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Number of Comments: 278
Number of Words: 34,136
First Comment: 11 Sep 2002
Final Comment: 26 Aug 2004

Number of Topics Posted: 5
First Topic: 08 Jan 2003
Latest Topic: 18 May 2004
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26 Aug 2004   Marc Andreeson   Uhhh, Opsware *is* Loudcloud, except with a new na....   >>  
25 Aug 2004   Progammer pay rates ....   Be aware that many landlords will require income a....   >>  
   Building a Wiki   I also recommend instiki, having just installed it....   >>  
   OT - Anyone jog with....   Kyralessa, I agree that cycling in traffic with he....   >>  
24 Aug 2004   Need a text editor t....   Log files? I've never had to edit anything quit....   >>  
   OT - Anyone jog with....   Devin, I'm surprised that the wind noise in headph....   >>  
23 Aug 2004   sticky buttons   Some mouse drivers used to have a capability like ....   >>  
   Manual vs. Automatic....   I'm a big fan of manual transmissions and all, but....   >>  
   Anti-anti-virus   I'm not sure whether Chiro is kidding/trolling or ....   >>  
20 Aug 2004   Is there a term for ....   I think virtually any UI designer would tell you t....   >>  
   Automatic vs. manual....   'It seems quite obvious to me that when you're pay....   >>  
18 Aug 2004   Recommended website ....   The W3C has online tools that will do this: htt....   >>  
   sick days   Still pissed, that sucks hard. It's amazing how a ....   >>  
17 Aug 2004      muppet, you asked: 'Why does it make you so angry ....   >>  
      I noticed when I visited Japan that lots of people....   >>  
16 Aug 2004   How to get focused a....   JD, I've been there. Thoughts: Remember the old....   >>  
   Working as a SW Deve....   I'll never forget the melon I saw in a Tokyo marke....   >>  
12 Aug 2004   word processor with ....   muppet, I think you mentioned in another thread th....   >>  
   which language?   I, too, use Perl frequently for non-trivial projec....   >>  
09 Aug 2004   htaccess and Apache ....   I've encountered something like this recently on a....   >>  
   Eric Sink's Software....   Eric's clarity and pragmatism continues to impress....   >>  
   Backup Program   If you're going to use xcopy as OJ suggests, at le....   >>  
07 Aug 2004   longhorn commercial ....   Windows FX ?   >>  
   Looking for a time l....   Has anyone seen a source for this claim: >>Stud....   >>  
05 Aug 2004   What do you use for ....   Yes, I account for virtually every minute of the d....   >>  
   CNN: CS School Break....   Christopher, I knew somebody would bring that up :....   >>  
      From the article: >>Northface's strategy is to ....   >>  
04 Aug 2004   Programming Difficul....   Count me skeptical too. I'd think that, say, be....   >>  
03 Aug 2004   Sort of a business p....   Don't overanalyze. Just do it.   >>  
02 Aug 2004   Reading Code (Boolea....   I'd probably prefer it if the logic were encapsula....   >>  
   best days of your li....   In the ad that the OP mentions, I think the 'I hop....   >>  
   How can a progammer ....   Writing technical books rarely pays well enough to....   >>  
30 Jul 2004   How do people get th....   >>the one you will keep for the rest of your worki....   >>  
   Array   not convinced: nice. I do the same thing, and almo....   >>  
26 Jul 2004   XML/Perl based CMS w....   You may also be able to fake out a db-dependent CM....   >>  
23 Jul 2004   Daylight Saving Time   Beware that your problem may not be solvable in an....   >>  
22 Jul 2004   My resume any way to....   Why not spend your time focusing and developing re....   >>  
   What are the most un....   source control automated unit tests admittedly....   >>  
20 Jul 2004   Handwritten Document....   >>Gibberish scrawled across a piece of paper is ch....   >>  
19 Jul 2004   Free syntax highligh....   http://www.textpad.com/    >>  
   I am boring myself t....   Find some kind of personal project that gives you ....   >>  
15 Jul 2004   Perl CGI   Cumbersome how? Compared to what? I find it incred....   >>  
13 Jul 2004   The Coffee Test   Executive bathroom? I'd think the mere *existence*....   >>  
   Just out of curiosit....   What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Could y....   >>  
   Obscure DOS question   But you've gotta love the fact that the old DOS le....   >>  
