lunchladydoris

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Shell made a film about climate change in 1991(thecorrespondent.com)
169 points by lunchladydoris 9y ago|85 comments
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by lunchladydoris 9y ago
I just had a look at the first video in the first course on YouTube [0] and was delighted to see Herb Gross responding in the comments. Clearly this is a man who loves his subject and loves introducing it to others. [0] https://w
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
Exactly what I was going to suggest. If you're just going to mess around to see what it's like developing running Linux, save the $300 and do it in a virtual machine to start with. Then if you like it you can buy some hardware.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
This was mentioned here a couple weeks ago. I watched it and his previous film, Bitter Lake, in quick succession. Both were really interesting and well worth the time.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
I don't mean to be that person, but it's Timothy Gowers, not James.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
I enjoy a mathematics textbook as much as the next person, but what annoys me is the lack of solutions to the problems in so many of the books I've skimmed outside of classes.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
I worked through a couple chapters of SICP using Racket and the SICP package in DrRacket before moving on to Emacs and Geiser. DrRacket is a great starting point if you don't want to bother with setting up Emacs and the SICP package ev
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
I have no idea what the hell I'm watching. But it's interesting.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
Did you use something before Bokeh that you preferred, or is your comment based on Bokeh being generally better than Matplotlib?
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
Perhaps universities have overlooked a simple solution to illiterate students: don't admit them! But of course, that won't look good on the bottom line, so in they come.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
I love the magazine scans. They're almost always a good reminder of how much things have changed, and how cheap things have become.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
I wonder how many of those 1M users pay? I saw that it's free for personal use.
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Ask HN: Do you have examples of Facebook using your microphone for ads?
49 points by lunchladydoris 10y ago|63 comments
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
Out of curiosity I searched for the Wall Street Journal subscription page. I selected my country (UK) and then clicked on the subscription offer. I was then taken to a Hong Kong page with no obvious way of changing it back to the UK. If the
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
Discovering this really changed Vim for me. That and remapping j and k to move over visual lines instead of logical lines.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
It's there, just outside the top 30. Select the Computer Science category and you'll see it near the bottom.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
Since the content is way, way above my head, I'll only comment by saying that I find it quite annoying how many academic papers don't have a date on the front page. It's a small thing, but can help to establish context.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
This is my favourite book about writing. It's not only filled with insight but itself serves as a perfect example of what the author is recommending you do.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
People shouldn't have a supply for use when they feel like it. Antibiotics are a last resort, not first! If someone has some left over then they did not finish the previous course, which means that they have potentially allowed the str
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
At the individual level, I've always thought of antibiotic misuse as (at least in some part) a symptom of our resistance to authority. People end their antibiotic course early (and then usually use the remaining pills another time) bec
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
There are two small things you can do: 1. Always finish your course of antibiotics. Even if you're feeling better. The course is as long as it is for a reason. 2. If for some reason you choose not to do (1) above, do not ever give some
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
"A spokeswoman for the Education Department said that the problem resulted from a technical programming error." I would love to get the story behind this. The cynic in me wants to say it was an Excel screw-up.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
This doesn't surprise me at all. I'm not in the US, but the picture I get from abroad is that Americans are pushed to go to college, without really making sure that this is actually what they want to do or is in their best interes
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
For me the Pomodoro technique is about starting, not finishing. I normally devise ways to procrastinate but PT allows me to fool myself into starting by committing a small period of time.
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The Programmer’s Guide to Booking a Plane(hackernoon.com)
5 points by lunchladydoris 10y ago|0 comments
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
I hate all of those too, which is why a good podcast app is a must. I use Overcast and its ability to quickly skip forward and speed up is awesome.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
- The Prize, by Daniel Yergin ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/184... ) It's a history of oil over the last 150 years. Sounds boring. It's not. It's one of the best books I&#
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
It's sites like this that make me love the Internet.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
If Oracle is your flavour of SQL, PL/SQL Developer is very nice and has a good formatter built in.
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by lunchladydoris 10y ago
I'm confused. The chart says that local sales taxes are included. In the UK, VAT is 20%, so what's so strange about the price being 20% higher than in the US?

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