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CrystalCuckoo

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    Comment #43789519

    The author of the post tries to use this as an example of Kaplan being an idiot but (having read the books) struck me as a rare case of him being the only sane man in the room - Fa…

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    Comment #32636807

    Enabling/disabling systemd services is done via managing symlinks. Unfortunately, when disabling a service in systemd, it follows and remove symlinks which can remove your symlinke…

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    Comment #27793970

    There are arrows on each side of the comic. They're transparent, but they're there.

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    Comment #11430358

    > > Shitty sexist comments on a daily basis. A real toxic work environment > That's also a price of equality, sometimes you just eat shit at a certain job. You can't be serious. No…

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    Comment #11133411

    This is the company that bragged about having 18,000 classes for their iOS app [1] and having to patch the Dalvik Virtual Machine to support new features in their Android app [2]; …

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    Comment #10838524

    Probably modal editing and plugins that aren't constrained by Vimscript.

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    Comment #10052586

    I love Nix, but I wish there were a way to easily install packages without having sudo access. Programs like pip only need a '--user' flag, while Nix requires you to use chroot mag…

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    Comment #8353746

    A long-overdue update, IMO. With Greenlight Steam has been cluttered with far too many games for the average user to delve into and gauge their worth. I am intrigued by displaying …

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    Comment #8314140

    Don't forget neobundle [1], which I find more useful than either as it allows loading for specific filetypes and asynchronous plugin installation. [1] https://github.com/Shougo/neo…

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    Comment #8186270

    I had a similar experience with Chrome (or rather, Chromium) on my netbook. It consumed so much memory with normal usage that I had to switch to Midori[1] so I could do other thing…

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    Comment #7440280

    Fantastic news! My major gripe with SQLite was that it didn't support recursion (and subsequently had to move to a different database despite filling all of my other requirements);…

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    Comment #7377754

    Piracy doesn't offer automatic updates, cloud saves, (usually) multiplayer, support when the game breaks, and a guarantee of not containing malware. I'm obviously using Steam as an…

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    Comment #7297262

    Not really, the problem lies in its naming. Comments that explain what the variables represent signify that they should have been better named in the first place to avoid any confu…

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    Comment #6371783

    Are you talking about the Special Edition DLC? It's already out: http://store.steampowered.com/app/239570/ Hopefully it will be included in the bundle as the week progresses.