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by metra 15y ago
The OpenJDK may have more bugs. Check out [ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1977238/why-should-i-use-... ].
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by metra 15y ago
Columbia has a good engineering school and a good CS program. It's no Stanford, Berkeley, or MIT but it's no slouch. Columbia has an excellent opportunity to be a leader in the NYC tech space but from what I've seen efforts from the CS depa
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by metra 15y ago
Birkenstocks with socks is okay: http://www.gq.com/style/style-guy/shoes/200309/birkenstocks
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by metra 16y ago
Along with the usual classics, I highly recommend Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron of Carnegie Mellon. The authors wrote it after teaching a class on the subject. It's extremely readab
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by metra 16y ago
I'm worried about the first of the month falling on a Friday such as tomorrow, April 1st. Will the weekend squash the popularity of a Friday 'Who's Hiring' thread?
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by metra 16y ago
By far my #1 reason: Tree Style Tabs. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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by metra 16y ago
"On Facebook they don’t have spam. Why not? Because, unlike Google Wave, only people who I’ve friended AND who friended me back can send me messages. That’s how Wave should have worked." I guess that depends on your definition of spam. To
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by metra 16y ago
Whatever the motivation, this is a good thing and I think we should isolate this action of charity from a movie.
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by metra 16y ago
Completely agree, specifically with these items: * I don't like how the display of a lot of tabs are handled (dozens of really small unreadable tabs) I wish Chrome had something like Tree Style Tabs (vertical tab panel on the left). * It
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by metra 16y ago
Why does the font matter? This is a serious question. I use the default font on all of my editors and I've never had a problem. I can tell ohs from zeros and els from ones, etc. And I don't care about different types of serifs or other typo
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by metra 16y ago
Would a 'genius' really be asking for advice on how to work hard?
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by metra 16y ago
That dupe is in the original data as well.
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by metra 16y ago
Why?
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by metra 16y ago
Mirror?
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by metra 16y ago
Arnold Schwarznegger popularized bodybuilding, became a successful movie star and is now governor of the most populated state in the United States. I think the point should be experience in a field is extremely valuable given all the time t
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by metra 16y ago
I wonder how this experiment would have turned out if all the applicants decided to play the same game. - Submit their resume but with a name only. You have to Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, whatever to find the contact information. or - The e
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by metra 16y ago
This guy ran (north-south) across Europe last summer. He'd average a marathon or more every day and some days he would run the equivalent of two marathons. He kept a daily blog which is very inspiring. Home page: http://www.ryanlukejohns.c
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by metra 16y ago
So you're telling me that I've been using a test card for the past 5 years? I hope not. The two numbers listed on that site are test numbers. 5424 is a very common MasterCard prefix.
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Amazon Customer Service
14 points by metra 17y ago|2 comments
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by metra 17y ago
Where does it say that?
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by metra 17y ago
Looks like the secrets of Gladwell's public speaking are also the secrets of any stand-up comedian. And, really, it's not a secret at all.
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by metra 17y ago
Surprised none of the editors caught this spelling mistake: perverserance. For a second I thought maybe that's the British way of spelling it but, no, it seems like it's just a spelling mistake.
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by metra 17y ago
What is off-putting about it? Please elaborate as I've found SO very, very helpful. Specifically, these points have made the site so helpful: - The badge system rewards good answers. - The most popular questions and answers float to the top
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Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health(gq.com)
1 points by metra 17y ago|0 comments
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by metra 17y ago
You're not giving us the alternatives. From how you've described it, the opportunity sounds great. But we don't know much about your current working situation. From what you have written, I assume that the other alternative you have pay (
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by metra 17y ago
Can't you just not look at the comments for two days?
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by metra 17y ago
To me, developing an infrastructure for energy and developing vaccines are both long term goods.
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by metra 17y ago
By decreasing the amount of wealth that is necessary for a human person to remain alive - for example by introducing a new vaccine that allows a large (5+) family in unsanitary conditions to have all of their children reach adulthood - the
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by metra 17y ago
I believe Apple's success stems from its portable devices, mainly the iPod and the iPhone. Both of those devices could take full advantage of Apple's closed door policy. The iPod and the iPhone are extremely well built because Apple had c
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by metra 17y ago
Cecil does know what he's talking about. The Straight Dope is a website based on people submitting questions to Cecil who, in turn, does the research and presents the findings for you along with some of his trademark witticism. It's been a

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