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bastih

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    Comment #45330737

    But that will make links unstable - or OP needs to to turn ambiguous links into some dispatching view.

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    Comment #42672504

    https://www.handprint.com/ASTRO/bortle.html

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    Comment #42268362

    Color me a bad reader: what does this mean? The abstract pretty much leaves me in the abstract.

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    Comment #39960241

    What about plantuml - covers a fair bit of ground!

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    Comment #38573814

    I have a lot of praise for using Memray as part of working out some memory kinks in a codebase I’m working on. It allowed me to quickly iterate on some hunches and then enshrine th…

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    Comment #36111912

    Other spreadsheets solve this by updating references if you need to add more columns and rows (or at least they try). Is the additional complexity of the infinite grid something th…

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    Comment #33729075

    To combat this scenario, we only had build servers populate the cache. Clients were readonly to the cache, so they would benefit from anything that build servers had already built,…

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    Comment #33729061

    Gotta be one hell of a makefile.

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    Comment #28364600

    Took me 5 mins to figure out what "Geometry Dash levels" are. Should probably link to the game and show an example screenshot in the README?

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    Comment #25998650

    My room was next to said bathroom with rather thin walls, so I always appreciated the sound at least be a bit played down by the music. Another side effect was that you always knew…

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    Comment #25998442

    My parents just had the radio hooked up to the same circuit that was driving the bathroom lights. You enter the room, turn on the lights and there was instant audio. Makes sense to…

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    Comment #25893590

    Good post to plug the documentary "Tim's Vermeer" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3089388/ ), which is a joy to watch as they try to reverse-engineer the particular style Vermeer pa…

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    Comment #21933893

    my bad: meant multiline lambdas.

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    Comment #21927938

    Both standard library and other libs make use of them, so you often can't just ignore exceptions. Also agree on your point - I'm not saying I like exceptions, I like explicitly pas…

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    Comment #21927459

    1. no 2. no, not really - however there may be libraries that python has that ruby doesn't have Side note: Ruby has more syntax to grok, which makes it harder to read (for me). On …

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    Comment #21927445

    > The noexcept specifier protects C++ program from memory leaks and potentially other undesired behaviors brought by throwing exceptions. While I agree with the presented observati…

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    Comment #21823853

    Having gone through writing a couple of iterations of these, I went back to settling on `PATH="./scripts/:$PATH"`, which in my project root dirs (where I spend 99% of my time anywa…

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    Comment #21322874

    They also have a presence on Spotify, great for offline listening.

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    Comment #21247675

    I love when reality pokes holes into clean code and perfectly reasonable assumptions made.

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    Comment #20976643

    There is a good amount of research on software engineering, I love love love "Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It" by Andy Oram, as it demonstrates the non-op…

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    Comment #20926055

    That is great. Love how smooth it looks.

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    Comment #20884642

    I'd be in the same camp. LEGO scales nicely with age, it doesn't suddenly become boring.