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She’s 10. She has HIV. And she’s about to learn the truth(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ckarmann 11y ago|0 comments
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by ckarmann 11y ago
While other have insisted on how that photo is a technology feast, taken from billions of miles away, from something we have never seen before, it's also breathtaking from what it shows: a multilayered atmosphere, completely unique in
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Monads Are Not Metaphors (2010)(codecommit.com)
71 points by ckarmann 11y ago|45 comments
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Microsoft prevails over an 8-year-old attempt to block its phone sales(engadget.com)
1 points by ckarmann 11y ago|0 comments
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‘Capacity crunch’: Internet could collapse by 2023, researchers warn(rt.com)
1 points by ckarmann 11y ago|0 comments
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Swedish app teaches children to empathize(thelocal.se)
3 points by ckarmann 12y ago|0 comments
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by ckarmann 12y ago
I doubt it, but anyway if you pirated your Windows 7, you can pirate your Windows 10 too...
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by ckarmann 12y ago
There is a Wikipedia article for everything: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls_about_9/11_conspi... And specifically this international WorldPublicOpinion.org poll whose results are compiled there: http:
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by ckarmann 12y ago
I was a physicist before becoming an engineer, and I love to hear about all that science during the Nobel Prize season, but the Peace Prize is my favorite. I would even say it's the only one to be "useful" (is it really usefu
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by ckarmann 12y ago
For what it worth, this website ranks the popularity of some keywords in UK's IT job ads: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ Bank jobs are a big part of UK's IT jobs. There is a category "Programming Language&quot
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Google+ left in the dust?(linkedin.com)
1 points by ckarmann 12y ago|0 comments
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Montreal’s mapping database to be made publicly available(montrealgazette.com)
1 points by ckarmann 12y ago|0 comments
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Google to launch Android TV(mashable.com)
2 points by ckarmann 13y ago|0 comments
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Very strange shadow phenomenon(physics.stackexchange.com)
2 points by ckarmann 13y ago|0 comments
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by ckarmann 13y ago
Learning languages for their new ideas is fine, but there are other reasons you might want to learn a language. For example, because it is a good language for the specific kind of program that you want to write. Go hits some sweet spot, app
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by ckarmann 13y ago
> I see auto being used inside the lambda. Was that not allowed in C++11? It wasn't: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7709970/39622
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by ckarmann 13y ago
I sort of found it ugly, before getting used to the syntax. A lot of the feeling of ugliness of a code comes from the unfamiliarity of the syntax. I had the same problem with Rust, especially with the lifetime syntax; all these ' in ra
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by ckarmann 13y ago
The Gemini Planet Imager operates at "near-infrared" wavelengths (Y - K bands), according to Wikipedia. The telescope is designed to detect light generated by the heat of young planets, so infrared is the best bet, I think.
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by ckarmann 13y ago
I just stumbled on PyMySQL[0], who supports Python 3. Is there any issue with using this library, since it seems an obvious solution to this problem? [0] https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL/
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by ckarmann 13y ago
I never saw someone disclose his/her salary in France. There seems to be an expectation that doing so would produce jealousy and bitterness. So it's not only an American thing.
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by ckarmann 13y ago
real programmers use butterflies http://xkcd.com/378/
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by ckarmann 13y ago
Something that differentiates reddit with the set of HN clones is the discovery: on any subreddit you have a list of other subreddits and you can search for them if you want to explore about a new thing. Every HN clone is its own little isl
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by ckarmann 13y ago
Chromecast is still not available outside of the US. Come on, why no love for friendly Canada? :)
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by ckarmann 13y ago
Well, why? I mean, I'm so used to work in Java which has the same behaviour, so I may have been totally unable to see the problem due to the familiarity of that code, maybe, but I still don't understand the problem. First, let sta
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by ckarmann 13y ago
The thing is, you can go on in life without understanding barely anything. That's one of the wonder of the modern life. You just need to be able to do enough arithmetics to buy stuff at the grocery and pays your bills and taxes. For yo
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InForm: physically interact with objects through a screen(tangible.media.mit.edu)
1 points by ckarmann 13y ago|0 comments
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by ckarmann 13y ago
Would be great through js2js[1] [1] http://eleks.github.io/js2js/
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Exoplanet Data Explorer(exoplanets.org)
1 points by ckarmann 13y ago|0 comments
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Bot Colony: now conversation is part of the adventure(kickstarter.com)
1 points by ckarmann 13y ago|0 comments
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Multiple statements in angular expression(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by ckarmann 13y ago|0 comments

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