Roy Tang

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May 2016

• Someone on quora asked:

  Which are the most important 3 skills that smart people should develop (like programing)?

  It’s not really about specific skills like programming, but more towards high-level skills that can be applied to a broad number of areas:

  • Critical thinking. This means being able to analyze critically both your own opinions and those of others, being able to identify and compensate for biases, and being able to make rational decisions.
  • Communication. This means being able to express your ideas well and knowing how to sell your ideas to other people. It also includes understanding other people and their perspectives and their messages
  • Collaboration. This means working well with others, knowing when to be aggressive in pushing your opinion and when to be diplomatic and form a consensus. Working well with others involves a lot of #1 and #2 as well. You need critical thinking to properly assess the way forward for a team, and there needs to be good, constant communication within a team to make sure everything stays on track.

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 2 May 2016 12:00am #answers
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• Someone on quora asked:

  What is the mindset that every developer should have when developing new features and maintaining old features?

  When developing new features, make sure to write to clean, maintainable code that future maintainers won’t have a problem with. If you can write unit tests, do so.

  When maintaining old features, it’s kind of like being a doctor: first, do no harm. Perform the minimum changes necessary to implement your changes to minimize the chance of breaking existing behavior. But still try to avoid writing terrible code. It helps if the existing feature has unit tests

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 2 May 2016 12:00am #answers
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• Reply to aleksfelipe's tweet:

  @aleksfelipe I opened 30 wotg packs without a legendary =/ looking forward to my pity leg

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 1 May 2016 3:25pm
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Apr 2016

• It’s funny how yung candidate most lauded by his supporters for his supposed sincerity is the one na pinakamalabong kausap and pinakamadaming flip flops and kelangan parati interpretahin pa ng mga supporters ang mga pinagsasabi nya

  

  

  It’s funny how yung candidate most lauded by his supporters for his supposed sincerity is the one na pinakamalabong kausap and pinakamadaming flip flops and kelangan parati interpretahin pa ng mga supporters ang mga pinagsasabi nya

  29 Apr 2016 11:21pmView postClose

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 29 Apr 2016 11:21pm #halalan2016
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• (@Kimukatsu 5F Shangri-La Plaza Mall East Wing)

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 29 Apr 2016 7:23pm
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• (@Shangri-La Plaza Shaw Blvd)

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 29 Apr 2016 7:22pm
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• (@Edsa Shangri-La 1 Garden Way Ortigas Center)

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 29 Apr 2016 2:30pm
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• Reply to loveintagalog's tweet:

  @loveintagalog antonio “money for hire” trillianes

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 29 Apr 2016 1:12pm
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• Reply to a comment by jtheapostate5 on '[Movie Megathread] [SPOILERS] Captain America: Civil War. All discussion goes here!' on /r/comicbooks:

  Hmm ok. I’ll buy that :D

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 29 Apr 2016 2:54am #comics
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• This guy is so insightful

  Quoted tangincheek's tweet:

  <hunter> design is subjective anyway, so anytime there are 2 people with strong opinions, magtatalo talaga

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 29 Apr 2016 1:06am
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• I imagine that somewhere in the BPI J. Vargas branch, at least one bank employee has already snuck a peek at the account’s transaction history

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 7:54pm #halalan2016
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• Reply to '[Movie Megathread] [SPOILERS] Captain America: Civil War. All discussion goes here!' on /r/comicbooks:

  Some stuff:

  Spidey was great, but TBH it felt a bit random that Tony went back to the US to recruit a kid (he was that desperate?) AND make him a new suit when he only had 36 hours to catch Cap and friends. At least Cap got Hawkeye to do his stateside work, so their flight was only one way :p I feel like they probably had to work the Spidey part into the script after the deal with Sony.

  I had known there would be a Giant Man appearance since there was a lego set that spoiled it, but luckily I completely forgot about it and only remembered when Scott said “I’ve only tried this once in a lab and it almost tore me apart!” Fun moment

  When Zemo shows the three guys the video of Bucky taking out Howard and wife, Tony asks Steve “Did you know?” and Steve replies, “I didn’t know it was him”. What exactly did Steve know? Did he know that Howard and wife were assassinated, but did not know that Bucky was the assassin? If so, how does he know that? These events happened while he was in the ice. My brother thought it meant that Steve knew that Bucky assassinated someone (since Bucky told him about the incident he discussed with Zemo during the blackout), but that Steve did not know it was Howard. But then it wouldn’t make sense to reply to Tony that way?

  Random: the endings for both Civil War and BvS were both about someone’s mother. Okay, not really haha

  The Raft: Didn’t they also have a Raft in Agents of SHIELD? Then again, the movie guys probably don’t care about that show anymore…

  During the airport fight sequence, I was expecting someone to switch sides at some point and thought it would be Spidey (since you know, Civil War), but happy to be surprised it was Natasha.

