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mrout

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    Comment #15057814

    Vuex is no more tied to Vue than Redux is to React.

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    Comment #15036020

    I don't think there's much if anything revolutionary going on here

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    Comment #15001580

    Why is Wikipedia incapable of seeing that I'm on a desktop computer from my User-Agent and redirecting me to the desktop site? Gah!

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    Comment #15001473

    The International Criminal Court has universal jurisdiction

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    Comment #14872084

    There's no reason it has to be only accessible to USPS. And what's wrong with just using the standard, taxpayer-funded postal service for everything? It's a useful service where it…

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    Comment #14784708

    >A generation later, fewer mathematicians would be bothered by this form of "uglyness". I totally disagree. Mathematicians haven't changed at all. Ugly proofs are still considered.…

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    Comment #14667354

    >In other words, should Tiamen Square be de-indexed globally because free speech in China does not require it. Should torrent trackers be de-indexed--free speech does not require i…

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    Comment #14660809

    The Canadian courts aren't saying what should happen in the US. They are saying what Google should do if they want to operate in Canada.

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    Comment #14660781

    It's not a government doing anything. Courts are not part of 'the government'.

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    Comment #14609462

    You know what is easy to read in any weather? Writing . If your shop window displays aren't easy to read in some weather stop using bloody digital displays. Not everything needs to…

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    Comment #14609225

    Grocery stores are directly selling things to you, and they cost different amounts based on their costs to the grocery stores, handling requirements, etc. ISPs are like mail servic…

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    Comment #14591380

    -pedantic-errors -Wall -Werror isn't used in the wild because it breaks whenever a new compiler comes out. New compilers often come out with new warnings, new cases for old warning…

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    Comment #14566375

    The problem I have with these sorts of articles is that they have a clear agenda behind them. Okay, so they used binary numbers 600 years ago. But why is that posted here? It's not…

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    Comment #14535542

    That's pretty much true though

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    Comment #14495802

    I guess you missed the part where it was explained several times in this thread that Chrome promotes things that are slow everywhere else.

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    Comment #14495755

    >That argument might have worked in back in the day when the iPhone was only available on AT&T but not in a world where the iPhone is available to more people than it ever has been…

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    Comment #14493548

    I think the key thing for people to realise is that none of what you just said has anything to do with women . Meet your direct manager. Make sure you get along with them. Make sur…

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    Comment #14493524

    No pressure to socialise with coworkers? What kind of law firm is this? Lawyers are by a huge margin the most social people I know. I know a lot of lawyers, and not one of them doe…

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    Comment #14484053

    The 'actual costs' are not the reason that fees are so high in the USA though.

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    Comment #14484048

    Education isn't about money.

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    Comment #14476046

    Don't be so rude. He disagrees with you. Being downvoted to [dead] and insulted is totally unnecessary.

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    Comment #14476035

    The real answer, IMO, is not to use threads. Just use processes instead.

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    Comment #14456347

    No offence to the author, but this is rather awful code. comparisons += (end-start-1) That isn't counting comparisons. It's not incrementing a counter every time you do a compariso…

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    Comment #14450148

    If you run them as a different user from yourself, maybe, but who does that? The idea that software is secure if it only runs on your own user account is stupid IMO. I'd rather tha…

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    Comment #14450144

    >The tectonic command-line program is quiet and never stops to ask for input. The example below suggests otherwise. What is so difficult to understand about 'stay silent except in …