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billrobertson42

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About billrobertson42

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    Comment #46061001

    I wanted to suggest Fernflower. I have a lot of experience with it, because it's what Jetbrains uses in Intellij. I have only seen it generate sensible code. I took a quick peek at…

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    Comment #45553562

    I took it as sarcasm.

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    Comment #45521109

    What is react doing that appears to make it so much slower? Where does it spend its time?

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    Comment #44615201

    When you're writing a release, or about some detail of your project, you need to directly give new readers background, or at least provide some navigation to something else that pr…

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    Comment #37404803

    This is amazing. Thank you!

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    Comment #37239098

    zmq is a challenge to get to work for sure. It's super low level.

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    Comment #37143041

    Good news! It's in rubles.

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    Comment #31415092

    A simple font selector would be nice. I have some seriously impaired vision w/o correction and monospaced fonts really help when I have to look at a screen that way. That and abili…

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    Comment #26459907

    Good for them. Bug, mistake, bad data, or whatever. Glad they fixed it.

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    Comment #26459279

    It doesn't appear to be locked now.

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    Comment #23114621

    If the expose category and tags then passing through the ability to filter based on that would nice too.

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    Comment #20161540

    I started in the 90's and I realized early on that non-tech people in the company viewed us as cogs.

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    Comment #20137406

    Realizing that "coder" is largely a pejorative term and most people have no idea and appreciation for what you do.

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    Comment #18749986

    Have you tried seeing if you're connected to anyone there through LinkedIn?

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    Comment #18507878

    The reason that there is a conference for X is because somebody makes money running a conference for X. Be it directly or indirectly.

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    Comment #18397245

    core.logic hasn't really seen any updates in such a long time. I don't think it's maintained any more.

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    Comment #18049525

    Thanks. That's very interesting. I don't suppose you're going to tell me that it has Clojure's amazing data structures too. :-)

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    Comment #18047428

    What about run-time safety? e.g. are the pointers? does it have builtin in array bounds checking? (Heck, does it even have arrays?)

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    Comment #18047267

    Excel w/o vba is the ultimate in functional programming.

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    Comment #17941358

    Crazy talk here, but do you have control of the database? Can you get history added to it?

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    Comment #17848789

    Well, that's unfortunate. DGraph seemed like it was pretty cool. I wish them the best of luck.

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    Comment #17839484

    Could that be the nature of Github? Doesn't it give credit to whomever merges pull requests?

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    Comment #17832126

    I assume more testing will occur after the four bugs are addressed. Will that be published on the Jepsen blog?

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    Comment #17782240

    > Our proof ... demonstrates the absence of implementation bugs. It's definitely a strong statement, and thanks for the qualification. When I saw the words on the page I began to w…