  Some minor airport fight nitpicks: after they square off in the middle of the airport they break off into pairs but Vision is conspicuously absent. I don’t think he does anything significant until Giant-Man, which is weird given he’s the most powerful guy there. Also, at some point Falcon and Bucky ge

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 6:57pm #comics
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• Reply to a comment by xeqtioner0 on '[Movie Megathread] [SPOILERS] Captain America: Civil War. All discussion goes here!' on /r/comicbooks:

  It is in many parts of the world.

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 6:42pm #comics
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• Someday maybe the Philippines will be on the front page of reddit for a positive reason. But not today: https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/4gr0cx/philippine_presidential_frontrunner_rodrigo/?sort=top

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 5:44pm
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• Reply to a comment by porsia16 on 'Philippine presidential frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte vows to pardon himself for murder' on /r/nottheonion:

  And miss out on the entertainment? I’d hope they get into a shouting match during an APEC meeting or something

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 5:40pm #nottheonion
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• Reply to a comment by [deleted] on 'Philippine presidential frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte vows to pardon himself for murder' on /r/nottheonion:

  Legit (mostly). The thing is, there are 5 candidates running and no one has majority support, but it’s first-past-the-post so there’s a good chance of Duterte winning with around 30% of the vote

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 5:39pm #nottheonion
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• Repost from DocHackenbush:

  #NationalSuperheroDay (original tweet by @TechnicallyRon) #batfork

  

  

  #NationalSuperheroDay (original tweet by @TechnicallyRon) #batfork

  28 Apr 2016 4:13pmView postClose

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 4:13pm #NationalSuperheroDay #batfork
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• Opened 30 #OldGods packs, no legendary. Thanks @PlayHearthstone

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 3:19pm #OldGods
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• If I ever lose my bank account info, all I have to do is run for president

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 2:26pm #halalan2016
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• @switchfollows I think you’d appreciate this lol

  Quoted goodgamery's tweet:

  ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE PRO CLUB https://goodgamery.com/2016/04/announcement-concerning-changes-to-the-pro-club/

  

  

  @switchfollows I think you’d appreciate this lol Quoted goodgamery's tweet: ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE PRO CLUB https://goodgamery.com/2016/04/announcement-concerning-changes-to-the-pro-club/

  28 Apr 2016 1:36pmView postClose

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 1:36pm
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• #RoRoYourVote - dapat ako na lang pinapaisip nyo ng hashtags nyo

  

  

  #RoRoYourVote - dapat ako na lang pinapaisip nyo ng hashtags nyo

  28 Apr 2016 1:26pmView postClose

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 1:26pm #RoRoYourVote #halalan2016
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• Reply to alvinjtang's tweet:

  @alvinjtang ironically, you made a passive-aggressive post on twitter instead of talking directly to them about it :p

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 1:37am
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• Reply to a comment by [deleted] on 'Du30 is Davao City Mayor. His son Paolo is the Vice Mayor. And his daughter in law is city councilor. Why do people think he is the CHANGE candidate?' on /r/Philippines:

  I’m 37, thanks for saying na bata pa ako.

  So what you’re saying is that it takes more than 3 terms to make things better in the long term right? Kung magsalita kasi si Mayor parang isang pitik nya lang maayos na lahat e. In 3-6 months nga mawawala na ang krimen. Pagkahalal nga nya kakausapin nya lang ang senado’t kongreso ng kung anong gusto nyang batas, in one week meron na agad

  Madali mag type na dapat ganito at ganyan, pero having worked in LGU ang hirap.

  Pakisabi na lang yan kay mayor

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 28 Apr 2016 1:09am #Philippines
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• Captain America Civil War spoiler-free review:

  • great fight sequences, start to finish
  • the newcomers were great, airport big fight sequence had a great surprise (and not the one you already saw in the trailer - although you might have already been spoiled if you pay attention to certain toy lines), although I feel like a couple of the characters were pulled in to the conflict in a way that was a bit weak, but it’s still pretty good overall
  • the plot was ok. Justification for the civil war was ok. Some surprises. The villain motivation was slightly mediocre, but that wasn’t really the focus of the movie anyway
  • Martin Freeman’s role felt totally superfluous - it did not seem necessary to cast Martin Freeman
  • the movie kind of ends with the MCU and the Avengers in a weird place, some people might not like it
  • better than: Winter Soldier. The plot kind of develops in the same way but everything is on a much bigger scale now
  • there are two post-credit scenes, one in the middle and one at the very end
  • Imax worth it? Probably. Not very ostentatious use of 3d, but most of the fight sequences have it. You might get dizzy if you’re not used to it
  • Magugustuhan ba ni Mama? Maybe, but I’d have to keep explaining who these characters are

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 27 Apr 2016 11:00pm #movies #spoiler-free-review
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• Reply to a comment by [deleted] on 'Du30 is Davao City Mayor. His son Paolo is the Vice Mayor. And his daughter in law is city councilor. Why do people think he is the CHANGE candidate?' on /r/Philippines:

  It’s kind of a testament to how poor his management of Davao City actually was that he goes away for 3 years and things go to shit. Good management means things get better regardless of who is in power, which means strengthening institutions. If Davao City goes to shit whenever he’s not mayor, what happens to Davao City when he dies?

