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You can have my cup of koolaid - I'm not thirsty.

I had kids.

Yeah...no. In the situation I was in, I tried this. Only to find out that my supervisor's manager was sleeping with her. Worse yet, he gave her the password to his e-mail and she w…

Clearly you are not one with the body. You must be purged! :)

Yeah, he was like that in person as well. When I was an undergraduate, he would "teach" a seminar on Tuesday afternoons called "PhysX" where you could go and ask any question you w…

I fourth this comment. It's possible that everything will go swimmingly for them. But it's also possible they'll run into all kinds of problems, such as inexperienced programmers, …

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Some people are enamored with a graphical user interface for a tool. Others prefer the command line. Often people will start out using a GUI to do development and then switch when …

Try these: On the rise of Al Qaeda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares Exploration of lives of John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Karl Marx https://en.wik…

Google! At the time I heard about this startup in the search space, I thought these people were idiots. Didn't they know that there was already Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, HotBot, Alta Vis…

There is another mechanism called "Single Event Upset" (SEU) or "Single Event Effects" (SEE) (basically synonymous). This is due to cosmic rays. On the surface of the earth, the ef…

I started doing P90X about 3.5 years ago. It's been a lifestyle change where I've made a commitment that I will work out 5 days a week (rest on the weekends) and I don't let anythi…

Let's go further. This country was founded on immigrants. This country is powerful because of the wonderful hard-working immigrants who have come to this country and seen opportuni…