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What I thought was most interesting was the statement at the very end: "The poetic nature of writing in grievance in Arabic is much more effective than in English." Differences bet…

Pretty much all APIs at Amazon , internal and external, are either defined using this or its precursor and then per-language clients and server stub implementations are autogenerat…

It is! I’ve been watching a bunch of Asian TV shows lately and I’ve seen that phrase crop up in both Thai and Taiwanese shows. I had the same question so I asked a friend who’s Tha…

Whenever I see posts about hiring, the comments here tend to land at the "this is bad advice" end of the spectrum. Does anyone have any resources that give good advice? Or is hirin…

Yeah, PS remoting is basically a no-go before server 2012, and even then it's just barely functional enough to be occasionally useful. They're planning on adding SSH support though…

I see your point, but I think it's increasingly rare to find sysadmins who haven't been exposed to OOP. A little programming has become less and less optional to be successful at t…

When powershell comes up, someone always gripes about how they can't do this or that like they can in bash. I'm not going to deny that grep is nicer to use that the powershell equi…

PowerShell has "providers" that let you interact with things as if they were a file system, which is what is going on in your example. I agree that it's not a great way to expose I…

Yeah, that really bothered me coming from bash. I agree it's not as good from a discoverability perspective. Having said that, it's not the kind of thing that has continued to both…

You could also use either of these: (Select-String "pattern" -Path file.txt).Line > t.txt Select-String "Pattern" -Path file.txt | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Line > t.txt Or equ…

I OCRd it using Acrobat: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/980684/Jobs.pdf Probably not perfect, but better than nothing.

I took a few CS classes at the University of Washington in the 08–09 academic year. The intro CS classes had recently been redesigned [1] to be more effective. Anecdotally: I talke…

I live in Capitol Hill (right in the middle of Seattle), and Comcast is the only ISP in my area that offers a connection faster than 5mbps. It's a legitimate problem.

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I did something similar with Google Voice. I created a new voicemail greeting of the tone and calls from the apartment's callbox are sent straight to voicemail with that greeting. …