meta user
network profile
| bio | website | stackoverflow.com |
|---|---|---|
| location | New York, NY | |
| age | 42 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 6 months |
| seen | 12 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 70 |
Areas of strength:
- Perl expert (specifically enterprise software development)
- Sybase (including design and optimization)
- GUI design
Areas of familiarity:
- Web programming (EmbPerl, JSP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript)
- C++
...P.S. I'm not really 42. But 42 is way cooler than a real answer :)
...P.P.S. Don't read too much into the icon. Just a minor nod to Cryptonomicon.
|
Apr 22 |
revised |
Can we classify holocaust as Hitler's war time strategic mistake? added 81 characters in body |
|
Apr 22 |
comment |
Can we classify holocaust as Hitler's war time strategic mistake? @TomAu - that the opinion was from reich's point of view was obvious. You should have STARTED your criticism with your second comment (not sure how correct it is without research, but it's a valid objection if the facts corroborate it) |
|
Apr 22 |
comment |
general philosophical question about history @YannisRizos - while the answer is good from "history" point of view, it contains one major weakness - it discusses comparing history to science, but lacks any mention of a concept of testable predictions which is the main difference between "science" and "study". |
|
Apr 22 |
comment |
What would be a typical rank for KGB intelligence offices spying abroad in the 1980s? @Tom - do you have sources for "To be sent abroad, they had to have been promoted at least twice, to Captain" part? |
|
Apr 22 |
comment |
What would be a typical rank for KGB intelligence offices spying abroad in the 1980s? @YannisRizos - as jwenting said, KGB was a state security agency, a system wholly separate from the Soviet Army (think FBI+NSA). You're mixing up KGB and GRU (Army intelligence) - Suvorov was GRU. You don't need to be in military to have ranks - think Police. |
|
Apr 22 |
revised |
When and where did Louis Blanc say the famous “from each according to his abilities…”? added 3 characters in body |
|
Apr 21 |
asked | When and where did Louis Blanc say the famous “from each according to his abilities…”? |
|
Apr 21 |
comment |
Can we classify holocaust as Hitler's war time strategic mistake? @TomAu - It's 100% true as far the line of reasoning by the Reich is concerned. Complaining about someone quoting the fact is at best useless (you're shooting the messenger) and at worst, offensive to the actual victims since you're suppressing the truth of what happened. |
|
Apr 21 |
comment |
What role did the United States government and major corporations have in controlling dissent and protest starting in the late 1940s? @SamuelRussell - it's QUITE possible that the cartoonist was actually referring to "a little revolution now and then..." and other similar sentiments by many Founding Fathers, as opposed to 1940s contemporary sentiments. |
|
Apr 18 |
comment |
Have there been historical precedents for Ecuador's defaulting on Odious Debt? Also, the list of countries in your subject can be easily seen on relevant Wiki article |
|
Apr 18 |
comment |
Have there been historical precedents for Ecuador's defaulting on Odious Debt? This should probably be on Politics.SE |
|
Apr 16 |
comment |
Most fought over piece of land? @mgb - Har Megiddo. |
|
Apr 15 |
comment |
Is there a possibility that the Islamic civilization visited America before Colombus? I'm starting a count of how many of your answers can be TL;DR-ed to "Printing press" :) |
|
Apr 12 |
comment |
The economic prosperity of former colonies and their demographic make up @MarkC.Wallace - make that last sentence an answer. |
|
Apr 10 |
comment |
Which is the oldest language in the World? Clearly, Language of the Birds. Dr John Carter/Steve Jobs said so |
|
Apr 9 |
comment |
Has scholarship shown that persecuted religious minorities have tended to be financially successful? @T.E.D. - the OP asked about minorities persecuted for their religion, not persecuted in general (e.g. for ethnic reasons) |
|
Apr 9 |
comment |
Has scholarship shown that persecuted religious minorities have tended to be financially successful? @SamuelRussell - no argument there :) I just don't usually pay as much attention to subjects as to bodies if the question's already open :) |
|
Apr 9 |
comment |
Has scholarship shown that persecuted religious minorities have tended to be financially successful? @SamuelRussell - ah. I didn't realize that the title omitted the word "religious" - I was just reading the body. |
|
Apr 8 |
comment |
Has scholarship shown that persecuted religious minorities have tended to be financially successful? @SamuelRussell - no. The question reads precisely: "What are other historical examples of persecuted religious minorities...". I don't know what Stephenson's examples were, I just know what the question asks. And it doesn't include aborigines being oppressed for... well being aborigines (even if they convert to Christianity as was the case with many native americans) |
|
Apr 8 |
comment |
Has scholarship shown that persecuted religious minorities have tended to be financially successful? I agree with @mart. You need to be able to clearly show a difference between "most successful members of a minority community are financially successful" as opposed to "entire community is financially successful" (e.g look at a mode; or a mean+standard deviation; as opposed to just mean), for any of those examples to be true. |
