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Stranger2013

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    Comment #6063397

    - if you have any closed source projects on e.g. BitBucket mention this on your resume;

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    Comment #6051398

    That reminds me beer ads in eastern Europe :). They show successful people enjoying themselves in a cosy pub. But reality is vomit and alcoholism. Not sure that someone selling an …

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    Comment #6032238

    "Any programmer ignoring JavaScript is doing themselves a disservice." Not really. You get to work with a buggy language and you loose competitive edge on the work market. Manageme…

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    Comment #6018780

    What do you do when you don't like someone's use of freedom of speech? Try recruiting a mob to bully them.

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    Comment #6012112

    Err... Not available for Windows -> FAIL. You should reflect this in subj to avoid peoples' frustration.

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    Comment #5977438

    "I’ve always dreamed of having a little house, a really small little house" the thing is that it's not economically possible for everyone to have those.

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    Comment #5970044

    But it might get drastically colder :).

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    Comment #5970029

    At higher price people will complain about lack of standard apps. I doubt there is a phone-friendly HTML5 Angry Birds out there.

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    Comment #5951931

    What if that car is a real chick-magnet though?

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    Comment #5951914

    "bought" a house or taken a loan?

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    Comment #5911701

    No thanks, we do not need civil wars.

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    Comment #5905075

    Completely new to Scala but I think that "18 ways" code sample is a bit exaggerated. It is just a choice between C#-ish "a => a + 1" and Haskell-ish "_ + 1".

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    Comment #5904810

    Is it a thought experiment or something that author suggests people use for real-world commercial projects? It would be nice to see some sort of feature comparison table (vs Lua, v…

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    Comment #5894379

    We need to fix the root of the problem - evolution-derived protein bodies.

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    Comment #5894364

    "Find the nearest intelligent life form" ...that is not carnivorous and is not interested in our resources and is not interested in exterminating us for whatever reason.

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    Comment #5879610

    News, economics and (especially) politics do not matter in your life. You have no control over those things anyway (lets be realistic).

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    Comment #5873258

    Java does not allow using reflection to access private fields !? Dude, just use C#.

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    Comment #5873005

    Brainfuck language is even denser.

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    Comment #5872890

    Consider F# then.

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    Comment #5872885

    Google are trying to use Python as well. But they are probably forcing the best practices as well - otherwise it's a mess.

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    Comment #5872877

    Those companies are using it properly though, don't they?

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    Comment #5872826

    Well, of course a classic programming language is better then a script language for majority of tasks. Script languages like JS and Ruby just should not be abused and should only b…

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    Comment #5867231

    Wow, you can't even see trends without logging in now? Not to mention there is still no API.

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    Comment #5763771

    I thought it was about making a very risky investment in a hope for a really high return.