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by aroberge 14y ago
Colour can help carry information. It is a lot easier to identify strings if you use colours rather than just rely on seeing opening and beginning quotes. I know that I find it very useful - and even more so my choice of colours for comme
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by aroberge 14y ago
Say you release code X under a BSD license. Someone incorporates a neat, but tricky to re-implement, feature and release the code under GPL. Everyone wants that new feature but, if they do, they either have to reimplement it without looki
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by aroberge 14y ago
A lot of religious folks, who do not believe in natural science, are procreating much more(and at an earlier age) than the average population. With this in mind, I don't think natural selection will be beneficial for civilization...
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by aroberge 14y ago
Sad to see that rather than making the decision: won't upgrade server distribution, leaving users with an older but still working version, the decision that was made is to "upgrade" while knowingly reintroducing old issues.
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by aroberge 14y ago
No, cegep has either 2 or 3 year programs. Year 1 is equivalent to US high-school 12th grade. Year 2 of 2-year programs is equivalent to 1st year university for B.A. or B.Sc. 3-year programs tend to be terminal degree of a more "technical
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by aroberge 14y ago
I agree with you. I guess I might have been a tad overreacting at the "we-are-the-best-and-only-truly-free-people" attitude I see too often coming from some people from the U.S.
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by aroberge 14y ago
The U.S. has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's jail population. Numbers would seem to indicate that the laws AND the application of the law make the U.S. much more restrictive than most, if not all, 1st world countries.
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by aroberge 14y ago
Petition to make the required changes to the law, not to remove a human cog from the machine.
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by aroberge 14y ago
See above where I just addressed a related question with respect to Hawking radiation.
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by aroberge 14y ago
Simplified, hand-waving explanation: virtual pair creation can occur in any quantum field theory. We have quantum field theory describing three of the fundamental forces (strong, weak, electromagnetism ... ok, two forces as the last two ar
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by aroberge 14y ago
Not at all. The Casimir effect has nothing to do with quantum foam; furthermore, it is something that has been measured experimentally.
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by aroberge 14y ago
No, Hawking radiation is based on well-known physics (virtual pair particle-anti-particle creation) which arises near an horizon (which you can treat classically: the so-called quantum foam play no role).
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by aroberge 14y ago
The pressure, if any, would likely not come from Academic Departments. I can see how the admin side of the institution might want, for financial reason, to encourage purchases through the bookstore... Also, in order to have books availabl
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by aroberge 14y ago
When I was younger, I really bought in the myth that the U.S. was the country where true freedom could be found. I can guarantee you that here, in Canada, even adjuncts (at universities where I worked) have true Academic Freedom when it co
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by aroberge 14y ago
I've worked at three Canadian universities, including being a senior administrator at two of them, I've been to meetings with other senior administrators accross the country ... and I've never heard anything of the kind. Profs always have
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Canadian researchers,Intel, and Plastic Logic to create ‘paper tablet’(business.financialpost.com)
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by aroberge 14y ago
A superficial reading of the news would lead one to believe that Monsanto == GMO, and I believe a lot of people are swayed to be in the anti-GMO camp by the bullying tactics of Monsanto.
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by aroberge 14y ago
It's not only Google ads that are blocked; almost all ads are blocked. So, it's not an agressive action against Google per se, contrary to what you may understand from that very incomplete article.
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by aroberge 14y ago
Please note that this is (hopefully) only a temporary aberration and that it will be changed following the next election.
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by aroberge 14y ago
What is it that you miss about Canada? Much of what I read on HN would point to advantages of being in the U.S. compared to pretty much everywhere else.
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by aroberge 14y ago
No, I would prefer at least "years", but even better "decades". A few days (or weeks depending on your background) is the time required to read a few papers on the Physics of the atmosphere.
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by aroberge 14y ago
Yes, I did get the point, but I don't believe that you get the Physics. It takes a lot of energy to raise the average temperature of the earth by 4 C - much more than we are getting from the Sun "within a few days". Stopping (most) of the
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by aroberge 14y ago
Living outside the United States, it is difficult to understand the mindset that leads to these class action lawsuits - especially so in this case where people did not pay to use the service in the first place. While my original reaction wa
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by aroberge 14y ago
This is a great idea. I can see the marketing too: Even if you cancel your paid account, you will always keep you (x) GB for personal use free.
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by aroberge 14y ago
While I do not advocate to messing up with the atmosphere, your statement shows a clear lack of understanding. Carbon being trapped is NOT the same as heat being trapped in the earth's crust. The Earth could NOT warm by 4°C within days -
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by aroberge 14y ago
Rationality in the world is not going to happen all at once: chipping away at the irrational beliefs of people, and educating them in rational thinking is most likely the best way to get there.
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by aroberge 14y ago
There is a HUGE difference between a company using personal data about you to target marketing to you , and company taking data (photos in this case) provided by you (or by a third party about you ) and using it to market prod
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by aroberge 14y ago
Disqus has started spamming me. I signed up to it using my Google account. When it spams, it says that I can turn off notifications ... But, guess what: you can't sign in with your Google account credentials. So, I can't change the notif
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by aroberge 14y ago
When one first encounters factorials, it often is the case that one uses them to calculate ratios of factorials, the simplest bing n!/(n-1)! = n. This example is a natural one to think about recursively. The comparable examples for sums
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by aroberge 14y ago
Your students can see the Pycon talks online.

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