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by tspiteri 15y ago
Yes there is. When you have a new repository without any commits, there is no HEAD, so you can't unstage by resetting. mkdir try cd try git init touch file git add file git status Still, the git status command s
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GNU will dominate, at least in terms of #installs, through Android. Android is not GNU, although its kernel is Linux. So much so that it is an example cited by GNU's GNU/Linux FAQ in order to make the case that Linux and GNU/Linux are d
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I find the title a bit confusing. If my understanding is correct, one of the really bad bits of SOPA is that action can be taken without court orders. If there is a court order, then it is not SOPA-style.
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I can't make sense of the post; with the same reasoning, we should hope for the murder of a well-known celebrity so that we get better murder legislation.
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I was going to disagree with you by saying that those layers are there for a reason; and they are there for a reason, mainly backwards compatibility. But thinking a bit more, I have to agree with you that still, those layers are the probl
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I think that std::string does not support conversions as part of the class because those operations do not need direct access to the internal data of the string class. They could be written as helper functions (as opposed to member function
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Dickens: Copyright and the Land of the Freeloaders (2010)(theliteraryplatform.com)
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It's really powers of 2, not square numbers. That is, 2^x, not x^2.
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And even the suggested 1/9801 for two digits produces no 98 ... 95 96 97 99 00 01 02 ... And extrapolating it to one digit, 1/81 gives 0.012345679012345679...
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they are more discoverable, just start typing a word and go through the list of match I don't think that's discoverable. That is searchable: they do make it easier to search for a command you require without having to know under which men
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I cannot find a fundamental difference in the thought process of Dagny Taggart, Hank Rearden, Francisco d'Anconia, and the rest of that group. In fact, at the end of the novel, they all share a virtually identical philosophy, they all devel
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I'm not going to debate the merits of Rand's philosophy in Atlas Shrugged, but as a novel, I found it horrible. I found that all the characters fall into one of two groups, those who agree with Rand's philosophy, and those who don't, and th
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I also read "To Kill a Mocking Bird" for the first time, and it is truly a work of art.
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> they took away the requirement that you... They removed a restriction. If you are restricted less, you can do more, but you have to learn the new things you can do. Java people can still do what they're used to: that is simpler, they
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by tspiteri 15y ago
There is no need to mangle titles consistently . The behaviour you describe is a good solution: remove shouting by default, and in the case that it is not really shouting (as in POSIX), the submitter can always fix it by editing it back.
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Not really heaven, and certainly not Christian heaven, but in an interview with Jeremy Paxman, Hitchens did say that he if he would find himself alive in any way at all, that would be a pleasant surprise. (This is not to imply he believes i
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The three conditions for a mortal sin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_sin 1. Its subject must be a grave (or serious) matter. 2. It must be committed with full knowledge, both of the sin and of the gravity of the offense (no one is c
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I do not know much about different Christian denominations, but I do come from a Catholic background myself, and I guess Catholicism does qualify as mainstream. I think that according to current Catholic doctrine, if someone does his best t
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> Furthermore, if the Christian heaven does exist (which in turn implies that Christian doctrine is true), Christopher is most certainly in hell. If the Christian heaven does exist, it does not imply that all Christian doctrine is t
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That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that they are allowing developers to develop for iOS and Android in C#, which may eventually have a good effect on the number of Windows Phone apps developed.
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Thank you. That is indeed a nice way to get Project Gutenberg books.
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Yes, I do use a Kindle. All content I read on it was from Amazon. I know I can get content from somewhere else, but it will never be as convenient as getting it from Amazon.
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As I see it, Amazon does have an interest in users not jailbreaking or bricking devices. They sell the devices at around cost to sell content. If a user jailbreaks a device, Amazon loses the tight control on where the content comes from, an
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I prefer having ads during a film, so that I can get a break and go make tea or whatever. Watching films on the BBC, which has no ads, used to irritate me a bit, as there are no breaks. But I guess you can hit pause on Hulu, unlike on regul
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2) Over time, you save money on books. A dollar here, two dollars there; it quickly adds up. Pretty soon, even if you ever had some book removed from your Kindle, you would have saved more than enough money to just go buy the physical copy
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Breakthrough could improve battery capacity and charge time by 10(techcrunch.com)
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Yes, those work now. Northern Ireland hasn't been added yet though.
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That assumes that the 3.5 billion people alive on 11/11/1967 are still alive today, which is not the case. The number of people born before 11/11/1967 and still alive today would be quite a bit less than 3.5 billion, and the number of peopl
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If you want different articles, just click More.
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Not exactly the same thing, but this does remind me of a quote from I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 : "I didn't trust Larry and Sergey as coders," said Craig Silverstein. "I had to deal with their legacy cod

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