Ronkdar

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by Ronkdar 15y ago
> It just works. Can we stop saying this please? > "Your apps, documents, and settings are stored safely in the cloud." Until Google deletes your account for no specific reason and refuses to give it back (this has happened to more
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Data not backing up hypothesis is not cause for worry. That's just part of science, and the result is still valuable. The fact that no gravitons have been found below 2 TeV is data from which useful conclusions can be drawn about their natu
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Many events that my school's Society of Women in Engineering group attend forbid men from entering. Ironically, the club president for a while was male, and he wasn't allowed to attend a banquet, despite his work promoting female entry into
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Linking to this will probably kill this guy's server, but there's an interesting flow chart of semiconductor company inheritance in the article: http://steveblank.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fairchild-sili...
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Fair enough. In that case, stipulate that "Heated banter should be expected. If you can't handle that blah blah." Basically, there's better solutions than the shotgun approach.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
How exactly does one get into a launch party? Because if they're letting in 15 year-olds, sure there's going to be spiteful words. I always pictured these sorts of things having more mature crowds, but maybe I'm wrong. My strategy, instead
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Causation or correlation, hmm. I never thought of it like that, but the idea has merit
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Does a wiki article really merit posting?
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Cloud cover permitting, all launches were visible from the Embry-Riddle Aero. Univ. campus in Daytona, as well as other rocket launches. If the winds blew in the right direction you still heard a decent roar, as well.
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Retracted: Study on Genetics that Extends Human Longevity to 100(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by Ronkdar 15y ago|0 comments
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Google Wave and Buzz were published with minimal fanfare, and used a paradigm unfamiliar to Facebook users. Google+ is so familiar, and became so quickly wrapped up with everything else in your Google account, that transitioning and partici
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
There's a lot of major things here. 1) Tattoo is invisible. No stigma attached. 2) No blood drawn for testing for various materials 3) If processing and power get consolidated onto the phone, this will be massively portable and accessible t
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
I'm jealous. For the last three years, living in Daytona, I've vowed I would drop everything to see the very last launch. And then they extended the program, and the launch was in the summer while I was out of state.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Those booster rockets on the shuttle were ridiculous. The Saturns were before my time, but I've seen some Delta launches, and an Ares launch, and the shuttle put them TO SHAME. One thing I will remember most about going to college near KSC
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
> just look back at the discovery of North America and foundation of the greatest, vastest, richest, and most powerful nation the world has ever seen. As an American, I find this sentence somewhat embarrassing. > There would’ve been
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Absolutely agreed with everything here. Additionally, push-ups help keep you awake. Nodding off? Drop and do 5. Gets the heart pumping again.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Einstein has advanced many ideas. Most have been demonstrated/observed, but not all. There is still considerable debate about gravity waves.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Considering I got Google+ phishing attempts 3 days after creating an account, I'd bet the same.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
I find it hard to believe they would enter a house with 20 armed agents to arrest someone who did not commit an act of violence.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the New York Times just said "lulz" (as in LulzSec) with a straight face?
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Yes, SSDs have a read/write limit, but the average time it takes to hit it is longer than the mean time to failure of HDDs.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
That is... relatively scary. I feel that one of the essential features of the internet is its anonymity. Take that away and it loses some of its value.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Tiny is good. This thing is minuscule by comparison.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
It's an interesting idea, but I see some major problems. 1) It's currently impossible to tie a person down to a single online entity. There's quite a lot of inertia/sentiment preventing this sort of situation. If you can't insure that each
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
This seems very difficult to drive straight, but I'm highly impressed by the speed and small size.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Open and closed both have their pros and cons. A healthy market will see a mix of both.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Word is fine. If you want to get fancy, LaTeX. Just don't distribute a .docx file. Save it as .pdf.
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Calibri font (or some other simple, standard sans-serif). Black text with a single dark color for headings that will look OK when printed in grey scale. I opt for a simple outline format. I've seen a lot of fancy designs, but I think if som
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
Presentations are a fantastic way to make sure students know what's what. Shame is a great motivator. Put a student in front of his classmates and he'll put a lot more effort into actually mastering the subject matter. In-class discussion i
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by Ronkdar 15y ago
My problem is that I can't write on my reader. All my textbooks are filled with highlighted sentences, penned in notes, and black marker through every distracting fluff sentence. I will continue to buy paper books until I can achieve this f

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