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  1. Chair throwing on Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans · · Score: 1

    One more thing scientists can't seem to understand is the remarkable ability of some humans to throw chairs

  2. Re:How many bones on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1

    thanks. you made my day :)

  3. Re:...because H1Bs are forms, not people on Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans · · Score: 4, Informative

    actually, laid off h1b workers are allowed a 2 month "grace" period to either find a new job or leave the country

  4. 4.4 song on OpenBSD 4.4 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's the song with lyrics for this release: 4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights" http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#44

  5. Re:We ain't dead yet! on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 · · Score: 1

    1) Process-per-tab. It sucks when some JS in some tab gets hung up, bringing everything else in the browser to its knees! Chrome is the only game in town here.

    FF 3.1 has something called Worker Threads that can run CPU hungry Javascript in the background. More details here.

  6. Design to withstand change on PhD Research On Software Design Principles? · · Score: 1

    You might want to read: Design Patterns Explained. There's useful information in there as to what good software design principles are. The gist of what the book says is that all software is bound to change and evolve over time, and that a good design is one that allows us to make these changes with minimum cost by judiciously encapsulating the variable pieces. They go on to explain how all design patterns essentially are built on this core idea.

  7. Shell support on Hacking VIM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a long time Vim user my main gripe is lack of good, built-in shell support. There's a patch at http://www.wana.at/vimshell/ for creating a term emulator window inside Vim. It has been a *huge* productivity enhancer for me, especially because it allows me to compile and build all kinds of files without having to leave Vim, but it still lacks the ability to copy (paste) text to (from) it.

  8. Re:A rather shady looking parts dealer on IBM Sues Company Selling Fake, Flammable Batteries · · Score: 3, Funny

    And if the price is not good enough, the product picture will do the job :)

  9. Re:A day late and a dollar short... on Japanese Auto Makers Teaming Up To Create Standard OS · · Score: 1

    Had a good laugh. Thanks :)

  10. Re:buzzword enabled on Database Bigwigs Lead Stealthy Open Source Startup · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here you go:
    Stonebraker, Mike; et al. (2005). C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS (PDF). Proceedings of the 31st VLDB Conference.
    From the paper:
    Among the many differences in its design are: storage of data by column rather than by row, careful coding and packing of objects into storage including main memory during query processing, storing an overlapping collection of columnoriented projections, rather than the current fare of tables and indexes, a non-traditional implementation of transactions which includes high availability and snapshot isolation for read-only transactions, and the extensive use of bitmap indexes to complement B-tree structures
    :-)

  11. Re:The race is on! on AMD QuadFX Platform and FX-70 Series Launched · · Score: 2, Funny

    there are 10 types of people in this world.. those who understand binary and those who don't ;)

  12. Didn't someone mention this last week? on Polonium-210 Available Through Mail Order · · Score: 1
  13. Well-founded study on Best Sitting Posture Is Not Straight Up · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. this 135 posture is so relaxing. I cn typ relly well.z.z.zzzzzzz

  14. He's building it on Steve Chen Making China's Supercomputer Grid · · Score: 3, Funny

    .. so that he can run Vista

  15. Even the apple store on Amazon Collapses Under Weight of 1,000 Xboxes · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Apple relatively rare deals on iPods bought store was down for a couple of hours today.

  16. Re:Electric Fence on Tools for Debugging Stack Corruption? · · Score: 1

    Electric Fence can only detect heap corruption, but I think the submitter meant memory corruption of any kind. Valgrind can detect both.

  17. Re:its nice... on Firefox Reaches 10 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered about those ActiveX components that sites use. Is there a way to get those working in Mozilla/Firefox on Windows? Or is it something that cannot be done for sure?

  18. Re:Top Party School - all we care about. on Top University Rankings for 2004 Released · · Score: 1

    I don't really know where U of Colorado is placed in the list but AFAIK U of Florida has the best female to male ratio (I remember this one particularly ;) when back in 2001 USNews ranking wasn't a premium service)

  19. Re:My 2 bits... on Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ · · Score: 1

    Java's reflection mechanism/dynamic proxies can't do everything that AspectJ does. For instance, you cannot set up handlers based on the control flow of the program using reflection. AspectJ's cflow() and cflowbelow() allow us to do this with ease. Other features of AspectJ include static introductions that come in handy when testing/debugging code.