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cjfont

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    Comment #26134443

    Or what about sleeping in an RV, parked at different locations each night.

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    Comment #24573729

    I use currently use puppeteer to do the same thing

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    Comment #18204751

    JARs are okay, but they still require you to have the java runtime installed in order for them to execute.

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    Comment #16834638

    So there's a lot of other things that can be done on the client other than interacting with the DOM. In particular, applications that render intense graphics, or manage a local dat…

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    Comment #16597470

    Sometimes you don't realize there's a problem until you try doing it a different way. If you always wait until there's a problem, you're likely to get stuck doing things the hard w…

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    Comment #16477670

    He used QuickBASIC to compile it into an EXE and that was the copy he gave the students to play with.

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    Comment #16472610

    Or the snake one called Nibbles - my 6th grade computer class teacher had made modifications to it adding levels, etc., and had his class play with what he had created. I was just …

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    Comment #13815906

    A statement can also be an opinion, I think the intention was to differentiate from statements that are meant to appear to be facts but are false.

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    Comment #12759779

    You don't drop an incendiary statement like that without at least citing an example of where that has been the case.

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    Comment #12581348

    You could quickly drill a small hole in each case, in order to fit a tall button like this one: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8605 Also, there's some U2F devices that trigger t…

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    Comment #12378448

    In regards to the length of functions, to me it comes down to whether it is preferable to have the entire content of the function visible to the programmer at the time any changes …

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    Comment #12289601

    Link to white paper: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P15-1150

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    Comment #11663539

    Whatever the default search target for travel stay is, if there is one, will probably determine a large percent of what users will simply stick to using without bothering to change…

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    Comment #11662956

    Viv is being presented as a platform for other developers to build on top of, and these 3rd party developers will be the ones responsible for fleshing out the specifics of how the …

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    Comment #11557625

    I too was left disappointed and wondering the same thing when I came to the end of an otherwise great article. My best guess is that anyone can do purposeful practicing simply by c…

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    Comment #11292705

    I'm going to guess that the format lends itself better to code obfuscation than JavaScript, for those that do not want their code to be open.

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    Comment #11244640

    In many cases, side projects have absolutely nothing to do with one's mainstream work, so trying to have them gain traction at a company is moot. For instance, if I work for the go…

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    Comment #11176116

    According to the article, supernovas occur more frequently in younger galaxies, and we know these can blow a star's heliosphere away temporarily exposing all its planets to deadly …

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    Comment #11092192

    They have a fox though, so that's cool.

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    Comment #11019196

    They can't be flaunting around big words like nanometer, it might discourage a layperson from reading the article.

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    Comment #11009172

    I'm still not sure why one would want to place the data center at the bottom of the ocean. I would think that the disadvantage of not being able to perform maintenance for 5 years …