Niall C.

Portland, OR

http://stackoverflow.com/users/19465

By day, I develop embedded systems. In the past year, I've used C, C++, Python, some ARM assembly, SQL, C#. I've used ThreadX with the IAR toolchain for ARM and embedded Linux with the GNU toolchain.

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How to move phone contacts to Google?

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Why did people look at each others hands in The Book of Eli?

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Flag dialog tells me I've flagged a post I've never seen before

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First Posts review queue is not showing first questions

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Voting information possibly exposed through the new First Posts review tool

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