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dadie

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    Comment #49146812

    Beware though that only learning words may leave you confused as in my experience Americans tend to overload the same word with a different meaning depending on the context. They a…

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    Comment #48786319

    I think the bigger problem is that SQL is in almost every language a second-class citizen. And even calling it second-class can be seen as a stretch.

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    Comment #47974893

    Sorry to be frank and for the upcoming rant as your site is mostly fine, but looking at most websites I visite these days be it from a company, a service, a webshop, an open source…

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    Comment #45338918

    Honestly, the second to last paragraph reminded me a lot of my experience with eclipse back in 2011 to 2014. I think it was called the eclipse dance back than. A random order of cl…

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    Comment #40999319

    Under privacy I understand that I have to the limits of my ability control over with whom I share information. But the same is true for anyone sharing information with me. If I hav…

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    Comment #40998152

    Thank you for the link. This sadly makes me consider switch to another email provider. I think it is great that they listen to their customers, it really is, but it makes me think …

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    Comment #39431318

    As someone who has been coding in Delphi for a living for the past 5 years I'd argue the syntax being verbose is only a small part of a larger problem, which is that (object) pasca…

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    Comment #38907374

    While I can only speak for myself, I kindly disagree with the reasoning. The main reason that made me stop using RSS/Atom in my private life was that most sites stopped providing f…

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    Comment #38334935

    I'm in the partial "work from home" group and I agree to most points and would stress it is in my experience by far easier (and less stressful) to have a very good equipped home of…

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    Comment #38011861

    Probably off-topic: I may miss something but I have the feeling the shown C program should segfault a lot as the variable `fname` in `char* make_filename(const char*)` does not see…

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    Comment #36828589

    I do not know why, but by default the body element has an overflow of hidden set via css. There is probably a good reason to do this that I do not know about. Would love to know th…

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    Comment #36418153

    It might not be the best example but in my experience Microsoft seemingly tries with Windows the approach of (almost) everything being an API. It might be the Windows API specifica…