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   by RK 17y ago

   It would be interesting to know the percentage of Mars products in machines with Snickers.
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   by RK 17y ago

   I don't know what it is about cupcakes (and brownies, especially brownies), but the store-made versions just are never as good as home-made, if done well. I've been to some of the cupcake bakeries and they just seem to be all window dressin
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   by RK 17y ago

   My favorite part of Project Euler is reading all of the solutions people have come up with using different languages (after you get the right answer yourself).
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   by RK 17y ago

   http://www.swivel.com/ is a site with a lot of different types of data sets, including health data. Their mission is to "liberate the world's data and make it useful so new insights can be discovered and shared." Whatever that means.
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   Sony to open up e-reader format in direct challenge to Amazon(bizjournals.com)

   1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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   by RK 17y ago

   I'll put my vote in for this being a poor explanation of what eigenvalues are.
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   by RK 17y ago

   Heating is not really an issue, because the island isn’t accessible on the coldest days, when the swell in the surrounding seas can reach 9 meters. That probably makes his energy independence problem a lot easier of the coast of Connectic
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   by RK 17y ago

   Usually it's very difficult to get a university to confirm if someone is a current student (of course it's often easy to just look in the online directory). For graduation lists, usually the student has to explicitly opt out of having the
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   by RK 17y ago

   Spanish isn't a bad one to know if you live in the US. I decided to switch to Spanish while on a trip to Germany during college :)
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    by RK 17y ago

    I wish I had known which material was going to be the really high yield material later on (obviously that's not always possible). I had a couple of math courses (e.g. linear algebra) that I absolutely hated and put very little effort into,
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    by RK 17y ago

    You will probably be disappointed when you find out that the woman of your dreams/future wife has had boyfriends before you. She may even think those experiences that you disdain so much made her a richer person.
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    by RK 17y ago

    Wal-Mart is a public corporation.
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    Android pulls ahead of Windows Mobile (June mobile OS market share stats)(androidandme.com)

    17 points by RK 17y ago|4 comments
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    by RK 17y ago

    HyperPhysics is an example of the direction I think we need to be going in (although it doesn't have the type of license I'd prefer). It allows you to get info on almost every basic physics topic with nice examples. http://hyperphysics.phy
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    by RK 17y ago

    The underlying reasons for the gap in life expectancy are quite different, but my main gripe is with the author using the sensationalist, marketing claim that Americans are the unhealthiest people on earth, which seems to be a popular meme.
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    by RK 17y ago

    I'm not sure why he would say the unhealthiest population on earth ─ meaning Americans , when you have places like Swaziland, with a life expectancy of 32 years (vs. 78, according to the CIA). Which of those countries would you say has a b
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    by RK 17y ago

    Doesn't the Vitamin D argument go: "we all stay indoors these days, thus we are vitamin D deficient, regardless of skin color".
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    by RK 17y ago

    For those interested, the train they were talking about was the French TGV high-speed train: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV
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    Your Mom’s Facebook Status: I’m Crunching Climate Data(wired.com)

    1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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    by RK 17y ago

    I think that must be a British term.
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    by RK 17y ago

    Processing.js is a port of Processing to javascript and uses the canvas element. http://processingjs.org/
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    by RK 17y ago

    Are you one of those people who TeX's their notes while sitting in class? I'm always amazed by that. Wish I could pull it off :) Long calculations are a pain, but I find doing it by hand is good, so that I can go back and find mistakes. I t
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    by RK 17y ago

    It sounds like India had the worst showing, as far as making it to the finals.
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    by RK 17y ago

    But that is relatively new. Many US universities had a foreign language requirement for graduate degrees, but since English has become the standard language in most academic fields it has been seen as unnecessary. For example, if you go to
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    by RK 17y ago

    Edit: should be other 87% of the US population.
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    by RK 17y ago

    Combine that with a cultural norm in (a large portion of) the black community to not get married outside of one's race, and you'd expect to see this. You'll notice that the author never suggests that black women look to men in the other 7
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    by RK 17y ago

    Linux can't control the hardware it's deployed on so it'll always be at a massive disadvantage. What do you mean? Any vendor can take Linux and tailor it to their hardware (e.g. Tivo) and make it a seamless experience for the enduser. You
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    Lisp outside the Box (O'Reilly book)(lisp-book.org)

    83 points by RK 17y ago|34 comments
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    by RK 17y ago

    Some might argue that his commentary on culture is useful in an artistic sense He's selling magazines. Just ask the reporter/publisher.
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    by RK 17y ago

    Wasn't a government contract from start to finish?