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The 's' on the end of verbs has no relation to the plural 's'. It's simply how regular English verbs are inflected in the third-person singular. The link provided by jacobolus shou…

Sorry, but this a very limited description of the disease. Alzheimer's, like all dementias, is a disease of the brain , not "just memory". It comes with a whole suite of symptoms a…

Well, not everyone has the opportunity or desire to be employed by one of the "big guys". The programming equivalent of fixing someone's plumbing is not going to change the world, …

This is a great idea. Unfortunately, I think I remember one of my electronics lecturers at uni telling us that generally communication/feedback with power supplies is dangerous bec…

That's a fair interpretation. I'd be more comfortable if this difference were reflected in the documentation - it could at least state that if no previous quote is found, the next …

It looks like the 'i(' motion has special meaning in Vim - it corresponds to the previous unmatched '(' to the next matched ')'. Type 'help motion.txt' and look for i(. Edit: Actua…

He was also an alcoholic, and high alcohol intake can cause depression all by itself, so there is a confounding factor there.

All of the above. He trained as an electrical engineer first.

It might also be worth noting that adherence with HIV medication is also motivated by simple fear: if you don't take it, you will die. Painfully, from secondary infection. Diabetes…

As I understand it, both of these refer to the "cracker" definition; one is the "illegal hacker", the other is closer to "security consultant" with a hands-on connotation. "Hacker"…

I think the problem is fundamentally one of economics. Research is good, but you have to decide how much money to allocate to it. In order to decide, you need a metric for performa…

Yes it is. Often it's not for nefarious reasons - it happens a lot where I work because we use data from collaborators that is unpublished, and it's considered unethical to jump ov…

I couldn't tell you directly, but it's the same format that the ExtJS docs themselves are in. I would guess that the ExtJS has some kind of documentation tool for this sort of thin…

This is backed up by medical knowledge. It has been repeatedly shown that metabolism varies very little between people when corrected for body mass. What does vary considerably is …