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foonamefoo··on The man behind Abercrombie & Fitch
Are you sure about IQ testing?
foonamefoo··on The Idea About Ideas
Ever hear of Hilbert?
foonamefoo··on Learning to Smoke
So, yesterday, I had alcohol for the first time, I passed out , and when I awoke, I discovered that I had been raped.
foonamefoo··on Do it Fucking Now.
So, anyone want to have an SEOish SEO party where we can SEO our sites together in accordance with only the most smarmy SEO methods?
foonamefoo··on Why Google is Today's Most Powerful Brand
No, but millions of people see Gillette on their razors every day.
foonamefoo··on Video of a missile taking out the spy satellite. Welcome to the future.
Video of a missile taking out the spy satellite. Welcome to reddit.

Just kidding; it just seems popular on here to compare every story that isn't a 'Top Ten Ways to Use SEO to Get More Visits to Your SEO Tutorial Website' type of story with reddit.

foonamefoo··on Fidel Castro retires
But the guy was talking about a hide button, not a "hide it before I even see that it is there" (if that's even possible) button. Am I misunderstanding this?
foonamefoo··on How To Go Slow. Do You Write Efficient Code?
Even if that is the case, his point still stands because someone (the OSX developers) didn't care enough about performance.
foonamefoo··on Scott Adams: Connect citizens all over the world with a pen pal website to prevent new wars
I'm glad you went through and found that; the US has ravaged third-world democracies for a quite a while now.
foonamefoo··on Hoaxer Haunts Fortune 500 Earnings Calls With Empty "analyst speak"
Someone needs to send this guy a copy of PG's "Trolls".
foonamefoo··on Why Google is Today's Most Powerful Brand
No more than Gillette razors having "Gillette" written on them does.
foonamefoo··on Bottled water 'is immoral'
A bigger part of the problem is the placebo effect.
foonamefoo··on Writing a Facebook Application with Python, Pt. I
The other parts are linked from this, we don't need three separate discussions.
foonamefoo··on PG on trolls
I think that Slashdot overall still has the highest quality comments. You just have to sort by score, and do a -2 funny modifier. The site instantly becomes much much better. Stay away from the new ajaxy score slider system.
foonamefoo··on Obama: A Bubble Sort is the Wrong Way to Go
system('sort filename');
foonamefoo··on PG on trolls
>I don't entirely agree.

According to him, you should have just downmodded him. What's with all this discussion and reason?

foonamefoo··on Obama: A Bubble Sort is the Wrong Way to Go
Unless you are doing hardcore systems programming, there is almost never a reason to write your own sort.
foonamefoo··on Massive S3 outage
I was worried people were going to reply with a bunch of anecdotal evidence. Thank you for resisting the urge.
foonamefoo··on ASK YC: How does a non-American entrepreneur get into the US?
You can't. Thank Lou Dobbs.
foonamefoo··on Ask YC: Thinking of joining a startup - is this a red-flag?
If they are actively interviewing and hiring people, then yes, that is exactly why.
foonamefoo··on Bradley Horowitz Leaves Yahoo For Google
The article's picture goes great with the current top story (the mimicry one).
foonamefoo··on Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry
You post was generally palatable, but did not have the correct percentage of Ron Paul.
foonamefoo··on It's Charisma, Stupid
That still doesn't account for Gore winning the popular vote in 2000 in the general election.
foonamefoo··on It's Charisma, Stupid
I know Paul is of the opinion that tables are simpler than divs, but even tables don't have to be set to a fixed width in pixels!
foonamefoo··on Ask YC: Thinking of joining a startup - is this a red-flag?
Run away.
foonamefoo··on Ask YC: Thinking of joining a startup - is this a red-flag?
Huge warning flag.
foonamefoo··on Google Adsense: +1000 visitors = $1.50 usd, WTF?
that(google TOS)'s is against google mission: Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
foonamefoo··on Everyone needs good music for coding (a little side project of ours)
Sounds interesting, which stations?
foonamefoo··on Nerdspotting: A real live Kindle user
Funny thing is it looks like someone using a Newton on the subway.
foonamefoo··on Web applications suck and they’re not worth creating
People can't use my desktop application at any random library, or on their {i,g}phone--with my web application they can.
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