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blackman

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    Comment #5175302

    This is one of the discussed problems of philosophy and it gets a bit complicated when you start on quantum physics and relativity. Some info. http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/q…

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    Comment #5143564

    they probably found the place where windows stores the passwords. All 8 character passwords under the unsalted scheme (NTLM) used by Microsoft can be cracked within minutes via use…

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    Comment #4840125

    sounds like they are both optimising for value

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    Comment #3966896

    I know that the criminals probably haven't caught up and this technology may not be widespread (so your argument holds) but... chip and pin is definitely broken (defcon presentatio…

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    Comment #3951770

    actually the third country after chile and norway http://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&#...

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    Comment #3264136

    meditation is not about clearing your mind and stopping it from wandering (although that is a basic way of practising it), it is about understanding the nature of your mind and how…

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    Comment #3176045

    I think this is explained here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

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    Comment #2850453

    i'm sure it was helpful. the first skill in learning how to code is little details, like making sure all the text is the same as the listing, and that you pressed enter after every…

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    Comment #2848925

    i think really what he wants to say is to drill the fundamentals. getting the basics right is important. don't do stupid shit means nothing. why would anyone want to do stupid shit…

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    Comment #2848487

    I really like the idea behind these books, it reminds me of how I learnt originally, typing BASIC programs into my zx spectrum from the back of computer magazines.

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    Comment #2844715

    official site - http://reaper.fm/ I've been using reaper for a couple of weeks now and cannot believe that anyone would want to go back to insert $500+ big name daw after using it.…

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    Comment #2788641

    As far as I can remember I had problems when I compiled it to a universal binary so if anyone else does try compiling it directly to your architecture.

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    Comment #2566592

    yes! i'd love to see a sin city meets bladerunner kind of thing but I'm gonna be pessimistic and expect demolition man...

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    Comment #2563089

    I think you have not seen the latest Asp.net MVC 3, it is pretty much something like rails.

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    Comment #2563085

    It hasn't changed much. some syntactic sugar and influence from functional languages has helped C# but the IDE is not as good as eclipse IMO. You can however add a lot of the refac…

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    Comment #2562982

    Looks really good (haven't tried it yet though). The concept is great. I'd like to see some TextMate/CommandT style functionality for file and path completion (I've been thinking c…

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    Comment #2558914

    now I'm wondering how hard it would be to write a commodore 64 or nes emulator in javascript to embed games in webpages?

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    Comment #2558913

    now I'm wondering how hard it would be to write a commodore 64 or nes emulator in javascript to embed games in webpages?

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    Comment #2555022

    interesting, as an alternative to this how about how janus does it with a .local file? https://github.com/carlhuda/janus/blob/master/vimrc#L147

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    Comment #2551607

    I agree somewhat (although I do feel that debuggers are useful) in that IDEs can influence the design of your program by encouraging a debug first development style similar to "pro…

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    Comment #2551586

    There is no reason you can't use both. I tend to structure my projects using an IDE but do most of my text editing in vim. Nothing beats vim for grunting through a pile of code tha…

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    Comment #2352889

    I would totally use this. I buy clothing online all the time and have had great success but I do tend to stick to big name brands (birkenstock, levis, converse, ben sherman) that h…

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    Comment #2082375

    this is how i learnt vim by using this site. i think doing vimtutor and this is all you need.