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johncip

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    Comment #14296977

    Some things cause (or have the risk of causing) acute damage, with others, it's chronic.

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    Comment #14296963

    I think you could make a case that charging the highest price for something that the market will bear corrects an inefficiency in the market. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/in…

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    Comment #13703811

    > OCR itself is a pretty CPU intensive activity and takes a significant time to complete for many documents. Leaving the quality part aside -- this job itself is easy to paralleliz…

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    Comment #12705256

    Literally the first sentence after the preamble is: I use the term “computational thinking” as shorthand for “thinking like a computer scientist.”

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    Comment #12704754

    > The Democrats were happy to keep importing voters I think it's important not to discount the difficulty of securing the border because of the size of it. And as you mention, Amer…

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    Comment #12416529

    Hey, Gradescope dev here. What detaro said is on the money -- we're able to group identical short-answer responses so that they can be graded in one shot. It's not necessary to ana…

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    Comment #12109422

    Thanks for the thorough answer, Dan. (Had I not followed the prescription for the sake of being future-proof, I probably would have had a painful debugging session over #3. And pos…

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    Comment #12090987

    I'd like an answer to this as well. I've only ever needed string refs, and the callback refs are noisy. I can see where the React team may not want to support both, but are string …

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    Comment #7789117

    I can't follow Jacques' reasoning when it comes to any of this. His first choice would have been a PHP framework (in 2014!), yet he goes on to criticize a bunch of languages which …