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In Hot Pursuit of Fusion (or Folly)(nytimes.com)
9 points by physcab 17y ago|3 comments
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by physcab 17y ago
Thanks for joining. Stay a while and contribute as much as you can. I'm a semi-newbie myself and I've learned a ton just by checking in everyday.
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by physcab 17y ago
“When a competitor reaches the kind of dominance Google has, it’s almost impossible to catch them” Eh, didn't they say that about Lycos, Altavista, and Yahoo? Google is pretty sweet, but internet folk are decently fickle. Show them a bette
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by physcab 17y ago
This article gives me the same feeling of when I watch movies with a horrible scientific plot (eg The Transformers). It's entertaining, but so off the mark. I guess writing about the Multilayer Perceptron, Support/Relevance Vector Machines
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by physcab 17y ago
Hey, I'm a science/math guy. I can do triple integrals in my sleep but proper english grammar is a whole other ball game.
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by physcab 17y ago
I almost got hit by a girl in a Beetle texting. I couldn't believe my life almost ended due to a 140 character message.
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Made of 100% Cotton; It's Sales are 99% Ironic(washingtonpost.com)
13 points by physcab 17y ago|11 comments
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by physcab 17y ago
Yeah that was one of those quotes that someone else had sent to me and I remembered it when I read the OP. I did a search but couldn't come up with any sources. But the other part of the quote is this: "Success is not final, failure is not
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by physcab 17y ago
Last year I built an application that aimed to integrate existing utility information. At first I just scrapped the info from a utility-login, but they weren't too happy about it. I eventually met with the IT department of our local utilit
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by physcab 17y ago
I am always astounded by those who don't have very good "people skills." I guess I take mine for granted. As much I'd like to say that these tips should be common sense, I have begun to recognize that for many people, social skills need to
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by physcab 17y ago
Winston Churchill said it best: "All great things are decided not by machines or gadgets, but by willpower. Whoever has it, will finally prevail"
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by physcab 17y ago
So right now I'm a PhD student and doing quite a bit of research for my proposal. Maybe I'm unique, but if I'm doing reading online, I don't exactly care about highlighting. If I come across something important, I just bookmark it. If it's
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by physcab 17y ago
Yah I'm a bit nervous. But doesn't a third party company handle all the identifiable details anyways? I don't really give a hoot if other people know how much I spend on Zipcar or groceries.
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by physcab 17y ago
Awesome. I can't wait to try this out!
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by physcab 17y ago
Really? I always found a good combination between a farmer's market and Trader Joes worked out best...atleast when I was in California. When I moved to Florida, we have a local joint called Wards which is incredible. It's pretty much a far
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by physcab 17y ago
There's not, aside from the general misgiving I have about the black-box nature of .Net stuff. Sometimes I feel like I'm not really hacking. :)
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by physcab 17y ago
Yes, your right. I've got enough experience with C#/.Net to really really appreciate VWD. But alas, cost. Also, porting Matlab scripts to .Net works quite well. If I can find something like VWD but for something like PHP instead, then I'd b
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by physcab 17y ago
I love learning new languages. I'm trying to pick up (on average) one per a year. The problem is that I become knowledgeable about a bunch of languages but not really an expert in any of them! Granted, I know there are some underlying simi
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by physcab 17y ago
Thanks for the tip. As per my comment below, is there an IDE similar to Visual Web Developer? This is what I'm most comfortable with and enjoy using.
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by physcab 17y ago
Thanks for the tip. I've tried Drupal before with another site. It's pretty slick, but it has a ton of stuff under-the-hood which I don't think I would need. As a result, my site ran ridiculously slow.
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by physcab 17y ago
I want to love PHP. I really do. It seems like everyone and their mom uses it, and thats why I tried to pick it up before. The problem for me has been an easy way of coding it. I mentioned Visual Web Developer in my OP. I'm not lying. I
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Ask HN: I've Got a Project, You Tell Me The Language
10 points by physcab 17y ago|32 comments
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by physcab 17y ago
I just finished talking to one of my best friends from home about how to cut her credit card debt. Being a graduate student has taught me valuable financial lessons that I'm incredibly grateful for. My first diagnosis: Quit trying to live
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by physcab 17y ago
I think what is happening to you is pretty normal. My advice to you is to be more honest with yourself and with your friendships. If your friends are boring you change up the conversation or suggest doing something exciting. If your friends
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by physcab 17y ago
There might be something here: http://www.appsamuck.com/
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by physcab 17y ago
Yah but at the same time, they never explicitly said you'd be able to do things with WA that you couldn't do with Google.
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Greed's Saving Graces(washingtonpost.com)
10 points by physcab 17y ago|6 comments
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by physcab 17y ago
Why is everyone comparing Google to Wolfram Alpha? Google is a 10 year old company! I wonder what answers Google served up on Day 2...
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by physcab 17y ago
Google might be the next company that is "too big to fail"
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by physcab 17y ago
Is anyone else getting sick of all the "Ask HN: [complaining]" threads? I understand the situation. People need to chill out. If you've got some beef with another user, just contact them personally. I, like you, just want to read interestin

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