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Comment #41247733
Scroll behavior, for starters.
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Comment #41241888
Never knew this about man7, thank you.
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Comment #41240559
It's not clear to me from your example what the relationship is to shareholders.
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Comment #41240536
Is there a better man page site to use instead? I abhor reading in the terminal.
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Comment #41239958
>Is that better for consumers than Apple and Google operating them and demanding a high enough margin to support moderation and review? Do their moderation/review processes meaning…
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Comment #41238166
Indeed, it's a good choice. My wife has been routinely annoyed that the phone with superior specs was/is always uncomfortably large for her hands.
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Comment #41237602
RPN is cool, glad to see stuff like this still being written. Back in undergrad we used to program our HP calculators in RPL, Reverse Polish Lisp, which I found very hard to grok a…
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Comment #41231806
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Comment #41229598
A resident found him in his boat in his back yard and called police.
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Comment #41229408
>In that case, it's illegal to look in the phone book for names starting with "john" because that's not a specific user. That's an absurd reduction, and not at all analogous to the…
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Comment #41211581
Because if the automakers were left to their own devices, the infotainment display would need to show a loading bar before an ABS warning, and the speedometer would be buried there…
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Comment #41210456
>Those who still use Common Lisp or some variant of Lisp (other than Clojure), what's your reasoning behind choosing this language over the more mainstream options? One programmer …
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Comment #41210427
I use his web stack in some of my projects. His stuff is pretty great, it's just that he basically doesn't write any documentation at all, and the small scraps of documentation he …
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Comment #41202275
Sure, nepotism and corruption also exist. Sometimes hiring managers just get it wrong, and there is nothing nefarious afoot. There are of course also "diverse" people that get unfa…
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Comment #41202035
In my experience, I find aerospace quality control systems are large behemoths in and of themselves and poorly suited to software development. It's disappointing but not surprising…
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Comment #41201930
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Comment #41177226
>I saw Elon Musk questioning why we have medical regulations the other day, he was saying that it "slows down innovation" and so he thinks medical regulation should be abolished Is…
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Comment #41174393
Well, cock is. Coq is not an English word.
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Comment #41162944
Coq is pronounced exactly how it looks. It's the French word for rooster and for the language, comes from part of the guy's name.
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Comment #41150896
You can probably get anything you need from practicalplants
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Comment #41150894
Building a garden robot and eating robo-spinach sounds like a super dank journey to me
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Comment #41150516
Sure but aren't they all on the number keys?
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Comment #41150389
At least as late as 1998, I recall version control was thought of in some circles the way people think of C vs memory-safe languages today. Some thought version control was an obvi…
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Comment #41149746
For run'n'gun games like Quake, nothing really but for games with more controls like ArmA or Tribes those extra buttons come in handy. Shield, nade, lean left/right, use item, etc.…
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Comment #41149147
The Tribes series showed me the based way of ESDF enlightenment. WASD is for peasants.