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This prevents Chrome from ever being my primary browser.

Someone pretty much has, it's called chicken scheme.

Working on large projects where you experience the consequences of bad judgment calls made years earlier, and trying to figure out how things could have gone better. Probably the n…

Edsger Dijkstra had this to say: "Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to t…

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So what they are saying is rather that "power attracts the already corrupt" you just don't get to see their true colors until they are in power. Your stereotypical abusive politici…

Just don't use threads in python, use multiprocessing!

If management can't figure out what is going on without people deliberately reporting to them, they're not much good at their job.

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This is bullshit, he admits he realised that in addition to installing AdBlock, users had to deliberately get EasyList, then he goes on to conveniently assume that said users (who …

I would ask "What are we looking for?" A correct answer requires great insight and pretty much compels the candidate to continue and explain how they fit the description.

Mount elastic blocks to hold your db directories and take regular incremental snapshots.

Sing the first few words of your opening sentence. It really grabs attention, and usually shuts everyone up in confusion. While it is not overtly offensive, you will piss-off the u…

The problem with this idea is that the rich are more mobile, and will simply relocate globally to a more favorable tax zone, giving you nothing.

Actually a canny data-center operator might be able to offer a limited free service to something like a hospital, allowing them to argue that a wholesale shutdown might threaten li…

The 10 cents to the dollar allows you to absorb some fraud. You also check the applicants records, and for those cases where there is too much uncertainty offer payment only after …

Even high-profile complaints will only ever result in case by case resolutions. Now if someone was able to start a business where they bought the rights to seized google checkout a…

it is a rip-off of: http://quintura.com

You don't get it, to Google advertisers are the customers, the so called 'users' are product.

This looks better suited to the B-Tree version of Berkeley-db than MySQL.

For Lisp read: Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel (www.gigamonkeys.com/book/)

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A real full-size keyboard with tactile feedback.

To hire sufficient good TAs, schools would have to pay much more than they do, as they are competing with a lucrative commercial industry. However academic hierarchies won't tolera…

We use Adobe Flex, and at times have the Flex app write to a HTML page in the browser (for the vastly better markup). The .swf format makes things a bit more secure, although you c…