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sross

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    Comment #4399023

    There may not have appeared to have been any personal accountability, but make no mistake if anything had gone wrong with the On-Board Software the EXACT same accountability proces…

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    Comment #2590821

    It's also worth noting that GUIDs in this case have nothing to do with persistence but rather with associating urls with behaviour in much the same way as the fnids you'll see on v…

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    Comment #2575453

    Agreed, the costs of living in London (especially Zones 1 and 2) puts London in the top 20 of most expensive cities to live in the world. However, If you're going to pay a youngste…

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    Comment #2147798

    Not answering for everyone, of course, but I find the mac model breaks down when I only want to pull a single window of an app to the foreground. Envisage, if you will, this scenar…

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    Comment #551275

    No offense but I don't think you get the concept of batteries included. Python has batteries included, Clojure has batteries available. Even the clojure contrib jar is not included…

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    Comment #368073

    Why not ask Alan Kay? 'OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things.' He might know....

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    Comment #261715

    Those numbers do look a little funny, 22 seconds seems way to high for Ruby 1.8, on my macbook 2.6Ghz it's around 3.2 secs. Out of curiosity, what were you doing that made your SBC…

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    Comment #58644

    I picked up the language after running sawfish as a window manager. This took me to emacs and from there to Common Lisp. I can highly reommend 'A Gentle Introduction To Symbolic Co…