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Marlin Forbes

Freelance open-source developer, you can also find me on twitter as @data_shaman
Marlin Forbes
Re: See who voted for Palestine - http://edit.avaaz.org/1170...
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"Your world is rather narrow if it is only occupied by socialists, trade unionists and Jews. Get out more. :P" - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin' ~ Ubuntu Vibes | Daily Ubuntu Linux Updates - http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012...
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"I think you just replied to a bot." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Positive pregnancy test diagnoses man's cancer - http://boingboing.net/2012...
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"You're wrong, he's right. A high number is a low chance. The odds of rain happening today are high, therefore the odds against it happening are low. The odds of getting hit by a meteorite are very low, so the odds against it happening are high." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Positive pregnancy test diagnoses man's cancer - http://boingboing.net/2012...
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"Odds are usually expressed as the odds AGAINST something happening. A million to one  against is unlikely, two to one against will happen 1/3 of the time." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Scions and Wonders: Has a Procter and Gamble Heir Discovered the Key to Universal Energy? - http://betabeat.com/2012...
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"Article from the future?" - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: DavidSweetman - http://www.davidsweetman.com/benefit...
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"If Sublime Text is the future, why is not free? You guys using at are in for a shock when the trial expires. And then you'll move onto something else. But vim users will always be using vim, it's free, it's stable, it's massively well-documented by the users of the product, and (again) it's free. No nagware dialogs popping up to buy the product when the trial is over." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript - https://tech.dropbox.com/2012...
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"Guess you've never worked on a mature product before... :P" - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Typing into TinyMCE with Selenium - http://odino.org/typing-...
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"Currently the only way to test TInyMCE-containing forms with RC is to disable TinyMCE for the duration of the test... http://stackoverflow.com/a/119..." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Single Table Inheritance in Rails [Alex Reisner] - http://code.alexreisner.com/article...
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"Please put the code into a github repo or something, so we don't have to read through every comment to get the best solution. This is a bit fragmented." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: PHP: a fractal of bad design - fuzzy notepad - http://me.veekun.com/blog...
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"I once worked on a PHP site which was implemented by a Java programmer. In every model he had defined getter/setter functions which did nothing except get/set a private variable with the same name. Hilarious." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Stenchman – Computer Expert - Dubstep Mix - http://www.last.fm/music...
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MGMT – Kids - http://www.last.fm/music...
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Marlin Forbes
Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Let's Make Out - http://www.last.fm/music...
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Marlin Forbes
Re: Food makers flout GM label law - IOL Lifestyle | IOL.co.za - http://www.iol.co.za/lifesty...
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"Ignorance of the law is not an excuse." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Vavi: Thieves in public office must go - Politics | IOL News | IOL.co.za - http://www.iol.co.za/news...
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"Its amazing that people even have to be told that nepotism is wrong. Some morally bankrupt people running this country. Viva the revolution - nothing changes." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Vavi: Thieves in public office must go - Politics | IOL News | IOL.co.za - http://www.iol.co.za/news...
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"People with their hands in the till should be fired And charged and prosecuted." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Snooki, Gwyneth Paltrow Among Charity's List of Fake Science Claims | NewsFeed | TIME.com - http://newsfeed.time.com/2012...
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"Read Bad Science by Ben Goldacre." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Snooki, Gwyneth Paltrow Among Charity's List of Fake Science Claims | NewsFeed | TIME.com - http://newsfeed.time.com/2012...
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"You are the weakest link." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3 - http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011...
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"It is supported. You can add any headers you want to the metadata for a file." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3 - http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011...
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"Huh? Always been the case, no matter what technology you use." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3 - http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011...
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"With cloud hosting, if you're not getting millions of hits, you're paying cents a month for hosting. Is it worth it? Your call." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Sony sued over PSN “can’t sue us” clause - http://www.geek.com/article...
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"I love how you don't get that he get's that. I also love how you're 'pretty sure'. Is that almost sure? 45-45%? Words, they bounce." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Unsung Films Of 2011 | Best Of 2011 | Best Of 2011 Video | The A.V. Club - http://www.avclub.com/article...
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"Funniest shit I've read all day! Lol." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
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Marlin Forbes
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Marlin Forbes
Re: Letter from the U.K.: If We’re Turning Off Social Media, I Want News Channels Shut Down, Too - http://www.wired.com/epicent...
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"Yeah, I get that. But I think this latest round of financial woes will have far less impact on the rest of the world than the last time we got butt-phucked by Wall Street." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Letter from the U.K.: If We’re Turning Off Social Media, I Want News Channels Shut Down, Too - http://www.disqus.com/people...
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"I was replying to the arrogant tone of the poster which seemed to indicate the whole world rides on the US's coattails. We don't. We all suffered at the hands of your robber-traders the last time, but we won't make the same mistake again. I'm hoping the US will take itself down alone this time. Party's over." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Letter from the U.K.: If We’re Turning Off Social Media, I Want News Channels Shut Down, Too - http://www.disqus.com/people...
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"Say that again in a year when the US is completely insolvent." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Why I've built an alternative to Github - http://blog.codeplane.com/why-ive...
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"Looks like it's purely hosting..." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: The Art of Endless Upgrades - http://www.kk.org/thetech...
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"I've found the best solution to upgrades is not to do them. I usually store my files on a separate filesystem mounted on /home." - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: The Art of Endless Upgrades - http://www.disqus.com/people...
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"Think of it as active entropy... :)" - Marlin Forbes
Marlin Forbes
Re: Fargo: A Scheme-like Programming Langauge That Runs on Node.js - http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack...
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"How does the above comment make it past moderation? Surely any submission with the phrase 'coupon codes' should be verboten. Yet this guy posts complete nonsense and it's not marked as spam..." - Marlin Forbes
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