fdesmet

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   by fdesmet 12y ago

   pg may be right in some respects, but that doesn't mean his opposition is wrong. pg's argument cannot explain the reality that we've all seen: companies hire droves of H1B folks who are anything but exceptional. Only a fool f
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   by fdesmet 12y ago

   Having used XEmacs for a very long time, I recently tried switching to GNU Emacs just to gain access to one particular Emacs-only feature that seemed supremely useful to me. I spent a couple of days hacking my .emacs file to get GNU Emacs
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   by fdesmet 17y ago

   The NYT's book review of a Rand biography seems to be little more than a tedious, sermonizing, simplistic, and unconvincing ad hominem against Rand herself. This is what qualifies as journalism these days?
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   by fdesmet 17y ago

   Am I misunderstanding something? I have to sign up, buy credits, and if I lose an auction, I then have to refund the unused credits? What a waste of time and effort. I'd rather bid in an accepted currency, not some web site's funny mo
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   by fdesmet 17y ago

   http://www.midwestlife.com
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   by fdesmet 17y ago

   It sounds like you haven't actually tried to obtain affordable private medical insurance. I have. A few years ago, I spent almost two years working sans paycheck on a startup and found it easy to satisfy one of my prerequisites, which was