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kluge

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    Comment #18241416

    Betfair is the biggest one.

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    Comment #9675313

    Ah, now I see it and it makes sense. The answer to the code review question is obvious. I didn't see the error even though I was told what happens.

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    Comment #9671136

    I don't understand the example. Why would it do that and not unlock after foo()?

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    Comment #9108981

    Well, we are talking about Finland. http://www.stat.fi/tup/suoluk/suoluk_asuminen_en.html By the latest numbers there are 1 266 000 residential buildings in Finland, housing 1 581 …

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    Comment #8070986

    I think it's just normal tokenizing. `..-` is a legal name for an operator. An error is given since no operator of that name is in scope. The alternative of this getting parsed as …

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    Comment #8070457

    You might already be familiar with it, but this looks a lot like QML.

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    Comment #8055173

    Maybe it is because you didn't show an example, but that doesn't seem like something caused by lazy evaluation. It is pretty easy to get into infinite loops due to logic errors in …

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    Comment #8054904

    I think she was implying that college-dropouts that build software projects can afford to buy Teslas without understanding math.

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    Comment #8004707

    You read the comment backwards. It was saying exactly that nullability of the argument is something that can be guaranteed by a type system but you can't write a test that makes su…

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    Comment #7654763

    I think spam was exactly the problem. It's a shame and seems to really hurt. There's a lot of outdated information in the wiki and I suspect the obstacle to making fixes is a big c…

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    Comment #6095129

    On the US keyboard it probably is. On Finnish keyboard it's where < is on the US one, i.e. Shift-comma.

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    Comment #5367697

    That is true, but isn't it only revealing the problem that correct interpretation is not conveyed, not causing it? If it wasn't possible to reply, the same people would still hold …

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    Comment #4933420

    They (and Schneier) were talking about symmetric encryption, which does not rely on the things quantum computing is going to affect.

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    Comment #3898078

    The best part of it is having Gmail on Android notify you only about important messages. It's great to get notifications about emails from friends about things going on tonight, bu…

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    Comment #2962489

    There's a difference between collecting the maximum amount of stones and collecting more stones than the opponent. I suspect the winning program also tries to minimize the stones t…

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    Comment #2816911

    Another fact to contrast the magnitude is the fact than in 2009 there was a total of 31 homicides in Norway. This attack produced more than two years of homicide victims. http://ww…

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    Comment #2759948

    I suspect all of the mentioned services rely on a lot of academic research on many "science and technology" topics.

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    Comment #1550923

    >In many of the discussions about people giving up "TV," it turned out that many just turned off their cable and consumed video through Hulu, Netflix and other online sources. So y…