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Re:Liberal Arts or Big University on Saturday July 10, 2010 @11:35AM (#1503790)
Thank you very much.

Liberal Arts or Big University

I want to become a person earning money in the field of computer by working in Google, Yahoo, Apple or Microsoft after 4 years. So, should I go for small computer major at Liberal Arts or Computer Engineering at Big University.

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Make a encoding standard like Unicode

Guys, what does it takes to make a new encoding standard like Unicode ? I am ready to learn anything for that. In how many years do you think the project will finish as one man project ?

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Re:Why does Adobe Acrobat take 15 minutes to open a PDF? on Monday June 07, 2010 @03:17AM (#1410063)
Seems like you forgot to open scanned PDF files. It will take years to scroll one page.
Re:Why Chinese Is So Damned Hard on Friday May 21, 2010 @11:42PM (#1369722)
English is phonetic. What A JOKE ? The author forget the language which is difficult to what difficult can be BUT it depends on your effort. The language is so phonetic that even a breath won't be missed out. And a person can write a book accurately as read by other people if pronounced correctly. And the language is Sanskrit. Hindi, Nepali, Marathi are it ruined form but they bring most phonetic features.

Best way to store poem text and audio

Guys, I am making a stored browsable and searchable collection of poems with text and audio with other infos like source of book date and type and like that. For now I have been storing audio by making new folders based on classification and keeping text in spreadsheets with all other infos in table. But it would be better if there is a way to store text and audio in same program or like that...

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Re:RSS Feed for Hacker News on Friday March 26, 2010 @07:48AM (#1220770)
But it didn't appeared on Firefox's address bar as it does for all other sites.