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tordek

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    Comment #8447072

    > I would like to know the reasoning behind this. It sure seems clever but what is the advantage that this provides? Since C provides very little metaprogramming capabilities, this…

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    Comment #8169804

    Additionally, how would you signal "End of List"?

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    Comment #8166555

    Would you mind expanding a bit on the usage of Range? The simplest case involving items is clearly `items=10-20`, but that has its own set of problems (your set must be ordered; I …

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    Comment #3523507

    Of note: There are several of us in #mongrel2 on Freenode, and there are periodic patches from us :).

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    Comment #3297353

    But that makes no sense, it is whitespace, and it has semantic significance (hence being significant). Whitespace was not significant in older versions of Fortran, and that allowed…

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    Comment #3296822

    In your last example, `.find('.more_stuff')` works on the value returned from `.addClass('other')` (or so it'd seem), so it behaves differently.

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    Comment #1464678

    As said elsewhere: "Declaration follows use". int *foo; means "foo is a pointer to int". But that's explained different from how it's written. More clearly, you can say that " foo"…

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    Comment #1464669

    How so? +-----------+ | +-+ | | ^ | | char *foo[10][20]; ^ ^ | | | +---+ | +---------------+ * foo is * an array of ten arrays of 20 * pointers to * char

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    Comment #1448131

    > Wait are you saying I have to be content with who I am? When did he ever tell you to stop bettering yourself? > What do you mean I can't expect my employer to validate my passion…

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    Comment #543622

    http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/cto.html Millions of numbers in a single megabyte may be interesting.

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    Comment #324005

    I'm righty and can only raise my right one. But I can also jiggle my left ear...

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    Comment #323912

    That's the way spanish is pronounced. Radio is "Rradio". I've found amusing how some people who learn english as a second language end up pronouncing spanish as "espanish", since n…

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    Comment #323907

    Argentinian here... and I'd usually extend the o, not the r, so "Estuvimos allí poor un rato."

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    Comment #303632

    Anywhere I can look up on their definitions?

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    Comment #282341

    So? Back in the day they were. That's his point. And IE, that people hate so much, came up with them. Would you way wheels aren't innovations because they've been around for a long…

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    Comment #269419

    It annoyed me that he said "feel free to correct my math," yet there is no way to contact him. There aren't 504 ways (P(9,3)), but only 84 (C(9,3)), since order is irrelevant.