Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday, 29 September 2014


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Archie D'CruzArchie D'Cruz, Editor, Designer, Type aficionado
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The keyboard.

Just look at this:

Or this, beautiful though it is:
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Sheila Christine LeeSheila Christine Lee, I prefer "food geek" over "foo... (more) 
My response to my friend's message immediately afterwards: "As expected, which means slightly disappointing, but I'm glad I went."

I dined at Sukiyabashi Jiro in Ginza (the main restaurant covered in ... (more)
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Mike ChandlerMike Chandler
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When the British captured senior German officers during WW2, they didn't put them in a prison camp. Instead they took them to a beautiful country mansion, and plied them with magnificent meals and ... (more)
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Feifei WangFeifei Wang, I make and play games
Let me introduce the default comfort food in TVB drama shows. 


So when the female protagonist lost job, got a broken heart, having relationship issues... the older female supporting role would sa... (more)
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Matt WassermanMatt Wasserman, Molon Labe
64 upvotes by Noam Kaiser (Major (Res.), Combat Officer in the IDF for 5 Y... (more)), William Hughes, Robert J. Kolker, (more)
Literally anyone can use it. It's a small caliber rifle using a medium power round, so it has pretty light recoil.

It's pretty accurate out of the box.

7.62mm ammunition is abundantly available everywhere in the world, and it's cheap.

It doesn't care how badly you mistreat it. Get it dirty, get it wet, never clean it, use it as a sledgehammer, doesn't matter.
Written 26 Jan.
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Jonas M LusterJonas M Luster, trimethylxanthine addict
No, it isn't rude. About half the dishes I get back into the kitchen are of the "they didn't expect this" or "this isn't what they had in mind" variety. It happens, people have tastes and ideas, an... (more)
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Matt HewittMatt Hewitt, U.S. Army Infantry, Recon Sect... (more) 
2.2k upvotes by Mike Holovacs (Served in USAF 2000-2007, Munitions Systems cre... (more) ), Daniel Kearns (Former paratrooper with the 82nd ABN, 2-325th AIR), Cody Kent (US Army veteran), Victor Liew Jia Hao (Infantry Specialist, Singapore Armed Forces),Kah Seng Tay (1st Lieutenant, Combat Engineers), (more)
August 2005, I was in a major Iraq city when I was first shot at by a sniper. I was observing an MSR while atop a building that was itself atop a hill. At first I did not know what happened; it sou... (more)
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Kyle MuraoKyle Murao, likes reading about history

Asked after Waterloo who he thought the greatest general of all time was, the Duke of Wellington is known to have said, without missing a beat:

In this age, in past ages, in any age: Napoleon.
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Kai Peter ChangKai Peter Chang, B+ student of life, exile, tra... (more) 
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For a number of years, I worked as a wealth management advisor. 


Financial services is the "Concierge of Money" for the Plutocrat class; we were suit-and-tie wearing mandarins of their largesse, ... (more)
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Gangs.  If this is a common sight, you're probably in a bad neighborhood.  These are not nice people.


Bars on the windows.  If 50% or more of the homeowners feel the risk of getting trapped in a ... (more)
Cooking
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT COOKING AND FOOD. Sat
Melissa StroudMelissa Stroud, badass awesome swell-ness
Since Jim Dalton already played the meatloaf card, I have to go with tuna casserole. Likely not served with anything extra, just the casserole. 
(image fromCullyskitchen.com)

The biggest variant... (more)
Restaurants
QUESTION ADDED ABOUT RESTAURANTS. 21 Sep
It seems like this is encouraging people to request disposable packaging when they go to places that don't have table service, like coffee shops.
Writing
ANSWER PROMOTED ABOUT WRITING. 24m ago

Writers are only as good as their best piece of writing, and as bad as their worst.


I'm hardly someone who should speak with authority on this subject, as I often tend to doubt my own skills as th... (more)
Food
QUESTION ADDED ABOUT FOOD. 9m ago
This was taken from an alternative medicine website. How much of this is scare-tactics?
Religion
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT RELIGION. 29m ago
Christian FriedlChristian Friedl, recovering pornographer
In principle, sure.

In practice, I have my doubts.

