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wizardhat

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    Comment #16961663

    I do agree that Watson seems oversold, but the evidence in this article (Watson's shallow opinion of Bob Dylan, compared to the author's opinion of Bob Dylan) seems kind of weak. I…

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    Comment #16145446

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story)

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    Comment #12064612

    Studies going as far back as the 80s show that people in submarines develop myopia: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7457562 The leading theory is that being in a confined space …

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    Comment #11858904

    TLDR: He was reading the database while another process was writing to it. Why all the Mongo hate? I'm sure this would happen with other databases.

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    Comment #8187236

    Well that's just sad. Pinball was dropped because of incompetent programmers. Don't 32-bit binaries work on 64-bit anyways?

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    Comment #5950169

    This website itself is not designed so well. The fixed top bar is super annoying and wastes space. (Yes, I know it's also a modern design trend. It's a terrible one.) Their site is…

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    Comment #5851646

    Lol, clearly this guy doesn't know it too well. So many rendering issues. I'm not sure what to think. I mean, this guy clearly read the HTML spec where it pertains to page loads, b…

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    Comment #5806415

    Graph: Less than 80k.: ============================= - 90 points 80k-89k: =================== - 60 points 90k-99k: ========================== - 82 points 100k-109k: ===============…

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    Comment #3947438

    Here's one reason why not: no anonymous functions longer than one line. Which is a pretty lame limitation for a modern high-level language, all due to the dumb whitespace-as-scope …

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    Comment #3791814

    As a programmer this sounds like some pretentious bullshit. I've done so many UIs where 20 people jump in all thinking they are experts and have long drawn out discussions about ho…

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    Comment #3755594

    I'm gonna call it right now: bad idea. It's not about efficiency, it's about convenience. Plus, what makes you think you math is right? Square only takes 2.75%, and also Amazon is …