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ephemeralgomi

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    Comment #9662648

    what differentiates a 'cyber database' from a 'database'

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    Comment #9412350

    I love it. "If I stick to the story relentlessly it'll HAVE to work!!!"

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    Comment #9142594

    There are too many names on that list - not to contact, but to trust. To everyone that you give secret advance notice, you're potentially handing a zero-day.

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    Comment #9140935

    Jonathan Blow wrote an excellent article on the text-based entity file format he developed for The Witness, which was designed to be (more) mergeable: http://the-witness.net/news/2…

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    Comment #8642688

    Okay, so you've backed down from "You'd think she would have disclosed that" to "I would prefer she prefaced the article with that". I'm content.

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    Comment #8642627

    > You would think someone commenting on such an important and controversial story in tech like this would fully disclose that she is in-fact friends with Emil and worked with him? …

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    Comment #8573736

    > Most of the pro-vaccine organizations claim that the main/only reason people avoid vaccinations is because they (falsely) believe that vaccines are the cause of the autism epidem…

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    Comment #8518900

    I thought it was a TempleOS post at first.

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    Comment #8484279

    It's had w3 for quite a while. 'eww' is new.

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    Comment #8466992

    > You don't agree? No, I don't. You're searching for some total order ranking function where there isn't one. People love who they love and a lot of that is based on proximity and …

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    Comment #8456091

    Ah, given that context, that makes more sense / comes off a little less nefarious. I think it was mostly the references to forgetting an anniversary, trying to repair the relations…

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    Comment #8455984

    This was really funny up until the prolonged domestic violence joke at the end, which kinda threw me off. Product of its times, I guess.

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    Comment #8422644

    I'm sure you know, but you can just clone from bitbucket, then push it to github. You keep all your history and everything. I can dig that there's friction, though.

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    Comment #8422463

    What parts of the overall ecosystem do you consider a necessity for private repos?

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    Comment #8376142

    Luckily you're a programmer, and can easily change a python script!

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    Comment #8373299

    It's the exact opposite for me. Depends on the individual carrier, I guess.

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    Comment #8367969

    In his defense, SBCL is really fast...

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    Comment #8358822

    Note that the article is not about the streaming service.

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    Comment #8343380

    Big O is an upper bound, little o is a lower bound. Big theta means both an upper and lower bound.

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    Comment #8310034

    I sort of agree with you - "concern troll" applies more to OP than this post, upon reflection - but let me explain my reasoning. Lots of people have explained elsewhere in the thre…

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    Comment #8309894

    If Rust is widely adopted, and this actually becomes a problem for anyone, someone will submit a pull request to remove it, it will be debated, and probably pass. On the other hand…

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    Comment #8309864

    http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Concern_troll

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    Comment #8309319

    Then make sure that's a stipulation in your RFP next time you're commissioning a compiler. One of the nice things about open source work is that we get to have a little fun with it…

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    Comment #8213205

    Shouldn't he do whatever he likes?

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    Comment #8170185

    The downvotes are probably because you didn't explain why you think it's relevant, and therefore didn't actually contribute to the discussion.