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   by thebooktocome 16y ago

   I feel somewhat sick, inside.
2. 812.▲
   by thebooktocome 16y ago

   I'm not so certain. A lot of the value in wine is tied up in branding/marketing, both of which seem rather ephemeral in comparison to other more historically stable measures of value.
3. 813.▲
   by thebooktocome 16y ago

   Hugged into submission by an overzealous fan? ... Really?
4. 814.▲
   by thebooktocome 16y ago

   I think this goes triple for mathematics. When people say that I'm good at math, I sometimes tell them, "Well, you know, I've been studying math and little else for the majority of the past ten years. Almost anyone who works at something th
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   by thebooktocome 16y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitality_management_studies Without getting into specifics, my bf's research deals with epidemiology and things related to improving public health in the hospitality/tourism industry. Sure, at the undergrad
6. 816.▲
   by thebooktocome 16y ago

   Tell me about it. My boyfriend is in hospitality management, I'm in mathematics. Whereas I pull in enough to live comfortably in a single bedroom apartment downtown, he's on financial aid and living with two roommates on the outskirts. It b
7. 817.▲
   by thebooktocome 16y ago

   I've been at a state school in Indiana for the past two years, and our largest class (in the math department) is around 150 students.
8. 818.▲
   by thebooktocome 16y ago

   Eh. I'm a graduate student in mathematics, and it unless a problem is more or less trivial, it takes too long to force Mathematica to do what I mean. Also I agree with a poster below: this press release is really low on the signal-to-noise.
9. 819.▲
   by thebooktocome 16y ago

   You know, maybe after I finish my Ph. D. in maths, I can go on to become the "Shadow Scholar" for online math courses. ... That actually kind of sounds like fun.
10. 820.▲
    by thebooktocome 16y ago

    "free forever up to a certain number of lists allowed" Er, I love your product and use it, but how does that model even make sense? Couldn't I get around it by having everything in a single root list?
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    by thebooktocome 16y ago

    Indignance must have tempered memory.
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    by thebooktocome 16y ago

    PS2 Linux support was a massive joke -- they forced linux development to be perfectly orthogonal to the rest of the system, and I don't think anything that separates the PS2 from the typical desktop made it into open source (i.e., GPU drive
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    by thebooktocome 16y ago

    Maybe because I'm a mathematician my idea of "intuitive sense" is warped, but intuitively speaking, either John is in Paris or London exclusively. (This isn't given in the statement, but it holds intuitively.) Therefore, in the conclusion,
14. 824.▲
    by thebooktocome 16y ago

    The Khan academy ends where OP says he left off. (i.e., advanced linear algebra).
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    by thebooktocome 16y ago

    If it's not Turing-complete, it ain't TeX.
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    by thebooktocome 16y ago

    Admittedly, it seems prima facie ridiculous. The thing is, socialism, Marxism, worker's rights, and etc., started in the university and spread from there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France , for example. So it's not so much