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    Comment #42182899

    Funny article. "The exact master copy that the artist recorded and wanted for us to hear" In the digital era, does that even, uniquely, exist? "a set of standards created by a bunc…

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    Comment #41261075

    We moved to https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/ There were 8 merge requests and 3 commits in the last 24 hours.

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    Comment #41083683

    It's so awful, maybe it's a troll.

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    Comment #41083359

    It sounds as if the hiring managers got cold feet and made an emotional or impulsive decision. It's not surprising they could feel bad for treating a candidate that way, for indesc…

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    Comment #32918867

    Yes, they are there all day, until closing time, or longer. Usually, the longer you stay, the more likely you are to buy their car, or give them more money. They control the situat…

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    Comment #29862797

    Wasn't DEK giving a talk entitled, "The Letter S" in connection with the invention of Metafont? Nothing but admiration!

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    Comment #22860814

    Something else to know is that Ticketmaster is happy to list and collect commissions from 3rd party ticket sales, but they excuse themselves from "Ticketmaster Fan Support" policie…

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    Comment #20038925

    Yes, there is so much potential to integrate diagramming and recent work on constraint solvers including SAT solvers, but also very difficult to make such systems usable and conven…

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    Comment #19744540

    This is incredible. I think I needed this about 40 years when typing on a small Teletype (non-ASR33) without an escape key.

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    Comment #19658907

    The information and know-how in this talk is amazing. It would be interesting to know the author's thoughts about other early influential software in the early PC era, such as the …

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    Comment #19413701

    Ha ha very funny. Yes, just try a lot of other distros until you find one that works, maybe.

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    Comment #19060105

    It was a beautiful dream, but one can't be both an outsider and an insider.

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    Comment #18939423

    When you say sustainable, do you mean, is it possible to train another generation of engineers to take over the maintenance and development of the software? I wonder about software…

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    Comment #18796686

    Can you explain further? I tend to agree because the claim that "graph databases are good for highly connected data" seems funny - can't relational databases be "highly connected" …

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    Comment #18418634

    Or that it's so hard to do well enough to be useful, that hardly anyone can, except possibly Google, as a special case.

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    Comment #18029267

    Is this actually a surprise to anyone? Year 1: here's an extra x% of your salary! Aren't you happy! Year 2: here's the same x%! Aren't you just as happy. Compare this with getting …

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    Comment #17540705

    This is a good trend. Will we see more work aimed at separating the data model and human interface (to make programming with attributed graphs safe and convenient) from back end is…

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    Comment #17166608

    At the dawn of the "home computer" phenomenon, there was a great deal of optimism computer literacy for the public would include a much richer understanding programming. It's too b…

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    Comment #16008992

    Why not ask Apple to replace the battery and see if that helps?

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    Comment #15917356

    Your criticisms of my comment are fair, but you are also defending an animation of hot air balloon that somehow describe attributes of cryptocurrency transactions. There's nothing …

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    Comment #15915066

    Visualizing: You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means. VIS guy

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    Comment #15348955

    From comments here, you can see the field of premium photography equipment is about to undergo some kind of massive disruptive consolidation and reorganization. Almost anyone who c…