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mthomas

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About mthomas

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    Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades

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    Comment #27600675

    #3 has a, b and c parts.

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    I don't see any clever way to make that more readable. I would have to break it into two subexpressions and then take the difference. i.e. (setv e0 (-> (+ 1 3 88) (/ 2))) (setv e1 …

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    Comment #14914448

    I find that both are equally (un)readable. However, for expressions that are that long, I'm inclined to write: (setv result (-> (+ 1 3 88) (/ 2) (- 8)))

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    Comment #8673905

    I wonder what the backup is for when the power fails while several cars are in one shaft.

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    Comment #8068437

    HSQLDB comes with a command line tool called SqlTool http://hsqldb.org/doc/2.0/util-guide/sqltool-chapt.html You will have to setup the classpath manually and specify the jdbc driv…

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    Comment #8030355

    Release notes here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v0.3.0-rc1/NEWS.md

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    Comment #6313413

    The title is misleading. Verizon is buying out Vodafone's part of Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless is owned 55/45 by Verizon and Vodafone.

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    Comment #5957509

    SyntaxError: not a chance

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    Comment #5947588

    It would be nice if they put a link to the main site from the blog for those who don't know what this is.

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    Comment #5907344

    My understanding of hadoop and hdfs is that both input and ourput are to/from disk. Your MR jobs are spun up and pointed to hdfs urls to read input from and they write to hdfs when…

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    Comment #5879602

    http://www.silentpcreview.com/stop_lcd_whine What happens if you increase the brightness