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I tried to do this not too long ago, but (at least in the US) all of the mobile networks are switching to LTE, and shutting down their 2G and 3G networks. I was unable to find any …

The decision I most regret was moving to a city without many tech jobs (Philadelphia). The difference in number of available jobs, salaries, working conditions, and even the intell…

In Cambodia, I got what I assume must have been a less serious case, because I didn't have any vomiting or diarrhea, only the worst headache I've ever had in my life. Luckily the l…

If you want to parse complicated strings using only a POSIX tool, and put the results into an array, you're better off using Awk.

When I converted a CPU-intensive program from OCaml to MLton-compiled SML, without changing any of the algorithms, I got a 30% speedup. That was more than 10 years ago though, and …

I wrote this for parsing CSV in Awk: http://yumegakanau.org/code/awk-csv/ It maybe doesn't handle all the CSV out there, but the cases you mention (quoting and commas) it does hand…

I never had a Facebook account.

For political science, these are not exactly textbooks, but they are by far the most useful I've ever read: The Art of Political Manipulation by William H. Riker Get Out the Vote b…

Well, I majored in both political science and computer science. I don't think the two cases are different at all. I find it very irritating to deal with both political people who d…

Your wife could move to the US, get even a minimum wage job, and sponsor you for an IR-1. This would require living apart for probably at least a year. Or, if she has any family or…

x86-64 replaced the stack with registers. So this article, while interesting, is not of much practical use anymore.

"Vim is, without question, the worst C codebase I have seen." From the example you give, I agree it must be bad. But if you want to see something worse, check out PHP. No, not the …

I guess this is talking about price-to-book? In some other countries, price-to-book is usually close to 1, or even below it, which always struck me as strange. Either something is …

Another issue, comparing the MLton FFI and the Ocaml FFI, is that the FFI in MLton is somewhat slower. When I converted an Ocaml program to SML, I discovered that a small portion w…

I am American and my wife is Cambodian. We live in a Cambodian neighborhood in the United States. We have a daughter, born in Cambodia, who is now 4. I speak to her in English and …

Given that by far most of the water in California is used for growing food, an interesting question would be: at what point is it cheaper to grow the food somewhere else where wate…

When I was living in Cambodia, I heard someone talking about how you could buy citizenship there. I assumed that it would be involve bribing a government official, since that's the…

Actually, both the DJIA and the S&P 500 (the index that's actually worth a damn) are produced by the same entity these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_Dow_Jones_Indices I wo…

This is not really my area of expertise, but is the Harvard CS department actually in the same league as Stanford? When I think of top CS schools, I think of MIT, Stanford, Carnegi…

I live in South Philadelphia (7th and Oregon), and while I have neither Comcast nor Verizon service, it seems like I can get either. They both mail me at least once a week, and occ…

I think a better title might be: I Missed the Obamacare Open-Enrollment Deadline, So I Fly to Britain for My Medication. There are exceptions to the open-enrollment deadline. The a…

Here is my anecdote: I wanted to know more about my representative to the state legislature. First I went to Wikipedia. It had a stub page, with only basic biographic information. …

Well, the cause of death for someone dying from their addiction is not always "drug overdose", but things like accident, murder, or suicide, which in fact are the top three causes …

This article is somewhat confused. The author seems to be asserting that Tokyo is so populous because more people commute by Shinkansen than by other means, but that would be total…

I agree about some tropical fruits (mangoes and durians especially), but I've had bananas straight off the tree in Southeast Asia and they really didn't taste any different to me.