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by dstein64 15y ago
I had the same issue this blogger describes regarding "No URL Selected". The solution is given in the comments. I did not review the whole post, but I think the post addresses some other issues as well that you might be interested in review
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I do not believe your comment will be downvoted for the reason you suggest, but rather because your comment is an ad hominem attack.
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If you are looking for math video lectures, UCCS posts videos for a bunch of their courses. However, these do not have the features that are on the Stanford sites (e.g., interactive questions). http://www.uccs.edu/~math/vidarchive.html
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by dstein64 15y ago
That answers the uncertainty in the blogger's disclaimer: "* Disclaimer: I can’t be sure this isn’t against the MTurk posting terms. In fact, it might be."
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Another option is to use Amazon Mechanical Turk: http://codyaray.com/2010/10/dropbox-referrals-using-mechanic... Also, here's the Dropbox page to get additional space by connecting your social networking accounts: https://www.dropbox.com
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by dstein64 15y ago
One reason for NC State's restricted sharing policy might be to encourage participation in class. Some students may be discouraged from participating in lectures if the content will be distributed. This seems less likely in the NC State exa
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by dstein64 15y ago
> And even if that weren't the case, unions have every right to fight for the interests of workers, and should do so at every available opportunity. Doing so may come at the expense of students. For example, while it may be in the best
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by dstein64 15y ago
> Distance learning programs will never be a substitute for genuine classroom-based interaction, and under no circumstances should they ever be used to replace skilled teachers. I have found that distance learning is great. I have watch
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by dstein64 15y ago
The next highest is 1227, so a bound of 1228 also only includes that post. http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=1228
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by dstein64 15y ago
Here is a PDF that I captured at 11:34pm EST, that also has 30/30 articles on Steve Jobs. I was going to post a link to this, until I found the snapshot. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chro...
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by dstein64 15y ago
This was the first time I have seen the entire front page consisting of articles on one topic. The snapshot is from 11pm PDT, and it is from a site that archives the Hacker News front page.
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Hacker News Front Page Snapshot from Last Night(hhn.domador.net)
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Here is a link that has some information on the Ultrabook: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20067411-64.html
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> I didn't understand at the time and still don't know how they matched up my Google account to my Twitter account The information on http://www.google.com/s2/u/0/search/social can be informative for checking how Google links you with
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> I went from being able to see 10 or so contacts in Gchat without scrolling down to just 4. I have found that the right-side chat Gmail labs feature is useful as a way to display additional contacts without scrolling in Gchat. It may
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by dstein64 15y ago
> where the Google front page feels like a public space, the logged-in side of Gmail feels more like a private area. This means that while a holiday Google Doodle sails by just fine, a reminder in Gmail feels very invasive. One reason f
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by dstein64 15y ago
The Khan Academy site has linear algebra videos for free: http://www.khanacademy.org/#linear-algebra Also, Octave is a free software package similar to Matlab that I imagine could be useful when learning linear algebra, to see instant res
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by dstein64 15y ago
I have not checked these out, but I know that there is a Hacker Dojo course that posts course material to the following site. http://machinelearning101.pbworks.com/w/page/32890312/FrontP... I have seen some of the lectures and notes poste
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by dstein64 15y ago
Yahoo Finance has the first week and first month prices. According to Yahoo Finance, the first day of trading was March 13, 1986, which is one day earlier than the date that is on the eHow article I linked to. I think March 13 is correct (i
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According to the numbers on eHow, the first day arithmetic returns (relative to IPO price, not the opening trade price) were, at close: (27.75-21) / 21 = 32.1%, and at day's peak: (29.25-21) / 21 = 39.3% The prices I used are from a site on
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Here are some details of trading on the day of the offering: "Microsoft had its initial public offering on March 14th, 1986. Microsoft was initially priced at $21. However, due to intense demand, the stock first traded at $25.50. Microsoft
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by dstein64 15y ago
One of Lala's products that I tried involved purchasing songs without the ability to download, but they were stored in my music locker on their servers. Although these songs couldn't be downloaded, they cost only ten cents a song (I think,
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by dstein64 16y ago
The first time I tried it, I used a PDF file, since it opens in the browser and I could easily access the URL. I just tried again, and I was able to replicate the issue I mentioned, this time using Chrome and Internet Explorer. I tried uplo
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by dstein64 16y ago
I tried uploading a file to the cloud drive using Chrome, and then I viewed the file. I copied the URL and pasted it into Firefox, where I was not logged in to amazon.com or their cloud storage. It still loaded the file. If you tried doing
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by dstein64 16y ago
The author discusses outfit decisions based on what the outfit portrays. She talks about claiming an identity through wardrobe. While some people may care how others perceive their outfit and use an outfit to claim an identity, my guess is
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Here is a December 8, 2009 article from the University of Rochester website that describes some additional uses: http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3514
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These ray tracing videos may be more targeted towards 'advanced' users. However, I haven't seen the full videos. http://home.in.tum.de/~lehmanna/lisp-tutorial.html
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Is there any significance to the "=3D" in his code, or are those the same as the normal equal "="? Thanks.