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ucpeteon Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature

You got it. For me, I like getting my personal and work emails pushed to my iPhone in the same place (the Mail app). Though I have the Gmail app I don't use it.

ucpeteon Why Clipperz is moving out of the US

https://www.clipperz.com/pricing/financial_statement/

"Fiat currencies" = Italian autocorrect?

The whole thing sounds crazy -- I wonder if it's a competitor trying to sink them. Or an even crazier twist would be a competitor trying to sink them while simultaneously leveraging their open code base...

ucpeteon Write less

I was pleased to see he figured it out by the final iteration.

>Fewer words

ucpeteon New chip delivers DNA results within an hour

Exactly. It's not clear to me whether they're only checking for SNPs in a single locus or if they can multiplex (or do whole exome). Though Oxford NanoTech is still essentially vaporware at this point, their technology excites me a lot more than something like this.

ucpeteon Poll: Do you have a 3d printer?

In my former lab we had two.

ucpeteon AT&T Announces Intent to Build 1 Gigabit Fiber Network in Austin

My first thoughts exactly when I saw this post. Well actually my first thought was "Doesn't OP mean Google is laying fiber in Austin? Ooooooohh I get it...". I'm happy about this -- it means that Google's mission is coming along nicely. Screw AT&T.

ucpeteon Firefox introduces PDF viewer

Serious question: what took so long?!

ucpeteon A note from Keith

Interesting to read his note after this infamous story:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/06/masters-their-do...

ucpeteon Poll: When you use Facebook, how do you feel?

Scroll, scroll, scroll, close window. Typically left feeling completely neutral. I've got kids and my friends are at the getting married / having kids age now as well, so my feed has gone from "I'm so fucking high!" pictures to "Look how cute my ugly baby is!". Occasionally I use it to contact people whose phone number / e-mail address I don't have, and it's great for that. It's like my White Pages.

ucpeteon Lockitron exceeds $2,000,000 in reservations

This is all really great, but my ISP and router situation is not at 100% uptime and about once a week I need to reset them both. I wouldn't be able to rely on this completely :/