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macnod

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    Comment #2015491

    I haven't used Windows in years. But I used it for a long, long time at work. And I became more proficient with Windows after I learned Linux. You don't need Linux for anything, bu…

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    Comment #1058238

    According to this person, KWrite is better than Emacs and Emacs is a bug. In my opinion, this makes his post a little less credible. The rules that he suggests we all learn for how…

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    Comment #745133

    Out of curiosity, I wrote a simple non-optimized quicksort function in Common Lisp (SBCL) and timed a 180,000-element sort at 567ms, about half as much as the Java version. I'm sur…

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    Comment #162205

    I think in extremes: If you're a computer and software user, OSX is the way to go. If you're a hacker, you can code in more than 10 programming languages, and you've been writing c…

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    Comment #111182

    No degree. I've been programming professionally for 20+ years. Usually better off than my peers salary-wise (since the beginning). Generally regarded as the best amongst the progra…