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egroat

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    I was going to disagree with you; and I was going to use a very simple function to do it `randString(length, alphabet)` where alphabet is defaulted - as azAZ09 is a good default. H…

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    Comment #10944301

    For those of us not quite so old, who are the BSA? I presume you don't mean the Birmingham Small Arms Company

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    Comment #10925085

    Thank you In many ways this is a solidification of a lot of what I have been thinking

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    Comment #10919700

    Well here is the answer from the guy who is still maintaining it: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2827 The link is from the fifth comment. When developing in node it m…

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    Comment #10919684

    > when I was 20 or so Ok. "20 or so" describes me. And things aren't going so well. Out of uni, and life feels pretty empty. Family has fallen apart, friends are friends of conveni…

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    Comment #10880917

    Competence in JS is very different from most languages the average dev is exposed to, and decent Android is very far down the Java Super-OO rabbit hole. So I'm not surprised!

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    Comment #10873934

    I'm British and have always funded phones through an outright purchase and some sort of pay as you go plan / month by month sim only contract. Most of my friends do the same, and w…

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    Comment #10859107

    It is a shame Hollywood has a tendency to portray the successes of the Allies in general as being conducted purely by American citizens. Of course it doesn't help that the other na…

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    Comment #10858006

    I'm just really happy about the allowing of update when inserts conflict. This will tidy a lot of code up for me and make writing in the future that much neater. http://www.postgre…

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    Comment #10807256

    UNIX based. I would presume that most DB's are installed on UNIX based systems so most of the people who are developing tools for them are going to already be on such systems.

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    Comment #10735880

    That is genious. Absolute genious. There are likely to be less problems on a smaller codebase and when there are its much easier to recommend a rewrite of 1k than 10k

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    Comment #10688698

    agpl-3.0 This may provide more clarity: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960802/can-i-use-librari... Essentially - if you have modified openalpr then you are probably violating,…

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    Comment #10602020

    Unless of course the program contributes to causing those attacks in the first place. Now? Probably not. 20 years time? Perhaps.

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    Comment #10533520

    So I've spent the last few months trawling through camera datasheets, evaluating OCR solutions, and building and comparing custom image transformations so that we can have a good i…

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    Comment #10441111

    You certainly have a point, but it can also be said there is a lot that can be done to increase the ability to work on what matters to an individual by reducing outgoings and cutti…

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    Comment #10429896

    > The pervasive uncertainty of Browne’s writing offers a respite from the stifling certainties of today. We have religious zealots, just as the seventeenth century did—but we also …

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    Comment #10405679

    I find twice to be relatively outrageous, but both my mother and I having the same car (Toyota Yaris) from the same year with mine being a diesel and hers petrol the following is n…

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    > Certainly, since I don't need the money, I'd much rather earn $3 an hour on Mechanical Turk, sitting at home and picking and choosing what I feel like doing, than $7.25 an hour i…