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As the post you are responding to pointed out, String::from converts from a string slice to a String. You didn't do this. Your code fails to compile because it attempts to apply + …

Got any data to support that? (If you do, it makes my point even stronger...)

I'm not the original commenter, but according to glassdoor, the average salary for a senior in London is ~£61k, for front end devs ~£40k, and for generic devs ~£42k. I think SandB0…

> Gripping the bike’s front wheel was the only way for riders to brake This is not actually true - track bicycles, then and now, do not have a freewheel/freehub mechanism and the r…

I think what you complaining about is really that Tolkein wasn't a moral relativist and that shows clearly in his writing. This is different to the original complaint about a dicho…

Exactly. Galadriel, Elrond, and Faramir also have the opportunity to take the One Ring, and choose not to. Sadly Faramir's rejection of it was not portrayed in the movies.

I agree he didn't invent the genre, although he certainly helped popularise and develop it. "plenty" perhaps oversells the genre pre-Tolkien, and also afaik Jack Vance didn't start…

Saruman did what he thought best, initially for noble reasons... and that turned out poorly. This is part of the seductive power theme in LotR, which in general I consider somethin…

What is not addressed is that the article that inspired this post says in its second paragraph: > they were all dismissed by condescending “gurus” who simply said that we had mislo…

Looks like it's just a bug caused by a recent patch. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=526413#c...

Ah, I wanted to know why viggity agreed with Lea, not for a list of reasons to use ad-block, but you make some good points... although I disagree about the presence of an implicit …

You agree that when viewing a public site whose main revenue model is ads, you enter an implicit contract to view those ads? If so, why? If not, why do you agree that being selecti…

I really hope that this view isn't widespread amongst W3C people. "Controlling what HTTP reqs my device sends is morally wrong because the server owner expects to monetise them" is…

Evidently beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Whatsapp appears to have very little market share in the sparsely populated arse end of the world (Oceania), at least so far as I can tell. Not that that's exactly a large market, …

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