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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 #5243849
NO!
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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/