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firephreek

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    Comment #26385384

    Forgive me, 'unusable'. Hardly training wheels in any case.

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    Comment #26372178

    > Intellij git integration in comparison, in my opinion, it's barely usable and generally counter intuitive. You're going to have to explain that one to me. I don't know what part …

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    Comment #26334575

    Between opening up with "Over the years, well-intentioned people experimented with adding meaning to those numbers..." and a reference to Hyrum's Law, your article definitely reads…

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    Comment #26333411

    I once wrote a python module that applied diff patches as a part of the deployment process. This let us 'fix' libraries we depended on without having to maintain a full fork until …

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    Comment #26333351

    Then the problem is with you. You wrote code that had a dependency on a specific non-guaranteed feature (the bug) and then feel jilted b/c they changed the non-guaranteed feature. …

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    Comment #26279452

    "I didn't pay for sex your honor, I simply left money on the nightstand."

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    Comment #26279434

    "Personalized Ads for Small Businesses" What a bunch of malarkey. I've worked in ad space and the actual ability for SB's to compete is laughable. Their budgets are so comparativel…

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    Comment #12838920

    It's a 'Good Thing' until you lose 4 hours worth of work because of an unprompted and unstoppable update. There are very much indeed unprompted upgrades. There's also all of the re…

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    Comment #12448939

    That just makes Google sound risk averse. Given some of their business models and decisions over the last 5 years, I don't think that's the case. Given the quality of those product…

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    Comment #12187428

    This isn't real right? It's just a made up story to scare, right??

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    Comment #12082549

    I thought hacker news was about tech... What is this article doing here?

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    Comment #11218250

    Try Hound. It's faster than anything I've tried and it's context management is just impressive as hell. The echos lack of negative clauses is really really frustrating.

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    Comment #10895833

    What you call over engineered I call common sense capabilities that get out of my way. There isn't any thing (non platform specific) that I can do in VS that I can't do better and …

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    Comment #10895774

    Only if you purchase a monthly subscription. If you buy a one year license, you get a perpetual license and you don't have to sign in when. The monthly based subscription require l…

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    Comment #9892315

    I was going to sign up, but no way to pay without paypal or bitcoin. Don't have the latter, won't deal with the former. Too bad the only way to contact them is 'on their social net…

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    Comment #8828918

    I think if you have to tell other people how deep and amazing your own work is, it might not be that deep or amazing.

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    Comment #7436690

    Compromising the lock is different than choosing the type of lock.