Vargas

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by Vargas 7y ago
Escape from my golden handcuffs
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by Vargas 13y ago
"We work in a sort of strange field where intelligence and ability are highly prized, but some of these same qualities made some of us victims of aggression and abuse earlier in life." You USA-nians really have to work on changing
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by Vargas 14y ago
Excel is really, really bad at what it does. It won because of Microsoft's former monopolistic position. Lotus was much better. Most of the heaviest users of spreadsheets just build their own internal "corporate" spreadsheet program.
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by Vargas 14y ago
I see most people in our democracy voting for what they "know" over what they have evidence for.
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by Vargas 14y ago
Kiss her now!
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by Vargas 14y ago
That's nothing. The Øresund (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98resund_Bridge ) was built Lego style in Spain, shipped piecewise and assembled on site.
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by Vargas 14y ago
"Creative approaches to maths are usually verboten in education" I will quote this.
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by Vargas 15y ago
TB = TeraByte RAM = Random Access Memory I would have thought TB and RAM were easier than RHEL and NUMA.
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by Vargas 15y ago
Couldn't agree more! I will quote you in the future.
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by Vargas 15y ago
This. I agree completely. Get a bright kid to know other, possibly brighter kids in an environment that values them.
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by Vargas 15y ago
Yes, it is. I was involved in this kind of things before dropping my Ph.D. Have a look at biobricks, for example: http://biobricks.org/
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by Vargas 15y ago
An associative array: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_array
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by Vargas 15y ago
Couldn't agree more! English bizantine writing system is a major drag. Sadly a spelling reform doesn't seem possible at the moment.
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by Vargas 15y ago
They are middleware, They enable others to make something, build something.
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by Vargas 15y ago
You cannot change a fundamental law if you have a Democrat or Republican agenda. You need a broad consensus, only achievable if you focus on the big issues. Say that you are trying to pass a new amendment to U.S. Constitution. You have to s
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by Vargas 15y ago
Elections in Spain are not rigged, but the quality of Spanish democracy is very low. There are three main points: 1. Electoral Law: In Spain votes are counted according to D'Hondt method in regional demarcations. It favours big parties whil
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by Vargas 15y ago
This is exactly what I was going to say.
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by Vargas 16y ago
I+D => Research and Development Subvention => The government gives you free money if they believe that your startup is "good". In practice, there is some corruption (example: I will grant you a 2 million euros subvention if you casu
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by Vargas 16y ago
It's a trap! (Sorry, couldn't resist)
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by Vargas 16y ago
My brain, mostly.
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by Vargas 16y ago
Same thing happening in Spain, I left in 2007.
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Ask HN: Best software in the world?
2 points by Vargas 16y ago|4 comments
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Inappropriate ad in Youtube sends aubergine to my ceiling(mcpolu.blogspot.com)
4 points by Vargas 16y ago|0 comments
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by Vargas 16y ago
The main reason for your downvotes is that you are not waving the U.S. flag. Also, you go against the idea that only democracy can deliver prosperity. Both things will earn you downvotes.
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by Vargas 16y ago
It took some fiddling with my old email archive but I found it, Joe Hudson was my teacher: http://www.pronunciationlondon.co.uk/joe.html http://www.anenglishaccent.com/author.html He is very good. We spent half of every session learning
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by Vargas 16y ago
Spaniard in London with the same problem here. The BEST on-line material is BBC's "The sound of English" http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pr... Just watch it and practise with a mirror many, many, many times and
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by Vargas 16y ago
It doesn't. English does not get along just fine. Say 'cucumber'. The sound of the first syllable is very different from the second, even though both are written the same. Say 'stake' and 'steak'. Different graphs for the same phonemes. Say
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by Vargas 16y ago
Spaniards are less than 10% of the Spanish speaking population.
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by Vargas 16y ago
Pablo => Spanish. Paulo => Portuguese. Spanish speakers tend to spanify Portuguese words, for convenience and for the fun of watching Portuguese speakers get annoyed :P Sao Paulo => San Pablo
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by Vargas 16y ago
He truly deserves it. I don't like his personality but it always seemed unfair that Garcia-Marquez had it while Vargas Llosa didn't.

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