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TeeDub

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    Comment #5598937

    In hindsight, I shouldn't have been so surprised to hear of groups farming likes for profit... Are there any good articles that talk about this practice? Seems like that could be i…

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    Comment #5542090

    So, I understand that FOSS is great and we all want more open software because there are tangible benefits to working with open software. I'm less clear on why API's shouldn't be c…

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    Comment #5369189

    Slate.co looks like it could evolve into a viable contender in this space. I have a few qualms about the way questions are structured, but the site is pretty and nice enough.

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    Comment #5310519

    OneNote is pretty great. It uses SkyDrive, but is available for free on most mobile platforms (Iphone,Android,Win8 Phone) and any platform with a moderately up to date browser. (Vi…

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    Comment #5299178

    What do you mean when you say tester? If you mean "someone to run manual test cases," it is probably because those sorts of jobs are pure tedium... They can be outsourced to websit…

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    Comment #5290131

    Maybe it's just my phone (I have a Lumia and am not in a place right now to ask for someone else's phone to repro on another platform) , but it seems that the mobile site could use…

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    Comment #5290079

    Maybe you could present the different options in reverse order of votes? (filtered a bit so that spammy answers aren't always first.) Changing the order of presentation can be a go…

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    Comment #5239279

    Are there any serious benchmarks that compare the performance of Java and C#. As someone who works with both languages, I can generally but the qualitative arguments that the autho…

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    Comment #5206942

    Maybe our community has more wide-reaching problems that could also be addressed? Sexist humor strikes me as coming from the same general jackassery that made people mock Heather A…

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    Comment #4956813

    InclinedPlane mentioned "Working Effectively with Legacy Code," and I'd just like to add that's one of the greatest software engineering books out there. Feathers (the author) meth…

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    Comment #4890957

    The book that this game originates in ("The Paradox of Self Amendment") is actually a very delightful and thought-provoking book. If you're into self-amending systems (law, softwar…

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    Comment #4868663

    >"There's also something else...rate of advancement is likely going to seem slower than it was in the past few centuries, because of a natural diminishing rate of return. To paraph…

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    Comment #4868553

    >"I don't think America surpassing Britain in any category was solely due to copyright laws." This may be incorrect, at least for one category (literature). There's actually some r…

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    Comment #4868505

    >So you're saying: "It's very complicated, you won't understand my arguments." No, that's not at all what he's saying. He's saying that intellectual property is actually an immense…