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Your subconscious is telling you that it thinks there is a problem and you shouldn't spend time working on a project that it feels is going to fail if you continue down your curren…

Wow, the term Politically Correct means nothing to you. Lawrence Summers got pilloried for less. I'm not sure you can use the term "illegal" workers any more in polite company. I t…

One, the US is in the midst of a major restructuring of the economy. It's going to take time. A lot of us are going to be playing musical chairs until a more efficient allocation o…

And it's falling if you're skilled.

Damn, I was wondering why my viagra order was never placed.

Worst: c/c++ pointer memory errors, duh. Especially when there are thousands of pointers and don't know which one is overwriting memory that it shouldn't be overwriting. Second wor…

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%... Appendix B.

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Who are my heroes? 1. morally, I wonder what Buffy would do. 2. for showing that it's possible to succeed without selling out, Whedon. 3. for challenging me to stick to my beliefs,…

POKER IS NOT JUST A GAME First, thanks for posting the question. I've read a lot of good info in this thread and I'd like to reciprocate. The most important lesson I've learned in …

What also works is recorded rain sounds, and James Horner (A Beautiful Mind soundtrack). Loud enough to drown out the talking, but doesn't interfere with the thought process.

As long as it is on-topic, it's fair game, because if the blog entry would not look out of place if posted in the forum, it's ok to put a short and tastful note of its existence. I…

there's an open argument currently going on about what trolling is at c.l.l. where the S/N ratio is (just a little) greater: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_fr…

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some of the coolest problems are the problems that don't have a polynomial solution, so clever heuristics have to be discovered that work in most scenarios and compliment your data…

I meant to ask this question myself but I just couldn't find the motivation. Seriously, procrastination is the way your subconscious tells you something is wrong and needs to be fi…

The raw performance between Sql Svr and Mysql are pretty much a wash. If you primarily base your decision on this, you are overlooking quite a few more important issues. Hardware (…