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Stu Thompson

Zurich, Switzerland

geekomatic.ch

Age: 41

I'm an American living and working in Switzerland. The last few professional years of my life have been in the streaming media industry in various roles. At the moment, my business card reads "Principal Software Engineer". I like pizza, beer and warm sunny days.

E-mail: stu@thompson.name | Twitter: @stuinzuri

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Top Questions
82 votes

A higher level Strunk & White badge? 1000 edits or such

feature-request status-completed badges badge-request editing-badges asked Jul 1 '09 at 16:14
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52 votes

Should users edit other users' posts to correct grammar and spelling problems?

discussion questions etiquette edit-rights asked Jun 28 '09 at 9:43
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45 votes

Bash script plugin for Eclipse?

eclipse bash ide asked Aug 31 '09 at 10:28
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41 votes

Database schema documentation for the public data dump and Data Explorer

support data-dump data-explorer faq-proposed asked Jul 6 '09 at 8:47
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37 votes

How can a single disk in a hardware SATA RAID-10 array bring the entire array to a screeching halt?

nas sata file-server raid10 3ware asked Nov 16 '11 at 11:14
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33 votes

How exactly & specifically does layer 3 LACP destination address hashing work?

networking procurve lacp asked Aug 17 '10 at 10:33
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18 votes

What makes a SOpedian's profile worth visiting? (Data dump analysis)

discussion reputation data-dump profile-page asked Jul 6 '09 at 14:48
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16 votes

Add vague Objective option to CSO's “What type of work are you seeking?”

feature-request status-completed careers asked Oct 7 '09 at 22:13
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15 votes

Lightweight Java IDE

java ide lightweight asked Jul 25 '09 at 13:08
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14 votes

Comment Analysis from latest data dump

discussion comments data-dump asked Sep 8 '09 at 10:56
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Top Answers
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Java NIO FileChannel versus FileOutputstream performance / usefulness
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47
A higher level Strunk & White badge? 1000 edits or such
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35
Database schema documentation for the public data dump and Data Explorer
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29
What is the best time to ask questions?
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27
Streaming via RTSP or RTP in HTML5
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27
Are expletives allowed on SE sites?
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26
Do you use Amazons Cloud services for your company?
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26
Efficient way to implement singleton pattern in Java
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26
Why don't people upvote questions they answer?
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26
Is it fair that a post in Jeff's blog will send your rep over the roof?
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23
Is it just me or are interfaces overused?
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23
Stickers for Stackers (i.e. post your sticker shots!)
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21
Protect flash video from download/right protect
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21
Allow more than 1 comment upvote in 5 seconds
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21
Amazon EC2 Data Persistence
serverfault.com

20
Are my 5.25" floppies dead?
superuser.com

19
What does 'synchronized' mean?
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19
Are people too miserly with up votes?
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18
Running Ant with JDK 1.6 on Mac OS X
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18
Binary search in a sorted (memory-mapped ?) file in Java
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18
Can you recommend an effective and cheap CDN for video streaming?
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18
Padding a comment with spaces
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17
Should the beta badges stop being awarded to users?
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16
Should users answer homework questions?
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16
Should Community Moderators be “elected for life”, or have terms?
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15
Disallow Square Brackets in Question Titles [opened]
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15
Feature request: SafeOverflow
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14
how secure is tomcat
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13
Should smilies be turned into images in questions and answers?
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12
After having started a project and suddenly having found new competition, how do you convince yourself to keep going?
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