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xyzxyz998

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    Comment #14879071

    I don't think Microsoft was sold the patents

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    Comment #14872394

    Google hires more republican lobbyists now and approved Kotlin which by a Russian firm.

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    Comment #14860444

    The chances of being this taken seriously are 0.

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    Comment #14827428

    Quoting a jewish friend from Europe: Muslims are the nicest quietest people when they're alone. Muslims are the vilest people when they're with their group. I don't like China but …

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    Comment #14822558

    Crazy idea but i'd like to see a monospaced version of Comic Sans Neue. The proportional version is very well done.

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    Comment #14822508

    Most popular terminals use VTE. VTE doesn't support ligatures if that helps narrow your search down.

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    Comment #14807108

    And I can't even delete my profile/old comments on "Hacker news".

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    Comment #14770015

    Better link here but I can't edit: https://github.com/vscode-icons/vscode-icons/

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    Comment #14769587

    Some tools are for people who live in terminal but want to do things outside of computers- weather/currency/stock et al. May not be related to everyone. But there are some tools wh…

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    Comment #14764072

    So what's happening here? The parent made a reasonable comment, without flaming anybody. All his children give evidence for him (except one but they weren't able to downvote) and y…

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    Comment #14760671

    I would ask people to get off Chrome & GitHub. Chrome for future of browsing and github for future of development. There are wonderful (I'd dare and say better) alternatives very e…

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    Ask HN: Setting terms for buying back

    Looking for some business advice HN. Say you have an idea and some capital and need partners for sharing risk. But you want to set a clause for being able to buy the property back.…

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    Comment #14758833

    Nice trick, Fx has that built int too!

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    Comment #14751769

    I'm glad we're talking about fonts because I have a question that I want to ask this audience- How many of you insist on choosing your own fonts in your websites, rather than just …

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    Comment #14751753

    You're not going to leave us hanging, are you?

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    Comment #14751747

    Very well done, original humor always welcome!

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    Comment #14751237

    Can you link me to what he said? Are you sure you're not watching too much CNN?

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    Comment #14750452

    Looks like windows does RAID (win 2000) and pooled storage (whs, win8). And you can setup particular folders for periodic backup and retrieve history. But I'd like to be able to re…

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    Comment #14750385

    Windows does have file versions, I can go in properties and do this but I think you have to set it up. I like your idea and I've been using git for the same (since I have very litt…

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    Comment #14745480

    I want to hear from people who are: 1) Coders, not designers 2) Use machine only for production, nothing "fun" Do you ever feel the need for going above 256 G? I have 3 operating s…

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    Comment #14742508

    Wow, you haven't even tried the thing once clearly. Can you elaborate on what is it that is bad about WSL being on Windows? How does it make things bad for anybody? It's called cho…

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    Comment #14741206

    To be fair, this is probably the only time I've seen the term hacked used correctly. I no longer know whether I should use it in this sense or the "incorrect but used by almost eve…

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    Comment #14738321

    Yes, I noted the quotes but the comment was still useless because it doesn't add anything really informative here. Also, further muddying the water (of course after my comment) was…