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 27 Apr 2016 10:44pm #Philippines
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• (@Starbucks Coffee Ground Flr UP-Ayala Land Technohub)

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 27 Apr 2016 12:05pm
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• Reply to karlocatapang's tweet:

  @karlocatapang nag overseas absentee voting ka ba?

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 26 Apr 2016 3:00pm
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• I dont mind when fb groups dedicated to particular candidates post wrong info and nobody bothers to correct them, desisyon nyo naman kung gusto nyo ng echo chamber. But if you share that stuff on my feeds imma have to start correcting

  

  

  I dont mind when fb groups dedicated to particular candidates post wrong info and nobody bothers to correct them, desisyon nyo naman kung gusto nyo ng echo chamber. But if you share that stuff on my feeds imma have to start correcting

  25 Apr 2016 8:12pmView postClose

  

  

  I dont mind when fb groups dedicated to particular candidates post wrong info and nobody bothers to correct them, desisyon nyo naman kung gusto nyo ng echo chamber. But if you share that stuff on my feeds imma have to start correcting

  25 Apr 2016 8:12pmView postClose

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 25 Apr 2016 8:12pm
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• Is anyone else bothered by the fact that we won’t have new 90s music for another 74 years?

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 25 Apr 2016 4:00pm
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• Reply to a comment by KyloRenJepsen on '2016 Senatorial Candidates Information Megathread' on /r/Philippines:

  Do you have any details of his platform?

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 25 Apr 2016 1:26am #Philippines
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• Someone on quora asked:

  Would musical geniuses (such as Mozart) or literary geniuses (such as Shakespeare) be great scientists or mathematicians?

  Not necessarily. Genius in one area does not imply aptitude with another

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 25 Apr 2016 12:00am #answers
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• Someone on quora asked:

  When I’m on the Internet, time flies by. How can I stop that?

  Be cognizant of your time. Choose how much time you want, set an alarm (your smartphone probably has one, you can’t uninstall it), then (this is the most important thing): ACTUALLY STOP WHEN THE ALARM FIRES

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 25 Apr 2016 12:00am #answers
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• Someone on quora asked:

  What were the reasons for the Filipino revolt against the Spaniards?

  Abuses by the Friars and other Spaniards. Filipinos not being treated equally as citizens of Spain. These are well-documented

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 25 Apr 2016 12:00am #answers
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• Reply to a comment by internatty on '2016 Senatorial Candidates Information Megathread' on /r/Philippines:

  Highlights from this interview:

  • platform: jobs, education

  • increased employment rate in TESDA from 20+% to 70+%

  • in congress, author of FOI bill and moved to arrest congress members leaving the plenary to avoid the bill being passed

  • He/CIBAC said to have received kickbacks from Napoles (included in 3rd batch of people charged, but he says the NBI cleared him already because the docs used as basis were fake)

  • billboards funded by JIL church

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 24 Apr 2016 5:48pm #Philippines
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• Reply to a comment by droonick on '2016 Senatorial Candidates Information Megathread' on /r/Philippines:

  Citation?

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 24 Apr 2016 4:58pm #Philippines
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• Reply to alvinjtang's tweet:

  @alvinjtang parang kanina ka pa jan lol

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 24 Apr 2016 4:49pm
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• Repost from shakirasison:

  Men should be very offended w/ the idea that bikinis equal rape. It presumes you will force your penis into any woman who is showing flesh.

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 24 Apr 2016 3:59pm
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• Repost from karlocatapang:

  Ang daming pinapangako tapos tatanggalin o babaan ang tax?? #PiliPinasDebates2016

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 24 Apr 2016 11:14am #PiliPinasDebates2016
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• Reply to momblogger's tweet:

  @momblogger didnt he have an issue w coa about contractuals sa davao city?

