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by tassl 15y ago
You're right about the name, but I think they still collect money, what they're not collecting right now is just the digital canon.
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by tassl 15y ago
Even though I live in the US I am not really sure how the royalties system works here. In Spain there is a society, called SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores Espanyoles) that collects the money from the artist that they represent. This socie
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by tassl 15y ago
Investment in Spain has been (traditionally) far away from technology. Starting a company in Spain is not easy and people are generally looking for a stable job, they don't want to take the risk of starting a new company. In my opinion, Spa
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by tassl 15y ago
In some sense, I had this feeling when I came to the US for the first time. I was used to study in Universities were the failure % could be easily below 10% for some courses (Calculus, Algebra being an example). In most of the courses the b
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by tassl 15y ago
The only way I have been able to watch Netflix in Linux was with a VM running Windows XP (max RAM and Graphic card power). In my first trial I tried it with 1GB of RAM and the sound was not working fine. Of course, this is not a real Linux
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by tassl 15y ago
In the original link there are useful problems for a web developer, but they are far from being science problems.
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by tassl 15y ago
You can't compare stealing $5000 with streaming $5000 worth of music/video; they are completely different concepts. By streaming you are not stealing material from anybody nor it can be proven that it affects negatively on sales. disturbin
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by tassl 15y ago
Unless they have changed the definition, back when I studied it the mole was defined as the number of particles found in 12 grams of C (C-12), 6.022*10^23. So the mole depended on the gram.
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by tassl 16y ago
a) You're still talking about physical copies, which is not the case. b) He is not selling anything.
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by tassl 16y ago
He was not selling nor streaming (copying) anything, he was directing you to the "store" where you could watch streaming video.
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by tassl 16y ago
You don't need to have the best engineers/doctors teaching. Being an expert on something doesn't make a person a good teacher, which is a more important factor than the knowledge of that person. But a person can be a good teacher without be
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by tassl 16y ago
I am not arguing the utility of having a Spanish HN nor I want to criticize the utility of knowing English. But for some Spanish /Latin American Hackers time is also a constrain and they might not have time to be fluent at a foreign languag
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by tassl 16y ago
This might be a little bit off-topic, but has somebody played with the tools that blind cs programmers use to program? Read/write/navigate,... What I mean is, has somebody any insight if it would be worth it, from a productivity point of vi
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by tassl 16y ago
The problem here is that you were comparing yourself with the rest of the people. I have trained track and field for some years now and if I would try to compare myself with Michael Johnson, I would always be a failure. But in every sport y
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by tassl 16y ago
It depends on what are you referring to with the real world. Are you talking about money? Yeah, sure, you can even have 200x accomplishment with .1x effort. The message is the culture of effort, and I could not agree more. If you "teach" yo
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by tassl 16y ago
Yes, I agree with you that the Spanish housing bubble was (and still is) insane. I don't have current numbers, but in this website you can check the number of houses started in Spain and compare them with other countries: http://www.casast
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by tassl 16y ago
Born and raised, but currently not living in Barcelona; I moved to California for Graduate studies. As you probably should know by now it's a really beautiful city. And probably the city with more entrepreneurs on the country, which unfortu
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by tassl 16y ago
Being born in a foreign country, I have to smile when I see a blog entry like this one. I agree that the salary is relative to where people are living and I get the point of the writer. To specify an example, let's say that some Silicon Val
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by tassl 16y ago
There were 2 projects back in the university that made me improve my programming skills: building an OS (multithreading based on a DOS system) and building a compiler (using JavaCC). In a different way, learning Lisp and Prolog, which basic
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by tassl 16y ago
The function diverges for x>2, converges to 1 if x=1 and converges to 0 if x<1. For the described problem, the incorrect assumption is that you can find a x st b = x^(x^(x^(x... Where b>=4. Edit: as RiderOfGiraffes pointed, the
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by tassl 16y ago
From the technological point of view I can just say wow! Congratulations, this is a great app. Aside from that, and as a Spanish native speaker, the translated text sounds really weird to me. Even without knowing English I would be able to
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by tassl 16y ago
There is only one global optima with the defined fitness function, and is the one with f=0. There are different local minimum when there is no mutation (for example, if all chromosomes on the initial population don't have the letter W, it w
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by tassl 16y ago
It was also way more efficient to drive a horse than any of the first cars. The key here is not this precise application but the technology that it implies.
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Labdoo: reuse old laptops for education abroad(labdoo.org)
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23andme for $99 (+12 months at $5/month of Personal Genome Service)(gizmodo.com)
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by tassl 16y ago
Even though the global idea sounds great, according to the sensors that they have I don't think that such precision is possible. I am based only in guesses, but with a normal camera, and CMOS sensor (for depth sense using a infrared project
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by tassl 16y ago
I have always thought that GA have won lot of acceptance for its name. Don't get me wrong, they are great to solve some problems, and even though they don't assure us to converge into a global minimum on our space, they are more robust than
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by tassl 16y ago
I started eating paleo around 10 months ago, so I guess my opinion can be a little bit biased regarding this topic. In any case, after reading the article, I am not sure about the conclusions done by most of the newspapers that I have read.
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by tassl 16y ago
A couple of questions... How do you get rid of the signal rebound due metallic presence in the robot? provides an object a unique ID with extremely small uncertainty, whose location is inferred by lowerlevel sensory processing How precis
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by tassl 16y ago
Even though it doesn't use any learning process, I think that you might find this video interesting: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3757897210640719617# The control uses the dynamics of the robot to optimize a trajectory to incre

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