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Comment #13307320
No way Jose, they are absolving themselves of jumping the gun by invoking "officials" that deny the dumbass thing they said in the first place.
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Comment #13307256
There is a huge difference between "evidence shows that there is no link" and "we were mistaken, there actually was never any evidence of a link"
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Comment #11394612
Go and fuck yourself, please :)
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Comment #10836745
This gets back to the point that Swift is not a functional language. By default, the closure is capturing an immutable reference - the fact that the value might change is implicit …
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Comment #10742585
Ah yes, not immediately dying. The mark of a not too poor.
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Comment #10742564
Like, I'm not trying to be snarky, there's a lot of conversions going on there that aren't explicated. My takeaway is that if you can buy food and little else, that's poverty, righ…
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Comment #10742515
So poverty then. Or I don't understand your math?
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Comment #10607232
That's a great course, and actually a perfect conceptual base for Swift in a lot of ways.
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Comment #10282224
Not buying it.
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Comment #10276515
I mean, Twitter only makes sense when a third party digests their API. The default web client is broken (sometimes intentionally) in many, many ways. Perhaps I'm misreading you?
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Comment #10259343
Your scrolling social sidebar is obscuring the text, BTW.
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Comment #9611108
Yeah but still. Yawn.
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Comment #9437168
1. HN comment about some aspect of fizzbuzz or whatever. Not how to solve fizzbuzz or whatever; rather, some insight into how people solve problems, which is the interesting part o…
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Comment #9394467
"It's hip to be square" - Huey Lewis
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Comment #9381786
Seconded wholeheartedly, from a non-friend.
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Comment #9336000
Yeah I figured, but I didn't know if there was an actual parity error because I was working (impossibly) towards the wrong solution, or if there was a hard part that I might still …
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Comment #9335715
It's not "hard", it's just obfuscated as it stands. I chose one of many plausible success conditions to work towards and got one step away due to what seemed like a parity error an…
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Comment #9209884
You nerds are sooooo fucked when the rubber meets the road.
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Comment #9184578
Am I misreading the Japan thing? Like, it's not hard to imagine that there would be candidates that would be immediately excluded based on surname alone without even getting into r…
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Comment #9184503
Orrrrr it brings him into line with appropriate workplace expectations in a world not dominated by dudes.
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Comment #9176188
http://www.thegamehomepage.com/play/cursor-x-10/
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Comment #9175947
Almost no one praises the books! In fact, that's the one caveat in most otherwise glowing reviews; that is a testament to the game design, that the only concrete narrative is the l…
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Comment #9138540
This is the origin story of Richard Stabone (RIP) also. Originally named to be used as a sacrificial bargaining chip with the standards board, he was somehow never cut, leaving Kir…
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Comment #9117188
One of those is your own submission, from today, linking to a similarly outdated article, which is weird
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Comment #9001492
Speaking as a rockstar bacon ninja Viking pirate robot code fu guru unicorn damn hell aged and wise app developer, many of these problems could be mitigated or eliminated in the we…