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by yannis 15y ago
You can run the examples at http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Views/SiteMap/Default.html with your favourite browser and sneak at the code. Great if you are familiarizing yourself with HTLM5 and CSS3.
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Hurt Feelings? Take a pain reliever, study(hbr.org)
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You can reduce the cost by a factor of 10, if you make the tents "underground".
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'Uncontacted' Amazon tribe found in Brazil(english.aljazeera.net)
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NY payroll system contractors steal millions(english.aljazeera.net)
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LulzSec uncovered(guardian.co.uk)
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North Korea recruits hackers at school(english.aljazeera.net)
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by yannis 15y ago
A good background to Erlang is Armstrong's thesis, it really reads like a popular book http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf . He discusses many of the points raised in the slides.
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Or you can see how ants calculate it in "The accuracy of Buffon’s needle: a rule of thumb used by ants to estimate area" at http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/6/655.full.pdf
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You can have a look at http://code.google.com/p/closure-library/ . What I did downloaded the files and peeked through all of them. Closure has not been very popular with the community, but is currently running all google applications such
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You can run the charts through Google's closure locally http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog... All the routines are public, there is no need to go through the API.
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Certainly it has a steep learning curve but it has a very large community that supports its packages and now also has a friendly and helpful community http://tex.stackexchange.com/
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TeX and LaTeX. Still the best software available to translate structured markup to a pdf.
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How do I typeset morse code with LaTeX(tex.stackexchange.com)
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Forecasting principles(robjhyndman.com)
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Currently the best approach is to just serve the pdf. You will not be able to get a direct translation. There is a very good forum for TeX now at http://tex.stackexchange.com/
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It is such great news! For some of us that are too busy, our first port of call for news is HN and although I agree with you this is possibly not for HN, this calls for an exception - as I know of no-one in the HN community that has not bee
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You can even have it replace tt in your LaTeX files. Download and \usepackage{inconsolata} in your preamble.
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The Anchoring Effect(youarenotsosmart.com)
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Print them out on an acid free paper (I have books that are over 300 years old), so this will definitely work. After 50 years you can OCR the data etc (or ask your personal robot to do it for you) and print it using a variant of TeX/LaTex.
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When people in your field cannot answer your questions, but you can.
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A photo can say 1000 words - even in silence http://coutequecoute.blogspot.com/2009/04/harold-whittles-he... I remembered this picture from a Life Magazine year book. Did a bit of a search and found it. Priceless! The boy's face says it a
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A highly recommended read. Not to spoil anyone's fun but gems like this abound: A valid economic argument cannot reach a conclusion that depends on the astronomical phenomenon chosen to measure time.( Discussing GDP and Multinationals in N
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Try writing your code by hand for the next two hours.
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I have been involved with Construction for over twenty years. We recently had a Project with over 22,000 activities. Needless to say it became unmanageable and no-one used it. Real construction is similar in many ways with the development o
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You can use a package Martin-Kumm's is the easiest or you can use pgf/TikZ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ and creative from prmitives. Personally, I wrote some macro's to get what I wanted. I simplify mine as much as possible and
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If you need highly complicated ones Primavera is the de facto standard. However, read what Tufte has to say about them first: Most of the Gantt charts are analytically thin, too simple, and lack substantive detail. The charts should be mor
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Rapid Prototyping in TEX(haskell.org)
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Brahms hungarian dances http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Dances_(Brahms) (now you can hear it in HTML 5!)
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You can also get more links from Verlinde himself http://twitter.com/erikverlinde but as he twitts Tomorrow I have to teach. Third year students. They also want to hear about emergent gravity. It is going to be tough to explain it to the

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