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mashpoe

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    It would allow him to brutally roast anyone who submits a sub-optimal merge request.

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    Comment #44693190

    I made a pretty convenient C vector library a while back that lets you use the [] operator directly on the vector pointers: https://github.com/Mashpoe/c-vector A neat project that …

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    Comment #43631487

    I figured. I'm not sure if the author meant that it was an inherent drawback, but it does seem like he still has a bit of lingering bias towards X11 in his reassessment article.

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    Comment #43631383

    The author talked about cursor latency being worse with Wayland, and claimed that it was likely a consequence of the major architectural differences between X11 and Wayland. Is thi…

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    Comment #40972645

    Scratch is the only type of visual programming I've enjoyed using. It's easy to read if you're an experienced programmer because it has the same structure as regular code, and it's…

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    Comment #34464275

    It's weird being able to highlight animated text like this

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    Comment #30017438

    Anyone who knows anything about VPN services knows that they don't stop people from looking in on what you're doing; they only stop people other than the provider from doing so. Mo…

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    > It lets a lot of innovation happen in other languages, then takes the successful parts for itself The only time I've ever had to use Java was for a computer science class, and I …

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    I don't even get the idea of these web versions. They just seem like buzzwords to me. Sure there are differences in the general trends with how people interact with the web and int…

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    I feel like the added complexity of digital storage just means there are more ways to attack and there's more that can go wrong in general. Physical documents can only exist in one…

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    Comment #26990796

    In case you aren't joking, inheritance in the context of computer programming (for simplicity's sake) is just a metaphor that's supposed to make computer programming easier and has…

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    Assuming that statistic is true, how do you know countries with more innovation don't just end up producing big corporations that lobby for more control over ideas that they don't …

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    Comment #26759810

    People like to say that without patents there will be no incentive to advance technology, but if you're the one to come up with an idea then you already have a huge head start. If …

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    how do you even get 18% from 36 participants? 7/36 = 19.4% and 6/36 = 16.6%. I know they said "roughly" but I don't see why how you could round to that number.

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