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  • Similarly, the tax cuts in the 1980's may well have spurred entrepreneurship in the 1990's, but students didn't become comp-sci majors en masse until the late 1990's.

    The Presumption of Elasticity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Never thought that comp-sci degree would lead to billions of deaths did you?

    Cool Stuff: Skynet Development Team T-Shirt | /Film 2008

  • Perhaps easier to get if one starts to answer the question "what is the natural habitat for comp-sci geeks?"

    Potpourri 2007

  • Get the most popular stories and breaking news directly in your Twitter feed It's a modern filmmaking technique that's been used in big-budget Hollywood features for years now, but a Harvard comp-sci student has developed software that does digital face replacements without the need for a skilled effects artist, reducing its cost.

    Gizmodo Andrew Liszewski 2011

  • Whether or not this was an officially sanctioned series of attacks, or merely a couple of comp-sci students testing out their skills, clearly nobody knows.

    CrunchGear Nicholas Deleon 2010

  • People with theoretical comp-sci education don't have that much to write under competences in the cv and need to learn practical skills first.

    Slashdot 2010

  • On the other hand, in my experience, Oracle takes a much stricter, "comp-sci" (quotes on purpose) approach while MySQL can be wonderful in forgiving developers and expecting that developers are more concerned with getting stuff done rather than being nitpicky (which is true most of the time, really).

    Planet PHP 2009

  • Maybe he’d slept through his comp-sci classes as well, or at least the one where they’d taught that most fundamental of rules: Nothing is ever deleted.

    Wired Robin Wasserman 2010

  • I gaped at my sister, who, last I checked, had slept through every comp-sci class she’d been forced to take.

    Wired Robin Wasserman 2010

  • March 28th, 2009 at 3: 33 pm PDT they can’t monazite it b/c social networking is a feature; made up by comp-sci geeks; it should never be the whole kit-n’kaboodle reply

    Facebook “Definitely” Raising Capital This Year; Google Considered Acquisition Michael Arrington 2005

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