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Mark Harrison

Piedmont, CA

markharrison.net

Age: 50

Since moving to the Bay Area in 2001 I have been working at Pixar. Prior to that I lived in China and was the Chief Software Architect at AsiaInfo, the company that built China's internet. I studied computer science and worked in Texas for many years.

feel free to drop me a line if you've got any feedback on stuff I've posted here:

mh@pixar.com

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grep a file, but show several surrounding lines?

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Difference between inner and outer join

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Storing Images in DB - Yea or Nay?

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Python progression path - From apprentice to guru

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Object Oriented vs Relational Databases

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Are tuples more efficient than lists in Python?

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How to configure Ruby on Rails with Oracle?

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