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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…