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kurtis_reed
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About kurtis_reed
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Comment #49130348
"multiplayer"? Is this a game? I honestly don't know what that means in this context.
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Comment #49051918
Dark night for mathematicians' careers maybe but not for mathematics at all.
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Comment #48913696
English doesn't do quotation marks like that
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Comment #48764638
Actually, it's "either the word 'whom' or when to use it". I guess you should learn actual English.
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Comment #48764566
Imagine someone wrote a blog in some obscure language that few people speak. If you happen to know that language, you'd think wow this is great. If you don't happen to know that la…
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Comment #48763852
You could just use the US terms, then you wouldn't have to learn both.
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Comment #48761033
"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own."
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Comment #48760920
Think of it as learning a second language. It should be a lot easier for you than most people.
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Comment #48760896
The French didn't like it when the Lingua Franca switched from French to English and the Brits still whine that British English is no longer the dominant variety. It's a trade-off:…
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Comment #48445938
People buy Apple products for the same reason people buy BMWs
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Comment #48445928
There are many laptops with similar specs that you can run Linux on, and for less money
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Comment #48225061
I tried Vivaldi a couple of years ago and it was slow as fuck
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Comment #48105901
Python is faster to write so obviously you'll see things built in Python first more often than the reverse. What's that quote -- "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool..."
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Comment #47993497
Guess what, human couriers use the sidewalk
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Comment #47901607
[dead]
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Comment #47889963
Paywall
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Comment #47639819
My god this title cliche is annoying
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Comment #47600583
"Python doesn't have inbuilt types" False.
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Comment #47528940
You know what I mean. If the issue is closed, it looks like it's been solved. A new issue may be created that duplicates it, etc. Obviously it's up to the maintainer. I'm saying wh…
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Comment #47528143
If the maintainer merely doesn't fix the bug, then yes. If they close the bug report so it gets lost and other contributors are discouraged from working on it, then no.
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Comment #47528123
For feature requests, sure, but not for bug reports
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Comment #47518591
Who are they?
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Comment #47518580
Python doesn't have a big company behind it