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CathyWest

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    Comment #19145898

    This is pure harassment of perfectly reasonable people that so many of us are being subject to on this site.

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    Comment #18571357

    But can you find a culture that sincerely uses one of those exact naming conventions? I agree with the base premise of the linked article, but I think such hyperbole just detracts …

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    Comment #18571335

    If someone can read this and finds it to be an interesting question, please repost it so that it could be answered to: I'm curious about naming conventions in different languages a…

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    Comment #18559907

    EinsDueTresFour: I see I'm not the only one who's been shadowbanned for refusing to march to the drum of the Silicon Valley fat cats.

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    Comment #18559672

    I'm probably wasting my time unless a lot of people have enabled showing dead posts, as the moment I voiced criticism of the silicon valley establishment I got hid by a shadow ban.…

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    Comment #18540946

    Isn't that just a CGI program? In fact isn't this whole serverless affair just CGI all over again?

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    Comment #18540838

    Como este articlo es relevanto para Las Nuevas Des Hackedores?

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    Comment #18532814

    That would have been a reasonable argument if they were found to have been using something like DES-based crypt(3) to hash their passwords. But they didn't, they were just plain te…

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    Comment #18532395

    Given the nature of the violation I think bankrupting them would have been perfectly warranted.

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    Comment #18531786

    > I wish there was a guide for "proper" SO questions; my impression is, the only ones are super-detailed questions about some super-particular APIs. And those questions can in most…

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    Comment #18521246

    Isn’t Trudeau’s Canada supposed to be be a free-for-all “post-national” state?

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    Comment #18515793

    I wonder why the once ubiquitous observation decks of the early jet age disappeared. I'm not terribly interesting in plane spotting, but I can't think of anything more pleasant to …

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    Comment #18512555

    I used to run John Norstad's Disinfectant in Classic Mode years ago. Of course it did nothing but, but it did get me on the network, and that's all that mattered. Plus, the about b…

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    Comment #18512491

    Skype for Business almost completely drains my MBP battery in one session. I'm certain it has dedicated hardware for this, it should be able to do videoconferencing without breakin…

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    Comment #18508865

    > https://tulsaremote.com/ As an aside, what on earth is that page loading that takes long enough to need a progress bar and can't be either progressively loaded or cached?

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    Comment #18506892

    What a wasted opportunity to not arrange the festival in the actual town of Hammerfest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerfest

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    Comment #18502131

    What kind of capitalisation convention is that? It's not German, or all the nouns would have been capitalised. Prepositions and conjunctions, with verbs and pronouns some of the ti…

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    Comment #18501233

    > I honestly think the finance industry could be half the size it is with no real harm to the rest of the economy. With technology it should have shrunk by a couple of orders of ma…

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    Comment #18499220

    > 20 Brain Foods That Boost Memory And Concentration > Magnesium Deficiency Causes Heart Attacks! > This is What Happens to Your Body if You Eat Ginger Every Day > 15 Fruits that B…

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    Comment #18498032

    Another choice scam that these people do is file claims against people already mired debt on the off chance that they are so deep into it that they have lost track of whom they owe…

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    Comment #18498009

    That's a shame. It would indeed be nice if it could inline them, and do the same with views, and maybe even do more aggressive join elimination. Right now I have some scary looking…

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    Comment #18493831

    > so I tend to write CTE-based JSON generating views for apps. (Yes, these are not high traffic apps...) I enjoy using this pattern too. What kind of problems should I expect if it…

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    Comment #18492865

    It would be the other way around. You wouldn't be able to electronically break in using the zero day after the update. Then you do the same thing as you would in an unconnected car…