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merry-year

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    Comment #7353856

    Both Dollar and Bitcoin are un-evenly distributed, but with Bitcoin the creation of new currency is fair, unlike the creation of new dollars by the people who have fractional reser…

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    Comment #7340269

    NoSQL DBs have real advantages - e.g. you have a huge production relational DB, you want to make schema changes - you have to take your app offline for hours.

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    Comment #7269950

    >> How are the "other 3 billion people" without smartphones going to contribute to Facebook's bottom line? By becoming rich, of course.

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    Comment #7211505

    Buy/build a faster PC?

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    Comment #7185959

    Good excuse ;)

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    Comment #7185867

    "leading teams" is very different from "coding 80 hours a week" IDEs like Visual Studio and Idea will show you classes, methods and parameters as you type. You only need to know wh…

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    Comment #7179224

    There are alternatives - e.g. instead of band albums buy overpriced T-Shirts on their official web site.

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    Comment #7179129

    > Today is a very humbling day for me. When I read that I knew this guy would fail as MS CEO. It's a proper jungle out there and a humble Indian guy will be eaten alive by the aggr…

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    Comment #7177844

    Enjoyment >> freedom /s Plus the artists who create the content get a miniscule part of your purchase money.

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    Comment #7176658

    Just the opposite - every time you buy any content from the evil media mega corps you're funding their war against privacy, democracy and individual freedoms.

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    Comment #7018110

    Operates a drill press.

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    Comment #6880693

    >> impractical compared to better modern languages How much did 'they' pay you to say that? :D But seriously Lisps are by far the most advanced programming languages. They just tak…

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    Comment #6769757

    Hmmm, are you saying that you can predict the exact protein that, say a human cell, will produce for every DNA sequence. I had the impression that the whole mRNA + ribosomes proces…