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541.
by elai 18y ago
Is this a PR piece created by the company that sells and manages the SAT?
542.
by elai 18y ago
Hey you can do this w/ python too! <code> dx = .000001 def deriv(f): def fprime(x): return (f(x+dx) - f(x))/dx return fprime def cube(x): return x 3 def printDeriv(x): print (deriv(cube))(x) print 3 x *2 printDeriv(5) </
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by elai 18y ago
Corruption in developed countries is just significantly more subtle.
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by elai 18y ago
Because they understand and know the system and have connections. That's why. Why do you think rich people can get less harsh sentencing than poor people (unless there is a lot of media/political attention?), because they can hire lawyers
545.
by elai 18y ago
But do think a lawyer would get that fee every day? Or only once or a few times per month?
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by elai 18y ago
Am I the only one who finds WoW extremely boring? I tried it twice for about an hour each, trying to see what was so great about the game, but never tried again due to lack of interest. I then uninstall it some time later.
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by elai 18y ago
You should add pictures. When people are selling their stuff, pictures can help a lot. And add a thumbnail beside listings that have pictures. I also find the table layout a bit information overloadish. You should list cities and then g
548.
by elai 18y ago
In oligolopic canada you usually have to pay a monthly fee for the privilege of those email to sms gateways. and caller id...
549.
by elai 18y ago
Get teksavvy. If there's bell internet in your area, there is teksavvy. It might be the same bell lines, but they dont pull bullshit like that, give you a 200GB/month limit and have simple overage fees of .25/GB (or you can buy extra bloc
550.
by elai 18y ago
Students are a main demographic of video games. Just b/c your customer base doesn't have tons of cash doesn't mean you cannot make tons of money off of them. Plus the most people I see w/ iPhones are college students and 20 somethings.
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by elai 18y ago
"our system"
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by elai 18y ago
You must live in a nice, warm, dry land where you don't need the warmth and protection of socks. And you must be blessed with resliant skin and hair that doesn't dry out or become rough when you wash it with baking soda.
553.
by elai 18y ago
You can say the same about forests and what not. Woo, same old green tree mold. Wow, another pine tree. Just endless, endless variations of the same leafy green thing.
554.
by elai 18y ago
There are lots of laptop keyboard loggers. The real convert ones embed them in the keyboard by putting it between some connector or another. Laptop and desktop. You just need 10 minutes if your good.
555.
by elai 18y ago
These seem like heuristics that people use to avoid fraud and other social problems. They're 'usually correct'. And many of them learned from the society. For example, I bet children can start with a lot of social behavior expectations
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by elai 18y ago
And they go to conferences, and give speeches, and create user experience commercials, and (probably) hustle the media for articles. Hell they might even pay a PR firm! Or advertise!
557.
by elai 18y ago
The 'make the toy' first is probably the most powerful tip.
558.
by elai 18y ago
Once you have regular sex, porn is really boring.
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by elai 18y ago
A lot of java software implementations are still very very slow. Try restarting a tomcat servlet container (web server) for some java web project and then try the same with some apache or django dev server. One takes 10 seconds, the other
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by elai 18y ago
Well as someone w/ about equal experience in both (but not enough). I find rails URL mapping implementation overcomplicated compared to django's KISS "regular expression table" implementation. I do like rails DB layer a lot better than dja
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by elai 18y ago
People think of 'health insurance' as a 'medical services subscription'. Why can't we just market it as such then? Alot less bullshit involved that way.
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by elai 18y ago
Why don't people say trivially parallel vs embarrassingly parallel? What is so embarrassing about an easily solvable problem?
563.
by elai 18y ago
Eat-a-Rama is basically a google maps mash up that combines restaurants & bars with google maps. It also throws in a social networking component into it and slick AJAXy interface. (It also shows alot more restaurants with clustering a
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Ask HN: Feedback about our iPhone & facebook app Eat-a-Rama(bstage.ca)
2 points by elai 18y ago|1 comments
565.
by elai 18y ago
Kids that age say things like "why are they eating each other" or "eeeeew, boy germs/cooties" or things like that.
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by elai 18y ago
I dont understand, why does -5 to -15 destroy new hampshire infrastructure?? It's bloody -35 in calgary right now. (and around -5 on the northwest coast) I wonder why it's so cold this winter.
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by elai 18y ago
I don't understand ?
568.
by elai 18y ago
There's less yak shaving on a mac vs. linux/windows. If linux had minimal yak shaving and a really good quicksilver replacement, (and a bit more elegance to their program suites) I'd go there in a heartbeat. But there is always tons and t
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by elai 18y ago
The problem with CFLs & LEDs is not that they theoretically last a long time, it's that they're electrically fragile. Incandescents can take worse electrical conditions a lot better, and thus can last a lot longer.
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by elai 18y ago
I've always wondered why linux has a hard time with suspend and hibernate, while on windows (and osx) there usually isn't any problems at all.

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