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Perl expert (specifically enterprise software development)
Sybase (including design and optimization)
GUI design

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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.

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Nov 3	comment	What factors contribute to the fact that only a handful of countries manufacture aircraft jet engines? It is not necessarily the question of being able to, but also of willing to invest the money to bother doing so when buying from those listed is cheaper.
Nov 3	comment	Did either of the World Wars involve South or Central America? Also, both Argentina and Brazil were pretty Nazi-friendly. straightdope.com/columns/read/2491/…
Nov 3	comment	Did either of the World Wars involve South or Central America? Does having warships and transport traverse Panama Canal count?
Nov 3	comment	Why is Che Guevara so famous? Pretty much same reason Kim Kardashian is. Western youths admiring someone with no positive qualities to speak of.
Nov 3	comment	Who was the last US president who did not start a war? @RonMaimon - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_Force_in_Lebanon
Oct 16	comment	Did liberalism in the USA degenerate into something more totalitarian than liberal? @T.E.D. - very easy to invalidate. Show me one major policy by liberals as a wide class calling for lessening the role of government not involving law enforcement/war. TRUE lessening, not merely tweaking a rule (e.g. "no government preferencial treatment to heterosexual married couples" is lessening). As in, supporting a libertarian solution to a problem, NOT merely rejecting a conservative one that just happens to be also increasing govenrment. (war on drugs doesn't count since both sides happily support it en masse). Resulting in 1 less law and several less govt. employees/spending.
Oct 16	comment	Did liberalism in the USA degenerate into something more totalitarian than liberal? @T.E.D. ... IOW, if tomorrow people like me have their own way and marriage no longer gets ANY preferencial treatment from the government and is 100% given back to private contract between 2 people it was till 1600s, the right would not need or care about defense of marriage act or anything of the sort, despite the fact that it would also provide full equality to gays. And despite that fact (full eqaulity as a result), you'll not see a single influencial liberal advocating this libertarian solution for marriage equality.
Oct 16	comment	Did liberalism in the USA degenerate into something more totalitarian than liberal? By the way, even on marriage you are wrong. The right as a whole doesn't want bigger government role. It doesn't want a CHANGED government role. Nobody on the right ever wanted a law that prohibits some Elvis impersonator to marry 2 same sex people (which would indeed be more government). They just don't want an extra law that gives preferential (married) treatment by the government to gay couples. Whether they are right or wrong is irrelevant, but they don't push for MORE government.
Oct 16	comment	Did liberalism in the USA degenerate into something more totalitarian than liberal? @T.E.D.- logical fallacy there. You haven't given as single example of what a typical liberal policy that is for SMALLER government role (law enforcement and military not counting). The fact that some of right wing policy also includes increased government role compared to libertarian ones is not relevant to that. The important fact is the philosophy of "goverment==good" that Progressive movement held since Wilson's times, not specific minor quibbles on either side.
Oct 16	comment	Did liberalism in the USA degenerate into something more totalitarian than liberal? @T.E.D. - actually, miscarriage resulting from some actions of the mother (e.g. taking drugs) is, not an unreasonable position, from either left or right POV. OTOH, most miscarriages don't result from specific actions of a person that can be proven in a court of law.
Oct 16	comment	Did liberalism in the USA degenerate into something more totalitarian than liberal? @T.E.D. - Abortion is viewed as "murder" among most right wingers, rightly or wrongly. I don't think you can argue that less government control dedicated to prevent murder is against a right wing position. They are right wing, not Anarchists :) . As far as marriage, there's a small but severely growing movement on the right to get the marriage FULLY out of the government (or government out of the marriage). It shouldn't be something government decides on in the first place. Yes, there are certain things right wing would want to delegate to government. But VERY VERY few.
Oct 16	comment	Did liberalism in the USA degenerate into something more totalitarian than liberal? @T.E.D. - it's simpler. If it's for bigger government control, it's "progrssive/liberal". So yes, to a "right wing" person - itself a misnomer even more egregious than "liberal", a tax on not insured is more a liberal idea than no tax, but a less liberal idea than Soviet style socialized "medicine" (having participated in the latter, I know a lot more about it than most people talking about it from both sides of the argument in the USA).
Oct 16	comment	Were there any conquests that Ancient Rome undertook explicitly to gain control of a natural resource? Source please??
Oct 10	comment	How significant was the US military role during the NATO campaign in Libya? "Embedded in the White House"? The way Jimmy Hoffa is embedded?
Oct 2	comment	Did Ted Kennedy turn to the Soviet Union for help winning an election? +1 with the same caveat as T.E.D - I would suggest removing the last paragraph. Yes, I have seen numerous left wing people - politicians and not - fully and honestly believe that {insert objectively non-good figure with sympathetic ideology} >> {insert right wing politician}. As a random example, Nancy Pelosi had a demonstrably higher opinion of Assad Jr. than of Bush Jr :) Or Che worship on part of "what do you you mean Che hated rock musicians AND was anti-black racist" Santana.
Oct 2	comment	Is the Terrorist Exclusion List (TEL) still used for anything? It's a good question, but I'm not sure it qualifies as "History"?
Oct 2	comment	What is the English name for the “Исламский джихад - Джамаат моджахедов” organization? +1, especially for the second paragraph. The name sounds too vague to be able to identify uniquely without extra data (area of operations etc...)
Oct 2	comment	Can Bill Clinton run for president of France? @mgb - Elizabeth Gracen. Paula Jones. Jennifer Flowers. I am probably failing to recall some names since presidential porn isn't my main area of study :)
Oct 2	comment	Can Bill Clinton run for president of France? @T.E.D. - wasn't Dominique (sp?) Strauss Kahn considered to be the top candidate to run for French Presidency?
Oct 2	comment	What was the average US unemployment rate for Democrat and Republican presidents? @SocioMatt - there's lies, big lies, and statistics. For examples, 2012 unemployment reporting was deliberately done wrong (comparing apples to oranges) by the media to make unemployment seem better than it is - see detailed analysis on Sinan Unur's Q Tau blog if interested.