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senthilnayagam
on Jan 13, 2012
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Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django?
"We're located in downtown San Francisco and have a sick office overlooking Market St."
hope sick office is a typo, must be slick office
threepointone
on Jan 13, 2012
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Also US colloquial for very awesome, good, etc. Just like 'sweet'.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sick
senthilnayagam
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now I understand why natural language processing is tough, nuances, context and downvotes
whatusername
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For an even more extreme example, see some of the comments on this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/kq3l7/how_bad_a_w...
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Or perhaps they're really honest, and it has Sick Building Syndrome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_building_syndrome
Torn
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It's been used here in the UK too since as far as I can remember
dextorious
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You mean their office is "the shit"!
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hope sick office is a typo, must be slick office