   The price, idiot, wh....   Aaargh, just realized you were talking about broad....   >>  
      There's a pretty simple rule of thumb from the rea....   >>  
12 Jul 2004   Testing floating poi....   (by "float" above, I also mean "double" or any oth....   >>  
      >>With normal values for money and similar values ....   >>  
09 Jul 2004   Perl, IE and invalid....   Oh, I should add that on a past project we also tr....   >>  
      I'd suggest building your tool around HTML::Parser....   >>  
08 Jul 2004   Go West - Part II (S....   A previous poster mentioned the weather. He's righ....   >>  
      Having moved to Seattle from Manhattan, I can conf....   >>  
   Reading glasses   1. Find an optometrist. 2. Get your eyes tested....   >>  
   Protecting Intellect....   Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's successful implemen....   >>  
02 Jul 2004   Good software takes ....   Wasn't it Churchill who dismissed the sentence-end....   >>  
      I'd tend to agree. The only problem is the corrola....   >>  
   Good Software Takes ....   I've often wondered the same thing. I seem to reca....   >>  
   I don't have a probl....   Undelrying this behavior is a psychological phenom....   >>  
   Reward yourself for ....   Hey, if skiing in July is your thing, don't forget....   >>  
      MarkTAW and Dennis Forbes took the words out of my....   >>  
01 Jul 2004   Chat and Development   I've used IM for development tasks in the past whe....   >>  
   Links in Gmail...Sne....   >I don't worry about the government as much as I w....   >>  
   Data Types Chosen On....   Interesting point, FG, though I'm not sure I'd agr....   >>  
      > Even if it will never have an alpha char in it (....   >>  
30 Jun 2004   Your Opinion of Test....   Effective? Not especially. When I was a TA in a we....   >>  
   Visual Studio 2005 E....   It may be a no-win scenario for Microsoft. Give aw....   >>  
   The phrase "bet the ....   It's probably hyperbole, but it's also true that L....   >>  
29 Jun 2004   IMAP host reccomenda....   I've had good luck with pair.com, though recently ....   >>  
   Technical book publi....   >> would be equivalent to add_first_last(1,4,6,9).....   >>  
      Dennis, Don't worry about function prototypes a....   >>  
   Experiences with XP ....   As far as mechanics, I've always kept my tests in ....   >>  
      Just saw Jeremy's post and would second his points....   >>  
      Honestly? Automated unit testing has changed my li....   >>  
28 Jun 2004   House prices (off-to....   Neil, I'd guess you're right that few U.S. cities ....   >>  
      Furious, there's a catch to the New York listing y....   >>  
26 Jun 2004   Pranks on people's c....   A coworker of mine once recounted how some folks h....   >>  
24 Jun 2004   Interview Tips for S....   > With onions. The better to make one cry, per....   >>  
23 Jun 2004   Lookup tables vs. ex....   >>If the second is, as you seem to think, more nor....   >>  
21 Jun 2004   Byte shift   noob, you might want to check out this illustrated....   >>  
15 Jun 2004   Vonage VoIP   I've been thinking about trying Vonage, but since ....   >>  
   Bridging gap b/t hig....   Do you really need to rewrite it all? Can you refa....   >>  
14 Jun 2004   Windows CVS Clients   All these Windows CVS users, I have ....   >>  
   Good reading while J....   And Joel actually offered some insight into and ad....   >>  
   Looking for advice o....   It's pretty quick to do this with Perl and LWP, pl....   >>  
   Ph. D. Material   Hmmmm, isn't the point of a Ph.D. that you do orig....   >>  
10 Jun 2004   Why Not Use Diagrams....   I once worked in a place that had 'furniture polic....   >>  
09 Jun 2004   Stoopid question: ho....   I'm not sure if this answers your specific questio....   >>  
07 Jun 2004   Home office design f....   The biggest surprise to me in working out the offi....   >>  
05 Jun 2004   Kiwis and Kiwi Fruit....   'Kiwis were originally called 'mouse apples.' To ....   >>  
   Microsoft Granted Pa....   So maybe the patent-granting system needs to be mo....   >>  
04 Jun 2004      Wow, that got garbled pretty badly on the way betw....   >>  
      FWIW the filing references not determining behavio....   >>  
      Another example of the absurdity of the patent pro....   >>  
