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by biotech 17y ago
After doing some light google research, I was not able to find the origin of the phrase "there's only two stories in the world: man goes on a journey, and stranger comes to town." It is generally attributed to peoples' literature or film pr
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by biotech 17y ago
Good observation. A spike in population implies a recent change in the organism or its environment. Since most multicellular organisms cannot evolve that quickly, it's more likely that there was a change in the environment which this organi
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by biotech 17y ago
Are you referencing the episode of Faulty Towers in which Germans are visiting? John Clease repeats "don't mention the war" several times to his fellow English hospitality workers, but he himself fails in this endevour, with hilarious conse
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by biotech 17y ago
I am impressed by the inclusion of the salary chart right there in the job posting, as an engineer who dislikes the salary negotiation game (I am inevitably at a strategic disadvantage, playing against managers who have far more experience
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by biotech 17y ago
He tries to string together two different points: 1. The language used for describing a change in a legislative document is verbose and difficult to understand. A simple "diff" of the two documents would be a substantial improvement 2. Beca
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by biotech 17y ago
See also PasswordMaker: It has extensions supporting several browsers and a javascript version as well. PasswordMaker uses your password and the website domain name to generate a unique password. http://passwordmaker.org/
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by biotech 17y ago
A stackoverflow for researchers in biotech/medicine/biology would be extremely useful. In biological research, if someone wants to do an experiment that they are not experienced in, they can review peer-reviewed published materials, but man
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by biotech 17y ago
It's an optimization problem: The positive side is the decreased risk of heart problems. The negative side is the increased risk of stomach problems. If you are at a low risk for heart problems, the negatives generally out-weigh the positiv
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by biotech 17y ago
Well, if you can do it in C, and I can see your solution, and it works, then I can do it in a line of perl. But I didn't test his code, so I don't know if this works: open( FILE, ">reddit.c"); print FILE '#include <stdio.h&#62
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by biotech 17y ago
Personally I wonder why these people are still employed in the technology sector... Really? This is the second line of the article, and you are questioning the professional competence of your readers?? What do you hope to accomplish here?
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by biotech 17y ago
Thanks for the reply. It is an interesting idea.
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by biotech 17y ago
I am curious - are you a teacher who has tried this? If so, what age level, and how long have you been practicing this technique?
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by biotech 17y ago
The fundamental misunderstanding here is how we relate our parsing of mathematical expressions to the way a compiler parses expressions: While we can parse the following expression properly: a < b < c parses to: (a &#
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by biotech 17y ago
A statistician is shooting arrows at a target. The first shot flies by the target, missing by exactly 2 feet to the right. The second shot flies by the target again, this time missing by exactly 2 feet to the left. The statistician exclaims
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by biotech 17y ago
I now know that it's more nuanced than that.... X is just a pretence. [sic] I think that it is even more nuanced than you propose. Often non-geeks are interested in the subject, but may not have sufficient interest or mental energy requ
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by biotech 17y ago
If you refresh the page 4 times, the page shows: You can use "fortune" you know...
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by biotech 17y ago
There's a typo in the 2nd link. It should be: http://www.funnyandjokes.com/top-country-and-western-songs-o...
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by biotech 17y ago
So long and thanks for all the fish. Clicking flag is also an option.
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by biotech 17y ago
In TFA, Brian Williams mentions Stewart's takedown of Cramer in an interview in which 'the odds were stacked against Jim Cramer'. This brought to mind a brilliant attack on the now defunct political show "Crossfire", in which Liberals battl
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by biotech 17y ago
"I'm looking forward to an Android-powered toaster oven any day now." I assume that he's joking, but at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) this weekend, a company called "Touch Revolution" had a microwave with a touchscreen running Android. Th
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by biotech 17y ago
There is an interesting piece about Plutonium. It seems that Plutonium Batteries were used in some pacemakers. Here's the link: http://www.periodictable.com/Items/094.3/index.qt.html
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by biotech 17y ago
One out of two students fail to correctly analyze prose like a newspaper editorial Okay, I don't know the source, but this statistic seems reasonable to me. In fact, I'd venture to add a couple more (based purely on my anecdotal experienc
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by biotech 17y ago
you didn't know this is an older post .... until I started reading it. I don't always recognize these posts by their title.
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by biotech 17y ago
As much as I dislike Basic in all of its forms, I have to agree with the author on this: it's a good way for Kids to learn programming. My agreement is partially based on my own experience: When I was 13, I wanted to learn how to program my
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by biotech 17y ago
Cool idea, although I would like to see other languages supported. Currently it has C#, JavaScript, and PHP. To CodeRun's credit, these choices do span different takes on web development. I'd like to see some support for Perl and/or Ruby th
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by biotech 17y ago
When I hear someone defending micromanagement, it sends a shiver down my spine - I was once a victim of micromanagement. It sucked, and I quit. As did some of my co-workers. This article, however, is not really a justification of micromanag
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by biotech 17y ago
we don't even know yet if the calculations in question here are not reversible. ??? If the calculations are reversible, there would be no argument. Everyone would know the base data. I think you are kind of pushing it with your quicksilve
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by biotech 17y ago
http://www.codinghorror.com/craigslist/
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by biotech 17y ago
there are conceivable cases were it seems natural to not keep the "base data" around. Your example does not demonstrate this point. By taking the temperature readings in degrees C, you, in fact, are taking the "base data". Of course, yo
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