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Hallelujah

Holy shit his wife is hot.

I interviewed for a QA position at (Deleted to protect the guilty) where I had to answer a bunch of brain teasers like this. I always prepare thoroughly and even enjoy solving thes…

Upvoted for vocab :)

Holy cow - when you read this article right after this one: http://reason.com/archives/2006/03/01/why-poor-countries-are... it really blows your mind. I think the nay-sayers are mi…

Oh man, I smell meme potential :D DOUG: When is Joe's flight due it? YOU: Why do you ask? DOUG: Oh... umm... there's a seminar at 3:30 PM I thought he would be interested in. YOU: …

I don't really understand why this is news-worthy - he took a risk and lost. The safer path would have been to keep working as a chef and then mix-in the career change, perhaps by …

Reminded me of this: http://www.manishchawley.com/calvin-hobbes/ch890804.gif

Question popped into my head: why is Colin Winter wasting his time with idle chit-chat like this? Is he bored of Unladen Swallow already?

The article is interesting, but the conclusion that all antidepressants on the market are flawed is not correct, mostly because different antidepressants target different systems i…

This is very naive. The investor / con artist can report any attractive numbers they feel like - who is going to keep them honest? I strongly suspect that investors who change to b…

Protip: on a game day, Berkeley traffic grinds to a standstill. This is due to the fact that in Berkeley, some things (well, most things) are backwards, so traffic engineers figure…

"So, I rigged up a Python script to play AOL instant messenger sounds randomly every 5 to 10 seconds, turned up my speakers, pointed them at the wall, and went on vacation for a we…

Jamie Zawinski is not "hard at work building the future". According to his own website, he is managing the DNA lounge, and the last thing of any substance he worked on was a progra…

OK let me tell you something. You have no idea why your startup failed. It has relatively little to do with the things you listed. Your startup failed because you named it "trogger…

Oh I'm sorry, I work at a social networking entertainment start-up. You're absolutely right, I should be changing the world. I'll get started on that right away. Letsee, I'm going …

Reminds me of something my uncle told me: "The rich are different from you and me: they have money...and you don't!" Seriously though - you can never have too much money, but this …

No, it isn't. The well-tempered clavier is good coding music. Chopin is good coding music.

Depression is very much a malfunction. When I was depressed, I wasn't functioning, and now that I take drugs every day to control it (over-the-counter drugs, btw), I function quite…

I must vent: my opinion of Knuth went down a few notches after reading this.

I was expecting something useful - like legal documents, lots of howtos. For example: basic Linux networking including setting up services, basic security; legal documents, basic n…

Let me rebut: the problem is not with existence of rewards, the problem is the size of the rewards. Employees who are merely praised for their good work are demotivated because the…

Changing the world. I can make money in far less risky ways, and I can pursue my passions in my free time. I am actually somewhat surprised that you managed to fit the word "lifest…

Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. At my company, we don't try to turn database rows into objects. Here is how it works: * we use Python+MySQL * each table has an asso…

> They sender has come up with a name, but doesn’t have the focus or confidence to put up a website. The say that focus is in they eye of they beholder