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by tellarin 14y ago
Have you seen the Nokia Transit app? I don't use it, so I'm not sure. But from the last time I've played with a demo of it, it seems it might be helpful to you. I think it only runs on Windows Phone though (no website).
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by tellarin 14y ago
People seem to forget that Nokia still has another OS running on their S40 devices. And they keep selling well. The new Asha devices are pretty good. The way I see, they'll only become more and more important for Nokia as they "evolve" alon
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by tellarin 14y ago
Technic is just mechanics. The other three are quite the same, plus sensors/actuators and programmable. For a 8 years old I'd start with plain LEGO. And then introduce the rest a little later. But this depends on what the kid already likes.
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by tellarin 14y ago
Good to know. That's actually a border crossing I'm planning to do relatively soon.
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by tellarin 14y ago
I wish they had more details on this "design engineering" pack: http://www.legoeducation.us/eng/product/ev3_design_engineeri... It seems pretty cool.
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by tellarin 14y ago
My experience in the EU is that, even for EU citizens, the UK and (a somewhat distance second) Spain can be quite intrusive. For the rest of the EU and Switzerland, they almost never ask anything. But I definitely agree that China seems to
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by tellarin 14y ago
Not only skilled workers, but also unskilled workers that are actually economically needed. Both because there is a lack of workforce in some areas (farms, low-end services) and because, in some countries where inequality is higher, part of
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by tellarin 14y ago
That doesn't mean what she describes is not painfully true.
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by tellarin 14y ago
For The Hobbit on the other hand...
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by tellarin 14y ago
Even though elves were mostly not fey, many descriptions of an elf are/were quite non Tolkien-ish.
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by tellarin 14y ago
Dwarfs, elves, trolls, goblins, and plenty others come from Norse mythology. Orc I think was original to Tolkien, but derived from Old English for giants and ogres. Many others, like uruk-hai and hobbit, were original. Also, even though som
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Don't take my word for it - run the numbers yourself(rachelbythebay.com)
2 points by tellarin 14y ago|0 comments
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Failure is a Four-Letter Word – A Parody in Empirical Research (video)(research.microsoft.com)
1 points by tellarin 14y ago|0 comments
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by tellarin 14y ago
I do agree that it seems to make easier to learn (and get better at something) if you experience the subject. But it doesn't mean that one should take his/her own experience (usually quite limited) as THE truth. Which is too common a mistak
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Experience is everything(lemire.me)
3 points by tellarin 14y ago|1 comments
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by tellarin 14y ago
Well, it depends on what kind of research you do. My former team worked with different text corpora in multiple languages. Proper unicode support is/was very welcome.
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by tellarin 14y ago
All I can say is that I kept agreeing with most of the article as I read it. I do have a N9 and it is still the best phone I've had. Too bad it did not get a proper fighting chance and now it is unsupported. Let's see what Jolla brings as i
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by tellarin 14y ago
Sorry good sir. While your original message presents very useful tips that can be used for good or bad, unsolicited/unwanted commercial email IS spam. Just like the bunch of crap that one receives in a regular mailbox and goes straight to t
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Nokia N9: Is This the World’s Most Underrated Smartphone?(lowyat.net)
4 points by tellarin 14y ago|3 comments
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by tellarin 14y ago
Hmmm. I agree that 'orders' is not an appropriate choice of words. But I usually don't interpret this kind of claims literally, so I took the GP remark as saying that in practice (IRL) there was no such 'wide gap in productivity', which is
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by tellarin 14y ago
I overall agree with you on "Code Complete", but where did you find data that disproves 'orders of magnitude programmer's productivity'? I can't reach the linked website. I'd be genuinely interested to check that. While still anecdotal, my
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by tellarin 14y ago
Wouldn't something like Quora cover this area? It seems the right kind of place to me.
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by tellarin 14y ago
Please check your facts. Example of the output: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html#institutions Also look at any proceeding from conferences in areas where MSR works. Their output is pretty high (and high quality).
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by tellarin 14y ago
Research != innovation Research != R&D Not trying to antagonize you, just pointing an issue that seems pretty common in this article discussion.
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by tellarin 14y ago
Quite the same in Computer Graphics and Systems/Networking.
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by tellarin 14y ago
True, but as percentage of their academic output (papers, talks, prototypes, ...) they're not so high.
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by tellarin 14y ago
Microsoft's R&D mission is not. But Microsoft Research's is. The idea is that MSR explores (R), then Microsoft integrates what they feel is interesting into products (R&D).
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by tellarin 14y ago
In my view this is one of the things people in this discussion are not realizing. Microsoft Research is not R&D, it's R. The rest of MS spends a lot in R&D too, but MSR's work and goals are distinct. Of course transferring tech into
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by tellarin 14y ago
Not trying to be a MS fanboy here. But, while not truly distributed, this is the one area where I feel Windows 8 might be interesting. I really want to see how (if?) they'll try to provide that experience as it's on phones, tablets, and reg
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by tellarin 14y ago
I guess the point of the article is not "who's the best" neither in usefulness or cool features, but "diversity is good". Both to try new ideas (as you mention) and for diversity sake. While I too love Linux and the pragmatic approach, it w

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