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sole

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About sole

Dev-ician, noise maker, book/dataworm. http://5013.es http://soledadpenades.com

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    Comment #4614293

    They are included because they were the reason people gave when asked why "The Silmarillion" was so unreadable. (I'm the author)

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    Comment #4614268

    Yes--maybe I am thinking out 'too loudly' sometimes, but I think it's interesting since that explains how one can come to a conclusion, and maybe if it is wrong, it can be correcte…

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    Comment #4614225

    Author here. I got them in txt files, online. I own the original books too. I would have typed them in if I had all the time of the world, of course.

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    Comment #4614075

    You can find the text for pretty much any popular work if you look in the proper places :-)

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    Comment #4611971

    Hi, author here. First, it's she, not he. Second, because I hadn't heard about that obvious test at all back then. I never pretended to do a superserious scientific analysis but ra…

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    Comment #1965406

    I think you're just talking about the applications in a stock Nexus One, not the operating system itself (i.e. the UI, the services it provides, etc). If the apps are lousy it's on…

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    Comment #1958908

    The only idea that comes to mind is auditing advertising companies, but it doesn't seem too likely/feasible to me.

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    Comment #1950949

    As far as I know, this won't work if the user came from https:// - the referrer will be empty, won't it?

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    Comment #1908631

    We were taught basic programming with Emacs, connecting to an HP-UX machine. So we really didn't know much Emacs anyway :-)