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throwaway999888

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    Comment #10962601

    Haha, reading things like that quote is so depressing.

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    Comment #10962252

    > because it just popped into your head and you don't want to context switch. > There's a limited amount of things you can keep in your head at once, and the paper is somewhat of a…

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    Comment #10962248

    Also known as literate programming.

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    Comment #10956787

    > When you choose the clearly better developer over the other, you're often choosing the one who had better resources growing up, not just natural ability. Ahh, but natural ability…

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    Comment #10950138

    It's a weird language bug. I wish English (and my own tongue) was as consistent with the dots as Turkish is. ;)

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    Comment #10950129

    The closest to what you want might be ATS.

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    Comment #10949782

    So uppercase Turkish `ı` is the same as ASCII `I`?. Go and Haskell also have some special (unconventional) treatment of capital letters, which probably make them biased towards the…

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    Comment #10942500

    All I've seen indicates that hunter gatherer populations were more likely to be taller than most historical peasant populations. As a consequence of a peasant's diet being less nou…

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    Comment #10930508

    It's unacceptable because of the manager-subordinate relation. And you can't put the burden on women to actively signal that they are not sexually interested in a professional sett…

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    Comment #10930317

    Ah, I see things are working as planned. The upper middle class and lower feeling guilt at their salaries, even though it's just a pittance in the larger pool. But I've been thinki…

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    Comment #10929784

    I don't believe that you would need Strong AI to automate away dangerous parts of jobs. Or the monotonous parts.

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    Comment #10928236

    I agree. We have a come a long way already, and I would personally prefer that we do our best to not screw up what we already have . That includes global warming, unleashing Strong…

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    Comment #10927272

    Nationalistic arrogance is measured in Nano-Americans.

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    Comment #10924106

    There is already built-in support for pull request[1] and patch based workflows in Git itself. Why do we need to wait for, and choose based on, hosted services providing things lik…

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    Comment #10923733

    I for one am just waiting for the cis piler.

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    Comment #10922230

    Finally a use for the GitHub heatmap.

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    Comment #10921638

    > Why (almost) everything you know about food is wrong They tell me every other year.

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