Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something

Agreed. Yes, it is hard and not as beginner-friendly, but god, once you learn it, c/c++ literally opens up the world. Basically every other language becomes easy (well, maybe not assembly).

If your resolution includes running, the best way to make sure you keep doing it is to join a race. Hell, I'm not letting that $85 half marathon fee go to waste.

NASA's track history is pretty good imo. The lack of a US manned space program is no so much NASA's problem, but rather Congress' and the general public's, who stopped seeing a value in NASA after the end of the space race because space exploration doesn't give immediate tangible returns (long-term returns are…

Nononono. The biggest disappointment is that HL3 or even just ep3 isn't announced.

The existence of a notifications center. It's an absolutely useless deluge of information.

The fine prints say that it does not apply to free Amazon Student/Mom memberships, so it should work for the discounted, but not free accounts (like mine).

Really? that's interesting. I ordered mine on thanksgiving and they shipped on black Friday. though it's the 128 gig model and it was through Microsoft student.

I got a Surface Pro 2 and it does 7, 6 (freaking Wacom digitizer!), 4 (I can get my entire Steam library), 3, 2, and 1 out of the box!

alienware support is still mostly separate from dell's

That's why I bought an Alienware.

I couldn't agree more about xaml and gui along with code. It's so much easier to build a gui with a visual interface. I just love how simple and flexible and intuitive xaml is (if you have html/xml/css experience).

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I use Norton 360. It's a good fire-and-forget solution. Yes, the full price is expensive, but Fry's almost always puts it on sale every other month. It used to be free after mail-in rebates, but now it's $20 after rebate. Still good enough deal for me.

My rule of thumb is European cars have it on the right and American cars have it on the left. Asian cars have a 50/50 chance. They stick it on the (original) driver's side of the car. When they redesign the car for the opposite side of the road they move the driver's seat but not the tank.

Wasn't this posted already a while ago on lifehacker/giz? Like literally this exact article?

I wish I had someone with whom to argue :(

I've ran into 0 of those.

My university offers Office 2013 Professional for free to all students. When cost is not a factor, Office trumps LibreOffice.