health care company). It rules and I love it. We do angular, node, c#, yadda yadda, also, but I will always return to my #1 (and f…

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    Comment #19756913

    "I understand how to read a schematic!" - John Hammond

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    Comment #19217046

    I mean all this really is is two people sending email really quickly to each other....

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    Comment #18902863

    "Doze" is a nightmare for apps that need reliable GPS readings.. the only real solution is a service that polls continually to get the GPS when the screen is on so that when the sc…

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    Comment #18637165

    yes!!!!!!! hate hate hate quicken with a burning passion.

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    Comment #17571919

    Check out Azure Maps: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-maps/ I believe they have an autocomplete component.... I was investigating the Google Traffic API for an app…

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    Comment #17118800

    i thought it was pretty funny during their demonstration of how bad google was, they googled "san francisco restaurants" (or something like that), and there on the auto-complete wa…

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    Comment #15970416

    i don't want something beaming light into my eye at close range. just doesn't seem appealing to me. also, how is this different than castAR?

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    Comment #14636331

    One reason Aldi checkers can scan so fast: multiple, huge bar codes! http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/06/aldi-has-very-...

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