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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.