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zdouglas

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    Comment #4506256

    I was mainly referring to the implication by omission that Blizzard had nefarious intent with its watermarking. Though, my comment was itself inflammatory; karma's a jerk.

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    Comment #4505839

    I find the title inflammatory and ignorant; I would downvote this if I could. While I applaud the tenacity in prospecting and divulging the methods at which Blizzard has employed t…

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    Comment #4427211

    First, thanks for making this! Just a little note, I think there's a bug in your profile picture retrieval: asker & answerer have different usernames but the same pictures; e.g. Jo…

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    Comment #4100783

    > _I just want a device that works, and upgrades easily._ As a loyal TMo G2 (stock Froyo) owner, I wholeheartedly agree with that opinion. As other replies called out, TMo has a kn…

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    Comment #4023175

    +1 (Funny.)

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    Comment #4002820

    Edit & continue is available with the V8 engine as well, so add JavaScript to the list of languages being unrighteously ignored.

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    Comment #3956840

    > The only way I could justify this is if I began developing a free replacement for that very program. If the Oracle suit taught me anything, it's to be careful when using APIs.

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    Comment #3954840

    > Jason [...] does not understand or respect his responsibilities in his business relationship. This is indisputably the most succinct account of what has transpired. I would have …

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    Comment #3832201

    Arguably, such an obtuse implicit cast is failure at string comparison.

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    Comment #3817377

    This is the binary-vs-plaintext argument all over again. Java's been through this once before, and they settled on .jar files containing bytecode (the author's ASTs, etc.), and hum…

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    Comment #3680003

    I greatly appreciate their honesty, prompt timing, and engineering lesson. That's above the call of duty, even for the best distributors.

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    Comment #3663763

    Palpability is in the eye of the beholder. There's a lot of talk in the GH issue comments dismissing GH's "obvious" failure of not using `attr_accessible`.

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    Comment #3648778

    [4tehlulz]( http://insanepenguin.com/goto.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fejohn.org... )

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    Comment #3568815

    A machinist I knew for an airline told me a story about how the avionics in plains in the late 80's could land autonomously in fair weather. The problem wasn't that the systems wer…