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   by RK 16y ago

   Not sure I'd take "dominant" and "forceful" as complimentary in this context.
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   by RK 16y ago

   I attended music school for a short time after college (not Berklee). After having done a very tough BS in physics, I found the slow pace of the music theory classes pretty frustrating. I worked ahead, but not at the pace I probably could h
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   by RK 16y ago

   Does malware count?
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   by RK 16y ago

   Why do you say this? Orkut?
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   by RK 16y ago

   As someone who has "graduated uni" more times than I'd like to admit, I vote in favor of a graduate school category as well.
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   by RK 16y ago

   Who I am: Computational physics grad student, former scientific startup employee Hardware: - Home: 6 core AMD desktop, 23" + 15" screens, really old Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite - Office: 4 core Intel desktop, 8 core Ubuntu server, 48 core s
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   by RK 16y ago

   That sounds like a very difficult business to me. There is some sort of version for toys though. Just found http://mybusybucket.com/ Not sure if that's a dominant player. I don't have kids...
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   by RK 16y ago

   I just went to a small alumni event from my university yesterday and spoke to some of the "development" people. One of the initiatives the university has had in the last 4-5 years has been increasing the undergrad enrollment by ~30% (very c
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   by RK 16y ago

   The article (and others) is in regard to the very recently implemented policy changes by TSA in the past couple weeks. Otherwise I agree with you and haven't personally experienced problems in my frequent travel.
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    by RK 16y ago

    It would have been more meaningful if rue had normalized it to 3.38 m/l. Those are human visualizable units.
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    by RK 16y ago

    I think the analogy with Wikipedia is a pretty good one for explaining version control to people who have no idea what it is. Often web savvy types have at least seen the history of a Wikipedia article before and can use that as a reference
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    by RK 16y ago

    I'm always a little sad to see good talent go to Facebook, because I have no intention of using their products. I would rather see that talent working somewhere else.
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    by RK 16y ago

    With bitbucket's new offer, I just signed up to work on academic papers (LaTeX) with a couple collaborators using private repos.
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    by RK 16y ago

    These already exist! No claim of efficacy on my part. http://www.rockyflatsgear.com/mens-brief-radiation-blocker.h...
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    by RK 16y ago

    At my university, they don't give grad students business cards and the only way to order them is to use an internal requisition code. Recently the university spent a huge amount of money on a new "branding campaign". I found some branding d
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    by RK 16y ago

    For those who haven't read pg's realated essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
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    by RK 16y ago

    Perhaps most interestingly, T-Mobile wrote that its network has come under significant strain from Apple's iPhone. ... USA Today in 2009 reported--citing unnamed sources--that T-Mobile had 300,000 unlocked iPhones running on its network.
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    by RK 16y ago

    This fits about about 95% of Muslims I know (granted I'm a science/engineering grad student = I know young males). Ask American Muslims you know if they know anyone that the FBI has talked to in some capacity or if the FBI has shown up at t
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    by RK 16y ago

    My dentist used to be located in a dentist ghetto (i.e. a strip mall full of more than a dozen dentists' offices). At one point, when I had no dental insurance I was told I needed two fillings, come back in a couple weeks, etc. So instead o
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    by RK 16y ago

    This is also important as digital x-rays use much less radiation Actually the operative word should be can use much less radiation. Because the sensors are digital, the software will auto-compensate for exposure levels. A study at my un
21. 291.▲
    by RK 16y ago

    Wow, I guess I haven't seen a UK plug in a while, because I would describe those Schuko plugs as huge as well.
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    by RK 16y ago

    I really don't like the recent conflation of contrarianism with skepticism. Skepticism should be the default stance of all scientists. That does not mean that their conclusions will be at odds with the initial idea simply because they are s
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    by RK 16y ago

    I don't understand how Greece is rated 76 in "paying taxes". My understanding is that Greeks simply don't pay taxes... </sarcasm>
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    by RK 16y ago

    Jane Austen's uber-fans are called Janeites , complete with conventions and "re-enactments". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janeite From the Wikipedia entry: Lynch has described committed Janeites as members of a cult...
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    by RK 16y ago

    I'm a grad student right now, so I'm using tools for a different purpose, but thought I'd list them anyway: Dropbox - backup and sharing with research group and collaborators Mendeley - cloud based article and citation management (great for
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    by RK 16y ago

    bacon+toast hell?
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    by RK 16y ago

    Here is their most popular graphene paper (open access in Nature Materials) http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v6/n3/full/nmat1849.html
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    by RK 16y ago

    Taking a page from the myriad of sites that require cookies and when cookies are not enabled throw up some horribly cryptic error unrelated to cookies or fail completely.
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    by RK 16y ago

    And HN currently has no way to remedy accidental down (or up) voting, which is particularly problematic on touch screens.
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    by RK 16y ago

    Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 10.4 and the site said: Your installed version of Silverlight is: 0.0.00000.0 So I'm guessing no...