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    Comment #8055272

    I'm interested in where this is going. Do you have a citation?

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    Comment #8055220

    I frequently get thrown into projects with aging codebases, technical debt, and few people around who wrote the original code. In this scenario using this kind of verbose state log…

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    Comment #6537169

    I think this is more about the control you lose with a phone conversation vs. a text conversation.

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    Comment #5717058

    I am continually impressed with Warren. If only more of the politicians in this country were as interested in serving the public interest as she is.

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    Comment #5684567

    Subjectivity doesn't mean it's bullshit, we might just be measuring the wrong thing. Genetics + a oral chemistry test might be a far better predictor of what wines you'll enjoy tha…

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    Comment #5548578

    I've been thinking about the general business plan problem for years. Not only because it's a very real problem, but also because as I'm walking through a swap meet or a grocery st…

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    Comment #5529858

    You may have hit on something here. There is no guarantee that any item will be worth any amount of another item. You can make claims about the relative likelihood that some item w…

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    Comment #4893385

    TDD done correctly should allow the validation of "speed of thought" changes. It happens to me often that ideas spawned between my ears break functionality in the actual applicatio…

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    Comment #4846036

    Add to that a willingness to deal with the absurdities of running for and holding public office...that may be the scarcest resource of all.

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    Comment #4798873

    Would a true libertarian society view nations as pseudo corporations and citizens as shareholders? Would the more highly compensated individuals be considered to have a larger stak…

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    Comment #4798846

    Can this also be applied to CPU assembly?

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    Comment #4122324

    http://youtu.be/MShbP3OpASA?t=20m50s "If you think like a computer, writing C actually makes sense."

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    Comment #3955849

    There's a difference, subtle though it may be to some, between common legal practices in food and drug production and conspiring to criminally poison consumers for profit. Many of …

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    Comment #3954430

    They should have a tutorial that walks me through how to accomplish example project in the promo video. From what I can tell I would have to import all those prime minister pages f…

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    Comment #3895663

    Fascinated by the nascent eco-system of apps built on top of email. To PG's point in one of his essays about fixing email...I wonder if the transition to the future of email lies i…