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wildranter

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About wildranter

Life isn't about integers. Live long, and prosper!

Contact me under highergeek at that lovely email service that google provides.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #6192669

    A very paranoid one.

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    Comment #5236238

    People are killing themselves because no one cares about them and some while people discuss the economics of that. Is humanity really that fucked up?

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    Comment #5121971

    Are you saying a gay man can't be a man? Because, that's not what I said.

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    Comment #5121962

    Those little boxes are all boxes there are (except for prolog). BTW, downvotes are as meaningless as i--.

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    Comment #5121918

    Yeah! How about if I kill myself would you pay attention to that? Someone important just did thAt so people like you would give a damn. What does that tells us about the world we l…

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    Comment #5121872

    Like that's gonna make the world better all of a sudden.

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    Comment #5121863

    1st ¶: surely you've never been in the situation where you didn't have a parent to pay your rent or daily needed meals. Prove than and then you'll have the right to question how ot…

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    Comment #5121817

    TC is almost always the sleaziest source of news unless they're reporting on "relevant" news.

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    Comment #5121807

    The guy killed himself for something greater then you. So what are you standing for anyway? As far from as I see you're just saying a bunch of words instead of doing something mean…

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    Comment #5121698

    1) imperative programming 2) functional programming 3) OOP 4) etc programming They're jus programming paradigms. Take what you need and get the job done. Anything else is just a bu…

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    Comment #5121687

    Really simple. They need to pay their bills. I'm sure your frinds rather be working for some project that would make the world better (hey Linux, I'm at you!:) But, still, they hav…

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    Comment #5121637

    Hey Bill Gates! Fix what Aron Swartz was fighting for.

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    Comment #5121601

    Who cares about your silly integer decrements anyway? (a.k.a. downvotes) I just broke glass of wine, the only thing that could get me into a known state. Or not? If you can't (sill…

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    Comment #5121375

    # Welcome to my mind. while (true) ... # :-P

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    Comment #5121361

    He commented in so high level that debunking his comment would miss the point. That beig said, programming languages sucks. Maybe I'm too drunk instead of being just high (blame It…

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    Comment #5121264

    The best answer to this is... Who cares anyway? PS: In the end if this proves to be something user FB will buy it and then we'll have a change in the user terms, and... You get e i…

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    Comment #5115311

    Your statement is wrong is so many levels that's quite easy to tear it apart. Let's start by the meaning of the word progress. The second definition of the Ofxford Dictionary state…

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    Comment #5114483

    Prepare to get fucked!

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    Comment #5109386

    Affirming that is essentially the same as saying that both platforms achieved their respective market shares by accident. However, I understand your point. Linux is a great infrast…

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    Comment #5086316

    What you call unsolicited advice in fact is part of a process to make the world a better place. You see something wrong and right it. Tell the world about, and hope to make a dent …

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    Comment #5081479

    Platform lock is a very efficient way of achieving a profitable business. I imagine they have some experience with this model.

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    Comment #5081376

    I don't know why they don't do this to MPAA and whatnot.

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    Comment #5081365

    Failure? I can't see they failing in the long run. They have a monopoly in mind share and bundles with virtually all new laptops (apart from Macs and some Ubuntu machines). They to…