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camo

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    Comment #7998471

    > That's where all the browser implementors convened when they lost faith in the W3C. With the notable exception of Microsoft.

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    Comment #6146365

    http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk : > You can create an e-petition about anything that the government is responsible for and if it gets at least 100,000 signatures, it will be consid…

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    Comment #6120469

    If having children is a basic human right, isn't the capability to be able to raise them also a necessity (a human right of the child's fulfilled in proxy by the parent)? One of th…

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    Comment #5969835

    ...or tear off a sheet of plastic food wrap you have in your cupboard

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    Comment #5643682

    > I am not a "3 cheers for dynamically typed languages" person, but for Java I am willing to concede that the type system comes with the drawbacks but little benefit. In C++, and D…

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    Comment #5206693

    Maybe brits are just more lazy than people from other countries and just click on ads to find what they want. Or maybe british advertisers are crazy and pay insane prices for adwor…

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    Comment #5151092

    It would seem that steve jobs was more interested in suing other companies than anything non-ego driven. He wouldn't even pay up for his super-expensive titanium boat. I'll keep be…

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    Comment #5139525

    If anyone else clicked on this link to find out who this mysterious 'Gerald' is and why we're supposed to know by him by his first name through some sort of Voodoo, i recommend ins…

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    Comment #5097162

    Boring. Would be nice to see a 'breathtaking' photo in color.

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    Comment #5086780

    Could be useful if it was interesting. .

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    Comment #4947621

    "And though Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has had to react and has promised this won't happen, at least one big publisher isn't buying it: National Geographic" Why does Kevin have to…

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    Comment #4886761

    Spending any money on 3D printers is a complete waste of resources when building a new facility like this. Spend the money on the building's infrastructure and networking which wil…

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    Comment #4557757

    If such a pill was invented it would be used maliciously to spike those unrequited loves.

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    Comment #4510222

    maybe skeuomorphism should be added to the list of "Shit apple fanatics say" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFhjDX-DUew

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    Comment #4495644

    What are you on about? Concurrent programming is the set of problems that exists when there are multiple 'computational processes' accessing shared state. This is a 'thread' (overl…

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    Comment #4202747

    So is javascript. This is a ridiculous argument - there are no "good" reasons only a lot of FUD and font vendors who want this as a roundabout form of asset protection. The fonts a…

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    Comment #4171282

    As an anecdotal comment, i visited The Gambia in West Africa a few years ago and was surprised to discover that one area of town is officially called "Traffic Lights". They were th…

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    Comment #4146401

    color association is an evolutionary development and wasn't invented by Ferrari. look at the world of nature for evidence. the first Ferrari was yellow anyway, their first racing c…

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    Comment #2903512

    i think the last comment's suggestion wasn't acceptable because it will break type safety for previously compiled code. perhaps this was too much to stomach for those making the de…

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    Comment #2902952

    until erasure is fixed, no new hacks\workarounds can be added. unfortunately you can't build hacks on hacks on hacks...even as engineeringly pleasing as some hacks might be. imo, j…