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jstepien

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About jstepien

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    Comment #8555438

    stylefruits uses Clojure almost exclusively these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4slaRydRM

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    While I fully agree with you that the practice of curling a script and piping it into `sh` is—to say the least—risky, notice that this risk has been widely accepted long time ago. …

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    Comment #4096661

    echo 'inoremap kj ' >> ~/.vimrc # works like a charm

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    Comment #4003711

    Finally an application with a UI which really nicely blends with the Windows 8 look and feel. Microsoft should be pleased.

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    Comment #3925889

    At the very beginning of the presentation he underlines the importance of the static compiler RubyMotion is based on, yet at 7:30 when he compiles a file with a name error in it th…

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    Comment #3786901

    I've been running various flavours of GNU/Linux on my laptop for a couple of years now, with Arch being the most recent one. I find it perfectly adequate for an IDE-less, Vim-centr…

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    Comment #3749901

    Firsty, comment sections are usually full of noise and it's next to impossible to distill any valuable information out of it. Secondly, don't expect an average person to bother che…

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    Comment #3749727

    I wonder whether they block magnet links as well. In either case, URL shorteners seem to be a sufficient solution.

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    Comment #3723237

    No, I didn't make any comparisons to other baselines. Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts; I'll have to reconsider the results I got in the light of your comment.

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    Comment #3723002

    I couldn't sacrifice performance (lots of number crunching was involved with costs tight), so, I couldn't pick Python. PyPy, Cython or Shed Skin might have been answers to those nu…

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    Comment #3719374

    During the previous semester I spent some time building a recommender using this data as a project for a data mining class. It turned out to be far more challenging than I had init…

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    Comment #3683094

    Have you noticed that scientific organisations participating in the ISS project are promoting a game in which sounds in audible in vacuum ? Apparently the heritage of Star Wars et …

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    Comment #3648731

    There's a couple of unofficial ones available already. Don't forget to check the SHA-1 sum after completing the download. https://thepiratebay.se/search/windows%208/0/99/0

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    I'm intrigued by the 0.8 GB difference between the x64 and the x86 build. It's even more interesting given that this difference must be caused solely by different machine code, whi…

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    Comment #3495009

    It's worth being noted that the latest attacks on government's websites are top headlines on majority of Polish news sites at the moment. Both the attacks and ACTA are being covere…

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    Comment #3436671

    For those of you who've used the Hamachi VPN software, LogMeIn are the guys behind it.

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    Comment #3416194

    According to some fellow Belorussians of mine, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four should explain it quite accurately.

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    Comment #3334439

    I'm wondering what would be an effect of moving a standardisation organisation to a software-patent-free country. In such case software patent issues wouldn't be any obstacle for t…