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"Why would you want high karma ?" because I don't have one. Hit me

That deserves karma!

+1 Truecrypt. However my fingers get the password wrong regularly, today for instance! The reassurance it provides is very valuable, I have PCs laptop, netbook, ext HDD, and memory…

If wikileaks should be allowed to leak state secrets then why should some jokes be taboo?

Extending the premise to the ultimate, if you have time to study just one book and one in which not a single word is wasted it's got to be : The Elements of Computing Systems: Buil…

I think there's a lot in what you say. It's more like the approach kids have to learning stuff when left to their own devices

There's a scavenging pack of higher rep OCD types on SO who immediately kill any question they perceive to be weak

That's one name for it! ;)

Where I live I can see a house where the delivery cost is $8 per issue less than mine

Paramotoring looks more accessible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlbQ0xbbpOQ

I upvoted you because i thought people were in these things a belief sadly shown to be false by http://www.shallowsky.com/planes/weasel/slopetips.html Aerial combat should have ale…

A well aimed arrow if ever there was one

OTOH some colleges are easer to get degrees from than others. I'd be more impressed with a CS degree from MIT than pretty much anywhere else. For starters you were no mug to accept…

Thanks that suits me fine as it's easier to go with the flow of the book and I would like to try making a mobile app or 2

I am reading the excellent Head First HTML book. It's a little bit outdated because it predicted that there would not be a HTML5 because XHTML would become the standard. Now it see…

A better question might whether you think the code you wrote 6 months ago sucks as much as the code you wrote a year ago

I think technical debt is a much better metaphor than the unhedged call option one. That's unnecessarily complex and worse, it's less accurate. The downside isn't unlimited as he s…

Found this https://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/turbopascal

It seems to require turbo pascal to work. Is it possible to find this?

Life was so much simpler back in the olden times when people worked 6 days a week, there wasn't the same demands on time.

Take the podcast down then human nature being what it is people get interested in knowing what they've missed. This is a good technique.

"Have a Clearly Defined Leader: Everyone knows ... Tony Hsieh is the leader of Zappos" I'm not sure but I may have heard of Zappos, I don't know what it does and I certainly never …

I was only kidding Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow

Do you have no feelings at all for your fellow man? :(