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1. 3961.▲
   by cafard 10y ago

   I thought it was "yeah, right".
2. 3962.▲
   by cafard 10y ago

   Ha! The first technical book I ever bought was The RS-232 Solution . It is not impossible that I bought it at an airport bookstore--this was in the mid-1980s.
3. 3963.▲
   by cafard 10y ago

   Semites? A fair fraction of the Muslims I know are from the Balkans, West Africa, or the subcontinent. (And a certain number of the persons of Arabic descent are Christian.) Also, it is my impression that "Semitic" works pretty we
4. 3964.▲
   by cafard 10y ago

   In the sales community, "legacy" seems to mean "what we didn't sell you."
5. 3965.▲
   by cafard 10y ago

   In college, when I had finished reading Murphy I could hardly get out of my chair and leave the apartment to go to class to discuss it.
6. 3966.▲
   by cafard 10y ago

   Tell me that somebody has finished high school, and I don't know much about how ready he is for college. Tell me which high school, and if I know the area, I might be able to guess. It has been this way for many years. Reforming the pr
7. 3967.▲
   by cafard 10y ago

   Yeah, playing games of driveway basketball to fifty baskets didn't teach me a lot about history, either the type I now prefer to read or the type he thinks I should be reading. But my main regrets about driveway basketball are that I d
8. 3968.▲
   by cafard 10y ago

   The United States was on perfectly good terms with Russia from the early republic through 1917. During the American Civil War, and for that matter during the period about 1800-1814, we were on better terms with Russia than with England or F
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   by cafard 10y ago

   I was wrong. My thinking seems to have been "I've seen that before; the British have a different term; ergo it's British." In fact, "neutral ground" was familiar from Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer ,
10. 3970.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Isn't "neutral ground" for "median" a British usage?
11. 3971.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    I agree that chromatic is not the best test case; he has published a lot about Perl, and his code examples are very readable. However, it is possible to right miserably bad code in a variety of languages. The Perl that one finds (for exampl
12. 3972.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Byron said that nobody in Venice fought duels over women, at least not with their husbands. I am interested to learn that he was a vegetarian. As for Ruskin, he had been a medical student, so shock over pubic hair seems unlikely.
13. 3973.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Interesting. At what level? And are you involved at all in your local party, on the precinct or county level?
14. 3974.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Teach, I suppose: high school history or English, or maybe with some brush-up, math. (Over the years, I have earned money as busboy, stock clerk, landscape worker, driver, proofreader, copy editor, tech support worker, and developer. At thi
15. 3975.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Emacs for many purposes, but largely Perl and Python. SQL Developer for Oracle work. SQLServer Management Studio for SQLServer work. VisualStudio for VB.NET and C#.
16. 3976.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Didn't Knuth say "much evil"? I don't think I have my copy of the book with that essay any more, but that's how I remember it.
17. 3977.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Living and working in Washington, DC, I have thought for some years that a new administration brings in a increase in the number of motorcades, until the novelty wears off. I am fortunate to live within walking distance of work (extended: a
18. 3978.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Minor point: "[Schwartz and T.S. Eliot] had studied philosophy at Harvard and left without 
taking a degree, but there the similarities ended." Eliot never took the examination for his Ph.D., but did collect a B.A. and M.A. from H
19. 3979.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    If only.
20. 3980.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    You have my condolences. My mother died at 42, of the effects of a fall. My father remarried after about a year and a half; how heavily the care of my brother and myself weighed in his decision, I can't say. I will say that it must hav
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    by cafard 10y ago

    Given the speed with which one can whip heavy cream, I have a hard time seeing the use of canned stuff. Whipping your own gives you a container and a couple of blender paddles to clean, and that apart takes maybe a minute more. I have to th
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    by cafard 10y ago

    There is something maddening about the sort of discourse in which the expensively educated try to impress one another by doing penance for their educations and advantages. Also, does the plumber really care whether he has a conversation wit
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    by cafard 10y ago

    One that (as far as I know) I made up: that the mortgage deduction on US income tax is to keep the middle class occupied with home improvement so that it won't have time to interfere in government.
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    by cafard 10y ago

    I'd be curious to know how this was transcribed: it has "Totentons" evidently for "Totentanz". I seem to reread the book every n years, and often as not change my mind from the previous reading.
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    by cafard 10y ago

    There's hate, as in "beat, possibly fatally, a guy who wore the other team's jersey into your team's stadium". And there's hate as in "seldom miss a chance to speak badly of". Fortunately, the overwhe
26. 3986.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Maybe, but how many transactions get kicked off by a single Google search?
27. 3987.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Thank you!
28. 3988.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Which woman would that be who was born into a working class family?
29. 3989.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    Expect is the reason that I first learned Tcl. I haven't used it quite a while, though.
30. 3990.▲
    by cafard 10y ago

    "find all the people around you who work with PHP, who have had to endure contempt culture, and apologise for perpetuating it. Really mean it." Some co-workers do work with PHP a fair bit. I have never directed contempt their way,