   Getting a client to ....   Go talk to a lawyer. Might not cost you anything j....   >>  
   Virtual PC or Drive ....   Brad, thanks for the clarification. I tried to ins....   >>  
   Social Engineering t....   'response time and reliability in a variety of sit....   >>  
   using opaque primary....   Will, it's funny, your wife's situation is exactly....   >>  
   Windows based Email ....   Sort of sad that this problem still plagues Eudora....   >>  
03 Jun 2004   Virtual PC or Drive ....   Note that Virtual PC won't run on Windows Server 2....   >>  
   using opaque primary....   Even if it weren't awkward, Name+SSN wouldn't work....   >>  
      What alternative does Celko propose? I mean, if yo....   >>  
   What is time?   I believe Brian Greene's books talk about some of ....   >>  
      John Topley: I believe the source is Bertrand Russ....   >>  
      All I can contribute is this proverb: Time flie....   >>  
   Windows based Email ....   I should clarify that the most recent version I've....   >>  
      Philo, Although I still use Outlook for my e-ma....   >>  
01 Jun 2004   Self Defence   Too bad you live somewhere you can't carry a gun, ....   >>  
23 May 2004   French Words/express....   >>I can't count the times I've read 'viola' instea....   >>  
22 May 2004      And in response to the original poster's question ....   >>  
21 May 2004   unindented HTML   You could just use HTML Tidy to do the indentation....   >>  
   Book recommendations....   If you haven't read Peopleware recently, it's wort....   >>  
20 May 2004   "not alot of people ....   This issue may well predate Microsoft's existence.....   >>  
   The last time you us....   grep -r. I use that a lot. As for actually impl....   >>  
19 May 2004   Why so few computer ....   The economics of computer magazines are fundamenta....   >>  
   another resume quest....   I break this into different categories: Stuff I'm ....   >>  
   Lots of free time, p....   Lee, you could always write an app. I had lunch la....   >>  
   What examples to tea....   Actually, my favorite metaphor for introducing rec....   >>  
   What's the deal with....   Heh, I was beginning to think it was one of those ....   >>  
   Ternary Operators an....   I too use the ternary op for string concatenation ....   >>  
18 May 2004   thoughts on new article from Steve Pavlina   >>  
18 May 2004   What examples to tea....   The really basic recursion examples like factorial....   >>  
   thoughts on new arti....   Ahhh, I wasn't familiar with the authors, but read....   >>  
17 May 2004   Errors and Omissions....   There are some online pricing tools (I think techi....   >>  
07 May 2004   "magical" autoincrem....   'aa' comes after 'z' -- just like the columns in E....   >>  
   What sort of profess....   The thing I really love is when a customer/user te....   >>  
06 May 2004   LLC vs. Sole Proprie....   TCC, I would not just assume that exposure to liab....   >>  
   Hiring the Best   Have each programmer on staff name every programme....   >>  
   Another Google oddit....   The page I get has both "Symbian" and "Honduras" o....   >>  
   Anyone use 'My Docum....   Never use it. I have a directory called /work off ....   >>  
05 May 2004   Odd Google Observati....   MugsGame is right -- even the same query will retu....   >>  
29 Apr 2004   Is the job market st....   I suppose my use of the term "skill sets" may have....   >>  
28 Apr 2004   on utf-8 encoding   If the high bit of a byte is set, the byte is part....   >>  
   Is the job market st....   The job market probably depends a lot on where you....   >>  
18 Apr 2004   Monitor size and dev....   Here are a couple of Microsoft Research documents ....   >>  
14 Apr 2004   First internet usage   First time online (local BBS, not Internet) would'....   >>  
13 Apr 2004   Keeping track of passwords   >>  
13 Apr 2004   Outlook 2003 rules f....   Yes, Ram, SpamAssassin is still flagging the messa....   >>  
12 Apr 2004   Outlook 2003 rules failure   >>  
12 Apr 2004   What to learn of Acc....   Actually, if you are writing the application for a....   >>  
   Paid Overtime   I can see how the OP's father would be confused, a....   >>  
11 Apr 2004   Spelling and Coding   >>  
11 Apr 2004   Spelling and Coding   Drat, I should've known that drinking and posting ....   >>  
