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by bigd 13y ago
I'd like to state this controversial position, in the hope that is read with the open-mindness of the "what you don't say" thread: I believe that many of the problems of our society are due to people afraid of dying: Acc
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by bigd 13y ago
I don't want to sound mean but he's still <90years old. He can be ripped as much as you want, but until he at least pass the century, this article is pure speculation. Let's see how he fares in 20 years, then we discuss. T
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by bigd 13y ago
They are really annoying on non US keyboards. The common user don't really uses them, therefore they aren't even mapped in eu keyboards. Clearly the solution is to change the mapping, but as you can imagine, many people still need
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by bigd 13y ago
I'm not saying is a bad idea. I think a doctor has to be smart. But that said, I'm not convinced that my doctor need to know all the nuances of Diels-Alder, and pass OrgChem with top grades. But, thinking further, I do not really
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by bigd 13y ago
amen
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by bigd 13y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this: "First and foremost, an idea is never world-changing. It's the execution of the idea that changes things. Until it has been executed successfully and actually changed the world, all it i
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by bigd 13y ago
I'm surprised I've not read "they were tricking young teenagers in sending pornographic materials in 4chan/b/ rate-my-penis threads".
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by bigd 13y ago
In both cases cheating is a sympthom of a larger issue: in case 1, requiring your doctor has an A grade to in organic chemistry is BS.
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by bigd 13y ago
That's why they are called breakthroughs! :)
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by bigd 13y ago
Zynga chef, if they do have one, has probably been feeding pubic hairs to the authors of this bs. Since 2011.
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by bigd 13y ago
the applications for cap limited H1B are in april, and you'll have it in october if you are one of the 60,000 lucky ones. If you get it in any other time of the year, is because you work for an university or no-profit. Here, H1b is bro
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by bigd 13y ago
removable house: come back from holidays someone has stolen your house
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by bigd 13y ago
If polish is going to be his 13th language and he has already strong bases in russian and eu languages, I don't see why it should be impossible. Keep in mind that is not true that is one hour. Is all his life learning other languages t
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by bigd 13y ago
I believe few of the points he made were remarkable: the intonation/accent is definitely true. Walk like an egyptian, is really true, full immersion too. I also believe 3 months are a reasonable time for a B2 when those points are gran
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by bigd 13y ago
The feature he's saying is that mac os preview allows you to take a picture of a piece of paper with your signature on, and then places that in the pdf. You should implement this - or at least try it. There's no dragging mouse th
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by bigd 13y ago
And bridges!!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/bridge-stolen-in-cz...
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by bigd 13y ago
>Learning for learning's sake is actually pointless I can't disagree more. Learning latin, ancient greek, french,italian, portuguese and spanish, C C++ JAVA Javascript, ruby python coffescript and groovy, lisp clojure... Studyi
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by bigd 13y ago
spherical harmonics! Cool to know that aren't only used in quantum mechanics :)
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by bigd 13y ago
Please. Stop. Can you imagine your hammer writing you a mail every day "you know you can use me hammer to ..."? those are awful ideas. Especially since nowadays every app require registration and mail authentication, and is it imp
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by bigd 13y ago
lol. They also tried to convince stockholm to give one to Berlusconi few years ago http://silvioperilnobel.blogspot.com/ The best part is that those nominations are useless. Nobel prizes have no transparency on this, or as
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Rethinking Responsive SVG(coding.smashingmagazine.com)
3 points by bigd 13y ago|0 comments
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by bigd 13y ago
I've been in the community 5yrs now. And I've seen a little bit of everything. This is my favorite one so far: A, B, C write paper, submit to his pal D. D appoints E,F,G as reviewers. C, and E were in school together
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by bigd 13y ago
Let's not forget about self-sustaining communities: 15 erasmus friends cite each other, and peer review each other. In few years, one/two/ten of them will be also editors of more or less decent journals (Impact factor usually
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by bigd 13y ago
Seems very easy to steal. and 200$? I'll buy mine second-hand at the black-market ;)
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by bigd 13y ago
careful: there's a difference to point out here - Visas are for entering/exiting the country and are the stamps on the passport. Then you can stay as long as you have your residence permit. Example: #when you enter the count
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by bigd 13y ago
A good compromise is to use something like Grok. https://github.com/jordansissel/grok
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Ask HN: did someone ever fixed Creative Cloud battery drain on mac?
1 points by bigd 13y ago|0 comments
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by bigd 13y ago
A valid Taxes specialist, Doctor and Attorney, are the first thing to find when you move to a new town. It should be the same for startups, as is even more important. I cannot believe this common sense get overlooked.
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by bigd 13y ago
nowadays, most of the front end development relies on grunt. After you configure livereload(grunt-watch), you will never hit refresh again. So if you integrate sweet.js in grunt, it is a breeze to use. Same holds for sass, compass, uglify,
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by bigd 13y ago
I recommend this read on the topic. http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stam...

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