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oblong

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    Comment #17686484

    > Gluing stuff together (it talks C Wow you're a real piece of work. Go explicitly doesn't talk C. In fact it is one of the very rare languages that ditched the C ABI. Go as a glue…

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    Comment #17526512

    JSON is a serialization protocol not a config file format idiot.

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    Comment #17327627

    And the japan Times is the best source for this news?

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    Comment #17326762

    Game engine != VM.

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    Comment #17323978

    > let her have her paid 12 month leave 12 months of free money from the company I am screwing over, what a deal!

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    Comment #17307326

    How much does Antarctica weigh?

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    Comment #17307314

    R-studio is one of the best IDEs, period. Documentation? R is the only ecosystem that require good documentation to submit modules to the central repository (CRAN). The language it…

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    Comment #17264408

    Nooooooooooo...

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    Comment #17252202

    Variables are supposed to store state - that's the point of them. A side effect by definition is a change in state to something else.

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    Comment #17250084

    > It's only broken when the left hand side is not safe to evaluate more than once. The brakes on my car aren't broken most of the time, it's only when I push down on the pedal!

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    Comment #17250069

    > "side effects" A side effect would be like submitting an order for am Amazon Echo by mistake. This is a bug, a serious bug, that leads to variables being assigned the wrong value…

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    Comment #17229883

    Steve Ballmer is jumping up and down screaming "developers!" somewhere right now.

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    Comment #17219024

    I guess something has to move packets from interface A to interface B.

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    Comment #17216292

    Gaza shows that handful can easily become most of the population if you let it get out of control. The left's deep love and devotion to a religion that oppresses their other favour…

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    Comment #17213098

    You know you can get back that behavior through accessible settings?

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    Comment #17211153

    > could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes They prefer inaccurate drone strikes that kill innocents?

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    Comment #17210929

    It's hard to use the internet or live without a web browser, I suspect most people get along just fine without letting a startup with a cool name scrape their browsing history.

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    Comment #17209138

    > install the company’s browser extension which collects their browsing history Yeah I think I'll pass thanks. What person would install such a thing?

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    Comment #17193230

    Wait...so is this about having an ssd on the memory bus...or non-volatile paged memory?

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    Comment #17191505

    What saves the page table between reboots...the OS must have specific support for this surely...?

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    Comment #17189775

    > This UB was leading to disclosure of little bits of kernel memory back into user mode because Windows engineers assumed that = { 0 } was the same as leaving the variable uninitia…