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wcameron

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    Comment #33073680

    Native people have pushed back against ASF’s appropriation for decades, but it’s always been shoved under the rug. As a kid when I first heard about the “Apache” server I felt othe…

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    Comment #33072125

    >Why? Because they’re not Apache. What other software project is named after a nationality or ethnicity? I don’t see any difference between sports mascots and software mascots: htt…

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    Comment #12224018

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale#Types

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    Comment #11507422

    Not even just territories but two entire states.

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    Comment #11378601

    I don't think the aurora is a good example for reason you cited. The idea that we only see the aurora in shades of gray is false. I've sometimes been surprised by some extra color …

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    Comment #10808490

    As much as I mourn the Murdoch sale, National Geographic has long been famous for its occasional bare skin.

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    Comment #10637170

    Actually, they are being genetically modified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquAdvantage_salmon

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    Comment #10505399

    Global sea level has risen less than a foot in the past 100 years. Although in environments like this, I would assume isostatic rebound ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial…

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    Comment #9525647

    http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end... covers it better than I could.

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    Comment #9383881

    And please stop using PNG when you should be using JPG. Unless you're building a site where the primary focus is the photography, use a high quality JPG instead of PNG for photos, …

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    Comment #9046668

    I used to love Safari but they've lost me with the direction their UI has taken the last few years. There's something about not showing the full URL by default that bugs me.

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    Comment #8385830

    Analogy or not, I'm not sure how appropriate it is. Try substituting the name of your framework with other ethnicities and see how it feels. Even here in Alaska, where the name isn…

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    Comment #8344147

    Sure was, check out: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/e2a20d86124693ef0f93

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    Comment #8246093

    It sounds like you're looking for the SVG Crowbar: http://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/

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    Comment #6743370

    If you check out the abstract at: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/5/10/5173 you'll see that it mentions a temporal resolution of a few minutes or so, for the entire west coast. A fle…

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    Comment #3055313

    http://htmldog.com/

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    Comment #2814702

    Really, really nice design. I'm loving Google's newfound attention to aesthetics. What's with the Gotham though? I know H&FJ keep talking about making their fonts embeddable one da…