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Fossil version control(fossil-scm.org)
1 points by yannis 15y ago|0 comments
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Most stylish web censorship(i.imgur.com)
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by yannis 15y ago
Take it!
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Handwriting to LaTeX maths(webdemo.visionobjects.com)
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by yannis 15y ago
The most interesting aspect is Paulo Coelho's claim that ".. the physical sales of my books are growing since my readers post them in P2P sites". This is in agreement with what web applications used all along---lure users with a freemium mo
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by yannis 15y ago
I am involved with a construction Company that operates in the Gulf area. The average hotel we have been involved with is about 50 stories high. On a multinational Team from design to construction it can take a minimum of 36-50 months. Yes
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by yannis 15y ago
Drop by http://tex.stackexchange.com/
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by yannis 15y ago
You got to love some of these papers. Account of an Elephant's Tusk, in which the Iron Head of a Spear was found imbedded. By Mr. Charles Combe, of Exeter College, Oxford, 1801. Coming up with research topics was always an art!
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John McCarthy died(washingtonpost.com)
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by yannis 15y ago
It's from the documentation http://www.dartlang.org/samples/sunflower/index.html ...
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by yannis 15y ago
class Sunflower { static void main() { new Sunflower(); } No thank you! I would rather stay with prototype objects.
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Comic Sans and hyphenation(meta.tex.stackexchange.com)
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by yannis 15y ago
Yes! We all loved him!
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Feynman diagrams by Edward Tufte(edwardtufte.com)
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by yannis 15y ago
Unless you did not get any experience during freelancing, I would count it as experience. Better list it as 3-4 years part-time experience and list the projects you were involved. This way your future employer can decide for themselves what
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by yannis 15y ago
Is the code open sourced? The UI needs some work and so does the css, but overall is very good for the amount of code.
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Schmidt: I can assure you we're not cooking anything(english.aljazeera.net)
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by yannis 15y ago
There is no need to downvote. The Romans were the first to use the unit of long distance mille passuum (literally "a thousand paces" in Latin, where each pace was two steps) and hence back to the human body! (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by yannis 15y ago
They do but with the metric system it was the first time since the Greek stadia that an earth measure was used to define units of measurements as compared to the body (feet, inches etc). They are a bit of a recursive topic, each defining ea
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by yannis 15y ago
Sure it doesn't but interestingly enough the article does not go into its roots. In France after the Revolution the Metrical or Decimal system of measures was introduced. The fundamental standard adopted was that of a quandrant meridian; Th
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by yannis 15y ago
I am a Mech Engineer with a passion for programming. I used to paint when I was a kid, but that was a long time ago. Now what I find interesting is that without having read the PG article, I tell people that I program using the water-color
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by yannis 15y ago
A lot of Chinese websites have code with chinese variables etc..
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by yannis 15y ago
Javascript will let it go through (as it is a valid identifier) and for example on the server PHP will not catch it.
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by yannis 15y ago
There are a few in the higher planes that may give you problems (for example phoenician etc..). It is also important that the Browser does not do a replacement. You need a font like code2000 or latest version.
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by yannis 15y ago
For a bit more in-depth understanding have a look at some of the problems as noted in Google's closure library (goog.i18n.uChar). Any unicode character can be used as a JavaScript identifier for example: var 按 = function (){
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Building a Computing Highway for Web Applications(blogs.intel.com)
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by yannis 15y ago
Maybe better neuter yourself? This is the most selfish statement in this thread.
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The part that couldn't cope to save enough for a deposit due to inflation and when we managed we paid 26% (at the time living in RSA) interest plus currency instabilities. What this means is that most people's wealth was tied in their prope
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According to my own calculations very few of the baby boomers will retire. Most of us spent our lives fighting a losing war, the inflation of the eighties, the rising housing prices. Schooling for the kids from being a very small amount of
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U.S. Poverty rate highest since 1983(nytimes.com)
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