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Hi, all. My name is Drew Erny. I'll be graduating in May of 2016 from the University of Alabama with a degree in Computer Science. My last job was interning at Red Hat and working …

"feminist shilling" no, those aren't my legitimate opinions. i'm a brainwashed shill. you've got me.

Diesel isn't a fuel type, it's an engine type. What we call "diesel fuel" is really just fuel better suited for burning in a diesel engine than gasoline. We also have techniques fo…

$2000 to $3000 a month is supposed to be... affordable? Jesus, New York is even more expensive than I thought.

I've known the answer to the Monty Hall problem for a long time, but this particular explanation just so happens to be the first one that's brought me closer to grokking the answer…

I mean, this is server hardware. One of the major differences between server hardware and desktop hardware is build quality. I've got a ten-year-old 1/2U rack server sitting in a c…

Where do you find these places? I've been blasting job apps since November. I think I've applied at like 15 places. No bites so far.

Yeah, but you have to be very, very good to get one of those internships. I'm a mid-top tier programmer (better than most of my cohort) from a modest state university. I've been ap…

This argument is as terrible as it is old. Feminists have been fighting for the right to work in coal mines, and fight on battlefields, and everything else.

From what I gathered, the idea was supposed to be that when fighting broke out, the hostages would know that the fighting was a rescue mission and be able to act accordingly. Imagi…

This is really, really clever. I mean, I guess it could be obvious to some people, but I tend to over-think things quite a lot and probably would have never come up with such novel…

Wait, I just looked it up. I can vote with a University ID card. I'm gonna go vote now.

Tuscaloosa, AL. I live in Alabama full time because I go to school here and work here during the summers, and have for two years. Technically, though, I'm a resident of Louisiana. …

I find this frustrating, because it reminds me just how un-clever I am. Other commenters are progressing quite far, but I've gotten stuck already at level 5. Puzzle games cause me …

Reminds me of ctOS from Watch_Dogs. In the game, the fictional Blume Industries sets up a massive, city-wide network, connecting almost everything to the central ctOS supercomputer…

Ebola has a startlingly high fatality rate, but most cases of it are in developing nations. Does anybody know what fatality rate you could expect from advanced medicine and techniq…

I'm a student in the Deep South, and getting out to the Bay Area is a dream of mine. Here's to hoping the price comes down in the next couple of years.

Oh, man, this book. This book is literally the reason I am studying computers. I read out for the first time not long after it came out. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and …