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Comment #49075807
Only if the student even cares to proofread for something like that in the middle of a big, probably poorly formatted, block of text pasted into a small-ish text box.
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Comment #47277952
Here's another for the pile. https://youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4?si=yTB_dICMqnLjqVEi
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Comment #46211477
They explicitly address this in the article: "Initially, we experimented by building this as an app on Pebble, since it has a mic and I’m always wearing one. But, I realized quickl…
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Comment #45583066
Alternate opinion: these URLs read as "spammy" to me and I would be less likely to click on them. It would be apropos to at least have an "about" dialog somewhere, or maybe one of …
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Comment #44030493
Winning with a 49.8% popular vote is hardly a "mandate".
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Comment #42199355
And Nativescript.
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Comment #42055447
How about SQL joins? "foo JOIN bar ON foo.id = bar.fooid"
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Comment #42055393
I don't think they're saying that such a range function is itself a ternary, but using that as a lead-in to discussing the Frink ("1 to 100 step 15") and Elixir ("1..10//2") syntax…
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Comment #41971992
Dangit, I had finally gotten good at The Game.
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Comment #41780891
For those who don't know, DuckDuckGo provides an app tracking blocker for Android that implements itself as an on-device pseudo-VPN and blocks known tracking services. No container…
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Comment #40472221
A harmful attribute on its own can be advantageous when combined with others. Think of it as finding a new "local maxima" in the sum total of evolutionary traits. Being (probably r…
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Comment #40374835
I've definitely seen high school seniors get a big head!
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Comment #40340504
I'd guess much of this difference is also due to the fats in the cheese & meats solidifying at cold temperatures, and thus less readily coating taste receptors.
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Comment #40077674
For me, .NET Core has been largely solving this problem over time. In classic .NET Framework it was nearly impossible to make something without Visual Studio's arcane templates. Th…