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huffer
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Comment #45896859
Oh, it will sell! For the very reason it's $230 (remember the "I am Rich" app of olden days?).
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Comment #45304116
So if only you could have kept your mouth shut, this would have never happened.. Burn the witch!
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Comment #43980762
Nice work! How do you verify correctness of the generated exercises and explanations? To me this looks the biggest risk in becoming a user: what if my _teacher_ teaches me subtle n…
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Comment #33734857
please, someone tell me this is satire!
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Comment #33613230
Dali ;) (or maybe they all did it)
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Comment #33495749
> > Why don't they buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies also because there's this thing with physical location of the data: europeans' private data mus…
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Comment #33384357
fortune favors those prepared
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Comment #32351648
But indeed, if they had the _option_ to escape from reality from time to time, people like Cypher would be happier (I know I am when I do it :D). Indeed the irony of partaking prec…
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Comment #31093220
It may depend on how the whole ecosystem evolves: if the competition starts doing similar stuff, then you would have no alternative but to stick with one of them and accept the int…
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Comment #31039894
yeah.. these days you really can't tell; every opinion, its counter-opinion, its meta-counter, its sarcastic spin, its trolling version, its counter-trolling, meta-counter-trolling…
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Comment #31028152
as far as I understood it, it was a tongue-in-cheek, a joke... or are you trolling too (in which case joke's on me :D)?
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Comment #31028081
I guess the idea was that it's very confusing for non-technical people, and very easy to misplace.. (sorry if your message was accompanied by an "/s" -- I didn't see any)
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Comment #30940477
thank you
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Comment #25121644
.. except when manipulating proxy-ed objects, like Spring beans or ORM detached entities. The object you're calling the setter on is not the object (struct) holding the field.. I k…
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Comment #17041714
so... what will we call a graduate holding such a degree?
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Comment #15033913
Byte was my first too (and later on NET and Computerworld -- great education deriving from both). Yeah, LISP was a bit much -- but hey! it also included an article with assembly co…
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Comment #15033698
Wow, great! This magazine is precisely as old as I am. I wasn't born with a lisp, just a fondness for it (and now I know why).
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Comment #12152524
Upvoted! I rarely comment here, but the similarity was so striking that I came back with the express intention to comment on this exact vein. I actually suspect this analogy was th…
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Comment #10636105
Thank you for pointing it out: the "j" in the city's name is pronounced much closer to the "j" in Clojure and not like "zh" as the article mentioned. Also, in Transylvania there is…
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Comment #10636067
Well, Romania as well as Hungary and Bulgaria are fully European cultures. Sure, there are historical influences and economic contexts that made them different than mainstream West…
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Comment #9460901
From a different perspective, any physical currency has the disadvantage of exposing its owner/handler to the same old problems: (s)he can be physically (often violently) separated…
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Comment #7998613
probably off-topic: you mention 37h/w so I'm guessing (Western) Europe... Do you find it reasonably easy to find consultancy jobs that allow for ~20h/w (and still make enough for s…
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Comment #4548977
feeding the tinfoil hats industry: the European Commission blocked this website and flagged it as illegal/scam :) I apologise for not contributing, but I can't access the page so I…