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LfLxfxxLxfxx

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    Comment #48067973

    and even a tetragraph: szcz=щ

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    Comment #48066998

    Actually, for most of its existence, Cyrillic has had a θ (theta) like in Greek, used only in loanwords and pronounced either as ф (f) or т (t) because the th sound is not part of …

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    Comment #44412708

    If opposition to the Euro is so massive, can't they simply hold a referendum over it?

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    Comment #39272731

    Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are easy - they go in alphabetical order from north to south.

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    Comment #31364298

    By default git diff works on entire lines, but try this: git diff --word-diff=color --word-diff-regex=. It highlights only the parts that have actually been changed/added/deleted.

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    Comment #28214287

    If the title says it's the CIA's "turn", then of course the article should be expected to draw a parallel with similar events in the past.

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    Comment #25296604

    There are no proofs in science. It's probabilistic reasoning, which is the best we can do when studying nature. Yes, it presupposes the principles you mentioned.

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    Comment #25296232

    > What if scientists don't understand reason? They do. > Do they see science is subject to reason Yes, the scientific method is a specific kind of probabilistic reasoning that work…

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    Comment #21786869

    Thanks! For the record: I added the sentence after "No, thank you" after I got a few downvotes. And please don't call them idiotic. It might be they truly believe in the necessity …

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    Comment #21783870

    > product management, project management No, thank you. FOSS developers are usually skilled and self-motivated engineers, so corporate-style control is unnecessary or harmful. Mone…

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    Comment #21783804

    They can still profit, but they'd have to open up their own code, which most are afraid of doing.

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    Comment #21553920

    You can buy support from a third party.

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    Comment #20909571

    A library is compiled with a compiler.

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    Comment #20685973

    Shh... don't tell anyone!

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    Comment #20606904

    Probably most of the work is hidden in the underlying "framework" or "language". Here's a text editor in 1 line of html:

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    Comment #20543444

    Just a joke.

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    Comment #20543409

    > The US is not going to lift these restrictions. Why would they? If you live in these terrible places "these terrible places" == "The US"? > armed rebellion Armed. Definitely, the…

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    Comment #20375414

    On the contrary. With idempotence you know the state after an action. rm -f will always delete the file (if possible). ln -sfn will always work, even for a directory. With the defa…

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    Comment #19645777

    > Businesses loose millions and they just burn cash because of toxic and arrogant developments teams If a business is treated like that, maybe it should quit its current developmen…

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    Comment #19355343

    > It doesn't hurt anybody Not anybody in particular but it does hurt society as a whole. It's one of those things that make the rich richer for no reason other than them already be…

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    Comment #19034281

    The actual tip: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyGIwiHVYAAJaxH.jpg You don't see this kind of stuff every week, and surely Apple has the resources to at least confirm it.

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    Comment #18842239

    This argument assumes developers have access to the market. In reality most of us are not in a position to benefit directly from selling software, regardless of how "good" or "bad"…

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    Comment #17434318

    or the prisoner could spread his expectations over the five days so that they sum to 1, and then lose 1 minus the expectation for the day of hanging