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by dmlorenzetti 17y ago
Unfortunately the article fails to make clear what contribution these researchers made. As the article states, quorum sensing is not new (I learned about it through HN some time ago, via this video http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/bonnie
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by dmlorenzetti 17y ago
For terribly depressing books aimed at kids even younger than grade school, check out the Thomas the Tank Engine series. The basic lesson is that any deviation from the rules will be punished severely. One of the trains likes flowers so he
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Since Clojure lacks tail-call optimization, I'm not sure how the book "Programming Clojure" influenced it...
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One thing I miss from Windows-- the ability to easily access any menu item from the keyboard (not just items that have a defined keyboard shortcut). Yes, it can be done, but not "out of the box" using individual keystrokes to navigate each
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by dmlorenzetti 17y ago
All the comments posted so far are right-- they explain why people might cheer. But nobody has really addressed the very real difference between technology and academic venues (the original poster's question). I've only been at one academi
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Adam Gopnik, in his series of essays on living in France (for the New Yorker, and later collected in "From Paris to the Moon"), makes a distinction between understanding when people are serious, when people are joking, and when people are j
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Oliveira's "new features in Visual Studio" are all programming languages it now supports-- in other words, the development environment is synonymous with the compilers bundled with it. When I left Windows as a development platform (maybe 10
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It's ironic that the author complains about a contempt for science on the part of "environmentalists," but then goes on to recommend the following rule for setting safe levels of some toxic substance: Wait for a major kill-off of a marker s
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To understand why algorithms are important, and how they are used, it might help for you to give up your mental model, described in your original question, of the link between physics and algorithms. They are not both attempts to represent