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by plg 11y ago
"I found scientists to be more preoccupied by their own survival in a very competitive research environment than by the development of a true understanding of the world." I have found this as well. However it's important to r
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by plg 11y ago
I had a 3rd year undergrad CS class in "Programming Paradigms" where the final exam involved writing programs in Prolog, Lisp, C, and Fortran ... With paper and pen. It was awesome. As I recall I scored a 100 and was a TA for the
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by plg 11y ago
i think they use linux
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by plg 11y ago
Love these tutorials. Not sure that the LaTeX font is the right choice for a web page though.
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by plg 11y ago
"Meanwhile, Gmail has excellent IMAP support" HAHAHAHAHA good one
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by plg 11y ago
Unless you need to take your money out in the next couple of months (or unless you are facing a margin call) why not consider this as a fire sale? Your favourite stocks and mutual funds, ON SALE!
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Aral Balkan – Privacy Data, Democracy(videos.theconference.se)
1 points by plg 11y ago|0 comments
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Fighting for literature in an age of algorithms(harpers.org)
1 points by plg 11y ago|0 comments
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Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period(slate.com)
3 points by plg 11y ago|1 comments
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by plg 11y ago
Live coding is spectacularly good when teaching. I teach a graduate course in scientific computing and one of the most effective ways that my students learn how to attack a problem, how to debug a program, how to get started when there is a
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Can Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre Save the Music Industry?(wired.com)
3 points by plg 11y ago|0 comments
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by plg 11y ago
The Economist is a prime example of how for-pay curated content can work and can work well to serve a market... a wide market. Can you imagine, just imagine, how craptastic The Economist would be if it were "free" and all you had
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by plg 11y ago
"Project Lightwave is an open source project comprised of enterprise-grade, identity and access management services targeting critical security, governance, and compliance challenges for Cloud-Native Apps within the enterprise. "
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by plg 11y ago
done---sorry!!! was a lazy cut-and-paste
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University Students are Afraid of Everything(jpminda.wordpress.com)
150 points by plg 11y ago|232 comments
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by plg 11y ago
Maybe ad blocking and the ensuing evisceration of the "free but agree to view ads tailored to you via the deep profiling of your identity using information you would ordinarily presume to be private" business model will be good fo
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by plg 11y ago
yes exactly. My criticism is only if point 2 is used as evidence of point 3. I see this a lot. If point 2 is used only as a means to generate a hypothesis, which is then tested empirically, then absolutely this is fine thanks for the clarif
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by plg 11y ago
1. we don't know how the brain does complicated thing X 2. we have discovered a way to program a computer to do complicated thing X 3. maybe the brain works like this too This is faulty reasoning and I see it again and again. This is n
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by plg 11y ago
A secret of happiness : you don't have to wait until you're 60
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by plg 11y ago
every now and then: flash (because I don't want to install flash system-wide)
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Ask HN: Is there any reason not to install (and use) Google chrome on my mac?
4 points by plg 11y ago|4 comments
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The Mechanics of the Film Projector(youtube.com)
1 points by plg 11y ago|0 comments
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by plg 11y ago
"I am infinitely more comfortable with an Apple device collecting personal information than I am with some of the competing products from other companies"
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The Value of Basic Research(whitehouse.gov)
2 points by plg 11y ago|0 comments
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by plg 11y ago
"it's that"
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by plg 11y ago
so Q: do you guys/gals think this is intentional? Or did Apple encounter a last minute hiccup with iTunes 12.2? Could be that they intentionally want to load up on iOS subscribers first... who knows why (maybe network bandwidth is more
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by plg 11y ago
"Douglas Coupland is currently artist in residence at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris" Try explaining THAT to someone from past decades. Wow
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by plg 11y ago
it's true ... chalk up some of my snark to my own anxiety & hypochondria, projected outward
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by plg 11y ago
nice times!!! I take your points, it does sound like people around her have concerns and maybe the quotes I selected to illustrate my snark can be more chalked up to typical adolescence.
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by plg 11y ago
sure! but I'm not sure what that has to do with my comments or anything else. But yes I 100% totally agree with your statement.

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