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vrruiz

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    Comment #39437995

    Well, other simpler options are: if (input in ['Y', 'y']) then WriteLn('blah blah') else if (input in ['N', 'n']) then WriteLn('blah') else WriteLn('Input invalid'); And: if (Lower…

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    Comment #38440837

    I owned this PC and I loved it! It was a gift from my father. I played to Monkey Island and other adventures in it :)

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    Comment #10632861

    Nice to read this. I also created a fpc wrapper for cfitsio, but never published it as I thought it would have a limited interest.

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    Comment #3076229

    Thanks for the mention! (I'm the founder of Blogalia :) IMHO, greaterskies.com is interesting as a project, but: - I don't think anyone will pay for simple visual star charts: ther…

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    Comment #2740950

    The first battle SourceForge lost was against Google Code hosting. Google offered a nicer interface and had some features SourceForge hasn't, the most important one, subversion. So…

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    What WhatsApp doesn't tell you

    WhatsApp stores every sent and received messages, even if user "removed" them. Also, coordinates are logged in msgstore.db if messages are sent when the GPS is enabled.

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    Comment #2260150

    When I updated the system to Snow Leopard.

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    Cherokee Market: A Market for Web Applications

    Cherokee Market is a distribution channel for Web applications, where developers can distribute and sell their apps, while Web infrastructure owners can easily deploy them within s…

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    Comment #2214302

    "While Qt held that promise, it was a long way from the maturity (10+ years) that .NET provides." What? Qt 3.0 is even older than .NET.

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    Comment #2036247

    Felipe Ortega wrote a Ph.D. thesis devoted to this topic. "Wikipedia: A Quantiative Analysis", available at http://libresoft.es/Members/jfelipe/phd-thesis His conclusions were feat…

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    Goodbye, Google App Engine

    Carlos Ble says: "Choosing GAE as the platform four our project is a mistake which cost I estimate in about 15,000€. Considering it's been my money, it is a "bit" painful."

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    Comment #1640428

    - 6,263,507: Browser for use in navigating a body of information, with particular application to browsing information represented by audiovisual data http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi…