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by tjl 12y ago
That's interesting, but I get a 404 for that link.
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by tjl 12y ago
I don't have built-in lighting, but I bought my e-reader before that was a common feature. I'd like to buy a physical book and get the e-book as part of the deal. This was something that Baen did, but I'm not sure if they sti
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by tjl 12y ago
For me, I really like the first half of the book where he's viewing society from outside. It kind of falls apart for me when that is kind of set aside. Heinlein almost always has problems with the endings of his books. There's som
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by tjl 12y ago
My problem with Stranger in a Strange Land is it kind of falls apart around halfway to 2/3rds of the way through the book. The ending is pretty weak (as is most of Heinlein's endings). But, I found the first half of Stranger in a
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by tjl 12y ago
I referred to the Lanczos book quite often when I was working on my PhD. I've read the first part of SICM and skimmed the rest. Based on that, it looks like it does an excellent job in building up an understanding of how the math works
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by tjl 12y ago
They combined the probability and statistics courses in my undergrad engineering program. When I went through the program, they were separate and I found the statistics course to be excellent. Unfortunately, they had already made it less va
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by tjl 12y ago
The only reason why I switched laptops was because I got a new one as part of my work. I'd still be using it otherwise.
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by tjl 12y ago
One can use the shareware approach. Give away some levels and sell additional ones.
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by tjl 12y ago
You do realize that a full unlock via IAP is basically the shareware approach? Just because something has IAP doesn't make it bad. One has to look at how the app uses IAP instead.
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by tjl 12y ago
I have a laptop from mid-2009 that's still good (it's a white MacBook). The only problem I've had has been the battery bulging and Apple replaced them under Applecare with no problems. The last I had replaced out of warranty
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by tjl 12y ago
I'd checkout Flashlight. http://flashlight.nateparrott.com It's a system for Spotlight plugins on Yosemite. It works similar to Alfred, LaunchBar or Quicksilver. It's open source and fairly simple to write your ow
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by tjl 12y ago
Spotlight stolen from BeOS? LaunchBar which goes back to the NeXT days has the basic Spotlight features and more. While it's not a NeXT company product, it was a third-party product for their OS. I'd say it's more likely they
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by tjl 12y ago
Back when I did telecommunication standards, there was a requirement for various ITU standards to contain a Z notation specification. I started to review various books on the topic and but stopped when I found out that the consensus amongst
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by tjl 12y ago
My thought has been that they need to go back to requiring a physical implementation. So, if you devise a hardware product that includes software, the whole thing can be patented, but not the specific algorithms. This eliminates all the bus
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by tjl 12y ago
Graph Theory is pretty widely applicable. It's been a core course in my undergraduate program for years (I think since the beginning of the program). For example, you can apply it to a number of different domains in physics. It can be
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by tjl 12y ago
As far as I can tell, he makes money from three sources. First, is the single ad on the from The Deck on his site. Second, he sells sponsorships for his RSS feed. Lastly, he makes money from ads on his podcast. So, it's not just his si
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by tjl 12y ago
Given that things are inconsistent across distributions, that's basically the same as being inconsistent between Solaris and AIX. One inconsistency I've been very annoyed by over the years is the differences in ps. I ended up maki
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by tjl 12y ago
Do you actually believe that someone like Julia Roberts or Tom Cruise is going to have the Screen Actors Guild negotiate their salary? No, SAG just sets a scale and people can be paid more than scale. The same goes for the various sports le
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by tjl 12y ago
That's awfully annoying of MathJax because you need two separate versions of the LaTeX, one for MathJax and another for LaTeX output. I know that there's dvisvgm for SVG output from DVI. I think there's also a tex2svg. Also,
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by tjl 12y ago
Next time I talk to him, I'll see about it. I don't talk to him that often now that I've finished my PhD.
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by tjl 12y ago
I still think equation numbers on the left is a mistake. Ideally, for smaller screens it would split across multiple lines. Or, it could choose the positioning based on screen size. For me, MathJax can't render my equations. I use some
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by tjl 12y ago
My supervisor has been writing a book (for many years now) and he has a heavily customized LaTeX style that actually works quite well for his book. He has a lot of special needs for formatting so none of the default styles really worked for
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by tjl 12y ago
Markdown (even this Scholarly Markdown) is a non-starter for me. It doesn't seem to support individual equation numbers for aligned equations. Plus, Scholarly Markdown oddly decided to put them at the beginning of the line rather than
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by tjl 12y ago
I agree. The Death books are by far my favourite ones of the Discworld series.
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by tjl 12y ago
But, with one controller you could run into problems if you had two high speed devices on both ports.
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by tjl 12y ago
You can do both at once over the port, you'd just need a hub. It's not really the new "full powered" MacBook. Look at the processors it uses. It's intended to a a good performance, lightweight laptop. Realistically,
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by tjl 12y ago
Yep. I've been doing development work on a 2013 Air with an i7. It's not quite as good as my 2012 i7 Mac Mini with 16GB RAM for development (as that's quad-core), but it's still an excellent machine.
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by tjl 12y ago
If you just want software to play against, without the client aspect, I'd recommend an older version of Sen:te's Goban (version 3.2). Unlike the latest version, it's free (the latest version is $10). It's quite old, but
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by tjl 12y ago
Considering that it's not currently for sale, there's no digital version. That said, the publisher typically has had digital versions in the past so I'd expect there to be one when it's finally available for sale.
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by tjl 12y ago
You're making some big assumptions. At my university, every Ph.D. candidate must take comprehensive exams. Depending on the department (and faculty) they're administered differently. In engineering (where I did my Ph.D.), you had

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