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walty8
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Comment #42335754
Actually, my experience is, there is always a cause. But some causes could be very subtle or unexpected.
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Comment #34010225
In general, for complicated items, I prefer to code at one place and think at another place. They seems to require different parts of your brain, and have different 'comfortable sp…
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Comment #32053515
thanks, my son would love this :)
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Comment #30134934
> The app or website should make my life better but instead it's harder. This is the sub-goal, but not ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is to maximize the profit, with accounts cre…
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Comment #28535876
But the in the screen capture of article, the user name is actually 'issac.asimov', i.e. the mime type does not immediately follow the dot.
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Comment #27273416
yes, it's useful to comment out a bunch of lines.
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Comment #27171856
> I know the immediate response to this is going to be "But America did such and such...". I don't care what America did. When someone is on trial for stealing a car, talking about…
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Comment #25818554
We recently converted a chrome extension into safari extension using the tool provided by apple [1]. While the conversion is smooth in general, the generated app (not the extension…
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Comment #25799411
Thank you! The tutorial is great.
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Comment #25710384
It's for another rover, but I can't help thinking about it :) https://xkcd.com/1504/
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Comment #25455690
I believe it's discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25400249
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Comment #25342411
Oh, yes, Share point, the worst nightmare when I worked in a big corp years ago. I wonder if there are really some sort of experts that understand how does it supposed to work?
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Comment #25287132
But, that's still better than 'trying to create a product that may solve the problem of others', right? I mean, feeling the pain seems a valid start point?
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Comment #25242950
Actually even writing on wordpress.com is a bit too much, sometimes I just can't help but do the text decoration (font size, bold, underline). Nowadays, I write the blogs on the ev…
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Comment #25121647
Yes, it works but not intuitive. I mean why use the checkout for the file reversion? And I think that's the problem of git: it's powerful and it works, but it's really not easy to …
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Comment #25098822
Just some experiences of mine, I had been really stressful when trying to get a job, long time ago. And eventually I started the jogging at the time. To me, it's like sort of hedge…
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Comment #25021747
The article is actually useful, despite the annoying introduction line of `a few million poorer`. People could stop reading the article for whatever reasons. Just one typo I believ…
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Comment #24996700
I think the title is a bit misleading. > ... a while later I found out that the stress of completing all his other courses on top of his master's project had lead him to take the v…
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Comment #24406133
I figured it out in another incidence. I was in my first year as programmer, and I believed I was a pretty good one. I remember I was hanging around in a small computer book store,…
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Comment #23925429
I think the paragraphs are simple enough, but my personal preferences is, some paragraphs better come first than others. I am not sure if it's the same to others, but for me to lea…