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david

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    Comment #9197453

    I don't think I've heard anyone at all call it an "Integrated Develop er Environment", instead of "Integrated Develop ment Environment".

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    Comment #9188955

    I think he meant in San Francisco rent control began as a response to prop 13, not that rent control itself began in san francisco.

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    Comment #9176341

    Amazon is best place to buy used electronics IMO. I used to sell smartphones on Amazon and eBay. Amazon typically has better condition products and guarantees everything themselves…

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    Comment #8777621

    Here's why: SFJulie1's comment came off as rambling and somewhat incoherent, if not a little childish and rude. In the past few hours one other account has popped up here ( https:/…

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    Comment #8462397

    I think the point isn't that companies should decide what you can buy, that makes no sense... I think the point is more that just because people seem to prefer a product at first g…

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    Comment #8299754

    Uh, right, the "Ashtar Command Community" says stonehenge was built from the ground up in 1954, totally credible. Stonehenge is not fascinating anymore at all. 10 seconds on google…

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    Comment #8295136

    He didn't say a watch is "just a watch", he said a watch "is still a watch".

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    Comment #8293726

    ...and completely miss the point.

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    Comment #5575563

    Right, there's only like a million of these already in existence in every language and I have yet to find one that is comprehensive enough that I don't just fall back to regular sq…

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    Comment #1505893

    >> I cannot spell words which are spelled differently than the way they are pronounced like resteraunt Sure can't ;)

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    Comment #1467245

    That's pretty ridiculous. The body sizes and visual similarities between students are not as close as you make it sound, I could easily see this set of drawings coming from one of …

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    Comment #1465240

    Is that 90% of browsers or 90% of users? I think this kind of thing is like a light on the horizon for web designers. It lets us know that some of the things we wish we could do no…

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    Comment #1465119

    >> This project will only display correctly on a webkit browser and has only been tested in Google Chrome. Honestly, if you know it will display in a webkit browser, is it that dif…

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    Comment #1453738

    >> The reason they pushed for it? Basically, private banks were printing too many banknotes and causing bouts of inflation. Good to know we don't have to worry about that anymore..…

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    >> If I showed up to your store with a lump of gold for trade, we would have to go find someone we both trusted to figure out how pure it was. That takes time and money. That inhib…

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    Comment #1450837

    It's probably good for the AV-software manufacturers though.

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    Comment #1433968

    Am I missing something or is this just bad grammer?

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    Comment #1384929

    People would come to a deeper and more complete understanding of a subject by reading a document whose actual intent is to bring them to a more complete and deep understanding of t…

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    Comment #1379656

    I dunno... When I was in junior high school I wrote a fully functioning perl on the TI-80 graphing calculator. It was about 200 lines of code, and it (almost) worked right the firs…