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by signal11 11y ago
One can share documents just fine on Google Drive and Dropbox. Doesn't need Microsoft Office, but works with it as well. Removing placeholder files on Windows 10 was a kneecap to users with small SSDs. You may think it makes perfect se
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by signal11 11y ago
I'd just like to add a point to jasode's excellent point about getting hung up about orthography, which is that please don't define math using English. It's a terrible thing to do -- for example, the en-us 5x3 = 5 times
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by signal11 11y ago
> ... does have a very well-defined mathematical meaning: a x b := b + ... + b. Please complete the definition. which is that a x b = b x a, so a x b can also be written as a x .. x a. There is nothing special about the order.
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by signal11 11y ago
Ironically, the person who posted the linked-to article has a another post called "Common Core is not the enemy" https://medium.com/i-math/common-core-math-is-not-the-enemy-... Reading the BS rationalizations
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by signal11 11y ago
> The point is that because the 5 is first, as everyone can see, it has a specific job in the repeated addition technique. Um, this is sophistry. The question asked for "5 x 3" using repeated addition. The x is a very well defi
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by signal11 11y ago
Because where I come from, we use the English equivalent of "into" rather than "times". "5 into 3" roughly translates to "5, 3 times". The meta-point here is that English (or any other language) is cr
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by signal11 11y ago
Exactly. And this is why we use math operators rather than English terms for math operations. If you want to specifically mean 5 times a group of 3, define a new operator for it, like 5 ○ 3. Don't 'overload' the x operator wi
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by signal11 11y ago
I think the meta-lesson for the child is that there'll always be people like the teacher who marked "5+5+5" wrong and this guy who defends it with bullshit reasoning, and part of learning to deal with the world involves learn
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by signal11 11y ago
I found this link interesting. Under this "Common Core" curriculum, apparently, students are trained to read 5x3 as "five groups of three" which is why 3+3+3+3+3 is right and 5+5+5 is wrong. http://www.busines
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by signal11 11y ago
I think the parent poster meant, Windows (including 10, presumably, per Microsoft's 2014 announcement) is free to OEMs for devices with a screen size < 9 inches.
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by signal11 11y ago
> > There are lots of people who are content with its restrictions. Much of the use of ChromeOS and ChromeBooks is in education (where they compete with Macs and iPads), where the buyers are not the users, and the restrictions are act
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by signal11 11y ago
When I was in school, we knew of no extra-solar planets. Now that we know how to look, they seem to be everywhere. Similarly, I suspect life will turn out to be common once we can send probes to the places that could harbour them. Intellige
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by signal11 11y ago
Or indeed a well-received musical about the life of a Founding Father (I did not see that coming): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_%28musical%29
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by signal11 11y ago
Weird, I use 1Password on Windows and iOS and it works great.
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by signal11 11y ago
Why's the Windows version "lacklustre" compared to the Mac version? I thought 1Password 4 for Windows is at feature-parity with the Mac version, they even have sync over wifi which was missing in 1Password 3.x for Windows.
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by signal11 11y ago
I used Lastpass for random web passwords (everything except banking/shopping) but moved to 1Password, mainly because they could sync between desktop and mobile without using the cloud.
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by signal11 11y ago
> I pay for the sins of my demographic category in car insurance premiums Does your insurer offer lower premiums if you get a "black box" attached to your car and can demonstrate you drive safely? Asking because I'm curiou
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by signal11 11y ago
> You can post updates visible only to a group of people You can in theory, however in practice I've found it to be very cumbersome. I spent some time in 2011 trying to sort my Facebook 'friends' into groups - people I kno
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by signal11 11y ago
UK's at about 2% :-( mainly thanks to major ISPs like BT not supporting IPv6 for their residential customers. Although that looks like it'll change[1] by 2016. [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34346803
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by signal11 11y ago
Isn't ESET (NOD32) Czech too? They are pretty decent and I quite like their "gets out of your way" UX.
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by signal11 11y ago
imho, if Active Directory/ADAM ran on Linux demand for Windows Server would drop considerably. However Windows Server is also used to deliver Citrix-style remote desktops (using App Virtualization[1]) and that would be harder to replac
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by signal11 11y ago
That's not iOS, just Safari. Tweetbot, for example, prompts you if a webpage within it tries to take you out of the app.
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by signal11 11y ago
I read a column about that recently: "End the IAS" (the IAS is the successor to the Colonial-era ICS iirc) http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/mihir-s-sha...
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by signal11 11y ago
That overlays is probably part of the FT's paywall, and their paywall is quite strict. I'd say FT links aren't ideal for HN, since many (most?) HN readers are unlikely to have FT subscriptions. (They do allow ~10 articles a m
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by signal11 11y ago
What are the power consumption implications of embedding a web component like this? Will this be harder on the battery than using native drawing APIs?
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by signal11 11y ago
I don't have a Windows 10 box near me but I remember an option to send typing data back to Microsoft, which I switched off. I see they have a short FAQ about it too: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10&#x
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by signal11 11y ago
Oracle is very popular for mission-critical databases in banks. I've seen Sybase used in banks too but it's definitely less popular now than it used to be.
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by signal11 11y ago
A criticism of online bookshops like Amazon is that they destroy serendipity by encouraging you to look at related books. For example, someone who usually buys engineering textbooks and SF may never see a travelogue. Offline recommendations
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by signal11 11y ago
I just noticed that the old EXEs -- sol.exe and winmine.exe -- are not bundled with Windows 7 (Win7 has Solitaire.exe and MineSweeper.exe). I wonder if copying the EXEs over to Win10 will work.
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by signal11 11y ago
RIPA in the UK already allows for mandatory key disclosure if required by law enforcement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King... And intelligence agencies have been known to retain encrypted c

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