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by yannis 16y ago
My elementary school books.
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Luatex(luatex.org)
6 points by yannis 16y ago|0 comments
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by yannis 16y ago
5.5GB in one cell. The human body in a way is like a massive parallel computer, with cells giving and receiving signals and affecting other cells. There are approximately 30 trillion cells. Although most of the DNA is junk, the genome is be
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by yannis 16y ago
Thanks will give it a go.
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by yannis 16y ago
Slides look great and so is the presentation. May I ask what you used to prepare them?
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by yannis 17y ago
I was puzzling if there was a way to do that using LaTeX, but you correct they probably used Acrobat Professional
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by yannis 17y ago
Interesting how they made a Tutorial out of a pdf file. Does anyone know how this is done?
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by yannis 17y ago
The teacher should be spanked.
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by yannis 17y ago
The rationale is that the UAE and generally the Gulf States at a point decided to invest their money instead of investing them in funds in Europe of the Americas. They had a vision to create a 'Singapore' in the desert and they almost achie
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by yannis 17y ago
Scientists at the School of Oceanographic Studies at the university have noted an alarming increase in the rate at which sea levels have risen over the past decade in the Bay of Bengal. Until 2000, the sea levels rose about 3 millimeters
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by yannis 17y ago
Here is another view: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h... and here is a Chinese view http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h... that Google's departure will be bad for Baidu advocating
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by yannis 17y ago
That’s what Google is. I mean, why can’t everyone lavish these sort of perks, and this sort of environment, on their employees? Not all businesses scale well. Software is one of them. Once you develop them the cost of adding more users -
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How the IRS uses Social Media Sites(eff.org)
21 points by yannis 17y ago|2 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
I think it is a good idea, worth cultivating. However, one of the problems might be that many of these shops buy from large suppliers which have sophisticated systems and you will battle to bring them along. However, they might already have
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How to Reboot Your Corpse(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by yannis 17y ago|0 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
Thanks it sounds like a good idea.
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Ask HN: How to simulate and rescue a complex project
1 points by yannis 17y ago|2 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
Thanks!
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by yannis 17y ago
It looks good. I couldn't find though any link to printing either the agenda or the minutes. Trial period of 14 days is too short to hook anyone. We do lots of meetings in my line of work and most minutes will have an action by and deadline
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by yannis 17y ago
You can find some info here http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/2900/life-is-lonely-at-... D. audaxviator survives in a habitat where it gets its energy not from the sun but from hydrogen and sulfate produced by the radioactive decay o
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by yannis 17y ago
Lots of hackers also have irregular sleep hours :)
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by yannis 17y ago
It is such a pity that there is no adequate research budgets for extremophiles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile This reminded me of a friend of mine in South Africa who once showed me photos of living organisms that they collect
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by yannis 17y ago
It is shown on top of the bar chart (UTC)
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by yannis 17y ago
Thanks.
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by yannis 17y ago
From Buffon's needles to $1 million per day. Fascinating thought! Thanks for the link. Can we take you up on your offer for a few more recommendations?
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by yannis 17y ago
In all these countries as soon as you try to connect to a website where nudity or other banned content is displayed the mighty filter will divert you to a screen telling you that the website displays prohibited material - Bing settings or
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by yannis 17y ago
Unfortunately it does not. It does leave a couple of hints but that's about it. Perhaps someone speaking Hebrew can unearth a paper or two from the time these Maths graduates were doing research or even a thesis :)
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The ‘Final’ Frontier of Algorithmic Trading(vccafe.com)
15 points by yannis 17y ago|15 comments
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Google buys startup company DocVerse (news.xinhuanet.com)
1 points by yannis 17y ago|0 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
If you visit London the Science Museum http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/motive_power/1861-46... has Boulton & Watt engine on display, which is worth a look. It is the oldest surviving Watt beam engine to have survived almost

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