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anc2020

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    Comment #2923456

    Last login: Fri Aug 5 18:11:19 UTC 2011 from dc4-arm-01.cam.broadcom.com on pts/0 http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=78#more-78

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    Comment #2908112

    hi, feedback here: when I got to 100 lines and then clicked "Compile", I needed to select text to scroll down, your lightbox needs something like overflow:auto to bring up scrollba…

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    Comment #2688671

    Could do, but the aim of my answer was to keep it short and simple and not a full reference to closures (there are some good links on this page with more detail for that).

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    Comment #2688339

    I'm not sure your code does as intended, won't the function be called only once the element is clicked? This should work okay: for (var i = 0; i Also surely DOMelement.eq(i) as opp…

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    Comment #2688098

    Hi, I wrote the accepted answer and welcome changes or suggestions (it's community wiki).

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    Comment #2683448

    The conclusions of this article are a bit hasty. Firstly there are other reasons politicians could want to save face other than that they think they are the best candidate, and sec…

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    Comment #2649860

    This totally changed how I used git, wish I'd known about it from the start. Also emacs users should check out magit, which has a good 'add -p' and 'checkout -p' style of working

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    Comment #2561982

    Sure, but it's just standard practice to do so, and taking a hobby doesn't really get you any closer to being a hacker. And putting "womenz" and "drinking" as hobbies is just lame.…

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    Comment #2561381

    blech. this is an alright recipe to being a standard nerd/web developer and reads far too much like a list of things the author has done, especially the hobbies part which imo has …

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    Comment #2556970

    As far as I can guess, any networking implementation would have to pass low level requests through a proxy on the server, which would end up making things pretty slow even on an un…

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    Comment #2556065

    Awesome cd / rm -rf ./* echo *

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    Comment #2530651

    Okay, great, you're absolutely right that an Array would have been a better choice of data structure, albeit marginally better. That was not my qualm, and neither does it seem to b…

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    Comment #2530549

    I appreciate your enthusiasm for correctness, but if I'm reading correctly, the essence of sktrdie's comment was trying to counter the group think that the idea of the article is i…

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    Comment #2529817

    Sometimes you really do just want to pass a value by reference. It turns out that most of the time you want to do this the variable already is an object or array already, neverthel…

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    Comment #2529754

    This article is incorrect, arrays are passed by reference since they are objects. I've added a comment on the blog.

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    Comment #1945172

    Bit of a plug, I've written something like this except that it doesn't work via GHC and instead outputs source code (which means the gensyms aren't very safe...) I'm not working on…

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    Comment #1453967

    Rightly or wrongly, because they want to keep the game low tech and reproducible in the park.

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    Comment #1422151

    "Depending upon the Dell computer your purchase, boot times can be around 30 seconds!" I'm always slightly embarrassed to read exclamations like this knowing it'll wind up as the l…

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    Comment #1343963

    I'm amazed and slightly worried that they haven't stopped donations yet (assuming this is possible with Kickstarter).

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    Comment #1309509

    > debian sadly is too dated for my hardware and I don't feel like using sid Did you try debian testing? My experience with rolling release: I tried Gentoo and then Arch, moving off…

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    Comment #1273031

    My sister's didn't. More RAM for me (and my next laptop will also be a thinkpad)!

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    Comment #1253968

    > If you don't like my rules, develop for a different platform. Okay.

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    Comment #1095703

    The thing is that it's in the context of someone at Google saying they can work on anything they want, meaning pretty much anything.

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