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I would say that the following comment is at least as good as the one provided by Quora: "Here are some tips: Most guys have problems approaching strangers and seeming creepy. If y…

Yesterday somebody posted the following thread about Quora. I posted the same question to a sensible subreddit. I would say that the answers are of comparable quality. Original lin…

I did an experiment. I put the same question in a sensible subreddit. I would say that the answers are pretty good. http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/cg6zq/what_...

It probably also helps to be a talented public speaker and he is reputed to be a very good one. http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of-malco... Generally speaking l…

I need a little more from my e-assistant. A few tasks: - answer appropriately my e-mail - selecting the events that I'm interested in and booking the tickets. - calling at home to …

Conclusion: "We managed to get a healthy 1.2MB download speed, and 281Kbps upload in the office, certainly fast enough to power mobile web."

It is true that Italians don't care much about privacy but old and backward? Italy is neither old (Italy was born as a state in 1861) nor backward. The problem is that our prime mi…

Every time somebody express an opinion somebody else can call it a tautology if he decides that the speaker is willing to tweak the definition as he likes. To point it out is pleon…

I didn't explained myself well then. My point is that, in my opinion, there is no progress in art exactly for the reason you have just given that there is no objective "better" to …

I believe that you can hope to find innovation in the arts but I doubt that you'll find any progress. Joyce is not better than Shakespeare and Prince is not better than Mozart. Thi…

There is a point that I don't see mentioned in any other comments, maybe because it applies only in my country (Italy). The main benefit of not watching TV here is that you avoid t…

Thank you, I couldn't remember the title. Here it is if anybody want to read it: http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm It is strange the way in which a random quo…

I remember reading a sci-fi novel that impressed me as a child about the wife of a recently deceased composer corrupting a politician to not vote for a proposal to extend the copyr…

It seems that PLT Scheme it is still twice as fast, at least according to this language shootout. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

It is also personal. Berlusconi has a huge, and still growing, number of legal problems. He successfully hides them on the media he owns or controls (6 tv channels out of 7). The f…

From the FACTOR's FAQ: "Forth is untyped, not garbage collected, and close to the machine. For flow control, Forth code tends to use immediate words. Variables and arrays tend to b…

Sorry, but as another EU citizen, I have to say that applying your criteria lot of countries (beginning with mine - Italy) should not have been accepted either. I'm afraid that EU …

I agree wholeheartedly. I read it ten years ago and it answered a few questions I had been asking myself for many years. It is (in a healthy way) humbling for a western citizen as …

He's not talking about fast typing. He is saying that is a big effort for his students to try out an idea because they have to struggle to find the correct syntax and keywords to e…

I don't read the article this way. He candidly admits his bias towards functional languages and he says that Ruby and Clojure could have been his choice if not for reasons related …

Overpopulation is a menace and family planning is the only viable solution. Two or three billions of healthy, nourished, educated human beings are more than enough to substain our …

As usual the single most important advice is missing: * Don't have (more than one) child. * We could build an everlasting eden for humankind if we could persuade everybody to limit…

You are right. I was wrong.