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buugs

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    Comment #6929880

    This is almost 20 years old technology has changed a lot since then. Email clients hide quotes by default and also quote by default. People don't treat email the same (who has the …

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    Comment #6925962

    Also be sure to check out the dev channel: http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev More frequent releases, and quite stable. You do need a Sublime text 2 license though.

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    Comment #6924833

    It may be better to see if you can find someone who is blind and studied mathematics to some degree to see how to proceed. I know most universities have an accessibility department…

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    Comment #6924568

    Test on windows? A lot of thin fonts look bad in Windows especially chrome. So you could probably make a safe bet that if a font is thin on OSX then it will be much thinner (someti…

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    Comment #6904353

    The only reason this should be of any interest is that github took it down: https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...

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    Comment #6903918

    Who cares if something is rude. Rudeness shouldn't be the deciding factor for taking something down. Is it rude to name your program/repo god[1]? Is it rude to use foul language[2]…

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    Comment #6902077

    PHP isn't static but NearlyFreeSpeech has been a good host for me (cheap and easy as long as you don't mind ssh). They do have php and mysql if needed. If actually static (just htm…

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    Comment #6898777

    I don't know about renting but perhaps check the return policy on a few websites (Amazon is usually pretty good) and try one of those after buying it and if you don't like it retur…

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    Comment #6897490

    Except with tags you could probably have multiple groups for single posts rather than having multiple posts in separate groups (or subreddits).

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    Comment #6878210

    You may not always say something novel or unique but I have enjoyed some of your posts immensely and if you aren't writing you may never write the next post that greatly affects so…

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    Comment #6834321

    Yes, there was an instance recently where somebody did just that and the link to the article changed to the original link that was being commented on.

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    Comment #6826199

    Netflix actually works through a special wine version now. https://launchpad.net/pipelight or (older) https://launchpad.net/netflix-desktop

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    Comment #6781121

    I'm not entirely sure but I think to cash in you would need to find willing buyers at the price you want. So it works similar to trading. So if you want $1million dollars at $700 p…

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    Comment #6768512

    For me I receive packages by UPS unless that order is arriving on Monday then it is Fed Ex that delivers the package. But It probably is location dependent, I live in more of a rur…

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    Comment #6756524

    Well in firefox you can't do searches like cache:news.ycombinator.com or site:news.ycombinator.com (Edit: in the address bar) I also prefer the way firefox acts with suggestions in…

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    Comment #6666250

    Depending on how you want your blog to work (say you want to serve ads, or some other feature) you'll get stuck unable to do what you want with wordpress.com. [1] Self hosting Word…

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    Comment #939366

    It isn't reinventing the wheel if you do it better. This is more like refining an octagon into a wheel without having to pay rights usage.

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    Comment #934553

    I think the author is taking the wrong thing away from this, all those little realisations are things that if he comes across in the future he will have a better understanding of w…

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    Comment #932511

    http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/sec/blog/fir...

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    Comment #932376

    It is technically correct English though, just not used as often. An inclusive list could be described as an exhaustive list.

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    Comment #932251

    I like that python is trying to work with projects that have become large and essentially help support it, hopefully much good comes out of this like libraries being upgraded etc.

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    Comment #932166

    The Math Lifesaver: http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ For when you don't like your book, teacher, or need outside resources (I only used it for diff eq and linear algebra) but each i…

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    Comment #930336

    That it isn't compiled but is immediately transformed. (In regards to Emacs)

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    Comment #929936

    It is not so over the top it is playful it is just an purposefully eye grabbing title/intro paragraph to get attention