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McElroy

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    Comment #10001914

    Parent commenter was saying that if the MPAA hate Google, MPAA-members shouldn't be using Google, not that Google should cut off MPAA/MPAA-members.

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    Comment #9989957

    Good talk. I enjoyed the fact that she put up both a voice recording and a text version with images. I listened and followed along.

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    Comment #9988565

    Thanks for saving me the time of reading the essays.

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    Comment #9987913

    I hadn't heard the word infirm before so I looked it up. It seems to me that it does not mean what you think it means. Thought you might want to know that. http://www.merriam-webst…

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    Comment #9966834

    The first video was sort of easy -- I saw the person who fell off their floatation device and I kept looking just at that person until the lifeguard blew their whistle and jumped i…

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    Comment #9948788

    They should do a kickstarter and then they can use the money to have more time to develop the game or to hire people as good as they are looking for.

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    Comment #9941595

    There's nothing broken about that. If you want to do full text search, do `man -K` instead of `man -k`. E.g. man -K MANOPT Works for me on Ubuntu 14.04, though slowly so and I stil…

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    Comment #9938006

    Tell me about your devolution. (He said to ask him to in his profile.)

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    Comment #9928878

    Between this (yes, I know it's 3rd party) and the support for JSON, PostgreSQL seems to be eating into the market of the NoSQL databases every day. I like that. I like that because…

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    Comment #9913083

    The entire library in the name of the library? Crazy! How would you input that on the computer when you wanted to reference it, though?

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    Comment #9912973

    Even when reading code you wrote yourself, long variable names can be immensely helpful. I was working on some code today which I wrote a couple of months ago and came across some …

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    Comment #9900294

    The link to http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/96.php from that Wikipedia page was an interesting read.

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    Comment #9874433

    Github repo: https://github.com/robpike/ivy

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    Comment #9843986

    Is this a mooc also? If so, how and where does one sign up?

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    Comment #9841113

    >The chair doesn't have supported platforms, new security issues, or the need to be updated so that people keep buying the same chair. IoT will change all of that ;)

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    Comment #9841090

    The e-mail seems to suggest that it would improve performance. >Because XUL and XBL aren’t web technologies, they don’t get the same platform attention that HTML does (for good rea…

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    Comment #9833501

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/900055/is-sql-or-even-tsq... ;)

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    Comment #9827125

    Rename it to parl

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    Comment #9817359

    Almost what I've been doing but I didn't know about the "dirty" option so I had a script I wrote to check if there are uncommitted changes and append a suffix like you do. Now I ca…

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    Comment #9816984

    I had no idea. Thanks!

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    Comment #9816975

    Searching for descriptor-based computer architecture after reading your comment since it reminded me that I was going to, gave me a link to chapter 10 of the book. https://homes.cs…