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I thought they were referring to Neil deGrasse Tyson, which made the title highly implausible.
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Where does DataNitro run - is it an add-in, is it a desktop program that operates on external Excel files, or are the files uploaded to, and processed on your site? If it's an add-in, is it Windows-only (COM)?
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When there's nothing on my reading list from other sources, I go to the Project Gutenberg most popular downloads list: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/%3Fsort_order%3Ddownl...
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> Office 365 Home and Personal subscribers totaled more than 5.6 million I'm surprised that's so low, especially considering that 1.1 billion people use Microsoft Office [1]. Given how hard Microsoft has been pushing Office 365
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I never noticed the Close button before, so I tried it w/o the ?share=1 in another browser. I get "Close & Read First Answer". All the answers after the first were blurred. I think this is the first time I've seen a
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A shortage of scientists and techies? Think again(cbsnews.com)
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> Wankers Corner Saloon and Cafe, Wilsonville, Oregon That's where the bar moved to a few years ago. The actual location is in West Linn, OR - right next to a school. I used to drive by there every day, and I'm happy to report
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I normally browse using Firefox with the NoScript add-on. The other day I was using Chrome, and following an HN link, the article had an ad with colored balloons cascading down the screen. On another site, I got a pop-under ad. On yahoo New
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This is one of the most cynical threads I've seen on HN. I hope you're undeterred by the reactions here. If HN starts funding hardware startups - especially ones that that manufacture locally - the multiplier effect [1] can be sig
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An o-shibori (hot towel) service. They're common in Japanese restaurants, and when I visited Tokyo in the middle of summer, I looked forward to the hot towel almost as much as the meal. You could resell or lease the equipment and provi
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> Its a shame you have to play 'guess the download link' - that has really stopped me from recommending it to people recently. It's one of the tools available on Ninite. Point them there instead: https://ninite.
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This is the same principle behind self-cleaning solar panels: https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/energy/self...
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Related: Sixty Symbols did a video about the Jabulani football used in 2010: http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/football.htm Sixty Symbols (from the University of Nottingham) does a nice job making videos about physics
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Maybe because it's resized down. In contrast to what others have replied, I personally find PNG file sizes to be horrible for thumbnails - even after running through optipng.
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He mentions that he was inspired by this article: http://baymard.com/blog/visually-reinforce-sensitive-fields From which it looks like he copied the "128-bit SSL" text verbatim.
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Good points. One more: * Getting interrupted partway through the edits. I call this the "working out of your home office when you have kids" error. Now, I don't copy-paste-edit similar lines anymore. I find that editing is of
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Did you redesign it from scratch or were you able to leverage any existing code? Were the original developers developing against a (mostly) static spec, or were the terms constantly being changed up until October of last year? Are there any
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This is the alt, the PP icon is http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/pied-piper/
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by nhebb 12y ago
I agree with you. I think the humanities are important not only for what they teach, but also in that they attract people with a different view of the world (and way of thinking, perhaps) than is common in the sciences. From the perspective
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by nhebb 12y ago
As the time of me writing this, it looks like you're being downvoted (which I don't think is fair), but I think your answer points to one of the problems. Grading in the humanities is more subjective. By analogy, Olympic gymnastic
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In virtual space that is more meaningful than in physical space. Manufacturing automation relies on fixtures, tooling, and material movement. Having been a industrial engineer in a variety of industries, I can think of only a small handful
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I think it's a SlideShare issue unrelated to this site. On my system, SlideShare bumps the CPU usage up to 50% or more in both Firefox and Chrome.
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I developed a set of utilities for Excel ( http://www.breezetree.com/spreadspeed/ ), and I started adding some auditing features to it. After spending a few weeks on the auditing tools, I decided that I should do a littl
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In Gmail, clicking the "Why the ad?" link pops up this message: "This ad is based on emails from your mailbox and information from your Google account. Ads Settings puts you in control of the ads you see." So clearly t
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> Copy and paste doesn't help you at all with this. Generally I agree with this, but there is a way to use copy-pasta as a learning tool. If I find a code sample that does what I want but don't understand it, here is what I do:
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Yeah, my machine learned not to visit that page again.
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It looks like you're right. After posting my question I clicked through to the GPI site ( http://www.planetimager.org ), which says the project is imaging and characterizing exoplanets. And, in case anyone else is curious, an
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Serious question: Is there a difference between a planet and an alien planet, or is it just a bit of flair added to the title?
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I think language popularity falls into two different categories: (1) languages other people will pay you to work in, and (2) languages that you would work in of your own choice. For #1, I would measure the frequency that a language appears
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I'm surprised AdBlock is so popular. I tried it a few years ago and noticed the sluggishness immediately. I know it's not a feasible alternative in everyone's opinion, but if you're running a low end machine and want to

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