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capstone

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About capstone

r dot varshavskaya at capstone digital dot com

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    Comment #2521165

    I don't know about this. My father is a scientist, and while he signs his correspondence as Sasha, he publishes under Alexander. As for метмах vs. матмех - it could easily be Perel…

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    Comment #2518666

    I really think that Joseph Gotlieb - your first link - is grasping at straws. For brevity's sake I will address his first objection even though I feel others are just as shaky. [Ob…

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    Comment #2518248

    In all fairness, the title does say beta sign-up .

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    Comment #2514848

    Direct link: http://developers.aviary.com/effects-api Does anyone know the pricing levels beyond the free 1,000 photos a month?

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    Comment #2508030

    How does this blow Craigslist out of the water? As far as I can tell, it's the same old craigslist, questionably skinned, and with less options.

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    Comment #2506875

    I guess it depends on your definition of "done". If something is sorta slapped together in a way that is hard to read/debug or non-performant, to me that's not "done". So perhaps i…

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    Comment #2506834

    Oh I get that (did read the whole thing) however conversely, couldn't it then just be titled, "Smart" with an explanation further down that smart people know that they have to get …

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    Comment #2506756

    There is one big problem with JS's paradigm of Smart and Gets Things Done that I never see addressed. It's right there in the title. If a programmer Gets Things Done , what does Sm…

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    Comment #2498120

    I've seen several and they are underwhelming. Those photos of glowing curtains of color are taken from space, here on earth they just look like dim green glow (brief explanation be…

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    Comment #2491322

    The video cuts off after 7 minutes, anyone has a link to the whole video?

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    Comment #2482887

    For those of us waiting to learn what happened, the title is baity and misleading. A more accurate headline would be: "Rightscale outage: some speculation and customer service sugg…

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    Comment #2447421

    EasyDNS does this beautifully: https://web.easydns.com/About/

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    Comment #2424671

    It could be YouTube, or it could be your ISP "shaping" the traffic. You can use Glasnost ( http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest-mlab.php ) to test the latter.

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    Comment #2406989

    Well, I've often liked your posts so I presumed you are a rationalist. Let me keep my delusions, please!

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    Comment #2406806

    It really depends on where you are. America's states are analogous to European countries, albeit with a common language. The cultures are very, very different.

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    Comment #2406751

    People tend to forge their identities when they feel inadequate about their past. As an immigrant privy to no Americans present get-togethers, I see it all the time. The same peopl…

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    Comment #2397303

    I've moved about a dozen domains away from GoDaddy over the last year. The time savings (less spam, cleaner interface) well exceeded the effort involved.

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    Comment #2392909

    I think it's rather impractical to attempt to guess a stranger's intent. Drblast responded to the article by quoting a hypothetical statement of his own ("if I were to say X") and …

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    Comment #2392078

    There are exactly zero occurrences of the words "women" or "female" in the article. The only reference to gender at all is a brief and completely inconsequential mention of the fac…

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    Comment #2387983

    He seriously saw this on one laptop and is accusing Samsung of a conspiracy? He saw it on TWO laptops. Not that I put anything above big multinational companies, but some due dilli…

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    Comment #2387940

    On March 1, 2011, I called and logged incident 2101163379 with Samsung Support. ... The supervisor confirmed that Samsung did knowingly put this software on the laptop to "monitor …

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