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SEEKING WORK - Toronto/Remote, willing to visit I'm a full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience, including Endeca, Vine (Twitter), and as the tech lead for Search at…

SEEKING WORK - Remote I'm a full stack software engineer with 9 years professional coding experience. I specialize in search and DevOps, with experience writing front-end web appli…

I wouldn't call a glass of wine a toxic.

I've had an "ssh buddy" for years, but for a variety of things such as asking for a "download on how to hotwire a motorcycle". I have an agreement with many friends to be an operat…

But if you could travel faster than the speed of light, you could send a mirror to the edge of the universe to figure out what happened in the past. Figure out what happened to the…

Some Americans care about "buy[ing] American", but most don't. A prime example is the Japanese auto manufacturers taking market share away from American companies with better quali…

I totally agree. I have two 1920x1200 screens, and I put two browser windows per screen, so I always max out at exactly 960.

Donated. I've never donated to anything like this, but Sony's actions are fundamentally corrupt and if unchallenged, will set a terrible precedent for all of us, and severely hurt …

Does anyone know if The Art of Computer Programming will be released as an eBook soon?

The Google Talk client is horrible. It wastes tons of CPU when it's loading up the contact list, and still uses a bunch just while idling. If you have it on all the time, it will e…

I'm not really sure, maybe Gartner has some vague reports on that. RIM does make money on the use of their Business Enterprise Servers (BES), so in corporate installations they're …

Do you not find the Adam Tablet compelling? It's going to have the NVidia Pixel Qi screen that can go greyscale so you can see it in the sun, and runs Android. http://en.wikipedia.…

By the 2nd quarter of 2010, RIM was still beating both Android and Apple in market share for Smartphones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone It's more like everyone else tried…

You still have to shave your neck to avoid looking like a slob.

To extend your idea about redundantly entering a password when downloading a free application, Apple also sends you a redundant receipt for $0. That can't be anything but training …

Don't just make assumptions, there really isn't a risk from running pirated games that you get from torrents. People tend not to be malicious when seeding.

I can't believe nobody else mentioned this sooner or that you haven't received many more points for your comment. Most people don't even think about the fact that they're locked in…

Not getting sweaty in the summer, especially when going up hills.

Also most important, a car has heat and a car has air conditioning. There are parts of Canada that are so horribly cold in the winter that it's unbearable to walk around even if yo…

One of the advantages a Segway has over a bike is that you don't sweat when you ride it. You can only ride your bike to work if you don't care if you're sweaty, or if you have a sh…

The editor in chief of the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, similar to the BBC) left the CBC two years ago and became the managing director of Al Jazeera English. http://en.…

If you're riding through Williamsburg in Brooklyn, you won't really fit in if you have more than one gear on your bike... ;)

You can get to work some quicker way and run instead. Running is much more valuable than walking.