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14y ago
I don't understand what the apprehension is towards learning mathematics. Take it at college (university). Take as much as you can. Take it instead of silly courses like philosophy (for which you can sit in a lecture in your spare time,
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From my experience, Rosetta Stone does not work. I've also found from reading the about other peoples' negative experiences with Rosetta Stone I'm not alone in this. It's a nice method in theory, but in in practice it fails. Here is one we
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No. I'd like to be retired before 50. I'll probably still code when I retire, but it will be in something like Mathematica or R while I sit around learning subjects that interest me.
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I'm currently writing a C program that runs on a router. The router has 4mb of flash. It also runs linux has wifi and all the usual crap. We added VPN support. I don't have the "luxury" of including Perl or any other "run time system" li
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15y ago
Perl's treatment of regex still trumps all. It's so pleasant to use in so many ways. It's for this reason alone I will probably never bother "switching" to Python or Ruby.
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Why is there an overwhelming assumption that alien life is going to be in any way more remotely intelligent than say, the average earth cockroach? I've always assumed that if we meet alien life, it's going to be smaller and dumber than hum
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I really like that there are so many clients. Would really like some kind of cloud-sync + mobile client for SuperMemo. It also only works in Windows which means I have to run it under VirtualBox. My only concern with Anki is whether it stil
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Why has no one mentioned SuperMemo? The software has been around since the 80's. I use it every single day (because you have to) for about 30 minutes to remember Latin vocabularly. It's based on spaced-repetition. If you feel a particular
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For those who want to see a serious use of this operator, see http://code.google.com/p/cii/source/browse/trunk/include/exc... line 35. This from an exception (try, catch, except macros) library for the C language. It is from a book call
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You're also missing the fact that the XOOM has 1 GIGABYTE of RAM. The iPad has 256mb of ram. The XOOM also has a DUAL CORE PROCESSOR. There are so many hardware differences between the two devices :)