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thekungfuman

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    Comment #4535224

    No mention of the 35 million fake twitter accounts. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-much-of-twitt... And isn't it unfair that a retweet is a worthwhile metric but a …

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    Comment #4459996

    Open source the software if it's really going to just die perhaps?

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    Comment #4334890

    The world's reaction to this news: http://www.hark.com/clips/vxxjzhjsnl-you-think-this-is-funny...

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    Comment #4334773

    I'm not much of an Apple fan, but I do have a used MBA and I have to say, the old style magsafe adapter is one of the greatest features of any laptop I've ever seen. If having a la…

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    Comment #4332013

    Once the article pointed it out I couldn't un see it. Mixed pixel art will forever look off to me now!!

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    Comment #4250837

    Not only is this a beautiful and helpful web app, but it supports many different editors instead of taking part in the text editor wars.

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    Comment #4240944

    I was really interested to see this data until I saw that they use the BMI; possibly the dumbest and most loudly touted measure of health. According to these numbers I am overweigh…

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    Comment #4190780

    It's certainly not the most common method; I'm sure point-and-click is. But the kind of people who use keyboard launchers, the ones who are sounding off the loudest on their tech b…

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    Comment #4190675

    The main complaint I hear is the change of start menu behavior, but most people I know use a keyboard based launcher anyway. If you're typing the name of the thing you want does it…

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    Comment #4137442

    Can't connect but downforeveryone says it's up. Anyone else having trouble?

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    Comment #4080937

    They DO love us. If you go to your unique Humble Bundle purchaser URL the new games are already there. Indie Devs are the best!

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    Comment #4080923

    Any love for those of us who already bought this? I don't want to pay twice, especially considering the only other game I want that I don't already have is Super Meat Boy.

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    Comment #4064580

    This is my first deployed web app and I'd love to get feedback on it. Code, design, idea, implementation; any constructive feedback is welcome. Thanks in advance.

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    Comment #4045689

    I'm writing a little Sinatra app for my fiancee's birthday. It's nothing complicated, it just displays a different reason I love her each time the page loads (or you can permalink …

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    Comment #3939368

    Goes to show how many (greatly needed) programmatic features CSS is adding. Also shows that some people love a creative way to attack a problem.

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    Comment #3928947

    Hasn't this been around for quite some time? g.co links are used on all of the official Google twitter accounts.

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    Comment #3919318

    It's perfectly reasonable that Google would try to consolidate their properties. You used to need a YouTube account to do anything, and they own YouTube and don't feel like managin…

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    Comment #3919052

    Weird coincidence; by the end of the story something had gotten in my eyes. Excuse me.

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    Comment #3838006

    API quota exceeded!

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    Comment #3788451

    Irony. I get it.

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    Comment #3777456

    I'm happy to say my mental math and my phone's (Nexus S) math get 9.

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    Comment #3777449

    You have to test it without the explicit "*" and see if it performs the order of operations correctly.

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    Comment #3772057

    No love for ask? Or webcrawler? Or lycos? :-)

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    Comment #3739863

    This business model is fairly popular in education. We have tons of open source projects where we COULD run it for free, but sometime we pay for hosting, or consulting, or customiz…