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sri

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    Comment #4831112

    Surely vitess ( http://code.google.com/p/vitess/ ) would be one. Written by and for YouTube. (I haven't looked at that code too closely though.)

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    Comment #1506799

    Would love to see a screen at the back also -- dual screens, if you will. That way I can have one app running on the "front" screen and another on the "back" screen.

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    Comment #1197207

    signed up. "Click on the best photo" showed me my profile photo (the same photo) 5 times.

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    Comment #1110118

    Please Don't Mistake My Apathy For A Lack of Understanding: http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2009/04/11/please-dont-mi...

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    Comment #1093618

    I have a Greasemonkey script in FF ( http://defcraft.blogspot.com/2009/02/greasemonkey-search-hel... ) that'll google for the current selection in a background tab when ALT-G is pr…

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    Comment #811787

    Did this over the weekend. Hope it doesn't break things too badly!

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    Comment #808305

    I use a Greasemonkey script: select & hit Alt-A, searches Amazon in background tab. Alt-G, google. Alt-Y, youtube. etc.

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    Comment #748405

    how do we know it is by the python software foundation?

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    Comment #631184

    ruby uses also when i use regexps in ruby i then say "/re(g)ex/ =~ 'string' && $1". in python that would be multiple statements: "m = re.match('re(g)ex', 'string'); m.group(1)" in …

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    Comment #629067

    Try something totally different. It could be a totally different technology: say Ruby on Rails or maybe Flex/Flash & Actionscript. How about becoming a designer? Something you have…

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    Comment #596895

    maybe because we now live in the google era -- easier/faster to just google it

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    Comment #488084

    13th slide: http://cs343-spr0607.stanford.edu/materials/jeff_dean/ IIRC, this was a Stanford class, where they had invited a bunch of people to talk about software. The main site s…

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    Comment #281249

    there is lots of content (mit open courseware, lectures from many universities in iTunes, free books being released online) available for self-learners. is there a "virtual univers…

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    Comment #246993

    see rx.el in (i think) the emacs-lisp directory

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    Comment #106423

    looks like pg in europe taking the picture of a old hotel from the outside

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    Comment #85872

    The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence by Josh Waitzkin (the movie Searching for Bobby Fisher was about him): talks about the higher stages of mastery. Amazon:…

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    Is Greed Good? by John Stossel [6 part YouTube video]

    Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5RPJkYU2Js Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FMD76SGLOg Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QNo_OyF3Uc Part 4: http://www.youtube.…

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    Comment #78053

    very inspiring, pmarca! with your blog -- you have given a lot to the startup geeks! and with this, you have given something amazing to your local community. Thank you. and looking…

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    That CMU professor's Last Lecture on Google Video

    And there are some links to other videos on his homepage: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/