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cmagahern

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About cmagahern

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    Comment #4527255

    The last few paragraphs of the article really brought an interesting light onto the subject. Most of the people I know who left college to start a business or to work somewhere in …

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    Comment #3905356

    Can you name a specific example?

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    Comment #3874418

    If anything, this article supports the claim that C++ is a good language. The fact that C++ templates are Turing-complete and allow for this kind of thing is pretty darn cool in my…

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    Comment #3825477

    I think a much better way to do this would be to send a confirmation email first. After the user accepts the confirmation email then it continues with the submission. This would pr…

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    Comment #3814741

    Personally, I've never found Github's interface to be overwhelming at all. Sure they have a lot of content on every page, but I think it's well-designed enough where I can easily f…

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    Comment #3786040

    "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra The name of the field misleads a lot of people into thinking that CS is only abo…

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    Comment #3559546

    The differing mouse "feel" that you're describing is most likely a result of the different mouse acceleration curve that OS X uses. (Mentioned in the article) I've noticed this too…

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    Comment #3273047

    Interesting that doctoral degrees do not pay more on average than professional ones! Perhaps it is because most PhD's enter the field of research as opposed to industry? I haven't …

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    Comment #3273034

    I don't think he was trying to be insulting. From what I gather, he was trying to justify the negativity theme in the comments for this post, which was the subject of the original …

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    Comment #3049788

    I'd really like to create a start-up, and my partner and I have many ideas, but I feel like most start-ups out there today are playing the role of the third-party instead of creati…