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shawnjgoff

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    Comment #793715

    Thanks! That looks superb.

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    Comment #793712

    I agree. It's like Photoshop: at first you're like "WTF were they thinking?" until you really use it and see what geniuses they were.

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    Comment #793708

    Or joke about you in irc while secretly not using either tool themselves.

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    Comment #793700

    Jedit is amazing. It's like the Firefox of text editors - not the smallest or fastest, not the biggest or slowest, but reasonably quick and very very extensible. I would say that o…

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    What's in a number? - xml-based repository of numerical metadata

    (paraphrased fta): A quantity actually includes several components, Razdow explained. There are digits, obviously. Equally obviously to engineers, but often forgotten by the untrai…

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    Comment #791907

    This guy gave an excellent interview on Software Engineering radio a few weeks ago. http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2009-07/episode-140-newspeak...

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    Comment #737024

    The problem is that your "object code" is someone else's "source code". When you follow standards, it's easy for people to use what you've published; when you don't, it's painful. …

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    Comment #736771

    Okay, I really don't understand this part: while (q) {G;} If p is true before the loop, then it must be true after the loop unless your loop has a break. What if the condition p is…

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    Comment #735176

    It kind of is an operating system. Check out Process Manager. Read the developer manual.