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el_presidente

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    Comment #5220665

    I believe at least in Android and iOS the browsers do share the same components.

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    Comment #4245911

    Dicts are objects.

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    Comment #4220717

    If the stylus is good enough I can see people who use Photoshop or AutoCAD replacing their laptop/desktop with a tablet. I just don't see how a tablet would be an improvement for w…

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    Comment #4216581

    Here in Canada most people don't know how copyright law works because they just don't care. Even the RCMP (federal police) has said that they'll only go after people who make a liv…

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    Comment #4206422

    It works for things like clothes or vegetables. If you want people to pay more for electronics it would be better to have a "made in Japan" tag. Or make it in China and put a big S…

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    Comment #4201680

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Whytryharder.jpg

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    Comment #4195766

    Yeah, Google's reverse image search is unusable with Opera... unless you change the user agent string and tell Google you're using Firefox. Then they whine about how Facebook and A…

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    Comment #4184090

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1184914 Less than a year ago there were already people thinking about your job security. (It's a better explanation than "the glibc main…

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    Comment #4181679

    I remember having ugly fonts on Linux... somewhere around 1998. It sounds like IntelliJ has garbage Linux support and you're blaming the OS for it.

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    Comment #4163719

    > It is also a clear sign that despite all the efforts put out in the last few years, associations and companies that are willing to protect Internet freedom are not spending enoug…

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    Comment #4160385

    Hacker News shows more sensationalist titles to Hacker News users.

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    Comment #3973329

    I mean the language itself, not the performance of the individual implementations. For example, I can't imagine prototype based OO being used for large scale projects.

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    Comment #3973229

    Your body is transforming at this very moment through mitosis. Gradually, cell by cell and depending on what kind of activity you are performing you are becoming stronger, smarter,…

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    Comment #3972919

    But will JavaScript be able to scale? It has come a long way from the days of onMouseOver but it seems like it's going to be hard unless it gets turned into a different language (i…

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    Comment #3968899

    Thank you for making me hate lisp more than I did yesterday.

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    Comment #3964407

    How does Wayland draw things on the screen if it doesn't support the video card?

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    Comment #3964395

    Wayland lacks feature X is not a valid criticism against Wayland. Because that does not mean that a system using Wayland lacks feature X. And the primary feature of Wayland is that…

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    Comment #3963285

    For smart completion there is clang complete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3302

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    Comment #3962236

    > This sort of response seems like it only inhibits people's desire to get involved. How many projects have had as many people involved as the kernel? Not just software, any projec…

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    Comment #3958368

    http://sourcery.mentor.com/public/cxx-abi/abi.html#mangling I'm 99% sure that ICC is compatible with GCC.

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    Comment #3956998

    Maybe the Canadian version is different, because I get: All Results 1-10 of 38,600,000 results·Advanced right under the web/images/more line.

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    Comment #3956822

    On Linux you can mix compilers as long as they implement the Itanium ABI. At least I haven't had to recompile anything after upgrading GCC.

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    Comment #3956583

    First search for something, then click on advanced. Bing's designers have obviously spent too much time playing Braid.

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    Comment #3956456

    > It's a service that can be provided and bought on the free market like all other services. Maybe in a hypothetical world where you can find this hypothetical free market. In the …