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jpd

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    Comment #14925806

    The trick is to buy headphones with replaceable wires so you don't have to buy new headphones, just new wires.

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    Comment #14083473

    But was does Tejano music have to do with the internet or instagram?

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    Comment #9326813

    Doesn't this only encrypt the first line of input? I thought the idea was to generate a pad-file of equal length to the whole file. (with-open-file (input input-path) (with-open-fi…

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    Comment #9129177

    You could coalesce the other courses. Day1: Course1 Day2: Course2 Day3: Course3 Day4: Course1 etc,...

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    Comment #8180361

    Besides those already mentioned, there's Dylan, which was originally S-expression based before switching to it's Wirth-style syntax.

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    Comment #7981197

    Not certain, but the writing style is similar to Orwell's 1984.

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    Comment #7843915

    The way I speak... Pleased to meet you. I am an active sporty guy and 'I play on the soccer team'. Also, the last variation, would be 'I play at The Soccer Team'. Landmarks are (us…

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    Comment #7353533

    I do not see how creating a doll with a more regular dimensioned body will make boys want to play with them more.

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    Comment #6200822

    I imagine that the names for for/list and its counterpart came from the scheme let and let*, which are parallel and sequential respectively.

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    Comment #5970222

    I think he may be thinking of more traditional forms of games. Soccer, Lacrosse, etc.

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    Comment #5814461

    Sure, why not? I used to dislike doing the dishes since they would pile up and I would be stuck there doing dishes for like 15-20 minutes, now I just them after dinner in like 2-3 …

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    Comment #5661956

    I always figured that this was because a developer ran into a situation where the concept was naively applied and it ended up biting him. So, instead of staying quiet, he let peopl…

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    Comment #5488112

    Isn't libc just a set of libraries and therefore not considered a runtime environment? C does have a small runtime environment, but I'd say it's the existence of the function call …

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    Comment #4238178

    Instead of angled_brackets they should probably try to go with D's style of templates[1], which uses an operater !, to signify its use. Also, I personally believe that camel case f…

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    Comment #3805996

    Ah, thanks. I forgot about that.

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    Comment #3799987

    He needs 'lit' so dcpu_opr() can uniformly return a pointer for all results, including literal values.

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    Comment #3799981

    Instead of using dcpu.skip, why not just (d->pc += !res)? This way you don't have to call dcpu_step() again before getting to the next instruction and more accurately follow the wa…

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    Comment #3404311

    You may also like Mark Twain's "On the Decay of the Art of Lying". link: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2572

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    Comment #3404278

    Keeping silent is a form of a white lie. If it causes trouble, chances are it is something that must be said in order to hold on to your supposed "honesty". The reason white lies e…

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    Comment #3366339

    Sadly, searching for "make it rain" does not produce the desired results.