"The words "Strategy Chocolate" go together like caramel and genocide. I'm literally buffeted by these names, psychically assaulted." - Avdi Grimm
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"It has worked ridiculously well. It shouldn't be working as well as it is." - On allowing children to learn by following their interests. - Avdi Grimm
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"Some upstream projects had puzzling delays as well. The X Window System runs the C preprocessor and compiler on startup, in order to build its keyboard mappings." - Avdi Grimm
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"The thing I’m finding it hard to accept, however, is that this thing has been around for more than 25 years; and people are still programming like they did in the seventies." - Avdi Grimm
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"things are looking better and better on Mars. First they found ice, then snow. Who's to say they won't find liquid water next, then breathable atmosphere, then a nice neighborhood with good schools and a health food store within walking distance?" - Avdi Grimm
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"I'm afraid I must dissent from my friend Jason E.'s review. El Rodeo may not be authentic, but what they are is reliably satisfying. Service has almost invariably been *very* fast every time we've…" - Avdi Grimm
"Great location, classic hipster coffeehouse atmosphere, but strictly average coffee. If you like your coffee Starbucks-style - e.g. roasted to within an inch of it's life - then go for it. Or if…" - Avdi Grimm
"The only place to get decent Sushi within 15 miles of Shrewsbury, and a source of consistently above-average Chinese food. Featuring a an honest-to-gosh sushi bar and a full-time sushi chef, this is…" - Avdi Grimm
"Do NOT get sushi here. We went shortly after they opened and were badly disappointed. The Miso soup tasted like it was from a can, and the sushi like it was from a supermarket. If you want Sushi do…" - Avdi Grimm
"Ship to Shore is *the* place to get coffee in Shrewsbury. The proprietor roasts his beans on site (if you come in at the right time you might get to watch!). All the usual lattes, cappuccinos, chai,…" - Avdi Grimm
"It'd be like if Hurricane Ike hit, and you put on the Weather Channel, and they were yelling, ''I don't know what the f--- is going on! I'm getting wet and it's windy and I don't know why and it's making me sad! Maybe the president could come down and put up some sort of windscreen?''" - Avdi Grimm
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"Against this backdrop, if the government had rescued Lehman, it would have repudiated the claim that the Bear rescue was extraordinary; it would have also conceded that in the six months since Bear failed, neither the new facility that it set up nor the other steps to make markets more robust were reliable. Essentially, the Fed and the Treasury would have been admitting that they had lied or were incompetent in stabilizing the financial system — or both." - Avdi Grimm
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"We in Canada, hearing of people in the United States who sometimes couldn’t get health care because they couldn’t afford it, have developed a system where sometimes health care is unavailable even if you *can* afford it." - Avdi Grimm
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