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aroberge
15y ago
You can find the link to github by clicking on About mindmaps at the bottom left of the screen.
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aroberge
15y ago
This argument is simply wrong. You could use the same type of "progression" to get, at the root, basic theoretical physics or pure math. Yet, ideas and concept from these two fields are not patentable.
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aroberge
15y ago
On its own, the fact that women represent less than 50% of the people involved in programming is not proof of sexism being worse in IT than in other fields; many other fields show significant gender imbalance. On its own, the fact that a nu
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aroberge
15y ago
If you look at the details of the case, you will see that this was NOT a patent troll. i4i had started work to integrate their product with MS Office and started negotiations with Microsoft for licensing; then Microsoft in effect said "no
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aroberge
16y ago
I don't understand all the hype. The playstation eyetoy had similar functionality (as far as I can tell - not having tried the kinect) at least two years ago. Is it really that much better?
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aroberge
16y ago
The other examples filter from an existing list, essentially used as a placeholder. It could be substituted with any other list and the code sample would work. Your example use some hardcoded values - strings at that, not integers - hence
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aroberge
16y ago
The opening paragraph is misleading: what we can not make in a lab is matter dense enough to be just a "neutron condensate". The fact that some of it is superfluid is irrelevant: superfluids produced in the lab are likely very similar to t
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aroberge
16y ago
It's unfortunate that they did not become popular in the U.S. as they work much better than the Phillips ones: if you pick the right size (3 are standard), the screwdriver never slips, unlike what can happen with the Phillips one.
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aroberge
16y ago
Three major differences: Crunchy requires Python to be installed on your computer; nothing is sent to a remote server; Crunchy is currently only guaranteed to work on Firefox. On this last point, it is likely to stay that way for a while a
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aroberge
16y ago
Thanks for the warning.
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aroberge
16y ago
This is very nice; please find a way to add the number of points and comments as others have mentioned. Contrary to some opinions expressed in the comments, I think that your use of frame is very appropriate and efficient.
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aroberge
16y ago
Surprisingly balanced article. Thanks for posting this link.
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aroberge
16y ago
All this means a new tool, providing for new observations ... in a limited number of fields. It won't help in asking questions. It won't help in generating hypothesis. It won't help in running new experiments and tests in the real world.