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joeycfan
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joeycfan
17y ago
Clever - that goes in the tool box - thanks!
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Yes but... He's like a very good baseball fielder who moves to where the ball will be. It's not his doing that the govt. is doing all this bailout crap. He just positioned himself under the rain of money. He got rich BEFORE it, remember tha
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17y ago
This is what capitalism is supposed to be about. Profits, not mountains of debt. secure jobs, no govt. bailouts, etc. etc. old school. Buffet will be studied for generations to come.
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17y ago
Took a while, but it will finally end up truth in advertising.
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Ah - scam de jour. How nice to see the World's Best People haven't lost the touch.
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17y ago
You are so right about the 'can gain new ways of thinking by learning a new language.' I took an APL course once. I SWEAR I could feel myself growing new brain wiring...
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17y ago
'I know Ruby' That's a good excuse.
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17y ago
ah - the Goldman Sachs thread...
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I worry about this sort of thing - the entire genome is so non orthogonal, there is no telling that other effects this thing has.
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17y ago
Yes but I remember when computers weighed 16 tons.. today people stick a better one than that in their ear....
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17y ago
a human with a servere case of the farts...
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I'm a little worried about this - once the USA gets disposable robot soldiers there's nothing to stop them waging war in all directions simultaneously... Spend $ not American lives - prefect for the MIC.
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17y ago
That's a lot, actually.
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17y ago
Doesn't matter - I can't see their content anyways, I'm Canadian...
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17y ago
I walked around my high school in the 70s with a flexagon in my pencil case that I cut out of paper and put together.
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You learn to take the high road in this sort of thing as the easy way cruftifies your code.
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17y ago
Two - and the other one is exactly like us, except they all have cowboy hats.
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17y ago
This is cherry-picking the evidence.
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17y ago
'awesomeness'
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17y ago
you dig deep into small areas of math. Take electrical engineering instead.
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17y ago
Anyone remember the Baroness books from the 70's? She did this in one of them - also she drove a racing car with a spoiler 'controlled by a computer the size of a poker chip' - the first mention of microprocessors in literature I think - th
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17y ago
I remember checking the Guide just for a joke, and on the FIRST PAGE I learned something - that you can delimit ruby numbers with _ for commas - 3_600 is a legal 3600 to ruby.
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17y ago
True - I use hpricot every day.
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17y ago
Holy crap this is a disaster! This guy is one of lord high masters of the geek art crafts and sciences. Where ever you are Why, I hope you're all right..
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The Bingo Bin
(bellringer187868.wordpress.com)
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17y ago
Chuck Norris.
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So 'We had to destroy them in order to save them' has finally come home to America? Who says there's no karma?
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Having to have stuff explained to you does not make you stupid. This entire thesis is crap.
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Ho Chi Minh is responsible for the Vietnam catastrophe. He would have seen the Vietnamese people go extinct before losing that war. And, like in North Korea, they run a big song and dance on how they have to reunify their country, but thats
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17y ago
Me too - oop I understand - gotta get a grip on procs and lmbadas..... Best language I ever used and I was programming in Fortran iv on 80 column punch cards in 1972...
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