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by nagrom 15y ago
I'm in the exact same situation. My way forward is to get an external consultancy project worth $XM and use that as an example.
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by nagrom 15y ago
Well, one pint an hour or two before bed time wouldn't leave me groggy the next morning either, but it also wouldn't help me sleep at all ;-)
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by nagrom 15y ago
Beer may help you sleep, but it will, in my experience, leave you feeling groggy the next day and impair your performance more than you would have suffered through lack of sleep. There are many good reasons to drink beer, but to help you sl
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by nagrom 15y ago
I actually worked on the St Genis side and ate at resto 3 a lot...I agree it's bad, but it's still much, much better than the DESY canteen. There are no words...when I lived in Hamburg, I used to eat PausenBrot from the vending machines rat
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by nagrom 15y ago
This sounds very much like how it is to work at DESY and CERN. However, at CERN and even more so at DESY, the general environs are not that pleasant. CERN can be pretty sweet, although many of the buildings don't have aircon and the furni
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by nagrom 15y ago
I disagree. He's British, and allegedly committed a crime in Britain, against British law. He should be tried and, if found guilty, punished in Britain. Why is that not happening? It may be the case that he has also committed a crime in the
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by nagrom 15y ago
However, he hasn't been prosecuted in the UK. Why not? There's a saying that, if your dog must be shot, it is best to do it yourself. Farming it out makes the act worse, not better. If a UK citizen is suspected of committing a crime in the
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by nagrom 15y ago
The background story of Évariste Galois is phenomenal. He was expelled from school twice, fought in a revolutionary unit, was imprisoned for threatening the life of the king and revolutionised mathematics forever. He died in a duel over a w
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by nagrom 15y ago
It's maybe worth noting that the Nobel prize in 2008 was given to three Japanese (two actual-Japanese and one Tokyo-born American) scientists for the prediction and inclusion of CP-violating broken symmetries in QCD: http://www.nobelprize.
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Pete Townshend calls Apple 'a vampire'(bbc.co.uk)
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by nagrom 15y ago
YT was in Snow Crash and I think that HT should be HP: Hiro Protagonist. Although I don't remember that quote in the book.
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by nagrom 15y ago
" In 1998, the Internal Revenue Service estimated that taxpayers spent six billion hours per year on “tax compliance activities.” That’s serious shadow work, the equivalent of three million full-time jobs." Does that mean that the U.S spend
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by nagrom 15y ago
There are many, many third-world countries where the gap between the 1 and the 99% is much larger than it is in the Western world. Without wishing to be depressing, I see no obvious reason why our society couldn't slip into the same trap; i
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by nagrom 15y ago
Your counter is full of holes, I think, and you cannot simply dismiss in parenthesis the thousands of dollars lost by consumers whose access to music has been revoked when several online music stores went out of business; that's not reasona
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by nagrom 15y ago
Work in progress; if/when it gets finished, I'll post it on here.
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by nagrom 15y ago
No. He's not trying to keep a car on the road. He's trying to let you understand the problems behind keeping a car on the road, so that you should solve that problem for yourself.
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by nagrom 15y ago
I'm a physicist studying nucleon structure. This is a field so complicated that other physicists typically shake their heads and mutter "must be mad". We typically work at several layers of abstraction. This (Tangle) is the one tool that I'
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by nagrom 15y ago
I disagree. The failure to consider the case where the target value is equal to the pivot is one of the classic blunders of writing a quicksort (along with not considering type limits and getting involved in a land war in Asia). Almost so m
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by nagrom 15y ago
You're wrong. I use 2 private repos. I'm an academic and most of my work is open-sourced, except for two repos that represent external consultancy projects that I don't have the rights to open source. I also think that you're wrong about bi
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by nagrom 15y ago
I work on self-developed projects as a consultant that I don't have the rights to open source. Because of that, I need to use Github's paid account plan, even though I'm the only person who contributes code to that project. So, I'll be seri
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by nagrom 15y ago
I'm surprised that the 'special offers' are so good. I had never considered buying the ad-supported version, but the offers referenced seem pretty good. As an aside, the light-grey text on white background made that article very difficult t
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by nagrom 15y ago
Unlikely, unless you keep the same spec. If you want to remain competitive with Apple and Android, you're in a spec. race and now you've raised expectations, you need to match them.
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by nagrom 15y ago
In a lot of cases, you can find the pre-print of the paper on arXiv.org (at least that's the case for my field of nuclear and particle physics.) Copyright imposed by journals is an odd beast, since I think few people subscribe to them direc
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by nagrom 15y ago
Well, it seems there's a lot of the author's points covered by upgrading to business class, but that's an extra $1000 transatlantic, not $200. If it was $200, I'd pay the upgrade fee myself even if my employer wouldn't cover it. Unfortunate
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by nagrom 15y ago
Oh, if it became popular, I have no doubt that the government would happily ban baseball bats. Here in Glasgow, it's relatively popular to use a sawn-off golf club as an impromptu spear. However, it shouldn't be up to a private company to r
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by nagrom 15y ago
So, we refuse to sell bats to people who want to play baseball in the middle of the summer (the item's main and intended innocent purpose) because other people want to use them for other purposes? If you don't explicitly do that, you need t
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by nagrom 15y ago
Not in technology! If you can code C++ or Java, you can get a job in a bank. If you can make electronics, look to Siemens or a multitude of smaller tech companies. The same sort of persons are sought by DSTL or Qinetiq, or even AWE. The ban
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by nagrom 15y ago
Hm. I don't know much about American government positions, but I do know that here in the UK the government positions tend not to be very attractive. On top of working in a very constrained environment (can't use any of your own hardware, c
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by nagrom 15y ago
I had the same question. I had these thoughts: It looks like python, so the semi-colons are unnecessary. If you want to rid yourself of datetime for whatever reason, implement it as a list, returning name_of_day[x], so that you can start th
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by nagrom 15y ago
I really hope you're not a security auditor? ;-)

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