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601.
by RK 17y ago
This is one of the reasons I voted for browser-based text editing on Dropbox.
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by RK 17y ago
Counting yesterday, the ratio of Android to iPhones was about 4:5 among people I personally know. Of course, a lot of them are early adopters and that ratio was changed due to the Droid release.
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by RK 17y ago
Maybe "appears" is key here...
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by RK 17y ago
In the US it's mostly about shopping, like most holidays... But I would say that it is supposed to be for all veterans, versus Memorial Day, which is to honor the dead.
605.
by RK 17y ago
Someone please get this job! :)
606.
by RK 17y ago
LabView was used by city ordinance.
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by RK 17y ago
Even though I haven't used it in a few years, KDE was the reason I started running Linux on my desktop (actually a laptop) all the way back in 1998, when I gave them a donation. I remember thinking, "wow this will be great to have a nice K
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by RK 17y ago
Scheme with http://www.htdp.org
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by RK 17y ago
During lightning storms previously observed by spacecraft, energetic electrons moving toward the craft slowed down and produced gamma rays. That actually sounds like bremsstrahlung x-rays, not gamma rays. They have very different energy s
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Droid Does Have Pinch & Zoom(phandroid.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
the authors suggest that it's time for a massive federally supported effort, equivalent in intensity to the Manhattan Project, to determine the source of academic achievement gaps and to develop plans to shrink them. I don't even know how
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by RK 17y ago
Why do you think that? Besides fitting in with pg's general thesis.
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by RK 17y ago
I'll wait for the evidence that this actually works (and with efficiency relative to the other schemes).
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by RK 17y ago
Premeds! I remember a never ending discussion when I was in college about why the premeds tended to get better average grades in organic chemistry than the chemistry majors, even though the chemistry majors seemed to have a much better gras
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by RK 17y ago
And almost all of them will have to endure shitty software...
616.
by RK 17y ago
At the end it claims that no flies were hurt and that the ads were attached with wax, which came off on its own after a few hours...
617.
by RK 17y ago
Alpine is UW's successor to Pine: http://www.washington.edu/alpine/
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by RK 17y ago
Live music is the first thing that I thought of. It would be cool for bands to be able to stream their shows live on their own sites, facebook pages, etc.
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by RK 17y ago
Consider MD/PhD. The MD part of the degree gets you through a ton of doors that would otherwise be closed or incredibly difficult to open (unfortunately). It would also allow you to build products or perform research and actually be on the
620.
by RK 17y ago
Incredible how this Android article was all about Windows mobile and barely mentioned iphone...
621.
by RK 17y ago
I would argue that you should go to the most rigorous school with the smartest potential classmates across all fields. From your list I'd go with Rice, though the differences in the end may really come down to personality and chance (room m
622.
by RK 17y ago
I like the LFLP = languages for lazy people.
623.
by RK 17y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Dive-Into-Python-Mark-Pilgrim/dp/14414...
624.
by RK 17y ago
How about: the uncertainties in their extrapolation to 400 years beyond the present are probably greater than the changes they are predicting.
625.
by RK 17y ago
A hipster is somebody who does what they want and explores what they find interesting This is the opposite of hipsterism. Hipsterism is about trend following and that is what people find humorous about it, because the people associated
626.
by RK 17y ago
Coin spin instead?
627.
by RK 17y ago
This type of equipment has many failsafes and lockouts, but clearly the electronic emergency release and radiation door closing didn't work in this case. The scandal is that is was a known bug. Obviously this bug only occurred in a specific
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‘Known Software Bug’ Disrupts Brain-Tumor Zapping(wired.com)
14 points by RK 17y ago|20 comments
629.
by RK 17y ago
Yes, but you still need to enter the PIN.
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by RK 17y ago
I was at a McDonald's a while ago and they had a job ad that said something like 20% of the entire US workforce had been employed at McDonald's at one time. I found the number very hard to believe, but interesting if true.

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