   Tagging lookup table....   I've never felt the need to distinguish lookup tab....   >>  
   expensing stock opti....   I don't necessarily agree that expensing stock opt....   >>  
10 Apr 2004   Keyboard Rant   Code Monkey wrote >>I found many people actually t....   >>  
09 Apr 2004   databases   Isn't relational database theory based on sets (un....   >>  
06 Apr 2004   If I ran Gmail, I wo....   As a historical note, this paper by Brin and Page,....   >>  
      It might be interesting to look at how the economi....   >>  
   MS Excel spreadsheet....   An alternative to Office automation is using somet....   >>  
05 Apr 2004   2 offers, which one ....   Here's an interesting description of the issue fro....   >>  
04 Apr 2004   It's that time of ye....   Scot's right that you need to base the answer on w....   >>  
30 Mar 2004   Software to save &am....   When I'm working through some unintuitive task tha....   >>  
28 Mar 2004   Are there really sof....   JWA, by contrast, my dad still dials up over a 56K....   >>  
   Time Zones   Is the U.S. server really at GMT-8:30? That seems ....   >>  
18 Mar 2004   (Real) Web Applicati....   Outlook Web Access...   >>  
09 Mar 2004   MS Word/Excel propen....   I haven't found a good mouse-oriented solution, bu....   >>  
02 Mar 2004   Stammering my way th....   I can't remember whether I've specifically intervi....   >>  
19 Feb 2004   IP issues around a p....   Talk To A Lawyer. Though I suspect it's unlikel....   >>  
12 Feb 2004   Common subset algori....   I should note that in contravention of my usual te....   >>  
      Something like this (Perl) could work as a startin....   >>  
10 Feb 2004   Democratic Administr....   I believe PerlMonks (www.perlmonks.org) has a some....   >>  
06 Feb 2004   bidding   Something like this technique, in reverse, is empl....   >>  
20 Jan 2004   cabling rant   I have to admit my recent experience recycling com....   >>  
   Please enter... with....   Appleologist: I can't speak for users in general, ....   >>  
19 Jan 2004   Good Karma on a Bala....   IANACPA, but I do run my own business, and I've ha....   >>  
16 Jan 2004   is there any point t....   I bet people with background in computational ling....   >>  
15 Jan 2004   What's so special ab....   Over the years I've personally worked in open-plan....   >>  
   Leave job to do cons....   KS wrote >I think I am confident of my skills - bu....   >>  
14 Jan 2004   Protecting IP   It seems you've learned firsthand that you can't *....   >>  
   Leave job to do cons....   You know the old saying, 'If you have to ask the p....   >>  
   What are North Ameri....   Sorry for the OT comment, but I've also been wonde....   >>  
13 Jan 2004      As another posted pointed out, the NANPA site has ....   >>  
12 Jan 2004   Next big thing   Bioengineering. I'm waiting for the day when I can....   >>  
10 Jan 2004   Recommended time tra....   I've often wondered the same thing. The solution I....   >>  
09 Jan 2004   HELP: why can't I ac....   I had a problem like this after I installed my DSL....   >>  
06 Jan 2004   Managing Product Man....   You ought to just talk to your future manager abou....   >>  
31 Dec 2003   Voice Recognition = ....   Entrepreneur, I think the beginning of your post i....   >>  
29 Dec 2003   sorting   This question is poorly specified. 'Best' in terms....   >>  
   I have done somethin....   Hmmm, I very much liked my high-school physics cla....   >>  
   Internal Rates   While there may indeed be some ulterior motive her....   >>  
   Lovers at Work ...   Regardless of whether you think you and your finac....   >>  
23 Dec 2003   working hard or hard....   Anyway, back to the original question about why so....   >>  
      Nathan wrote: 'she can't go to the bathroom whenev....   >>  
21 Dec 2003   Organizing Software ....   In my experience, Word's outline mode actually isn....   >>  
19 Dec 2003   Privacy Gimmicks   Lots of people surf from places where there is muc....   >>  
   hiring directly over....   Sam, I agree, but playing devil's advocate for a m....   >>  
15 Dec 2003   Consulting: Small bi....   IANATE (Tax Expert) and this is not tax advice, bu....   >>  
   Mastering English as....   Stephen's point about less/fewer with countable vs....   >>  
      2 cents, I'm with you on less/fewer. Tapiwa, fa....   >>  
