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by rz2k 11y ago
It begins with “obviously” then says a few silly things. What does “with a lot more experience in software development” mean? Does that mean that the team at Microsoft is generally later in its career than the team at Apple? That’s kind of
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by rz2k 12y ago
I've come to really appreciate Bloomberg Businessweek. However, I've always felt the The Economist was flawed. To me it has resembled the type of conversation I would imagine an economics 101 student having with a student further
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by rz2k 12y ago
Doesn't you're asking for does happen in the practice of medicine? I thought part of why discussions about medicine become confusing is the difference between medical research and clinical practice of medicine. A particular course
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by rz2k 12y ago
I think the continuity features like automatically being able to load a Safari tab that I've loaded on any other Apple device is great. I thought Spotlight wasn't very good until I used it with a SSD. Many of the Yosemite features
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by rz2k 12y ago
I actually started going through Programming Elixir this past week because I was thinking it would eventually be a fun way to explore models through ad hoc substitution of rules and exogenous conditions. There are a lot of models availabl
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by rz2k 12y ago
How about in simulations where a large number of cellular automata are interacting with each other, but individually only carrying out simple computations?
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by rz2k 12y ago
The article briefly mentions Erlang with its focus on message passing, and the focus on being fault tolerant should be another benefit. I could find a few mentions of Erlang used for simulations, such as here[1], but I am curious whether th
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by rz2k 12y ago
Thanks a lot for the distraction! Assuming that the wire has a diameter of 2.5mm, there are two strands, and shortening by 1/3 accounts for the loss due to the twist and accounts for the mass of the barbs. Probably something like 9,000
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by rz2k 12y ago
Testing it out, I can't find any ads in the New Yorker app. However, the New York Times app has ads on the side near the bottom of articles, and most annoying, inline links to related NYT articles. The problem with the links to pr
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by rz2k 12y ago
Does she use a browser to access them, or the Newsstand? The Newsstand applications for both of those publications seem remarkably un-terrible, compared to their mobile websites. I agree that many news websites, even the mainstream ones, se
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by rz2k 12y ago
Use command-shift-/ (shortcut to help search) in OS X to find any menu items. It is nearly instantaneous. If Windows doesn't have the same thing already built in, I'd guess there must be some add-ons that do the same thing.
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by rz2k 12y ago
Since we're going off topic, I thought this was a pretty funny treatment of the ellipsis http://www.themillions.com/2014/01/dumbest-thing-ever-scribb...
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by rz2k 12y ago
To me it implies that the default password can be determined if you are able to discover the MAC address. Either the manufacturer might have it in a database that could be compromised, or the algorithms generating the MAC addresses and the
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by rz2k 12y ago
Because I'm bad at writing! (I meant right-option) You have no idea what I am doing with the esc, capslock, and control keys on the left side of my keyboard, but none of them are default. On the right however I'm just trying to ma
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by rz2k 12y ago
I use Karabiner and Seil which are great, but unless you are using an Apple keyboard with a numeric keyboard, you don't get a right-control key, which will matter for many of the most used commands for emacs. For me, when recently tryi
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by rz2k 12y ago
You're right that there seem to be interaction rules that are not stated in the tips. If you play a long game, then new pixels added later in the game are wiped out easily. Having recently done some agent-based modeling work which is r
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by rz2k 12y ago
Over the past few days I have been trying Julia. While I don't have much of an idea what I'm doing yet, and I'm probably doing a lot of unproductive premature optimization for the sake of exploring, I see a similar type of di
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by rz2k 12y ago
In fact it is a similar situation if you believe that the mission itself does not produce sufficient value. The salaries are not merely money being cycled around in the economy if the labor being paid for results in the scientists not hav
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by rz2k 12y ago
It's worth taking a look at `dplyr`. You can work with data tables or data frames (or a database), and the functions are in the same neighborhood as data.table functions in terms of speed. Also, in addition to `reshape2`, there is `tid
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by rz2k 12y ago
You also probably do not want a version control system that is "liable to unpredictable changes".
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by rz2k 12y ago
I believe that Sage was modeled after Magma, which isn't important, but I highly recommend this long blog post by William Stein[1] talking about his motivations, the problem of basing academic work on closed source software, and in the
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by rz2k 12y ago
The idea that there is some under-appreciated, reliable technology that's already solved a lot of problems people are trying to address today is compelling to me. In fact, I've learned that I almost need to actively ignore short p
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by rz2k 12y ago
Since a few people are mentioning that this is not news: >We’re rolling out this feature over the coming months to all U.S. Gmail users over 18 years old, so keep an eye out for the $ icon in the attachment options. I don't have the
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by rz2k 12y ago
There are a few adjustments to the data for getting a better impression of the data. For example "real" data attempt to minimize the distortions that come from changes in prices, while the raw "nominal" data measure econ
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by rz2k 12y ago
>Erlang will need to market itself once you start seeing unemployed Erlang programmers. All marketing Erlang does for Erlang programmers at this point is create competition for them I think you're getting at the idea that marketing
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by rz2k 12y ago
As I understand it all browsers on iOS use UIWebView rather than their own engines. However, the Opera Coast browser on iOS has a great user interface that is different from Safari.
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by rz2k 12y ago
Others have commented on here before about how that idea is incorporated into flight control systems. Here's an example with the Boeing 777 that uses separate architectures: >The aircraft has triple redundant digital autopilot and f
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by rz2k 12y ago
>[...seem to think] college is the answer to the current economic malaise, but I think it just leads to more and more people fighting over the same sized piece of pie That's a pretty outrageous statement. You're still a person
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by rz2k 12y ago
Does anyone here happen to know how Netflix is charged for content? Specifically, do they pay owners per viewing while they have a title licensed, or do they license get a license for unlimited customer uses? And, even if they do get rights
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by rz2k 12y ago
I think that is a good point, and one that comes up when working with SQL. Even though the relational algebra does joins by the name of attributes, and it's common to filter according to patterns, parameterized statements are an import

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