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teknolog

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    Comment #42414537

    I for one can't read a word while there are moving pictures around. That's one of the main reasons I block ads. So please, remove the video and stick with stills! Animated stills w…

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    Comment #42324087

    Don't forget ScummVM!

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    Comment #41783480

    I remember we paid Circle CI ungodly amounts to host a dozen trash can Mac Pros to run our iOS CI. Early Swift versions caused huge spikes in build times.

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    Comment #38284782

    A business I run depends heavily on Google Sheets that I inject values into and read computed values out of. That lets us define rather complex business logic in spreadsheet form, …

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    Comment #37913726

    Crashes in cycling aren't nearly as common as you claim, and a fair amount of them are caused by clueless spectators.

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    Comment #37913646

    You're the one who said a wide person has to buy two seats in a comment above. Then we must define what the dimensions of a seat are to know what we're tealking about.

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    Comment #37793449

    I played through the first three about a year ago, but I had to resort to walkthroughs for hints for a few things that I just don't get how you would figure out... except just tryi…

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    Comment #37734353

    This is giving me flashbacks to writing my thesis back in 2005 in lab in Germany. I remember spending almost a full working day on getting the logos of the two institutes I was wor…

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    Comment #36435309

    Since you're already in Google Cloud, perhaps try their PubSub. Not sure what features you need but that should cover most.

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    Comment #35455018

    Sort of makes you wonder if the corn lobby was funneling money to this lawsuit. Sounds like a conspiracy theory, but you never know.

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    Comment #35399415

    Before the second cup

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    Comment #33532101

    Pro tip: You can turn them off entirely.

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    Comment #33437845

    As a European living in the US I don't get that. Seems very similar to me.

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    Comment #33416406

    Nope. Seems like a scam like the Kensington Stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Runestone

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    Comment #33349859

    I ran my BBS on OS/2 for a couple years. Loved 4OS2.

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    Comment #33207167

    Same in Sweden. I am actually an certified engineer, with a fancy diploma proving that I may use the title.

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    Comment #33045860

    Looks like the exact machine they get installed in Mad Men. I assume the prop department did their research.

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    Comment #32961652

    My first job as a SWE was at Ericsson, and they also had this requirement. Solution: gotos everywhere!

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    Comment #32808896

    Your dev environment is so resource constrained that the size of the repo is a factor?

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    Comment #32741186

    Machine learning has pretty much solved this. They detect almost all outright fraud immediately.

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    Comment #32696607

    Try living in Britain which uses alphanumerical postal codes. Confuses the hell out of everybody in the US. (It does have the curious upside that your postal code + street number i…

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    Comment #32585613

    I moved one of my smaller projects from Heroku to AppEngine in the spring. Took me about a day to set up the infra and move the DNS. Hosting went from $30 to $1 a month.

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    Comment #32579535

    That seems to be a common feeling, that I somehow don't share. I gutted and rebuilt my last house and everybody wanted to come help me demo. I didn't want to deal with the liabilit…

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    Comment #32489237

    You pretty much need it for Google Ads. And many businesses need Google Ads to make money.