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by fpp 13y ago
Interesting that you're mentioning the "outsourcing" of academic projects. While this seemingly has been "popular" in Europe for PhDs / doctoral theses for quite some time (in Germany e.g. some ministers recently lost their posts for th
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by fpp 13y ago
I would go a step further - it looks more like the usual spring weight-loss plan plus some cynical spitting on the poor. The Victorian age is back in the UK and seemingly not only by wealth distribution (that has already been achieved a few
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by fpp 13y ago
Fully agreed - IMHO this article again shows how removed from reality some people are and seemingly nothing is left out to polarise society further (a/k/a the poor are only to stupid - look here they can live a healthy diet on even less). a
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by fpp 13y ago
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." Henry Ford
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by fpp 13y ago
Try Kuler by Adobe (free) https://kuler.adobe.com/
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by fpp 13y ago
Some of these estimates are certainly on the very conservative side. Example: NUCLEAR ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION (page 59 bottom table) all estimating an impact ratio of 0.1 (cost of waste / revenues) Actual cost of nuclear waste and other r
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by fpp 13y ago
The "mother" of the dollar bill stack visualizations was done by "crunchweb" in 2003/2006 to visualize the cost of the Iraq war (then 316 Billion - now > 1 Trillion) http://87billion.com/ Another good one - visualizing the cost of the
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Crowdfunding raised 2.7Bln in 2012 - expected 5.1Bln in 2013(crowdsourcing.org)
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by fpp 13y ago
and they want to run an app against your twitter account that can post and change your profile
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by fpp 14y ago
Why not?
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by fpp 14y ago
In former times (when patents mostly covered only machinery) you had to present a working prototype or product that demonstrated your invention. My suggested solution to the current software patent disaster: Inventors have to demonstrate a
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Patent troll Lodsys sues 10 mobile game makers, despite Apple’s intervention(arstechnica.com)
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by fpp 14y ago
There's a long list of prominent names being investigated or (not) prosecuted (basically scape-goating single employees): GS, Barclays, HSBC, UBS, Deutsche to name the most prominent ones. And the (so far officially) biggest fish - Wachovi
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by fpp 14y ago
Would be interesting to know which version of MongoDB was used (2.4 also uses V8). The original slides are at: https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/b/b4/Pg-as-nosql-pgday-fo... There is also another presentation on the use of PL/V8 (on Hero
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by fpp 14y ago
The full quote from Alan Kay's interview with Dr Dobbs last year: ( http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit... ) "...The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Oc
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by fpp 14y ago
The code is at: https://github.com/edX/XBlock
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by fpp 14y ago
Kind of funny - you get German Google display ads in the screenshots - looks like a headless webkit client (similar to phantomjs) - clear your caches between the screenshots guys.
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by fpp 14y ago
as GRPN's share price went up almost 20% since his announcement - well I guess its fair to say he made about $40M (on paper) by leaving.
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by fpp 14y ago
You get what you pay for. There are a few companies that try with these kind of "pays" - mostly looking for "coders" basically trying to undercut even Eastern European offshore rates (min. US$20/h) but in London (£14k est. hourly rate - 276
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by fpp 14y ago
Use any traceroute site/program (not just the one in the link): TraceRoute to 216.81.59.173 206.214.251.1 episode.iv 206.214.251.6 a.new.hope 206.214.251.9 it.is.a.period.of.civil.war 206.214.251.14 rebel.spaceships 206.214.251.17
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The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173(network-tools.com)
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Ross Anderson's 2nd Edition of Security Engineering book online(cl.cam.ac.uk)
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by fpp 14y ago
see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072183 for comments by the organizers on the charge
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by fpp 14y ago
In London you almost always have a set of meetings in the same interest groups to choose from - particularly popular: last Wednesdays, Thursdays of the month.
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by fpp 14y ago
thanks for the explanation Dmitri - enjoyed the past meetings - see you at the Boys school end of the month
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by fpp 14y ago
Meet-up shows that there is now a charge of GBP6 ($10) for that meeting - can anyone explain what that will be for
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Kepler Space Kit - take pictures from space with your iPhone or GoPro camera(quirky.com)
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by fpp 14y ago
This project has been going on for some time - very interesting. Recently I've been hearing about (planned / just started) similar projects in the UK and the US with K12 and higher education. TMK its iPads as frontends, Meru Wireless Networ
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DMCA Nonsense: Your Default Login Page Is A Ripoff Of Our Default Login Page(techdirt.com)
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by fpp 14y ago
Bill Gosper used Ramanujan's formula to calculate the first 17 million digits of pi

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