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I haven't talked to an immigration lawyer; and I think that they will be able to clear up quite a bit for me. Mostly I've been working through this on my own, with some help from t…

My boyfriend lives in Melbourne; hence the motivation to move. ThoughtWorks has an office in Melbourne, and Google in Sydney, but it was hard to find other pure tech companies in t…

This is interesting to hear. I'm in the process of applying for an Australian visa (no CS degree). To get an independent visa, I need 2 more years of work experience, before I qual…

When I was starting out in German, I started listening to the audiobooks and reading the German text. Knowing the small words (prepositions and other stopwords) isn't of much use o…

A faster approach would be to spoof your user agent -- announce yourself as IE 8 on Windows XP.

A simple SOCKS proxy would have saved him a lot of trouble.

word of advice: never combine the phrase "rock star" with "hacker".

On the contrary, I found the book engaging and interesting. Maor's passion for trigonometry shows through in his clever examples and humorous stories. (Read the prologue about Ahme…

What's the point of this? Drinking a beer on an empty stomach will compound the alcohol absorption, and mixing a depressant with red bull puts you at serious risk of heart problems…

> You'd probably be arrested out of sheer spite You're probably right, and this makes me very sad. For all the supposed rights US citizens fight to defend, both the TSA workers and…

I suppose it's "donation-based", but you fill in the donation with the actual subscription. NCG doesn't sound like a non-profit. I wonder what Paypal's stance is on this.

no matter how many times I read this, I'm always slightly caught off guard. The image many people seem to engender of fb is one of a public service -- ie they only "see" their frie…

I've always been confused on this part — do ISPs have a certain bandwidth to start out with, of which they then allocate portions to their customers? The problem with 'bandwidth-ho…

I would rather pay $10 a month than have to shuffle through corporate-generated content.

I usually code 5-7 days of the week, ranging from 1/2 hr - 7 hrs. My hands are the limiting factor in this regard, seeing as my carpal tunnel syndrome dictates the amount of time I…

I'm very intrigued by the Sans Institute; has anyone attended one of their classes?

>But, with the exception of a rare few, it seems that neither male nor female programmers give a rat’s ass about fashion. Fantastic. My sister got on my case about not dressing up …

Does anyone have experience working with WINE? (WINE Is Not an Emulator). Also switching from Mac to Linux (Ubuntu), but have a few applications that require Windows.

I am also getting into trading, and I've been frequenting fool.com — they have great beginner/novice resources.

uh oh. Also, you have DEBUG = TRUE in your Django settings.

This just reminded me to look into online grocery/misc shopping -- my plan is to analyse my shopping/use patterns and then try to automate that. I can't agree with this post enough…