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ghfdrvtsyup

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    Comment #1752830

    I'm somewhat disappointed that he referred to the last error message as "cryptic" - it's a nod to the old text based game "Adventure"

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    Comment #1625312

    I'm not sure exactly the type of functionality he's talking about, but in a shared session, the ability of two people to modify a file simultaneously would be extremely useful in c…

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    Comment #1405620

    whew! I'm glad I passed, though it should be obvious from my submission that my C is far from fluent! I am looking forward to the analysis - thank you for doing this RoG!

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    Comment #1394377

    using words like 'erudite' is a perfectly cromulent way of displaying your intelligence.

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    Comment #1339936

    Honestly, this comment boggles my mind. Diaspora is a perfectly normal word describing what they are trying to do perfectly ; I doubt many people would have trouble spelling it or …

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    Comment #1204637

    I agree with the article to an extent, but I don't agree that musical education will necessarily make people like instrumental music in general or jazz music specifically. The trut…

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    Comment #1194721

    I find that for each of these e-mails, I make a decision about what to do based on who the user is. Some users are much more careful about writing an 'End of the world' e-mail than…

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    Comment #1180123

    If you have that many passwords, why not make some sort of base password and then riff off of the base password for everything that needs access (and have a mental sequence for whe…

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    Comment #1180109

    Remember, though, the harder you work, the luckier you get.

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    Comment #1156922

    I agree. The idea that a martial art can help with programming is a bit of a carryover from when they were considered 'mystical' or 'dangerous' in the mid-late 1970s/early 1980s. H…

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    Comment #1133281

    exactly. Is it worse in the eyes of the world to say that you're 'fighting a war on terror' and invade a country or secretly kill high-ranking enemy officials for years before fina…

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    Comment #1091137

    I agree, that's about as far as I got. It's almost a new record for Godwin's law, I think.