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trav4225

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    Comment #44037638

    Please be kind and rewind!

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    Comment #43959826

    But just wait until all consumer image display and capture devices start using invisible-to-the-naked-eye watermarking and content protection, only allowing you to photograph sourc…

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    Comment #42283775

    Click the triangle icon next to that question to see the answer. :-)

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    Comment #41909637

    Appreciate the feedback. For some reason I feel like I dismissed this as an option at one point, but that was long ago. I'll take another look!

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    Comment #41909634

    Thanks for the info. I haven't looked at this in a while. I'll take another look!

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    Comment #41898451

    Same. I wish there were an alternative (a practical pocket computer), but there really isn't. So I too gave up on fighting my phone, and have also completely stopped doing mobile d…

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    Comment #41492052

    Hah! This resonated with me. Maybe I'm just "getting old", but I fail to understand the value of 99% of this stuff...

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    Comment #41115464

    Hah! IIRC, it was a binary tree of some sort.

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    Comment #40026972

    Because everything is buggy these days. ;-)

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    Comment #39562591

    Factory()

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    Comment #37593756

    Apologies for the late reply (too busy!), but thank you for your response. I appreciate it!

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    Comment #37593747

    Sorry for the late reply (I have been too busy!), but I appreciate your helpful response. Thanks!

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    Comment #37458853

    I always find advice like this a little confusing. A lot of these things seem (to me) to be none of the engineers' business. To me, engineers receive specs from management and impl…

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    Comment #37028278

    "The central planning system, while intended to ensure equitable distribution, was riddled with inefficiencies and mismanagement." I'm shocked. *Shocked*, I say!

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    Comment #37028277

    "The central planning system, while intended to ensure equitable distribution, was riddled with inefficiencies and mismanagement." I'm shocked. Shocked , I say!

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    Comment #36832652

    My impression was always that this was an east/west-coast thing. I could be wrong!

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    Comment #36794625

    Probably. Everyone has also long since forgotten the original purpose of HTML! ;-)

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    Comment #36276092

    I keep clicking on Elm stories, thinking they're going to be about Elm the email client... :-)

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    Comment #32444504

    yup, same here.

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    Comment #32123062

    I've seen a lot of new developers shocked by this approach, which surprises me a little. They seem to think that it's up to the application to handle all errors, even those of the …

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    Comment #32065598

    Incidentally, my plumber comes packing. :-)

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    Comment #31554442

    Yup. They were only interesting to me for 2-3 years. :-)

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    Comment #31554026

    I thought they were pretty useful until roughly the mid-'90s. They seemed to go into full hype mode at that point, IIRC... I cancelled my sub around that time.

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    Comment #31228532

    FYI, somewhat related: https://mosh.org/