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anoncow
14y ago
AFAIK Stoning is from an authentic hadith. An interesting point that could be used to decrease this is Islam frowns on bitching and backbiting. So...
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14y ago
Is Go as fast as java and as friendly as python?
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14y ago
Is Go fast AND human friendly?
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14y ago
Third world citizen here. Here is the simplified rosy image of outsourcing that I have in my dollar starved brain. Outsourcing helps spread the monies. Without outsourcing, many cs guys in argentina would never work for a tech company. Wit
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14y ago
So that means, if the database contained emails, call records, or sms, The feds could read all of it. That sounds like a security risk waiting to happen at your cell phone carrier and email service provider.
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14y ago
But that would at least make it appear that Apple was trying.
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14y ago
>AppGratis simply served a need, both on the consumer side (App discovery) as well as on the corporate side (app promotion) This exactly. I am sorry to say this but the submission appears lopsided. The submission accuses appgratis of be
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14y ago
>Google’s job is to make sure the top results are the best results possible. So all that AppGratis had to do was make sure the apps they promoted were not crappy. Review the submitted apps and factor in (genuine) votes by end-users. Thi
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14y ago
Can you link me to a layman version?
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I agree with everything you are saying. If it wasn't for Google+ affecting search results, I wouldn't bother. But Google+ with the tied-in votes and google+ authorship data means websites have to sign up for a proprietary social network. Sw
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14y ago
I have an old blogger account and was being prompted to switch to using g+. The prompt said that I could do a trial run and I decided to switch. However, after switching to my real name, I couldn't find a link to switch back to my blogger u
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14y ago
>they consistently buy off startups and kill them Shouldn't we be citing sources, so that readers can learn and decide for themselves?
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>You only compare them to placebo I am not an expert, but look at the following study which compares two drugs. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00364806
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14y ago
Would love a source on the 95% figure.
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14y ago
Why not both?
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14y ago
Your analogy is incorrect.
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14y ago
Did he complain to the FTC?
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14y ago
>Are you envisioning a monastic-like group No, I did not think about it that way. I was thinking more on the lines of honest work and honest pay. Though if money was not a constraint many of us would be monks(as far as work is concerned
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14y ago
IMO I want to make things, cool things, innovative things, things that add value to peoples lives, things that will save lives, things that others will appreciate, and things that will make me happy and content. If I could achieve this with
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14y ago
>taking a dump in a thousand baskets also leads to no eggs While the quote is very funny and I give you that, the analogy doesn't fit. A more apt analogy would be - throwing your eggs without care in a thousand baskets, chances are most
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I hope you did not mean it, but cancer drugs are not funky. A better drug can mean anything from a permanent remission or cure to a few more months of life. And the poor get treatment in government-run hospitals(some of which are the best h
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14y ago
Different races, ethnicities and people differ in subtle ways. People metabolize different molecules differently. However that still is no excuse to repatent a drug.
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14y ago
Without animal studies, you are exposing human subjects to potentialy toxic drugs.
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14y ago
Can you point me towards some sample projects which teach how to plan a debuggable project ?
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14y ago
While the topic was about animal suffering, you are talking about suffering in human subjects. As far as I know(and that is not much), human studies are done after animal studies. This means the drug is most likely not toxic to animals and
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14y ago
> try doing the possible half and typing in "balls" for the other half That doesn't help with the digitization of books. :)
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14y ago
The week of battery life is more like two weeks on nokia feature phones. I really liked Nokia until they became what they have become nowadays.
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>I write most of my apps in Python, and they work beautifully. Ah! If only you could code android apps in python. That is a plus for BB in my book.
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>the screen's resolution is stunning The Z10 has a 1280x768 resolution on a 4.2 inch screen. That is a 355ppi pixel density. That is better than the iphone 5(326ppi) and Galaxy S3(306ppi). Samsung's S4 although is a different story.
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I took the course last year and liked it.
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