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indubitably

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    Comment #18115518

    Further efforts to bifurcate the browser market. Keep it classy, Google.

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    Comment #17035915

    Helpful? It's just true.

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    Comment #17003397

    Programmers are just self-important.

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    Comment #16493533

    Well that’s depressing.

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    Comment #16375646

    Perhaps it's nitpicking, but what benefit is it to not make the GraphQL language be valid JSON?

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    Comment #15640696

    The standard is excellent, and has been rolled out much more effectively than previous standards (much more smoothly than flexbox, to cite a recent example). The women involved in …

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    Comment #15630837

    It's also releveant that the author feels perfectly justified in making recourse to a hypothesis about history which far from easy to test: “The idea of genius elaborated during th…

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    Comment #15562213

    It's not just dead people you're talking about, it's the families of those people. Keep in mind that in many cases the recordings of their ancestors are the only ones existing. It'…

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    Comment #15558650

    There are whole subfields of language documentation, language revitalization, language reclamation, etc. There are conferences (ICLDC, Breath of Life, Language is Life just to ment…

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    Comment #15558636

    Because you want to be nice?

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    Comment #15395392

    Guess you're both wrong. (And you're also wrong.)

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    Comment #15357211

    I don't understand why Python people aren't more intent on getting it into web browsers. Or are they?

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    Comment #15054591

    Could mean almost anything but what generativist linguistics (or whatever the latest label for the Chomskyan school) does, which continues to promote the notion that language is es…

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    Comment #15010149

    I don't think so at all. Natural languages evolve with ambiguity built in — any sort of ambiguity is almost always an error in programming.

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    Comment #15010118

    Could you explain what you mean by this?

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    Comment #14893682

    unicorns all around

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    Comment #13897959

    What's impossible about that? Many languages have complicated inflection patterns like that.

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    Comment #13784125

    codingame has destroyed my productivity because it is awesome

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    Comment #13623325

    Apparently nothing was ever more important than renewing the domain…

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    Comment #13444000

    "But despite the sneers, I kept hammering a theme in speech after speech and conversation after conversation that went sort of like this: “Instead of scratching only your own itche…

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    Comment #13064431

    Pretty rich coming from the complainer-in-chief of JS, the guy who advises not employing people who don't happen to agree with his personal take on how JS should be written.

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    Comment #12797139

    But undefined is specific to Javascript… there are lots of other Javascript things that JSON doesn't handle either, like Set or Map objects. It's not intended to serialize arbibtra…

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    Comment #12743738

    p { color: hsla(0, 0%, 0%, 0.8); }

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    Comment #12551937

    > (There’s nothing wrong with this, by the way. You’re in the business of unemploying people. If you think that is unfair, go back to school and study something that doesn’t matter…