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by gnat 9y ago
Why not http://pinboard.in ? The price is low and revenue incentivises Maciej to continue to work on it, whereas you might get married, or travel, or have a day job that consumes all your time, and suddenly yabs is rotting and
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by gnat 9y ago
Huh, they used two different versions of the Amber software: v10 for molecular dynamics, v15 to calculate spatial distribution functions. Amber: http://ambermd.org/ I wonder why.
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by gnat 9y ago
At what age is Informatics\CS first compulsory, and when does it stop being compulsory? Are there specialist teachers or is the maths/music/English teacher being pressed into service to teach computing too? Sorry for all the que
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by gnat 9y ago
550 civil servants followed over 30 years. > After adjustment for numerous potential confounders, alcohol use was associated with reduced right hippocampal volume in a dose dependent manner; even moderate drinkers (classified as up to 21
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by gnat 9y ago
Not into orbit. https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/rocket-lab-counts-down-first-t... “It was a great flight. We had a great first stage burn, stage separation, second stage ignition and fairing separation. We didn’t quite
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by gnat 9y ago
Hello from New Zealand! I beg to differ about "well managed fisheries". NZ has regulatory capture, massive bycatch problems, and some species are near to collapse the way that orange roughy collapsed. The government talks it up
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by gnat 10y ago
The further outside Auckland, the cheaper it'll be. Some bits of Agtech are harder than others in NZ because biosecurity rules, etc. Feel free to flick me email and I'll help if I can: me@gnat.me
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by gnat 10y ago
Central Business District (aka "downtown")
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by gnat 10y ago
+1 here. I also have a maxed-out 13" Late 2016 Pro. The fake Esc key on the Touchbar makes me sad every time I use it (I don't have your Touch ID lag, though). And, as you say, the keyboard is insanely loud. Who needs to advert
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by gnat 10y ago
Read the pipe as "given" (or "when"). P(A|B) = "probability of A given B". You've got people who are actually suicidal. You've got people for whom the test comes back positive. There are two subtly
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by gnat 10y ago
Tech scene: great -- plenty of hungry tech companies looking for talent. Xero, PushPay, TradeMe, Orion Health all hiring hard. Catalyst is the Open Source shop of choice. Happy to answer q's if you're curious. (me@gnat.me if you
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by gnat 10y ago
If you can work remotely, A+ for "more affordable areas" ... NZ is beautiful all over, and if there's a particular type of outdoors you love (mountain biking, hiking, skiing, diving, whatever) then The Provinces are great for
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by gnat 10y ago
I try to avoid most political writing, but I felt that this was worth it: http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/11/1537582/-The-most-thor...
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by gnat 10y ago
"strange hagiography of the book" ... amen. Besides neutral guidelines, this document also helps librarians say "this is normal for public libraries--we aren't expected to keep every book that's in every state of di
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by gnat 11y ago
(You could also put an ad on your own site/s for your job -- "Love Contemporary Art? Want to Help Us Bring it to the Masses?) Your next developer might already be a reader.
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by gnat 11y ago
(This is not one of the YC chaps) 1) Tell us the site, 2) Ask who makes money when your audience grows, 3) Ask who wants access to your audience, 4) Realise that "non-profit" only describes who has a claim on profits, not whether
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by gnat 11y ago
A good one, too. The last startup I worked for was one of their first customers. You fire off events, they machine learn normal behaviour for your customers and feed the intel to your customer success team so you can prevent churn and ident
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by gnat 12y ago
Hey there, wannabe Kiwi. Look me up if you want to hit the ground running with connections to the startup/tech world. I'm "Nat Torkington" and google finds my contact details. Always happy to help Kiwis and wannabe Kiwis
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by gnat 12y ago
The NZ govt site https://www.newzealandnow.govt.nz/move-to-nz/new-zealand-vis... is a good start for your research. My sense is that degrees count untowardly for permanent residency/migration. However, I don&#x2
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Kids Design Their Classrooms with Minecraft(itnews.com.au)
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by gnat 14y ago
Nope, Claim 2 is for a tertiary pointer as well. Your attempt to patent a triply-sequenced linked-list would be rejected as insufficiently innovative. Unlike the patent in question. cough
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by gnat 15y ago
I don't know who the publisher was, but it doesn't sound like O'Reilly. When I worked for them (in the 2000s) our mantra was that the right size for a book is however long it has to be to say what has to be said. There's a minimum length of
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by gnat 15y ago
I much prefer the Guardian's "Digested Read" version of this book: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/29/digested-read-fr...
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Power of Ten Perspective on SOPA(radar.oreilly.com)
2 points by gnat 15y ago|0 comments
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by gnat 15y ago
That Wikipedia article blurs research libraries (like you'd find in a university) with public libraries. Almost all the hard numbers they quote are about research libraries, but the libraries that most of us care about (the ones that act as
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by gnat 15y ago
The title says 19 investors, the body says 17 investors. Why the difference?
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by gnat 15y ago
Because of language and the Chinese govt's lack of openness, we don't hear of Chinese satellites or companies pwned by American hackers. I wonder how much US-initiated cyberwhatevorrism takes place.
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by gnat 15y ago
"My bet? Swartz is forcing the issue". My bet is that the Justice Department is still pissed at him for his role in liberating PACER (see http://gnat.me/sJAdUm ). They'd been obstinately keeping judicial information under paywall lock an
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by gnat 15y ago
You'll get "relatively easy geographic access to Japan" from all three places: It's 12h from NZ or Melbourne, 9h from Sydney--compared to 10h from SFO. Once you start a flight that long, three extra hours is noise.
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by gnat 15y ago
I worked as editor for O'Reilly and am an author for O'Reilly, and there's no page count juju in our royalty payments. You get paid 10% of what we get for books that sell. End of story (for print, things get weirder in ebooks but not so w

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