14 Dec 2003      Ponty: Consider that while 'advice' (n.) and 'advi....   >>  
      Ponty Mython makes some good points. However, the ....   >>  
13 Dec 2003   Dual monitors ... at....   Back to the OP's question, I use a dual-LCD dev sy....   >>  
12 Dec 2003   Getting started with....   I used Abelson & Sussman's classic 'Structure and ....   >>  
11 Dec 2003   What percentage of y....   Rumor has it that in some unfortunate organization....   >>  
   Bill Gates: agnostic....   Oh, and I have a serious question for the theistic....   >>  
      FullNameRequired said: One of the problems with r....   >>  
09 Dec 2003   Binary search in 5 l....   Alex, My apologies. I didn't realize from your ....   >>  
   Chest Pain ... Am I ....   Matt Latourette, your trivia point about hearts so....   >>  
08 Dec 2003   Binary search in 5 l....   make that: conversation >with< the technical....   >>  
      Wow, I was wondering why these comments about bitw....   >>  
   Doing Charity Sites   Charitable Soul, I empathize. I've never been in y....   >>  
04 Dec 2003   Shrinkwrap support r....   I've never delivered a product like the one being ....   >>  
      You're an atypical user. Most people don't have th....   >>  
   Test Driven Design i....   Good point, rwh, and that's something that's bugge....   >>  
      As Matt says, the principles are really no differe....   >>  
   The knife and the ax....   Hmmm... knives and axes certainly predate the use ....   >>  
02 Dec 2003   All the screws lined....   John Topley, I don't know if that's still true eit....   >>  
      Yes, my brother is in construction & real estate m....   >>  
   Intrinsic fatal erro....   Of course /real/ power users don't need a calculat....   >>  
30 Nov 2003   Where do YOU get pro....   Oh yeah, and for a development productivity tip: I....   >>  
      Take a look at the book "Time Tactics of Very Succ....   >>  
   Reading Times   Two things to do: Find time to read in the first p....   >>  
26 Nov 2003   Help in fixing an ho....   KernelHacker, if you're not familiar with NYC, be ....   >>  
25 Nov 2003   Army v. Business   Eli, is it really that hard to convince programmer....   >>  
24 Nov 2003   Problem in my Develo....   Convince the powers-that-be that you can develop t....   >>  
   What is a Halon syst....   Blank, halon's name does sound a bit similar to th....   >>  
   OT: Protecting clien....   Here's a thought: Solve your problem (concern abou....   >>  
23 Nov 2003   The Anti-Bionic Offi....   And an interesting contrast: http://www.silicon....   >>  
21 Nov 2003   IT is being moved to....   What a strange design decision. There are lots of ....   >>  
   Interesting take on ....   Years ago, Alaska Airlines used to have ads (radio....   >>  
20 Nov 2003   MySQL Gotchas   Without denying that these are issues for MySQL, i....   >>  
17 Nov 2003   Internationalization....   There's potentially a lot more things you need to ....   >>  
15 Nov 2003   business license   Check out your city and state (and possibly county....   >>  
14 Nov 2003   Finding Funding for ....   Consider the 'Three Fs' of startup investment: fri....   >>  
05 Nov 2003   CDC computer virus   Is it a notebook? For some reason my notebook beep....   >>  
   physics   Real PC, I do believe you're setting up a strawman....   >>  
23 Oct 2003   Skills to Complement....   As a private pilot, I can tell you that flying is ....   >>  
22 Oct 2003   Curse of the 4.0   You could always go for the 'classical' approach, ....   >>  
09 Oct 2003   Mail Sending : Enter....   An increasing number of sites do this to reduce su....   >>  
   What causes e-mails ....   It is, of course, a manifestation of the same myst....   >>  
20 Sep 2003   Portability: rougue ....   I've seen cases where 'portability' came up as a d....   >>  
18 Sep 2003   Oracle complaints?   The folks I talk to who have deployed Oracle in tr....   >>  
   Paperless Office   Aside from the things others have mentioned: Pa....   >>  
09 Sep 2003   Open Folder Dialog f....   If you do roll your own, PLEASE make sure it allow....   >>  
29 Aug 2003   fixed price contract   IMnsHO, you should absolutely NOT do work for them....   >>  
27 Aug 2003   Automated build syst....   I've had good luck so far with Apache Ant ( http:/....   >>  
