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joechung

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    Comment #1904365

    Unless you're on a device, like an iPad or iPhone 3.2, that won't cache jQuery because of its size.

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    Comment #966085

    Why stop at geo-redundancy? Let's set up an online backup store on the moon and Mars, too - http://domaingang.com/short-news/nasa-secures-moon-and-mars-...

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    Comment #918835

    I love this mouse in Mac OS X, but it was a bit of a hassle getting it to work in Windows 7. It's also a headache to reconfigure the mouse after switching back and forth between Ma…

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    Comment #915777

    Whipped.

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    Comment #899433

    Talk to Pete LePage, a Microsoft Product Manager for Internet Explorer. He's working on the issue - http://blogs.msdn.com/petel/archive/2009/09/09/running-the-i... .

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    Comment #899418

    3 out of 4 is not 4 out of 4 so it isn't totally pointless.

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    Comment #887837

    I'll definitely give Chrome OS a try when it comes out.

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    Comment #887453

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1320

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    Comment #886488

    Working with people who are "strategically incompetent" is a nightmare. Don't do this.

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    Comment #854527

    Unfortunately, continuations are not supported in Ruby as of 1.9. They might come back in 2.0 though.

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    Comment #854116

    What is special about Python's yield statement compared to the ones in Ruby, C#, and other languages?

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    Comment #853953

    William's talk at TED - http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_how_i_harnessed_t...

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    Comment #851672

    Noteworthy that the "IE Tab" is a popular Firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

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    Comment #848323

    False dichotomy. Don't hire either. Keep looking.

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    Comment #846662

    Worst. Advice. Ever. She has confused overworking with working hard.

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    Comment #836314

    inode cache - http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?t...

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    Comment #833525

    Your results should speak for themselves but not in the way an engineer might think. Your technical expertise or the virtuosity of your software is not relevant to the business at …

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    Comment #831689

    I don't think that our points are mutually exclusive (why "except").

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    Comment #829855

    Time is a global variable (and hence an implicit parameter) to any function that manages state.

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    Comment #814432

    The problem with implementation as design is that the implementation can be imperfect (underspecified, overspecified, or just plain broken) and thus can result in a difference betw…

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    Comment #813860

    3 TB of disk is easy. 3 TB flowing quickly from disk to RAM to CPU cache and back out again is another story.