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by lunchbox 18y ago
True, but as far as I understand, Microsoft's main Canadian development center in Vancouver is mainly set up as a place where Canadian engineers can work for a few years until they get visas to work in Redmond. And Google's offerings in Can
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by lunchbox 18y ago
By the way, one of the challenges I see in working in Canada is finding a software company that can compare to Google and Microsoft in terms of being both innovative and established. RIM is the closest I can think of. Here's a neat ranking
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Ask HN: Tech jobs in US vs. Canada
3 points by lunchbox 18y ago|8 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Do you know where I can find a list describing the highest penetrance genetic tests that I can compare with 23andme's offerings?
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Strange how no one seemed to care how much money the War in Iraq would cost I cared; I think it's an absurd waste of money. I think all forms of governmental spending need justification. That's what fiscal responsibility is about.
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by lunchbox 18y ago
"Why do people keep moaning about the price tag and speculating on the industrial aspects..." Maybe because billions of dollars of taxpayer money are being used to fund this project. You can spend your own money however you want, but if y
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by lunchbox 18y ago
How might the discoveries of the LHC experiment be applied? For instance, is it likely that the knowledge gained will allow the creation of new technology? None of the news articles I read touched on this point.
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by lunchbox 18y ago
$1000 to $399 is a big drop. Any insights on whether medical experts generally regard this test to be worth the money? In theory, I'd like to know whether I'm at a risk of various diseases so that I can take measures to reduce my risk. The
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by lunchbox 18y ago
What is HH?
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Ask HN: Favorite websites for intelligent discussion?
44 points by lunchbox 18y ago|42 comments
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Sachs: Mobile devices "most transformative technology of economic development of our time"(project-syndicate.org)
3 points by lunchbox 18y ago|2 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
I'll read that paper when I have a chance.
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by lunchbox 18y ago
90% of the time, there is no lost income because there was never any potential to begin with. You seem to be making an argument about how rates of piracy are distributed across different products. How does this make the effects of piracy
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by lunchbox 18y ago
they may or may not lose up to 10% of potential income I want to remind readers that this 10% (or <=10%, as you just phrased it) is a made-up figure. what if i made the assertion that, in addition, 10% of people who pirated something
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by lunchbox 18y ago
I'm challenging your assertion that "piracy does not steal income".
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by lunchbox 18y ago
"The best example I heard was this: say you're a baker and you sell bread. One day it starts raining bread, and people pick up their bread from the street rather than pay for yours. It sucks for you that you aren't getting money from your
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by lunchbox 18y ago
OK, accepting your made-up figure of 90%, what about the other 10% who would pay for the item they're pirating?
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by lunchbox 18y ago
What does weapons research have to do with my comment? I would rather see my tax money go to things like Alzheimer's/cancer research and public health measures. I'm not against people researching stuff like the eclipse in the Odyssey for fu
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by lunchbox 18y ago
I hope no taxpayer dollars were used to fund this research.
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by lunchbox 18y ago
One thing I do when I'm bored is to prove the equations I've been taught in my math classes but have never seen derived (like many people, I often skip past the proofs in the textbook when I'm in a rush to finish my homework). Deriving thes
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Wink is free and helps you make great screencasts: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
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by lunchbox 18y ago
This looks extremely impressive. Note, however: "The Ubigraph server is not yet ported to Windows. We hope to release a Windows version in the future. Note, however, that you can run the server on a Mac or Linux machine, and run the client
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by lunchbox 18y ago
For short Python scripts, I use Emacs; for bigger projects, I fire up Eclipse + PyDev.
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by lunchbox 18y ago
It depends if you're looking for a textbook or more entertaining general-audience book. If the former, check out Principles of Economics, as mathoda suggested. If the latter, here are Mankiw's recommendations: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.co
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Right. LyX is a graphical front-end to LaTeX, meaning it can do virtually anything LaTeX can do. I'm a pretty avid user, since I also find that Word/OpenOffice lack many features that scientists use.
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LyX: Open-source word processor for mathematicians/academics(lyx.org)
19 points by lunchbox 18y ago|18 comments
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by lunchbox 18y ago
If you're looking for an economics forum, check out Freakonomics. The discussion there is pretty intelligent. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Try salary.com for statistics on this. -- enter "Software Engineer I" or "web developer".
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by lunchbox 18y ago
Are you looking to store web pages along with your annotations, or just your personal notes? Also, does it necessarily have to be stored online? Firefox's ScrapBook extension and OneNote are two excellent tools I have used.
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Very cool. Have you seen Pyphant? http://www.fmf.uni-freiburg.de/service/Servicegruppen/sg_wis... There's also Vision, which uses Python: http://mgltools.scripps.edu/packages/vision/overview I have used Simulink (with Matlab) before, an

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