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Re:Gimli Glider by boterock on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:18PM (#13208556)
why do you do [0] and never put any [0]() =(
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Re:Gimli Glider by qwertyuiop924 on Monday December 19, 2016 @07:38AM (#13211013)
Indeed. Unterminated references are a sure sign of sloppy thinking[0].

They can also be dangerous[1]: gaze into the void, and the void gazes back. Cast into void, and you might get a null pointer exception.

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Re:Gimli Glider by vic-traill on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:35PM (#13208632)
CS man! What can I say? :-)
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Re:Gimli Glider by ythn on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:41PM (#13208656)
No, he means, where's the reference? I would be like if I said:

Scientists recently proved the existence of a soul inside of all life forms [0].

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Re:Gimli Glider by vic-traill on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:49PM (#13208687)
Well played, sir!
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Re:Gimli Glider by nkozyra on Sunday December 18, 2016 @08:57PM (#13208961)
Every CS paper I've had to write required valid references [1]
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