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lylejohnson

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    Comment #48984618

    I was wondering the same and assuming I'd overlooked something.

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    Comment #48940516

    I kept it up until the user abruptly left the chat. That was a drag, I felt like we had a productive conversation going.

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    Comment #45992908

    I also tend to associate "Bloom County" with "Calvin and Hobbes". I think I was reading both of them around the same time.

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    Comment #34732861

    Low cost of living

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    Comment #16218457

    https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le...

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    Comment #16106831

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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    Comment #15751176

    The first I remember reading about the "Blackbird" was in the _The Uncanny X-Men_, during the Claremont & Byrne run in the early 80's. Their jet was modeled on the SR-71, although …

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    Comment #15535411

    Not to mention http://riotjs.com/ .

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    Comment #15442010

    The Atlantic article that Uncle Bob was writing in response to lists several specific examples of software failures that did, or could have, resulted in loss of life: a failure of …

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    Comment #15286939

    I'm currently taking advantages of SaltStack's GPG renderer to store secrets in our version-controlled Salt code (see https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/renderers/all/salt...…

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    Comment #13840366

    Can someone explain how the combat is supposed to work? I suppose that if I had more experience with these kinds of games it might be obvious.

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    Comment #13120243

    Didn't see a link here, so I'll drop one for "Get Lamp", a documentary about text adventures. http://www.getlamp.com

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    Comment #12275618

    "Ditto". Longtime user (of the iOS app) and have never lost a note that I can recall.

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    Comment #11907059

    Looking through the "Classic Quotes" list, it's apparent that MegaHAL was a big They Might Be Giants fan.

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    Comment #10224459

    My interpretation: Assuming the work was outsourced to cheaper laborers (e.g. in India), OP may have felt that his job was at risk. By sabotaging the efforts of those offshore work…

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    Comment #9941825

    " If DMCA claims were expensive ... the garage bands and individual artists/musicians would be left out of the game completely, they couldn't use DMCA to take down their music."

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    Comment #9724675

    By the end of the article it had crossed my mind that Boyter and Ducker (the perpetrators of the hoax) were themselves fictitious characters, and that the article itself was part o…

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    Comment #9711078

    This is so over the top that I read it as satire (not good satire, but satire). Is this serious?

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    Comment #9243005

    I have read it, and it's quite good. Was about to post the link myself until I saw that you had.

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    Comment #8922809

    Probably not in her list of "favorite firing" stories.

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    Comment #8799058

    > Try and calculate the enormous waste of both time and money from memory leaks caused by code written in C and C++. Rust solves this... This seems like an unusual language feature…

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    Comment #8579914

    How is it fundamentally different from other "true crime" shows like "Dateline", "20/20", and "48 Hours"?

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    Comment #8508290

    This is the book that I recommend to colleagues who are learning Git. I still refer back to it on occasion when I get into tricky situations with Git. Looking forward to reading th…

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    Comment #8481618

    Try the Readability plugin for your browser of choice: https://www.readability.com/addons