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If you want actual app store numbers, here's a comparison from June of last year, http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-app-revenue-android-ios...
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The 30%/70% was for other digital storefronts, not direct sales through your own store. Kagi and the like are more akin to payment processors.
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I think what you want could be solved by a better search. If there was a better search you could search for an 8-bit platformer game and find a list of them. Tagging doesn't really add anything that a better search couldn't provid
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In Canada, you can't get the e-file code if you've moved in the tax year so you have to mail in your tax return.
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What surprises me most is that the US doesn't seem to have the same law as here in Canada. Here, pretty much only the bank, government, or your employer can ask for your social as that's the law. Plus, they don't send it in t
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In Canada, you get a unique code (for that year) physically mailed to your address from the 2013 return (unless you change addresses). If you change addresses in a tax year, you can't file electronically. It's not technically a PI
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I'm part of the SymPy project and we opted out of a similar program tip4commit. It's a bit easy to game. If you do it per commit, someone could just break up their work in smaller commits. The same thing with pull requests. I can
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I've been working on a paper from my PhD thesis. I have 10 pages of derivations before I even get to the solution of the equations, include figures, or perform analysis. It could easily be a 30 to 40 page paper. Cutting it down or spli
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Basically all of my Master's and PhD work involved scientific programming, but it was definitely not data scientist work. You're making a big assumption that science is statistics. There's scientific simulations (and deriving
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As part of my PhD, I developed a Maple package for deriving FEM element matrices from first principles. My supervisor, despite years of work related to FEM and having done a lot of Maple programming didn't understand a lot of my code a
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This is one reason why it's often thought that a long-term station in Earth orbit (possibly at one of the Lagrange points) is a pre-requisite for a Mars mission. So, you could decelerate to the station instead of to re-entry. But, it i
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The only problem with trimming away something you feel is obvious is that if you need to go back to the notes quite some time afterwards, it might not appear obvious at that time. It's just like when you don't comment something in
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I improved my grades in the later undergrad years by taking the notes from class and re-writing them in a nice form (like you using colour and cleaning it up) into bound notebooks, like the kind used for log books. Then, if I needed to revi
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Typing notes doesn't work well in all classes, though. I can't write equations down on a computer as fast as I write, especially complex ones. Figures are also another problem. I've seen undergrad classes where the students g
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> it's very hard to become an expert in something and have the value of that expertise remain valuable. That may be true in programming, but that's not the only field. Much of my mechanical engineering knowledge dates from the
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While Porco Rosso has a good female character in Fio, the lead is male, so that's another. Basically, while there's a lot of excellent female characters in Ghibli films, there are still a number of their films with male leads.
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Unfortunately, the lead developer has decided to work on a closed-source alternative to Mjolnir so a new fork has been made.
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My preference at the moment is Optimal Layout. http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/ but, I haven't spent much time with Mjolnir.
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While I like the idea of Khan Academy, there are problems with some of the contents of the lessons. For example, the lesson on Hooke's Law definitely has issues: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2012/12/k
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I might have some Irix programs I wrote somewhere.
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We lost EOF. It's partially there in Core Data, but a lot of the functionality is lost.
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There's some correlations I love that illustrate this. You have "Lack of Pirates Causing Global Warming": http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/03/23/true-fa... and one I had
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One of the Ph.Ds from my department did a lot of work with using Category Theory for GIS optimization problems. He's still doing work with it [1]. [1] http://wlu.ca/faculty-profiles/arts/steven-a.-roberts.html
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There's a lot of different window managing tools on OS X. I personally use Optimal Layout, but there's a number of open source ones as well, such as Slate [1] (which unfortunately hasn't been updated in a while), Mjolnir (nee
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I hope that their math section is better than some of their engineering courses. See the critique at, http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2012/12/khan/ I've also been involved in teaching similar mater
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I still see it misspelt throughout.
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That's not the way it works. First to file vs. invent has to do with two independent inventors creating something and trying to file. If something has already been invented and is publicly available (patented or not), that's prior
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I recall that Nortel had parallel tracks as well. One of the guys I worked with did the technical track.
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For me, it's the open and save dialogs that bother me most. I quite like the editor, especially as compared to Eclipse, but for source editing, I'd rather use one the OS X editors like TextMate or BBEdit.
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It's an old post. See the latest post, https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-4/ for more details on the new one.

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