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by aroberge 13y ago
Canada could make a request for him to serve in sentence back in Canada and could decide to release him early. However, this is not going to happen with a Conservative government in power.
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by aroberge 13y ago
Monsanto does all the time.
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by aroberge 13y ago
For working scientists, engineers and mathematicians, that are already familiar with LaTeX, this seems to be an easy and natural path to achieve (part of) the vision of Bret Victor.
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by aroberge 13y ago
Did you even watch the entire talk? He mentioned the written language very early on ... but then moves forward significantly.
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by aroberge 13y ago
I wish MariaDB would make a version for Mac OS.
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by aroberge 13y ago
Done.
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by aroberge 13y ago
Actually, after testing some more, it does not work. jqueryUI dialogs are prevented to open (for one thing). And, since I change the url hash, it likely messes with the changes introduced by togetherJS ... which, currently, prevents it f
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by aroberge 13y ago
This is fantastic. I put two lines of code in my site designed to teach javascript programming http://reeborg.ca/learn_js_together.html and it appears to just work (based on a quick test which is all I could do for now).
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by aroberge 13y ago
http://code.google.com/p/rur-ple/ , a Karel-the-robot adaptation, has been used to teach Python to young kids (age 8+) in school all the way to first-year university students (some examples of these can be found on
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by aroberge 13y ago
The nightmare of divs makes it hard to find the end div unless someone is disciplined enough to indent the code consistently OR if comments are inserted at the end of divs as in <div class="header"> ... &lt
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by aroberge 13y ago
Hilarious if you're a male teenager. Not so hilarious if you're a woman, or the parent of a girl interested in tech, or generally someone who is well aware of the detrimental effect of sexism.
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by aroberge 13y ago
reStructuredText to html PLUS live Python interpreter in the browser, from 4 years ago... http://aroberge.blogspot.ca/2009/09/upcoming-pycon-and-crst2...
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by aroberge 13y ago
Basic, well-known undergraduate first (or perhaps second) year physics topic making the front page of HN ?? Is this turning into a forum for high school students?
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Ask HN: Best editor theme for screencasts? (dark on light or reverse)
1 points by aroberge 13y ago|0 comments
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MathCortex: nice online calculator for linear algebra(mathcortex.com)
7 points by aroberge 13y ago|0 comments
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by aroberge 13y ago
It likely depends on the country; for all practical purpose, it is illegal to ask this question in Canada.
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by aroberge 13y ago
I switch (with a key combination) between a French keyboard, when I need to write text in French with accents, and an English keyboard when I need to type various types of brackets e.g. [] and {}. I actually know two different French keybo
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by aroberge 13y ago
Could you possibly check now? Also, there are two more interactive pages that are "hidden": http://personnel.usainteanne.ca/aroberge/mirror.html and http://personnel.usainteanne.ca/aroberge&
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by aroberge 13y ago
Having never used Haskell, I do not know if it would be possible to use it on itself so as to be able to run sample haskell test programs entered by a user on a web page.
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by aroberge 13y ago
After a previous discussion on HN, I used it as an experiment to visualize the convergence of Fourier and Taylor series http://personnel.usainteanne.ca/aroberge/ I think it would be really neat to have an entire mathem
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by aroberge 13y ago
Why should they "reward" them? ... Because the U.S. always claims to have the moral high grounds? Because they offered asylum to people declared criminals by other countries (Russia, China, ...) many times in the past? You don&
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by aroberge 13y ago
Anyone seeing what happened to Manning would be insane to turn themselves in to the US.
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Show HN: Learn programming with Reeborg(reeborg.ca)
1 points by aroberge 13y ago|0 comments
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by aroberge 13y ago
He's been in space three times already and it was pretty clear that he was not going back due to his age; otherwise, I am sure he would not have retired.
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by aroberge 13y ago
One data point does not define a truth. What you describe may be true at your university but to generalize worldwide, as your opening sentence implies, is and definitely unscientific.
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by aroberge 13y ago
No, because the very concept of "before" requires time to exist for it to make sense.
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by aroberge 13y ago
Citation? And, particularly, a citation in the Canadian context which is what that article is about would be relevant.
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by aroberge 14y ago
I live in a city, in Canada. I would feel completely safe sleeping with the doors unlocked. I've lived in small villages in Canada where everyone leave their house door and car doors unlocked - and nothing happens. I've lived in Montreal
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by aroberge 14y ago
DCMA request in the UK???
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by aroberge 14y ago
Many (most?) countries have nothing like the U.S. second amendment and in most countries (at the very least, members of the OECD), gun violence is NOTHING compared with that of the U.S. Many (most) citizens of these countries are opposed to

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