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Anon_troll

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    Comment #45996203

    It's a shame the campaign of RA3 was boring. They got the theme and cutscenes right, but the campaign missions were rather slow, generic and forgettable. It's the opposite of C&C3,…

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    Comment #45210189

    The hash-based algorithm is only O(n) because the entry size has a limit. In a more general case, it would be something more like O(m(n * e)). Here n is the number of entries, e is…

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    Comment #44972169

    I encountered similar trouble with both Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu. Based on a quick Firefox performance report on the minified source code, most of the time seems to be spent in…

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    Comment #44784191

    Extracting text from DOCX is easy. Anything related to layout is non-trivial and extremely brittle. To get the layout correct, you need to reverse engineer details down to Word's n…

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    Comment #42354115

    The comb walls are basically like chewing gum. It does not have much taste.

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    Comment #41567737

    This sounds like https://bash-org-archive.com/?5273 (original website no longer exists).

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    Comment #33170722

    One major problem here is the mixup of UX and technical implementation details. From UX point of view, the link example goes nowhere, it just opens a dialog. From that point of vie…

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    Comment #33118849

    > A more reasonable question would be, how many partially completed sudoku grids are there which have a unique solution. We don't know the answer to that. If you interpret "unique"…

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    Comment #28897372

    I don't think Firefox and Chrome run extensions/plugins in private windows without you first allowing them to run. That might be the case here.

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    Comment #28671494

    The whitespace and formatting are not significant to the compiler, but they can provide a lot of information to the reader of the code. You can often see where the writer put the m…

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    Comment #28437687

    > Minecraft does doors right in comparably simple way, and I think few if any players have a problem with it See https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-149060 "Villagers "spam" doors by…

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    Comment #18902162

    # Linux hard mode set -e The tab completion integration is especially nice.