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Gaurav

Gainesville, FL, United States

http://www.ggvaidya.com/

I'm a postdoc working on phyloreferences at the Florida Museum of Natural History. I edit Wikipedia sometimes.

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Why, in ancient battles, did being encircled mean defeat?
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Are there historical examples of audiences drawn to a work that was "so bad it's good"?
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What is the real difference between "apt-get" and "aptitude"? (How about "wajig"?)
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What are your favorite version control systems?
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What is deliberately using complex sentences to confuse people called?
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How can I do unit testing in Perl?
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Why is plagiarism so harshly punished?
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Why was BASIC built into so many operating systems?
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GitHub Error - "ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Operation timed out fatal: Could not read from remote repository."
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What was life expectancy in early medieval Britain?
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Why would super-advanced aliens go undercover as humans?
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Why was Caesar at the Rubicon?
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Who is the greatest or most influential programmer of all time?
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21
Who should be the king/queen of England?
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Is there a verb form of "Extinct"?
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Do we know what Tolkien meant when he used the word "weapontake"?
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Does the Red Queen's face intentionally evoke Mickey Mouse?
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When did vision evolve for the first time?
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Limits of SQLite
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Why did the Clone Troopers switch sides in Star Wars?
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Is there a single word for when something becomes neglected or forgotten (e.g. a plant dies because the gardener forgets to water it)?
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What type(s) of licenses ensures that forks of my project will stay open source?
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How did Edward Misselden become a deputy-governor of a merchant company at 15?
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14
Is Lord of the Rings extolling the ordinary or casting it off?
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Single application not showing up in Spotlight
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Perl build, unit testing, code coverage: A complete working example
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What's a good Programming Metaphor?
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How were Roman Legions disarmed/disbanded before entering Italia?
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What is the benefit in the Prologue "spoiling" the play in Romeo and Juliet?
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Why does Miss Havisham drive fast cars?
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