There might be restrictions as to your religious affiliations, depending on the country and university (there are a few countries outside the US... (more)
Technology
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND FOOD. Fri
Rizwan AseemRizwan Aseem, Love life and everything with it.
(17,000+ upvotes... I'm truly humbled. Thank you...)

When I was 22 years old, I spent time going out with my friends, talking to my girlfriend all the time, spending time smoking-up, and generally... (more)
Religion
QUESTION ADDED ABOUT RELIGION. 1h ago
The perception I get from the western media, that living under Sharia law would be pretty bad .For e.g. is whipping or stoning really nee... (more)
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Computer Science
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT COMPUTER SCIENCE. 18 Sep
Karolis JuodeleKarolis Juodele
7.7k upvotes by David Joyce (Professor of Mathematics at Clark University), Jitendra Prakash (PhD Candidate), Jack Huizenga (Math Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago),Anurag Bishnoi (Ph.D. student in Mathematics at Ghent University.), Alon Amit (PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler.), (more)

The black hexagon has an area of 2\sqrt3.
The blue octagon has an area of 2\sqrt 2.
\sqrt 2 + \sqrt 3 is the average of these two areas. 
The yellow circle has an area of \pi.
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Reading
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT READING. 43m ago
“I think people expect too much from marriage today,' he said. 'They expect perfection. Every moment should be bliss. That's TV or movies. But that is not the human experience.
. . . twenty good mi... (more)
Religion
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT RELIGION. Sat
Yes. Arguing with atheists is a futile effort and a waste of time. Please tell all believers of every faith to stop trying and keep their beliefs to themselves and out of public discourse. That way... (more)
Writing
QUESTION ADDED ABOUT WRITING. 20 Sep
I'm reading english books (non-fiction and classical literature mostly), blogs, watching films with subtitles, listening to audiobooks bu... (more)
Technology
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT TECHNOLOGY. 19 Sep
Ken FishkinKen Fishkin, Staff Software Engineer @ Google
5.1k upvotes by Rushabh Agrawal (Google Software Engineer with the Ads Quality team), Igor Markov (Works at Google (recently - Full Prof at Michigan)), Gaurav Jha(Software Engineer III at Google India), Vicky Sirwani (Googler), (more)
I was chewing my way through an O'Reilly book --- when I realized that the author sat about 6 feet away from me.
  
Written 12 May.
Scientific Research
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. Sun
William Emmanuel YuWilliam Emmanuel Yu, Yes I am a Teacher.
1 upvote by Bruce Neben.
I strongly agree that working rapport is important. In all your choices (1, 2, 4), it seems these professors are willing to do the work and have research agendas in place. So I believe there should... (more)
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Data Structures
Data Structures is about the more efficient organization of data into discrete structures to save one or both of these resources: memory or processing time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWg7U0OEAoE
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Big Data
It is just a buzzword. Internet has come of age now and there is humungous data to be managed.Hence the term Big Data.
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R (programming language)
R is a programming language used primarily for statistical computing.
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Computer Science
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT COMPUTER SCIENCE. 15 Sep
1. Never reveal all that you know.


OK, seriously this time.  I think there are really a few things that distinguish great programmers.
  1. Know the concepts.  Solving a problem via memory or pattern ...
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Religion
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT RELIGION. 34m ago
Mark HalvorsonMark Halvorson, the mad(der) magician
When my belief in God peaked, I still didn't know. I felt a certain sense of being "chosen" in that my relationship with God was personal and unique to me. On the other hand, I couldn't tell you I ... (more)
Literature
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT LITERATURE. 17 Sep
AnonymousAnonymous
Stand by Me

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid... (more)
Food
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT FOOD. Thu
Ge YidiGe Yidi, The Curious ones
China has all kinds of dishes,just as the guy said. But I prefer Xi'an if we have to choose one as the best city for eating. And here is most popular food in Xi'an this year,most of them have exist... (more)
Philosophy
ANSWER WRITTEN ABOUT PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION. 51m ago
To be honest the most compelling argument I've ever heard is: "I believe in god because I have faith." It is an irrefutable stance, and there's no point arguing that because that stance is in itsel... (more)
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