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jabagawee

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About jabagawee

email: andrew at myusername.com

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    Comment #41666237

    At least in F1, I would say that the variance in constructor performance matters more than variance in driver performance. There are plenty of instances of drivers doing test runs …

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    Comment #41666223

    There are racing series outside of Formula 1 that provide drivers with the same [1][2] hardware and aim to test their piloting skills, and there are yet other series where differen…

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    Comment #41644400

    As I understand it, it's not part of the SQL standard.

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    Comment #41545629

    I read the author's statement that they were "not out here wearing long nails for fun" to mean that they were not the one liking or invested in long nails. I may be reading too dee…

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    Comment #41545583

    I'm not sure what you mean by people creating problems for themselves out of a thin air. The article explains the constraints (speed, accuracy, comfort, avoiding online criticism, …

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    Comment #38418686

    You might still have issues with generating sequences like "XtrmlyBdWrd" that are still recognizable.

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    Comment #38031862

    I think the post mentioned that the 718 grams of dry goods lasts a whole week. That would cost about 38¢ per pound, and they are bulk-ordered from the local food cooperative.

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    Comment #33813514

    I just skimmed through your repo, and I loved the way that you used AoC as an opportunity to share many of the batteries that are included in the Python stdlib. In one particular c…

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    Comment #21590760

    This article reminds me of a recent post on HN titled "Text Editing Hates You Too" [1]. WYSIWYG text editing is never easy, and I am sad to see another instance of it taking over a…

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    Comment #19506899

    Disclaimer: I am an employee at Google, but I have never touched the code for flogger. I found this and thought it would be interesting for others to read.

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    Comment #19307262

    Title seems to have been changed to meet the following rule: > If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g…

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    Comment #17802995

    FTA: > MessageBird sends a couple of extra parameters with each request, including a callID. When a new request comes in, we’ll make an API call to MessageBird, to verify whether t…

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    Comment #17701385

    > The researchers divided 500,000-plus cases into four categories: male doctors treating men; male doctors treating women; female doctors treating men; and female doctors treating …

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    Comment #17269500

    To me, chatbots were nice because: - I could navigate them much faster than I could navigate a phone tree. - They were very accessible in the sense that I wouldn't have to install …

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    Comment #16338472

    Quick bit of feedback: question 10 refers to the "WINDOW command" which I think should be called the "WINDOW clause" to help clueless folks (ie me) Google for it.

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    Comment #13323432

    That's a print statement with an expression surrounded by parentheses. You can try it yourself in a Python 2 interpreter.

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    Comment #13154133

    How did the Trump event take some earnings back? Since the election, markets have been going very steadily up.

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    Comment #11393696

    I don't have an opinion yet on a carbon tax or politics, but I can't agree with oil-producing countries suffering a double loss in lower sales and lower prices. The overly-simplifi…

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    Comment #11350754

    This blog has 1058 pages of material. How? Each post has a fairly clickbaity title and seems to summarize someone else's work/research, but is it really all one guy working full ti…

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    Comment #11295092

    I'd like to learn enough to understand the statement "JSX is just a JS primary," and I can't find out what a "$lang primary" is in PLT. Can you point out some resources for me to f…

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    Comment #10982215

    I think GP is making an argument for React by calling it the framework, whereas the OP is the "raw" component.