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binarycheese

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    Comment #16375866

    Then you will need two senior devs. This is because rockstar devs rarely want to mentor junior devs nor attend meetings. Most inventors are not professors.

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    Comment #13221550

    Now let's just cross fingers and hope the US will adopt the metric system

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    Comment #11328096

    "Contractors are generally not the strongest technically" Nonesense. Contractors are actually much stronger technically because they usually come in to complete a specific task and…

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    Comment #11328057

    Contractors get paid way more in the US especially on the East Coast because they usually have to take care of their own benefits and taxes

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    Comment #9538658

    Yes, if you mean vs humans. Mars is the only planet known to be inhabited entirely by robots

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    Comment #8880630

    " I would also consider the effects that knowledge of an explored-but-abandoned acquisition would have on your employees' motivation if they found out" excellent point.

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    Comment #7857775

    What if we build a huge sealed bottle garden and send to Mars, can humans live in it!

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    Comment #5021174

    like I always say: "Write in one language, suck on all platforms" But it is a good start

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    Comment #4882936

    Have you checked the JavaScript console?

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    Comment #4865564

    "There are plenty of rich kids that don't accomplish anything, Gates wasn't one of them." Very true!

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    Comment #4838984

    Mine too!

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    Comment #4838978

    Just out of curiosity, what language/platform is Google Play running on?

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    Comment #4838965

    Nope. I have been there for an hour, still can't buy it.

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    Comment #4838494

    Because a lot of times "Tom Jones in Skokie, IL" is actually a competitor going around giving everyone else a negative review

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    Comment #4838424

    There is no such a thing as a negative "honest" review. Competitors (and clueless users) always pile up negative reviews while companies with huge budgets add fake "positive" revie…

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    Comment #4838407

    What if you downloaded an app that you thought it was what you were looking for (without actually reading the app description), will you still rate it a "1 star"?

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    Comment #4838356

    You are really on point. recently, one of my apps "Cooking Conversions" was featured on Amazon "Free App of the Day". Can you imagine my app got "1-star" reviews because "there are…

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    Comment #4759155

    Slavery lasted for 400yrs(+).

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    Comment #4694279

    Cool game. The design Looks like a windows 8 app

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    Comment #4474795

    "It is rare to see an accomplished programmer who started writing any code in Java" are you serious? I know a lot [here in DC]. I personally started with Pascal->C->Java->(all the …

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    Comment #4446730

    "Just because the risk of a crime is zero, that doesn’t mean that a criminal will engage in that crime. If that were the case, thieves would go about stealing dandelions and day-ol…

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    Comment #4317783

    The also got tour buses right

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    Comment #4195239

    "I disagree. I think they have a wealth of talented engineers." That statement is false in many ways. As a developer, you keep seeing substandard products from Microsoft. Have you …

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    Comment #4195142

    "One difference between science and math is that you can't prove anything "correct" in science." Excellent analogy