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asdfs

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    Comment #8185186

    Just hosted. cmr's github page says he works for Mozilla.

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    Comment #7871446

    Isn't the BLE112 already certified? Or does integrating it into a product require you to get the entire product certified?

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    Comment #7634363

    systemd is first that pops to mind. They're at 212, I think. Though given they seem to skip any point versions, that may be seen as "cheating".

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    Comment #7204040

    The difference is that upstream for upstart is open to BSD/Hurd/etc. ports, whereas upstream for systemd is pretty strongly opposed to them and it does not seem they would assist i…

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    Comment #7203494

    Some could have been stolen from a compromised server.

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    Comment #7200286

    Can you go into more detail? I often wonder what issues people have with GIMP's UI.

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    Comment #7164991

    >As a programmer I find the concept of simply automatically updating libfoo 2.1.x to libfoo 2.1.y because "the developers say it does not break compatibility" scary. Software is wr…

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    Comment #7164987

    I experienced this myself recently. The Netflix metro app decided that something was wrong with the DRM path on my two-day old install of Windows 8.1. After much googling, I ended …

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    Comment #7119599

    The developer of SpaceChem also created The Bureau of Steam Engineering http://www.zachtronics.com/bse/bse.htm and The Codex of Alchemical Engineering http://www.zachtronics.com/al…

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    Comment #7086910

    What's the opposition to MSG? I was under the impression that it was fine, though that there was a possibility that some people have adverse reactions to it — but if you're not one…

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    Comment #7083702

    Hosted e-mail pricing is broken. "/yr" should change to "/ " when you change from yearly to monthly/biannual.

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    Comment #7067430

    Unfortunately while the CPUs themselves are quite reasonable, motherboards tend to be far more expensive and less available. I wonder how much of a markup Intel has on the server c…

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    Comment #6993914

    Were it not for the current shortage of 280X cards due to Litecoin mining, one could build a similar Hackintosh for quite a low price. Though you'd be stuck with 3GiB of memory per…

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    Comment #6992656

    The D700 doesn't have ECC? I'm surprised by that one. That seems like one of the defining features of workstation cards.

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    Comment #6983110

    He specified "beginners", where I think a GUI makes sense. I know I found it somewhat helpful.

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    Comment #6982905

    Something I've heard about is integrating Guile into Emacs. Will Guile become the primary language for Emacs with Emacs Lisp as an option, or will Emacs Lisp remain the "default" c…

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    Comment #6965770

    >Last I checked, drivers for nVidia at least don't yet support cheap scaling for it. Are you sure that's correct? I was under the impression that virtually all GPUs have hardware s…

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    Comment #6908800

    My mistake, I didn't see the video on mobile.

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    Comment #6908474

    Why not link to videos of the game? After reading the copy, I still have a very incomplete idea of what the game is like.

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    Comment #6886178

    Microsoft hasn't acquired Nokia yet, AIUI.

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    Comment #6865753

    Google has a pretty large news presence, and a history of both remarking on notable anniversaries via doodles, and posting relevant news in small text on its home page. It's much m…

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    Comment #6830240

    Here's an archive link, as that thread will presumably 404 pretty quickly: http://rbt.asia/g/thread/S38432928