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galois

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    Comment #1537637

    What makes you think you're talented? You say people have always told you you were a smart kid. Do you have any actual achievements to back this up? I come on here and find that th…

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    Comment #1529275

    Well is this part of that 30 under 30 thing they do? There's nothing wrong with focusing on a particular demographic.

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    Comment #1529110

    Is getting featured on such a list a bad thing? Why do you think these people had to pander to journalists to make this list? They were just doing their own thing. There's so much …

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    Comment #1480138

    I would often assume people I met were smarter than I was. I was proven wrong time and time again.

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    Comment #1459375

    I guess this is part of the reason to really shoot for a top school while you're in high school: many people who don't make it end up with a colossal chip on their shoulder for the…

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    Comment #1457628

    TLDR/W = I hate Microsoft because I think doing so makes me cool in this community and I will get freebie points for bashing them.

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    Comment #1454085

    "Many fewer" should be technically okay. "Much fewer" is definitely wrong. "Far fewer" would be my choice. Normally, grammar nazis at least know something about, which you clearly …

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    Comment #1412458

    For me that was one of the turn-offs of CouchDB, that it had been around since 2005 and still was not considered to be production-ready as late as last year.

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    Comment #1387593

    I annoys me that people never seem to realize that 37Signals is a company that has "won the lottery", as David likes to say when pejoratively describing the success of companies th…