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    Comment #8752397

    C++ FQA is rarely a good place to start for anything else than finding examples of biased writing.

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    Comment #8748884

    Having a poorer eyesight is not going to make fonts comprised of ten or so square pixels (in a direction) a bigger joy to read. Reading off a low DPI display is not only slower, bu…

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    Comment #8746192

    Do you really care about accessing sites with 10-year-old mobile devices using only stock apps (emphasis: long term)?

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    Comment #8712202

    > a secure way for me to limit when and how you can use those That would be having them access the file in a restricted environment (literally, guards and stuff). You can't have pe…

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    Comment #8709478

    I decided to give it a try on a low-spec Android tablet, running latest version of Firefox. Got coloured horizontal stripes instead of a proper picture for every BPG example – and …

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    Comment #8576927

    That depends. Individuals generally need not pay tax for selling their private property.

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    Comment #8504556

    Doing things not related to interacting with, or "driving", the hardware is the limit for a good device driver. For software in general, not all forms of spyware are illegal (but s…

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    Comment #8503896

    I disagree with the consensus. It's their driver, it operates in a specific way, perhaps responding to possible device output. Using it with non-compatible parts advertising themse…

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    Comment #8481524

    Eurostat[1] would suggest that booze is, on average, cheaper in Sweden than in Finland. [1]: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....

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    Comment #8449882

    The following is not a reason not to use Bing for others, but (just saying): almost none of these features work for me in Finland. Seriously, there was not even a calculator availa…

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    Comment #8402431

    I doubt very much that the bulk of the text was written in (or near) 2005. Thus it tells very little of the state of C in 2005, but might otherwise prove to be mildly interesting r…

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    Comment #8344201

    I would say returning regular pointers is more C++-esque than your handmade range implementation. Pointers are, after all, a kind of iterator, which is an essential C++ concept. (s…