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I think the open data approach, where readers do not pay, but authors do, shows who really is the customer in the academic publishing business: the authors who must publish to advance in their career. It used to be that the reader, as som
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This line of reasoning can be equally applied to lottery, though.
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While the problems with templates and huge includes are undeniable, I've found in my experience that for a decently size C++ program the linking stage alone can take way more than the 3-4 seconds the GP is talking about. C and C++ are
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I think this partly overstates the complexity of validating an e-mail address in a registration form or similar. If your aim is only to get a syntactically correct address to which you can try to deliver mail to, you don't need to acce
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I was very surprised to find Caracas at #9 in the linked article of most expensive cities in the world; Venezuela having a pro capita GDP of around $13K I would have expected the cost of life to be quite low. Does anyone have first hand exp
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We have that in Italy as well: there is a section of the civil code that states your right to chase your domesticated animals, but an other one that singles out bees explicitly. Curiously, the section about bees comes before the generic one
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> I worked at one and we had stacks and stacks of modems - 100's of them - each with their own phone line, power brick, and serial cable. Now that's something I'd love to see picture of!
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cpp-netlib provides an embeddable HTTP server based on boost::asio, which adopts a proactor pattern. As with all things boost, it is well made and elegant, and takes a bit getting used to. The Poco Net libraries include a more traditional t
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Maybe it's a simplistic explanation, but I would think that this was caused by the vast amount of multi-language sites in which pages in languages other than english have not been written yet, so selecting one of them displays the lore
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From the article summary: tamoxifen caused a dramatic regression of tumors in animals with either high nighttime levels of melatonin during complete darkness or those receiving melatonin supplementation during dim light at night exposure.
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I got my first job as a programmer at 26, with only a BA in philosophy in my pockets and no previous work experience whatsoever, so I'm pretty sure you can succeed, and you don't need to go back to uni for that. Sure, I was a bit