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xerophyte12932

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    Comment #16481644

    But arguably, these species weren't supposed to be here "naturally", so isn't this unnatural? Doesn't this make an unnatural method to stop something unnatural okay? Also, if intro…

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    Comment #16256132

    I am probably going to get a lot of hate for this, but, do these games work over windows?

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    Comment #16221491

    You have been directly managing over a hundred people? That just sounds like textbook bad heirarchy

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    Comment #16221485

    A good counter argument to Comments: https://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-without-comments/

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    Comment #16221483

    Exactly, because you don't want every future reader of the code to have the same question. This is why I hate implicit assumptions. If I need some special knowledge or some special…

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    Comment #16113955

    I have almost no idea about the Ethereum system, but don't you have to pay to have your code executed on the global ethereum machine? Does that mean I have to pay to test run my co…

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    Comment #15471579

    I thought this was a standard. I have been seeing this in play since highschool guest speaker sessions

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    Comment #15355098

    I would disagree. My boss has the record of fastest promotion of junior developer to executive and he fights for us against other department/team heads and upper management on a re…

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    Comment #15173585

    > Open Source = more likely for attackers to find bugs, but less likely for bugs to persist. Don't need to trust the company's reputation for code quality. But you need to trust th…

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    Comment #15173514

    I agree. At some point they should stop considering FF users as "well they aren't OUR users" in the cost benefit equation. They have to acknowledge that FF has a big chunk of the m…

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    Comment #15114769

    These are very interesting considering how they show the xact opposite side of the OP's debate. I find it very amusing when articles quote someone to support their arguments even t…

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    Comment #15104392

    Is this real? In his Memoirs, Nixon admitted that the key factor in the decision not to proceed with the nuclear option was that "after all the protests and the Moratorium, America…

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    Comment #14918530

    Apparently, X will have to supply Y with all dividends thus making Y's position exactly the same as owning a share. I think the only difference is that Y can't sell the share? Then…

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    Comment #14891381

    Irony: I am getting a "This site can be reached".

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    Comment #14889915

    How did you control for player level? I imagine novice games show a different pattern than grand master games

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    Comment #14889914

    How did you control for player level? I imagine novice games show a different pattern than grand master games

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    Comment #14700585

    Am I the only one who read the name and thought this was a porn site? I think the service would reach a greater audience with a simpler name. (Btw I still don't get how the creator…

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    Comment #14513065

    This resonates with me. I realize I usually need some me time when I get home from work before I am ready to spend time with people. And I realize I end up very stressed if for som…

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    Comment #14513059

    I feel the same way. Recently I was facing a lot of escalating work-related stress that was spilling over to my home life. So I invested in a xbox 360 gamepad and started playing a…

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    Comment #13703667

    There is a very interesting Podcast on the tipping vs service fee debate on Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/danny-meyer/ It shows how the "Hospitality Included" progr…

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    Comment #13577047

    Or I could just find a way to lower my costs. Also, this applies to the skills of the employee. If your skills aren't good enough that people would pay top dollar for them, then yo…

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    Comment #13335759

    The web app seems plain ugly now. the mobile UI is so much better

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    Comment #13100999

    Wait, is GP saying that IS true in php?!?!

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    Comment #12965821

    > Also, I realized how incredibly hard I suck at drawing. This. I drew an Ant but the system couldn't guess it. Later it showed me how normal people draw ants. Man, i suck at drawi…