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People with no budget.
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There's one citizen type in-between the natural and naturalized (and below), it's the natural citizen in a US Territory. No votes for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesHr99ezWE
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> What does that offer over, say SourceTree, Atlassian's free offering. An intuitive interface and a simpler layout. I like Tower better for the same reason I like to use a trackpad over a mouse. Day to day, the difference is obviou
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http://www.slashdot.org and https://news.ycombinator.com {"summarized_text": {}}
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> rebase keeps the history honest The history is a record of changes. You're suggesting there's a good reason to track timeshifting by implication (you could rebase at multiple points) because...honesty? I'm not trying to
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> Is laughably incorrect It depends on your workflow. It's correct in context. Don't rebase. You see the commit that caused the breakage if you have a testsuite-on-commit workflow.
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The POTUS should not be considered a leader any more than the speaker of the house. He shouldn't be leading "the people" to do anything, according to the Constituional role. But in the movies, he's a standup guy every ti
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by jack9 11y ago
The last time I heard about something like this, it was the automated output of a machine learning project. Even if there is an interesting purpose, you have to be really bored and have an active imagination to worry about it.
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I remember reading about failed experiments from the 90's to separate inline comments from source code through a form of duplication. Mark a "source" folder and a "documentation" folder. Every time you open a file i
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by jack9 11y ago
I worked with multiple agents (FBI and Secret Service) in 1999 - they were not competent back then. I'm glad they have improved.
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I'm a fan of snowden, but this is wrong on so many levels it's hard to understand why anyone thinks his points are valid? This is about privacy and technology - depending on the specifics. I'm not sure what these points are s
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After I graduated to dwarf fortress, I never looked back.
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> Can somebody explain to me how this warrant is not a direct violation of this individual's 4th amendment rights? The person is dead and it's reasonable and the 4th isn't even applicable (depending on the interpretation o
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Log aggregations. As you near the top of a tiered processing system, the data can get very big. I'm surprised he didn't benchmark 0mq or nano since they are the extreme lean case, not redis.
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Making "good" interfaces is subjective.
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> LIGO take all of the credit for this discovery. This was one of the purposes of LIGO. To prove what what previously conjecture. So yeah, goLigo.
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> Sure, it travels through space at the speed of light, but it itself is a ripple in the fabric of space I don't believe that's been proven yet. I was under the impression that this was an experiment to provide evidence of the
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It aint his fault, so he must have another opportunity.
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It's terribly primitive and altogether broken from some features (unfinished). Just an fyi
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> There is no such thing as a legitimate secret. > This is not only nonsense, it is dangerous radicalism The NY Times likes to promote their own form of propaganda. Other forms are illegitimate.
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The entirety of the page reads: Error establishing a database connection. /jokes
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LI having less value than a wild valuation is not a surprise to me. It is still overvalued.
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This is a medium.com link, which is advertising for https://codebunk.com/
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> Do you really want to require someone to sell 3.75% of their stake in a start-up every year so they can pay the taxes on it? Yes. That's one of the many expected results.
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> You again. You never answered my question... I didn't read it. > The proof is in the literature I'm referencing rather than me dumping all of it in the comment box You never cited anything. Most importantly, some of the en
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> People have been buried in coffins for centuries, so why the rise in cremations? > The Cremation Association took a look at this question Why would anyone need to "take a look". We don't have room for all the bodies a
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> it's my opinion that such changes are minimally substantive Once you start requiring and providing proof, you've made a contribution. Saying "I believe" should is cause for stopping. If you can't even prove the
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Quorum is only about syntactical optimization. The reasoning for specific implementation is beyond the scope of the "simple" problem they are trying to study.
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9/10 - I program for work and for fun. I am doing the thing I was born to do. I haven't become wealthy doing it, but I'm upper middle. I am enthusiastic and amazed and lucky to live during the time of nascent technological ma
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> Although Blow, who is now forty-four, was a wunderkind programmer—one of his jobs before Braid’s launch was with I.B.M.—he chose to design each puzzle in The Witness not by algorithm but by hand, usually on graph paper... Wat? It'

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