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randomtask

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    Presumably because the article linked above says that the rumoured deadline for gaining sufficient market share is this year? Also, yes revenues have been growing, but is GCP profi…

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    Comment #30942758

    So, they suggest that you spin up the dependent services as part of the test runner and run tests for your service against those? I've worked on a codebase that did this extensivel…

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    Comment #20736445

    > FYI, The Independent has a reputation for writing ridiculous clickbait articles. When you look into the details things almost always turn out to be much less dramatic than the ar…

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    Comment #18814238

    Genomics plc | Software Engineers | Oxford, UK and Cambridge, UK | ONSITE | INTERNS | VISA | FULLTIME | https://www.genomicsplc.com/work-with-us/ At Genomics plc we are working to …

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    Comment #14290406

    I cannot believe that the paragraph you cite actually appears in a journal article. It's really rather unprofessional and silly. I don't want to end up defending the methods ProPub…

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    Comment #14288599

    > That's not a good facsimile for deciding sentencing Sure. I'm not saying my example is the smartest (although there are people trying to use ML to do this to be fair - http://www…

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    Comment #14288361

    As with anything, it's hard to generalise without oversimplifying, but here goes. You don't generally just have a data set and a machine learning algorithm that somehow magics outp…

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    Comment #12080989

    There's precedent of sorts for this though. Currently a non-EU citizen with a visa to Ireland still needs a visa to travel to the UK. This could be policed in the same way as that …

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    Comment #11220454

    How do people currently find the site? Searches or do you run ads?

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    Comment #8032402

    As far as I'm concerned the game should have been called 1024. That way I would actually have won a game by now ;)

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    Comment #7975995

    Passwords should usually not be encrypted. Saying a password is encrypted implies that there is a decryption function that can produce the original password in plaintext. This shou…

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    Comment #7956456

    Cool. Otherwise I wholeheartedly endorse this effort.

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    Comment #7954747

    This really needs a "disturbing content ahead" warning on the parts of the site that have graphic images. I really don't expect to see decapitated bodies when I randomly click a li…

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    Comment #6311093

    It's possible for a library to return an error to indicate that a file is not found when you try and open a non-existent file. Then it's possible for a function that calls the open…

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    Comment #5040907

    You know you just agreed with the comment you replied to right?

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    Comment #3127617

    I should have qualified that by saying that there were a lack of services that suited our particular needs. We ended up concluding pretty quickly that for our purposes services lik…

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    Comment #3127212

    Seems to me like this has the potential to be something I'd pay for, but confusingly the article focuses on MIME, when the real problem you seem to be solving is providing a more u…

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    Comment #3120918

    Maybe he's trying to stoke an academic flame war? :)

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    Comment #2164001

    I understand that. Just from reading your comment I didn't know whether you were referring to the dead language, a nonexistent one, or the dialect...I'll go sit with the rest of th…