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adam77

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    Comment #14441803

    It's interesting that these recent posts from the FF top ranks don't address this bundling issue. It seems as though the world is moving to an 'appliance' plus app-store model. In …

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    Comment #14103672

    Sadly wkhtmltopdf's version of Webkit is ancient :( No flexbox, no es6, etc...

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    Comment #13945918

    is it really smaller and faster. i got the impression the payload size reduction might come at a cost to render performance?

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    Comment #12843796

    'Pretigious Technologies' typo?

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    Comment #12770632

    i got a taste after reading this... https://ia601208.us.archive.org/16/items/vmss16/titzer.pdf

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    Comment #12223107

    that's where the milestones can help; it gives concrete visibility to stakeholders of what the technical debt actually is "oh we've loads of technical debt, it's such a pain", beco…

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    Comment #12222827

    have the team come up with a list of achievable meaningful milestones (eg. 'eliminate use of nasty obsolete library X'), ensure some time is spared to progress them; it'll become c…

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    Comment #9066395

    not just everyday but part of US legal framework... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milita...

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    Comment #9066385

    No not in the constitutional sense [Article I, Section 8, Clause 11] but this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milita...

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    Comment #9064694

    I think there's more to it than that, particularly legal interpretation of 'where is the battlefield' and 'preparing the battlefield'.

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    Comment #9064674

    I think technically the US is 'at war' with certain terrorist groups, allowing certain tools of war to be employed (esp. in the middle east). Something along the lines of: "In time…

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    Comment #9064533

    [The reason the "War on Terror" is still treated as a war...] ...is for its legal status (empowering the US executive to carry out certain actions it otherwise couldn't). A number …

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    Comment #8913591

    Also, improvements in the Java language are eroding it's raison d'être.

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    Comment #8564944

    1. could make vote enticements illegal? 2. make any aggregate votes with greater than block size x (e.g. 100) public?