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jchan

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    Comment #6918481

    So law enforcement needs all the tools possible, but the NSA's power is too great, so it needs to be depoliticized, although this sort of unconstitutional monitoring is inevitable?…

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    Comment #6863249

    This is a common (and racist) but incorrect generalization about Chinese culture. Look up the history of China and you will find millennia of successful rebellions against authorit…

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    Comment #6505333

    > The code is overbloated with complexity thus close to unmaintanable (evolution and correction) and there are stuff that feels wrong in my guts: https://github.com/rmccue/Requests…

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    Comment #6349648

    I don't think - no, you just don't understand the point of the disclaimer.

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    Comment #6114650

    Writing is very different from reading. Generating correct English is a lot easier than proofreading "under pressure". Also, apparently I can proofread English under pressure.

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    Comment #6114635

    The sad part of that being, of course, the fact that while Lincoln had half of the country in rebellion and offensive war to deal with, Obama has something that is less deadly than…

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    Comment #6000948

    AFAIK most of the major Scheme implementors are involved in the development of the Revised Reports, and most implementations implement the report to such an extent that libraries c…

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    Comment #5725187

    Do you need your Google Glasses to see?

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    Comment #5548299

    Finally, an objective opinion.

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    Comment #5454766

    Not very aerodynamic, I imagine.

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    Comment #5233420

    And you're not some sort of "intellectual" idolizing ghettos? I have to go in and around one very often, and hearing "learn to appreciate your local ghetto" from some Random Intern…

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    Comment #5233412

    I agree with the vast majority of your comment, but please stop saying that North Korea is communist and that "communism can never produce a high standard of living." the former is…

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    Comment #5224592

    It seems to me like a lot of the "required coding class" idea is based on a misguided desire to increase the competitiveness of our country internationally. Learning to program is …

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    Comment #5211328

    Heh, that's not entirely untrue - the majority of people on lowendbox and lowendtalk seem to have some sort of strange fetish for running things on as little resources as possible.…

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    Comment #5186388

    Use a Comparator. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Comparato... Since it seems like you're talking about visual activity now instead of visual clarity, I agree th…

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    Comment #5186040

    My name is J. Chan, and I forgot the password to my other account. Thanks for making fun of my name.

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    Comment #5185952

    Perhaps you should consider a different field of employment. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4736156 (Pardon the tabbing, I don't have that much time to waste on uneducated comme…