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I'm confused, because I understand your comment to mean, that if I set out to learn something, by commitment alone, I recreate within my mind the tutor's knowledge and vision. I sh…

why is Microsoft so lame? I think much of the industry a joke, and Microsoft a exception. I have lived through a 30 year saga of battles for really basic baselines to be establishe…

I felt that was his message, too. I never see any exercises in deducing limits of APIs to understand means to break their literal limits. I think with cost of bandwidth and instanc…

try passing out walking down street impromptu you're not even close to the reality of it, you might or might not even be aware of how heavily knocked you are, and it cold go on doe…

oops, p.s. re my hypothetical of a director abusing powers: digital signatures and other online filing is of course potential safeguard to much abuse, but how many accountants are …

Indeed. Anyone forming a company in England & Wales, also, might benefit from a chat with someone with long experience as a company director, or professional secretary, or even bet…

Oh, yes! I do understand, second hand, something of what you face: my friend's daughter called her contemporaries babies and bossed them around, as if playing tea parties with her …

I worried – as you kinda hint yourself - you might worry yourself or your family, into a corner, and this is my third take, to try to fly under the comment length limit, please acc…

I can only ever see this as a kind of broken transference of emotions that normally attach to the pleasures (and trials) of proximity to one's friends. Most simplistically, we have…

Forgive me if this is without the applicable context, but sp527, I sincerely doubt you are a person of average means. I mean neither to backhanded compliment the abilities of the H…

Oh boy.... Pro 2 user here, and to better understand it for work reasons, I made it primary machine for over 8 Hurst / day since last April. Until I guessed I had reached the point…

Oh boy.... Pro 2 user here, and to better understand it for work reasons, I made it primary machine for over 8 Hurst / day since last April. Until I guessed I had reached the point…

Isn't a few now of the major websites, just formatting our random output into templates? I'm convinced we're as a race still just as sold on having nice templates in our wordproces…

How many to make the donuts, or to milk the Bavarians and churn the cream?

Well you may be the first person I heard say that, but likewise, brit humor, American spelling seems the easiest combination to me.

Nah, at the fringes of east London's trendy "digital" parts, you can hear marital type arguments launched clearly across whole estate (project) courtyards, any given weekend.. Anyh…

long ago, when I had just a tiny company and we were essentially a friendly lot, we'd do skits once a month, competing to come up with the best reasons to fire each other, for priz…

And if the Surface 3 ever gets some market share, too! Hey, IMAX is a "tall" format, also... will that be the argument to sell us new screens, if or once the 4K television game is …

Many films originally printed in color for theaters had their delicate color internegatives lost or destroyed or decayed. Often only archive mono prints manages to survive, because…

The Daily Mail is not anyone's prime choice for a source for anything, but this interview snippet, with Ray Winston, a actor who grew up around my neighborhood, is very telling: 'I…

"I've managed and I did badly at school" The sad fact is that the vast majority of individuals and families in the UK are entire reliant on the state. If you pay a marginal tax of …

I prefer to think it congeals...

Possibly your last description of good fit, "long uninterrupted stretches of focus" is the best advantage one can look for, when hiring, as well. If I can be forgiven a few possibl…

I was one of those who bought books, took weekly reverent hauls at the bookstore, from Prentice Hall, until about twenty plus years ago. I could not bring myself to appreciate Linu…

Just a related thought to having GPU and vision input on cars. Get enough data and you can start finding the optimal lines through corners. It's a bit theoretical, to sell as a eco…