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donald_draper
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Comment #5514214
"This whole country was made by greater fools!" – Oh sorry, wrong movie.
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Comment #4431477
I wish we had fake red lights in Germany, to keep all the crazy obedient bureaucrats occupied. The longer they wait at red lights, the fewer Wikipedia pages they can delete or crea…
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Comment #4381658
Those are special cases for Germany and Spain (I implemented that stuff for a german webshop that has to make the same exception). I'd guess it's the same for Spain. German custome…
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Comment #4363283
It's not random, they're basically numerals fitting lowercase characters. The idea is to integrate them into text flow. Numerals that are all at the height of upper case would LOOK…
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Comment #3963815
Oh, and I can download the audio version of the video I bought for free - nice :-)
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Comment #3963808
Lol - I bought the first video, and now one of the audios. However, at the end of the process I didn't remember my old password. So I clicked 'I forgot my password' and it said 'Oh…
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Comment #3718251
I wish they told me that when I took inline lessons on class-class.org
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Comment #3704197
Agreed. I think it's actually quite telling if other institutions feel obliged to ridicule efforts (by Coursera et al) to make online learning a new experience, rather than just co…
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Comment #3663061
I guess it's like an army of lawyers trying to understand the part national, part european legislation of a couple of dozen countries ;-)
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Comment #3662142
Now can you bring it to Europe, too ? :-) We will build you a golden shrine and worship you every morning for doing so.
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Comment #3646753
People should actually cheer to this expression of the open source spirit. Like in 'if you find a bug, fix it', he proposes to you to kill yourself if you cause one. Nothing specia…
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Comment #3617751
Which makes it easier to translate into typical procedural languages like c and c++, which is not completely irrational to assume for embedded systems like robotics. And because ma…
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Comment #3548045
This Anonymous story is interesting as well [Anonymous Hacks Neo-Nazis, Finds Ron Paul]: http://www.care2.com/causes/anonymous-hacks-neo-nazis-finds-...
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Comment #3412621
I mean live data ;-)
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Comment #3412376
Still waiting for the embassy cables API.
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Comment #3391405
He uses his brain and language so effectively that some parts of the sentence can actually be used as padding.
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Comment #3373388
Customized Wombat, yep.
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Comment #3340782
To work at Grimm Library, you don't even need an id or anything. Just go there. But they have some rules about main times of the day like 8-19 reserved for actual students - althou…
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Comment #3340771
Given the rather small community size (from what I know), wouldn't it be the best survival technique to port the compiler to JVM, to have at least some usable real world libraries …
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Comment #3289289
For the future, it would be really cool if those courses would feature one preview lecture and a schedule to decide if one wants to get into it or not - now that it's getting so br…
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Comment #3259172
They have two members, btw 8-)
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Comment #3250769
What do you guys make of those two classes, which one would you choose if you had only time for one of them ? (asking because right now AI and ML require quite some time and I want…
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Comment #3229241
I bet building robots that appreciate and buy those plants will be the market of the future.