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siegler
8y ago
Got this one from Bill Burr's podcast: Never order scrambled eggs. They usually get made ahead of time in large quantities and sit underneath a heat lamp.
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12y ago
List of open-source Android apps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2124002
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15y ago
http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_th... Note that the RI has a very specific purpose (eg, to serve as the RI) and is generally not updated except when/if the specification is revised. So OpenJDK may be adequate a
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15y ago
A similar thing happened to me as a seller. I saw that one of my old textbooks was selling for a nice price, so I listed it along with two other used copies. I priced it $1 cheaper than the lowest price offered, but within an hour both sell
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16y ago
Hard to believe the company is so young. Founded only two years ago by Andrew Mason. Built on collective buying technology that he built for a site, The Point, that he started only a year before in 2007. http://www.groupon.com/about
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16y ago
tar ball http://www.foo.be/docs-free/morris-worm/worm-src.tar.gz
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16y ago
Defending Your Life From IMDB: In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage. Albert Brooks dies and has to prove that he has conquered his fears in o
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16y ago
They wait until the end to say that it could be just a neutron star. Although the evidence points to a newly formed black hole in SN 1979C, another intriguing possibility is that a young, rapidly spinning neutron star with a powerful wind
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16y ago
I haven't studied Prop 19 at all, but my guess is that its primary purpose is to get democrats to the polls. It's just like all the 'defense of marriage' propositions that were on the ballot when Bush was trying to get reelected to get repu
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16y ago
I'm missing something. Apparently the plan was to prosecute people for posting classified documents to Wikileaks. Diabolical stuff indeed.
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16y ago
The Ten Roads to Riches by Ken Fisher http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Roads-Riches-Wealthy-Investments/d...
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16y ago
It was actually 35% off when the program started (it was called Live.com back then). You can see the original Fatwallet thread here http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/arcmessageview.php?catid=18&... During a few periods, Ebay was handing out
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16y ago
Yodlee is highly regarded and has been around longer than Mint. Their primary business is running back end services for banks and financial institutions (Bank of America, Scottrade, E*trade) while offering the personal service for free. The
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17y ago
I watched the first bit to find out how Vernor pronounces his last name--turns out the 'e' isn't silent.
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17y ago
We should dismantle the Department of Education. I suggest waiting until next year on February 6th, which would be fitting.
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17y ago
Mine is unique too. Only 7 other people at the time of my test had the same plugin profile, and nobody had the same exact fonts (only thing I've knowingly added are MS fonts and ProggyCleanTTSZ).
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17y ago
every one of PHP's advantages is offered by other languages Speed in a shared hosting environment. I've read about developers running multiple commercial sites from a single Dreamhost account e.g. http://www.pseudocoder.com/archives/2009
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17y ago
Probably the most persuasive essay I've read in favor of patents is by pg. http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html I'm still not in agreement, but he he makes a good case.
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17y ago
What are people's favorite guides for setting up Ubuntu? http://www.funnestra.org/ubuntu is really good but they don't have a 9.10 update yet.
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17y ago
The Sanmina/SCI fiber cable used is only .25mm diameter and 11 km of the stuff weighs only .173 kg (less than 1/2 pound).
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17y ago
These aren't the forums you're looking for. You can go about your business. Move along, move along.
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17y ago
They don't mention that Comcast charges more for broadband if you don't have cable service. You can opt for BASIC1 cable and pay less overall than if you had no cable service at all. Besides that, using OTA only works well if you a) have a
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17y ago
I usually avoid politics, but since we now seem to have an administration that's open to suggestions, I'm going to risk making one If your goal is to persuade as many people as possible, insulting the previous administration and by extens
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18y ago
There's no way that a book on Perl 6 makes 400k/year!
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18y ago
Norvig is head of research at Google and the author of a leading book on AI.
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18y ago
based on this analysis, he said, "it's possible the Ripper could be female". Based on this quote I've concluded that the Ripper was either male or female. Startling information indeed.
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18y ago
Yes! It's the cheapest entry into owning a Mac at a time when people are looking to spend less money (e.g. netbooks).
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18y ago
More info here http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-P4P-Tests-Boost-P...