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Re:Poll: How well off are you with women/men? on Friday November 12, 2010 @06:35PM (#1899708)
Very good =Average+Help I sense a discrepancy,like 90 % of drivers think they are good :P
How about looking at this way...every second person you meet is a college grad! :-)
Re:Is genius simply the product of hard work? on Friday November 12, 2010 @03:56AM (#1897021)
you are agreeing AND disagreeing at the same time???!
Re:Is genius simply the product of hard work? on Friday November 12, 2010 @03:53AM (#1897015)
Is the notion of 10-X programmers, super cool programmers over-rated?
nice article! For those trying to do research, for research's sake... how many path-breaking PhD's in Computer Science has US produced? (For that matter, any country in the world-but let's stick with US) I feel that the entire culture has been skewed towards incremental improvements. I bet, 90% of papers churned out, would be having conclusions something like.. "improved the performance of X by y% under the conditions L,M,N" where (L,M,N) might be near-impossible to occur simultaneously in real life. You cant disregard/dismiss Gary's points- sure,Apple II might not have been the last technological innovation, but overall- he has raised a valid point.
Re:Example of a bad website on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @11:41AM (#1860862)
By chance,even if somebody is eager to explore tourist locations in Jammu&Kashmir, this site would be an instant turn-off!
Re:Subhamasthu Marriage Bureau on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @11:36AM (#1860838)
If you are the guy behind this site.. care to elaborate on the "market cap" of indian matrimony sites? Have you launched recently? profitable? size of user base?
Re:Ask HN: How badly has Facebook screwed Rapleaf? on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @11:29AM (#1860804)
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/1866122/rapleaf-agrees-lea...

rapleaf seems to be imposed with heavy restrictions from Facebook.. what exactly is the issue..is unclear though....

Re:Lars Rasmussen: Why I quit Google to join Facebook on Monday November 01, 2010 @01:21PM (#1857246)
That's definitely world changing... regaining touch with one's near and dear.... The specifics of your girlfriend's case apart....Losing touch with one's own mother.. for 6 years??@!#@!#, and Facebook re-uniting them?? Unless this was a forcible separation due to a natural calamity/war... (in which case my heart-felt sympathies) anything like this is really inexcusable. I really,really find that sad if the current, or future generation would be requiring Facebook/Twitter to keep in touch with one's parents. That trivializes relationships.
I know exactly what you are talking about.

Many-a-times,the urge for putting in "pouring out heart and soul" and do late-nighters takes over common sense.

I have come to the sober realization that debugging with lack of sleep is the equivalent of a drunken monkey controlling the trajectory of a space shuttle. :(

Was wondering how I missed seeing an address on that profile.. then I saw who wrote the comment :-) Thanks for the clarification, Pg! Just couldn't help wondering about it- seemed weird to notice that many first-names account not posting/commenting, but just existing.
P.S: Those who liked this question- please comment!

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