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Boxer

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    Comment #3977589

    My only problem with underscores is that when I read them aloud in my head, I hear a longer pause than for a hyphen, so code with lots of underscores takes longer to read, or at le…

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    Comment #3874443

    I can just imagine receiving a link like this while I'm on a spotty WLAN, trying to load it, it not loading properly, refreshing, and having it be "expired".

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    Comment #3830214

    Here are some tips that have worked for me : * Keep the coffee machine in the bedroom. Before going to bed, load it up with water and coffee put the alarm clock next to it. Also ha…

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    Comment #676912

    Well, what fraction of cheap flights have crashed vs. normal flights?

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    Comment #648648

    I find this USB stick distasteful. It's not mechanical, all the gears do nothing. The designer took parts that had a precise function and rearranged them into something useless for…

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    Comment #633045

    Even if flying cars were cheap and easy to make, would we want them? They're cool and amazing, but in real life they might be impractical. So generally when talking about the futur…

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    Comment #633003

    It was plagiarized, not pirated.

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    Comment #609302

    So why is 'misery' in quotes? Are the workers bluffing?

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    Comment #595184

    Let average-so-far=a, count=c. When you add a new item x, the new average is: a = a + (x-a)/(c+1)