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krf

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    Comment #29584127

    Perhaps the comment was edited, but there is no wording in the current post that states battlegroups are in Iceland just that Iceland contributes to battlegroups in other countries…

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    Comment #22213175

    Not sure if it is an option for you, but I've resorted to using a PO box for these cases. So far, everything seems to be able to be shipped to the PO box address when a locker won'…

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    Comment #19854111

    The picture is of the late Edwin Jaynes, author of Probability Theory: The Logic of Science.

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    Comment #15335869

    It only left in terms of attention from startups I suppose. I also disagree with the reason the article suggested - SQL could not handle the loads. My opinion is that startups simp…

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    Comment #14767458

    Maybe the $300 new user credit or $30/year SSD cloud server is new. Probably not too many people knew about these things even if they weren't. Always fun to play around with someth…

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    Comment #10462950

    Salaries for those with low-level systems programming skills will go up, and that should get people motivated to learn what is necessary.

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    Comment #8782646

    I called Rackspace and the rep said it was a DDOS attack.

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    Comment #5758407

    I'm new to Go but shouldn't the defer rawResp.Body.Close() be done after the error checking. If there is an error wouldn't rawResp be nil ?

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    Comment #3449314

    qDecoder by Seungyoung Kim (www.qdecoder.org) is a terrific open source library for using CGI with C and C++. A lot of us did what this article mentioned - but probably in the 1990…

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    Comment #1920578

    Can you back your assertion up with some evidence ? "Seals" used to be quite popular some years ago (e.g. TrustE seal and the BBB Seal), but they seem to get less press these days,…

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    Comment #1880262

    Who/what is EY ?

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    Comment #1841509

    The Writer's Guild offers a script registration service to help with proving authorship of scripts, and there are for-profit services too: www.protectrite.com and www.nrs-online.co…

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    Comment #1781056

    You don't need to take a Mensa test to join Mensa. If you have already done very well on a past GRE, LSAT or other accepted test then you can also qualify. Perhaps your old IQ exam…

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    Comment #1770062

    They have thought about - MS tried to buy Yahoo. Didn't work - not too many other alternatives - maybe they'll try again. Don't forget also that MS owns a chunk of Facebook. MS is …

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    Comment #1600187

    That joke has also been successfully applied to lawyers.

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    Comment #1513687

    One way to beat Amazon is to make cloud development easier. I think they will do that. IMHO, Microsoft does make good development environments. People will pay for ease of use. Ano…

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    Comment #1484445

    MIT OpenCourseWare - ocw.mit.edu - has a lot of engineering courses.

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    Comment #1275414

    Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Apple, Oracle and all other large tech corporations benefit if the money to startups is cut off or diminished. Getting rid of potential competition throug…

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    Comment #1244055

    Check out this one: University of Chicago - http://masters.cs.uchicago.edu/ If U of Chicago is doing it, likely there are others. I would also suggest looking at UK universities - …

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    Comment #1222453

    I think the article meant to say that 43.3% of women were in the labor force in 1970, and 55.8% of women today are in the labor force.