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wandermatt

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    Comment #41588744

    https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/Helping_Children_Who_Are_Blind

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    Comment #38052167

    I added an image of my barcode to a location based reminder, so it pops up in a notification when I go to my local library.

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    Comment #7437565

    Free version is 7 minutes, but in-app purchase eliminates 3 of those minutes?

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    Comment #7004437

    No. See MLbase http://mlbase.org

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    Comment #6973524

    Would be more useful to hear a retrospective after six months.

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    Comment #6939622

    Options for home broadband have improved, but cellular data speeds are low and free wifi is uncommon.

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    Comment #6637558

    This happened to me twice with Uber black and that was enough to abandon the service. Weird that I've not observed this behavior among Lyft drivers (who I'd expect to be part timin…

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    Comment #6574402

    Keep an eye on this pull request: https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm/pull/130

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    Comment #6524865

    List of countries here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425436,00.asp

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    Comment #6519718

    Depending on code, this may be illegal.

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    Comment #6491131

    You can use a Safari bookmarklet to open the current page in 1Password app, to minimize the disruption in your workflow, see http://www.macstories.net/links/1password-4-1/

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    Comment #6322756

    Not every product that loses money qualifies as a loss leader.

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    Comment #5481280

    I didn't see sparse vector support. Assuming I didn't just overlook it, is it on the roadmap?

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    Comment #5436038

    So these are people who live outside of the United States that describe their nationality as "American"? Do any of them live in countries that actually have "America" in the name?

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    Comment #5435703

    If someone is able to purchase food at a supermarket does it follow that this same individual cannot also have difficulty understanding a hierarchical filesystem?

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    Comment #5429190

    Yes, this on the JVM. No, that was not the issue.

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    Comment #5424834

    Compared to a Bitmapped Vector Trie. If you don't want to watch the video, a version of this talk was also given at Strange Loop, the slides for that one are available online: http…

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    Comment #5423594

    "This is a very nice theoretically clean and powerful sequential data structure, but in practice it is very very very very very very very very very very very slow... very very slow…

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    Comment #4776521

    Can you link to sources on instances of special ops using this tainted meat tactic?

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    Comment #4666392

    How will folks resist the urge to pee on the QR code?

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    Comment #4279838

    Mountain Lion

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    Comment #4052229

    In Scala 2.7 the signature for map, defined in Iterable[+A], was def map[B](f : (A) => B) : Iterable[B] That seems fairly close to the Haskell signature, although somewhat less rea…

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    Comment #3082154

    I'm not sure your realization brought you closer to the truth. Yes, Palantir issued some denials, but you'd be better off reading the emails... http://politics.salon.com/2011/02/15…

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    Comment #3055748

    I enjoyed the part where Phil provides us with the quote ("Some even say the Web is ‘dead meat’.") even though Joe Hewitt never said that, and that wasn't what he argued in his pie…

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    Comment #2453005

    When you did the restore, was all saved data from every app also restored? For example, progress on Angry Birds? http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/2432/how-to-backu...