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sakuronto

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    Comment #17230021

    The story of Phineas Gage is a lot less common than that of a company undergoing routine changes in leadership, so it's a bit of a silly comparison.

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    Comment #17225069

    Haha, sorry, I know my question was begging for that response. But even if you (and many others) appreciate tighter integration, others would appreciate the flexibility of being ab…

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    Comment #17222418

    How does this fit in with the Unix philosophy?

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    Comment #17136153

    What if you just want a stable row ordering, and don't care what that ordering is?

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    Comment #17126965

    My guess is that it just applies a CSS filter on the entire page.

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    Comment #17122498

    I guess humans, being the temporal creatures we are, have an easier time debugging procedural programs because they have a "story", an expected sequence of "events" (calls, reassig…

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    Comment #17087151

    What about .gz.tar, in which all the files are gzipped, then tarballed? It seems like it would be a slightly fatter .zip file.

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    Comment #17087094

    what about high-level-language-to-high-level-language compiler?

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    Comment #17075876

    Yes, in the same way I'd argue for an abstinence-only education when it comes to repeatedly bashing your own head against the wall.

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    Comment #17075785

    When your field of interest is the reals, those complex eigenvectors don't matter.

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    Comment #17075672

    Not a very useful addition but hypercube is to cube as parallelotope is to parallelepiped.

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    Comment #17073138

    > or the Latin/Roman angle? I think the parent thought of that.

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    Comment #16977565

    As a person who just started university, I have to ask: how else do I get employers to not entirely ignore my application on account of "insufficient qualifications"?

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    Comment #16977285

    Sorry, but can you please argue against your own devil's advocate, because I'm having a hard time coming up with counterpoints, and as a student currently in university, it's left …

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    Comment #16977171

    Yes it's wrong - you go in to learn, you promise not to cheat, then you violate that promise, and fail to properly demonstrate that you have, in fact, learnt. That's pretty clearly…

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    Comment #16977083

    It wasn't YouTube's job to be the morality police, but much like Cloudflare, YouTube, entirely of its own volition, decided to take on the job, and now it's too late for them to ba…

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    Comment #16968183

    I don't know how old you are and I don't want to make assumptions, but in high school and college, societies, school sports teams and friends all tend to use Facebook as their sole…

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    Comment #16968032

    You severely overestimate the technical skill of the average user. And even people who know their way around computers rely heavily on patterns in order to identify relationships, …

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    Comment #16922253

    Interestingly, the match construct is an expression, which I don't think JavaScript has m/any of. Perhaps they could retroactively make if/else expressions, if that doesn't break b…

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    Comment #16901198

    For what it's worth, I don't get Jupyter notebooks either.

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    Comment #16901192

    What about good ol' QT?

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    Comment #16897455

    I don't disagree with your point, but it's very rude of you to dismiss developers who find coding fun as 'uninteresting'.

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    Comment #16832942

    And there are always ad blockers, if you dislike ads but do hate Google!