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Technetium_Hat

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    Comment #21387916

    yes there is definitely a double standard between a) masculinity in women and b) femininity in men

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    Comment #21225022

    it is a convention in android apps to show a toast message as a tooltip when you long press on a button.

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    Comment #21224983

    you were lucky to hit that point in middle school. i am in high school currently and am struggling due to not ever learning proper study skills. everything before was too easy for …

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    Comment #20953369

    you can definitely inherit from Array and Map in javascript.

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    Comment #20529613

    If it is to be 2 separate volumes, would the first volume, ie jlox, be ready to publish already?

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    Comment #20528769

    Based on their (lack of) interactions with local governments, goodwill does not seem to be one of their chief concerns.

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    Comment #20484133

    code generated /= text. Most html web pages are still largely written _by hand_ in a text editor. The closest thing to this that exists now is OpenSCAD, a usability nightmare.

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    Comment #20484069

    "It's popular so it must be bad"

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    Comment #20484059

    JSON was created as the lowest common denominator between multiple ancient javascript engines. At one time, at least one browser couldn't handle keywords being used as unquoted obj…

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    Comment #20454869

    the idea is that cheaters would find it more fun to play in the tool-assisted mode. obviously there will still be some black-hats who try to hack the main mode.

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    Comment #20454746

    I know you meant Proof of Concept, but it took a couple of readings to realize you weren't saying "Person of Color".

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    Comment #20454734

    this mistake is what causes the incredibly common html entities in plain-text emails, as well as RSS article titles.

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    Comment #20441440

    The closest thing I have felt to its just solid feel is my essential phone. don't get me wrong - it is not a good phone, but the build quality is unbelievable.

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    Comment #20441400

    it allows you to hold the remote without accidentally triggering the touchpad.

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    Comment #20441392

    Macbook pro right from both ends? I guess we're ignoring that - the keyboards don't work - the touchbar exists - all the thermal issues it has had

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    Comment #20420871

    `Expr*` means zero or more, so the empty string is implicit.

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    Comment #20413570

    PINs are encouraged because when a password is used, it is the user's microsoft account password. By not entering this password publicly, it increases the security of the microsoft…

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    Comment #19941366

    All cats are indeed bastards.

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    Comment #19900059

    Why the comma operator with the eval?

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    Comment #19859365

    But those two pieces of code are parsed exactly the same way in most languages--the only difference is the newline between `else` and `if`

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    Comment #19859290

    Python uses the `elif` keyword if you want to place an `else if` on one line. And column indentation isn't very "pythonic", apparently.

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    Comment #19859245

    > like ecmascript's "do" Keep in mind this is only a stage 0 proposal, and thus is not really part of the language. This is how statements behave when entered into the repl, e.g. t…

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    Comment #19748783

    the biggest barrier, in my opinion, is the ugly punycode links. most browsers still do not render them properly, and if they did, it would have false positives. (i.e. there is no w…

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    Comment #19682485

    Unfortunately they still appear as punycode in most contexts.

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    Comment #19675073

    JavaScript does have lexical block scope since ES6, with the `let` and `const` statements. And continuations are implemented by convention in nodeJS (through callbacks) It even is …