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blitzprog

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    Comment #14886106

    Paying for a music playback? I am paying for music storage, but playback should use source quality at all times. Exceptions are when the track is uploaded in a lossless codec like …

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    Comment #14886097

    Wrong, I simply wasn't using it and heard of the service. You can hear the bad quality by comparing it to a high quality version of the same song on good speakers.

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    Comment #14885490

    From a consumer perspective, SoundCloud lost my interest when I heard it's 128 kbps transcoded mp3 you're getting when streaming songs. No thanks.

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    Comment #11369035

    The real question is: How does one live without is-thirteen? https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen

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    Comment #10849038

    Recognize the real source of the problem. Like you said, someone trying to get information about the topics you mentioned could simply be doing this out of curiosity. Now person A …

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    Comment #10848997

    Wouldn't you agree that the real solution is to fix the a) algorithms and b) assumptions rather than c) hiding the data?

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    Comment #10848926

    I see your point. If society ends up believing in the fact that assumptions based on collected data have suddenly turned into "facts" then we will be truly...let me say it frankly.…

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    Comment #10848857

    First of all thank you for respecting my opinion. I appreciate it. 1.) Free speech is a completely different topic. Snowden's quote on this page makes no sense to me no matter how …

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    Comment #10848592

    "This affects all of us. We must care." is not an effective way of convincing someone. I personally do not care about privacy. I see no reason why I should. It's just my opinion. I…

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    Comment #9673535

    > so why do you feel its ok for the site to not make any revenue? There are many, many ways to monetize. Ad blocking doesn't stop them from making any revenue for their content. If…

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    Comment #9445523

    Regardless of how good it is, the presentation could and should be improved. Quick to grasp examples, an explanation telling me which problems this project solves and as a bonus ho…

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    Comment #8095635

    Exactly my thoughts. I use Chrome at home while I can't get around Firefox at my workplace - is there any way to at least fetch the comments by different means?

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    Comment #8095551

    How does this perform in comparison to Riak (cluster, v2.0)?

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    Comment #8084174

    So your boss is some kind of person who does not want to accept that you're human and have a life outside of the work place? I'd quit that job. Instantly.

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    Comment #8014029

    I second that one :)

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    Comment #8008570

    Reading it right now, really great - thanks!

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    Comment #4836234

    Yeah, sorry - I just couldn't find any time to write an online version. Will do it as soon as possible.

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    Comment #4832239

    That's because there is no online version of the documentation right now. It's only available in the editor, it's an Alpha after all. Just because the compiler is written in Python…

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    Comment #4831251

    "Crack aims to provide the ease of development of a scripting language with the performance of a compiled language." Have you looked at the Flua project yet? It's pretty much this …

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    Comment #4206832

    I'm using QThread for PyQt GUI applications. However the GIL makes it impossible to execute _Python_ code in parallel. I can understand the reasons for that, however it doesn't cha…

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    Comment #4074084

    I just integrated it into the programming language I am developing, thanks for such a small and handy library!