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  1. Sentence Structure Sucks Most of the Time on Ajax Sucks Most of the Time · · Score: 1

    ...and that's a universal usability problem: "If you are working in a Web2.0 company that needs to provide evidence of their technical expertise in order to gain new clients. However, you must remember to keep your offering in beta and make sure that it in the same family as these examples:"

  2. Onsite Support on Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar · · Score: 1

    Just be aware that support service, I'm pretty certain about Dell's on-site support service in particular, will not be available to you outside of North America if you purchase your laptop in the U.S.

  3. Re:What about C++? on C Alive and Well Thanks to Portable.NET · · Score: 3, Insightful

    True enough, but that's not really the point of the posting. Lots of people know how to program C and not C++. Regardless of how one feels about procedural vs. OO languages, a .NET runtime for C does demonstrate the hardiness (or maybe just the deep entrenchment) of C.

  4. Orkut Research Paper on Google Social Network: Orkut · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looks like Orkut has been thinking about this for a while. Here's a paper he published with two HP Labs folks on the subject. Funny excerpt: "They (english majors) were also twice as likely to describe themselves as sexy (18 percent), while on the other hand, only 3 of the 136 Electrical Engineering majors chose to describe themselves in that way."