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swankpot

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    Comment #2440973

    From the article: "Gold lies on the streets and you just need to dig it up with ideas. Ideas are like the shovel," he says.

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    Comment #2427452

    It looks like South America and Antarctica are the only two continents free of blasts.

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    Comment #2347687

    Founders are more savvy now, and no longer ask questions like, "So when we get money from investors, when do we have to pay them back?" So if you do get $$ from investors, when do …

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    Comment #2294448

    I upvoted your response, because I guess that's the thing to do on a site like this. But then someone else apparently downvoted. ?!

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    Comment #2294388

    What is AMA?

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    Comment #2274048

    I fail to see how the following code from the book is an example of a singleton: 01 var mySingleton = function(){ 02 03 /* here are my private variables and methods / 04 var privat…

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    Comment #2214350

    Mihi cordi est legere de lingua Latina temporibus recentibus reanimata. O tempora, o mores, quibus litterae antiquae flocci aestimantur! Qui sese ad pecuniam adipiscendam vehemente…

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    Comment #2031880

    Here's another recent article about the unsavory practices of Kaplan's for-profit university. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/education/10kaplan.html

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    Comment #1946746

    Sugar Sync I've never compared; I just use the first one someone invited me to use. 5GB free.

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    Comment #1934440

    He seems to have issues with the TSA.

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    Comment #1904820

    The solution I came up with is 80 percent raising taxes, 20 percent cutting costs. I guess I really am a lefty. But, I didn't touch military budgets at all, except for cutting civi…

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    Comment #1901939

    Her eyes look bloodshot. I wonder what she's been up to.

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    Comment #1774975

    Fun, fun. Some characters aren't displaying properly: try entering fahrvergnugen. (The u-umlaut gets escaped.)

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    Comment #1714621

    so now that I visited his page, how to I get rid of his supercookie? could a grease monkey script automatically clean up the supercookies after they have been planted?

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    Comment #1619414

    Hey, that's my idea. Except you apparently had it first, and your app looks a lot better than mine. Congratulations on your success.

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    Comment #1584800

    Google doesn't have a lot of content about my friends. In fact, none, other than some names, many of which I don't even recognize. But, interestingly, I got a 404 when I logged out…

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    Comment #1444993

    Except for some of the details, this is my story too -- had coded at an earlier stage in life, but gotten away from it, then returned in mid 30s. As advancement in my first career …

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    Comment #1360130

    Somewhat related video from Paul Solman at PBS Newshour, on motivation and money: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyhaZnPtC4 (An interview with Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind…