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phene

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    Comment #6009333

    To be fair, "is" has several distinct meanings in English, which lead to the invention of E-Prime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_prime#Different_functions_of_...

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    Comment #5914045

    We use a combination of Socialcast and Google Hangouts.

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    Comment #5908919

    Why not just market games that require cloud processing to play as online-only? It's a bit much for the entire system to have to take on this always-online requirement for games th…

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    Comment #5864432

    I'm still wondering what happened to the anti-war Democrats in the US...

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    Comment #5858513

    Things like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_A "We suspect you may have a genetic predisposition to being a psychopath or traitor."

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    Comment #5847673

    This is what I've been trying to find out. None of these articles seem to have it.

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    Comment #5655462

    Only worst case is represented by big-O. The others are covered by big and little Omega, little o, and theta notation.

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    Comment #5641457

    Seriously, the merging of the contacts list and the chat window is one of the things I hate most about the new Skype UI.

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    Comment #5628479

    Because ' ' is the only possible word delimiter...

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    Comment #5561667

    People are so fearful.

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    Comment #5554967

    Well that was... militant...

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    Comment #5482326

    I hope you are kidding.

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    Comment #5450932

    What's so impressive about her trying to improve her brand?

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    Comment #5347101

    They decided to work at that sweatshop...

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    Comment #5295030

    > attr_accessible suffers from context blindness: you’re frequently going to have an end user UI and an admin UI. You want admins to have access to more fields. This is exactly why…

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    Comment #5295018

    You do a pretty good job portraying yourself as an idiot.

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    Comment #5282710

    Aaron held the last one.

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    Comment #5204247

    I would prefer an app that combines BART and Muni data into a cohesive trip.

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    Comment #5185212

    Sort of like how pandodaily "hacked" this article together and called it journalism.

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    Comment #5142478

    This. We'll never run out of problems that take effort and frustration to solve.

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    Comment #5141283

    Seriously -- he's already demonstrated himself as untrustworthy.

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    Comment #4974653

    Because no one ever wants to test their app against multiple versions of Ruby...

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    Comment #4902350

    I see that "Javascript requires semi-colons" isn't anywhere to be seen.

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    Comment #4902096

    Most people disagree with Stallman on a lot of issues -- he just happened to get this one right.