20 Aug 2003   Data Structure Algor....   Data structures I use every day: Stacks, lists, q....   >>  
05 Aug 2003   S-Q-L or SeQueL?   Yes, I know the officially sanctioned pronunciatio....   >>  
04 Aug 2003   Web Usability and Te....   Of course it's been known for ages that text in ge....   >>  
02 Aug 2003   Implementing Joel Te....   Exciting! My suggestions: Set up your source co....   >>  
31 Jul 2003   What should the mini....   The basic argument is fallacious. By that logic, d....   >>  
29 Jul 2003   Time Zone lookup via....   http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html h....   >>  
25 Jul 2003   Time to pakc your ba....   Good point dragon, though as far as literacy goes ....   >>  
16 Jun 2003   Should I Stay or Sho....   Wow, if I were in your shoes I would jump at the o....   >>  
13 Jun 2003   Synchronicity?   Stephen Jones has nailed it. Or as someone else....   >>  
02 Jun 2003   joel test - step 2?   Peter, you mentioned uploading to a site... is thi....   >>  
22 Apr 2003   (mis)use of the term....   Great points, David. One of my personal favorites ....   >>  
      As someone whose degree is in psychology (I focuse....   >>  
07 Apr 2003   Sick of being stuck ....   Makes me want to look into wiring up my bicycle to....   >>  
07 Mar 2003   The new offices   Joel's right that you can never have enough power ....   >>  
05 Mar 2003   What do you do with ....   In the past I've donated them to my local public l....   >>  
03 Mar 2003   Right tool   I agree. If the only tool you have is a hammer, ev....   >>  
   Joel's email article....   Fascinating stuff. Seems to me like the net effect....   >>  
01 Mar 2003   a third place   I think the availability of potential 'third place....   >>  
28 Feb 2003   Porches and Schools   Check out "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, C....   >>  
27 Feb 2003   No forwarding?   Stephen: Your notion of copyright is incorrect, at....   >>  
26 Feb 2003   Hiring A New Manager   Insufficient information. First of all, is your qu....   >>  
23 Feb 2003   Indian company phone....   The way you are approaching this makes it seem lik....   >>  
21 Feb 2003   Ever get screwed wit....   Bored, it's not clear from your posts whether you ....   >>  
13 Feb 2003   evaluating oneself a....   Ged, the research you're referring to may be this ....   >>  
   Relocation to India   Oh yeah, links to a couple of articles I happened ....   >>  
      Echidna and slava, note that programmer wrote that....   >>  
12 Feb 2003      Heck, India is so inexpensive if you have US$ (or ....   >>  
08 Jan 2003   Supporting a Web site when you're solo   >>  
08 Jan 2003   Does your work give ....   My job (and I suppose life more generally) gives m....   >>  
   Supporting a Web sit....   Thank you all for the great responses. I'm embolde....   >>  
   Advanced Windows Sca....   The kind of problem you're dealing with is special....   >>  
02 Jan 2003   best way to learn SQ....   If you're on a budget and need to learn a variety ....   >>  
31 Dec 2002   God and Computers   programmer writes> I suppose that you also believe....   >>  
30 Dec 2002      Honest question: How does intelligent design seem ....   >>  
24 Dec 2002   Your opinion on the ....   James: I no longer live in the Bay Area, so I'm ba....   >>  
14 Nov 2002   GIS expensive   It's possible that, like you, most companies only ....   >>  
   Logon vs Login   Most editors (human editors, that is, not text edi....   >>  
   Stick-shift or Auto-....   Chris Blaise: While I agree with you about poor dr....   >>  
   The Ultimate IQ Test   When I was in college I remember running across a ....   >>  
06 Nov 2002   Learning Perl   Most of the time I don't use an IDE for Perl; I wr....   >>  
   good catch Joel   The traditional approach of simply changing the la....   >>  
   Voting Machine Usabi....   Regarding ID requirements, or lack thereof, X.J. S....   >>  
05 Nov 2002      Just voted here in Seattle, and while we don't hav....   >>  
04 Nov 2002   Functional Programme....   I took a class that was all in Scheme (a Lisp dial....   >>  
11 Sep 2002   25 times as many Mac....   Greg Jorgensen wrote: '3.5% market share seems ver....   >>  
   Is technology simpli....   To me, the interesting part of the story is not th....   >>  



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