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crickey

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    Comment #37422976

    You sound like someone who hasnt worked very long in the industry. Being realistic anout failure allows one to build better products. Simplicity and maintainability and most import…

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    Comment #37410753

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    Comment #37410243

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    Comment #37251686

    So the garbage collected language is written in a garbage collected language? How does that effect the system?

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    Comment #37214382

    Well u sure made an effort to exclaim how hard it would be. If a developer had an install guide with links to dependencies or mirrors to those dependencies it wouldnt be very hard …

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    Comment #37214268

    https://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/ https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/linux/ I mean it will probably not be painless and other applications u run might break* but xorg is relativ…

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    Comment #37214146

    This is only because of the nature of dynamic linking. Have a statically linked executable and you should be fine. Not that it should be an issue to get old software to run you sim…

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    Comment #37127612

    All well and good when u have an active dev team who knows the code. Have fun walking into a code base that has just been running for the last 5 years and all the consultants that …

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    Comment #37127522

    I guess, some languages get around this by having a destinction between functions and keyword functions not having the () braces in the syntax. But really if ur defning functions a…

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    Comment #37123659

    I dont undestand your example, plenty of languages add new keywords without breaking backwards compatibility, its removing a keyword that would cause such and issue.

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    Comment #37123398

    Has python really though? still my company has a bunch of 2.7 lying around that not one is touching. I would like to flip your question on its head and ask why does any language ne…

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    Comment #37106425

    Beither does OP

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    Comment #37106015

    Id like to specify that i never stated that people “off themselves” purely from suicide. Drugs, alocohol, suicide, social isolation are all fair gain when combating the strugles of…

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    Comment #37102170

    Survivor bias, those who are happy enough not to off themselves in one given way or another will scew the statistics

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    Comment #37101395

    Consulting is a way for managers to avoid any kind of responsibility.

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    Comment #37100937

    :e $MYVIMRC Your welcome

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    Comment #37095243

    Nothing against the project or talk itself. But kinda funny when a talk starts with “i bet many of you thought X was a solved problem, well im here to tell u it isnt.” Git was popu…

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    Comment #37094630

    I feel being catfishes is pretty harmless. If you never learn the truth how is that any different the talking to an actual women

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    Comment #37092359

    What research has happened that has changed our outlook on porn. Not counting suedo selfhelp gurus. Seems to me conservative trend.

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    Comment #37084468

    Freud stated this in his future of an illusion. The (righfull in his opinion) decline of chritian church institutions would lead to higher untreated mental illness. Though he also …

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    Comment #37068009

    I mean what are your goals, its never as clear cut as X is objectively better in all use cases over Y

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    Comment #37054286

    Why people who are into retrogames dont need to be advertised to

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    Comment #37053266

    God im old

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    Comment #37033440

    Cool, i guess

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    Comment #37003949

    Well that just sounds like bad farming. If you cant at least think 1 generation ahead then the state must intervene