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_Robbie

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    Comment #27890085

    Mountain Winery, Bing Concert Hall, Frost Amphitheater, San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, Spieker Center for the Performing Arts

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    Comment #21958096

    That sounds like Caia ( https://solenica.com/ ).

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    Comment #14518840

    I have been working on a visual programming language for Haskell: https://github.com/rgleichman/glance Currently, it uses Diagrams and Graphviz to visualize Haskell programs. Pleas…

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    Comment #13378421

    The link is a blank page for me.

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    Comment #13378327

    Rotating nodes is an easy way to reduce line crossings. Here's a comparison [0]. However, it does seem that vertical and angled text is harder to read than horizontal text, so ther…

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    Comment #13377746

    Graphviz is only used to find the positions for the nodes using Graphviz's Neato algorithm. The nodes and the lines themselves are all rendered using the Haskell library Diagrams […

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    Comment #13376165

    Creator of Glance here, happy to answer any questions.

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    Comment #13051184

    Here's my reply to another comment about the keyboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051133

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    Comment #13051133

    I got the Developer Edition XPS 13 9360 two weeks ago. I have never encountered the repeated key press problem some people with the XPS 15 seem to have had. Compared with my old X1…

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    Comment #13050843

    I got a Developer Edition XPS 13 9360 two weeks ago. My compatibility experience: - DisplayPort over USB-C alternate mode did not work at all in Ubuntu 16.04 (unplugging the USB-C …

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    Comment #11775934

    The link you cited seems to be answering the question "Does more education for an individual decrease poverty for that individual?", while the original post is answering the questi…

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    Comment #11427460

    The 2016 Toyota Prius is 4.54 meters. The Bolt is 4.17 meters. Bolt specs: http://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/vehicles/bo...

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    Comment #9581624

    Here are the salaries for all University of California employees. https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/

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    Comment #8904161

    To this day I will stay at the bottom of the org chart being an engineer cause that's where I want to be. -Steve Wozniak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJif4i9NRdI#t=290

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    Comment #8828017

    The simple explanation is that the word functor is being used for two different concepts. I found this question on Stackoverflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16353066/how-ar…

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    Comment #8656664

    I am skeptical that his explanations are completely pseudo-scientific and have no basis is fact. If these explanations sound unscientific, I think it is more likely that it from th…

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    Comment #8329406

    I used Helm for a simple 2D simulator/prototype for edge detection and orientation. Link to code below (it was my first Haskell program). While it was not a game in any sense, I fo…

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    Comment #7870134

    I will discuss Haskell, since I am not very familiar with other FP languages. In Haskell static typing is more useful than in other languages. This is because in Haskell the type s…

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    Comment #7540469

    This PDF has some test results and a more detailed description of the technology and science of the device. The article does not seem to reference it, so it was probably posted to …

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    Comment #7530317

    Is there any more information on what exactly the problem was? From the article it is unclear if this is a pure software bug, a UI problem, or something else.