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progmanal

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    Comment #9891920

    On the other hand, it is annoying to be one of the people on site with a remote team in an environment where other divisions are not remote. In some cases you become the person tha…

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    Comment #9886649

    Or they could raise prices.

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    Comment #9819054

    The attached reading material is interesting, but this question is too similar to problems where you guess the next one in the sequence and none are missing. A rule where the numbe…

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    Comment #9667643

    You could change the amendment process at the same time the amendment was amended that you don't want repealed.

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    Comment #9667624

    I believe one of the only ways to do that is with a constitutional amendment. Those are hard to pass.

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    Comment #9565366

    On the other hand, when maintaining code, it is really nice when it is predictable.

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    Comment #9564989

    Oddly enough, most of the really dirty fixes I have seen involved not understanding the library and deciding that it was a bug in the library.

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    Comment #9564734

    On the list of annoying places to work - places that have custom versions of standard libraries like JQuery.

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    Comment #9454199

    For something that most almost anyone can follow, there are a lot of failures out there.

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    Comment #9396634

    Wrapping library functions is very helpful when I am doing my own project. I understand the interface and can fix any misunderstandings I had when I used the standard functions. It…

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    Comment #9367574

    "'How long will that bug take to fix?' is like asking 'How long is it going to take to answer 23 across in next Sunday's crossword puzzle?' It might be fifteen seconds, it might ta…

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    Comment #9334408

    I think he is being pedantic, because that part is also exponential.

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    Comment #9277609

    Individual cases of taking little capital and making a fortune is not all that convincing. For instance if 40 of your friends go in to a casino and all pick a different number on t…

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    Comment #9191828

    I don't understand why they did not call this creation the new Macbook Air.

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    Comment #8769366

    Lucky, Mumps also has the single letter distinction.