adcoelho

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by adcoelho 11y ago
A coin toss isn't exactly 50% for both sides in a real life scenario, hence the difficulty to reproduce the experiment exactly like its theoretical description. A sequence of 10 coin tosses resulting in heads/tails is not impossib
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by adcoelho 13y ago
I bought this book and did find it amazing, the first exercises are very good in showing how you Can draw, specially the inverted picture exercise. However, I struggled to find the material with which to do some of the later exercises and e
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by adcoelho 13y ago
Procrastination is often caused by the urge to find a small comfort to escape discomfort. Checking your email account in the middle of a difficult task, checking the news, etc. Letting go of this urges helps you stop procrastinating. There
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by adcoelho 13y ago
"The old book 'Sinjungdonggukyojisungnam' (Revised Handbook of Korean Geography) complied in the 16th century wrote that there is a lair west of Pubyok Pavilion in Mt. Kumsu." Revised by the Ministry of Truth?
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by adcoelho 13y ago
Yesterday's article A Crypto Challenge For The Telegram Developers was a good analysis on why Telegram's challenge fails to prove anything.
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by adcoelho 13y ago
I never could adapt to the shape of the Vita. I had to hold it in a very awkward position to avoid touching accidentally the touch sensitive back panel. This seems like a viable option for me to play games released in the console and with a
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by adcoelho 13y ago
But the article itself is about a specific characteristic of analog photography. The old way is dead in some aspects but through the usage of new technologies(in this case smartphones) it can live on with its nuances. Its about the preserva
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by adcoelho 13y ago
I read the speech in English class when studying different types of writing assignments. We examined it for its structure rather than its content. Studying speeches may prove valuable when preparing oral presentations for instance.
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by adcoelho 13y ago
From my experience those slow complicated things are often avoided by developers even if it would allow them to delve further in some obscure interesting programming. The programmer's performance is also measured by their ability to ac
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by adcoelho 13y ago
At first I thought it would be something related with a revision of their customer service. Oh well, not today.
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by adcoelho 13y ago
But its weird that Russia suddenly decided to grant him this safe pass after denying him asylum in order to maintain the relations with the USA. Could there be a hidden agenda somewhere?
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by adcoelho 13y ago
I feel like this is more of a gateway for applying for asylum in some embassies, as required by some countries, rather than an opportunity to stay in Russia indefinitely, or at least for an year until the next renewal.
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by adcoelho 13y ago
I was specially ashamed to hear that my country had blocked Bolivia's President plane. An action that was absolutely uncalled for and for which we had no explanation from our government.
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by adcoelho 13y ago
I am really looking forward to the impact that Firefox OS is going to have in the mobile market. There is definitely still space for a highly-featured low-priced smartphone and the HTML only is a plus for those not willing to put the time i
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by adcoelho 14y ago
A good option for series to still profit from advertisements even if they are pirated is to insert them in video instead of the regular break cuts that can easily be edited out. Thus, even if the show is pirated the consumer would still be
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by adcoelho 14y ago
I guess you could always enter your address but not your name. In case of trouble you could always argue that it was sent from/to someone else and has no connection to you.
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by adcoelho 14y ago
Like a boss? Not at all. I was expecting something like a clever response and not a frustrating discourse about everything but the question at hand.
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by adcoelho 14y ago
I totally understand the difficulties involved, it would be impossible to start working worldwide from the very beginning. As with everything else I will have to wait for it to come to Europe. The problem is both the waiting time and the nu
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by adcoelho 14y ago
I really hate it when I see an awesome service that I would like to try and then realize that it only works in the US.
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by adcoelho 14y ago
Or consuming earth's resources at a rate lower than the production rate.
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by adcoelho 14y ago
He just said that it wasn't the technical definition for the simple language used. The note is not directly related to the algorithm he then explains. Dynamic Programming can be seen as divide and conquer but using memoization to avoid reca
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by adcoelho 14y ago
Nice article but I believe the implementation of the fibonacci sequence might be easier to follow. Its an overall simpler problem.
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by adcoelho 14y ago
This is not by any means my field of study but i do agree that placebo components should always be disclosed in order to turn these kind of tests more transparent. However, how can we prove that something is 100% biologically inert? We can'
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by adcoelho 14y ago
Well yeah I did try that and I played in a couple in the past but the main problem with that solution is the stress involved. Its totally different when you are playing with friends just for the sake of it, when someone plays a little rough
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by adcoelho 14y ago
I've tried this approach and it works but there are situations when one can't go alone. In my case I like to play football(soccer, if you will) and it requires a minimum of 10 to play, it's extremely stressful when we get the people, book t
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by adcoelho 14y ago
If you are buying the food are you not entitled to photograph it? It does make sense in the "Chef's Table" and I understand the flash ban in most cases but how does photographing your own food in your own table affect other customers?
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by adcoelho 14y ago
How's the choice of new words from the dictionary complexity- wise?
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by adcoelho 14y ago
It took me a couple of minutes to remember the pascal triangle due to the way you are presenting the triangle. I'd rather have it structured as such: 1 1 1 1 2 1 ... It makes it easier to understand when you say 'the two number
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by adcoelho 14y ago
I suppose they take into account both those kind of direct visits to their website and the synchronization to their servers when you update some file in your local dropbox folder. I am not sure but it would make more sense.
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by adcoelho 14y ago
I guess it is the right time for such a review of how they work as they are on an early stage of deployment. They will benefit greatly security-wise from it.

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