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"Why would you want high karma ?" because I don't have one. Hit me

That deserves karma!

+1 Truecrypt. However my fingers get the password wrong regularly, today for instance! The reassurance it provides is very valuable, I have PCs laptop, netbook, ext HDD, and memory sticks all encrypted as confidential client data could be on any of them. Prior to this I used regularly get in a funk whenever I couldn't locate a memory stick

If wikileaks should be allowed to leak state secrets then why should some jokes be taboo?

Extending the premise to the ultimate, if you have time to study just one book and one in which not a single word is wasted it's got to be :

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Nisan and Schocken

I think there's a lot in what you say. It's more like the approach kids have to learning stuff when left to their own devices

There's a scavenging pack of higher rep OCD types on SO who immediately kill any question they perceive to be weak

That's one name for it! ;)

Where I live I can see a house where the delivery cost is $8 per issue less than mine

Paramotoring looks more accessible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlbQ0xbbpOQ

I upvoted you because i thought people were in these things a belief sadly shown to be false by http://www.shallowsky.com/planes/weasel/slopetips.html Aerial combat should have alerted me!

A well aimed arrow if ever there was one

OTOH some colleges are easer to get degrees from than others. I'd be more impressed with a CS degree from MIT than pretty much anywhere else. For starters you were no mug to accepted there in the first place. While there you would have benefited from interaction with a high achieving peer group. And the teaching would probably be pretty good as well. Actually if you were from MIT and you wanted to work for me I'd be wondering what's wrong with you!

Thanks that suits me fine as it's easier to go with the flow of the book and I would like to try making a mobile app or 2

A better question might whether you think the code you wrote 6 months ago sucks as much as the code you wrote a year ago

I think technical debt is a much better metaphor than the unhedged call option one. That's unnecessarily complex and worse, it's less accurate. The downside isn't unlimited as he suggests, there is a well defined limit, 0 sales.

Found this https://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/turbopascal

It seems to require turbo pascal to work. Is it possible to find this?

Life was so much simpler back in the olden times when people worked 6 days a week, there wasn't the same demands on time.

Take the podcast down then human nature being what it is people get interested in knowing what they've missed. This is a good technique.

"Have a Clearly Defined Leader: Everyone knows ... Tony Hsieh is the leader of Zappos"

I'm not sure but I may have heard of Zappos, I don't know what it does and I certainly never heard of Tony Hsieh.

I was only kidding Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow

Do you have no feelings at all for your fellow man? :(

One of the good things about the MIT videos is that they don't have the amount of "administrative stuff" which the Berkeley lectures have (ie stuff about where this and that lecture will be next week etc etc). So the berkeley lectures could do with editing that out. OTOH I think Brian Harvey is a very good lecturer as are abelson and sussman. Sound quality on one or two of the MIT lectures is poor in parts. If you have time might not be the worst idea to watch both sets. Edition 1 of the book was current for the MIT videos whilst edition 2 is current for the berkeley series.

You never hear women described as creepy for saying "he's cute" or something similar.

If current trends continue soon everyone will be above average. Go education system!

If this were ancient times the Greeks would spend endless hours proving this whilst the Romans would just fire up VB VI and get an answer.

Dim a As Integer, b As Integer, c As Integer, d As Integer, n As Integer

n = II For b = n To I Step -I For c = n To I Step -I For d = n To I Step -I n = n + I Debug.Print n Next d Next c Next b

And the answer is MMXCVIII

I know that cost and cross platform capabilities are big issues but for someone using MS SQL server express (free if database size < 10 GB) in windows, are there any advantages that PostgreSQL has?

Computers are born color blind. They have to be taught to discriminate

Oh yeah? Well what about this then :

Picasso Painting Sells for $106 Million-Painted in One Day

http://www.imaginelifestyles.com/luxuryliving/2010/05/picass...

:)