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    Comment #26156905

    From that article: > Blinded clinical trials show that people with MCS react as often and as strongly to placebos as they do to chemical stimuli; the existence and severity of symp…

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    Comment #23630654

    Windows XP was released in 2001.

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    Comment #23372418

    > The intent of React is to drive new developers away from the building blocks of the web. That’s not React’s intent.

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    Comment #17295719

    That's brain-chemistry-related, with psychedelics competing with the SSRI for your serotonin receptors.

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    Comment #17198207

    Building a powerful sandbox that maintains anonymity is a difficult problem. The statement that CSS is overpowered is clickbait for a different argument.

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    Comment #16892780

    Your criticism might be better understood with less prejudice; perhaps something like this instead: "Websites should not unnecessarily require JavaScript."

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    Comment #13973449

    Quantity of smoke inhaled is several orders of magnitude smaller than with cigarettes. There's some evidence to suggest that, whether due to quantity or other factors, smoking mari…

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    Comment #13770565

    The JS behavior regarding 1/0, etc, is the same as C: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Infinity-a...

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    Comment #12870375

    Most browsers support user stylesheets, either built-in (Firefox/Safari) or as an extension, which can accomplish this.

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    Comment #12609668

    On Safari, both of these examples flash the underlying panel before the transition takes place. On Firefox, the transition is quite choppy. Is this just me? (I'm sure there's a sim…

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    Comment #12503016

    I think they're referring to any non-web language, e.g. if I could host and distribute C apps with the ease of the web. (Getting end-users to actually run and use a program with on…

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    Comment #11482298

    This (somewhat insane) linter prohibits unnecessary semicolons: http://standardjs.com

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    Comment #10593479

    A sample could fall under fair use.

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    Comment #9673497

    That's the same thing.

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    Comment #9667904

    TextDecoder/TextEncoder is the emerging standard way to do this. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoder

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    Comment #9365043

    Really well done. Nice job!

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    Comment #9142084

    In this title, 'everywhere' means 'across browsers', not 'throughout all JS execution'.

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    Comment #9090552

    Did it say which are supported?

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    Comment #8816521

    Not every app can load instantly. Better to have a reasonable loading screen than an ugly, flickery, reflowy startup experience.

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    Comment #8660416

    PUT and DELETE are standardized. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html

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    Comment #8612115

    I'm from Des Moines (now in SF); it has really matured in the last twenty years. It's a great place to live: inexpensive, nice people, plenty of space, definitely worth overlooking…