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quorn3000

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    Comment #5330115

    I've been thinking how to explain to my 8 and 6 year olds that the square root of a prime number is irrational. I've been over primes lots of times. I've talked about decimal fract…

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    Comment #5330062

    I'm amazed when this kind of usability is rolled out. If they'd just asked 5 people for feedback.

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    Comment #5330040

    bitcoin has a global appeal, which usgovcoin wouldn't have.

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    Comment #5030789

    You can use cell phones to estimate vehicle journey times.

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    Comment #4987180

    James Gurney's blog Gurney Journey http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.co.uk/ . StackOverflow newest C++/Python questions Reddit Seth Godin Google Reader xkcd

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    Comment #4920832

    Why 10 though? If there's one more that is as good as the other 10 then I'm happy with 11. If there're one or two to make it a round number, I don't want to know about them. The po…

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    Comment #4839834

    > (Far) More FTFY

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    Comment #4829312

    Just to note: John Merrick was eloquent and gentle.

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    Comment #4817955

    You have those the wrong way around.

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    Comment #4808221

    > using 95 percent prefabricated modular pieces that are sort of similar to a giant Lego set What terrible writing.

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    Comment #4803568

    This is two years old. I don't know why people feel the need to use language like this either. I think it shows weakness and lack of confidence.

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    Comment #4777040

    I don't think that was Google responding, and I don't think he should have given them the information he did.

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    Comment #4761906

    Are you related?

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    Comment #4691982

    I don't buy it.

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    Comment #4640133

    If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

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    Comment #4606446

    I'm old enough to have thought at the time of the Macarena that it was a fad.

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    Comment #4504144

    Maintaining the system is the one goal. But that distance, and that trust, that the system is yours alone, is what works.

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    Comment #4268395

    This doesn't solve the problem. If food safety is their top priority, why did this happen?

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    Comment #4233761

    | Microsoft has got their first

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    Comment #4200713

    And then you have SourceSafe

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    Comment #4199938

    The other Jetpac was updated by Rare a few years ago. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetpac_Refuelled )

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    Comment #4078598

    That sounds similar to a Bruce Schneier quote: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_you...

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    Comment #3973579

    http://wardcunningham.github.com/ I think Ward's Smallest Federated Wiki is an interesting direction to go, and should really be taken seriously.

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    Comment #3968346

    It's a contraction. Yes, I've read the wikipedia definition of portmanteau, and I still think bit isn't a portmanteau. Obligatory http://xkcd.com/739/