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Re:Click Here to Kill on Friday December 13, 2019 @07:33PM (#21786958)
have these people not heard of monero?
Re:How 'OK' took over the world (2011) on Monday June 12, 2017 @01:54AM (#14535398)
I'm curious as to how it was adopted by countries for which English is not the primary language. I remember being surprised when I heard Parisians using it regularly in their speech.
Re:Hacker Typer on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @12:21AM (#3268883)
oldie but goodie.
Ahhhh, so that's how I get a job at google.
Re:Concurrency in Ruby almost as good as Node.js on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @05:56PM (#2897119)
Pffff, anyone who doesn't measure things on a scale of 8747-41947 is a troglodyte.
Re:Concurrency in Ruby almost as good as Node.js on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @05:53PM (#2897110)
Ol Ed will kill kittens like nothin. I've seen him do it. He learned it from Napoleon.
Re:Schizophrenic Computer Points to New Theory of Disease on Monday August 15, 2011 @03:25PM (#2888270)
Yet another problem that can be reduced to the chicken V egg dilemma.
Re:Issac Asimov: What Is Intelligence, Anyway? on Sunday August 14, 2011 @07:29PM (#2884823)
an excellent lesson in humility.
Re:Schizophrenic Computer Points to New Theory of Disease on Sunday August 14, 2011 @07:25PM (#2884806)
I couldn't help but think of a drug user's eagerness to attach deeper meaning to seemingly unimportant events while under the effects of heightened dopamine levels.
Re:A Walk in the Woods with Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday July 07, 2011 @12:26PM (#2739104)
That was nice of him to give them an offer they couldn't refuse.
Re:Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997 on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @08:34PM (#2635552)
wow, remember when keynote addresses contained technical information? When's the last time you heard Jobsy mention NFS at a conference?
Hey justin.tv, stop punishing me for logging in by making me watch another ad. It just makes me not want to log in. Is that the intent?
Re:Max Levchin's Early PayPal Photos on Monday May 16, 2011 @05:21PM (#2554233)
sounds pretty web 3.0 to me.
Re:The Mythical Man-Month on Monday February 21, 2011 @01:50PM (#2246608)
As a student, I read "Dreaming in Code" by Scott Rosenberg, which makes several references to this book. In it, they run into just about every conceivable problem a software project can encounter, which makes for a pretty fun read.