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17y ago
bribing mozilla/firefox to make bing as default search box is probably more effective, could be cheaper too
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17y ago
university won't go away if govt joins in further in cooperative exploitation, like requiring degree/certificate to do something like, what if the average mom is required to have a degree just to cook regular food? because otherwise she's u
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17y ago
a very fuel efficient motorcycle (like 100 cc displacement) runs like 30 kilometers per liter, that's about 60 mile per gallon the fuel tank volume for small motorcycle is like 4 liter, the bigger ones is like 10 liter, so the tank ranges f
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17y ago
iff (mobile) internet makes you passive (like TV) -- clicking on url is nothing more than a glorified mode of switching channel on TV
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17y ago
just do it, one man show -> you take all responsibility, if it fails, it's all yours. btw, don't confuse MBA with actual business experience.
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17y ago
the problem is, modern tools are too complex. they are trying to be smarter than the user i like dumb, old power tools that don't get in my way -> unix+vim+lisp
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17y ago
did you ever happen to sell it? coz o/w it's just an added weight -- well in your case it's maybe for appearance so it's a good investment/insurance some people do hide gold in their teeth, might be interesting if that's your thing
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17y ago
i got scoliosis too, and i went to chinese medical master (he also does accupuncture) that specializes in massaging and bones structure he didn't use any equipment. i was to sit on a chair, knee/shin next to each other. an assistant locks
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17y ago
if this continues, 'college dropout' will be replaced by 'high school graduate' -- simply because s/he takes high ed as cost-saving bootstrap strategy
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17y ago
if this continues, 'college dropout' will be replaced by 'high school graduate' -- simply because s/he takes high ed as cost-saving bootstrap strategy
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17y ago
my friend told me that econometrics is his hardest phd qual. iirc he mentioned statistics, time series, and stochastics (very heavy maths) ... to me those seem to be best handled with statistical package like R my bio friend told me about
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17y ago
i did a lot of matrix analysis during my grad study, from statistics (general linear model, projection, pseudo inverse, design of experiment, etc) to dynamic system (control, state space, etc) using matlab -- i even used it to generate rand
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17y ago
if the erp nullifies the employees' initiatives by shifting responsibilities, then the erp loses maybe because there's no mechanism to take risk. in the spirit of tfa, erp encourages mediocre users. so, the company with users who have to t
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17y ago
edison's invention inspires thousands of academic thesis -- the reverse is not true.
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17y ago
yc is in bed with tc, you won't get too far with this
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17y ago
In what ways do you think the internet will continue to disperse and converge? i think the internet helps refining the art by feedback loop. i learnt a lot reading success/fail experiments results posted in forums. needless to say, i won'
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17y ago
i have a 2gb image of win98 simply because win98 has generic kernel (you can swap the hard drive to any hardware and most of the time it won't BSOD). driver for samsung mfc was installed (never buy korean again, their hws are not friendly t
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17y ago
at least, in 2007 gore won nobel prize in technology for inventing the internet for his theoretical model on climate change, he's on the right path to win his second nobel prize ... in mathematics, no less.
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17y ago
plentyoffish, balsamiq and other single founder guys of course, single-founder startup is romanticized only by fool, like me ^@^
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17y ago
my late dad planted mango, star fruit, citrus, durian, guava. i have fond memories about it ^@^ now i'm thinking about it, fruit is nature's fast food -- just pick and eat it up. just dump the remains on ground (bio-degradable by default)
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17y ago
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html 14.4.1 - About swap Historically, all kinds of rules have been tossed about to guide administrators on how much swap to configure on their machines. The problem, of course, is there are few "normal" a
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17y ago
is there any case not having swap hurt ? assume the RAM alone are enough for heaviest load, no memory leak, no exhaustive ... that's it, the server is never out of RAM memory hmmm, does hn server use swap?
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17y ago
what approach? don't you get lower pressure at high altitude, thus cooking takes longer ... or do i get it backward?
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17y ago
for simple things, always build is better if one is less dependent to time and money actually, scratch that, it's even better when time and money are tight in my case, i bought baking, washing soda and lye for my hygiene. 5kg each, each kg
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17y ago
i think #1 should be #6 to make sense. after one is forced to build, do sales and being efficient, there's little time left to raise money
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17y ago
i agree, it's amazing what ms office can do these days. my niece did image manipulation (gradient, bending, shearing, shadowing) by just clicking on previews in ms office 2009?. the same feat would take me 15 mins in gimp
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17y ago
true, ui != photoshop. one can have pixel-perfect but unusable site i like ui.jquery; adapt the API & bundled example source-code to simple projects, then after practicing, apply to larger projects. for ornaments, i like inkscape (pkg_
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17y ago
oh no! ... i'm not in the list T_T
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17y ago
i was denied usa visitor visa in 2007 -- the interviewer said i didn't put specific date, despite me having entered usa multiple time during the last 25 years i guess she got a point. i never really miss usa much so i never really intended
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17y ago
but norway is debt-free (accourding tfa) i'm not sure about uae, especially dubai
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