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 24 Apr 2016 11:06am
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• So it has come to this #unity

  Quoted wawam's tweet:

  ang balasubas lang talaga ng mga Duterte supporters. #2016PHVote

  

  

  So it has come to this #unity Quoted wawam's tweet: ang balasubas lang talaga ng mga Duterte supporters. #2016PHVote

  24 Apr 2016 9:32amView postClose

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 24 Apr 2016 9:32am #unity #2016phvote
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• Observation: Over the past 2-3 weeks, my feeds have become increasingly pro-Roxas. There’s almost the same amount of pro-Duterte people, but it’s like more pro-Roxas people are bothering to speak up now (dati yung mga Duterte lang ang maingay, onti lang yung maingay na Roxas). Dumadami na din yung pro-Miriam. Wala pa ring Poe and Binay lol

  

  

  Observation: Over the past 2-3 weeks, my feeds have become increasingly pro-Roxas. There’s almost the same amount of pro-Duterte people, but it’s like more pro-Roxas people are bothering to speak up now (dati yung mga Duterte lang ang maingay, onti lang yung maingay na Roxas). Dumadami na din yung pro-Miriam. Wala pa ring Poe and Binay lol

  24 Apr 2016 1:40amView postClose

  

  

  Observation: Over the past 2-3 weeks, my feeds have become increasingly pro-Roxas. There’s almost the same amount of pro-Duterte people, but it’s like more pro-Roxas people are bothering to speak up now (dati yung mga Duterte lang ang maingay, onti lang yung maingay na Roxas). Dumadami na din yung pro-Miriam. Wala pa ring Poe and Binay lol

  24 Apr 2016 1:40amView postClose

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 24 Apr 2016 1:40am
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• Someone on quora asked:

  Why are you using Quora? What you expect in life from its use?

  1. I like answering questions and helping people
  2. It helps me practice writing prose and thinking out of the box
  3. I learn a lot of stuff too

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 24 Apr 2016 12:00am #answers
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• Someone on quora asked:

  What dos “perpetual optimism is a force multiplier” mean?

  It means that optimism greatly improves your odds of success. It doesn’t mean you’ll never fail, but optimism helps you power through the failures until you get to the successes

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 24 Apr 2016 12:00am #answers
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• Someone on quora asked:

  What are effective psychological methods to cope with overwhelm?

  Let’s say you are faced with a decision where there are multiple viable choices such that you are unable to immediately make an easy decision. The fact that you are unable to make an easy decision means the choices are more or less the same and the differences are too small to matter or you don’t have enough available information to differentiate them.

  If you don’t have to make a decision quickly, but the decision is unimportant, just pick one at random and go with it.

  If you don’t have to make a decision quickly, but the decision is important, try to gather further information to help guide your choice. Eventually either the choice will become clear or it simplifies into the case below.

  If you DO have to make a decision quickly, pick one at random and go with it.

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 24 Apr 2016 12:00am #answers
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• (@LIDO Cocina Tsina by Panciteria LIDO Visayas Ave)

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 23 Apr 2016 6:59pm
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• Reply to a comment by porsia16 on '2016 Senatorial Candidates Information Megathread' on /r/Philippines:

  He’s one of those guys who works hard but isn’t too noisy, so people don’t really have strong opinions about him either way.

  He only really got involved in government service in the 90s, before that it was mostly business.

  His martial law experience (from wikipedia):

  As a son of Marcos’ political rival, Osmeña was imprisoned in 1972. In November 1974, he embarked on a hunger strike along with his cellmate – ABS-CBN’s Eugenio “Geny” Lopez, Jr. – to protest the unjust detention of thousands of innocent Filipinos. This resulted in the release of 1,022 political prisoners in December 1974. Defiant to the very end, Osmeña and Lopez escaped from their maximum security prison cell in Fort Bonifacio in 1977. This exploit was enacted in the 1995 movie, Eskapo.

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 23 Apr 2016 6:19pm #Philippines
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• Someone on quora asked:

  What annoys you?

  1. People who are mean for no reason
  2. People who are intellectually dishonest
  3. Things that are slightly unaligned
  4. People who think only of themselves
  5. Things that are inefficient
  6. Poor UI decisions
  7. Bad grammar/spelling
  8. Poor logical thinking
  9. Unnecessary formalities
  10. Too much red tape

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 23 Apr 2016 12:00am #answers
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• Someone on quora asked:

  How can I find my interests in life?

  Look everywhere. Try everything.

  Life is varied and has a wider scope than you could possibly imagine. Step outside your comfort zone. Visit new places. Sign up for strange classes. Go down roads you don’t normally follow. Walk into new stores you’ve never visited. Eat at new restaurants with cuisine you’ve never tried before.

  Talk to new people. Ask them about that cool thing they just did. Ask them what they do for a living. Ask them what interesting thing happened to them last week. Ask them how they met their SO. Ask them who was the coolest person they knew. Try to meet that person too.

  Learn new skills. Develop new hobbies. Watch new tv shows. Read more books.

  Live, live, live.

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 23 Apr 2016 12:00am #answers
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• The election day countdown modal popup on the GMA Network website is obnoxious as hell

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 22 Apr 2016 7:14pm
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• Reply to wawam's tweet:

  @wawam OP has no jurisdiction over Comelec afaik

  Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 22 Apr 2016 10:49am
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