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by treeface 16y ago
I had a system like this in my high school too, but technically it's not "out of 4.0". The maximum possible grade is usually dependent on what courses the student takes. For example, if you took an "honors" course, an A would get you 4.5, B
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by treeface 16y ago
If these are your main complaints with PHP, you need to look into CodeIgniter.
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by treeface 16y ago
I'll even go so far as to say that coding in PHP is downright pleasant when you use a framework like CodeIgniter or Kohana. At the same time, I have to use Joomla at work and I sometimes catch myself with a partially-tied-off noose around m
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by treeface 16y ago
I'm not sure where you get the idea that the government needs to agree with something in order for it to be published. The CPI published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is just one of quite a few price indexes, some of which are privately
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by treeface 16y ago
I wonder how they'll get around the tech divide. For example: people don't sell gasoline online, but there are numerous websites that track that information. Also, any price index requires some decision over which goods are included in the
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Stanford researchers predict fate of tiny embryos(siliconvalley.com)
1 points by treeface 16y ago|0 comments
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by treeface 16y ago
Not completely...you still land on the results page.
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by treeface 16y ago
I'm not saying I disagree with you, but there are other considerations. What about the costs of implementing a major upgrade cycle as opposed to letting the software update itself? What about the increased likelihood of delayed upgrades, le
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by treeface 16y ago
That's some interesting research they're doing. I'd be be more interested to see if somebody can translate it to an electroencephalographic device. I suspect that placing electrodes directly onto the surface of the brain would be a dealbrea
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by treeface 16y ago
It's called a false dichotomy or a false dilemma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
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by treeface 16y ago
There was a journal paper about a year ago by Sapna Cheryan called Ambient Belonging: How Stereotypical Cues Impact Gender Participation in Computer Science that you can read here: http://www.comp.dit.ie/dgordon/Courses/ILT/ILT0010/Ambie
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by treeface 16y ago
I ran across this fiddle last night when I (accidentally) checked JSFiddle's Twitter account: http://jsfiddle.net/zalun/5evBx/8/ I've recently been noticing that people who make experimental canvas apps often don't add significant comment
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A canvas app that you can play with explained using jsfiddle(jsfiddle.net)
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by treeface 16y ago
> that's why 401ks are great the total cost of an employee is understood completely This isn't true. There is no definitive way to determine the total amount of the future burden of a matching 401(k) plan because: 1) You don't know how
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by treeface 16y ago
Great stuff. I can't get over her reaction to Black Sabbath's 1970 song "War Pigs"... Initial reaction: “Fourth guy is just bad throaty singing… Made my throat tight to listen to him. How long did his career last?”
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by treeface 16y ago
>Google's decision to cut a deal with Verizon wreaks of either impatience or fear. Either Google wasn't willing to wait for the Verizons of the world to crumble and die -- and therefore moved it's own business development timeline up 5
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What's wrong with extending the DOM(perfectionkills.com)
1 points by treeface 16y ago|0 comments