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Ask HN: What math to study for a high schooler with 1 month and calculus base?
1 points by b_b 7y ago|1 comments
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by b_b 7y ago
Literate programming making a comeback! (If it was ever in vogue anyway?)
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by b_b 7y ago
It's not really time. Seniority here is more of a quality than it is just something determined purely by time. So "Senior Software Developers" are those with some of the correlated skills in the article.
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Chicago Style Citation and Bibliography in LaTeX(abidsikder.com)
1 points by b_b 7y ago|0 comments
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The China Challenge:How their military build-up is ending U.S. supremacy in Asia(reuters.com)
4 points by b_b 7y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What is an algorithm for making the an efficient network between points?
2 points by b_b 7y ago|1 comments
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by b_b 7y ago
Bit off-topic, but love that the URL is just the straight up path to the file on the Windows machine.
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by b_b 8y ago
This seems like one of the best uses of computers for educational media, one of the ways digital instruction can really shine through compared to physical text which can often require supplemental videos or help from a teacher to elucidate
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by b_b 8y ago
It seems ironic to me that the HN crowd seems to support these circumvention of Apple's insular app distribution strategy, but on the other hand also supports Apple's clamp down on efforts to stop privacy violating apps. For my pa
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by b_b 8y ago
Nice little Daft Punk easter egg in the panel with the "Nothing Found" example page ( https://genius.com/Daft-punk-digital-love-lyrics ), and the ending statement "We are humaaan after all." ( https:/
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by b_b 8y ago
For people who use YouTube and would like to remove distractions, I use the simple CSS script below along with the CSS styler extension Stylus to remove distractions and stop me from jumping mindlessly from video to video. /* Hide
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by b_b 8y ago
It seems so incredibly generous of this that I caught myself being so cynical as to doubt any ulterior motives at attracting just more companies to YC overall. But it seems to me that these resources and advice are made in earnest, thank yo
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by b_b 8y ago
This man Winston Sterzel [0] has been predicting something like this will happen in China, as they have no tolerance for drugs due to the horrors of the opium crisis. [0] = https://www.youtube.com/user/serpentza
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by b_b 8y ago
I would recommend for you to read and implement the organization/productivity system from Getting Things Done by David Allen [0]. It discusses essentially your main problems of dividing up your life into projects and timing yourself. T
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by b_b 8y ago
It's not the fact that Mozilla sanitizes or does not sanitize the ads to prevent user tracking. It's the fact that there was never any explicit knowledge that ads like this would even show up on the browser homepage, which violate
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by b_b 8y ago
To clarify any misunderstandings from the title, the people paid but never actually got to fly, so they (fairly) want their money back.
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by b_b 8y ago
Instead of the sarcasm, please elaborate on the harmful effects of complete mosquito removal (those that carry diseases) from the ecosystem. These bugs cause an immense number of death and suffering every year, and eliminating them seems a
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by b_b 8y ago
The facebook/linkedin AR, personally, does not sound so exciting... feels far too dystopian to me.
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by b_b 8y ago
While these web-app things may be nice for quickly trying out these programs, for actual long-term use on my machine and workflow besides all of the other programs, they don't stand up to the test unless they are truly revolutionary an
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by b_b 8y ago
Here goes sadly one of the last remaining examples of a respectful and dignified politician, no matter the political party of the other.
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by b_b 8y ago
The funny thing is, even if Google does go back into business in China, it won't be long before its IP and servers are looted in exchange for the bolstering of native Chinese businesses. Where's the long-term vision on this one?
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by b_b 8y ago
This is some serious whataboutism. Our government may have done horrible things, but that doesn't justify China's in any way either.
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by b_b 8y ago
I don't think it's too cynical given this move at this point. They have willingly entered into a market where corporations are sponsored for their loyalty to the state, which has done horrendous humanitarian crimes, without which
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by b_b 8y ago
For many of us whose use of these blue-light emitting computer and phone screens is necessary, what can we do about it?
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by b_b 8y ago
I'd recommend anyone who would like to clean the air of the home to use products from SmartAir [1] which is as inexpensive as just a fan attached to a filter, both of which they sell (although you can just buy the filter by itself and
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by b_b 8y ago
I would think that would be generally harmful for the point of thoughtful discussion as you are essentially labeling a person from the get-go with a certain bias.
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by b_b 8y ago
One example would be the automatic face detection of people that were not originally tagged in uploaded photos.
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by b_b 8y ago
Yeah, unfortunately I don't have Linux (only WSL but I doubt that would really compare since I don't use the GUI environments avilable), so I don't know whether upgrading like this will be safe. I'd personally wait until
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by b_b 8y ago
If you are on verions<52, just know that this update won't be shown on the "About Thunderbird" page that checks for updates. I was just in the same situation, and simply downloaded the installer from their main webpage [1]
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by b_b 8y ago
I believe Grameen Bank deployed in Bangladesh [1] is an innovative and effective example of one way to solve some of these problems. [1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grameen_Bank

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